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I've lost my job, respect, friends. i'm going to prison. i've lost a lot of time out of my life. i'm going to miss out on my granddaughter growing up. my son is getting married in october and i'm going to miss being with my husband for who knows how long. all i can get from him now is letters and phone calls. >> reporter: you told lyle a lot of lies. >> i did. >> reporter: and for some reason, he's decided to stand by you. >> because he's a very amazing man. and i'm very fortunate to have him in my life. >> reporter: and when you get out of prison and he's there waiting for you to welcome you ...

>> i knew that was the night it was gonna happen. and i didn't really know what to do. >> reporter: joyce says at the moment of truth, she had been overcome by confusion and fear. and instead of driving to the rendezvous location at midnight with a shotgun and supplies, she told her husband lyle she had chest pains and needed help. so when sweat and matt slid back the manhole cover and poked their heads up into the street, joyce was nowhere to be seen. >> i was so scared. and i ended up having a panic attack, and my husband did take me to the hospital. >> reporter: now it was morning, and as s...

Off a high rockface and needed joyce's help. >> he wanted me to find a cliff to put my husband over. and i'm like, i'm not doing that. >> reporter: in the car? push him? >> in the truck. >> reporter: joyce says she refused so matt came up with a new plan. >> mr. matt wanted me to give my husband some pills. to knock him out. >> reporter: then, joyce says, once the prisoners got into her jeep on the night of the escape, the first stop would be her home. >> reporter: you would have drugged lyle, "the glitch." >> yes. >> he would have been passed out at home. and what did they say they were going...

>> we stopped for supper that night on the way home, for chinese food. and she ate like she normally does. >> reporter: so as lyle and joyce dined that evening, joyce gave no sign she was the linchpin of an extraordinary plot and that the man she was with, who helped raise her son, was the target of a planned hit to be carried out later that night. as the clock ticked toward midnight, joyce was fully aware that david sweat and richard matt were leaving their cells, sneaking to that manhole cover and heading for freedom. the prison break was on. coming up, no one could remember the last time ...

He couldn't prove that joyce had sex with either inmate or joyce's claim that there was a plot to kill lyle. >> they had contact with lyle, they thought he was a nice guy. and they actually didn't care that much for joyce because of the way she was treating lyle. >> reporter: you know, david sweat, after his capture, told authorities that it was your idea to kill lyle. >> it was not my idea. it was matt's idea. >> reporter: today lyle himself and their son tobey believe joyce's story and are standing by her. >> there is no way that she would have had my father killed. she loves him too much to...