After getting paid by the CIA to go along with the fake shooting for the promise of becoming wealthy, the greedy parents decide "why stop here?" When the lie can be used to extract millions of dollars of wealth against someone for "defamation", why not pursue it? Its not unlike the Holocaust... Why stop lying and being immoral and selling your soul to the establishment powers, when it is so rewarding and you can become rich? A way out of the rat race, and nobody will ever know.