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The team must navigate the mistrust of authorities in a tight-knit Somali community in Minnesota as they race to find a kidnapped 14-year-old girl.
Tropes:
- Awful Wedded Life: Sabrina's mother Mariam brings this up when Sabrina's father Levan confronts her. Earlier, she revealed to Sabrina how she herself was wedded to Sabrina's father against her will as a teenager at 14.Levan: "Where is Sabrina?"Mariam: "I'll never let you hurt her again."Levan: "All you had to do was let her live in peace with Hassan."Mariam: "What do you know about peace? Have you not seen how unhappy I've been the last 26 years married to you? I won't let that happen to me or to Sabrina ever again."
- Big Brother Instinct: Sabrina's brother Bohan disapproves of their father forcing Sabrina into a child marriage and demands that he listen to the community elders to resolve the affair. He is horrified when their father decides to kill Sabrina in an act of honor killing and warns the FBI of their father's intention. In the end, Bohan holds Sabrina in a comforting hug as they both grieve over their mother who has been murdered by their father.
- Bittersweet Ending: Sabrina is rescued in time, but she and her brother lose their mother and father.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Sabrina's father disapproves of her dating a non-Muslim African-American teenager.
- Face Death with Dignity: Sabrina's mother Mariam.
- Honor-Related Abuse: Everything that Sabrina endured stems from her strict and traditional Muslim father forcing her into a child marriage with an older man.
- Mama Bear: Sabrina's kidnapping was actually orchestrated by her mother Mariam in an attempt to rescue Sabrina from a forced child marriage and to save her from her father.
- Offing the Offspring: Attempted by Sabrina's father in an act of "honor killing"
. - Ripped from the Headlines: The case-of-the-week is based on infamous cases of "honor killings" committed by Middle Eastern parents on their children within the United States.
