As the Fly Team offers with the fact that Forrester’s time might quickly be up, they’re confronted with this very tense case. This episode revealed lots concerning the significance and worth of belief, and the significance of by no means giving up on what you consider in.
The episode opens with the staff out along with Dandridge, who’s telling a narrative and you’ll inform that the members of the staff usually are not thrilled about being there, not to mention listening to his tales from the previous about his household. The foundation of his story is that loyalty is silly, and he then reiterates that Forrester will probably be gone quickly. This scene positively arrange the episode by way of the distain the staff has for him and the uncertainty they really feel about Zoe McKenna because of her arriving as his quantity two.
We then transfer to Ganserndorf, Austria, the place a younger lady goes right into a retailer asking for assist. She says her identify is Katie Marsh and he or she was kidnapped. She asks for assist and desires to talk to her mom. The shopkeeper doesn’t communicate English properly and goes to get her granddaughter from the again after we see a van driving up. The lady takes off a hoop, places it in her mouth for a second to place saliva on it after which exits the shop. The shopkeeper and her granddaughter come again and the granddaughter goes outdoors simply because the van drives away. The shopkeeper finds the ring on the counter and so they name the authorities.
Back within the workplace in Budapest, Forrester arrives and he and the staff talk about that he’s working laborious to combat the switch. McKenna is available in and says they’ve a case and so they ask Scott in the event that they nonetheless embody her as a result of she is Dandridge’s quantity two, however Scott says she was assigned to their job pressure and he or she has given him no purpose to doubt her talents. This is an actual testomony to the management Scott demonstrates, and the way he’s truthful and keen to base his choices on efficiency and never affiliation.
The staff opinions the case. Katie Marsh disappeared from in entrance of her residence in broad daylight in Minnesota in 2012. Footage from the shop in comparison with age enhanced images of Katie are extraordinarily comparable and Forrester says they’re doing a radical verify due to what occurred with Nicolas Bordeau, a case the place a teen disappeared and years later somebody reappeared in Spain claiming to be him, however it was a serial imposter. The staff heads to Austria to attempt to establish this lady and if she is basically Katie Marsh.
They arrive in Austria and are met by Chief Kaufmann, who signifies that they need to communicate to Detective Keith Saunders, who has arrived and was a part of the police division that labored the unique case. Saunders tells them that they discovered a hoop that matches one Katie wore and Raines tells them that DNA on the ring matches Katie, and that there have been traces of phenobarbital additionally. The staff heads out and Saunders asks what he can do to assist, and Forrester asks for all the things from his information that he has collected since Katie went lacking. Scott additionally asks Jamie to look into Detective Saunders. It was clear on this scene that each Scott and Jamie didn’t get feeling from Keith, and they’re suspicious of his arrival and involvement, which demonstrates their incredible instinct in the case of issues not seeming to be what they seem.
Forrester and Garretson go to interview the shopkeeper and he or she tells them that the lady saved trying over her shoulder, however they didn’t see anybody else. The granddaughter says she noticed a gray van driving away however was unable to get the license plate. As they’re leaving, Smitty tells Forrester he must have a plan. She says that is his profession and he can’t simply wait it out, however Forrester says it isn’t time but to make a transfer. Clearly Smitty cares an excellent deal for Forrester, which once more makes one marvel how deep their previous relationship was after they labored collectively.
Kellett, Vo and Raines evaluate the video footage from the shop and see an ambulance go by, who responded to an emergency at a resort. Kellett additionally fills in Forrester and Garretson about what she discovered about Saunders. Forrester confronts him about the truth that he was pulled off Katie’s case and fired by Minneapolis PD for misconduct and that he has not been a detective in years. Kellett tells him they spoke to his former supervisor who says he was fired with trigger and is a head case. Saunders tells them that Daniels was satisfied that Katie was kidnapped by a house invader they caught a month later and he might by no means show it, however he felt Katie was taken by somebody she knew primarily based on the proof on the residence, and the truth that she had packed a few of her favourite gadgets. He says he was fired because of a distinction in opinion and that he was the one one who gave a rattling about discovering Katie, however Scott tells him he’s not a part of this investigation. He says this case is his life and he misplaced his job and pension and by no means stopped on the lookout for her. McKenna then is available in and offers Kellett extra data, and so they discover out that he’s now married to Katie’s mom. Saunders tells them she is in Austria too, and Forrester is livid and says that he is aware of there’s a protocol for if you contain the household.
They interview Allison, Katie’s mom, who says Katie’s dad and her searched for a very long time after which her dad shut down and shut Katie out of his thoughts. Scott asks if there’s any resentment from her husband about her and Keith getting collectively, and he or she says they entered a relationship after he was let go from the pressure and after her husband had already remarried and let go of her and Katie a very long time earlier than. She tells them that Keith solely needs to search out her daughter, the identical as her and them, and asks for them to allow them to assist. It is obvious from their actions and responses that Kellett and Forrester actually do really feel compassion for her and what she has been by way of.
Vo and Raines go to fulfill the Ambulance Attendant, Emil Hochberg. They ask him who was the affected person on the hospital. He stated he responded to a younger lady who was dehydrated and malnourished, and it was her father who had known as, saying that they had been climbing for 2 days when the lady grew to become ailing. The father didn’t point out the place they have been headed and he had steered that they take the lady to the hospital however the father refused and in Austria they can’t override parental consent. He says the lady he handled was solely 6 or 7 years previous. They go to the resort and the desk clerk says he doesn’t have a file when the shoppers pay by the hour and that they don’t have any cameras. Raines notices that the clerk has a touch cam in his automotive and he says he all the time parks in the identical spot. Raines appears to be like at his laptop computer and pulls up the video, and so they understand there’s a second sufferer. Vo proposes that when he had his fingers full Katie noticed her window and took it. This was such an excellent scene, the place we once more are capable of see not solely the good investigative abilities of those two brokers, however we additionally the superb technical prowess of Raines, which makes him such an exceptional asset to the staff.
They use facial recognition software program and establish the person as Otto Lang, who was arrested in 2011 for soliciting an underage prostitute. He has twin citizenship between the USA and Austria as he was born in Austria, and so they have an tackle for him. Forrester tells them to not loop in McKenna proper now. They go to the house and do a search, and Smitty and Scott discover a hidden room behind a wardrobe within the attic. Suddenly, they discover out that Dandridge is doing a press convention and he exhibits the suspect, which is why they only missed them, as clearly Lang is aware of they’re on the lookout for him. Forrester orders checkpoints, door to door searches and says he’ll cope with Dandridge.
Forrester asks McKenna if she informed Dandridge concerning the suspect however she says she didn’t, and Forrester tells him that if he had waited 20 minutes, they might have caught Lang and recovered Katie, however Dandridge says he adopted protocol. They then get an pressing video name from Deputy Director John Van Leer and Senator Jenna Preuitt, and Forrester offers them with an replace that they’ve recognized the abductor and are sweeping the neighborhood to search out him and Katie. The senator additionally congratulates Dandridge on his transparency. This was a tough scene to swallow as we see Dandridge not solely taking credit score for the remainder of the staff, but additionally seeing him be rewarded for doing one thing that probably put Katie and the opposite sufferer in danger and probably brought on them to overlook catching the kidnapper.
Searching the home, they recognized the second sufferer, Clara Brenner, who lived in a city 15 miles west of their present location. Allison arrives to attempt to establish if any of the gadgets are Katie’s, and Forrester asks Keith if he went round his again to talk to Dandridge and he says that form of cop solely cares concerning the TV cameras and never Katie, and that’s positively not his form of cop. Scott believes him that he’s not the rat. However this offers Forrester additional purpose to be suspicious of how Dandridge appears to know his each transfer.
Allison identifies a blue teddy bear that she gained for Katie, and that was one in every of her favorites, and in a guide, they discover a image of her and Lang at a small cabin on a lake. Vo tells her they may discover her and that she might want to give Katie all of the love and help and counselling she is going to want. Allison asks if she thinks she remembers her, and Vo tells her that within the store she had requested for her, most likely as a result of she knew that she would by no means cease on the lookout for her. This scene confirmed how compassionate Vo is, however in watching her communicate to Allison’s mom about what Katie might have, it virtually looks like she was talking from expertise, and we’re left questioning if there’s some trauma in Vo’s previous that has not but been revealed to us but.
McKenna presents to the staff the total historical past of Otto Lang, how he grew up in an abusive family and the way as an grownup he tried to reconnect together with his father and got here to the USA and labored a supply route in Katie’s neighbourhood. They additionally talk about Clara Brenner, who was taken at age 5, and that Lang was working at a delivery depot alongside her path to highschool. Clara’s mom was a single mom who overdosed shortly after she disappeared. Dandridge arrives and asks about Lang’s automobile and Vo advises that there’s a BOLO out however no reported sightings but. As Forrester goes to depart, Dandridge asks the place he’s going and he says to talk to Keith Saunders, and Dandridge asks if he actually feels essentially the most worthwhile use of his time is interviewing the failed detective, and Scott says he has chased him for a decade and should have perception into his subsequent transfer. This was a really clear demonstration of how Dandridge has little or no area expertise or abilities with investigation, and solely makes him appear much more smarmy than he already did.
Scott says he thinks the supply truck is the important thing and Saunders says that by the point he interviewed Lang he had been reassigned to a route in Jersey and performed it off that he might barely even keep in mind the case with Katie, and did it properly sufficient to idiot him. Scott asks if there’s something he can consider and he says that in his time as a detective, he centered on sample recognition and learning repeated behaviors, and with this man there doesn’t appear to be a sample.
Forrester tells Kellett that he thinks as a substitute of being on the run that Lang is making an attempt to attend them out. Kellett says her seek for every other property in his identify got here up empty. Forrester asks concerning the aunt’s identify (who raised him) and so they stated no and that the lakeside cabin the place he grew up was repossessed by the financial institution years in the past. Scott says there’s a sample that isn’t a sample, and he simply can’t see it. Kellett is known as away as they’ve discovered Lang’s automobile. McKenna asks if Forrester is okay, and Kellett asks if she is checking in for Dandridge and he or she says no.
They cease the van and the younger man driving just isn’t Lang and says somebody paid him to commerce automobiles three and a half hours in the past, and it was a person travelling together with his 2 daughters. They get the details about the automobile, and so they ask if he left any private gadgets are within the automobile. He says his mom’s bag was within the automobile and he or she has a Fitbit. They observe the placement and discover the truck however it’s empty.
Dandridge says they need to be shut by, and he can have the Austrian police do a search. They uncover that there’s a practice yard the place Lang labored close by with a practice heading for a non-extradition nation, and Dandridge says that’s the place is he and the place the staff goes to go looking. Forrester disagrees and Dandridge says he all the time flies by the seat of his pants and that’s the reason they’re making a change, and he can get on board or proceed to look into Lang’s aunt. Forrester asks how he knew he was trying into her and he deflects and says he figured he can be on prime of it. The staff minus Scott head out to the practice yard. It is obvious although that Scott continues to be suspicious and making an attempt to determine how Dandridge is aware of what he’s doing.
Scott pulls McKenna apart and says he is aware of she and Dandridge are shut however asks for her to listen to him out and tells her that some brokers be a part of the bureau to play the promotion recreation and a few work instances. He asks her Dandridge if that’s actually somebody she would need to be in energy, and that if she is aware of one thing about how he has been on prime of his each transfer, she must resolve what sort of agent she needs to be. Clearly Scott continues to be making an attempt to present Zoe the advantage of the doubt and never accuse her of something with out proof, however he’s rightfully suspicious given Dandridge’s degree of data that appears to coincide together with her arrival to the staff.
The staff search the practice however don’t discover the ladies or Lang. Dandridge continues to insist they preserve trying and evaluate the cameras, however Kellett says they don’t seem to be nor have been they ever there. She calls Scott, however he has left his telephone on the workplace and is on the Lakeside cabin the place Lang grew up. He sees lights on and he goes inside and finds the ladies. He and Lang combat and finally Scott wins, and he is ready to save the ladies and police take Lang into custody.
Allison and Keith arrive on the station and Scott tells Keith they acquired him and so they couldn’t have accomplished it with out him, and thanks him. Katie is reunited together with her mother and Katie asks about Clara, as a result of she gave her hope and he or she stayed alive for her. Keith tells them that he and Allison will undertake Clara as she would in any other case go into foster care, and asks for the paperwork.
Deputy Chief Van Leer and Senator Preuitt arrive and congratulate Forrester and Dandridge says he was working level, however the Senator says she understands that it was Forrester who discovered Katie. Dandridge says it was a staff effort below his path. Van Leer tells Dandridge that he needs him on the subsequent airplane again to the USA and that he issued an unauthorized wiretap on a federal agent’s telephone (Forrester), and was listening in like a weasel. McKenna says she discovered how he bypassed the avadavat and informed the Deputy Director. Van Leer says the workplace {of professional} accountability would love a phrase with him in particular person upon his return. Van Leer asks Scott to proceed to run the Fly Team and he says it could be an honor.
They are at Maya’s bar celebrating, and McKenna arrives. They ask her what’s subsequent for her and he or she says she is heading to Warsaw however will probably be again once more, simply unsure when. This was definitely a cheerful conclusion and it’s nice to know that Forrester won’t be leaving any time quickly.
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