The WORST episodes of Alert: Missing Persons Unit
Every episode of Alert: Missing Persons Unit ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Alert: Missing Persons Unit!
"Alert: Missing Persons Unit" is a procedural drama set in the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit. Each episode features a heart-pounding, life-or-death search for a missing person headed by detectives Jason Grant and Nikki Batista. Together with the MPU team, their job is to find the missing or abducted and reunite them with their loved ones. Jason and Nikki, once married, have a very personal connection to these cases as their own young son went missing and was never found. The emotional toll of their son’s disappearance blew up their marriage, but even though they’ve moved on, their bond remains.
#1 - Max
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/27/2023
The mystery surrounding Keith's disappearance starts to unravel as he tells Jason and Nikki more details about his time in captivity and leads them to a cabin where they find a horrifying scene.
#2 - Chloe
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2023
The MPU investigates the abduction of a young child, whose abduction is likely revenge related to her father's work.
#3 - Hugo
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/2023
Jason, Nikki and the MPU team investigate when a woman runs down a man and forces him to get in her car at gunpoint. Meanwhile, more information about Keith's kidnapper comes to light.
#4 - Zoey
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/2023
The MPU searches for a college student after she goes missing during a house party. Meanwhile, Sidney and Keith try to adjust to normal life again.
#5 - Andy
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/2023
The MPU works to track down the kidnapped son of a doctor, but the case takes a turn when his mother gets in direct contact with the kidnapper. Meanwhile, Kemi expresses her concerns for Sidney's wellbeing to Nikki and Jason.
#6 - Craig
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/2023
Sidney, upset that Jason and Nikki don't believe her claims about Keith, comes clean about the details surrounding the day of his disappearance, causing Jason to cast serious doubt on the boy claiming to be his son. Meanwhile, Mike's police mentor brings a missing officer's case to the MPU team.
#7 - Miguel
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/2023
A foster care worker is reported as missing, but after he ends his own life, the MPU starts to investigate a pregnant woman he was seen with who has been missing for two years. Meanwhile, Sidney follows Keith and fears he may be dangerous.
#8 - Jedidiah & Lucy
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/9/2024
Mike is taken back to his first unsolved case when the remains of an Amish man surface seven years after his murder. After he reconnects with the man's family, the wife of the man mysteriously goes missing, prompting a massive search and disclosing a web of deceit.
#9 - Chase
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/27/2025
When a limousine filled with teenagers, including a Senator’s son, is hijacked on the way to prom, MPU discovers that the ex-girlfriend of one of the victims may have been the actual target, sending Jason, Mike and the team on a race against time to save the girl before it’s too late.
#10 - Ms. Patty
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/2/2024
The MPU searches for a kidnapped tough-as-nails neighborhood watch captain. Jason enlists Wayne's help investigating the car bombing. Mike is concerned Nikki is keeping secrets from him.
#11 - Burt
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/20/2025
When a brewery foreman is kidnapped after arguing with his CEO over safety violations, MPU finds evidence that suggests that the victim was taken by competitors over a stolen beer formula. Also, Bennett’s ex, who is also Houston’s step-son, threatens to make her life hell for interrogating his client without representation.
#12 - Shannon
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/2023
Jason and Nikki utilize a twin sister when a missing person case turns into a possible murder investigation. Meanwhile, Kemi helps C with his dating life and Keith gets reckless.
#13 - Lillian
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/29/2025
After an accomplished playwright is kidnapped prior to a local theatre's grand reopening, the MPU discovers that the victim and her partner had received a video threat and unravel a dangerous history tied to the theatre. Meanwhile, Jason asks Wayne to track down the father of Sidney's baby.
#14 - Tim and Amy
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/2023
Jason and Mike search the Allegheny Mountains to find a missing couple. Meanwhile, Keith joins a trauma therapy group and bonds with another patient.
#15 - Benjamin Franklin
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/2024
The MPU searches for a Benjamin Franklin aficionado after he suspiciously disappears during one of his city tours; a new forensic scientist is hired; Jason and Mike try to bond as new partners.
#16 - Bus 447
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/2024
As the MPU moves into new offices, which comes with new boss Inspector Hollis Braun, a call comes in reporting the disappearance of an entire city bus full of students on a field trip. The team utilizes a father who tried to stop the kidnapping, as Jason reaches out to an old colleague for assistance in the search.
#17 - Maya
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/26/2024
The MPU searches for a homeless female teen that disappeared after running away from home and living in Philly's Gayborhood. Kemi is hit especially hard as the team races to find and rescue the missing teen. Jason and Nikki spar over his continued investigation into the car bombing.
#18 - Violet
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/2025
When a psychiatric patient escapes her facility, Jason and Mike discover a letter from Sidney among her things, raising troubling questions. As they track the woman to her halfway house, they learn she’s been off her medication and fear for her safety. Meanwhile, Sidney reflects on her mother’s passing, and Helen’s new relationship goes to the next level.
#19 - Bella, Genevieve, Amelia, Tally & Kate
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/2025
After a collegiate women’s rowing team goes missing during morning practice on the river, MPU deduce that their boat was sabotaged. When Kemi finds evidence connecting one of the girls to Irish mob boss, Charlie McGannon, Nikki confronts him as Jason and Mike interrogate a rival Polish mobster who may have intel on the girls location. Meanwhile, Jason explores his fear of commitment with Wayne, who’s now paroled.
#20 - Lay
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/2025
As the MPU struggle to adjust in the wake of tragedy, they are forced to jump into action when a muralist goes missing after painting a piece on a local rooftop; the missing person's mother reveals that he was scheduled to donate his rare bone marrow to his dying brother, who needs surgery within the next 48 hours in order to survive.
#21 - Carmen
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/13/2025
Jason goes undercover when a customs broker goes missing and the MPU discovers that she is an undercover FBI informant now being forced to transport a little girl over the border to her criminal father.
#22 - @Kyra
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/16/2024
A popular travel influencer goes missing and the MPU race to find her as a hurricane rages and a state of emergency is declared. Mike and Wayne get closer as Helen connects with someone unexpectedly in the aftermath of Nikki’s bachelorette party.
#23 - Gemma & Isabel
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/2024
When a young pregnant woman goes missing one day before her c-section, the adopting mother turns to the MPU to locate her before the baby's life is risked; Jason digs deeper in the car bombing case and meets a disapproving Braun.
#24 - Sophie
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/2025
When an Army Lieutenant, and the wife of Houston’s old Army buddy, is kidnapped, MPU suspects a Major who the victim had reported for harassing women at the base. However, Jason and Mike learn that the victim and her husband were having marital and financial issues, leading them to uncover a dangerous and deadly weapons trade.
#25 - Briana
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/2023
When a bride goes missing on her wedding day, Mike and Kemi discover the woman was living a deceptive life.