Beautiful Stana Katic of Castle fame has starred in the Amazon Prime Original, Absentia, since 2018. The psychological thriller with an international ensemble cast revolves around FBI agent, Emily Byrne, who is taken by some person or persons unknown and presumed dead, only to resurface after six years and find that the life she had had prior to being taken had been turned upside down.
Not only does Emily have to figure out her place in the new scheme of things, but the hunt is on for her abductor, and soon she herself becomes the center of the investigation, as even those closest to her start believing that she isn't innocent, after all. As the series gears up for its third season, let us take a look at the small details about each character that might have gone unnoticed.
10 Patrick McAuley Had Accent Training
Let's start with the youngest - child actor Patrick McAuley, who plays Nick and Emily's nine-year-old son, Flynn Durand. McAuley is English by nationality and received extensive training in the American accent to shoot Absentia.
The young actor does an excellent job of portraying the little boy, initially estranged from his biological mother whom he hardly remembers, and then slowly growing to love her.
9 McAuley's Flynn Loves Yogurt
Flynn loves yogurt. When Emily checks in on him, she remembers his love for bananas smashed in yogurt as a small child, something he came to call 'nan-gurt.'
Flynn informs Emily that he loves to eat Oreo yogurt now that he is older. It seems safe to assume that his love for yogurt is something he developed at a very early age when Emily was still around.
8 Flynn Starts Wetting The Bed
It's the little details about a person that make them flesh and blood. At the end of season 1, Flynn was abducted and tortured, along with his stepmother. In season 2, he is shown to be going through something like post-traumatic stress disorder and requires counseling to get him through the stress.
At this time, when he is staying with Emily for a while, Flynn is shown to have wet his bed. It is normal for even an adult who has gone through such trauma to lose control of his faculties, and Flynn, after all, is just a child.
7 Jack Is Emily's Stepbrother
Jack is actually Emily's stepbrother since Emily is Warren Byrne's adopted daughter. One may not realize this, at first, given how broken Jack claimed to have been over Emily's disappearance, turning to alcoholism and even losing his medical license.
Jack also seems to have felt a sense of neglect, and a grievance that Emily took up all his parents' attention, a feeling common for a sibling, adopted or otherwise.
6 Absentia Is Cara Theobold's First Significant American Series
Downton Abbey fans will remember Cara Theobold as Ivy, the kitchen maid who joined the downstairs staff briefly before she traveled to the States. The two footmen, Alfred and James, vied to catch Ivy's attention, making Daisy Mason rather jealous in the process.
Absentia is Cara Theobod's first notable American project and her character plays a significant role as Nick's second wife who develops insecurities after Emily returns to Nick's life.
5 Warren Byrne Is A Retired Officer
Warren Byrne is Emily's adoptive father. He is a retired police officer himself, so it makes sense that Emily decided to opt for the FBI.
In season 1, Warren actively helps Emily as she goes on the run, conducting her own investigation into the elaborate plot to capture her and destroy her life.
4 Tommy Gibson Takes Us Back to Lethal Weapon
Detective Tommy Gibson of the Boston police department gets sucked into the cat and mouse game in season 1 after a body turns up that seems connected with Emily's case. In season 2, Tommy is seen hooking up with Emily and helping her figure out the whole truth about her past.
Tommy has all the swagger of an ambitious, hardcore young detective. His call sign, or the code he uses to communicate via radio or report a situation, is 3 William 56 - the same that Lethal Weapon's Sergeant Roger Murtaugh used for communication.
3 Patrick Heusinger Worked With Katic In Castle
Heusinger's Nick Durand is not only a special agent with the FBI but also a helpless husband caught between two women.
The curious thing is that Heusinger appeared with Katic in Castle, in its season 6 episode 'Number One Fan,' in which his character turned out to be the bad guy, after all.
2 Nick Durand Needed Therapy After Emily Was Taken
The second season of Absentia reveals, towards the end, that Alice had ingratiated herself into Nick and Flynn's life on purpose from the very beginning.
Nick needed to see a therapist after Emily was presumed dead and that is how he ended up meeting Alice, who worked as a counselor at the time.
1 Emily Lied When She First Met Nick
Emily first met Nick at a pub, quite possibly somewhere the young FBI recruits training at Quantico hung out for fun, although that is never really explained. Emily actually resorted to a harmless little lie to get Nick all to herself. She sent away Nick's companion on a wild goose chase so that she could dance with him herself.
In season 1, when Nick finally gives in to his suspicion that Emily had kidnapped his wife and son, he remembers that even when he met her for the first time, she had been capable of subterfuge.
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