Summary
A big — albeit predictable — twist and a bit of mortal peril liven up I Will Find You as it heads rapidly towards its climax.
I think we’re beginning to get a pretty clear picture of what’s going on in I Will Find You now. Ever since Season 1 slowed down and cohered a bit, we’ve had a bit more time to put things together, and Episode 5 adds a few more important pieces to the puzzle. We’re beginning to get a sense of what might have happened to Matthew, and maybe even why, and we’re definitely starting to figure out who’s on whose side. I suspect there might be a few more turns to come in that regard, but we’ll have to wait and see.
But this is mostly business as usual. The flashback trend, which started two episodes ago, continues apace here, only further afield. Five years in the past, Detective Muller, working out of the Federal Office of Police in Geneva, discovers a crime scene with two dead drug dealers and a kid hidden away. The kid’s name is Martin, and Muller takes him to an orphanage which specialises in housing children all over the world. From there, he promptly disappears.
In the present day, Muller receives word from the Feds about Matthew, a little boy of a similar description to Martin. Crucially, it was a Bostonian couple running that orphanage, so I think we may have found the dead kid who was used as a stand-in for Matthew to incriminate David.
Speaking of David, his salacious case makes the front pages, just as predicted, thanks to Jim going behind Rachel’s back. This is problematic for several reasons, not least of which is that it makes David and Rachel’s efforts to find Lenny much more dangerous. Luckily, David’s familiarity with the neighborhood allows them to sneak through some bootlegging tunnels to gain access to the property, but Lenny isn’t there. He has been missing since the cliffhanger ending of the previous episode, when an unknown gunman put a pistol to the back of his head while he was poring over the Liam Fisher case file.
That case file is still on the desk when Williams and Greer turn up looking for David and Rachel. Sophie, who had earlier stumbled in on the pair of them and told them about Lenny’s cancer diagnosis and the theory about Ronald making up the story about the bus accident, runs interference so they can hide in the closet, but she gets hauled away for obstruction. Greer spots the file on the desk and confirms the obvious — Liam Fisher was Nicky Fisher’s son. We later learn that Lenny and Philip arrested him for murder, and he was killed in prison, so revenge against the family is becoming the likeliest motive.
Elsewhere in I Will Find You Episode 5, Gertrude turns up unexpectedly to see Hayden and tells him that she has filed a police report claiming that David and Rachel took advantage of him and stole his gun, which was recovered from Washington Square Park. Naturally, this basically guarantees that Rachel won’t be able to get off with the crime she was arrested for, but Gertrude isn’t anywhere near as concerned about that as Hayden is. Against my better judgment, though, I still like this guy. He calls Rachel to tell her the latest, and that on account of the police report he has been asked to provide all the security footage from the apartment, but he deletes it and blames technical issues. He still seems pretty on-side.
This gives Rachel a chance to see Cheryl and Ronald, the latter of whom, after a brief bit of confrontation, confesses to having made up the bus accident thing so that he could see Cheryl. He denies, however, it having anything to do with what happened to Matthew (although this still doesn’t put his connection to Nicky Fisher to bed). Rachel believes him, but Cheryl is even more crippled with guilt over spending that evening with Ronald when, if she was home, she could have potentially saved Matthew.
Rachel tries to console Cheryl by showing her the Six Flags picture, which seemingly proves that Matthew is alive. She also looks deeper into that date and discovers that Payne Industries, Gertrude’s company, rented the entire park out. She meets with Hayden to tell him this, and they’re still being spied on by Gertrude’s lapdog. Gertrude is also meeting with Special Agent D’Souza, Williams and Greer’s boss, so that can’t be good either. Whatever is going on, she’s intimately connected to it.
In the meantime, David meets with Adam to try and find out where Nicky Fisher is, but since he’s semi-retired, nobody seems to know. The best lead is his daughter, Lena, who still lives in Revere, but Adam thinks that’s a terrible idea and offers to make a few calls instead. David pretends to agree, but while Adam’s back is turned, he heads straight to Lena’s place, holds her at gunpoint, and demands that she call her father.
Nicky obviously anticipated this, since Skunk and some goons arrive immediately, and Lena tases David unconscious. He ends up bound to a chair in the kitchen, on the cusp of being executed, but Adam arrives and tells Skunk there has been a change of plan — Nicky wants to talk to him. It turns out Adam has been working with Nicky Fisher this whole time, which was kind of obvious since he received a mysterious text that prompted him to dig up Matthew’s grave. Even though he pretended he made that decision for himself, it was clear he didn’t.
Adam and Skunk take David away, but the FBI are hot on their heels, since they were using Skunk as bait. All roads lead — at pretty high speed — to a private airfield and a plane that plans to spirit David away. He and Adam make a break for it. Skunk shoots Williams, and Greer shoots Skunk, while David and Adam get away. Williams’s fate is left hanging in the balance. The episode concludes with David waking up in Key West, Florida, where Nicky Fisher punches him in the face.
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