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The Missing is back next week!

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HarryPottersMagicWand · 07/10/2016 20:53

For those who loved it last time, will you watch after the let down of the ending? (Well I felt it was a let down, don't think there was a proper conclusion at all and still room for doubts as to whether he was still alive or not).

I loved it though and will definitely be watching the next series. I've seen the trailer and it looks very very good. Julian (think that was his name) is still in it. Looks like it is based on JayCee Dugard/Elizabeth Fritz type cases where they have gone missing as children and reappeared years later.

Cannot wait!

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Bolognaise · 20/10/2016 17:20

Oh - there goes that theory then Scary...

What could his mistake have been?

Scarydinosaurs · 20/10/2016 17:22

bolog good question!

  1. Incorrectly went after the mother or father for abducting/organising the abduction
  1. Giving them false hope
  1. Let go of a good lead
  1. Accidentally releases confidential info to the press

These are my guesses!

LizzieMacQueen · 20/10/2016 17:25

I was most upset that the turtle died - that was a shock.

This series and the clues are better than the last but I still think the mothers are made to look really wet.

Butchers are quite good at disposing of dead things aren't they.

Scarydinosaurs · 20/10/2016 17:33

Lizzie that's a gruesome thought 😳

If Alice/Sophie has had a baby, perhaps they kidnapped girls to then sell their babies in for human traficking?

mice · 20/10/2016 17:47

The nurse that resigned - automatic assumption is she was looking after the dad with dementia - but could it be Eve's baby (2yr old) that she was looking after?

mice · 20/10/2016 17:50

and when they visited Alice's grave in episode 1 - the graves to the left of it looked very new - maybe indicating that they were fresh graves in 2016 - and that although Alice's headstone said she died in 2014 she could have been buried at a later date

MiddleClassProblem · 20/10/2016 18:04

The nurse said that he pushed her so I don't think it's anything else than looking after him

Scarydinosaurs · 20/10/2016 18:18

I agree that the Nurse was caring for her father.

Also, the 'baby' would be two. And she referred to it as a 'baby' to Sam, which would mean he or she must have died.

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HarryPottersMagicWand · 20/10/2016 20:35

I also think they have post dated the date on the gravestone and it infers to when she died, not that she has returned and died within days.

I don't think it's that complicated really. There are just a lot of unanswered questions and hints at other things so far.

It is odd though, in Ep 1 when Gemma mentioned the baby to 'Alice', her reaction was almost as if she didn't know what she was talking about, rather than her just lying. She seemed perfectly willing to tell a room full of strangers what had happened to her so it seems odd that she would lie about not having a baby, even though the doctors know she has given birth.

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MiddleClassProblem · 20/10/2016 20:45

There is that thing that people can block horrific parts of their life and not remember. I'm not sure of someone that happens to will do it for multiple things or one offs as you'd think her first rape would be that but maybe it was even worse/harder.

If it's post dated, what is driving Keeley to peruse more with Baptiste? For unanswered questions?

With the roller coaster pics I keep thinking maybe she looking for the two girls or the abductor or brig with a girl. But is she looking online or on an archive disk? I'm guessing online they wouldn't keep more than a year or two and if a disk, again, how far back do they hold that? If it's featuring one of the girls you'd think it would be minimum of 2 years. Or maybe if the grave is post dated, she's looking for Sophie who might have been in cahoots with abductor and met up with him again? Not sure about that. It's probably not for the girls at all Grin

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HarryPottersMagicWand · 20/10/2016 21:06

Yes I was thinking it was blocked out, or they had given her something so she doesn't remember. She seemed to have no idea.

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OutwardBound2016 · 20/10/2016 21:47

I am hooked on this series (and this thread). Apart from the fact that the Brig is the narrator from Sarah and Duck I don't have much to add. I think paedophile ring is too obvious, I suspect that Brig abused Alice before she was abducted and possibly got her pregnant and she was taken to get rid of the baby.....what happened after this I am completely confused about.

minesapintofwine · 20/10/2016 21:53

Do you think there's any significance to the man working in the butchers shop? The one the butcher went to help with the shelves?

AnnieNoMouse · 20/10/2016 21:57

Have just rewatched. All that has told me is:-
Aldi did not meet Butcher in Eckhausen. It sounded as if she met him on-line probably from Uk, and came over later. BUT she knew Henry Reed and was in the army - in making contact with the Butcher was she targeting him personally or did she just want to get back to Eckhausen?

When the Brigadier visited the nursing home he made a comment to the effect that "they" (the authorities' are shutting "them" (ex-servicemen) up. Does this point to a military conspiracy?

Sophie's mother killed herself in the same year that Sophie went missing. Would she have done that if she thought there was a prospect of Sophie returning? Her reaction seems very different to Gemma's, who until Alice's return in 2014, seemed very together.

In 2014 the Brigadier is keen not to release details of Alice's return.

What has happened to Sophie's dad? Why doesn't Julien call him over and see if he can id Alice/Sophie? I wonder if he is in prison for child sex offences.

Sophie definitely has a large stomach in the video but surely not pregnant?

AnnieNoMouse · 20/10/2016 22:07

Also, Sophie's mothers reaction to her going missing is unusual i.e. suicide. But so is Gemma's - when the police call her out of a lesson to tell her the news her first thought is they have news about her husband or son. Surely if her daughter was missing her first thought would be that Alice had been found?

MiddleClassProblem · 20/10/2016 23:03

Probably not her first thought after 11years with an army person there when hubby is in the army.

Defo odd to be suicidal unless you have given up hope or something. But maybe she abused Sophie instead of too.

I reckon they haven't contacted him as Alice has been identified just as they are not doing a DNA test. I hope Gemma does one on the sly. As baptiste isn't officially on the case he prob can't intervene and it didn't look like the dad was particularly fond of him anyway so may not have responded to him making contact

TheSpottedZebra · 20/10/2016 23:26

Or maybe the reason Sophie's mother killed herself is something to do with the mistake that Baptiste said he'd made?

Scarydinosaurs · 20/10/2016 23:43

Possibly, Alice didn't have a baby- she was inpregnanted (likely given she was raped so frequently) and then was made to have an abortion late term and delivered a baby, but it wasn't actually alive?

Dulra · 21/10/2016 08:23

Hi all only caught up on episode last night. I am wondering whether the Armyear brigadier was involved in abusing Alice even before she went missing. She was pretty messed up for an 11 year old and that might explain why. He may have absolutely nothing to do with the abduction though so maybe pretty fearful now that his abuse of her years ago will come out. Also when Alice was recounting the rape by her abuser for the first time she said he said something to imply it was her first time but maybe the irony is that it wasn't and she was already pregnant with brigadiers child. If Alice is really Sophie this may not make sense but then again Alice may have briefed her on everything so she can slot into role.
I am quite irritated that baptiste is not making more of his suspicions about Alice really being Sophie. Surely he should be officially voicing it and linking with the team he would have had working on the sophie case and not just playing along with the charade. Also surely he'd be duty bound to inform Sophie's dad of the latest events.
I don't think the butcher is guilty to early to have found someone yet.
As for the soldiers pregnancy in 2014 I don't think this is significant like others said she may have been a surrogate for her sister or let her sister adopt it. She doesn't appear very maternal towards it.

skipowermom2016 · 21/10/2016 11:42

On a much lighter note, does anyone know the coat/brand of coat that Alice's mum is wearing in episode 1? It's blue with fur on the hood!

DrinkReprehensibly · 21/10/2016 13:51

I also think they have post dated the date on the gravestone and it infers to when she died, not that she has returned and died within days.

HarryPottersMagicWand Sorry for being dense. I don't get what you mean by this. Seeing the gravestone was leading me to expect that Alice (or not Alice... whoever) is about to die soon on the 2014 timeline. Is that not right?

DrinkReprehensibly · 21/10/2016 13:53

Ohh... there's the possibility that Alice is actually Sophie and they eventually find dead Alice sometime between 2014 and 2016 and establish that she died in Dec 2014 and therefore back-date the gravestone to when they think she passed away. I get it now.

kimlo · 21/10/2016 15:32

Alice's dm said to Baptise something along the lines of if they knew what I was doing they would think I was mad, about looking at the pictures. I think that its the girl who came back in the grave and only her mother and Baptise think its not really Alice and the pictures have something to do with trying to prove it.

I do think that Eves Dad was abusing whoever the girl is before they were taken, and possibly both of them. Thats why she said when I heard that stiry before the turtle fell in the sea, and he replied that was the story for little girls and you aren't a little girls anymore.

Sophie did look pregnant in that vidio, I didn,t notice it on forst watching but I did on the second. They were also showing her stomach as well as her hands without making it obvious iyswim.

Blondeshavemorefun · 21/10/2016 17:30

NOT sure if anyone has posted recap e2

I always need explanations 😂

MiddleClassProblem · 21/10/2016 17:49

Brill, thanks, Blondes