. >> linda received some disturbing anonymous text messages from a person samantha telling her that tomere having sex -- wild sex. >> reporter: and that wasn't the only fiction gil created. linda testified gil even told her he was in the c-i-a. >> he had an i.d. card and he said that he sometimes would put trackers in people's -- >> mouths? >> mouths. >> did you believe him -- >> okay. yeah. i -- i didn't think that much of it, honestly. he kinda showed me a little card and i was like, "oh"! >> reporter: linda didn't make much of it, but prosecutors had another story they wanted the jury to hear -- a story they thought would show a darker side to gil's deceptions. >> "it's just not a good idea." >> reporter: nick monaco is a retired police officer and friends with a guy who worked for gil. nick testified that the friend came to him one day saying that gil wanted to pay them to go harass and intimidate tom. >> he said, "well, gil wants to know if -- you would want to accompany me to, you know, just kinda like scare the guy." >> and he goes, "we may pretend like we're from the c.i.a. or -