Crime Drama TV

In this week’s epidsode, the team of FBI agents investigate the disappearance of a 15 year old girl from the detention center where she was serving a sentence for vehicular manslaughter.

So the case begins with this girl getting a note that says “You’re dead.”  The teacher catches it and asks the girl to leave the room for a minute so that she can grill the other girls in the class over who wrote it.

 The girl vanishes that night.  The adoptive/foster parents tell the FBI how Melia was always a bit of a handful in comparison with her angelic sister.  There are plenty of suspects and the possibility that the girl left of her own accord.  But that doesn’t fit with the fact that she was in the final months of her sentence.

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Okay so the team starts by grilling the other classmates to find out where the note originated.  Through this they learn that the girl (Melia I believe was her name) had asked another classmate to get her into a “program” run by one of the school guards.  He was using the girls as prostitutes.

 They also learn that the father of the boy who died in the car accident had been to see Melia at the detention hall.  So they question him and he says no matter how twisted it seems, she is the last person to see his son alive, so he cannot deny that connection.

They drill the guard and he admits that Melia wanted out, but not to be a prostitute, it was to get a ride to some seedy apartment.  He left her there after he heard gunshots.

They learn that Melia and her older sister used to live in one of those apartments during their foster home time and that the guy Melia went to see is a notorious drug dealer.  In fact, he is the guy who gave Melia and her sister the “happy pills” that led to the accident.  He drops a bombshell, Melia wasn’t driving at all, and some guy picked her up from his apartment after Melia shot his car window out.  Melia’s sister is also a junkie who owes him $2,000.  Melia was there to settle the debt with drugs she’d stolen from her cellmate.  Only he wanted cash, not crummy pills.

It turns out that Melia’s sister drove that night and crashed.  Melia knew her sister would go away for a long time, but that Melia would go to a juvenile center, so she and her sister lied.

They learn that it was the dead boy’s father that gave her a ride and he took her to the subway station.  When asked why he would do that for a 15 year old, he repeats that he told her if she ever needs anything - he’ll provide it no questions asked.

Looking at the train that Melia would have taken, they realize she headed to her sister’s apartment.  They question the sister and her boyfriend who was paralyzed in the accident.  While they are grilling them, another team searches the apartment and finds blood and hair on the wheelchair.

The disappearance is now narrowed down–Melia arrived to find her sister passed out.  She wanted to call 911 but the boyfriend wouldn’t have that so he knocked her down and then drugged her to keep her sedate.  He used the wheelchair to move her body down to the apartment storage room.

 The agents swarm the basement and find Melia alive and tied to what looks like a radiator or pipes.  She’s taken to the hospital and her sister says how much she loves her before going to confess that she was the one driving.

My take - I liked the storyline, but after Melia’s sister put her through that, I would have expected two things - first, Melia to tell her sister to go to hell.  The second, the foster parents who had adopted the sisters needed to come forth and apologize for every mean thing they said about her in the beginning.