Tonight on the ABC The Family returns with an all new Sunday March 20, season 1 episode 4 called “Feathers of Steel,” and we have your recap below. On tonight’s episode, Meyer (Margot Bingham) and Clements (Matthew Lawler) hunt a child kidnapper whose M.O. is similar to Adam’s (Liam James) abductor; and Bridey (Floriana Lima) arouses Willa’s (Madeleine Arthur) suspicions while seeking information on Adam.
On the last episode, an FBI agent joined the investigation; Adam returned to the bunker in an attempt to jog his memory; Willa questions Claire’s motives; Nina investigated the 911 call that led the police to Hank’s house; Hank tried to get his life back on track; and, in the past, John’s hesitancy to provide an alibi for missing time negatively impacted his relationship with Claire. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the ABC synopsis, “Meyer and Clements hunt a child kidnapper whose M.O. is similar to Adam’s abductor; and Bridey arouses Willa’s suspicions while seeking information on Adam. In the past, Claire pushes Hank to share more about Adam’s kidnapping and makes a painful discovery about John.”
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It seems that Claire Warren has something of a history with Hank on tonight’s all new episode of “The Family”. Apparently the mayor had used her position as a city official to see Hank in prison eight years ago despite not being on his list and she had gone there to ask him about her son. And more importantly she wanted to know where Adam’s body was.
Back then, it was simply a given that Adam was dead. So the only thing that Claire could do was give her family some type of closure and that’s why she and her husband had decided on a funeral. A proper one that is. Where they were going to officially put Adam to rest in a family plot and thus Claire wanted to be able to do so by burying her youngest’s body instead of just an empty casket.
Yet, it must have felt like Hank was denying her that one final mercy. For had after all told her that he couldn’t help and then implied that he didn’t want to see her. And that she wasn’t on his list of people for a reason.
So that’s how their long held animosity for each other began, but it was far from over even though Adam had supposedly been returned to his family. As it turns out Claire was using her experience as a grieving mother as well as a protective parent to come up with unique platform for her race to the governorship and if she won then she’s already promised that she was going to be putting all sex offenders’ basic human rights in jeopardy. Including Hank’s.
Claire, you see, was proposing to chip and track every individual on the sex offender registry. She said that was the only way they could protect children like her Adam and as it happens her new approach on stricter security measures was beginning to resonate with voters. Especially after word had gotten out that there had been a second kidnapping recently and that the individual accused in the case had been identified by Adam as the same man that had once taken him.
Therefore, the current governor was slowly using the race and Willa for one was rejoicing in the fact that her mother was coming out ahead. But not everything was as simply as that. Willa had run-in with Adam where she caught him looking at her as she was undressing and so she knows or at least has figured out that he’s in messed up place yet she’s ignoring all the warning signs while Danny continues to go back and forth on whether Adam is who he says he is.
Lately, Danny has allowed Bridey to have unparalleled access to Adam and his family. Though he had only agreed to do so because she had promised him to check with him first before she ran any sort of story. Only he’s been wondering a lot if he had been wrong about Adam because he remembered seeing Adam’s face when the police had showed him a picture of the man that had taken the little boy and he doesn’t think anyone is capable of faking that kind of shock.
So Danny has been having some misgiving about even allowing Bridey to investigate Adam. Yet, it turns out she hadn’t actually cared about taking his feelings into account. She had simply told him what she wanted to hear and that hadn’t changed just because he was having doubts.
Danny had apparently tried to talk to her about changing his mind and again she had said she understood, but then she later went behind his back to reenter his house when she knew he wasn’t there. And Willa had caught her snooping through Adam’s room.
Afterwards, the siblings came to believe that she had taken something from the room though they didn’t know what and Adam wasn’t taking. Which wasn’t anything new because Adam has been pretty quiet since identifying his supposed kidnapper. However, that might have something to do with the fact he had been lying about the man in the picture.
It seems there was a chance that either Adam had misidentified the man who’s his picture he saw or he had just flat out lied to cover up for his actual kidnapper because the man that would later die was not the man that had kidnapped Adam. Which was a fact that the police could have checked up on if they had done their job in this instance. And chose not to become a vigilante.
See Detective Meyer and her partner had found the man that had kidnapped the latest little boy and they had thankfully found the child still alive. So that all had remain was for them to take the kidnapper into custody, but Meyer had later decided to go outside the bounds of a police officer and she had gone on to shoot an unarmed man. And while he was clearly guilty of kidnapping young Bryan, he was merely one predator among many.
Thus man she believed had kidnapped and tortured Adam was still out there. Although, it’s been hard for him to fall back on his old habits what with his family and friends throwing him baby shower for him and his wife. And it was this same wife that works at the refinery that also had been in charge of giving Meyer a list of everyone who knew about secret underground bunkers.
But, with a full plate on their hands and a possible internal investigation pending, what Meyer didn’t need was for someone to assault Hank inside of his own home.
THE END!
