We’re halfway through Freeform’s thrilling limited series The Stolen Girl, with episode three airing on April 30, 2025. Episode three begins in the past, nine months to be exact, before Lucia was taken. Rebecca (Holliday Grainger) is in France when a woman recognizes her but calls her Nina. The woman, Delphine, reminds Rebecca they met at a wedding, and she asks about someone named Nicolas. Rebecca/Nina informs her that he passed away four years ago, and Delphine asks if her girls are with her. Rebecca claims they’re away at boarding school.
The action remains in the past, this time seven months before Lucia was taken. Rebecca opens up the house that later becomes her hideout. Jumping to four months before Lucia was taken, Rebecca asks a woman to introduce her to Milan Matkovic. The woman tells her no, but Rebecca insists she can pay well. The woman responds, “You can never pay enough.”
Rebecca refuses to give up and claims her daughter was taken from her. Rebecca shows her a picture of her “daughter” (it’s Lucia), clearly pulling at the woman’s heartstrings.
The timeline shifts to three weeks prior to Lucia’s abduction. Rebecca gets the keys to the vacation home she used when she took Lucia.
Returning to the present, Rebecca finds Lucia (Beatrice Campbell) asleep on the bathroom floor. She not only continues to call Lucia by this other name, Lily Rose, but she also claims to be her mother. Lucia does not answer. The tears streaming down her face are answer enough. Furthermore, Rebecca claims that other family (the Blixes) were looking after her because she was too sick to do it herself. When Rebecca insists the Blixes wouldn’t give her back, Lucia finally speaks up. She wants to call her mom. Rebecca corrects her and says she is Lucia’s mother, and besides that, they don’t have a phone. She brings out a stuffed bunny and tells Lucia she used to carry it around.
Fred (Jim Sturgess) appears at the police station and is fingerprinted, swabbed for his DNA, and led to a cell. When DI Shona Sinclair (Bronagh Waugh) calls Elisa (Denise Gough) to inform her Fred turned himself in for assault, Elisa loses it and begins hitting things.
Selma’s (Ambika Mod) boss, Kaleb (Michael Workeye), informs her the higher-ups are impressed with her hoax article and traffic to the website is up. The Lucia Blix case is now hers, and Kaleb wants her to continue digging. Her first order of business is to search the UK electoral registers for Elisa Blix.
After getting nowhere there, she searches birth records. Kaleb calls her while she is driving, and Selma reveals that Elisa was born in some sort of religious commune. She’s heading to the town listed on the birth certificate to check it out. Kaleb doesn’t seem happy and wants her back first thing in the morning.
Selma introduces herself to a woman, quickly learning that the police have also been there and spoke with Elisa’s mother, Deborah. The grandmother hasn’t seen Lucia much. In fact, she hasn’t seen her in four years and claims she and Elisa don’t see eye to eye. Elisa wasn’t keen on the lifestyle they were living.
Elisa arrives at the police station to pick up Fred, and DI Sinclair has important news for them. They identified the man on the CCTV footage that was seen with Lucia in France. He is, in fact, the man Rebecca inquired about for help, Milan Matkovic. Elisa and Fred don’t recognize him or the woman who is his partner. Elisa pushes to have the photo as well so she can share it on her social media.
Sinclair’s attention turns to Fred, and she voices her concerns about his financial difficulties. Elisa blurts out, “I went to the bank. I know about the loan.” Fred confesses he spent the money on their extravagant life.
Meanwhile, Selma tries to get more information from the woman she introduced herself to, but she wants to trade Selma shoes for the information. Selma’s not sure if it’s worth trading the shoes her girlfriend gave her but agrees. The woman tells her that Elisa left when she was 16.
While having breakfast, Josephine (Robyn Betteridge) offers to show Lucia her baby photos. In one photo, a man is holding a baby, and Lucia notices her birthmark on the baby’s shoulder. She wonders who the man is holding the baby. Rebecca says it’s her father and that he died in a car accident.
Rebecca sees Elisa’s social media post and calls Milan Matkovic in a panic. He, on the other hand, does not seem as worried. Milan tells Rebecca not to call again.
Selma’s girlfriend shows her Elisa’s post about Milan. After telling Kaleb about her adventure to the commune, Selma pitches him the idea of writing a story about Elisa and her life, past and present. Kaleb signs off on it.
The story goes live on the site, and Elisa is devastated. Fred wonders if there is anything he should know; Elisa never liked talking about what it was like where she grew up. Elisa reads the comments on the article from people accusing her of killing her daughter.
Marcus (Xavier Samuel), the mystery man in prison, sends off his letter addressed to Elisa. He’s stopped by a fellow inmate who found his newspaper clippings about Lucia.
A neighbor, Anton, introduces himself to Rebecca, and she’s visibly uncomfortable. He drops off wine and sees the girls run by.
Josephine overhears Anton, and when he leaves, she asks Rebecca if she can talk to him next time he visits. Rebecca promises to take them out again to talk to people, but the girls can’t discuss their family. “Lily Rose was taken from us once, and we can’t let that happen again,” explains Rebecca.
Lucia wakes from a nightmare. She used to get nightmares a lot, and she would sleep with her stuffed mouse to help feel safe. Rebecca claims Lucia started having them after her dad died.
While scrolling through the hate comments Elisa is getting on the article, Selma gets a call that Lucia’s blood was found at what is believed to be a safehouse where Lucia was being held. Kalab wants to take the lead since the Blixes complained about the article. Kaleb warns Selma to stay away from Elisa.
DI Sinclair informs the Blixes about the blood they found in an apartment, confirming it is Lucia’s blood.
Rebecca takes the girls to a beach where she spots a man reading a newspaper with Lucia’s face plastered on the front page. Delphine, the woman she ran into at the beginning of the episode, happens to walk by with her daughter. Rebecca becomes jumpy and says she and the girls were just about to leave. Lucia introduces herself as Lily Rose.
Back at home, Lucia looks at her baby photos again. Rebecca notices Lucia’s interest and says she will look for more. Rebecca opens a lockbox in a hidden compartment. Shockingly, The Stolen Girl episode three ends with Rebecca pulling out a laptop. She opens up photos of babies and photoshops a birthmark on one of them.
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