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Anyone watching , so far quite tense especially the music

I am totally lost. Think I might give up on it.

wisp me too. , its very very slow isn't it. Really like it but so hard to follow.

I couldn't pay 100 % attention tonight. How did tony twig that ken stott and Vincent bourg knew each other? Something seemed to dawn on tony while in the room with the easel.

Cos they came out with the same line about guilt being a cancer...

Vincent and Ian told the same story about their father describing guilt as cancer,so Tony realised they knew each other. It's good to have an explanation for why we haven't seen Ian in the present day.

Another one who's hooked - but I hate the dark filter they're using for the cameras, making it hard work to watch.

Re the car - why would a car need to be garaged for a few days when its just the battery that needed replacing? Dodgy.

I think Vincent might be Ian's son. The woman in the picture Vincent had on the computer is his mum, Ian's "good wife", maybe she left him after what happened to their daughter - which I think he is responsible for, Tony didn't fall for the story that she vanished from her bed either by the looks of it.

Vincent is very "French" for a Scotsman's son though, don't you think? Although I did notice him say something like "it's nae bother" about Ian Garrett being missing/dead. He looked quite pleased.

I said to DH is Vincent Ian's son.

I didn't think that far ahead that he had something to do with the daughter.

I can understand why they left the car in the garage. With so much going on it was probably the last thing on their minds I found it easier to follow this week, but couldn't understand why Mark had given up his job.

Goodness, it's hard work!

BOFster It would explain Vincent's perfect English too. My children are very English but I'm not .

Compelling drama - dh and I sent ds upstairs early tonight so we wouldn't be distracted.

Dh was sure they were going to serve up a massive shock at the end of the episode - he thought the young man, Vincent, was going to be killed. Interesting that the production is avoiding meeting the expectations we all have of the way these kind of dramas work - I wonder whether there will be a mega shock at the end of next week.

Pretty scary portraits: she did not look like a happy girl! There was something sad and scared in her eyes.
Would not be surprised to find out next week that Tony is ( or maybe even both parents are) behind Ian's disappearance. Now that the knows there is a connection between Vincent and ian....
My bet's on Mark being involved somehow: perhaps whoever took Ollie meant to take Mark's son? (Think that was suggested on here before?)

Think I'm going to have to record the others as I forget in 7 days all the clues . Watch them all at once is the only way I'm going to get through it.

Late to the thread
I'd not really thought much about the scarf till reading this thread, but can someone please clarify - the boy went missing 8 years ago? The scarf was taken to a charity shop then sold - presumably 8 years later? Am I right here? It all seems a bit tenuous.

After funambulist's thread, I went back to episode 1. Grey-haired man at garage is not man in an but DH think the man at the pool is man in van.

I wonder what Malik found on the ground by the drain, he bagged something after he picked up the pieces of his phone... Van man was watching him. I reckon van man frames him in some way to get him off the case and that's how he ends up in prison.

It is all quite tenuous Doris, especially the idea that someone would hold onto shaky home movie footage of a house party for EIGHT years and be able to lay their hands on it in the hope of having filmed against a window looking into their neighbours house....hmm.

Vincent Bourg is Ian's son. Perhaps Vincent knows what happened to his sister. He was probably abused by his father too. "My father used to say guilt was like a cancer..."

I need to concentrate more because I missed where bourg said the bit about guilt being a cancer when was that?

My skin was crawling when Ian was talking about his daughter.
I didn't hear any Scottish twang in anything bourg said, just heard very fluent English with mild french accent.
I am desperate to know if tony has anything to do with Ian disappearance, and will bourg bump into tony now he is back in France. .....

Bourg said the cancer bit when he was fishing in the lake wearing those big plastic dungarees

How many episodes are left, does anyone know?

I need to be put out of my misery

Is it bad form that I'm beginning to love Baptiste a little bit?

Just started watching last nights episode. I watched the others in one sitting last week, James Nesbitt is brilliant, its been a while since I saw such a haunting mini series.