‘Found’ Stars Shanola Hampton & Mark-Paul Gosselaar Tease Gut-Wrenching Finale, Hopes For Season 2

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Shanola Hampton doesn’t think audiences are really prepared for what’s about to go down in the Found season finale. The NBC series wraps its first season on Tuesday with an episode that the star told Deadline left her “in awe.” After the penultimate episode, when Hampton’s Gabi Moseley finally revealed to her M&A colleague Dhan [Karan Oberoi] that she’d not only been been holding her kidnapper Sir [Mark-Paul Gosselaar] captive in her basement but using him to help solve the firm’s missing persons cases, her carefully kept secret seems like it’s close to unraveling.

According to Hampton, the final episode will feature a moment between Gabi and the rest of the M&A crew that is so raw, she had a visceral reaction to filming the scene. “By the end of it, Gabi ends up in the fetal position on the ground,” she said. “That’s how gutted the whole thing is and that was a very impromptu reaction when I was shooting the scene, because it was so painful.” Hampton is eager to talk about the upcoming episode when she and co-star Gosselaar sit down to talk with Deadline about the series.

Promising the episode will end on a cliffhanger, she added: “We have some fine writers on this show. I know people say that in public, but really, they pour their hearts in it to tell personal stories.” As they sit next to each other in the booth of a North Hollywood restaurant, they talk about attaching themselves to these roles, which add an interesting layer to what could have been a run-of-the-mill missing persons procedural.

Instead, the series gives a more layered, complicated perspective on trauma. Even Sir, for all his despicable acts, has an explanation for his fractured psyche. “For network a show I was like, ‘Wow, that sounds really