The Missing BBC1- thread 3

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Now, about that scarf.....

I have a new theory re the house. The picture and scarf were planted there in order to send Tony / Police on a false lead and hide the real scene of events ie Ian's house.

Both could have been planted there whilst the house was having building works carried out in 2010.

I think it's the person who does the throat slitting of rini and the man on the station bench. Always there but never seen. Was at the house supervising the cleanup after all.
But all the others will be linked in somehow like a mind mapping excercise.
I'm going to call in the shop on my way home get crisps and choc to keep my energy levels up ready for all the revelations.
If they have filmed different endings then I hope there is a box set available later, and that they include them all.
you're all of course welcome to come round and lust after baptiste watch them with me.

I so hope they haven't filmed different endings, unless the writers always knew the right one and the others were just filmed to keep the real ending secret. The whole programme only works if whodunnit was known to the writers from the start.

Auntie- so maybe George isn't running Caid de Cite, but he could be being paid off by them and then using that influence on Ian, Vincent, Alain and the police?

BUT- maybe you've just hit upon the missing link (get it?!) between Caid de Cite and a real character... Baptise.

I am now reconsidering Mark.

He knew that there was going to be the warehouse bust.

He knew that Leon was going to meet Baptise and when and where.

However, Baptise knew all those things too.

However, I don't think Mark knew that they were meeting Ziane in prison, but Baptiste did.

I can't work out though why Baptiste would want to abduct a child and/or cover it up and also be very good at investigating it.

Mark on the other hand could be being blackmailed by the gang- we'll take your son (although this went wrong and the got Ollie?), look what happened to Ollie, you have to do what we want you too to keep James safe?

I think Mark has some kind of link with the Romanian gang. CdeB is not a touristy town, yet he was there on holiday with his son (who coincidentally looks exactly like Olleh). Either he is undercover or he is a bent copper. I can't decide. There's something not quite right about him, but that could be said of all the characters except lovely Baptiste .

We never saw how Baptisrpte persuaded Anouar to go and see his father in prison. Now perhaps Anouar decided for himself and got back in touch. But that's not the only possibility.

Baptiste might be extremely keen to get the Ollie Hughes disappearance cleared up, and to be the one to do it, so that the interests of the Caid are not disrupted by that investigation.

Does anyone think that Vincent Bourg may actually be the mayor's son?

somethingfunny Emily could well have told Mark that they were going meet Ziane in prison. Mark has always turned up at a time when the case seems to be progressing and then it gets derailed again- leon at the train station, Rini in the cafe, going to see Malik to get the evidence.

Possibly, but we clearly saw his parents names on the dossier Malik gave to Suri, and it wasn't Georges Deloix. I suppose he could have been adopted, but that is getting very elaborate.

The possibility that his mother (who has an English sounding name) is connected to a main protagonist seems much more likely.

(but my pet theory is that he saw something on the night of the disappearance, and that wouldn't depend on family background)

Hmmmm yes mark.
We've been shown that baptiste has a good instinct for spotting the guilty ones. Maybe he knows mark did it and is letting mark think the clues are leading away from him?

Sorry, I meant the dossier on Vincent that Malik Suri gave to Tony, right back in the early days.

I'm pretty sure the scarf is planted... Wasn't it in the back seat of the car when they left it in the garage?

I expect it's been a wild goose chase orchestrated by Baptiste. Yup said it, that's my vote - baptiste but I don't think he did it out of pure evil, I think he was forced perhaps by other influential town members- so Alain I think kicked the whole thing off.

my guess is Ian Garrett and he also isn't dead, Rini having her throat cut but surviving is the clue that you can survive what might appear to be a life ending injury.

Olly escaped the house before being abused, he was caught and died and is buried in the woods.

Sylvie planted the AA coin to lead the police to Alain and the pedo ring, she also posted the photo of the boy in the scarf to lead Tony to the house.

either Vincent is Molly's twin or Sylvie's son.

Series 2 will see Tony and Baptiste hunting down Ian Garrett (who has been rather busy these past 8 years)

It's not so much the apparently fatal injury for Ian. More the being trussed up in tarpaulins, and weighted down with rocks, and being dumped out at sea.

Vincent may be Mary's (Garrett) son. Maybe the Father died?

When did Tony make the comment to Anouar about 'every Son needs to know their Father' or whatever it was ... Was that after Anouar refused to go to the Prison? Maybe he mulled over that comment and changed his mind ? There was something about 'looking him straight in the eyes' ( into Ziane's eyes) presumably to ask him to his face about his Mother and abandoning him.

Yes, I think it's possible that Vincent is Mary Garrett's son. Perhaps Ian married her to secure access to her child?

But the way he talked to her at the nursing home didn't strike me as a mother/son conversation, even if long estranged following abusive circumstances.

pollythepig it would mean that Ian had done a pretty good impression of Houdini to escape that one! [hmmm]

I also wonder about Ollie having met with an accident rather than a more sordid end. That may be more about me though not liking to think of the alternative.
-7.45hrs and counting!

Yeh you're right about the Nursing Home conversation. Every time we make an observation, there's always something to counteract it. Vincent said he had made a promise many years ago to tell everyone (Ian cared about ) exactly what a monster he was/ is. So maybe it was just that? Maybe Ian just supported him financially - when he had his flat etc?

"I'm pretty sure the scarf is planted... Wasn't it in the back seat of the car when they left it in the garage?"

Don't think so. Ollie was wearing it when they visited the castle on CdeB after checking in to the hotel. The daddy big ears drawing was left in the car.

Any chance Mary and Robert were in the same nursing home? Or was Robert's definitely a hospice?

There is no way ian could have survived the head injury and then being wrapped in tarpaulin and dumped in the sea!

I still think it will be a mixture of romanian gang and someone from England who put them up to it....no idea why or how. Also not convinced olly is dead. Hmmm. Can't WAIT for this evening.

Ah, Auntiestella

I fear I have wasted my vote then as the scarf being planted in present day was my only real link for baptiste being involved

So why do people think Mark is involved? I'm a bit confused because I thought his hiding phone calls etc from Emily was to protect her from having to deal with stuff when her father was dying. And did we ever find out what the DNA results from the lab that Malik sent samples to were?

Mark always seems to pop up at crucial moments, I think he knows Greg and if anything he was intimidating Malik in the last episode to save his own bacon, I still reckon he switched the evidence and it is really a memory stick!