S02.E19: Missing While a Casualty

[AnimeMania]

M&A attempts to find a father who was reported deceased and is the only viable organ donor for his ailing son. New details around Sir’s accomplice fuels the manhunt for their arrest. Details of Jamie’s childhood kidnapping are revealed.

Premiere Date: April 14, 2025     NBC     10pm      

Next New Episode: May 1, 2025 

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Larissa Dias Martins de Albuquerque as Allison

Guillermo Alonso as Austin

Hallie Ricardo as Heather Tolin Rogers

Edited April 15 by AnimeMania
changed Next New Episode Date

[Rodney]

Do law students really get real cases to study?  I was surprised that the real Heather studied Gabi's case in law school.

Didn't see it coming that this week's victim staged his death.  Gabi found a creative way to get him to show himself, using his children's pet names.

Wow.  Surprised that the whole group stayed with the family throughout the operation.  I was glad to see Allison's reunion with Henry, but I wanted to see Austin's reunion with him, too.  But I felt bad for both Austin and Allison that they lost him, anyway.  I wonder if Henry's going to be added to M&A's "Found" wall or Gabi's "Lost" wall?  Like Gabi said, it's never happened before.

Are we going to get at least one person whom the team loses per season, while the others are found?  I wonder. . . .

What does it mean to "cook the books?"  Is that why Alan got arrested in the end?

Wow.  So Zeke never told his family that his own uncle kidnapped him?!  Why not?!  And it looks like he and Lacey aren't going anywhere in their relationship anytime soon.

Holy fuck.  Carrie's son, Nicholas, didn't die?!  He was removed from her by CPS?!  That makes her motives for taking Jamie even worse!

The flashbacks made me sick.  I hated actually seeing Carrie stealing years of Jamie's life from him via lying to him and brainwashing him.

Glad that Jamie is helping Trent capture that horrible woman.

Margaret and Jamie finally had it out.  I, too, was flabbergasted that Jamie wanted to forgive Carrie for his kidnapping.  Margaret was right that Carrie lied to Jamie about her constantly.  I was a bit surprised that Jamie had only seen through some of her lies, not all of them.

Gracious of Gabi, Margaret, Lacey, and Dhan to honor Christian.  And Sir got to briefly honor him, too.

So why was Sir taken from prison?  Because the FBI now needs him?  Why?

Good episode.

[Brown44]

I guess with no young Gabby flashbacks young Jamie will take it's place (I don't think there done with young Gabby though)

[Brown44]

Are they the FBI gonna do White Collar/Black List and have him solve kidnapping crimes the way he did for Gabby.

Edited April 15 by Brown44

[babyrambo]

I’m glad Margaret finally got to speak up. It’s been a long time coming and Jamie really needed to hear that and start to wake up. But he also needs to reunite with the rest of his family (especially now that Carrie is on the loose and can try to harm them) and get some professional—not Ethan, never him—help. The superficial platitudes and isolated ‘no judgement healing’ that M&A practices is actually just top grade avoidance and he deserves better than that. 

I noticed that while they’ve established that Carrie trashed Margaret to Jamie any chance she got, they’ve shown nothing about her opinion of his dad. I wonder how she explained his involvement in her twisted version of them giving their kid away and what Jamie thinks of him. 

I wanted to see more of the HeatherLena puzzle this week but they’re probably building it up for the finale. Like how they seem to be building up Sir’s new post prison position for s3. He’s an FBI informant I think? A stretch, but sure. They’ve been so flimsy with everything else that what can’t he do at this point?

[DanaK]

14 hours ago, AnimeMania said:

M&A attempts to find a father who was reported deceased and is the only viable organ donor for his ailing son. New details around Sir’s accomplice fuels the manhunt for their arrest. Details of Jamie’s childhood kidnapping are revealed.

Premiere Date: April 14, 2025     NBC     10pm      

Next New Episode: April 24, 2025 

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Larissa Dias Martins de Albuquerque as Allison

Guillermo Alonso as Austin

Hallie Ricardo as Heather Tolin Rogers

Per next time promo, the next new episode is actually Thursday May 1

[Rodney]

4 hours ago, DanaK said:

Per next time promo, the next new episode is actually Thursday May 1

I noticed that.  What's going on that's so important next week?

[DanaK]

15 minutes ago, Rodney said:

I noticed that.  What's going on that's so important next week?

Found is a repeat next week, as is the rest of the NBC lineup that night. Probably just due to it being the time of year for repeats

[kickingnames]

Why is this show Sooo Dramatic??? 😆

[tennisgurl]

Margaret really needed to have that confrontation with Jamie, he is still clearly not ready to totally distance himself from his fake mom, which I can understand as he was brainwashed since he was a child into believing Margaret was a bad mom and that fake mom was his savior, but now he knows what a liar she is, those talks between them were much needed. Now are we getting closer to Jamie seeing his father or sisters? Did fake mom poison him against them too? If this show never wanted to do anything with Margaret's family, why didn't they just make her a single mom with no other kids?

The case certainly took several turns, I was surprised that the dad died at the end, one of the more bittersweet endings of the season. Its hard to tell which wall this one goes on, they did succeed in finding him but he died as soon as he came back. At least he saved his son and the kids can have some closure knowing how much their dad loved them.

Did Zeke really never tell his family who kidnapped him? Did he never go to jail?! "Nonjudgmental healing" doesn't seem to be really working for Zeke, its been years and he still shuts down when his power goes out and he cant take a step out of his room, obviously healing is a process but it feels like he isn't processing, he's still stuck. 

That white outfit that Gabbi wore in the last scene was gorgeous, although Sir showing up yet again, now apparently working for the FBI, distracted me from appreciating it.

[possibilities]

I have a theory about why Jamie looked for Margaret now.

Didn't they give a press conference on the anniversary of his disappearance?  Or did I imagine that? Maybe, if that really did happen, it made him curious, since he had thought she wasn't interested in finding him and this was the first time he had a twinge of maybe that's not true.

It also explains why he hasn't wanted to see the rest of the family. Surely the kidnapper poisoned his mind against them, too, making him think they also didn't want him.

 

[andromeda331]

Wow, Carrie is such a shitty person. Trashing Margaret to Jamie and trying to convince him not to leave for college. Maniuplating him when he wanted to go on his own. What a bitch.

And her son is alive? He was taken from her? I didn't see that coming at all.

I'm glad Margaret finally talked to Jamie. It was great and he needed to hear it. After all he learned about Carrie he keeps defending her. Yeah she raised him but she also kidnapped him and lied to him about everything. Now he read Margaret's notebook and know how devastated she was. Hopefully that'll help.

I wasn't surprised the dad was still alive. I was surprised that he died at the end. That was surprising and sad. 

Great the FBI wants Sir. I dread finding out why. I want to be done with him.

Zeke never told his parents that it was his uncle? That surprised me. That's terrible and he really needs help. Actually they all need help. Professional help. Their way of dealing not dealing with it isn't helping any of them.

[cfinboston]

How could the dad arrive at the hospital and immediately be taken to transplant surgery? I understand artistic license but that's so entirely unrealistic that it overcomes suspension of disbelief. Being a living donor requires a battery of mental and physical tests. You can't get away with just not telling the surgeon that you have a medical condition that means the surgery will kill you. Imagine the potential for malpractice lawsuits?

And why does Gabby tell them their dad died? Isn't it the doctor's job? It's exactly like Olivia from SVU.

Who thinks Carrie's son shows up in the finale?

[possibilities]

Are we sure Sir is being taken to act as an informant for the FBI, and not just being moved to a higher security prison? He might be being used to find his sister, or he might be charged with conspiracy to kill Christian, or he might be anything. He seemed to be cuffed when they drove by the memorial. They let him see it briefly from a distance, but maybe they brought him back to prison after? Am I forgetting some detail that would confirm he's actually being given a deal, or being sent to witness protection, or something?

[Trini]

Well, I was thinking that Sir would manipulate his way out of prison, but now he's been snatched up by the FBI??

This subplot with Heather/Lena and Christian has been so all over the place. I'm really convinced now that the actor for Christian became unexpectedly unavailable, and they had to do a rewrite of whatever arc they had for him and Heather. It's just weird how much they're telling (not showing) us about important offscreen events.

Okay, we got a few more answers about Jamie's story, but I still have a lot of questions; and now we know Carrie still has another son, so now I have questions about that.

Case of the week: I actually thought the dad wouldn't be found alive, so I wasn't surprised he died right after the surgery. I thought he would die during the surgery, but nooo -- this show loves DRAMA, so Gabi had to announce his death with literal blood on her hands.

 

On 4/17/2025 at 12:54 PM, tennisgurl said:

Did Zeke really never tell his family who kidnapped him? Did he never go to jail?!

I think this had been mentioned at least once (first season?) before; and like other things I have several questions! Does this mean he never told the police who his kidnapper was?? Is he the only one who knows?? Again, I hope they explore Zeke's backstory next.

[Rodney]

22 hours ago, Trini said:

I think this had been mentioned at least once (first season?) before; and like other things I have several questions! Does this mean he never told the police who his kidnapper was?? Is he the only one who knows?? Again, I hope they explore Zeke's backstory next.

Zeke probably had a number of reasons why he never told his family that his own uncle kidnapped him.  Maybe he was well-loved by the family and he didn't want to tarnish that.  Maybe he was manipulated into silence.  Maybe he was threatened into it.  Maybe his uncle had a surprisingly good reason for doing so, but the experience still traumatized Zeke (least likely).  If we get a season three, I would love to find out what the case was.