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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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TobleroneBoo · 28/10/2016 20:30

I think the dog in the credits is from when Alice led them all back to the bunker?

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HarryPottersMagicWand · 28/10/2016 21:48

I had a thought last night, this programme is keeping me awake at night Grin, that the date of Henry Reed's 'suicide' (which actually is murder, Julien said to Daniel that his dad didn't kill himself) coincides with 'Alice's' escape. Which I am also wondering, was it an escape or did they let her go? She looked to have been somewhere fairly remote and was very ill, her captor would have caught up with her very quickly.

Daniel said his dad had been transferring money and the reason made him sick. Julien said Daniel held the key to finding out what happened so presumably this was about it. Sophie is let go/escapes, pretends to be Alice and Henry Reed gets murdered. Or the plan is to let Sophie go for whatever reason, Henry disagrees so they kill him first. The dates are very close together.

The family in the car won't have any relevance, purely to show the abandoned campervan.

I remember with the first series there weas a lot of wild speculation when the truth was actually quite straight forward. Will probably be the same again. I doubt Eve's sister has a part to play, or Matthew's friends. The way Eve said to Sam that he doesn't want to hear about the baby makes it sound as if it was his so the affair has probably been going on for a long time. That rules out her being a surrogate and I can't see why she would have kept the scan picture for all that time for a surrogate baby.

The Brigadier was definitely listening when Gemma came over with the roller coaster picture. Must have been one of his lucid moments. I doubt he is faking dementia. He almost gave too much away when he was talking about the alabaster skin.

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timelytess · 28/10/2016 21:54

What I can't get it how sure Alice was when speaking to brig -not a bit frightened or worried- but yet wont tell parents /anyone about him
If she's had a baby with him... and if she was happy with him sometimes... her relationship with him was as an adult for some of the time...

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 29/10/2016 02:28

Re David Morrissey being 52 - he doesn't look it. I think he and Keeley Hawes make a very plausible couple

They were a very ill matched couple years ago as Lizzie Hexham and Bradley Headstone in a BBC Our Mutual Friend.

I really like Keeley Hawes and Laura Fraser. They are sort of interchangeable in a good way with Anna Friel.

TalkingSheds · 29/10/2016 08:00

Matthews friends are hired thugs, they were hired by someone (possibly the brig) to beat up the butchers wife to silence her for something. That's why her teeth are missing now. That's maybe who she really ran away from in Aldi too, not Matthew.

Eve obviously has a memory box for the baby in a draw as that's where she put the scan photo when she found it.

GenerationEx · 29/10/2016 08:20

My theory is that "Sophie/Alice" was released by her captor as she was really sick (did I imagine they said she had appendicitis when found?) so she could get proper medical help and on the basis that she would pretend to be Sophie and frame the butcher. Consequences of not following through would be real Alice would die. Then when the guilt got too much for her, she topped herself. Or faked it to return to her captor and protect real Alice....

youarenotkiddingme · 29/10/2016 08:22

Did I see present day Gemma look at a pg test at the beginning of the episode?

Rewatched again late last night and really don't have the energy to watch again to see if I imagined it!

MargotLovedTom · 29/10/2016 08:37

It was the pen from the hotel.

I didn't see that programme Lass.

youarenotkiddingme · 29/10/2016 09:43

Oh dear! Very wrong then!
This is why you don't watch programmes late at night! I was only up because friend had taken her DD to a and e with head injury that caused her to be knocked out and was waiting up to support her. Wasn't concentrating properly - clearly!

SouthWestmom · 29/10/2016 09:46

Alice's grave says Dec 2014 so in the present day do they think they've buried Alice. So either they do know she's dead or that's an imposter they've buried. I reckon they've buried the shed body as Alice but it isn't Sophie/Alice. At the grave the brother said he'd keep the promise and did - was that all present day?
I still think there are three girls

MiddleClassProblem · 29/10/2016 09:52

Hope your friend's DD is ok!

Completely off topic but Anna Friel looked over botoxedon stand up to cancer gogglebox. She's so beautiful naturally, it's so sad when people can't see how lovely they are or give in to pressure from US big wigs.

The80sweregreat · 29/10/2016 09:55

Keeley was fab in ashes to ashes, but only because it had an 80s vibe and I fancy Phillip Glenister.
i cant make out what is going on now - there are some good theories on this thread and it is gripping, but trying to put the pieces together isn't easy - i find this in books too when it jumps around, but at least i can go and read chapters again! 5 more to go!

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 29/10/2016 10:00

I didn't see that programme Lass

Sorry, should have been clear- they were meant to be ill- matched. They were both excellent.

prettyusefulsometimes · 29/10/2016 10:10

Delurking to add a detail. In the opening sequence featuring the campervan and tied-up dog, was the lingering shot of the van's wheelarch significant? Am I imagining blood/brains (!) on the outside of the arch. Who was run over in the "present day" and is now imprisoned in the van - a new abductee? Or do I need to get new glasses / clean the TV screen?

I'm going to sort the washing whilst cogitating this and The Fall. Really enjoying drawn-out crime dramas, the "all sorted out in an hour" programmes are frustrating.

GrumbleBumble · 29/10/2016 10:13

pretty the wheel arch close up showed that the red van used to be yellow

Ciutadella · 29/10/2016 10:13

Yes Noeuf, dbrother definitely thinks he's talking to real Alice in the present day at the grave, and as far as we know he thinks real Alice is Sophie Alice (which she may be! and the 'twist' is that both Gemma and Baptiste are deluded).

Whatever happened in Iraq, Aldi butcher lady was definitely involved - Brig said sarcastically to Eve in 2014 that he 'had the pleasure' of knowing her in Iraq. Maybe Aldi butcher lady suspected in Iraq what was going on (but what was going on though?) and threatened to tell if it didn't stop. In some way the abductions are linked to Iraq (and yes the second abduction - Alice - seems to have happened around the same time - 2003) and so Aldi butcher lady is now seen by Brig as a threat.

I love KH too - she is also a really good comic actress (though not so much scope for that in this, obviously!) Didn't realise she was in Our Mutual Friend - may go off and watch that.

prettyusefulsometimes · 29/10/2016 10:39

Thanks GrumbleBumble! New glasses & TV then. And a rewatch of episode one.

MuchasSmoochas · 29/10/2016 10:44

So I have been pondering the theory that the Salice (see what I did there) girl was switched in the shed. However she couldn't have done that by herself, someone would have had to bring the other girl there. So why didn't that other person bring the petrol? Ergo no swap.

youarenotkiddingme · 29/10/2016 10:57

She's ok thanks middle well I say that but she has fracture to skull and whiplash but consultant said hairline fractures aren't as bad as they sound and she's off contact sport for 3 weeks. She came home though.

thedogsvagina · 29/10/2016 11:26

I didn't watch the first series. Do you think it's essential to the story line? I'm just so confused! I'm going back now to re-watch episode 1 of series 2 and see if it becomes any more clear.

MuchasSmoochas · 29/10/2016 11:34

Ps not sure if this has already been discussed in this thread but when the mum gave her the yellow scarf I thought that was definitely a nod to the first series when the boy was wearing a yellow scarf. I don't think it's connected though.

Elendon · 29/10/2016 11:57

I think the conflict between the Brig and the Butcher's wife is to do with sex. He is obviously a sexual deviant and she is into S&M. I would hazard a guess that the Butcher's wife found out something about him in Iraq, she obviously married her husband because they were into the same sexual adult preferences.

mikado1 · 29/10/2016 12:16

Ooh that's good generationex !

MarthasHarbour · 29/10/2016 12:55

Just popping back to say I absolutely love this series, more than S1

As you were Halloween Wink

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 29/10/2016 13:00

It's a fantastic cast all round. Any one of Roger Allam, Laura Fraser, Keeley Hawes or David Morrisey is worth watching on their own.

And Anastasia Hille (Baptist's wife) is one of that large number of actors you see being very good in loads of things without ever knowing her name

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