Season 7: Episode 24: Undertow
Derek Wilson (27) meets girlfriend Robin (29) and her son Travis (8, not Derek’s) at a park. It’s a happy family moment as they share donuts and hot chocolate. Derek gets a phone call and tells Maria he’s got to go to work.
We cut to Derek pulling on a wetsuit as the charter boat he rides skips over whitecaps in the frigid Atlantic. The Skipper powers down at their destination. Derek pulls a mask into place and plunges into the dark water. From Derek’s underwater POV: An ocean floor littered with junk, but amid the debris – a thick metal chain. Derek follows it and finds it coiled around the feet of a dead man – the body swaying lifeless in the current. And behind this body, two more bodies similarly weighted down. Derek surfaces, tossing his mask onto the deck. “Find what you were after?” asks the Skipper. Derek only nods. Back at shore, Derek lugs his gear down the dock with a heavy step… and vanishes.
Our Agents note with suspicion that Derek did not report the bodies to the police and that as the Manager of a sporting goods store, he’d have access to weapons. Given the execution style murders, we theorize that Derek could be moonlighting as a hit man. Derek’s cousin and Co-worker, KELLY, denies this. Derek’s a stand up guy with deep roots in the community. Was Derek complicit in the murders? Or did his discovery of the bodies prompt the true murderers to silence him? Our investigation turns when we find signs that Robin was forcibly abducted from her apartment and Travis hiding in a closet, traumatized. Could she have been taken as leverage over Derek? Probing Derek’s past, our agents discover that he worked as on oil rig diver. New evidence suggests Derek could be a victim of coercion for an underwater salvage operation. While our agents try to zero in on the perpetrators, Jack seeks to unlock key information from Travis' memory, knowing it will make the difference between finding Derek and Robin alive or dead…
On the personal front, Danny and Elena marry but Jack and Samantha decide to break up.
