Found Season 1 Episode 3 Review: Missing While Widowed

Memory can be a complicated thing. 

On Found Season 1 Episode 3, “Missing While Widowed,” Gabi struggles with what Hugh told her about Isabella. He put that one thought in her brain that has her questioning everything she knows, wondering if she’s been remembering things incorrectly.

This is the first time Gabi is visibly shaken, imagining that it’s because of her that Hugh kidnapped Isabella. That it’s her fault — that she asked for a friend and understood what it would mean.

It causes her to treat Isabella coldly, which suggests some underlying problems with intimacy and difficulty dealing with guilt. Their relationship is complex, which we can only imagine based on the circumstances.

But this suggests that even further, and Isabella wonders if she’s done something wrong. 

Though Hugh gets under Gabi’s skin about guilt while talking about guilt over her current case, it’s clear that guilt has a strong effect on her. She must feel even more guilt over knowing where Hugh is, using him to help with cases, while keeping Isabella in the dark. 

Gabi takes a tip from Margaret when it comes to remembering the details of that night. Margaret explains why she goes to the bus station every night — why she’s gone there every night for the past 13 years, since her son disappeared there.

She goes not only because she hopes he will return, but also to keep her memory fresh. Being in that same place may even trigger a new clue, a new memory that could help her find him one day. 

So Gabi recreates the dinner she had that night with Hugh, the night where he asked if she wanted a friend. And she’s able to remember clearly that in fact, she recoiled at the idea.

Going back to Margaret, her story is the most emotional on this episode — and really, the most emotional throughout the series so far. When her daughter arrives to Mosley and associates with emancipation papers, it’s revealed that she had two other children who she ultimately lost custody of because she was so buried in her grief over losing Jamie.

What her daughter doesn’t know, however, is that Margaret has continued to grieve. She learns it from Isabella / Lacy, who tells her about her mother’s evenings at the bus station. 

It’s gut-wrenching, especially when Margaret’s daughter arrives at the bus station that evening. Margaret is somehow brilliantly strong and terribly broken, shaky and vulnerable as her daughter takes the moment to connect with her — to sit with her for just that night, “to try to understand.” It’s a beautiful scene, and Kelli Williams’ performance is incredible. It’s filled with visceral emotion. 

Of course, this is also a procedural drama, and we have to talk about this case of the week. It’s a classic whodunnit, but instead of murder, it’s kidnapping. 

What’s so endearing is that it’s the doorman who notices that one of the tenants where he works, Reggie, has gone missing. He knows Reggie’s routine so well and looks forward to their daily chats, so it stands to reason he’d pick up on this before anyone else would. There’s more to it, too, we learn later.

There are real romantic feelings between the two of them — Margaret picks up on the fact that Cliff has been in love with Reggie for quite some time. 

The stakes are higher when the team realizes that Reggie is missing his medication and needs it to avoid having a heart attack. But what makes it the most engaging continues to be how this team works together to do what they do best, especially with the overarching stories happening with each character. 

Hugh’s help is once again invaluable as well. Gabi and her team could do this on their own, sure. She’s only been holding Hugh captive for seven months, and her firm has been going strong long before that. But his help has become a superpower, as twisted as it is to listen to him get into the mind of a kidnapper.

In this case, he can tell it’s an amateur kidnapping and that the kidnapper is scared and unstable, which means Reggie is in even more danger. 

Thankfully, there’s a happy ending once again. Reggie is found, and his kidnapper is taken into custody, plus he’s blackmailed by Gabi, whose brilliance continues to make her even more powerful.

On top of this, his relationship with his niece looks like it will become much stronger, and it seems Reggie and Cliff will have their moment, too. 

I don’t know that we can expect a happy ending every time. The team celebrates when they do, and that’s really enjoyable to see, but at some point, that’s bound to change. 

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Found airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

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