My name is David Burroughs. I'm currently serving the fifth year of a life sentence for killing my little boy. The thing is, I didn't do it.

[suspenseful music playing] The character of David Burroughs has a simple and clear objective… to find out the truth.

[suspenseful music continues]

[Britt Lower] I Will Find You is a story about the lengths that we go to save the people we love. It's also a story about redemption, uncovering the truth, and it's a thriller. Let's go, Burroughs. What's going on? You have a visitor. David Burroughs is in prison for the murder of his own child.

What are you doing here, Rachel?

I need to show you something. When his sister-in-law Rachel visits, she shows him a photograph. They both spot a child they swear is David's son, still alive. How can that be?

[Robert Hull] One of the things I wanted to do early on was make the show a true two-hander. I really felt that it was Rachel's story as much as it was David's. She's the earth to the fire and emotion that is David. Drive!

Grab your stuff.

What's going on? David Burroughs just escaped from Briggs.

[Hull] They can find Matthew and bring him home. It's sort of the one time you can actually fix the past.

Run!

[gun shots]

[Coben] We all understand love and loss. We all understand what it's like to want redemption, to seek meaning in our life.

[woman] Rachel. It's not about proving your innocence. David doesn't care if he goes back to jail. The goal here is to find your child. And I think that, it's so much more powerful and universal. When you love somebody, you'll do anything to protect them. I think that theme is deadly accurate.

[Worthington] David's belief in the truth is different to what other people think. He's trying to figure out what's right and what's true. It is a whodunit, and everybody likes to see who did it and thinks they have everything figured out. So we set off, pedal to the metal, full thriller/fugitive, and keep the audience on the edge of their seat for eight episodes. There's a rooftop chase sequence that's feature film-level stunt work. And for us, it was worth it because it not only showed David's commitment to finding his son by doing some of the crazy things he did, equally as important, it showed Sarah and her willingness to do whatever it takes to capture David. I had him. In the beginning, Sarah sees David as the person we're here to catch. But as other things start to unravel, there is that idea of, do you know if somebody is innocent or not? And how do you sleep with that?

[sirens blaring]

[thrilling music playing] The biggest challenge to this show is also its greatest asset in the fact that we are out in practical locations all the time. We're going over rooftops. We're getting chased by the cops. That's why you get the popcorn, you lock in, but you're only gonna stay if you care. No mystery is strong enough to keep you watching if you don't care about who's trying to solve it.

[man in phone] How little you understand what you are up against. I'm coming for my son. None of these characters are superheroes. None have special skills. They're regular people like you and me caught up in this situation.

[Worthington] That's the escapist part. That's the type of genre that I was looking for. Something that can take the audience away from the everyday.

[Hull] We wanted to make sure that people kept pressing "play next episode." And the only way to do that is to write ourselves and our characters into corners, and then try to figure out how to get them out.

[Coben] Everybody has a secret about what happened the night Matthew died, or didn't die. That's what I Will Find You is really about. What really went on that night?

[suspenseful music builds] You tell me, what are you willing to sacrifice to save your son?

[suspenseful music continues] Anything.

[music fades]