Found is putting Shanola Hampton‘s Gabi at risk ahead of the finale — and Mark-Paul Gosselaar‘s character, Sir, is just as unhinged about her as always.
During Us Weekly‘s exclusive clip from the Thursday, May 8, episode, Dhan (Karan Oberoi) visits Sir’s prison cell to show him Gabi’s deteriorating health.
“Enough! I know the FBI allowed you to have a cellphone. Make the call! I need to see Gabrielle now,” the convict demands as Dhan shows him what Sir’s sister Lena (Danielle Savre) “has done” to Gabi.
The FaceTime call shows Gabi in a very bad state. “Move in closer! Whoever is holding the phone, move in closer!” Sir orders the group. “Gabrielle, it is Sir. I am here. I had no idea what Lena was planning!”
Gabi, however, doesn’t want to hear from Sir.
“Who is that? Who is on the screen?” she asks before turning away from the phone. “Get him out of my face. Hang up.”
Back in prison, Dhan makes it clear to Sir that he was to blame for his “psycho sister’s” behavior, to which Sir replies, “Lena is dead to me. Let Gabrielle know that I will make sure my sister can never hurt her again.”
Sir is even willing to team up with Dhan to take Lena down. “I will help you find her. But this isn’t a partnership. You will do what I say, when I say it,” Sir notes. “I have a phone number I can call to convince Lena to meet me. Not here. I will tell you when you need to know.”
The only condition was that Dhan needed to find a way to get Sir “released” from prison. “Figure it out,” Sir says. “Just to be clear, if you want to capture Lena, this is the only way.”
Found, which premiered in 2023, follows public relations specialist and crisis manager Gabi Mosely (Hampton) and her team of associates as they work to find missing people who have been ignored or forgotten by law enforcement.
While Found primarily focuses on the cases themselves, it also centers around Gabi and Sir’s relationship. The NBC series introduced their dynamic with Gabi kidnapping Sir in the present timeline — as viewers learned via flashbacks that Sir kidnapped Gabi when she was a teenager.
“The truth is I can see [the intrigue] because there is a chemistry,” Hampton, 47, explained to Us in April. “We are used to a man and a woman having chemistry — and then it automatically means a relationship. So what happened was Mark-Paul and I came out in season 1 not planned. We had this chemistry and no one knew what box [they checked[ because we need boxes to put everything in.”
She continued: “People don’t really know what to do with their emotions. … I think that that’s what makes the show so special. That’s why people need to see more to see where their relationship goes.”
Gosselaar, 51, for his part, had a similar experience helping bring Sir and Gabi’s connection to life.
“Well [our chemistry], it’s not something we ever work on — it just happened organically. It’s always been that way,” he told Us last month, adding that he and Hampton “just got lucky” as costars. “Sometimes you don’t need to like the person in real life for there to be chemistry on the screen. That’s not our case. We really enjoy each other’s company and I consider [Shanola] a really good friend. So that just bleeds through the lines that are all there.”
At the time, Gosselaar clarified that “there’s nothing sexual about” Sir’s interest in Gabi.
“As you said, it’s written this way. So when I’m saying these lines, I just have to understand Sir’s deep affection for Gabi — and his love for her,” he explained. “It’s just that when he sees her, she brightens him. She’s just a part that he needs and that he wants. It helps that Shanola is a really good person and she’s a really fine actor.”
Gosselaar concluded: “But as actors, we should be able to have that chemistry with anyone. Maybe when you see us actually together off set, [you see] we really enjoy each other and maybe people confuse that with [our characters on screen]. It just bleeds on the screen. But I think Shanola is a good enough actor that she could find that chemistry with almost anyone.”
Found airs on NBC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET and new episodes are available the next day on Peacock.
