The International Fly Team is called on when a young mother flees to Hungary with her son, after losing partial custody of her son in the U.S. However, after the boy is kidnapped from his mother in broad daylight in Budapest, the team questions which parent is the danger in the child's life.
Tropes:
- Bottle Episode: Subverted. It is set in Budapest, so the team doesn't have to fly to their destination, and it is a very low profile case in the beginning (a parental kidnapping), but the boy is kidnapped again in the beginning of the episode and taken by car to scenic northern Hungary, finishing with a very actiony Car Chase.
- Double-Meaning Title: "The Edge" has the bad guy claiming to have been pushed over the edge by his ex-wife, then trying to commit murder-suicide by driving off a cliff.
- He-Man Woman Hater: The misogynistic organization "Dad's Pride" in "The Edge", that believes women abuse courts to take children away from their fathers and works to 'return' them by any means possible. One of their members can barely bear to be interviewed by female police.
- Jurisdiction Friction: Played with. Forrester has genuine conflicts with the Hungarian police, but his big, showy disagreement with Jaeger is actually a ruse to make the suspect lower his guard and lead them to the kidnapped boy.
- Ramming Always Works: An unusual variant where Kellett rams a car to stop it, wrecking it and her own yet causing nobody in either car any harm (especially noticeable because one of the rammed car's occupants was a young boy in the middle of a stroke).
- Writers Cannot Do Math: The boy is said to be 10, then 8, then his parents are said to have married 7 years ago and have him after. The actor who plays him was around 8 though.
