This is How You Do A Fake Death (General)

Really? I can’t imagine any of them buying what the detective was selling. I’m surprised they didn’t burst out laughing.

That’s why I’m ok. It’s Sheila. We know she isn’t dead.

I took issue in hindsight with the way the show went out of its way to sell Finn's death and then let the viewers believe Li was dead without clearly dissuading us the fact. This today was well-done. No viewer believes Sheila's dead but they were presented with a plausible story the characters could reasonably buy as well. There were just enough loose threads to explain how Sheila isn't dead without having to insult anyone's intelligence. Now we wait for Sheila to reemerge seeking vengeance like the homicidal psychopath that she is.

This reminds me of the fake Angela death when the show first started. Everyone thought that she was dead, they even had a burned body, and she reappeared as a burn victim. "Angela" killed a person that stopped to help her and put the body in the burning car, and everyone thought that it was "Angela".

Now the scene where she was painting her nails black is making sense. We made comments on how bizarre that scene was. She even remembered the strawberry toe jam to go with it.