Bellevue - Season 1 Episode 1

The Bellevue PD is called to outside the scrapyard where there are signs of an altercation of sorts. Included within the evidence at the site are a jean jacket, a bicycle, a tooth, blood covered pieces of what look to be a torn adult magazine, and a cell phone. The phone in particular points to the fact that a person involved is sixteen year old Jesse Sweetland, arguably the best hockey player his age in town, he who has now been reported officially missing. Some within the police department initially don't take Jesse's disappearance too seriously if only because he, only recently known, is gender fluid, the thought being that he may have left on his own volition to explore this side of himself more fully outside the glaring eyes of Bellevue, the small town where he grew up. He may also be escaping what is perceived to be a bad home life, his mother, Maggie Sweetland, known to imbibe too much. Everything at the site, including the tooth and the blood, are eventually positively identified as Jesse's. Concurrently, the police are given the head's up that a known pedophile has entered town, Annie who investigates the possibility that he may be involved with Jesse's disappearance. Instead of finding information about the pedophile, she is confronted with issues from her past, most specifically issues concerning her life immediately after the death of her father. The case in which he was killed, that of murdered teen Sandy Driver, also has overtones to Jesse's case. Annie frequently still deals with Sandy's mentally unstable father, Neil Driver, who never recovered from Sandy's death. Putting some of the pieces together, Annie believes there may be some religious bases to what happened to Jesse, partly from the cross emblazoned on his hand as seen in a photograph on his cell phone.