Found Episode 9 Missing While Scamming Review And Recap- Sir’s Backstory Is Beginning To Be Revealed

Finally, after we have more on Sir. Monsters are only interesting if they are so abhorrent and terrifying we shiver just thinking about them or if they are sympathetic monsters with backstories and layers that can never be unwound. Found’s Sir apparently is the latter. Found Episode 9 covered crucial bits of the tantalizing character’s childhood courtesy of a nasty fever. We have been waiting for these details and an episode that felt more like a season or series arc than a one-and-done struggle. For Shanola Hampton’s series to survive, we must have more of these and less of the expected missing du jour.

Another week, another missing victim. This one is a perfectly curated white mother and wife. A popular social media influencer was taken and held for ransom. However, the money asked for is more than the influencer and her husband have. Melissa is a beautiful inspiration across her many social media channels, but she may not be precisely what she presents. The first ransom negotiation is a mixed bag. Gabi successfully reduced the money required to return Melissa, but something set off the kidnapper or kidnappers, and a shot was fired. She is alive for now, but things are escalating quickly.

Making things worse in Found Episode 9, Detective Trent was called in to try to stop the Mosley Agency and allow the police to take over. He told Gabi what was happening, but the pressure to decide is intensifying. Soon, he will have to choose to join the agency(an inevitability, I think) or rejoin the force and betray Gabi. The timing couldn’t be worse because Gabi was taking steps to confess everything about Sir to Trent. Trent made the wrong choice at the ransom exchange and called his department. The criminal got away, and Trent called because the masked man pulled a gun on Gabi, but the damage was done. Gabi is livid, and she pushes him further away. Unfortunately, Trent’s call gave the cops a reason to join the investigation. The two groups will now have to work together.

As a result of the disastrous exchange, the ransom has increased, and Melissa and her husband don’t have the money. Zeke offers to pay the rest, but the police want to use their own marked bills. When Gloria, an assistant, calls, saying the kidnapper will only deal with her, Gabi puts her plan into action and tries to make the exchange herself. Melissa’s assistants, including Gloria, were behind the kidnapping. By the time the inevitable shooting starts, Gabi is too late. Melissa was already dead of asphyxiation.

A first for the usually successful story conclusion, Found Episode 9 gave us no happy ending. They weren’t just in time to save anyone from themselves or others. Melissa died, albeit accidentally, from her captivity. The police chief is all too willing to use her death as a platform against Gabi’s group. Right or wrong, it is damaging to their professional relationship and the Mosely Agency’s reputation. We also learn that although Gabi doesn’t lose many people, she has lost four, counting Melissa, and each haunts her. Just as she has a shrine to those they saved on her wall at the office, she has an intimate shrine to those she couldn’t save.

The parallels between Gabi and Sir and Melissa and her kidnappers were strong this week. Gabi lies about who she is and what she has in her basement. The guilt is eating her alive, and yet she would rather push those closest to her away rather than let Sir go. His declaration last week that he blamed Lacey and wanted to kill her is likely just another of his manipulations. Gabi probably knows that deep down somewhere but is unable or unwilling to see it. They are both more interesting by allowing her to be a flawed but heroic character and Sir to be a vicious but relatable danger.

Sir is very sick. His feverish mind shows us what made him the way he is. His mother was abusive and demanding. He claims that just like Melissa, his mother presented a false front. She pretended to be sweet and loving in public but was really an uncaring, cruel parent who regularly hurt Sir. An unresolved thread makes it appear that Sir may have killed his mother in a fit of rage. For now, we can only speculate what happened to him and his younger brother, but the fact that his mother looks like Piper Laurie with a ton of smudged makeup from the original Carrie leaves a blunt impression. She was horrible, and Sir became a monster for a reason.

A kindly neighbor took pity on the boy and was probably the catalyst for his obsession with Gabi years later. She was African-American, intelligent, and caring. When he went searching for a replacement for her, he found Gabi. It is also from his friendship with the older woman that his nickname came. This dynamic could add even more complexity to Gabi and Sir’s strange relationship.

Gabi argues that he is a distraction, and she may have saved Melissa if she wasn’t worrying about him. Sir argues that her concern only proves he is essential, and she knows it. He is a powerful gaslighter who has lied to himself and others for so long that he believes his own lies. Just like Margaret needs the bus station, Gabi needs to control Sir. At first, it was under the guise that he helped her save more lives. After last week, she believed she was keeping Lacey safe. She is brilliant but blinded by her obsession. Sir and Gabi are codependent. Just like Sir created a kidnapper, Sir created a crusader. The problem is sometimes crusaders think the ends justify any means.

Margaret is struggling with how to meet Taylor and still goes to the bus station. Her therapist advises her to move on. Her reasoning is sound. After thirteen years, her son isn’t likely to come home. She wasn’t ready to hear that before, but Melissa’s death has allowed her to see her daughter needs to come first now. It will be a long road, but hopefully, Maraget can heal someday.

Lacey is taking a leave of absence. She knows Gabi is withholding something from her, and it is destroying her. Lacey asks her to let her in, and Gabi gives her part of the truth. It’s enough for now, but there is a reckoning coming. You can’t live in the darkness without some of it rubbing off on you eventually. Tony, the teenager who has been in a coma for weeks, is awake. Will he absolve Gabi of her guilt or send her spiraling? Find all our Found coverage here.