Season 1 is the first season of the NBC crime drama series Found. It is comprised of thirteen episodes, and premiered on October 3 in 2023.
Plot[]
Each year, over 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S., but not all cases receive the proper attention. Gabi Mosely and her crisis management team make sure there is always someone looking out for the forgotten missing people.
Cast[]
- Shanola Hampton as Gabi Mosely, a former kidnapping victim who manages a firm specializing in finding people who have been abducted. She secretly relies on the insights of her abductor, Sir, to get into the minds of kidnappers and understand their patterns.
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Sir, a criminal and highly intelligent manipulator who kidnapped Gabi as a young girl and tried to force her to live as his "daughter". He now lives in a cell beneath Gabi's house, atoning for his crimes by aiding her investigative efforts.
- Kelli Williams as Margaret Reed, Gabi's lead investigator. She has excellent deductive reasoning like Sherlock Holmes.
- Brett Dalton as Mark Trent, a Missing Persons detective and Gabi's police liaison.
- Gabrielle Walsh as Lacey Quinn, a law school student who works at Gabi's firm, providing legal assistance. She and Gabi were both kidnapped by Sir when they were kids and share a close sisterly bond.
- Arlen Escarpeta as Zeke Wallace, a tech expert whose own past experience of being abducted as a child has given him a debilitating case of agoraphobia. He provides Gabi with surveillance and hacking techniques.
- Karan Oberoi as Dhan Rana, a kidnapping victim who now acts as the association's security expert and enforcer when needed. He lives with his husband, who is a mental health professional. He is described by Lacey as an emotionally distant GI Joe.
Episodes[]
- Pilot
- Missing While Sinning
- Missing While Widowed
- Missing While a Pawn
- Missing While Undocumented
- Missing While Addicted
- Missing While Indigenous
- Missing While Homeless
- Missing While Scamming
- Missing While Indoctrinated
- Missing While Interracial
- Missing While Eccentric
- Missing While Forgotten
Production[]
On August 23, 2019, It was announced that ABC had giving a put pilot commitment on Found, a drama from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions. In January 2022, it was announced that NBC has given a pilot order with the production company Rock My Soul Productions join the series. Later in April 2022, it was announced that DeMane Davis would direct the pilot. On July 20, 2022, it was announced that NBC officially ordered the series. Greg Berlanti serves as an executive producer. In August 2022, Sonay Hoffman announced that she would be joining as an executive producer.
On March 2, 2022, Shanola Hampton was announced to be starring in the pilot in the role of Gabi Mosely. On April 29, 2022, Mark-Paul Gosselaar was announced as having joined the cast as Sir. On May 18, 2022, Kelli Williams has been joining the cast. On July 20, 2022, alongside the series order, it was announced that Arlen Escarpeta, Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh and Karan Oberoi were all cast.