Found Season 2, Episode 7 Review: ‘Missing While Hated’

Wow. Found Season 2, Episode 7 is just WOW.

Not sure how to start this review, because this episode of Found just left me speechless. I have been staring at my computer screen for over an hour, trying to come up with the words to convey just how good this episode of Found is, and all I can come up with is Wow.

It’s just really damn good.

Season 2 of Found has managed to do something that a lot of shows can not do – make their second season better than their first. I say that confidently, because the character development in Season 2 has me shooketh. We’re seeing characters really starting to allow us into their lives. Now, I am not going to say that I love all of what we’re seeing, but I do love that we get to see it.

It’s crazy to me how a show can get me to love a character one moment, and within an episode or two, I am hating them. Yes, I am looking at you Trent. I was loving Trent, but over this season, I have gone back and forth on my feelings for him. Yes, I know that he is doing his job, but it doesn’t mean that I have to like the way that he is going about it.

SIR AND HIS BROTHER

We know that Sir is working with someone. Who that is, I don’t know. One of the things that I love is that this season keeps releasing little pebbles of information and making you wonder. Can we really trust anyone on this show?

I am wondering.

Trusting Sir or his brother isn’t an option for me. I do understand that Gabi wants to catch Sir and she does want to pay for her crimes – but she’s being stupid. Yes, I said it. She’s being careless because she’s allowed Christian to be around her and have access to what she knows.

If Christian is the one working with his brother, then we have a big issue. His access to Gabi gives Sir inside knowledge to not only cases, but to Gabi and Lacey. This will prohibit M&A from being able to do their job, but also will prohibit Gabi and Lacey from feeling safe.

I don’t trust Christian. I am also worried because Trent tells Gabi that someone who is related to sir was at the farmhouse. I however am left wondering does this mean that someone else that is related to Sir is alive? And if so, who is it?

MARGARET AND THE BUS STATION

This season, I have hated Margaret. I really think that Margaret is so full of herself and doesn’t take responsibility for her own actions. She doesn’t exactly play by the rules, herself. She has – to me – not thought about what others have done for her. She’s only thought about what she’s given them.

Margaret needs help. She needs help tot make sure that she can accept what has happened and move forward. She won’t be able to go back to the bus station and that is going to be something that will tear her apart.

Her arrest should have changed her. What it’s done has excelled her anxiety. She won’t be able to ever return and Gabi has to be the one to break the news to Margaret.

The thing is, the team at M&A are not going to ever not be there for each other. They are going to figure out how to help Margaret, even if she doesn’t seem to appreciate the way that they are caring about her. The team works together to get her a lifeline to the station.

When that goes away, she breaks. She breaks down and Gabi is there to catch her. Margaret is feeling angry. She wants to know why they can find everyone else and they can’t find her son.

When Gabi comforts Margaret and proves that she is going to be there always. Margaret has every right to be mad at Gabi, but she needs her. I don’t understand why it is though, that Margaret can’t try to see things from Gabi’s point of view.

I do believe that Margaret is good at her soul and that she wants to just protect people from going through what she is going through. She needs to find her son and even then I don’t know that she’ll be okay.

I am starting to feel bad for being mad at Margaret, because I am sure that there is something that we are missing. I am sure that there is something more about Margaret that we need to know to really understand her and her motivation. This episode, I just feel horrible for her.

I want to hug and protect her.

LETS TALK MEN

My favorite characters on Found are Dhan and Zeke. Why do I love them? Well, part of this is because they are so strong, protective and each in their own way, independent. The bigger part is the way that they love and protect the people in their lives, while fighting demons of their own.

Dhan knows that Gabi has done things that are wrong, but he also knows that he will do anything for her. I wish that I understood that connection more between them, because he feels like he owes her. Why? I think that feeling of owing her drives him, but it’s also something that isn’t easy to move past. There is a guilt that comes with feeling that you owe someone, even when you’ve paid your debt.

I do believe that Dhan needs to put his life and his relationship first. Not doing so jeopardizes his future. Gabi is a friend and like family to him – understand. But Ethan is his husband and needs him desperately. Ethan has the patience of a saint, but that doesn’t always last forever, so I am a little worried about it.

What I do love is that even with all these mixed feelings and this feeling a separation from his husband, Ethan isn’t going to give up. What he will do is call Gabi out. He will tell her how it is.

Dhan doesn’t seem to get that he’s not balancing things well. He’s willing to fight everyone that comes along to make sure that Gabi is safe and protected. He’s threatened both Christian and Trent. There is no part of me that isn’t worried about how Dhan is going about everything, but I have to believe that he will be protected the same way that he protects everyone else.

Zeke. Lord, I love Zeke. I believe that Zeke is a character that we must protect at all costs. One of the most beautiful things I see about Zeke is his relationship with Lacey. The fact that they are living together gives me hope for both of them, because they need each other.

But, even Lacey can’t protect Zeke. She wants to, but Zeke isn’t exactly open with all of the things that he’s doing. He wants to be the person that helps everyone, and that is so admirable. Yet, he also needs to protect himself and hacking the DCPD isn’t the way to do it.

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MORE FOUND REVIEWS:

• Found Season 2, Episode 1 Review: ‘Missing While Bait’
• Found Season 2, Episode 2 Review: ‘Missing While Difficult’
• Found Season 2, Episode 3 Review: ‘Missing While Lonely’
• Found Season 2, Episode 4 Review: ‘Missing While Perfect’
• Found Season 2, Episode 5 Review: ‘Missing While Presumed Dead’

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It was most admirable that he rejected Sirs help, but used the email from Sir to try and figure out where Sir is. However, hacking the police, it will end in issues. That issue is that when he’s caught, they come and take his servers – his only connection to the outside world.

Seeing Trent and his cohorts walking in and taking everything felt like a knife to the heart. Seeing Zekes pain was a lot to take, because he’s been through a lot. He can’t leave his home. Everything causes anxiety. How are we supposed to protect Zeke and give him a connection to the outside world without his technology?

Maybe I am cold because I didn’t care that as they took things, it made Margaret lose the feed to the bus station. I cared that Zeke continuously looses the things that he cares about so much. He broke the law, yes. But he also did it for the good of his friend.

The thing about procedurals is that they make you tow the lines of ethics and what should or shouldn’t be done. I know that both Dhan and Zeke are breaking the law, but for some reason, I am okay with it. I just also hate that they are going to get in trouble with it.

THE CASE

Gabi has a big issue – Trenth is building the case he needs to against her. It doesn’t seem like the biggest of issues, because she knew it was going to happen. She knew that she was going to go to jail – eventually.

The hardest part, I believe, for Gabi is the narrative that is out there about her relationship with sir. One of her old classmates says that everyone thought that there was an inappropriate relationship between Sir and Gabi in high school.

It’s going to be something that haunts Gabi, because everyone is tearing her apart over accusations. It doesn’t get better when Sir goes on social media and says things that make my skin crawl. He remarks that him and Gabi are family and connected, but nothing ever has happened between them. He says that he can’t believe that people are coming after Gabi and she should be respected.

As she sees this, she screams. I would have broken things, but she screams. How can Sir be so delusional?

It isn’t something that she was expecting, but luckily she has the case to distract her. The team is looking for a journalist who was kidnapped. Raj was working on a story and disappeared. This whole thing leads to a congressman who was assaulting men.

One of the men who was assaulted didn’t want his story told and so he kidnaps Raj so that the story isn’t told.

From the hate crime aspect and the bigots involved with the case, I was thankful that Found didn’t shy away from the story. They called people out, corrected pronouns, and had respect for those who deserved it. The team also had to learn to work to solve the case with less of Gabi’s help.

I think that it’s important that we see things like this – the team doing things without Gabi. I do believe that even if one day Gabi does go to jail, she won’t stay there long. I do believe that this case was important for the team because they need to learn to work together again, but they also need to find faith in themselves.

The team finding their missing person, without Sirs help, was monumental. The way that they were able to come together, was everything.

Sir is reprehensible and a disgusting human. He has this want to be needed by Gabi and thinks that there is something there that is not. The genius of this season is that they are separating Gabi and Sir right now, giving us a chance to know everyone better this season. It’s giving a lot of character development for the entire team and that’s what is making us invested.

We’re definitely invested.

OTHER THOUGHTS

• The opening scene is a nightmare and I don’t even wanna revisit that
• I want to know who is helping Sir, but I am starting to believe that it is someone at M&A. Who? I don’t know. But how else would he be getting files, because someone is always there.
• I don’t trust Christian. I think that he doesn’t hate his brother as much as he conveys.
• Trent doesn’t want to be the bad guy and I can respect that, but he’s got to decide what side he is on.
• Trent and Gabi – I still ship them but I don’t want to.
• The ending with the client that they brought home – didn’t see that coming
• We need to respect Zeke at all costs.
• Lacey and Zeke need to be together
• I feel so bad for Zeke that he’s going through all of this, when it literally is the worst thing in the world for him.
• Lacey remembering things is something I applaud
• The flashbacks killed me – that was painful to watch
• The team remembering what day it is for Gabi made me cry. I am glad that she has that support.

Found airs Thursdays on NBC.