In “Nicholas T. Moore,” the task force was chasing down the case of a young girl who escaped from a group that lived in isolation in the middle of the woods.
She wasn’t with the group in the woods, and the end of the episode revealed that she’s still with the man who abducted her.
The task force was able fill the people in on how the novelist had tricked them before a shootout between law enforcement and the members of the community could break out, but not before Samar was abducted attempting to protect the little girl.
As if that wasn’t already a red flag, the good guys realized the group believed that the world had been overwhelmed by a deadly virus way back in the 1970s due to the influence of a sci-fi novelist who wrote a failed book about that very scenario.