User Reviews

Best episode I've seen so far! Interesting, engaging, you really feel for everyone involved, great acting and lots of action! The only reason it's not a 10/10 is because of the backstory. It doesn't really make sense the police thought the father was delusional. You got pictures of the girl, she has a bedroom in the house, the neighbors met her and I assume she went to school somewhere (since she's 16 y/o and lived with her father for 6 months). So, I'm not buying the idea that just because the father couldn't come up with the birth certificate the police thought he was crazy. Better story could have been that the police looked into it but couldn't find her so they moved on to the next case which A) would definitely piss the father off and B) won't happen if the girl came from a rich family. It just makes more sense if the police treated it as 'another' runaway case (imho). Other than that, awesome episode! More please! (:

The surveillance video at the front gate clearly shows the kidnapper and the victim's face, the licence plate was fuzzy, so why were they able to zoom on the plate but did not even mention facial recognition ?

As I was watching this episode, I had mixed feeling. Ii feel sad and furious.

Jubal's decision to.breach dissappointed me. He should have just told the truth that the abductor's daughter was in coma. What if it was his last chance to see his daughter?

The abductor indeed said that he still would kill the billionaire's daughter if the FBI couldn't find his daughter. That would make the news, let the world know the injustices that he faced. The ending, when Jubal finally let him know that his daughter is in coma and he concluded that what he did was worth it. His daughter could barerly be rescued.

For me, the ending is open-ended, with the abductor in need of rescucitation.

This would still make the news, like: "A poor father -who abducted a billionare's daughter to find his daughter- get shot by the FBI".

This is greatest episode in TV shows i've ever seen. Usage of panic rooms and abduction in which culprit doesn't demand money but something totally third makes it so thrilling and so fun. One of the best episodes in show, 10/10 from me.

This storyline is a pretty big stretch. I love crime dramas but I can't stand scenes that are unrealistic. Believability is huge. What father, desperate for answers on his kidnapped daughter, would lose all hope AFTER learning she had been found alive but is in the hospital? I would demand to talk to the doctor treating her ASAP. The writers sacrificed believability for drama/conflict by having this father give an irrational and unrealistic ultimatum. After talking to the doctor, I would demand to be rushed to the hospital to see my daughter before being handcuffed. The only real highlight was the breaching of the safe room to free the kidnapped girl. CBS currently (2022) has the worst crime drama writers.

The ends DO NOT justify the means. Yet that's the message of the last few seconds of the episode. What this man did is terrorism of a horrible kind. The rich girl will never recover completely from the experience. But then in today's world, people of "privilege" deserve anything that happens to them even if it is terror or sexual slavery which was what the other girl went through which was never fully explored (thankfully).

Crime is not justified especially when it harms people who have nothing to do with the past injustices.

Like most of Wolf's shows, the background music is often distracting. It's repetitive and loud.

Other than my complaints above, the story is bizarre with a lot of holes.

Finding a girl who was kidnapped 3 months ago in 1/2 a day was an absolute insult to all the families of missing children and the police looking for them

Along with the usual problems of magical surveilance cameras, pixel enhancers and trackable cars that solve critical portions of the crime in seconds, the plot in this episode makes absolutely no sense.

#1 - how can a father have a child and the police somehow believe he is delusional #2 - how can the FBI actually believe the father will kill the girl when he gives every clue that he has no intention of doing that #3 - the FBI lies to a man and creates his paranoia and increase the chance of harming the girl #4 - when the full truth is finally available they continue to lie and risk everyone's life and end up killing him

That's it for this show.

You can often forgive terrible writing if an episode compels you emotionally to a satisfactory ending but this episode heaps bitter disappointment on top of bitter disappointment. The story promises so much yet fails to deliver on even the most basic level. What could have be a fantastic, adrenalin-filled story is instead a lazily crafted, anger-inducing steaming pile of ineptitude.

No hostage negotiator worth their salt would choose to storm a safe room under the circumstances in this story and yet the writers have Jubal doing exactly that.

I could believe that a desperate father might kidnap a rich kid to compel authorities to find his missing child. I could even believe (at a stretch) that failure to find her might lead that father to kill his hostage victim but I cannot believe that he would do so simply because his now-found daughter is in a coma and unable to talk. That is inconsistent with the father's character and human nature. As a parent I would have been so relieved that they'd found her that I would have surrendered once I'd seen video proof of her safety.

Instead the writers have Jubal order troops to storm the room, thus risking the hostage's life, troops lives and the father's life all because he thinks the father is too unstable to hear the truth even though everything we know about the perp/father says the opposite, even though everything we know about hostage negotiation tells us de-escalation techniques would have been far more effective.

The episode ends with Jubal moronically agreeing with the critically wounded father that the ends justify the means (really??) then the father flatlining! The closing shot is one of paramedics trying to revive the father!

That is what angered me the most - the entire episode compels the audience to feel for the perp/father, to become invested in his cause and by default, his 'daughter' too but we are robbed of any satisfaction. The missing daughter, who's been through hell in the last year (her Mom died, was made to go live with a dad she didn't know, was kidnapped, trafficked and forcefully hooked on drugs) will awaken from her coma having lost the only person in the world who cared for her.

Terrible, terrible episode.