Desperate
The Fugitive Task Force rushes to the scene after a high school debate team and their English teacher are kidnapped in rural Pennsylvania.
Tropes:
- Abandoned Mine: The team track the missing teenagers to an abandoned coal mine, but discover the teacher has already been killed. When the mine collapses in on itself after the enforcers are eliminated, the team takes the teenagers through the utility elevator when the main one is blocked and up to safety.
- Boom, Headshot!: Aaron Quallich shoots Henry Kipman this way after catching him trying to escape.
- Cutlery Escape Aid: Henry Kipman uses a spoon to try to pry out the pins in the hinges of the door of the room where he and his students are being held. The kidnappers catch him and shoot him the head.
- Ear Ache: Aaron cuts off Josh's ear off-screen.
- Finger in the Mail: Nancy Hollingsworth finds Josh's severed ear in a paper bag.
- From Dress to Dressing: After the kidnappers cut Josh's ear off, Julie uses her scarf to bind the wound.
- I Have Your Wife: A high school debate team and their teacher are abducted at gunpoint in rural Pennsylvania. The Fugitive Task Force face an uphill battle in assuring the missing teenagers' parents, but things take a turn for the worse when one parent decides to pay the ransom all of them received, only for him and his wife to find a severed ear of their son delivered to them.
- The Mafia: Aaron Quallich and Luca Marino are associates of the Esposito family
- No Honor Among Thieves: Ian Hollingsworth decides to pay the ransom all of the parents received, only for him and his wife to find a severed ear of their son delivered to them. Ian reveals that he was in on the abduction for money in order to handle his business' debts and hired enforcers to blackmail companies into selling, only now his enforcers have double-crossed him to keep all the money for themselves.