[Spoiler] Useless in Stunning Season 3 Episode 2 Twist

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 Episode 2 “Badge #41870.”]

Alert: Lacking Individuals Unit simply delivered its most stunning episode but. Forward of the season, the trailer revealed that Nikki (Dania Ramirez) can be kidnapped, and that second comes initially of the second episode, “Badge #41870.”

The episode additionally introduces Chief Inspector Invoice Houston (recurring visitor star Malcolm-Jamal Warner), who wasn’t a fan of the best way Jason (Scott Caan) did issues previously; he says that they’re going to start out over as a result of he’s realized to take the great with the dangerous. There are extra urgent issues: He’s in search of Nikki as a result of somebody she arrested for felony assault, Raina (Sharon Taylor), is out on early parole. Nikki’s telephone goes straight to voicemail, after which GPS of her automotive leads them to it … exterior the town and fully burned. The one excellent news? It’s empty and there are not any our bodies inside. Houston orders an alert to be issued for Nikki.

After opening the episode with Raina initially attacking and taking Nikki, the following time she’s seen is within the legal’s trunk; her try to alert an officer, nevertheless, will get him shot (however not killed) by Raina. When that decision is available in, the crew is aware of that Nikki broke the taillight to get somebody’s consideration.

“No detective ought to have to analyze the disappearance of his personal spouse,” Houston provides to Mike (Ryan Broussard). It’s too near residence, he says, however Mike insists on staying on: “It’s residence. Nikki is my residence.” However as he admits to Jason, all he can take into consideration is all of the issues that Raina may very well be doing to Nikki. At her final recognized location, digital camera footage reveals Nikki’s abduction. Kemi (Adeola Function) assures Mike, “She’s not lifeless. … Some issues , and a few belongings you really feel.” She encourages him to have religion.

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Jason and Mike monitor down Raina, however she’s not speaking. Helen’s (Diana Bang) solely lead doesn’t get them wherever; solely certainly one of Nikki’s keys was within the automotive, suggesting she left it on function, however Mike’s by no means seen it earlier than. He says if he goes again in with Raina, he’ll kill her, so Jason takes level — and will get her to speak by threatening to place her girlfriend again in jail on parole violations and different crimes. “It was only a job,” she admits. A lawyer received her paroled early (and money and passports), in trade for her kidnapping Nikki and dropping her off. When she describes a tattoo on the person accountable, Jason realizes it’s Irish mob boss Charlie McGannon (Ian Tracey). Kemi confirms that the lawyer who visited Raina defended Charlie previously. However why would Charlie seize Nikki, Houston asks, and the crew alerts him to their historical past.

The chief inspector then finds out the place Charlie has lunch and confronts him. “The place is she?” Houston calls for, and Charlie performs dumb. “ what essentially the most profitable symbiotic relationship within the pure world is? It’s the connection between ocean coral and saltwater algae,” the mob boss says. “You bought a partnership so affluent, it constructed the Nice Barrier Reef.” Houston likens it to how each Nikki and Charlie benefited from one another over time. Nikki set a gathering with an FBI agent subsequent week, and Houston is aware of somebody tipped Charlie off to that. If Nikki delivered what she mentioned she would, an arrest warrant was going to be issued for Charlie, so he couldn’t let her make it. Houston reminds Charlie that Nikki saved his daughter.

Houston returns to Mike and Kemi and shares that he referred to as a buddy whose company has an unwarranted monitoring system on Charlie’s car. He has the coordinates of the place it’s been all day, together with one spot for an hour. Jason and Mike head to that location, the place the previous finds a physique. Emotional himself (Nikki is his ex-wife), Jason tries to maintain Mike again, then hugs him and tells him to remain there. Jason holds him as he cries. Nikki’s lifeless?!

Nikki was shot within the head, and the coroner tells Jason and Houston, “For what it’s value, it was fast.” Jason tries to get Mike to depart the scene, however Mike tells him he must be alone and walks off. “It’s a nasty thought,” Jason tells him. Houston is aware of that Mike “is in for the longest, darkest night time of his life.” He additionally checks if Jason’s okay. “Level me within the course of okay,” Jason says.

Again at HQ, Kemi, crying, shares recollections of Nikki with Helen, who thought she’d have extra time together with her. “You’ll’ve had a buddy for all times. That’s Nikki,” Kemi says. Then she notices the important thing and, after checking the video footage, realizes it’s for a mailbox. There, Jason finds all of the proof she had on Charlie. Inside is a letter: “If you happen to’re studying this, I’m already lifeless. You’ve discovered the contents of my secret mailbox. I’ve been including to this mailbox for years. Name it my insurance coverage coverage. I’m going to offer Kemi the important thing for protected protecting. Let me inform you what you could have in your palms.” She’s had it for eight years. Jason calls the crew, however nobody is aware of the place Mike is. When Kemi tracks his automotive, he’s heading for Charlie’s home. Houston warns Jason that he can cowl for them, however solely to a degree, and never if Mike kills Charlie.

Mike crashes his automotive into Charlie’s then drags him out of the automotive. He places his badge in Charlie’s pocket then tosses him in his automotive. He brings him out into the woods and forces Charlie to get on his knees. “Did you say goodbye to her, Charlie?” Mike asks. “Did you say goodbye to my spouse earlier than she died? See, Nikki knew what you probably did to your accountant and the person who took your daughter. She informed you a very long time in the past, no our bodies. Homicide was at all times her line, and also you crossed it. See, some folks, they’re simply born damaged, and also you’re certainly one of them. … Nikki knew it was a threat, taking that assembly with the FBI, in spite of everything these years, she knew she needed to do the suitable factor, even when it price her.”

“It price her? It price me!” Charlie protests. “Spherical and spherical we go within the circle recreation. I used to be simply taking good care of enterprise, taking care of my pursuits.” Mike goals his gun at Charlie: “If you happen to see Nikki on the opposite aspect, inform her Mike despatched you.” Then Jason pulls up and asks what he’s doing. “A bullet ain’t going to repair this,” he insists. “It’s not [a start]. He doesn’t deserve that. He’s a cop killer. He’s going to spend the remainder of his life in jail. Let the legislation take care of him.” Mike refuses: “I’m carried out with the legislation. He’s simply going to get away with it like he at all times does.” Jason guarantees he gained’t get away with it this time and fills Mike in on all the things Nikki saved over time on Charlie. “He’s carried out. I promise you. Let Nikki have this win.” Mike lowers his gun and tells Charlie he’s going to inform his daughter what he did earlier than strolling away.

With Charlie in custody, Houston checks with Jason on how Mike’s doing. “He’s standing up. No person else died right now. That’s one of the best I can do for you,” Jason says. Houston assures him he’ll get Nikki’s proof in the suitable hand.

Again at HQ, Jason reads the remainder of Nikki’s letter to Kemi and Helen (and Mike, sitting away from the others, crying): “To my MPU crew, you have been my household. Go on the market each day, each single day, and save folks, save as many as you’ll be able to. To each my husbands, Mike and Jason, care for one another, Sidney wants you, and also you want one another. I’ll be watching over you someplace shut by. Con todo mi amor, goodbye.”

After which Nikki will get a heartfelt sendoff each for simply her MPU household, as Kemi lights a candle and speaks about her religion (“rising up, we have been informed that loss of life isn’t the tip of a life, that it marks a passage from one realm of existence to the following”) and as an officer (with a plaque hanging at MPU).

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