S02.E22: Missing While Dying

[AnimeMania]

(Series Finale)

Someone from Dhan's past resurfaces, looking for their missing wife and triggering Dhan's trauma; M&A mobilizes to track down one of their own as Gabi barters with her life; Heather's actions lead to a bold declaration.

Premiere Date: May 15, 2025      NBC     10pm 

    

Scott Daniel Johnson as Darryl Reed

Enrique Jose Esteve as Mike

Vicente Foster as Agent Millen

[DanaK]

Ending on cliffhangers and it’s canceled ergh. And could Sir have survived his injury or was he quite dead?

[cfinboston]

2 hours ago, DanaK said:

Ending on cliffhangers and it’s canceled ergh. And could Sir have survived his injury or was he quite dead?

They probably knew there was a chance of the show not being renewed. Since it's not, we can think he's dead. If it somehow revives on Peacock or Netflix, he can have survived.

[possibilities]

I kind of hate Margaret's ex. He checked out for a decade and now he's  giving orders and telling everybody else what to do? Fuck off, asshole.

Are we to think Sir killed himself when he thought Gabi was in danger from Lena? Or did I miss something?

I'm still sad about the cancellation.

[Driad]

Is there a good summary of this episode somewhere? On the station I watched, the sound was bad, and the closed captions were garbled and a sentence or two behind the sound, so I was not sure what was happening.

[babyrambo]

Excluding Gabi’s ridiculous public confession at the end, this was one of the better episodes of the series. Unfortunate that it’s also the last. 

All the repetitive back and forth between Lena, Sir, and Jamie feels extra wasteful now, because that time could’ve been spent developing a more cohesive overall arc or even broadening Zeke and Dhan’s backstory. They’re largely under-explored and I would’ve loved to get to know more about them. 

I do like what we got about Margaret though. As melodramatic and convoluted as her storylines sometimes were, Kelli Williams always delivered a great performance by affording Margaret depth and nuance and making me care. So did the others. 

But now that it’s all over, I really wish the show hadn’t played it so safe all the time. They started off with this super gripping premise that was both darkly complex and earnest, only to sand down the edges and end up as a typical procedural. The Gabi- Sir of it all was tragic, but often played down or exaggerated to the point of campy silliness. Just like the main characters, who were all deeply traumatized but usually handled with kid gloves and baffling ignorance. And yet I was still interested, because between the absurdities, the show had genuine moments of interest. 

If it does somehow get picked up by another network, I hope the writers better plot season three, pull back on the on the Sir shenanigans, and have the show come back more subtle, sharp, and coherent.

[possibilities]

11 hours ago, Driad said:

Is there a good summary of this episode somewhere? On the station I watched, the sound was bad, and the closed captions were garbled and a sentence or two behind the sound, so I was not sure what was happening.

Have you tried Peacock?

[Driad]

7 minutes ago, possibilities said:

Have you tried Peacock?

Thank you, but is that a streaming service?  I don't have any of those.  For other shows, people have posted links to articles with reviews and summaries of episodes.  I'm hoping there is one for this episode.  The sound and captions were adequate for previous episodes, so it's frustrating that they went wrong on the finale.

[possibilities]

Yes, Peacock is a streaming service. peacocktv.com

I'm sorry; I don't know about a summary. It's very frustrating when the captions aren't right!

 

Actually... does this work?

https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/found-season-2-finale-episode-recap-ending-explained

[Mr. Sparkle]

Without that silly cliffhanger, it would have made a decent ending to the series. Some resolution, anyway. There's some traction online to bring it back, so we may get a real ending one day. 

[Driad]

3 hours ago, possibilities said:

Actually... does this work?

https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/found-season-2-finale-episode-recap-ending-explained

Thank you, @possibilities. That does the job.

Once a colleague introduced me to his daughter Gabrielle. She said, "You can call me Gabi. Just don't call me Talks Too Much."

[jalady]

Way to give away the plot with the episode title 🙄

I have to agree with those who think it was a decent episode and would have been a fine series ending - minus the ridiculous confession.  But I’ll fanwank that Sir is dead and, without a living victim, the confession won’t lead to anything.  Hell, maybe she can claim Lena forced her into it because . . . reasons 😂😂

[possibilities]

The episode title was the case of the week-- she was who was missing, and dying, not Sir. Though it does look like he died, which is fine with me. I thought his story needed to end and maybe th eonly way to really end it is with him dead. Otherwise, he'd always be a threat or a distraction.

In a way, this show tried to hold him accountable while also showing him to be genuinely delusional. It is a rare example of a character written to be villainous, not given a pass, but also there was a kind of attempt to show some sympathy for the fact that he was motivated by a form of mental illness-- he truly couldn't shake his obsession, even when it led to his own demise.

I like that the show was able to hold both things in mind at once and not back off of the accountability aspect. Nobody thought he needed or deserved to be made excuses for. Acknowledging his depravity and not giving him a pass on any level-- but also portraying his motivations being sick , was a complexity we don't always get in storytelling of this sort.

I guess they were starting to replace him with lena, though. They even started to show her as a victim with a similar delusion to Sir's. Her origin story was probably planned for season 3, and I have mixed feelings about that. I guess whether I would have wanted to see that depends on how they would have written it.

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They clearly had been starting to explore Dahn's backstory. I think that would have been the bulk of the beginning of a season 3, and then Zeke would be rounded out for the second half. I really wanted to see that.

I also liked that Jamie was able to save himself, and not be shown as even more traumatized and helpless. 

[Trini]

What is up with this show's obsession with Gabi being a martyr?? And I'm even just talking about her confession at the end.

Really wish they had spent more time on Sir/Christian/Lena and explaining some of their backstory (showing, not just telling) instead of Margaret/Jamie who just got exhausting to me midway through.

Sad that we're not going to get more of Zeke's backstory.

[jalady]

20 hours ago, possibilities said:

The episode title was the case of the week-- she was who was missing, and dying, not Sir.

That’s what I meant by “giving away the plot”.  Not the ending, the case of the week.

[cameron]

No more Dhan and his 4 inch high hair style.

[possibilities]

Why did Gabi think that her kidnapping Sir is what put the rest of her team in danger? Wouldn't he have wanted to get rid of her chosen family anyway, in order to (in his depraved mind) bring her back to him?

[tennisgurl]

I am especially sad about the cancelation now that we ended on a cliffhanger, which is extra unfortunate because it seemed like, until the last minute, we had a pretty solid ending. Everyone seemed to be getting closure, Sir is dead, Lena is arrested, but then at the last minute, we get Gabi dropping that huge bomb. I get that she wants to be honest, but how much is this going to help anyone in the long term? Does she really feel guilty about what she did? 

Even if this is the end, and I am still holding out hope that they could get picked up by someone else, we at least ended on a good episode. I like that we got to learn about Dhan's backstory and the case of the week was good, I like that no one involved was a bad guy, and we got some nice character beats from everyone. 

I was so angry when it seemed like Gabi was letting Lena go as some big moral point, so I cheered when it turned out she had the cops waiting no matter where she went. Lena might be a fucked up victim of her brother, but she is still way too dangerous to be out causing havoc. 

Good on Jamie for turning the tables on Lena and saving himself, that poor kid is going to need all of the therapy in the world. There whole family needs some serious family therapy after everything. I am glad that the Jamie story is finally resolved, but the back and fourth on whether or not he's Jamie and what happened to him was so annoying, especially now that we probably wont have time to focus on the other characters and their backstories. I would have loved to have more about the backstories of Dhan, Zeke, Sir's family, and even Trent, but we spent all of this season on this one plot.

If Sir really is dead, it would certainly make for a very different show. He can sometimes be too much of a supervillain, but I would miss him as the main antagonist, he's such an interesting character. He's horrible and the show always knows it, but he's also very mentally unstable and obsessive, there is something sad that this person who is very intelligent never used that for good and could never get past his compulsions.

I hope that there is a last minute save, but if the show is over I think this was a good note to go out on, for the most part.

[I Want My MBTV]

I still don't understand (and I guess now I never will 😢) why Jamie came back when he did and why he didn't want the dad or the sisters knowing.  Also, did anything Margaret did really "find" him?  He basically just showed up on his own he came back. He wasn't found.   I'm not saying she should have stopped looking or given up but one of her girls I think said "you did it you brought him back" and I was thinking "did she now?".  

 

I will miss this crazy show but if the plan was to have Sir die and Lena be the next Big Bad I'm happy to end here.  

[possibilities]

On the 10th anniversary of his disappaearnace, Margaret did a press conference about Jamie's disappearance and he realized for the first time that she had been looking for him. It made him curious, so he decided to meet her. 

The woman who had kidnapped him had told him that none of his family wanted him. They didn't call on his birthday. He never heard from them. She told him that they abandoned him and didn't want him back.

I imagine that when he was younger, the kidnapper made sure he didn't see any media coverage of Margaret's search, though how she managed to make sure he wasn't recognized or found, and didn't see Margaret's posters, while living locally, I do not know. I guess he never went to the bus station for any reason. Maybe she also homeschooled him.

He didn't want to see his father after he returned to Margaret because he still thought his father didn't want him. Once he realized Margaret had been looking all this time, he also saw that his father wasn't, and nobody told him otherwise at first.

After he read Margaret's diary and realized the kidnapper had lied to him about being unwanted, he softened toward Margaret even more, and also became open to seeing the rest of the family because he realized maybe they also wanted him and that the kidnapper had been brainwashing him all that time.

Edited Tuesday at 04:59 PM by possibilities

[andromeda331]

I'm glad Jamie wasn't traumatized even more and turned the tables on Lena. 

I was upset with Gabi letting Lena go thank God it was a lie and she had the building surrounded. Finally, someone thinks to do that.

Since it's canceled I'm assuming Sir's dead like I'd hoped for all season long. I am so tired of him and Lena. 

I love Margaret talking with Carrie it was great. Twisting the knife with Nicholas. Good for you Margaret.

Too bad about Desiree and of course her bio mom turns out to be the doctor who is insane. 

I liked learning more about what happened to Dhan. Too bad we won't get the rest of it or Zeke's.

[cameron]

11 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

I'm glad Jamie wasn't traumatized even more and turned the tables on Lena. 

I was upset with Gabi letting Lena go thank God it was a lie and she had the building surrounded. Finally, someone thinks to do that.

Since it's canceled I'm assuming Sir's dead like I'd hoped for all season long. I am so tired of him and Lena. 

I love Margaret talking with Carrie it was great. Twisting the knife with Nicholas. Good for you Margaret.

Too bad about Desiree and of course her bio mom turns out to be the doctor who is insane. 

I liked learning more about what happened to Dhan. Too bad we won't get the rest of it or Zeke's.

Has it ever been explained why Dhan spells his name that way instead of the normal Don.

[Trini]

6 hours ago, cameron said:

Has it ever been explained why Dhan spells his name that way instead of the normal Don.

His name isn't from the English (or other European) language. It's Hindi; according to my very quick google search.