Gabrielle Walsh Talks ‘Found’ Season 2 and Why Lacey Shouldn’t Be Underestimated [Interview]

Please note this interview contains spoilers for Found Season 2 Episode 1.

The tables have turned on Found, with Sir no longer the one being held in captivity. The Found Season 2 premiere picks up where last season left off, following the cliffhanger that showed Sir hiding in Lacey’s apartment after escaping Gabi’s basement. 

The premiere reveals that Sir has taken Lacey, but she didn’t make it easy for him. 

I recently spoke with Gabrielle Walsh, who plays Lacey Quinn on the series, about her character coming face-to-face with Sir years later and what we can expect from the coming episodes. 

During our conversation, Walsh discussed the moment at the end of Found Season 1 Episode 13, when Gabi finally told the team her secret — that she’d been holding Sir captive in her basement.  

“I was terrified shooting that scene because this is what we’ve been building up to,” Walsh shared, adding that Lacey has known for a while that Gabi was keeping something from her. 

“I think Lacey doesn’t know how to process this information. It’s just a shock, and it’s a betrayal, and I think, if anything, that was not what she was expecting Gabi to reveal,” she said. “Especially because this monster person, Sir, was so close to home.”

Walsh does think there could be space for forgiveness, given all that Lacey and Gabi have been through together. That is, of course, if she survives all of this.

“Gabi and Lacey have such a deep bond, and you’ll get to see just how deep that bond goes from before Lacey became Lacey — and is Bella — and how much of an impact Gabi’s presence had on her healing,” Walsh said. “I think that that type of bond doesn’t just dissipate.”

Walsh added that Lacey is someone who “doesn’t want to live in her trauma.”

“She wants to get past it — not the way that Gabi does by suppressing it and doing crazy things like keeping a man in your basement,” she laughed. “But by digging into the love and light and connection that she has with these people who have become her little family. So I think that there’s a space for that, but that doesn’t mean that this betrayal wasn’t deep or life-changing for her. Because to see someone who you have idolized and modeled your life after do something that is the exact thing that you’re trying to fight is difficult to grapple with.”

Of course, what matters first is whether or not Lacey will survive. Walsh said she was just as shocked as the audience that Sir kidnapped Lacey.

“I was like, ‘No way! No way are they going to have him kidnap Lacey. He’s going to be out there, in the lurch, causing havoc, and that was just to show that he can be anywhere, any time, any place.’ But no, I sat down with [Nkechi Okoro Carroll], and she’s like, ‘Yeah, so he’s got you,'” Walsh said. “So I’m like, ‘Alright. He’s got me. What does this mean? Where is this going? Am I still going to be a part of Season 2?!'” 

One thing we do know is that Lacey shouldn’t be underestimated — not anymore. The season premiere revealed that Lacey fought Sir every step of the way.

“I think the difference between then and now is Lacey’s not a little girl anymore. She’s not little Bella; she’s Lacey. And she hasn’t been just twiddling her thumbs waiting. She’s been preparing for something like this to happen,” Walsh said, adding that we’ve already seen Lacey’s ability to fight back a little in Season 1.

“But all that being said, there’s a big difference between doing stuff in a safe place and then coming face to face with your real-life monster.”

Walsh also gave a few hints about what we can expect in the coming episodes, not only for Lacey, but for the rest of the team.

“You know from what [Sir] said to Gabi how much he loathes Lacey, so you’re going to get to see that,” Walsh hinted. “It’s like she’s a pawn in his game and so, therefore, expendable to some extent.” 

While that creates fear within Lacey, Lacey also has the skills that will be important.

Lacey will be “trying to, as we have done with other cases, get into the mind of this person to get what you need to survive. So you’re going to get to see a little bit of that,” Walsh explained. “And that’s definitely… What is Sir going to do if he doesn’t get what he wants? Will we see Lacey anymore? Is Lacey going to survive this?” 

The Mosely and Associates team is now at a disadvantage, too. “They have to do something to pull together to get past this betrayal in whatever way they can and be sharp to save her, without now the help of Sir,” she said.

“Gabi’s brilliance has been in part because of whatever information she’s gotten from Sir. So now Gabi has to utilize the connection that she’s had with Sir — not only the literal connection, but the psychological connection that she made with him to help her find her sister. It’s so twisted!” 

Found airs Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC.

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