We’re back in Indianapolis for season 2, and there are some similarities, but there are also a ton of differences from the first season. I haven’t yet decided if I like it, so I’ll have to keep watching to see.
As the episode starts out we see the crime in progress, so that hasn’t changed. This time around, it’s a family that is bound and gagged and eventually killed. A young boy climbs into a cabinet, and then we see him pursued through the woods and eventually caught – but as he is grabbed, we learn it is by the police, who report that they have the survivor.
The tale unfolds and it turns out that the boy is the only survivor of the massacre. The obvious suspect is the father, but he’s in jail in another state after being accused by the (now dead) daughters for sexual assault. But if he was in jail, perhaps he isn’t a suspect after all. Then someone turns up using the ATM card of the mother of the family, so he is brought in, but it doesn’t seem to be a good match.
A new boss (David James Elliott, replacing John Carroll Lynch) hails from New York and has decided to run the department differently. In fact, only Annabeth and Maureen return from last season’s finale.
We still don’t know what happened to Annabeth’s husband Jack (Christian Kane), who was in a bad wreck in the season finale, as he did not show up, but no one ever actually said that he was dead. We just heard about Annabeth’s “loss”.
Anyway, the new boss jets off to Georgia to grill the father about his potential involvement and try to get him to implicate himself, and he brings Annabeth along. You have to wonder about his motives. The father seems innocent, but they bring him back to Indianapolis for the “funeral”, but in reality that happened a couple days previously.
They also bring in the grandparents to care for the young boy, and while videotaping the father and his parents, they make a startling discovery – that they were the ones who set up the kidnapping of the other children, but unbeknownst to the father, they called the kidnappers and had them kill the family instead. Wow.
