[s4e2] Made A Wrong Turn [REAL ⟶]

In this intense installment, the Intelligence Unit is pushed to its limits when a routine call about a car being stripped leads to a much darker discovery. Patrol officers and Tay find a young man, Nathan, brutally beaten in the trunk of his car, but his fiancée, Sarah Murphy, is missing.

The episode's title, "Made a Wrong Turn," serves as a double entendre. It refers to the physical mistake Nathan made entering a dangerous area, but also to the moral "wrong turns" characters make—from Nathan’s desperate drug deal to the systemic tensions between the police and the communities they serve.

The investigation takes the team into "The Gardens," one of the most dangerous and neglected neighborhoods in District 21. Intelligence faces immediate friction from local residents who are skeptical of the police's motives, believing the department is only prioritizing the case because the victim is a Caucasian woman.

Reviewers from TV Fanatic noted that while the case itself follows a familiar procedural beat, it excels in highlighting and the "human cost of beat work" introduced by the new partnership of Burgess and Tay.