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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 · 27/10/2016 11:44

So someone really needs butcher or his wife shut up. I wonder if butchers wife discovered or nearly what brig and Henry reed were up to and they forced her out and when Sophie escaped decided to frame to keep them quiet

Bolognaise · 27/10/2016 11:49

Haha! On Twitter just seen that someone thinks the boy in the butchers shop is Alice. And the girl who plays young Alice in the missing has liked that tweet.

Manumission · 27/10/2016 11:50

Also, why did the Dad tell Gemma that they 'couldn't afford' the skin surgery for his burns when he'd been offered it for free? Didn't understand that?

I took it as a guilt/penance thing.

He said something a bit sarcastic to the surgeon who was explaining the planned graft procedure along the lines of "Just like my old life then?" and the implication was he didn't want to go back; He realised that he wanted to (literally, physically) bear the scars.

Manumission · 27/10/2016 11:51

the story the Brig told Alice/Sophie when they were outside alone on the log - about the turtle with a stick in its mouth? Is that just a simple 'keep your mouth shut and you'll be OK' threat?

Yes, I think a straightforward threat.

Manumission · 27/10/2016 11:52

What's gluwhein? If it's booze I'd better not google it on a work device Grin

Eightiesmate · 27/10/2016 11:53

It's mulled wine 😄

Manumission · 27/10/2016 12:03

Ah! that's why i don't know the word - Nasty stuff Smile

PollyPerky · 27/10/2016 12:03

Radio times article asks if we've seen the dog that is barking by the camper van before - have we???
It was at the start of last night's episode just after the young boy was playing I Spy in the car. His parents' car drove past a forest and the dog was barking beside a red camper van.

Bolognaise · 27/10/2016 12:05

I think they mean before its appearance in yesterday's episode Halloween Wink

LarkDescending · 27/10/2016 12:09

So do we think Sophie-Alice may have faked her own suicide by letting everyone think she was in the shed, and setting fire to it with a body/part of a body inside?

Manumission · 27/10/2016 12:12

Where would she get the body from?

absolutelynotfabulous · 27/10/2016 12:14

I'm impressed by your theories as I've now lost the will to live as regards this programme.

Question: if Alice is Sophie, shouldn't she have an accent? Like a German or French one? She's French, held captive in Germany.

Even Alice/Sophie should have an accent, picked up from her years in captivity?

LarkDescending · 27/10/2016 12:15

I don't know. Perhaps she had help? We know (because Gemma said so) that she had been absent for a long time after the window escape. The only thing we saw her do was buy the petrol. Might she have met up with somebody?

Can't say I have really thought this through!

LarkDescending · 27/10/2016 12:21

Re the accents, we have been told that Sophie's mother was English so that may explain her fluency. But I agree that unless she had been immersed in an Anglophone environment it is rather unlikely she would speak with an accent indistinguishable from an English girl.

Perhaps it is a sign that their captor was English?

MiddleClassProblem · 27/10/2016 12:23

absolutely her mum is English and she may have spent a lot of time with Alice

Manumission · 27/10/2016 12:23

Age 11 to whatever they are in 2014 is perhaps a very malleable stage for accent development?

We need a SLT or linguist or similar on this thread Smile

Quandry · 27/10/2016 12:30

Also, I have to say, that from age 11 to whatever she is (20ish?) a child's face wouldn't change so much that a mother wouldn't spot if an imposter turned up in her place?!
In my school photos I still look very much (face shape, hair, eyes, teeth etc) very much like I look today.
This is the big sticking point I can't get over!

Bolognaise · 27/10/2016 12:44

Maybe the tattoo and memories convinced them but then if Sophie was forced to pretend to be Alice even in captivity by the kidnapper, she'd be convincing! - maybe Sophie was taken specifically to "become Alice" at a later time all planned by the kidnapper. Maybe the army had some mind control experiments going on

Who was taken first - real Alice or real Sophie?

MiddleClassProblem · 27/10/2016 12:48

Sophie first in 02, Alice in 03 but don't know when on each year so could be a month apart or nearly 2 yrs

LizzieMacQueen · 27/10/2016 13:00

There's something in the twins connection I think. Interesting that Matt's friends are twins and were definitely the two in the butcher's shop.

(Why oh why did Nadia not have those big metal shutters down when she was upstairs? I felt sorry for her after that gruesome beating.)

If Sophie and Alice were similar ages when taken in 2002/2003 then they must have been born in 1991 when it all went mad in Iraq and Henry Reed's diary stopped. Back to thinking they may have been twins?

Is Eve one half of a twin pairing?

MiddleClassProblem · 27/10/2016 13:03

Ooooh! Being born in 91 is a good spot! And Sam could have been Iraq too? Not necessarily part of it but there

Manumission · 27/10/2016 13:03

(Why oh why did Nadia not have those big metal shutters down when she was upstairs? I felt sorry for her after that gruesome beating.)

Was it twice she walked in to the shop and didn't lock the door behind her? Once when she went upstairs to get the phone and also when the mixer running drew her attention to the back? Or was that the same incident?

LarkDescending · 27/10/2016 13:13

We know from the gravestone that Alice was born on 13 May 1992 (so conceived about August 1991 if born at term).

Manumission · 27/10/2016 13:16

Excellent we're doing conception dating already. Just like series 1 Grin

PollyPerky · 27/10/2016 13:19

Question: if Alice is Sophie, shouldn't she have an accent? Like a German or French one? She's French, held captive in Germany.

if they gave her an accent then game's up- we'd know which one it was!

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