The Disappearance

Michal is worried about his partner’s well-being, but Anna insists that her son is fine. Michal doesn’t believe her and starts to doubt his own judgement. He’s not happy when he finds out that Anna is using the spyware on Adam’s phone.

Michal urges Anna to uninstall the software after Adam has clearly been rattled by the death of Igor. Anna refuses to do so, claiming that she is just a concerned mother. When Adam messages his friend and claiming he is to blame and it is his fault, Anna immediately exhibits concerns.

Adam is skipping classes and acting distant with both his classmates, although Michal brushes this off as normal teenage behaviour. Anna is convinced there’s more going on here. ..

Elsewhere, Marianna drowns her sorrows in alcohol at the bar. A couple head in and begin talking about Cain and Abel but in reality, this is all a pretence for what they’re really up to. They drug her, take her out and demand to know what she has done with a tape. How this ties into Adam’s storyline however, remains to be seen.

Adam shows up to the memorial late, after noticing a poster that confirms the time of the memorial. He talks to his friend Kaja and once again admits guilt over what happened. ..

Igor took pills and washed them down with some wine. Kaja reassures him that the heart attack he had afterwards was just “bad luck.” As Kaja tells him, he wasn’t even there when it happened. We also later find out that Igor was actually suffering from depression too.

As the memorial for the victims of the school shooting nears, tensions are high between several of the students. However, what we can piece together is that Adam has been messaging people called “guru” and “ranger” about whether he is at fault for what happened. Within these messages, Adam talks to people who discuss with him whether he should take responsibility for his actions. ..

Laura, the school psychologist, delivers the memorial speech. A montage of Igor is shown off, with some of the students struggling to hold back tears. One among them is Beata, Igor’s mother. Beata is angry and bemoans why it’s her son that died. She also throws shade at Adam afterwards, asking just how he could have let this happen to his friend. ..

Beata is back home and begins to review old footage of Iogr and notices a hooded jacket on the chair next to him. She immediately begins cycling through old photos and realizes the hoody belong to Adam. This only further reinforces her feelings that Adam could well have something to do with his death. The police have already ruled this out as foul play though and aren’t going to investigate this further, regardless of Beata’s pleadings.

Adam phones someone and tells them that Igor’s mother is not going to drop this and they need to deal with this. ..

As Anna drives down the dark alley, she can hear the music and the sounds of people getting wild. Suddenly, a car pulls up next to her and out steps a shady-looking man. He introduces himself as Gajos and tells Anna that he knows where her son is. Gajos then asks Anna to drive him to Adam’s address in order to take care of things. As they’re driving, Gajos tells Anna that he’s been following her all night and that he knows where Adam is.

Anna is refused entry to this private club so she heads around the back. Unfortunately, she’s stopped by that same shady couple we saw earlier in the episode. They beat her down to a pulp, despite Anna trying valiantly to stop them.

In the morning, a woman is found with blood on her clothes among the trash. It’s unclear at this point whether the woman is Marianna, Anna, or someone else. This cliffhanger will end things on an intriguing note. ..

The Episode Review

Harlan Coben’s latest novel, Hold Tight, is a thriller about a group of kids who are acting suspiciously and talking in code. There’s also a mystery involving assassins and a greater conspiracy. ..

The opening episode of “The Good Place” has done well to introduce a rabble of people that could be responsible for what’s happened to Igor, and while Adam seems the likely suspect, it’s way too obvious to believe he’s a major player here. We’ll have to wait and see where this one goes next of course, but for now the opening chapter gets things off to an enticing start.