I Will Find You

Rachel hires Hester Crimstein to represent her. Hester ensures Rachel’s bail is posted, and she is released. Max and Sarah consider Rachel’s actions: They recognize that they are meant to think David is traveling toward the Canadian border, but Max believes this is a ruse. They conclude Philip and Adam were part of the escape. However, since Rachel was not part of the original plan, Max and Sarah deduce she was at the prison for another reason.

David is in New York outside the apartment building where Hilde, now Harriet, resides. Meanwhile, Max and Sarah track Rachel’s movements since her first visit to the prison. They learn she asked a former colleague from the newspaper Globe to trace Hilde. They conclude David will confront Hilde.

David forces his way into Hilde’s apartment. She recognizes him and insists she didn’t lie in court. He bluffs, threatening to shoot her if she doesn’t tell the truth. Hilde breaks, expressing remorse over her lie. At the time, her daughter-in-law Ellen was suffering from a gambling problem, and Hilde was approached by a man with a white streak in his hair who promised to forgive Ellen’s debts if she lied. Hilde refused until the man broke her son Marty’s finger. Afterward, she moved away, and she hasn’t contacted her son and daughter-in-law since.

David recognizes this man as “Skunk Kyle,” who grew up in his old neighborhood and now works as an enforcer for the Fisher family crime syndicate under Nicky Fisher. The police arrive outside the building, and Hilde helps David escape.

Cheryl meets Rachel at Rachel’s apartment. Rachel knows showing her the photograph with Matthew will be traumatic, but does so anyway.

Max and Sarah arrive at Hilde’s apartment. They ask her what David wanted, but she claims to know nothing. Max knows she is lying but can’t think of a reason why she would protect David. He returns to the FBI surveillance van where Sarah tells him that they have received CCTV footage from Rachel’s first prison visit.

At Rachel’s apartment, Rachel has just showed Cheryl the photograph with Matthew. Cheryl refuses to believe the boy in the photograph is Matthew. She accuses Rachel of making up a story to restore her reporting reputation. She reminds Rachel that her witness’s suicide wasn’t her fault. Cheryl makes a reference to Halloween night in Rachel’s freshman year. Rachel admits Cheryl may be right, but there is also a chance that Matthew is alive.

Max and Sarah watch the footage of Rachel’s visit to the prison. They see her show David the photograph with Matthew. They plan to question her about it. Sarah tells Max that prison guard Curly is in debt and has been receiving money from an unexplained source. Upon questioning, Curly claimed David tried to kill him. Max says the story never made sense, and Sarah says the only way they will learn the truth is to catch David. Meanwhile, they plan to question Curly again.

Pixie is approached by Stephano, the Paynes’ security chief. He tells her that Ross Sumner and Curly both tried and failed to kill David after Curly reported Rachel’s visit. Pixie says they have to be prepared in case David finds them.

David returns to his old neighborhood in Boston, where Skunk Kyle lives. Rachel calls him about meeting with Cheryl. She also sends links explaining her firing. David visits his old friend Eddie Grilton. Eddie’s father once worked for the Fisher crime family, and he confirms what David suspected—that Hilde’s daughter-in-law Ellen owed money to the Fishers. Eddie says Nicky Fisher has retired and moved to Florida. He agrees to help David contact Nicky’s son NJ, the new head.

While waiting for Eddie to arrange a meeting with NJ, David risks returning to his father’s house. He reminisces about growing up with his high-school sweetheart Cheryl. They got married when she finished medical school. However, they struggled to have children, and David felt like a failure as a man; he suspects Cheryl also saw him the same way. He underwent a surgical procedure that restored his sperm count, and Cheryl became pregnant with Matthew. Their relationship remained strained, especially after she confessed to consulting a fertility clinic behind David’s back. She ultimately didn’t seek donor sperm, but he was too hurt to forgive her.

Through the back window of his father’s house, David sees his aunt Sophie, who always believed his innocence. On impulse, he knocks on the back door. She opens the door and throws her arms around him. David breaks down into tears, and Sophie reassures him.

David visits his father Lenny, who is sedated and asleep. He thinks about growing up with his father, a reticent but caring man who always protected his family. David wanted to be such a father to Matthew. However, Lenny ultimately believed him capable of murder. In the present, Rachel shows David her latest research: She searched every image she could find on social media on the day Matthew was at Six Flags. They find Rachel’s friends Tom and Irene Longley in a group shot. The Longleys appear again in front of a corporate logo for Merton Pharmaceuticals, a conglomerate that includes Berg Reproductive Institute—the same clinic Cheryl consulted regarding donor sperm. David resolves to pursue this coincidence; Rachel is uncomfortable with his decision but says nothing.

Pixie is at the Payne mansion when great-grandson Theo asks her where “Dad” is. She thinks of Theo as “pure light despite all the darkness” (215). He has spent most of his life hidden away at a Swiss boarding school, with the present being his first trip to the United States. Pixie now realizes this trip was a mistake. Hayden enters the room, and Pixie notes Theo has an instinctive reserve around him. Hayden sends Theo out to play and tells Pixie that David was spotted in New York. He is reluctant to have David killed and complains about hiding Theo, as Theo is his son. Pixie notes the irony of his pride, considering Payne men’s moral faults; they had all gotten away with crimes because they had money. Pixie overrules Hayden because she knows Theo isn’t his biological son.