FOX’s police procedural assortment ‘Alert: Missing Persons Unit’ AKA ‘Alert’ follows the suspicious reappearance of cops Nikki Batista and Jason Grant’s son Keith, who was kidnapped six years in the previous. The boy who claims to be Keith options the questions Nikki and Jason ask about their son and even passes a DNA test to make them think about that he’s their missing son. However, the tenth and remaining episode of the first season of the current reveals that the boy is Lucas, an imposter pretending to be Keith. Naturally, the viewers ought to be questioning what really occurred to Nikki and Jason’s son. Well, proper right here’s what we’ll share! SPOILERS AHEAD.
What Really Happened to Keith? Is He Dead?
When Lucas surfaces as Keith throughout the lives of Nikki, Jason, and Sidney, the earlier couple welcomes him into their lives immediately. They ask only a few questions on Keith’s earlier as a formality to be sure that the boy is their son, only for Lucas to reply them since he had already researched extensively about Keith to know the options from the family’s interviews. However, Sidney is happy that the boy who claims to be her brother shouldn’t be Keith. Although she doesn’t reveal the reason behind her suspicion at first, Nikki realizes that she cannot ignore Sidney’s concerns and strikes forward with a DNA test, only for Lucas to transfer the an identical.
As the ultimate resort, Sidney decides to come again clear to her dad and mother as she reveals that she unintentionally killed Keith the day he apparently went missing. Sidney was going to a celebration collectively together with her good good friend, solely to see her little brother following her whereas she was crossing the frozen Union Lake. Sidney didn’t want Keith to trouble her and he or she pushed him to make him return to the house. Keith fell proper into a niche throughout the lake and drowned, making it unattainable for Sidney to rescue him, in accordance together with her account of the day. Sidney feared that revealing the truth about Keith to Nikki and Jason would pave the best way in which for her return to foster care.
When Sidney reveals the an identical, Lucas, who pretends to be Keith, tells Nikki and Jason that there was one different hole throughout the frozen lake for him to get out of the an identical. He gives that he was strolling down the shut by freeway when he acquired kidnapped as properly. Now that Nikki and Jason uncover that the Keith who returned to them is an imposter named Lucas, the latter’s account of their son escaping from the lake could possibly be dismissed. The apparently missing boy ought to have died drowning after falling to Union Lake after a confrontation with Sidney.
After Lucas’ lack of life, Nikki, Jason, and their colleagues accumulate collectively to honor the memory of Keith and Lucas with out unwell feelings. During the ceremony, Sidney reveals that officers are on the lookout for Keith’s stays in Union Lake, indicating that his family is almost certain that they’ve misplaced their son. During the preliminary search, the authorities ought to have stopped the an identical after discovering a set of stays that belongs to a distinct boy. After ensuring that the boy who claims to be Keith isn’t their son, Nikki and Jason ought to have requested an in depth search to search out his stays. Since Sidney was on the premise when he fell into the lake, it’s unlikely that he would have escaped from the an identical with out her noticing the an identical.
Thus, Keith nearly positively died after drowning in Union Lake. Nikki and Jason seemingly have accepted their son’s apparent demise as they try to uncover his stays to rearrange an accurate funeral. The gathering they’ve organized to recollect Keith is an indication of that acceptance as properly. When Lucas surfaces throughout the former couple’s life, that they had been hopeful that they’d regain their son once more. Nikki and Jason have understandably let go of such hope in order that they don’t ought to restart their painful anticipate his or her son.
Having talked about that, Keith’s apparent lack of life and the circumstances it occurred are nonetheless ambiguous. Sidney would possibly want panicked after her brother fell into the lake, which ought to have made her run away from the place with out prepared to be sure that he’s lifeless. Even as per her account, Sidney didn’t see her brother dying or lifeless. If FOX renews the current for a second season, the writers have adequate scope to conceive a storyline that begins with the precise Keith’s escape from the lake and his return to Nikki and Jason.
Since Nikki and Jason get fooled as quickly as by Lucas, they’re anticipated to not think about Keith even when he stands in entrance of them. Although far-fetched, such a storyline does have adequate potential to be the inspiration of an intense dramatic season if the second season of the gathering materializes.
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