Summary
I Will Find You really kicks into gear with the best episode of the season, one that finally unmasks the true villain and properly raises the stakes.
Oh, man, I liked him too! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since I Will Find You has made Hayden a bit too reasonable and helpful, but even so, the big twist that caps off Episode 7 lands with the same sickening thud as the rock Hayden uses to brain the detective who got too close to the truth. With all the cards now on the table — more or less — there’s only the finale left to tie a neat little bow around Season 1, which, despite some questionable writing and stilted acting, largely remained pacey and compelling enough for viewers to see it through. And there might still be some more surprises to come.
Interestingly, the opening flashback solidifies one of the key mysteries by clarifying that it was Gertrude, with help from Stavros and Heller, who framed David for murdering his own son. We don’t get to see what’s on the document that Heller gives her, though it’s obviously something official from the fertility clinic, but the confirmation is significant enough.
Back in the present day, we’re picking up from where we left off, with Rachel and David planning to approach Heller at the hospital. This means going to Ronald, since he’s the administrator and can get them in, but he’s also fundamentally fairly cowardly, so he’s resistant to the plan. This is his big opportunity to impress Cheryl, though, who still isn’t thrilled that he lied about the bus accident. It’s a bit of an odd dynamic, since Ronald is teaming up with his wife’s ex-husband, and their objective is to prove that the thing which threw a spanner in the works of their marriage was actually a total fabrication. I’m not sure where Ronald is going to stand after all this.
We’ll get back to this, though, as the hospital trip ties in with some pretty key revelations that occur later. In the meantime, Chopra tells Greer that Rachel and David broke into Berg Reproductive, so even though she’s officially off the case, she needs to find out what’s going on. Luckily, Muller arrives at exactly that moment to see her, so she takes him with her. Muller has some crucial information to impart, including that the Payne Foundation funded the orphanage in Geneva, and also that Martin had a rare genetic disorder called MLD (Metachromatic Leukodystrophy) that will show up on a DNA test. If the DNA on file tests positive for MLD, it’ll prove that the body isn’t Matthew’s.
Greer tasks Williams, who’s still in hospital, with contacting the crime lab and running the test. The request is intercepted, though, by D’Souza, who cancels the test, suspends Greer, and goes ballistic at Williams. Whatever Gertrude has on her, it must be significant, since it took only one conversation to completely rewrite her entire character into a full-on antagonist.
Not to be dissuaded, Greer takes Muller to the clinic and backdoors into the computer system, discovering that David and Rachel were looking for Cheryl’s records. Muller makes an offhanded remark about formerly working in financial crimes, which sets Greer off. She tells him about Wesson being bribed from an account in the Caymans, and asks him to look into it. He discovers that the account, REH Holdings, has no formal connection to Gertrude and was recently closed and emptied, but the wire request came from an account in Boston. There’s no official way to connect Gertrude to it, but she doesn’t know that, so he can pretend otherwise to rattle her cage.
Meanwhile in I Will Find You Episode 7, Hayden is in custody. But despite his initial refusal to play ball with the family lawyer or sign any paperwork that his mother has drummed up, he eventually cuts a deal to secure his release, the details of which remain mysterious. Either way, he calls Rachel and leaves her a voicemail telling her that he loves her and is going into hiding for a while. Before that, though, he goes to see his mother, coincidentally while Muller is there. And even though Gertrude plays dumb while Muller lays out the facts about Martin’s genetic disorder and the DNA test, she’s clearly rattled. When he confronts her outright, she asks him to leave, and on the way out, he spots the name of her late father, Robert Edward Harold Payne, on one of the portraits. REH Holdings. It’s basically a smoking gun.
But even though things are looking up for the heroes, that doesn’t last long. Ronald is able to sneak them into the hospital and hide them in an operating room, and he manages to catch Heller when he attempts to flee, but first Cheryl catches him and demands to know what he’s up to, and then Greer arrives and has him arrested for lying about Cheryl’s whereabouts. Technically, he was telling the truth — she is in surgery, but she’s not actually carrying one out; she’s colluding with David and Rachel about how to proceed.
Cheryl clarifies that it can’t be Heller who’s at fault, since he wasn’t her donor. She was treated by a woman while at the clinic, but she was also pregnant before she went; she just didn’t know it. So David is definitely Matthew’s father. That’s why she never bothered to tell him about the clinic. The reason her name didn’t come up on the system is that she used Rachel’s instead, and this is the news that makes the penny drop for everyone. Cheryl and David were never the targets — Rachel was.
At that moment, the missing Six Flags photos finally arrive in Rachel’s inbox. One of them shows who’s holding Matthew’s hand — Hayden. He has had him the whole time. He’s the villain. And to prove it, as Muller is leaving his family home, he jumps him from behind and beats him to death with a rock. And, to make matters worse, Greer chooses that exact moment to burst in with a gun.
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