Cassie oversleeps and wakes to Agent Locke entering her room with coffee and car keys. Locke teases Cassie about having stayed up late with a boy, but Cassie refuses any “girl talk.” Locke orders Cassie to get dressed, says she will get Dean, and tells Cassie that Cassie will be driving.

Locke directs Cassie and Dean back to the mall, which frustrates Cassie after the previous night’s discovery that the house recreates real crime scenes. At Mrs. Fields, Locke reveals that the location is tied to a real case from three and a half years earlier: Sandy Harrison was buying lemonade with her two younger daughters during Christmas shopping when her older daughter, Annabelle, vanished after Sandy looked away briefly.

Locke explains that security, police, the FBI, and an AMBER Alert were involved, and that Annabelle was ultimately found. She turns the solved case into an exercise, asking Cassie and Dean how they would identify the abductor after ninety-seven minutes had already passed, with no physical evidence or useful security footage.

Dean reasons that Annabelle likely did not cry, because an abductor would not risk forcibly grabbing a child so close to the mother in a crowded mall. Cassie then shifts into Annabelle’s perspective and imagines the girl being lured by someone or something, following only a few steps around a corner toward a service door.

Dean tests the service door and finds it locked, suggesting the abductor may have worked there, stolen access, or prepared in advance. Locke frames the crucial question as whether Annabelle was a random target or specifically chosen. Cassie recognizes that this is the real nature of the work and asks Locke for Annabelle’s exact age, committing to the profiling exercise more seriously.