I Will Find You Episode 4 Review: Hilde Dies in the Park, Ronald's Alibi Cracks, and Skunk Says "Ask Your Father"

By Mira Vance · Editor & Lead Reviewer

Episode 4 turns the Fisher lead from a name in Hilde Winslow's apartment into a public body, a wounded capo, and a question pointed straight at Lenny Burroughs. David and Rachel are separated for most of the hour, but the episode keeps their choices in conversation: he follows Skunk toward the mob history, she keeps refusing every exit that would save only herself. The mechanics get loud, especially once Washington Square Park becomes another perfectly timed fugitive set piece, but the case work is strong because the hour keeps making old protection look more dangerous than old guilt.

Episode 4 opens in the past with Rachel and Hayden at a family foundation event, before David’s escape has turned Hayden’s borrowed apartment into a hideout. The flashback is breezy on the surface: Rachel editing Hayden’s welcome speech with a red pen, Hayden trying to convince her his mother will finally see the work he has done, and both of them joking around the edge of a relationship that never fully died.

The useful part is how cleanly the scene defines Hayden. He wants Gertrude’s approval, he wants Rachel back, and he is charming enough to make both wants sound almost harmless. Rachel tells him to live for himself instead of his mother. He asks for another shot. She turns him down without making him an enemy. In this show, that is usually the exact moment a person becomes useful to the plot.

Hayden finds David in his apartment, and Greer realizes Hilde helped him escape

The present-day handoff is sharp. Hayden comes home looking for Rachel, finds David in his apartment, and reaches for the obvious threat: tell him where Rachel is or the police get called. David has one sentence big enough to stop the room: My son’s alive.

That is a good use of Hayden because the episode does not ask him to believe everything at once. He thinks the Hilde lead sounds like grounds for a retrial, which is exactly how a normal person would process it. David pushes back because a retrial is still the wrong question. If the kidnappers know the cops are involved, Matthew may be the one who pays for it.

Across town, Greer and Williams start rebuilding the Hilde scene the right way. Hilde says David broke in, held her at gunpoint, and never explained why. Greer lets the lie sit for a second, then points at the fire escape. David could not have seen it from the living room. If he used it, Hilde had to tell him it was there.

That small geography check does more than catch Hilde. It changes Greer’s read of David. If he did not come for revenge, then the case is no longer only a fugitive chase with a grieving man at the center. It is a murder conviction with a witness now protecting the man she helped bury.

Lenny finds there was no bus accident, and Cheryl learns Ronald confirmed the old alibi

The best evidence turn in the episode belongs to Lenny and Philip sitting with Matthew’s file. They are not chasing David through Manhattan or interrogating anyone under bright lights. They are doing the older, duller version of police work: reading what the first investigation stopped caring about once it had a suspect.

Cheryl’s hospital alibi is the file’s weak board. On the night Matthew disappeared, she was supposedly called in because of a bus accident. Lenny notices there is no accident report in the file. Philip wants the easier answer, that the report was misplaced when the case got boxed up. Then Lenny’s MTA contact checks the database and gives them the problem: there was no bus accident in Greater Boston that night.

The person who verified the fake bus-accident story was Ronald Dreason, then a hospital administrator and now Cheryl’s husband.

Lenny’s scene with Cheryl is strong because he does not attack her. He congratulates her on the pregnancy, asks whether the baby is a boy or a girl, and hears the answer David already learned from Rachel: it is a girl. Then he asks about the bus accident, and Cheryl repeats the story as she knows it. She was called in. The victims were rerouted. Ronald told her.

Cheryl’s anger makes sense. From her side, Lenny is asking whether her husband invented a medical emergency to get her out of the house on the night her son was murdered. It sounds absurd because it is absurd. It also fits the hour’s evidence better than any official story has fit so far.

Hilde draws Skunk to Washington Square Park, and the meeting ends with her dead

Hilde’s second lie is worse than the first because it is active. After the FBI leaves her apartment, she says she has set David up in Washington Square Park and asks that Mr. Fisher be told she did the right thing. The old witness who gave David one exit in Episode 3 now tries to buy safety from the same world that bought her testimony.

David gets there first. Hayden has given him a gun and a ride, and David uses Hilde’s trap against the man she called. The confrontation with Skunk has the right ugly texture. Skunk remembers David from high school as the guy who needed Adam Mackenzie to fight for him. David ignores the old humiliation contest. He wants to know where Matthew is.

Then the clean version vanishes. Shots go off. Hilde is killed in broad daylight. Skunk runs, wounded, and David chases him into the kind of chaos this series likes: cell-phone video, witnesses, police radio, agents trying to reverse-engineer a shooting from scraps.

Greer and Williams are good here because the video makes them think instead of simply react. If David wanted Hilde dead, he could have killed her in the apartment. If Skunk shot her, the order points toward Nicky Fisher. And if Skunk ran after the shot instead of finishing David, there is a reason. Greer sees the blood and reads the simplest answer: Skunk has been shot too.

The action is convenient, but the evidence is not lazy. Hilde’s call brings Skunk into the city. Skunk’s presence puts Nicky Fisher in the FBI’s mouth. Hilde’s death takes away the witness David needed and leaves behind the man who may know why she had to die.

Hayden gets Rachel out on bond, and Skunk tells David to ask his father

Rachel’s release could have been pure rich-person magic, and the hour knows it. A lawyer appears before she is transferred, announces a million-dollar bond, and gets her out pending an evidentiary hearing. Rachel knows she does not have that money. Hayden does.

Hayden’s help lands with an immediate catch. He is funny about it, calling himself her wealthy guardian angel, but he is also the only reason Rachel can walk out of custody. He found David at his apartment, heard enough to act, and still wants Rachel to walk away before she turns one federal charge into a life.

Rachel will not do it. She tells Hayden that Skunk works for Nicky Fisher and is in New York to kill David. Hayden has the information she needs because he dropped David off before coming to get her. He hesitates. Then he tells her.

David, meanwhile, catches Skunk in an empty building and tries to turn a gunshot wound into leverage. First he offers the brutal bargain: he can get Skunk an ambulance if Skunk tells him where Matthew is. Skunk gives him Revere Cemetery, which sends the episode toward home without explaining what he means.

The more important exchange comes after David drags him farther. David asks why Nicky Fisher would take his son. Skunk says he does not even know Matthew. Then he gives David the line that cracks the hour open: Ask your father.

That is a different kind of clue from the Hilde confession. Hilde gave David a chain: Skunk to Nicky Fisher. Skunk gives him a family direction. If Nicky has a reason to hurt the Burroughs family, David may be the last Burroughs to know what it is.

Rachel and Hayden pull David out of Thompson and Prince while Greer catches Skunk

The rescue sequence is pure fugitive television, but it has one advantage over the mall garage and rooftop jump: almost everyone contributes something specific. Greer uses the Department of Transportation tip to narrow the search to an empty office renovation at Thompson and Prince. Rachel gets David on the phone and triangulates the alley from his description. Hayden knows the streets well enough to help reach the corner. David has to move before tactical teams seal the block.

It is a lot, and it moves exactly as fast as the show needs it to move. Greer and the agents reach Skunk upstairs. David slips out below. Rachel and Hayden pick him up. When cops spot the car, Hayden buys them a few seconds by pointing the officers toward an armed man on Broadway.

That is the hour at its most engineered. Hayden has money, a lawyer, an apartment, a gun, a car, and apparently enough nerve to misdirect police on a Manhattan street without freezing. That is a tall stack of usefulness for one ex-boyfriend.

Still, the emotional beat underneath it is clean. Hayden’s argument with David before the escape is the hour’s quietest indictment. David promised to leave Rachel out, then let the emergency pull her right back in. Hayden asks whether David has thought about the cost to Rachel, and the silence answers him before David does. Rachel is choosing this, but David has been accepting her help as if choosing and surviving are the same thing.

Gerry links Ronald to Nicky Fisher, and Cheryl starts questioning her husband

Back in Boston, the old-police circle gets one more member. Gerry arrives for what Philip calls a Revere PD reunion, finds Lenny looking rough, and learns the cancer news in the bluntest possible way. The scene has the loose rhythm of people who know each other too well to be polite, which helps because the Ronald file could otherwise feel like another information dump.

Ronald looks clean at first. No criminal record, no civil actions, no lawsuits. The only time he crossed law enforcement was six years earlier, when his hospital was targeted in a Medicare fraud investigation. He was supposed to be the key witness. Before trial, he got “amnesia” and refused to cooperate.

The man the feds believed was behind the fraud ring was Nicky Fisher.

That is the hour’s best late connection because it does not solve Ronald. It gives him pressure. If Nicky already had a way to scare Ronald years before Matthew vanished, then Ronald’s fake bus-accident confirmation becomes more than a weird alibi detail. Lenny and Philip land on the obvious possibility: Nicky used Ronald to get Cheryl out of the house.

Cheryl gets there from the other side. She asks Ronald why Lenny says there was no bus accident. Ronald says there must be a logical explanation. He had his phone off for a conference. He will call Lenny. The words are calm, but calm cannot clear his name now.

The closing moves keep everyone pointed toward Revere. David and Rachel head back by bus because the FBI knows Rachel’s car and public transportation is still dangerous. David admits Lenny never said it, but he could see at trial that his father thought he did it. Rachel says they will make it right for both of them. Then Gertrude calls Hayden, learns he has left town for the evening, and promises to come by his office in the morning. The final reaction is David and Rachel following Skunk’s cemetery clue and seeing something the episode withholds from us. It is a blunt cliffhanger, but after Ronald, Nicky, and Lenny all land in the same sentence, the bluntness works.

Tiny details worth clocking

• Hayden’s old speech is for an early learning and outreach center, which makes the later child-centered foundation orbit feel less incidental.
• Greer’s fire-escape catch depends on apartment layout, not instinct, which is why the Hilde lie lands cleanly.
• Ronald is the person who told Cheryl the nonexistent bus accident had been rerouted, then confirmed that story for the old case file.
• Skunk gives David “Revere Cemetery” before the longer interrogation, then gives him “ask your father” only when David presses on Nicky Fisher.
• Wesson’s death is officially moved toward suicide this hour when the GSR comes back positive and the medical examiner changes the frame around Rachel’s accessory charge.

Verdict

Episode 4 is a strong middle chapter because it knows the case has to move from witness to motive. Hilde’s confession gave David Skunk. This hour gives the FBI Skunk, gives Lenny Ronald, gives Ronald a Nicky Fisher connection, and gives David a reason to turn around and ask his own father what the old mobster has against the family. The mystery does not expand through vague menace. It expands through phone records, a missing accident report, an old Medicare fraud case, and one wounded man trying to stay alive long enough to be useful.

The weakness is the episode’s dependence on Hayden as a universal key. He can house David, arm him, drive him, hire Rachel’s lawyer, pay the bond, give up the car, and still pull a street-level misdirect when the police close in. Some of that is the point: Hayden is rich, connected, and still orbiting Rachel hard enough to do reckless things for her. But the hour leans on his availability so often that the machinery shows.

What keeps it working is the pressure under the machinery. The episode’s thesis sits in Cheryl hearing that Ronald’s bus accident never happened while David hears Skunk say to ask Lenny. For three episodes, the old case has looked wrong because outsiders bought testimony, moved money, and hid bodies. Episode 4 makes the scarier turn: the people closest to Matthew may have been maneuvered before they even knew there was a case to solve.

Rating: 8.2/10

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Reviewed by Mira Vance · QuizFandom Editor & Lead Reviewer. Every rating is an honest per-watch assessment from the desk that also writes the quizzes — not a press release rehash.

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