Harlan Coben drama I Will Find You is here and Netflix fans have questions.
Fans have been waiting for the return of another Harlan Coben drama since the beginning of the year following the success of the author’s remake of Run Away.
This time around, the story is set in the US where father David Burroughs (played by Sam Worthington) is five years into a life sentence for the murder of his son Matthew, a crime he didn’t commit.
But when his ex sister-in-law Rachel Mills (Britt Lower) presents David with a photo with a young boy that looks like Matthew in the background, he needs to find out more.
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In a bid to investigate what really happened to his son, David successfully breaks out of prison and he and Rachel start digging.
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Is Matthew alive?
Netflix’s I Will Find You revolves around the “murder” of Matthew Burroughs. (Image: NETFLIX)
Yes, as the photo suggests, Matthew is still alive and the key witness at David’s trial that saw him burying a bloodied bat was paid off to say so.
The bat was actually buried by his own dad, assuming that he accidentally killed Matthew while experiencing a night terror and wanted to try and protect him.
Why was Matthew taken?
David and Cheryl struggled to get pregnant at first and so she went to fertility clinic Berg Reproductive without his knowledge.
She used Rachel’s name at the clinic, which is owned by the Payne Foundation, so there wouldn’t be a chance of David finding out.
Rachel’s ex-boyfriend Hayden Payne (Milo Ventimiglia) was obsessed with her and when he found out that “Rachel” wanted a sperm donor, he donated his own.
Actress Britt Lower stars as Rachel Mills in Netflix’s I Will Find You. (Image: NETFLIX)
Cheryl shortly discovered afterwards that she was already pregnant by David but Hayden believed Matthew was his.
Even though he now knew Rachel wasn’t the mum, Hayden wanted Matthew and so staged the murder so they could be united.
For five years, Hayden and his heiress mother Gertrude Payne (Madeleine Stowe) had been looking after the young boy under the name Theo.
Who was really killed in David Burroughs’ home?
DNA at the crime scene was altered to seem as if it was Matthew’s but the blood actually belonged to a terminally ill child called Martin.
The youngster was from a Swiss orphanage run by the Payne Foundation who went missing three weeks before Matthew was supposedly murdered.
Netflix’s I Will Find You stars actor Milo Ventimiglia as Hayden. (Image: NETFLIX)
Further DNA tests reveal that it was Martin’s body at the crime scene and not Matthew’s.
In the final episode when Rachel confronts Hayden, he says: “He was going to die a painful death from his condition. It doesn’t matter.”
What happened to Hayden?
Rachel tells Hayden the truth that Matthew isn’t his biological son and that his mother had known the truth all along.
In a fit of rage, he kills his mum and shoots at David who has arrived alongside FBI’s Sarah Greer (Logan Browning) and other FBI agents who were ready to ambush him.
Hayden attempts to leave with Matthew but Sarah is able to stop him and fatally shoots him in front of Matthew.
Time goes by and it is explained that David’s conviction is overturned and Matthew is reunited with his family with David and Cheryl now sharing joint custody.
Rachel goes on to write a book about both David and Matthew, Sarah becomes the head of the Boston Fugitive Task Force and Adam becomes a private investigator after losing his job for helping David escape.
The series ends at David’s father’s funeral where he insists that he would always find his way back to his son, no matter what.
I Will Find You is available to watch on Netflix.
