In the episode, Pastor Mike (Ben Cotton) kidnaps Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos).
Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) and the police must listen to the Linden/Pastor conversation via her two-way radio, which she has activated unbeknownst to Pastor Mike.
Bullet (Bex Taylor-Klaus) roams the streets looking for Lyric (Julia Sarah Stone) and learns about Angie Gower (Laine MacNeil).
In Linden's car, Pastor Mike, holding a knife to her throat, takes her phone and gun then orders her to drive around.
When Holder vouches for his informant, Skinner pulls half the officers searching trains for Mike and redirects them to the woods around the pond.
Holder hears Linden's voice over an open radio channel and realizes she's being held hostage.
He then opens up about the kidnapping incident in Tempe, Arizona, saying he was wrongly accused and was just trying to help the girl through drug detoxification.
In prison, Ray Seward's lawyer (John Shaw) tells him that he was unable to reach Linden.
At the station, Skinner tells Holder that Mike isn't the killer—he was in Mexico City for the period that the 17 murders took place.
At home, Linden watches Skinner on television as he tells reporters that Mike is no longer a suspect.
Lyric yells at her for telling the cops she was missing, then informs her that she isn't a lesbian and is back with Twitch.
She asks for consolation but Henderson, seeing her son (Colin MacKechnie) sitting nearby, excuses himself and leaves.
In a July 2013 interview, actor Ben Cotton (Pastor Mike) spoke about his character: "I did a lot [of preparation].
I wasn't terribly familiar with the world of runaway teens, but I went to YouTube and typed in 'heroin' and 'documentaries' and watched enough hours that I started to have a response to it.
"[1] Sean McKenna of TVFanatic stated: "You can certainly add 'Try' to the list of good episode on this roller coaster ride of cops, killers and the heightened drama surrounding the characters involved.
"[2] "Try" was watched by 1.52 million total viewers, and received a 0.4 rating in the 18-49 ages demographic, marking slight drops from the previous episode.