Summary
I Will Find You continues to develop at a ridiculous pace, throwing in new perspectives, locations, and developments nearly constantly.
Somewhat naively, I assumed that I Will Find You might slow down a bit after that breathless premiere. Based on Episode 2, though, this seems to be the pace that the show is aiming to sustain throughout the entirety of the season. Whether that’s feasible is anyone’s guess, but it’s certainly the case for now. This follow-up introduces a couple more POV characters, shifts between multiple locations, and adds several interesting wrinkles to the case. At this point, we still have absolutely no idea what’s going on, but the disorientation is undeniably compelling.
If you were wondering how David might get out of the predicament he found himself in at the end of the previous episode, the answer turns out to be a bit of blind luck. A detective named Wayne Semsey calls him to negotiate, and David uses the opportunity to demand that the spike strip be removed. To prove his point, he races towards it with his gun still against Philip’s temple. The cops buy it and let him get away, at which point he immediately calls Rachel and arranges to meet her in a parking lot, where he jumps into her car to slip the tail.
Short of options, David and Rachel decide to head to Wesson’s place, where he’s busy getting his wife and kid out of there since, according to Ross, he’s now a loose end. He has been taking the money off “them” for years, and simply giving it back — it later turns out to be a relatively paltry amount — isn’t an option. Wesson becomes a target for multiple parties in this episode, and it’s pretty clear that he isn’t going to see out the runtime.
This is also because the FBI are now involved, primarily represented through no-nonsense Special Agent in Charge Williams, his careerist underling Sarah Greer, and a relative rookie named Simmons. Williams and Greer immediately get a measure of the Mackenzies and poke multiple holes in their story about David’s escape. They also find out about Rachel’s visit and put a BOLO out on her. When they discover that the video footage of Rachel’s visits was removed from the system, presumably by Wesson, they set their sights on him, just as David is also arriving to confront Wesson at gunpoint.
Even though it’s David sneaking inside, Wesson manages to get the drop on him, but he’s mostly too terrified to do anything about it. He doesn’t seem to have a great deal of clarity about who he’s working for, how they might be contacted, and where Matthew is; he just knows that his employers have considerable reach and that nobody is safe from them, least of all him. On account of this, he apparently shoots himself, but this occurs off-camera, which I think is a weird choice. David and Rachel are able to scoot off just as Greer and Simmons arrive, with Hilde Winslow’s New York PO box next on their agenda.
It doesn’t take the FBI long in I Will Find You Episode 2 to arrive at the same destination. Williams asks the guy in the cell next to David’s what happened when Wesson took him to the “infirmary”, and he confirms that he came in the middle of the night and used his personal key, which is pretty suspicious. Williams agrees to procure David’s secret flashlight for nighttime reading in exchange for this information, but he forgets, which he later mentions to Greer. Since there was no flashlight on David’s cell inventory, they return to have another look around and find a hiding spot behind the toilet containing Matthew’s case file, with Hilde’s name conveniently circled.
Greer also turns up that Wesson has been receiving $1000 a month since David was incarcerated, so they’re beginning to come around to the idea that this is a more complicated situation than a typical escape. They’re still not quite on the right track yet, though, but I suspect they will be in due course, since they have immediately been depicted as much too smart to have the wool pulled over their eyes.
On the road trip to New York, Rachel shares the real story of why she was fired by the Boston Globe. She was investigating a spate of sexual assaults at Lemhall University that the faculty was trying to cover up, and she pushed a victim to come forward a little too strongly. Just before she was due to go on the record, she took her own life, and her parents sued for wrongful death, costing Rachel her job and a good chunk of her conscience. Now she’s aiding and abetting a fugitive, which probably won’t do much for her career prospects either, but that’s presuming she survives. David has Wesson’s phone, and receives a call from what I’m presuming to be the Big Bad, the same guy who was watching Philip and Adam in Boston in Episode 1, who is also later revealed to be a cop.
In New York, David and Rachel acquire a burner phone, and she arranges for them to sleep in the swanky apartment of a rich dude named Hayden, with whom she clearly has some kind of history. However, since David’s all over the news, Hayden recognises him when he tunes into his home CCTV and sees him sat on the couch.
We should also be suspicious of Adam. He gets a random text while he’s having a drink with Philip, and disappears to “take care of something”, which apparently involves digging up Matthew’s grave. He seemed pretty suspicious in the previous episode, too, but I’m still not sure he’s a proper bad guy quite yet. Time will tell, of course, but if nothing else, it doesn’t seem like I Will Find You is going to be short on villains.
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