The second episode of Freeform’s suspenseful limited series The Stolen Girl opens with Lucia (Beatrice Campbell) and Josephine (Robyn Betteridge) running around playing hide-and-seek and dressing up in Rebecca’s clothes on the night of the sleepover. (This is a recap, so there are spoilers ahead!)
Rebecca (Holliday Grainger) has Josephine get ready for bed, but Lucia stays behind. She asks her about her father being a lawyer, and Lucia sadly admits it makes her mother, Elisa, worry and get scared about locking the doors. Lucia suddenly becomes sleepy.
After encouraging Lucia to lie down on the couch, a man appears at the front door. He carries Lucia out of the house, placing her in a suitcase in a car.
While Elisa and Fred’s son, Georgie, is playing, someone slips a note addressed to the Blix family through the mail slot. Georgie takes it upstairs to where Elisa (Denise Gough) is sleeping in Lucia’s bed. Georgie drops the letter while climbing onto the bed and quickly forgets all about it as it hits the floor. Elisa awakes to see her mother-in-law has returned.
Things are still tense between Elisa and Fred (Jim Sturgess). (The first episode revealed that Fred was speaking with another woman.) When he asks where she is going, Elisa coolly responds, “For a drive. I’ve got my phone.”
During her drive, Elisa replays all the moments with Rebecca in her head. She then posts the picture of Lucia and Josephine (the one Rebecca didn’t want her to take), asking if anyone recognizes the other girl.
Selma (Ambika Mod) is interviewing a man about his pig when she receives a notification about Elisa’s post. She calls her boss, Kaleb (Michael Workeye), and matter-of-factly tells him she wants to interview Elisa. There’s a fat chance of that happening right now because the police specifically stated she is not doing interviews. Selma wants to try and persuade Elisa to agree to an interview. Moving on to Elisa’s social media presence, Selma points out that she posted all the time for the past seven years. Before that, there are no posts. There’s nothing from her younger days in school.
DI Shona Sinclair (Bronagh Waugh) informs the Blixes that she is looking into everything and has very little to go on. Sinclair isn’t thrilled that Elisa released that photo of Lucia and Josephine. The police should be controlling the information released to the public. Elisa counters with, “It’s essential that we keep Lucia in people’s minds.”
While Elisa is doing cross-stitching, she notices Georgie is no longer in the room. After a brief search, she locates Georgie upstairs, which leads her to discovering the letter.
“We have Lucia. She is safe, but not for long. If you ever, ever want to see your beautiful little girl again, it’s going to cost you a lot of money.” The demand goes on to state they have 48 hours.
A man in prison named Marcus Turner (Xavier Samuel) receives a package. The package contains a newspaper clipping about Lucia’s disappearance. He adds it to the others he has been hiding in his pillowcase.
DI Sinclair shows footage from their doorbell camera to the Brixes to see if they recognize the man who delivered the letter. It’s difficult to tell when there is a hood and baseball cap blocking his face. They ask Fred if this could be someone related to his work. Elisa wants to pay the ransom, but DI Sinclair strongly advises against it.
Selma knows about the ransom letter; not only that, but she paid a police officer for the letter.
Elisa asks Fred if they could get the ransom money. He assures her that they can, although he doesn’t look so sure of himself. She presses him further, wanting to know if they could get it quickly. Fred claims he’s looking into it. He leaves for work despite Elisa begging him not to go.
Selma confronts Elisa, informing her she knows about the ransom letter. Elisa is shocked to learn that Selma knows about it. Selma insists she can help her.
Elisa attempts to secure a loan for the ransom by borrowing money against their house. She’s once again blindsided by her husband when she’s told by the loan officer that there is already a loan taken out on their home. Fred forged her signature, and it’s no surprise he isn’t answering her calls.
It turns out DC Daniel Coolidge (Forrest Bothwell) is the one who gave Selma the ransom letter. He now gives her a still shot of the man who dropped off the ransom note.
Meanwhile, Fred’s client, Stephen Bailey (Nathan Turner), wants to back out from testifying. He has been snitching to the police about a drug gang. When Bailey leaves, Fred follows him. Elisa calls DI Sinclair to inform her Fred is missing. Sinclair immediately starts investigating.
Selma browses the website of the company she works for, reading the comments made about Lucia. One woman in particular spams their site about Lucia. After researching the woman, Selma finds a photo online of her wearing the same hat as the person who delivered the ransom note.
Selma returns to Elisa and informs her she knows who the woman is; she is a serial hoaxer. Elisa opens up to Selma, which gives Selma an opening to not only tell Elisa she believes they were targeted but also that she can’t find any information on Elisa herself. “Who were you before you became Mrs. Blix?” That question leads to a door being shut in her face.
Fred confronts Stephen about how suddenly the week his daughter is kidnapped, he can’t remember anything. He demands to know if he was threatened. Stephen adamantly denies it. Fred then attacks him while accusing him of having something to do with his daughter’s kidnapping. Stephen continues to deny any involvement.
While sifting through CCTV footage, DS Lizzie Walker (Layo-Christina Akinlude) discovers a video from five days earlier taken at a gas station in France. Lucia is seen running from a car, and then a man captures her and takes her back to the car.
As all of this is going down, DI Sinclair finds Fred’s car abandoned with the keys inside.
While Fred wanders the street aimlessly, Marcus—the man in prison—puts a letter in an envelope addressed to Elisa.
Episode two ends with Lucia being delivered to Rebecca and Josephine. When Lucia asks for her mother, Rebecca ignores her and says, “Welcome home, Lily Rose.”
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