S03e06 H255: The Bay

But there was a problem. The DNA didn’t belong to Kai. It belonged to someone who shared half his markers — a close relative.

The twist? Leo’s adoptive mother, Margaret, had worked for social services. She had secretly taken Kai after his father’s failed custody attempt, fleeing to protect him from abuse — but never reported him as found. She loved him, but in doing so, she stole another woman’s son. the bay s03e06 h255

But the evidence pointed elsewhere. The match came from a young man named Leo, currently in custody for shoplifting. Leo had been raised by his aunt in Blackpool — and had no idea he was adopted. When Jenn broke the news that Leo might be Kai, raised under a different name after an alleged drowning, the case shattered family loyalties. But there was a problem

Detective Sergeant Jenn Townsend was staring at a case file labeled — a cold hit from the national DNA database. The sample, taken from a minor theft scene in Morecambe, matched a profile from an unsolved missing person case: a teenage boy named Kai Holbrook, who vanished from the Bay six years ago. The twist