Comeback is the first episode of Season 1 of Absentia.
Synopsis[]
After years of assuming FBI Agent Emily Byrne was a possible victim of serial killer Conrad Harlow, she is miraculously returned to her family. Emily, however, has to struggle with the mysteries of her captivity and the fact that everyone has moved on without her.
Summary[]
The story begins with videos of the happy Durand family - Nick, an FBI Agent, his wife Emily, also an agent, and their son Flynn. Emily is kidnapped by someone and was presumed dead. The kidnapper, a known serial killer named Conrad Harlow, is tried for the murder and proven guilty. Six years later Emily is seen trapped in a glass tank filling with water. Nick has a new wife named Alice and Flynn has grown up accepting Alice as his mother. Nick receives a phone call from Harlow giving him directions of where to find Emily. Nick races to the location with several FBI agents and find Emily in the tank. She is in a malnourished and abused state with very little memory of what happened to her in captivity. She is devastated when she realizes Nick has married and that she has missed out on her son's childhood. Emily meets Flynn and Alice, which does not go well leaving Nick with conflicted loyalties. She moves in with her brother Jack. With the help of a psychiatrist, Emily associates the events with names of flowers. Nick realizes one of Emily's earlier cases was of Robert Semerov, who was accused of trafficking girls, and he also named his victims after flowers. Meanwhile, a decomposing body is found floating in the river and Tommy Gibbs from Boston police department starts to investigate. Nick and Emily visit a strip club where one of Semerov's girl who is friends with Emily leads them to catch Semerov. The FBI reach the place where the new shipment of girls is going to arrive, hoping to catch Sememrov. However, he is not there and in a fit of rage, Emily starts beating up another trafficker. Adam learns that the body in the river was Semerov's. Also, they find out that the DNA of the killer, which was under the nails of the body, belongs to Emily. Nick looks worried while Emily sits in the car unsure and confused.
Cast[]
Crew[]
- Director: Oded Ruskin
- Writer: Gaia Violo
- Director of Photography: Nadav Hekselman
- Editor: Omri Zalmona