I WILL FIND YOU: Episode 1.1

This episode earns its four stars honestly. Sam Worthington gives a heart-wrenching performance as a father wrongly convicted of killing his young son, and the writing gives him — and the supporting cast — real weight to carry. The story stresses family love, friendship, self-control, and the sanctity of human life at every turn, including a moving picture of a grieving mother finding hope in a new baby.

But this is adult television. There's strong foul language, including an "f" word and a profanity against Christ's name, moderate violence, and repeated lying and false testimony woven through the plot. Most seriously, the episode includes brutal, descriptive explanations of a five-year-old's alleged murder that may disturb even adult viewers.

If you're a grown-up who can watch hard material without it wearing on your conscience, this is a well-crafted, morally serious thriller. If you're choosing for your kids, this one isn't for them.

David Burroughs is a law professor serving time for a murder he insists he didn't commit — the killing of his five-year-old son, Matthew. Five years into his sentence, his sister-in-law Rachel shows up at the prison with a photo of a ten-year-old boy who looks exactly like Matthew. Against all the evidence that says otherwise, the two become convinced the boy might still be alive — and that David might have to fight his way out to find him.

Four stars means this is a genuinely strong hour of television, and the source material backs that up. Sam Worthington's performance is described as heart-wrenching, carrying the weight of a father's grief, guilt, and false imprisonment all at once. The supporting cast matches him, wrestling convincingly with whether David is guilty or telling the truth. The writing is called "beautifully written," giving the emotional beats — a father's love, a friend's loyalty, a mother's fragile hope — room to land without feeling manipulative.

This episode has a strong moral spine. It exalts fatherly love, showing David's devotion to a son he was accused of killing. It exalts friendship, in a warden who risks his own position to stand by David when the evidence turns against him. It exalts self-control, as David refuses to throw the first punch even when a dangerous criminal taunts him. And it exalts the sanctity of human life — the warden warns that taking a life destroys the one who takes it, and David's ex-wife, though shattered by her son's death, receives a new baby as a gift rather than a replacement.

The episode is honest that doing right sometimes gets tangled with doing wrong. Characters lie, give false testimony, and break the law to pursue the truth rather than trust the system — a false witness sends an innocent man to prison, a dirty cop lies to cover his crimes, and David's allies help him escape rather than work through proper channels. The story doesn't fully resolve whether those choices were justified; it simply shows people under pressure choosing them.

Underneath the plot is an old, true longing — a parent who will not stop searching for a lost child. Scripture speaks to that longing directly: "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10).

There's a lot to admire here — a father's love, a friend's loyalty, a story that takes the sanctity of life seriously. There's also strong language, violence, and disturbing details about a child's death that make this one for adults, not family movie night. Our answer is the same one we opened with: worth watching — adults only. Looking for something the whole family can watch together instead? Start with our latest family-friendly picks.