Freeform’s five-part limited series The Stolen Girl wraps the season up with an episode that answers the mystery at the heart of the drama. Episode five reveals the past events that led to the kidnapping, and since the following is a recap, there are spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.
Episode five begins with a flashback to five years before Lucia was taken. Marcus (Xavier Samuel) is on his private jet which Elisa (Denise Gough) works for. After handing him champagne, Elisa seductively caresses his shoulder with a smirk on her face. The action moves forward and finds Elisa and Marcus lying in bed together, discussing their baby. (She’s pregnant with Georgie.) Marcus talks about the adventures they will have together with their son and Lucia. But Elisa says she needs to think about Fred. She confesses she still loves him and needs to do right by Fred and Lucia.
Speaking of dads, Marcus wonders if Elisa is going to see her dad since he has six months to live. Elisa confesses that she doesn’t think it would be good for her and reveals she had a really weird childhood. Marcus offers to go with her to see her parents.
Marcus and Elisa sit down for dinner at her parents’ house, and her mother, Deborah (Kerry Fox), compliments Lucia’s name. Marcus wonders how she came up with it, and Elisa explains she named her after a saint who had her eyes pulled out for disobeying her parents. (That’s not morbid or anything!) Tension in the room causes Elisa’s father to leave the table during their meal.
Elisa decides to follow him upstairs and catches him watching Lucia sleeping. Elisa demands that he get away from her daughter. Her father wants things to be better between them, but Elisa admits she came back to make sure he was really dying. She confronts him about the sexual abuse she suffered as a child at his hands and demands he get out of her way. Elisa shoves him down the stairs when he tries to grab her, causing his death.
The story moves forward seven weeks since Lucia was taken. Elisa and Selma (Ambika Mod) are on their way to France via private jet. Elisa promises Selma that if she helps her find Lucia, she will give her the whole story.
Nina/Rebecca (Holliday Grainger) tries to get her passports, but no one answers the door. She attempts to bribe a neighbor, but that fails, and she’s forced to return to her car. She thinks back to what happened the day of the accident. As Nina dozed off, Josie felt sick. Nicolas pulled over, and while Nina and Josie were outside the vehicle, there was an awful sound of tires squealing and the smashing of cars. Nina’s car was flipped upside down, and a red car was seen fleeing the scene. Nicolas died, and so did their other daughter, Rose.
Back to current events, Elisa drives while questioning Selma to see if she’s found anything yet. Meanwhile, Fred (Jim Sturgess) discovers that Elisa and her passport are both missing. He informs DI Sinclair (Bronagh Waugh) and DS Walker (Layo-Christina Akinlude) that Elisa has gone and where she went. They also know that she is with Selma.
The police show up to talk to Kaleb (Michael Workeye), Selma’s boss, as he tries to get hold of Selma. She actually answers Kaleb’s calling after ignoring all the others, and he demands to know why she is in France with Elisa. He explains the police are at the office threatening to get a warrant. Kaleb doesn’t care about her job at this point; his and Dash Voice’s reputation are on the line now. Selma urges Elisa to call the police, but Elisa insists they can’t.
Rebecca receives an alert on her phone about a suspect in the disappearance of Lucia. After opening the notification, she sees her own face staring back at her. It’s the photo of her at the press conference after Marcus’ trial. She begins to panic.
Elisa and Selma show up at a school Josie possibly went to, and a man working there explains he can’t give them any information. Selma then discovers the police have released Rebecca’s photo, and now it is Elisa’s turn to panic. She knows Rebecca will run. The man at the school suggests that if Rebecca doesn’t want to be found, she most likely is homeschooling Josie. They need to check with the mayor’s office.
Rebecca tries the man with the passports’ door again. This time, the noisy neighbor offers to help but raises her price. Rebecca pays, and all the woman does is bang on his door. Just then, he shows up, and after securing the passports, sirens are heard heading their way. Rebecca escapes before they arrive.
Selma manages to get information on Rebecca’s whereabouts. After handing it over to Elisa, Selma tries one more time to get Elisa to let her call the police. Elisa gives in, but when Selma turns her back, she drives off and leaves Selma behind.
Fred meets with DI Sinclair and assures her he has not heard from Elisa. He confesses he’s worried that Lucia is dead. She assures him that if they find her or Elisa, they will let him know.
Lucia (Beatrice Campbell) goes through Rebecca’s lockbox and finds the unaltered and altered baby photos. She leaves the house and finds the body of Milan. As she runs away, she runs into the neighbor and tells him she needs help. Rebecca comes home and when the neighbor tells her he saw the body too, she pulls Lucia away. The neighbor also reveals that Lucia told him Rebecca isn’t really her mother.
Rebecca gets Lucia back inside the house and orders Josie (Robyn Betteridge) to get the bags and get in the car. Lucia runs off when Josie’s back is turned and Rebecca’s out of the room.
Elisa finds Rebecca’s house and sees Rebecca’s car door ajar. She heads inside and discovers a bloodstain on the floor. Elisa makes her way back outside and sees Josie running. She chases after her and confronts Rebecca, demanding to know where Lucia is. “You’re too late. She’s gone,” says Rebecca.
Rebecca becomes unhinged and physically attacks Elisa. She screams at her for driving off after the accident. Elisa confesses that she killed Nicolas and Rosie. She was driving, not Marcus. Scenes from the day of the tragic accident flash by as Rebecca sobs uncontrollably.
Rebecca accuses Elisa of taking everything from her while she went on with her perfect life. Elisa claims her life is far from perfect. Her father molested her, starting when she was Lucia’s age. Elisa saw him with Lucia, and she snapped. After pushing him down the stairs, she drove off as fast as she could.
Elisa begs Rebecca to give her Lucia’s body so she can take her home. Rebecca replies, “Lucia is so beautiful.” (Present tense). Rebecca then admits Lucia is fine and hiding.
Elisa finds Lucia and has an emotional reunion. Rebecca drives away, telling Josie that Lulu went to live with her other family. It’s just the two of them now.
The season concludes with the story moving 12 weeks forward after Lucia was found. Selma and Kaleb run into each other at the courthouse, and Selma is now a freelancer. There is no news on Nina/Rebecca; she has completely vanished.
Fred meets with Elisa before her trial. The lawyers think they might be sympathetic since there are children involved, but Elisa doesn’t want to fight the case. Fred wonders if he is still Georgie’s dad even though he now knows he isn’t biologically.
Elisa receives a six-year prison sentence.
Fred is out with the kids at the same place where they played mini golf all those months ago. As Lucia reminisces about that time, Elisa is seen one last time in jail.
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