They explain they used a surrogate and Griffin’s sperm, and Jamie adopted her. While Fin and Carisi go back to the park, Rollins speaks with Griffin and Jamie. Frustrated, she tells them to canvas again. Benson thinks someone must have seen something, and Carisi explains they already canvassed. The new owner is a mystery man who paid cash and never registered the title. Carisi enters and said the registered owner of the Saturn died 2 weeks ago and his son sold it in an estate sale last week. He called in an arrest-for in all 5 boroughs, saying the guy can run but he can’t hide. The cell phone video is with TARU and hopes to get a hit with facial recognition. He kisses her and she says she is sorry, but he assures her she did nothing wrong.Īt SVU, Benson speaks with Fin, who says CSU pulled prints of the Saturn, no hits. Another man walks in the room and introduces himself as Griffin’s husband Jamie.
The man did not tell her his name, only saying she could call him Big Bird but she thought that was silly. She thinks they went to his house they took their clothes off and took a nap. Then they drove off and the man said her father would meet them. He said they could wait for her father in his car which was better than standing in the cold. He was nice to her and let her wear his scarf to get warm. He gave her a candy apple and said he was a friend of her father. Bailey explains that her father told her to wait for him, but she walked away with the man. She is scared.īenson and Rollins walk into the room to speak with Bailey, her father Griffin is with her. The rape kit showed no sign of penetration for foreign fluids. They speak with the doctor who says Bailey is on fluids and she is cold and hungry, she was in the trunk for a while. Jamie took Bailey ice skating in Central Park and he went to the bathroom and when he came back she was gone. Her parents are Griffin Shaw and Jamie Johnston. The officers call for a bus and SVU.īenson and Rollins arrive at the hospital and Rollins explains the girl’s name is Bailey Shaw, she is 6. She hears a noise from the trunk and opens it to find a little girl who calls out for her daddy. The guy tries to explain his actions and one of the officers look in the car of the man who ran off. The man who was waiting for the spot explains the situation to the officers and the woman shows the video to the police. Police arrive immediately and the man who took the parking spot runs off. Someone else driving a Saturn pulls in the spot he’s been waiting for and the first man gets out of the car and starts a fight. Too bad she didn't see the actual kidnapping!Ī man is in traffic and is irate, waiting for a parking space. It was also very fortunate that the stalker surrogate managed to grab a photo of the kidnapper. Of course this show is fiction but seriously, what are the chances of the police arriving on the scene of a fight within seconds after it started? I know New York City is a big place and has a huge police force, but the light-speed arrival arrival of the police made me laugh. (For me, it depends on the puppet and/or the "puppet master.") We learn that Fin doesn’t like puppets, but Carisi finds puppets funny.
Fin’s witty quips and comebacks get better each week. In “Missing”, the lead characters interact with each other in a comfortable, realistic manner. I’ve been enjoying the writing and pacing more with each episode. She is fortunate that the perp was so easily fooled. I suspect that Benson is still trying to make amends for Mike Dodds’ death in a hostage situation by now taking matters into her own hands. Going in to this hostage situation alone wasn’t the smartest thing as she didn’t have any clue as to what she was walking into. (It took the detectives a little longer to figure out that the kidnapper was not who he seemed.) The pacing of the episode slowed down considerably during the last scenes with the kidnapper’s mom and then with the kidnapper/kidnap victim.īenson was in a “take no prisoners” mode when she single-handedly ends a hostage situation, using Oreos and aspirin as distractions to the hapless perp.
When the kidnapper is identified quickly, I knew a twist was coming, which was easy to spot in this episode. It starts with a child being found in the trunk of a car, the victim of a kidnapping. But I was surprised that, at least for most of the episode, that I was pulled in to the story. It didn’t have any significant guest stars, and previews and photos didn’t grab me. I must admit I wasn’t expecting much with Law & Order SVU “Missing”.