Found Season 1 Episode 7 Review: Missing While Indigenous

The complexity of Sir continues to make Found a fascinating drama, but the flaws in the story are becoming increasingly apparent.

Found Season 1 Episode 7, “Missing While Indigenous,” picks up shortly after where we left off on the last episode, with Trent at Gabi’s house, dealing with the fact that he’s suspended from the police department. This gives us more insight into Trent as a character, though it’s hard to buy that he’d be so forgiving of Gabi.

She’s the one who took that flash drive, and now he’s paying for it. Yet he says he’s mad at himself instead for blurring his own lines.

It’s compassionate, and it’s a fair point. We saw Trent on Found Season 1 Episode 1 struggling with whether he wanted to follow the rules or bend them when necessary. Gabi even called him out on it. So there’s a crisis of identity happening because of Trent’s continued involvement with Gabi and her team.

But it’s also because he’s carrying a torch for this woman so badly. And while yes, Gabi is becoming more vulnerable around him, there simply isn’t much chemistry between these two. 

There’s another side effect to Trent’s long visit. Sir asks Gabi later who “Heavy Boots” was and if she had slept with him. He comes off as much of a disappointed father figure as a jealous boyfriend type, which makes for an interesting dynamic. From flashbacks, we know morality is a big sticking point for Sir.

He also tried to refuse a case earlier in the season because it was someone who had been doing something “sinful” in his opinion. 

But the way he asks about the man he heard upstairs, the jealousy comes through just as much. 

In flashback, he reveals himself to be emotional over his “relationship” with Gabi. We’re getting more and more details about what it was like — how he tried to bond with her, educate her, and insist that they would be a happy family. Gabi manipulates him into letting her outside, and she tries to make a break for it.

Sir catches her and becomes violent, only later to cry about it at dinner. Well, and then poison her, lock her in a room, and threaten to kill her. He even tells her exactly where he’d leave her body — in a place where she’d never be found. 

That memory becomes useful later. This time, instead of Sir helping with his expertise in… kidnapping, it’s the experience she had with him when she was young that tells her where she’d be able to find the woman they’re looking for, Denae.

Denae’s grandmother hires Gabi and her team to find her, and it quickly becomes urgent since Denae is pregnant and due any day now. Denae had been living in the space between two homes, emotionally. An indigenous woman, she’d left the reservation for life in the city, but was always pulled between the two. 

The need to search for Denae on the reservation and speak to her family complicates matters more than they expect. Denae’s brother is protective, and it seems the whole family has been involved in trying to convince Denae what was best for her unborn child. 

That means there are tensions, and once again, not everyone is thrilled to be working with Gabi and her team. Denae’s brother is hesitant from the start, and then when they interrupt a sacred ritual, they’re even less welcome.

It’s too bad that there’s so much going on in this episode because the details of Denae’s family and culture don’t get enough attention for the story being told. 

Another major flaw is how coincidental it is that this case would bring Gabi and Lacy back to where their own trauma occurred.

Perhaps this would have worked later in the series, but just seven episodes in, it’s a bit ridiculous that a case would just happen to bring them back to that area of Virginia — and so close to the actual farmhouse where Sir held them captive. 

That farmhouse does trigger the memory that helps Gabi realize where they should look for Denae. They find her unconscious, having recently given birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. 

Luckily, the team puts the pieces together quickly enough. Margaret figures it out when she goes to see Dr. Potter, using her skills of observation to realize he had the baby. She’s truly a standout character on this series — it’s so captivating to watch her figure things out the way she does. 

She tricks the doctor into leaving the room and sneaks in, finding the baby hidden away. Meanwhile, the rest of the team has figured out that he was the kidnapper, which is good, because they arrive just in time to keep Margaret from getting hurt. 

It all seems like a happy ending, but this episode does something different. This one ends on a cliffhanger.

Sir expressed how displeased he was earlier in the episode, not only because of Trent, but then realizing that Gabi was going out of town — and going back to Virginia. While gone, he breaks the security camera she has on him. It’s such a violent moment that it shakes Gabi to her core in a way we haven’t seen yet. 

But now, we have to wonder what he did after breaking that camera.

It’s Zeke who notices an issue first, rushing to his computer. Moments later, Trent tells Gabi that there is evidence Sir may be near her home. 

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Found airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

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