‘Eric’ Episode 5: Netflix Presents ‘Eric’, a psychological thriller series. This limited series consists of six episodes. The story revolves around the sudden disappearance of a kid named Edgar. The cops start investigating the missing case through NYPD. Later, the family’s situation goes through many hurdles for the parents, when they can’t control their hate on each other even after their son’s disappearance. The best part of the series deals with what really happened to the missing child.
Episode 5 opens with a press conference from Cecil and her lawyer Renata. They address the press regarding the missing of Cecil’s son Marlon Rochelle. Just because they were born black, NYPD is not care to find her son, that’s what they are implying on the press conference. Meanwhile, Michael Ledroit goes back to his apartment and witnesses William’s sister. She starts moving William’s things from the apartment.
Michael Ledroit feels emotional when she removes a couple of photo of him with William. He explains to her that, he loved William for seven years and this is not the right thing to do. William’s sister didn’t care much about their relationship, she thinks that because of Michael Ledroit, her brother became weak. Michael Ledroit confirms that he didn’t have anything to do with William’s previous condition and it was transferred from another person.
Meanwhile, Yuusuf and Raya were looking after Edgar for some time. They are in urgency to get money for their debts. They’re thinking of leaving Edgar to his parents in exchange for a reward. Later, Yuusuf and Raya goes out for a quick walk, tell Edgar to stay silent inside the room. Yuusuf goes to the public telephone booth and calls Cassie. He tells her to bring money to a particular spot without informing the cops. On the other side, Vincent is doing a detailed search for Edgar.
He goes through the hints map drawn by Edgar in the past, he gets in the metro train and notices every single sign from the train. At the same time, Cassie goes looking for Vincent to his office. His team leader explained to her that, they fired him already from the company.
Cassie couldn’t believe that they actually fired Vincent from his own company. She curses at them and tells them that it’s Vincent’s creation. Back at the train, Vincent is looking at some kids who are ready to go to the good day sunshine charity event. Vincent gets out from the train and follows the kids to the program.
The mayor is addressing the audience about the problems faced by the homeless people. He requests everyone to relocate from the place sooner. After the grand speech, he introduced the live play of the Good Day Sunshine team. Vincent is standing among the audience and watches his teammates playing at the event without him. They also introduced the new character Eric in the play.
Later that day, Cassie rushes towards Vincent’s house. She meets his mother and asks her for the reward money. Vincent’s mother tells her to cool down for some time and she goes to sleep. Vincent’s mother calls her husband to come back home to arrange the money. Meanwhile, Michael Ledroit looking for clues at his office, suddenly his associate Tina comes up with the surveillance footage of Edgar from the day of missing.
They start looking at the visuals and surprisingly they saw Edgar following Yuusuf. Immediately, Michael Ledroit calls a sketch artist and tells him to draw the sketch of Yuusuf. After some hours, Cassie wakes up at Vincent’s house, she unexpectedly meets Detective Michael Ledroit with Vincent’s father.
Michael Ledroit asks her the details of the person who called her. Cassie didn’t say anything initially but Vincent made sure that he wouldn’t give the reward money unless she told everything to Michael Ledroit. Cassie accepts the money and tells everything about the call. She admits to going with Michael Ledroit to the transferring location.
Back at the police station, Michael Ledroit’s senior officer leaks the picture sketch of Yuusuf on television news channels. Michael Ledroit gets mad at him but can’t go against his superior due to his position. That night, the city council going to eradicate every homeless person from the underground passage.
Cassie takes the money and goes to the location. Michael Ledroit goes directly to the underground base along with duty officers for a massive evacuation and search. Meanwhile, Vincent almost reaches the underground passage and he meets some homeless people taking drugs. He gets diverted and smokes for some time. At the same time, Yuusuf finds out that his photos are spreading everywhere due to child kidnapping and he tells Raya to drop the kid to his mother in exchange for cash.
While she takes Edgar through the underground, Vincent sees it from far away and suddenly rushes towards them. He gets stuck in the middle due to the evacuation process and chaos. While climbing on a pipeline exit, Edgar loses track and falls on to the ground.
Overall the fifth episode was good. The screenplay was engaging. The conflict between the family went to an extreme extent in this episode. The ending part of the episode was unexpected and interesting. Let’s see how they materialized in the final episode.
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