Garner has almost no room to develop anything outside of how she responds to the latest thing she’s learned about her husband or stepdaughter. Everything about these characters is frustratingly lazy. The incredibly slow plotting forces Garner to play confused or threatened repeatedly, while poor Rice, a talented young actress, gets a playbook filled with the most clichéd teen girl tropes the writers could imagine. While the authorities, including a suspicious cop named Grady ( Augusto Aguilera, easily the best thing about this production), investigate what Hannah and Bailey may have known about their missing loved one, the two try to piece together where Owen might have gone. Even though Bailey resents Hannah in a teenager-on-TV way, she will have to partner with her to figure out the truth about her past with Owen to have a safe future. Is he just on the run because of the potential charges related to his current job, or is something else going on? His relatively new wife Hannah ( Jennifer Garner) suspects there’s more to this than a traditional white-collar fugitive, not just because he left a note with two words: “Protect her.” The her in question is Owen’s daughter Bailey ( Angourie Rice), whom he has raised independently since her mother’s death over a decade ago. Owen Michaels ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has fled his Sausalito home after the FBI raided the company he worked for. Like a lot of great books sold in airports and read on beaches, “The Last Thing He Told Me” opens with a disappearance.
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