Naomi Dahl is the widow of Christian Dahl, the billionaire philanthropist, which would seem to give her near infinite cause to have hired Zalman Drake to perform the illusion which would mask the real murder of her husband. As the lady herself points out three-quarters of the way through Poof! You're Dead, however, if that had been the case, "the joke would be on [her]", since the entirety of Christian's assets were frozen pending an S.E.C. investigation.