"Blood Relation" ends in a shocking and nightmarish twist: While Burgess has won Makayla's custody, someone has kidnapped the child. The identity of said someone, of course, caused numerous fans to speculate on Reddit.
Many viewers wrote in the thread thinking that the culprit is actually Makayla's uncle Theo, who they suspected didn't take losing the court battle too kindly. "I knew from the moment the uncle stepped forward that he still has ties with his brother. There's no way that guy is that perfect," one redditor wrote of their theory, and several others expressed similar sentiments. When the One Chicago Center Twitter account asked for fan theories about the situation, the uncle was the overwhelming favorite in the fan replies, as well — though others, like @Kathy_Dominguez, suspected that Makayla's father Tariq (Shavar D. Clark) might be the true mastermind.
Redditor u/PAACDA2 posited theories from both themselves and their husband. One agreed with the Uncle Theo theory, while another posited that the survivors of the cultist case Burgess had been working might be holding a kidnapping-worthy grudge. "He thinks that someone from the cult took her but I think it's just as likely that her uncle isn't the upstanding citizen he lets on he is ...and if it is a cult member I think it's that girls brother. He may have just pretended that he wasn't with the cult to not get arrested and get his sister a deal."
