Written By Judith McCreary
Directed By Peter Leto
A teenage girl is hit by a taxi after having fled through a farmer's market. An autopsy reveals the victim had been held captive, starved for days before her escape, and had recently given birth. The investigation leads to Mission Farms, a work farm for at-risk kids that is secretly a front for a child prostitution/human trafficking ring.
Tropes
- Child by Rape: If the girls in the trafficking ring got pregnant, they'd be forced to carry to term and give birth so that the traffickers could then sell their babies.
- Even Evil Has Standards: While she may be a human trafficker with little care for the children she was trafficking, Victoria Reyes admitted to having cut ties with her accomplices Liam and Julie Ryan after they murdered their workers when the police began to close in on their operation. Though whether this was out of genuine disgust at their actions or a result of Pragmatic Villainy is up in the air.
- I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: The human traffickers kept the kids in line by punishing all of them if one of them messed up. This ensured the kids wouldn't run away when sent out to work or prostitute, because they were certain the others would be beaten or even killed if they ran; it also meant that if one of them did try to step out of line, the others would rein that one in for fear of punishment. This ultimately led to Micah killing Carly, his own sister, for trying to run, because he believed he and the others would be punished if she got away.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After enslaving and abusing countless numbers of children and immigrants, Julie and Liam Ryan are put in full body chains upon being arrested. The irony is lampshaded by Chris.
- My God, What Have I Done?: This is Micah's reaction when it really sinks in for him that he murdered his own sister.
- Carly and Micah's father also has this reaction upon realizing he inadvertently sold his kids into slavery.
- Would Hurt a Child: Given how the story revolves around child trafficking, the villains of this episode all qualify.
