Prime Video’s ‘Harlan Coben’s Shelter’ is a YA mystery thriller that follows the story of Mickey Bolitar, who gets entangled in a web of secrets and mysteries in a small town called Kasselton. Mickey thought he’d have a fresh start there after facing an unimaginable tragedy. However, it looks like his father harbored a lot of secrets, and they have started to spill, making a mess of everything around Mickey. In the show’s fifth episode, Mickey unpeels more layers of this secret and realizes that his father might not have been the person he thought him to be. SPOILERS AHEAD
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At the end of the last episode, Mickey arrives at Rachel’s house, where she tells him everything about the day Ashley went missing. She reveals that Ashley has been hiding in her house, but before Mickey can meet her, the man with the octopus tattoo on his face arrives. Mickey fights him off, stopping him from getting to Ashley. However, when he and Rachel go to the pool house, they discover that Ashley has escaped.
The next day, Spoon and Ema tell Mickey about Dylan Shakes. Spoon goes to Mrs. Friedman, who had been the coach when Dylan Shakes and Mickey’s father were in school. She reveals that Dylan’s father, Billy, was abusive and would often beat the boy. Mrs. Friedman confesses that she took Dylan to Dr. Kent a couple of times, but she wasn’t with Dylan on the day he disappeared.
While the mystery continues, love blooms for some characters. Having reconnected after so many years, Shira and Hannah’s feelings for each other resurface. Having her best friend back also gives Hannah the confidence to do what she’d always wanted but couldn’t because her husband didn’t approve of it. She leases a place to start her restaurant. While Shira encourages her, her husband isn’t so pleased with the idea.
At school, the preparation for the play begins, allowing Ema to spend more time with Whitney. They bond with each other as Whitney confesses that she made an account on uDOu to get attention, but now that she is famous, she worries that people might like her because she is famous, not because they genuinely want to be friends with her. Later, Ema shares a similar experience with Whitney, and they kiss each other.
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With Kasselton being full of secrets and lies, Mickey finds it difficult to trust anyone. Still, he believes that his friends are with him through thick and thin, which is why it is so shocking for him when he discovers that Ema has been keeping a secret from him. During the tryouts for the basketball team, Troy and Mickey get into a fight. Troy hits Mickey, who starts bleeding from the nose. Ema gives Mickey her shirt to clean up the blood, which exposes her butterfly tattoo.
Mickey becomes immediately suspicious of Ema and tells Spoon about it. Instead of talking about it to her directly, they spy on her. They follow her from school and discover where she lives. It turns out that all the stories about Ema’s parents, who are into drugs and other shady things, were lies she spread to mask the truth about her true parentage. Mickey and Spoon are shocked to discover that Ema is rich and her mother is the actress Angelica Wyatt.
Ema reveals that she didn’t tell anyone about her mother because she didn’t want to attract unwanted attention. When she wonders why they spied on her, Mickey asks her about the butterfly tattoo. She confesses that it was wrong of her to keep it a secret, but she doesn’t want Mickey to think that she had anything to do with all the bad things going on in the town. She also reveals that she didn’t choose the tattoo. It was selected for her by Agent, the tattoo artist they’d met in a previous episode.
Ema mentions that Agent told her that was the symbol of Abeona, the protector of children. Mickey reveals that this is the name of the charity his parents worked for, and it was involved with helping children and ensuring their welfare. To learn more about Agent and why they chose that tattoo for Ema. Spoon distracts Agent while Mickey sneaks into the office to find something that might explain things. He finds the picture of his father with Octoface, which makes him even more confused. What was his father doing with the man trying to get to Ashley?
Frustrated with all this, Mickey decides to find Octoface and get answers from him. He finds the man’s license plate number and asks Rachel to give it to Troy. His father is a cop, which gives Troy access to the police stuff he can use to track down the address from the license plate number. Rachel gets Troy to find the address, but not before addressing what she’s doing with Mickey. Troy has been jealous of Mickey, especially since he feels that Rachel has been ignoring him and spending more time with the new boy. Troy also believes that his father is having an affair with Mickey’s aunt, Shira, which makes him wonder if Rachel is also capable of cheating on him.
Rachel assures Troy that nothing is going on between her and Mickey and they are doing all this to find and help Ashley. The same night, she and Mickey follow Octoface and find him going into a sketchy place. While Mickey wants to go in, Rachel convinces him that they need a better plan before going in there. Meanwhile, Spoon uses his connections to get two hospital IDs so that he and Ema can visit Dr. Kent and learn more about Dylan Shakes. However, when they reach the hospital, they discover that Dr. Kent is being taken away by some unknown people. This creates more questions than answers they receive, further convoluting the mystery they have been trying to solve.
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