Found Episode 4 Missing While A Pawn Review And Recap- Sir And Gabi Have A Tainted Love

Obsessions can hone our talents and concentrate on specific tasks and goals. They can also blind us to possibility. Gabi has been so laser-focused on the people that need to be found and her holding of Sir that she has failed to see what her behavior is doing to those around her. She does a lot of good. She saves lives, and arguably, her use of Sir benefits those she is helping, but there is only so much she can compartmentalize. Her secret life is bleeding into her professional life, and when those two inevitably mix, it will be explosive. Found Episode 4 marks the beginning of the end in a compelling look at the internal workings of Sir and Gabi.

This week, this Mosely Group is on the clock searching for a thirteen-year-old boy whose parents are in the middle of a contentious divorce. Somehow, being dropped off at a church by one parent while the other was inside, he went missing. This couple which has called the police on each other so many times in the last few months it is hard to take anything they say seriously; snipe constantly at each other, making a bad situation worse and pulling the attention from where it needs to be. The victim, Mathew, has no online presence that they know of because the parents believed in a no-screen household. Most parents understand, though, that when there is a will, there is a way, and when Mom comes forward with a handheld gaming device that she didn’t realize had online capabilities, the group’s pool of suspects gets enormous.

Not only is Mathew vulnerable at the church and the Dads of Divorce group his parents belong to, but anyone could have taken him after exposure to predators in the gaming world. In the last few months, Mathew had begun using negative language about adults. Specifically, calling the “phoneys,” which Sir figures out, is a reference to The Catcher In The Rye. He must have been exposed to that through an older child, which Sir says is who they should be looking for. The gamer’s live stream yields more evidence of a child luring Mathew into a grey sedan. Additionally, the gamer’s event is in a known hotbed for human trafficking. A search of the dark web finds an auction in just four hours, and the group knows they are running out of time.

With the parents finally united in the hospital after a health scare, Gabi and her group question and search for one of the teenagers Mathew was close with in the Dad’s group and find hotel keys. Gabi breaks down one of the doors and finds the boys. Unfortunately, as she is running away with them, Tony is shot. The sixteen-year-old had been groomed and manipulated into taking Mathew. Tony survives but is in a coma, and his father blames Gabi. After slinging a slew of poisonous barbs at Gabi at the end of Found Episode 4 about cherry-picking who she chooses to save, she returns home and unravels. As she screams and cries and breaks things, Sir reacts equally strongly. As usual, the most captivating parts of the season belong to Sir and Gabi’s relationship.

Sir is far more compelling as a vulnerable victim. There is something more believable about Mark-Paul Gosselaar as a manipulative bastard and unexpected empath than a monster. Maybe it’s all those years watching Saved By The Bell, but I want him to be more than a bad guy. Thanks to another flashback, we know he took at least one girl before Gabi. Someone named Annie left notes for whoever might come after her, and Gabi has never stopped searching for her. Sir threatened Gabi when she was a kid that if she didn’t behave, she would end up like Annie. We have no way of knowing what this means, though. Did Annie escape, and Sir is making empty threats, or did he kill her?

Gabi keeps her past locked in a closet. She brings it out to punish herself. Sir knows it and uses her guilt and pain against her, but he is also obviously in love with her. When she breaks down after her altercation with Tony’s father in the hospital, Sir hears it all and is distraught. He may be twisted and dangerous, but he cares for her, and that makes their dynamic fascinating to watch. Does he love her? Is he obsessed with her? Is he even capable of love? There are so many questions and things to dissect I can’t look away from their warped connection. In Found Episode 4, Hampton and Gosselaar is the most electric duo on television right now.

Trent and Gabi’s chemistry is growing and is harder to ignore now. Even when they are arguing over investigative policy, they have a mutual attraction that everyone is seeing. With a hostage in the basement and a household of literal and figurative skeletons, I worry that this is a doomed love affair. Gabi is going to have to give up her fixation with Sir before she will have the emotional bandwidth for a healthy affair. I’m afraid she will be caught before she comes to terms with her past. For both of their sake, I hope I am wrong.

Trent isn’t the only one that is looking too closely at Gabi. Lacey also knows she is lying about Sir. She just doesn’t know what and will find it hard to suspect what Gabi has done. When she finds out, she will be ripped apart. When Lacey asks Dahn about it, he tells her that everyone has secrets and she should let it go. It is good advice, but it could also be proof that Dahn helped Gabi capture Sir. Maybe he helped her locate and take Sir. It would explain how she was able to secure the much bigger man. Maybe his advice was also a warning to Lacey. If he knows, his involvement will drive a massive wedge in the group.

The Mosely Group needs each other as much as their victims need them. They are a found family of lost and damaged souls trying desperately to outrun their demons. Zeke was kidnapped by human traffickers, Dahn was a POW, Gabi and Lacey were kidnapped by Sir, and Margaret is still looking thirteen years later for her missing son. A stirring cover of Duran Duran’s Ordinary World in Found Episode 4 promises a better world but reminds us that sometimes we need to cry for yesterday and learn to survive. For the Mosely Group, survival means saving others. Find all our Found coverage here.