Vanished is a show with layered plot threads in its premiere. However, it didn't give me any characters to really grab on to. Tonight's episode was called "The Tunnel" and it started with the guy in the bar from the premiere who recognized Sara Collins as an ex-girlfriend, but she had a different name then – Nicky Johnson. He calls it in to the hotline, and we see a growing web of information being gathered on our missing wife.
We then cut back to the senator making a statement to the press, going on live TV, and offering a reward for the return of his wife. This leads to the questioning of Max, who has been in contact with his mother, the senator's ex-wife, over the past six months. This is suspicious as she was thought to have been overseas. Could she be involved in the disappearance? Why would she have changed her name? Why is our lead investigator seemingly constantly constipated?
The senator's other child, Mary, had left her boyfriend's house at the end of the premiere with a bloody sweater and a bag of money, a pair of items Mary believes may be related to Sara's disappearance. She gets mugged in her car by somebody who apparently knew about the money, asks her if she really knows her boyfriend, and quickly leaves with the bag of cash.
Mary turns up at the station where she asks Agent Kelton to run the blood through the lab. Of course, it turns out to be a red herring, for now. It would not surprise me to see this come back later, as they made too big a deal out of it for it to actually be nothing.
Kelton and his group find a discrepancy between cars entering and exiting a tunnel the inital (now dead) suspect from the first episode had entered. In no time at all, Kelton has a hit squad in the tunnel and is leading a team into a crossway after finding some of Sara's blood, and what appears to be her dress. But before we get too far, an explosion rocks the passageway, cutting off our hero.
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1 - Connie Phillips
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2 - Joe
Chris,
That is a good review. I have watched both episodes, but I could not verbalize very well why it wasn't quite grabbing me. I'm willing to watch a couple more to see if I like the story and/or story telling any better.