Found Episode 6 Missing While Addicted Review And Recap- Blindspotting And Shared Secrets Prove To Be Turning Points

We are ruled by our past. For better or worse, we are a product of what we have experienced. It can make us tough as nails, fragile as glass, paranoid, impulsive, angry, resentful, and determined. For Gabi Mosely and company, it makes them great finders because they will never give up and never give in. It also leaves them vulnerable to people who could take advantage of their weaknesses. Their greatest strength is each other. Found Episode 6 shows the cracks formed with secrets are allowed to drive wedges between family.

Their bond should be unbreakable, but Sir is slowly driving a wedge between them, even if Gabi isn’t willing or able to recognize it yet. That’s the thing with blind spots. We don’t see the danger until it is too late. Found Episode 6 is the first time we see the results of the group not working in tandem. Tempers flare, and people are compromised. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail before everything they work for is put at risk.

The Mosely Agency has been called in to find a missing drug addict. His mother is dying, and time is running out for them to reconcile. She doesn’t care what he has done in the past or what he has put her through. She wants a chance before it is too late to make peace and say goodbye. The problem with addicts is their addiction controls them, and the group initially believes he has fallen under the sway of drugs again. It is a reasonable theory. Unfortunately, his cousin doesn’t want Gabi to continue investigating because he claims he doesn’t want to hurt his mother again. Those blind spots get the better of the team initially when they assume the worst of him.

They operate under a common misconception. The kid is a drug addict and thus has either begun using again or is being taken advantage of because of that drug use. They even find proof of both things. A slimy rehabilitation clinic operator has been fraudulently billing addicts for years. When they conveniently end up dead, that’s better still because he can keep billing their insurance for services he is charging another for receiving. It’s a lucrative scam that is successful largely because no one thinks to look for the missing addicts. It is assumed they are still at the clinic or using again.

Gabi isn’t willing to give up on him, though. Even after being fired, she doggedly persists and finds out about the scheme and pushes through even when her team questions her. She has a history with addiction. Her father was an alcoholic, and she never forgave herself for not being able to do more. Her guilt, a common theme with Gabi, almost blinded her to what was really going on. David is a kidnap victim. Lucas has been controlling David for years. Something happened to David’s sister. She died, and Margaret initially thought Lucas was protecting David, but upon closer look, he was potentially controlling him. When David shows up at Lucas’ house, Lucas claims he is using again, but that is not true. David was able to push through his drugged-out mind and tell them that Lucas had pushed David’s sister and killed her all those years ago.

Luckily, Found Episode 6 had a brief happy ending. David was able to reunite with his mother before it was too late. He was able to explain her daughter’s death was not her fault. The truth will set you free, allowing her to move on in peace. It also nearly broke David’s heart. Truth is elusive in Found Episode 6. For every lie revealed, a whopper remains. It won’t be long before Gabi will have to tell her friends and colleagues about what is in her basement. Lacey suspects Gabi has a secret and confronts her. She is letting it go for now, but time is running out.

Dahn and Zeke continue to be the best thing about Found. The series has several powerhouses in Shanola Hampton and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and yet these two subtle players acting behind the scenes are the heart and soul of the series. Arlen Escarpeta(Zeke) and Karan Oberoi(Dahn) have such a natural warmth between the two. Their relationship reads authentic and earned as if we are genuinely watching a bond form right before our eyes. Their storyline and past trauma are humanizing in a way that Gabi’s isn’t always despite being the focus of Found.

Gabi wants to think of herself as a crusader, a savior, a hero. She is all those things, but her ends justify the means approach takes no prisoners, and sometimes, her single-mindedness can make her a monster. Sir is able to get to her because there is a nugget of truth in what he says. He was a monster for taking her, and he did cost her time with her father, but she is a monster for keeping him locked up. Regardless of what she has accomplished because of his forced help, she is still wrong.

Sir has never understood everything that makes Gabi tick. He covets her. He needs her to love him, be devoted to him, and obsess over him. She does some of those things, just not how he would like. None of it is healthy for either of them. Insight into their past together shows he underestimates her love for her family, commitment to caring for them, and indomitable hopeful spirit. It is why he couldn’t break her before and why he doesn’t understand her now. She has never been driven by fear. She is driven by hope and anger, and they are the Devil and angel on her shoulders. It is what may have cost Detective Trent his job and what may cost Gabi relationships.

How his suspension will shake out, we will have to wait to see. Found Episode 6 marked a turning point in Season 1. Sir doesn’t like sharing Gabi, and Gabi’s relationship with Trent means Sir’s days as her captive are coming to an end. Gabi needs to temper her sense of morality with pragmatism. Right and wrong only get you so far. Justice, peace, and honesty are also necessary pieces of the puzzle. Without them, heroes become vigilantes, and crusaders become terrorists. She is walking a dangerous line right now and needs to be brought back before it is too late. Find all our Found coverage here.