Britt Lower on Rachel-David Romance, Violent Finale Twist
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains key storylines and details about “I Will Find You,” now streaming on Netflix.
Harlan Coben’s latest Netflix murder mystery series, “I Will Find You,” seems to have captured just about everyone’s attention. Just look at the numbers.
If VarietyJennifer Maas reported on Tuesday: ‘I Will Find You’ had the streamer’s highest second week of viewership to date for an English-language scripted series launching in 2026. That milestone came after it racked up 24 million views (making it Netflix’s top TV show of the year) in the first week after its June 18 debut.
I’m on a Zoom with star Britt Lower when I tell her that not only did I watch the series over a weekend, but I would fall asleep late at night so I could keep watching.
“That’s what’s so fun about this show. It’s summer and it’s like you’re a kid and you’re fighting sleep,” Lower says. “When else are you going to experience that I’m not tired, that I’m staying up and eating snacks? I’m very happy for everyone. I keep getting text messages that people can’t go to sleep, and I’m like, ‘Well, school’s out for the summer.'”
Lower stars in the eight-episode series – adapted from Coben’s novel of the same name – as Rachel, a Boston Globe journalist who sets out to prove that her ex-brother-in-law David (Sam Worthington) was wrongfully convicted and sent to prison for the gruesome murder of his young son Matthew. What unfolds is a prison break, run-ins with Boston gangsters and entanglements with doctors and a seemingly sinister, wealthy family. There’s also the father-daughter FBI team (Chi McBride and Logan Browning) hunting for the fugitive David.
The whodunit leads to one of Coben’s signature final twists. In this case, it turns out that Rachel’s ex-boyfriend, a scion of a wealthy family played by Milo Ventimiglia, has kidnapped Matthew because he believes him to be the boy’s father.
“I read the book before I read the scripts,” Lower says. “I think we only had maybe three or four of the scripts to film, and then we block the shoot, so you do a few at a time, and by the time it’s the end, you’ve gotten all the scripts.”
It’s Rachel who gets the story going when she visits David in prison after noticing a boy who looks uncannily like Matthew in the background of a photo a friend posted on Facebook.
“The [Hayden] twist really ties into why Rachel has this instinct in the first place and everything just makes more sense,” Lower says. Oh, she had this Spidey vibe, and it was connected to this person who was supposed to look like her best friend.
Hayden not only violently kills a detective who accuses him of being connected to Matthew’s disappearance, but he also fatally shoots his own mother (Madeleine Stowe). “That’s really good casting, because Milo is the opposite,” says Lower. “He is the nicest, gentlest person.”
But another final twist to consider is when Rachel and David are seen holding hands, leaving many viewers – including myself – wondering if a romance has developed between the two.
“I loved how quiet that last moment was,” Lower says. “I think it feels so earned, based on everything we’ve been through together, and there’s a sense of open-endedness about where the story takes them.”
She continues, “They have an unspoken understanding of what the other has been through, and that connection felt stronger than any kind of romance could be. They have a shared loneliness and a belief in their family system and a drive to save this boy. There really isn’t room for a lot of romance when you think about everything that’s going on. But those kind of gentle gestures of support with the handle, I thought that was appropriate.”
