The Body
Anna is still in the hospital, but her condition has improved. The detectives are still trying to figure out who did this to her and why. They’ve asked around the dump and someone has recognized the man who picked up Anna’s phone. He’s a known criminal, so they question him about it. ..
Kaja’s place has been a mess lately. Adam hasn’t been picking up her calls, and her father Pawel (who gets handsy with her mum in the shower just before but it doesn’t seem to traumatize the poor kid too much) and Kaja themselves both think it might be because Adam is having trouble with his new girlfriend.
Gajos and Adam are missing, something is going on but we’re not getting the whole picture just yet. Kaja contemplates whether to break into Adam’s house, but remembering his high security to get in, thinks better of it.
Ewelina, a female detective, is called into the boss’ office. She’s called out for interfering and given Jacek, the boss, is in charge of the case. Jacek deduces that the body they’ve found is an anonymous prostitute and the prints have brought back no hits. Of course, there’s also the subject of Anna’s disappearance here too which could be connected to this. ..
Ewelina comes back with an alternate theory – one with more substantial evidence. The toxicology report shows no traces of illegal substances, the shoes don’t have a single mark on them and the woman’s finger actually shows evidence of a wedding ring that’s been removed. Basically, everything she says reinforces that she’s more competent for the case – so Ewelina is allowed to take the reigns of this one.
Michal spends most of this episode trying to find Anna, and in the end begins cycling through all of her gear, trying to find a clue to his wife’s whereabouts. However, a call comes in from the hospital confirming that Anna has been found and she’s in an ambulance.
Michal scrambles there and finds Anna alive, sporting a nasty cut on her head that’s thankfully been stitched up. She’s very much alive and is eventually discharged, heading home with her partner. She’s happy to learn Michal did, in fact, install spyware on Adam’s phone so although her own phone is gone, she can still use Michal’s. It’s at this point we also learn that Adam and Kaja had sex in the past.
Anna reminds Michal that phoning the police now is pointless. After all, someone has to be missing for 48 hours in order for the police to even consider looking into this. Despite that, installing a spy app is actually illegal, given Adam is legally an adult, and Anna is reminded of that later on back home. Anna is overly protective of her son, brought on partially from a traumatic moment that occurred in the past. ..
The woman looking for Marianna, Renata, is kidnapped and thrown in the back of that same van we’ve been seeing a lot of recently. Quite how this ties in to Anna and the rest of the mystery is anyone’s guess at this point. Her kidnappers take her and threaten to kill her baby boy unless she plays ball and tells them everything they want to know.
The Episode Review
Who are these kidnappers? The kidnappers are unknown, but they seem to be looking for Marianna and Adam. Marianna has something that the kidnappers want, and she may have something that the kidnappers need as well. This mystery sets up an intriguing mystery going forward.
The show has done well so far to keep up a consistent level of mystery with this, and quite how all these players slot together is still unknown at this point. However, Hold Tight has a lot of characters and the Polish setting is a nice way to change things up while keeping things suitably mysterious.
The mystery of the missing girl has left everyone on edge, with no clear answer in sight. But there’s plenty more to uncover with this mystery, which leaves everything balanced on a precarious knife edge.
