Found Season 1 Episode 2 Review: Missing While Sinning

Every person has a right to be Found.

That’s the overarching theme of Found Season 1 Episode 2, “Missing While Sinning,” which centers on a missing persons case involving a sex worker named Jinny Coe.

When they have no one else to turn to, Jinny’s friends go to Mosley and Associates for help. They’re right when they proclaim that because Jinny is a sex worker, she doesn’t get the same attention. She’s more likely to be written off because what she does is not only deemed immoral but also because she could be perceived as putting herself in danger willingly.

Watching the case unfold is fascinating, mainly because Gabi and her team are so incredibly talented in what they do. There’s also the fact that they’re willing to bend the rules when needed, and who doesn’t love watching a hero do what’s right in those kinds of situations?

It’s especially entertaining to watch Margaret, who notices details in a way that makes it seem like a superpower. Of course, this talent has been honed because of her continued search for her son, who went missing when he was a child. 

This makes her one of the most interesting characters. She’s brilliant and uniquely understands people, and she’s also never going to miss being at the train station each night to look for her missing son. 

But this team isn’t a perfect found family. The dynamic between Zeke and Dhan is strained, and Gabi continues to force them together. It seems she has a plan for them, and by the end of the episode, it starts to work. 

Zeke is agoraphobic, and this episode showcases how difficult that can be for him — even with something as a package being dropped off too far away from his doorstep. Trying to get that package becomes such an ordeal that he tries to be brave and go outside to grab it, but this results in injury when he panics.

It’s heartbreaking, and as Dhan learns about the significance of that package (after he finds an injured Zeke and helps him), he starts to understand how complicated Zeke’s situation is.

That softens him a bit — because before, he assumed Zeke just wasn’t trying hard enough. Through Dhan, the audience comes to more of an understanding of his character as well.

Beyond the case itself, there’s a larger overarching conflict. Gabi has gained media attention and is honored as the “Person of the Week” by MSNBC, speaking with Joy-Ann Reid. And as part of that honor, they’ll host a tip line dedicated to finding Gabi’s kidnapper from when she was younger. 

The entire interaction between Joy-Ann Reid and Gabi feels a little too forced and fake, but the point of the conversation is really key.

They discuss the fact every person deserves to be found, no matter their race, age, background, etc. But we already know that Gabi has one exception to this rule — she’s keeping her previous kidnapper hidden in her basement.

While Gabi doesn’t flinch over the news that there will be a tip line dedicated to finding Hugh Evans, a.k.a. “Sir,” it’s still clear this will raise the stakes for Gabi.

Through flashbacks, the episode also gives more details about Hugh and what things were like while he held Gabi captive. Interestingly, he makes a point never to harm her physically, a fact that he prides himself on.

It’s almost more twisted that he’s keeping her there to have the company — to have a family. There’s something just wildly unsettling about the one-year birthday celebration he attempts to offer her.

In the present time, Gabi holds control over him, keeping him in chains and using him to help her solve missing persons cases.

We learn that she’s had him for seven months, but we don’t yet know how that came to be. Meanwhile, the rest of the world assumes he’s still in the wind, and you have to wonder how different Gabi might be now that she’s found him than she would have been before.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar plays the role of Hugh incredibly well, showing his frightening temper and twisted sense of loyalty. Yet there’s a logical resignation to him as well. He feels confident Gabi won’t kill him, and he’s smart enough to understand Gabi’s cases in a way no one else does. 

Hugh also calls Gabi out on what he deems to be hypocrisy. At first, he refuses to help Gabi with her latest case because he thinks a sex worker doesn’t deserve to be found. He thinks she got what was coming to her. Meanwhile, Gabi’s stance is that none of that should matter — everyone deserves basic human rights.

But then Hugh argues that point, asking if every person deserves to be found, and everyone deserves basic human rights no matter what they may have done in their past, then how can she keep him held captive?

Her response? She said “human” rights. And he’s not human. He’s a monster. 

What’s problematic for me goes back to the same issue I had with the scene between Gabi and Joy-Ann Reid. Gabi is too cool, too calm, too collected. While her character is inspiring in most ways, the lack of vulnerability and emotion feels too false. 

She only loses her composure a little when she’s shaving Hugh’s beard at the end of the episode, and he points out that in a few months, it will be his one-year anniversary with her again. He insists that the first one was a great day and that he’d showered her with presents. 

Gabi is unflinching, letting him know she didn’t want his gifts — his books or jewelry or cake. But when he points out the one present she’s forgotten, there’s a suggestion that he may have just found her weakness.

That gift? Bella, now known as Lacy.

It makes one wonder what Lacy would think about Gabi knowing where their kidnapper is and keeping him captive.

There’s still so much potential for diving deeper into these characters, and I’m absolutely looking forward to what comes next. 

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Found airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

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