Found season 2, episode 3 recap and review: "Missing While Lonely"

Found season 2, episode 3 opened with the storyline from the end of the episode, and then took us to 36 hours earlier. It’s time to break down everything that happened in the episode.

Caution: This post contains SPOILERS for Found season 2, episode 3

I don’t often like episodes that open with the ending. This often gives too much away, but Found season 2, episode 3 did it just right. We saw Trent with a black eye and tears in his eyes. He was giving an update about the Sir/Lacey situation, and it genuinely made us worried for all involved.

It didn’t help that we also jumped to Sir and Gabi meeting. Dahn had rushed into Gabi’s house to find a note, and all we knew at this point was that Gabi had gone to Sir voluntarily. But was it too late for Lacey?

Jumping to 36 hours earlier in Found season 2, episode 3

The episode then took us to 36 hours earlier, with us focusing on Sir’s brother, Christian. It’s clear that Christian believes that his brother can be good. After all, Sir saved him from the fire and even tried to save their mom. Oh, if only Christian knew the truth. He does learn the truth during the episode, but it’s hard to change his way of thinking. How could his brother kill their mom?

Christian’s involvement is what’s caused Sir to escalate. Gabi knows that she needs to get Sir talking to her again, but he’s set fire to the payphone. He will call when he wants, and Gabi needs to find a way to draw him back in.

The best way to do that is with a new case. That is the case of a missing elderly woman who was supposed to marry an inmate. There’s a great back and forth between Trent and Gabi. Trent sees a lot of the world in a black and white way. Monsters are monsters. If they break the law, they’ve broken the law. What happened to them before doesn’t give them the right to break the law.

Sure, it doesn’t, but it does lead to people snapping. The mind is a fragile thing as well as being the strongest part of the body. It turns out that the inmate snapped after his daughter was killed by a drunk driver. The inmate wanted revenge against the driver and had no idea that the man’s wife was in the car at the same time. He didn’t mean to kill her, and he’s felt terrible for that since.

This man’s storyline mirrors Gabi’s in a way. She snapped in the need to keep herself and Lacey safe. At the same time, she wanted to keep other people safe, and she realized Sir was the way to that. Was it right? No, and we all agree with that. I think a lot of us can see why she did it, though. Plus, it makes for great drama.

Sir does get involved in the case. He can’t help it, but Gabi realizes that Sir is starting to lose it. This could be dangerous, but it also tells Gabi more about Sir so she can find Lacey. Gabi can also tell when Sir gets it wrong, and when he goes on about the elderly woman and her inmate lover being a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, Gabi realizes that it’s the woman’s lawyer who has kidnapped her. It doesn’t take too long to solve this case, and that’s because this wasn’t the main part of the story.

Margaret, Zeke, and Dahn help figure out where Lacey is

This episode does remind us that when the M&A team work together, they are stronger than when they work alone. They all have their own skills and abilities.

Margaret’s “Margaret Vision” comes back in the episode, and she notes that it’s when Gabi isn’t around. That’s not surprising considering her feelings toward Gabi right now. However, she knows that she hasn’t lost it, and by helping people, she is more likely to realize that she needs to keep doing what she is doing.

Zeke also steps in to help find the elderly woman without Gabi asking. He doesn’t want to help Gabi right now, but he wants to save people. I think we’re seeing a turning point with him as he realizes that while he doesn’t like Gabi right now, there is more important things involved with he M&A team.

The two of them and Dahn realize that there is a broken up credit card in the house Sir was keeping Lacey. Margaret is able to put the pieces together in the right way and then Zeke is able to run the number. With the last purchases, Gabi is able to put it all together. She knows where Lacey is.

Gabi lies to the team again in Found

Gabi is certainly doing a brilliant job of pushing the team further away from her, but she thinks that she’s doing the right thing. She leaves a note for Dahn and the others apologizing for lying to them. You see, when she figured out all of Sir’s books that he purchased, she told them that Lacey’s time was up. However, that’s not the case.

Gabi had realized where Sir was. He wanted her to find him, but he needed her to do it alone, otherwise Lacey would be dead. She does tell the others where to find Lacey in the note.

That’s when we get the meeting between Sir and Gabi. She is ready to hand herself over to him, but things don’t quite work in the way expected in the episode. Lacey wakes up from her unconscious state and stabs Sir in the back. Gabi tries to talk Lacey out of stabbing him again, but she’s ready to attack. And she would if she didn’t collapse.

This is where we pick up with the start of the episode. Trent—who had actually got the black eye from the case with the missing woman—shares that things didn’t work out as they were meant to. Lacey has been found, but she’s in critical condition. Margaret rushing into the room was just behind Dahn and Gabi, with Lacey on a stretcher.

At the very end of the episode, we have some hope. Lacey twitches as Gabi holds her hand.

But where is Sir? That’s a question for Found season 2, episode 4.

Overall, the episode did well with giving us the future and then taking us up to that point. It gave us hope that Lacey would be found, but fear for who would end up being in the hospital. There are also hints that the M&A team will find their way past this point, especially now that Lacey has been found. Margaret and Zeke know that they need to help people, and they may start to see that Gabi was wrong but acted in a way that she needed to because of her own trauma. She’s not a perfect person, and they all need to realize that they put her on a pedestal.

Found airs Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC. Catch up the following day on Peacock.

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