Found showrunner teases Sir's endgame (and it's what we expected!)

Found season 2 is gearing up for what could be an extensive cat-and-mouse game. The investigative procedural's freshman run saw Gabi solving cases with the help of her former abductor Sir. Her team weren't aware that she was working with the man who stole precious time from her and her father when she was a teenager, let alone that she had him held captive in her basement.

As viewers, we predicted that secret wouldn't hold for the whole season, and we were proven right. Every episode of the show's 13 episode first season brought us one step closer to the eventual reveal whilst also letting us in on the strange dynamic between Gabi and Sir. It's a complicated and complex relationship held together by one core truth: Sir's obsession with Gabi and the year plus she spent with him bonded the two in ways Gabi doesn't want and yet hasn't been able to shake.

Season 1 ended with Gabi's team finding out that she'd abducted Sir which may have irreparably damaged her relationship with Lacey. The younger woman knows exactly what Sir is capable of as she's one of his victim's as well. She'd changed her name in order to distance herself from what happened and public scrutiny but the trauma of the abduction, like with Gabi, has haunted her for decades. Now, however, she is yet again Sir's target.

Free from his imprisonment in Gabi's basement, Sir's plans are still unknown, but we do know that they have to do with Lacey. In star Shanola Hampton's view, whatever calculated move that Sir is about to make won't involve going as far as murder. The actress told TVInsider the following after season 1's finale:

"That’s her biggest fear… that he is somewhere where Lacey is. I think that he would threaten, but I think that in his mind there is a version of life that he and Gabi live together — not in a romantic way, but that they’re partners and he has her. And if he killed Lacey, he knows that there would be no chance of that ever, ever happening. Would he torture? Would he hurt? But to actually kill? There’s no coming back from that. And I think that that keeps Lacey alive or I think that that would stop him."

While showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll did caution viewers not to assume they have a read on what Sir will and won't do, there is the question of what his endgame really is. Carroll shed some light on this when speaking at the TCA summer press tour (per TVLine): "[his] endgame hasn’t changed. Sir’s endgame is Gabi, period.

This, of course, comes as no surprise considering his entire focus has been on Gabi since he took a shine to her and that delight in her potential twisted into the obsession we see today. All roads may lead to Rome but for Sir, in particularly, they lead to Gabi. Carroll said as much in the TVInsider interview with Hampton which also hinted at what we can expect in season 2:

"The truth of the matter is Sir is a master manipulator and a master game player as long as he feels he is justified in the thing he’s doing because it’s bringing him closer to Gabi or he’s saving Gabi. He’s capable of anything under the context of, ‘It is something I have to do in order to bring me closer to Gabi. Obstacles have to be removed in order to bring me closer to Gabi,’ and so do not get it twisted. As handsome as Sir is, as charming as Sir is, that man thinks and operates in a very, very scary way and the most dangerous thing for people to do is underestimate it."

What does that look like with Sir as a free man? That's the question we all want answered and why season 2 is so highly anticipated. Found returns to NBC on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 10 p.m. ET. Stay tuned to Hidden Remote for more news and coverage!