Found Season 1 Episode 10 Review: Missing While Indoctrinated

Found Season 1 Episode 10, “Missing While Indoctrinated,” not only continues to bring one of its early cases full circle, but it also reveals more details about how Sir kidnapped Gabi Mosely years ago.

The episode begins with Gabi running to get to Tony, who she recently learned had awoken from his coma. She’s in a hurry, as she tells his father when she arrives, because she wants to be there before the police get there. She knows what the next step is — and it won’t be pretty.

Gabi obviously feels deep guilt for Tony being shot in the first place. While he was a young boy named Matthew’s kidnapper in an earlier episode, he himself was a victim of a trafficking ring, having been groomed to commit these crimes.

Still just a child too, Gabi makes it her mission to keep Tony out of prison, even if Tony’s father resists the help. 

While Tony’s father eventually gets on board, Tony has an even harder time trusting Gabi now. Moments after she promised him she’d keep him safe, she protected Matthew over him, and Tony wound up shot. 

But mistrust in adults and authority figures, it turns out, goes even deeper than that. Tony’s mother has all but abandoned him, and the person in charge of the human trafficking ring? It’s the school principal.  

For the principal to be the villain here is a shocking twist, but it’s not necessarily surprising to Gabi. I’ll get to that in a second.

Tony’s story ultimately has a happy ending, which feels like a risk for the show to take after only having two cases end badly. At the same time, to bring this one back and have it end well following a case where the victim didn’t make it makes it all work.

Meanwhile, Mosely and Associates are in danger of losing their P.I. license thanks to Captain Mallory and some bad publicity. The way Mallory has it out for Gabi and her team feels a bit too obvious, and while yes, this was a dynamic that was established from the beginning of the series, it’s surface-level at best. 

This is also a problem that I’d argue resolves itself too quickly, though the way it’s resolved is deeply moving and another way to bring the season full circle so far. 

The one news anchor who has been showing support from Gabi hosts — with some help — a segment that brings back Mosely and Associates’ recently saved victims to share their testimonies. It ends with Matthew’s mother making a plea to allow the firm to continue their life-saving work.

Zeke’s father helps as well — a nice detail that gives us a little more background on his character — and the firm gets its license back by the end of the episode.

The most emotional scene from this episode, however, is between two mothers. While Matthew’s mother is at Mosely & Associates, having just shared that Tony showed up at her door to apologize for his wrongdoings, Tony’s mother arrives to speak with them. 

Nothing much gets past Matthew’s mom, who figures out they are shielding her from seeing the other mother. But when she finds out Tony’s mother is there, she demands to speak with her.

What she has to say isn’t what you’d expect, though. She tells Tony’s mother that she forgives Tony for what he did and that deep down, she thinks he’s still a good person. It’s an emotional scene between the two women, and the grace Matthew’s mother offers is deeply touching. 

This is the kind of TV episode that sticks with a person long after they watch it. It’s partly because of scenes like that one and the thought-provoking discussions of redemption and empathy.

And partly, it’s due to what we learn about Sir and why this case resonates so profoundly with Gabi.

Is it too easy that Gabi keeps coming face-to-face with direct memories of her kidnapping? Maybe. But it’s a solid narrative tool that works in an emotional way.

This time, it’s being in a high school — seemingly the same one — and recalling her own time as a student. It’s the happiest we’ve ever seen young Gabi. She’s carefree in that moment, and it makes it that much more painful to know what came next.

Sir wasn’t a random kidnapper. There have been clues that he knew Gabi somehow — that he knew, or was at least aware of, her father.

But finding out that Sir was once Gabi’s high school literature teacher is a punch to the gut. It’s more terrifying than any other scenario, because he should have been a mentor and someone she could trust. 

This also explains why Gabi so quickly made the jump to consider a teacher a suspect at the high school, seemingly before anyone else might have. And, why she’s a little more brutal with the principal when she realizes it’s her. 

By the way, I’m glad we get to see this physicality from Gabi again. It’s another part of her skillset that’s important to this job.

There’s another level of mystery to the story that we’re only starting to learn. The girl Sir took before Gabi, Annie, was also one of his students. 

Gabi realizes she’s the same girl who came back one night and promised to get help. But she was caught by Sir, who did something to keep her from being able to. 

This piece of the puzzle seems to be the reason Gabi can’t see Sir as anything other than a monster — or, at least, why she won’t admit such a thing to herself.

Sir even notes the so-called hypocrisy himself when Gabi brings him Tony’s case. He doesn’t understand wanting to help a criminal, but Gabi believes Tony is deserving of redemption. 

Sir: And where is your empathy for me? Why is it so easy to see this Tony as worthy of redemption, yet you refuse to see the humanity in me?

Gabi: Because you have none. You kidnapped a child.”

Sir: So did Tony, and you, dear Gabrielle, kidnapped a man. We’ve all committed sins here, so why am I so unworthy of redemption?”

This is the complex part of their relationship, and it’s why we as the audience, can’t help but feel some sort of sympathy for Sir. But there’s clearly so much more to the story that we’ve yet to scratch the surface of.

What happened to Annie? I’m inclined to believe Sir didn’t kill her — that he’s telling the truth. But pay attention to that inflection in his voice. He says, “I didn’t kill her.”

It’s curious, too, that Annie would show up pretending to be someone whose cell phone had died. Sir would recognize her, certainly, and if she knew she was going there to see if someone else had been kidnapped, wouldn’t she have been prepared to get help right away?

There’s something off about this, and I can’t imagine it’s just a plot hole. 

Other thoughts:

• Margaret has been working on her own trauma, and though it’s a small detail on this episode, the reveal that she’s going to the bus station an hour later than usual is one of its most emotional moments.
• Margaret also shows a protectiveness over Gabi when Trent shows up, which is a really interesting detail about her character.
• I’m dying to see more of Lacey and Zeke together. 
• The way Trent gets his job back is another thing that feels just a little too easy. What this storyline does do, however, is show more of the connection between Trent and Gabi.

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Found airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

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