Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Found season 2, episode 2.The hunt for Lacey continues in Found season 2, episode 2, with Sir's younger brother (Michael Cassidy) giving Mosely & Associates their most promising lead yet. After Zeke narrows down the current search perimeter, Christian re visiting the area during his childhood. However, once Sir sees Christian on the news, he realizes that his location has been compromised. Gabi and Trent arrive at the house too late, and both Lacey and her kidnapper are already gone.

Lacey's abduction and Gabi's major Sir reveal have negatively impacted the team's ability to do their job throughout character's self-doubt will not only affect cases, but the search for her missing son. Unsure of who she can trust, Margaret will feel isolated as she continues to investigate Jamie's disappearance.

Screen Rant interviews Williams about Margaret's faulty superpowers, Mosely & Associates' fractured relationship, and directing an episode of Found season 2.

Williams Explains How Gabi's Betrayal Affects Her Character's "Margaret Vision"

"I lose all confidence in my ability to read people because I didn't read it."

Screen Rant: What was your reaction when you read the season 1 finale script and found out what the cliffhanger was going to be?

Kelli Williams: It was pretty intense, to say the least. It was such an interesting year of having the audience know what was going on, but we, as a cast within the show, didn't know what was going on. That was such an interesting element of mystery and deception and betrayal. At the end of season 1, we were all so shocked. Everyone has obviously their own traumas that they're dealing with within the show. That's kind of how we've all connected.

We sort of all trauma-bonded in a way, and this just kind of solidified that trauma, where we were like, "I felt so betrayed." Margaret just felt so betrayed. In season 2, my character has a lot of feelings around it, and in the first half of the second season, we all have to rebuild our trust and our relationships. Now that we have this information about Sir, you have to completely rewind and unravel all of the conversations and all the deception.

How does finding out what Gabi has been doing to Sir change Margaret's perception of her friend?

Kelli Williams: It crushed everyone. Particularly, for Margaret, having that kind of trust and that that's supposedly her best friend, it really has a huge effect on their relationship in the beginning of the season, and it takes her a long time to build that trust back up. There's a lot of hurt, but we all, at the same time, have to continue our practice at M & A and figure out how to work together. Sometimes it feels untenable, and we make our way through little by little.

Margaret's superpower is her observance. She can tell when people are hiding things, but she didn't foresee this huge secret Gabi had been keeping. Is Margaret questioning her own abilities?

Kelli Williams: A hundred percent. One interesting thing that they pulled into the show is that because of that betrayal, my "Margaret Vision" doesn't work when I'm around Gabi because she sort of crushed my spirit and beyond. I lose all confidence in my ability to read people, because I didn't read it. I would see things, but I would assume they were something else. Sometimes when you're too close to something, it's harder to see the dysfunction. It's had to make Margaret revisit everything.

Anytime Gabi walks into a room and Margaret is doing this "Margaret Vision" stuff, my "Margaret Vision" kind of fritzes. It goes away because I get overwhelmed by my feelings around Gabi that I can't do my work. I'm broken, basically. It affects everything. It affects my ability to trust my own instincts. It affects my ability to have clarity around being part of the team, around being able to find Lacey. And of course, there's also the deep storyline between Lacey and Gabi. What did everybody know? It makes me question my relationships with everybody else on the team as well.

Margaret's Anger Towards Gabi Impacts The Search For Jamie In Found Season 2

"It's like I have to start over again. So the search does continue for Jamie, but Margaret also feels very isolated around it."

Shifting gears to another storyline, every time I see Margaret in the bus station, my heart breaks. Could she find a real lead on her son in season 2? What can you share about the trajectory of that story?

Kelli Williams: That search continues. It conflates my need to keep searching for my son, but then I can't lean on my best friend in order to help me search, so there's a lot of anger. I feel a lot of anger toward Gabi for basically obliterating any progress that I had made. So it's like I have to start over again. So the search does continue for Jamie, but Margaret also feels very isolated around it.

With Gabi and Margaret on shaky ground, and Dhan also being involved with Sir's kidnapping, is there someone else that she can lean on this season, or is she really on her own?

Kelli Williams: She's mostly on her own. Margaret and Zeke do have similar feelings. They feel betrayed in a different way, because like you said, Dhan corroborated with Gabi in the Sir stuff. There are a lot of times where I feel like I can't trust Dhan either. That core family that we have is fractured.

We try as a group to keep all that dysfunction aside while we're trying to work the case, but of course, all that stuff can't not come into it. There's always this feeling of mistrust. How does that duality of feeling betrayed, but also having this desire to do right by our clients, live at the same time? It certainly makes for a lot of interesting drama and dynamics.

Williams Returns To Directing For Found Season 2, Episode 13

"That was definitely an interesting challenge to have to play dual roles and have sort of a split brain around it."

Outside of Margaret's current plot, is there a storyline that you would like to see explored her one day?

Kelli Williams: For Margaret's sake, I would love for her, obviously, to find her son. But then again, there's also all the stuff that comes with when someone has been found and there has been a lot of pain and time and guilt in it. That's then the beginning of a whole new process of, for lack of a better word, healing, but it's also where the real work begins.

So I'd like Margaret to be able to get to a place where she can start to put that behind her and to be able to actually feel like she's not this failure as a mother who lost her child. Even though she didn't lose her child, it's that mom guilt that is so pervasive and so much of how Margaret feels about herself.

I've been taking a poll among the Found cast—what's your favorite episode of season 2 so far?

Kelli Williams: I'm a little biased by the fact that I directed episode 13 this season. l had stepped away from acting for the last five years to solely direct, so that has been a very bonafide second career for me that I really love. It's been really great to be able to also then come back in in that capacity with my castmates.

It's a fun thing to be here and know the crew and the cast so well, and then to have to step in as a director, and then also be directing myself, basically. That was definitely an interesting challenge to have to play dual roles and have sort of a split brain around it.

About NBC's Drama Series Found

Created by Nkechi Okoro Carroll

In any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. More than half that number are people of color that the country seems to forget about. Public relations specialist Gabi Mosely (series star and producer Shanola Hampton), who was once herself one of those forgotten ones, and her crisis management team make sure there is always someone looking out for the missing.

Gabi, however, has a chilling secret: In the midst of grief, she imprisoned her childhood kidnapper, Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). Now Sir has escaped and is on the loose, and her biggest secret is now her biggest threat.

Check out our other interviews with the Found cast:

• Arlen Escarpeta
• Brett Dalton
• Gabrielle Walsh
• Karan Oberoi
• Shanola Hampton

Found season 2 airs Thursdays on NBC at 10 p.m. ET/PT.