Tonight on the ABC The Family returns with an all new Wednesday March 6, season 1 episode 2 called “All You See is Dark.” On tonight’s episode, Adam and Hank both grapple with their newfound freedom; and, after meeting Adam, (Liam James) Hank (Andrew McCarthy) wrestles with a dark secret he’s kept for more than 10 years
On the last episode, in the premiere episode, “Pilot,” ten years after the disappearance of her son, Adam, Claire Warren (Joan Allen) still couldn’t sleep at night. She not only had survived the heart-breaking loss of her son, but had used her resiliency and surrounding adversity in the aftermath of this tragedy to fuel her own political aspirations. 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, “Adam and Hank both grapple with their newfound freedom; and, after meeting Adam, Hank wrestles with a dark secret he’s kept for more than 10 years. Danny, meanwhile, inadvertently shares his doubts about Adam’s identity with a reporter; Nina leads a team of detectives into the woods to find the area where Adam was held by a “pock-marked man”; and Claire asks Willa to persuade John to participate in her campaign.”
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Hank Asher’s life was turned upside down ten years ago because of a conversation he had with Adam on the day the little boy went missing.
However, Willa hadn’t been forthcoming with the police as she would later claim. It had been Willa after all that said she saw Hank speaking with Adam on that day. Only there had been more to the story than that one conversation and Willa had known that.
She had seen Adam going over to Hank’s house before that day in the park and she must have realized the odd relationship that Adam had with his much older neighbor. Yet she said nothing. And instead mentioned one meeting between them when in actuality she had been a witness to more than that.
But, in spite of the secret she kept, Willa had gone over to Hank’s house following her brother’s disappearance and she had told Officer Meyer that she had seen her brother’s latest project in Hank’s house. So she had, at least in the eyes of her family, tried to help but did she do that out of guilt or was there more to the story?
Willa like her mother currently wanted to ignore the many things that appear to be wrong with Adam yet Danny and John could see that their blind attitude towards Adam wasn’t helping. Danny still had some remaining questions. Like why Adam couldn’t even remember his best friend had been a girl rather than a boy yet knew that he used to have a broken taillight.
While John was more worried about Adam’s mentality. The therapist the family had hired had tried to warn Claire and John that their son had spent more time with his kidnapper than he did in his own home. So the other woman had told the parents, Claire especially, that their son needed time to readjust.
And Claire didn’t feel like that was definitive enough. She wanted the therapist to fix her son and would have gone to demand it if John hadn’t stepped in. Claire had apparently gotten frustrated with Adam’s progress when she noticed that Adam preferred to sleep in the closet over his own bed and, when she had asked him about it, he told her that he needed to touch the walls in order to go to sleep.
Though, when the doctor couldn’t or in Claire’s opinion refused to convince Adam to go back to his bed, Claire decided ignore what she had been told and locked off the closets so that Adam couldn’t go back there in the middle of the night. Only Adam had still tried to get in there later that night. And he was making so much noise trying to get into the closet that his father eventually heard him and had gotten the key from Claire.
But Jon had been angry afterwards. He needed someone to blame for why his son was the way he was and at first he had tried to blame Hank seeing as Hank had confessed to Adam’s murder. Thus Hank’s confession stopped them from continuing to look for Adam.
Only, once John had stopped seeing Hank as the villain, he went to go see Detective Meyer and he vented to her. He told her how Adam has been sleeping in the closets and what he would do to the man that had done that to his son. And what he said had ended up spurring on the detective.
Her captain had pulled her support in looking for the cabin that Adam was held in. So she had tried to go it alone and had gone back into the forest with the information that John had given her. And she found the place, but the pockmarked man who had been keeping a close eye on the investigation had seen her coming.
And then set fire to the place as way to remove any evidence he may have left behind.
Therefore, it was one step forward and two steps back because Meyer was the one that lost out. She had found the cabin and the fire hadn’t done any major damage, but DNA was gone and her captain ended up removing Meyer from the case because she had once claimed to have captured Adam’s killer and had been wrong. And top of that, it seemed Willa had known about Meyer’s affair with John this entire time.
Willa had apparently found emails and text message. And she had erased her father’s history as well as his old texts because she knew that her mother wouldn’t be happy about them if she ever saw them. So Willa has been keeping their affair a secret and in return she demanded that her father agree to do an interview.
For her mother and their campaign for the governorship. But, just like Willa has been keeping a close eye on her father, she also been taking care of things for Adam. Which why Danny when went to get Adam’s dental records because he wanted to match them up with the guy in his home – he was told that his sister had already picked it up.
THE END!