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Saw? You get “The Siege of the Unseen Specter,” a confined and thrilling bottle episode that pushes its characters to solve the main mystery in a short amount of time. Sometimes a captivating case doesn’t need multiple locations or a supernatural demon pulling the strings to draw us in. Give us a juicy mystery, a cast of suspicious characters, and a connecting web of clues to keep us entertained. “The Siege of the Unseen Specter” hit it out of the park on all fronts!
The case surrounding the disappearance of Dolores drew on many horror movie elements to frame its narrative, specifically that of the
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Nancy Drewmight take first place for the most over-the-top and racially divisive anti-police storyline. Not only were police vilified, but a few white suspects who aren’t officers were thrown in as evil participants who harassed an innocent black woman for good measure.
In the episode, “The Siege of the Unseen Specter,” Nancy (Kennedy McMann) is arrested for contempt of court and taken to the police station. While there, the doors suddenly lock, all computers and phones shut down, the windows are blackened, and there’s no way out of the building. A voice from an “arbiter” comes over a speaker and tells Nancy and everyone present that they must solve the case of a young, black woman by the name of Dolores Barrett who went missing in 2013.