Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Found season 1 finale!
Found star Shanola Hampton and executive producer Nkechi Okoro Carroll have revealed cut Gabi dialogue from the very end of the season 1 finale, and what it would have entailed. The final scene of the episode sees Gabi telling her team about Sir, who escaped from her basement at the start of the episode. Realizing he will likely hunt her down now that he is free, she begins to cry in her office.
Speaking with TV Insider, Hampton and Carroll revealed what the final moments of Found would have been after the camera cut. They explained how Gabi would justify her dark secret of keeping Sir captive, speaking to Dhan until she ends up in the fetal position. Check out what Hampton and Carroll had to say below:
Hampton: It’s so heartbreaking. I will tell you that broke my heart for Gabi. What got edited out is by the end of that, if the camera had stayed with Gabi longer, the audience would’ve seen her end up in the fetal position, that’s how bad it was. She just lost everything in that moment because the associates at M&A are the only family that she has. So when they walk out the door, that’s it for her. There’s no one left except for Dhan. Thank God for him. I love that you don’t hear the words. Even though as an actor, I said words, I said a whole monologue explaining all the things. Something was written. It was never going to be heard, but just so you could really feel the impact of coming clean, we did write it and I did say stuff, but all the audience would see are the reactions.
Carroll: We spent an entire episode with her rationalizing her decisions to Dhan that I didn’t feel we needed to hear that again. I felt what was most important was how each character was internalizing essentially the worst, most unimaginable thing, and I just felt it was more powerful to almost be on the outside as if we were intruding on a conversation and we were intruding on a very intimate moment.
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