For most of her life, Carter mistakenly believed Lori was her mother but got a rude awakening when police informed her that Lori had kidnapped her when she was a child and raised her away from her family. And Carter had finally assimilated with the Wilsons toward the end of the show's first season when Lori popped up and abducted her once more.
And while Carter struggles to make sense of her captivity, Carter's actual mother, Detective Elizabeth Wilson, will go rounds with federal agents, who aim to remove her from Lori's case out of fear that she'll prove to be a conflict of interest in the investigation.
