The Missing is back next week!

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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!

The returning girl thought she had something on him.

Yeah what she said to him is def something but who knows how far in he is.

Does the person in the right of that picture possibly look black? I think Henry Reed was dead at that point but Daniel was around.

Didn't he say 'I knew a girl like you once'..? Certainly implied 'knew' in that way, but didn't actually say 'love'.

I know the neck area is in shade but surely some of his scarring would be showing if it was David Morrissey? Also he has a much more imposing physique - tall with broad shoulders.

Didn't she get attacked before the fire so therefore before DM had the scars?

Does the person in the right of that picture possibly look black? I think Henry Reed was dead at that point but Daniel was around.

A poster on another forum suggested the people who beat up Nadia were Daniel Reed and Sophie/Alice.

What do we think?... not sure the hair styles would match - or the physiques, they both seemed quite tall and lean, like the German twins, as lots of pps already said.

Of course, you're right Lizzie - I'm getting completely arse over tit with all the time hopping.

So easily done, Margot.

Have we seen the twins in 14? I didn't think we had and they could easily have hair but the jumping around makes me confused

Also I thought he said knew not loved too but only watched it once

HR - you thinking what I think you are thinking? It's one way to dispose of bodies,.

Had stacks of work to get through yesterday so naturally watched all the episodes as hadn't seen any.

So Alice/NotAliceBut Sophie turned up in 2014. Died (or didn't in shed) and now in "present day" we have short-haired KH, bald but still lovely Bee-less Baptiste and that loveable chunky one from the Iceland Trapped town, in Iraq looking to find out about Danny Peshmerga's dad.

The Brig (Morse's boss/Cabin Pressure) went from creepy in 2014 to dementia state in "present day". Butcher's wife lost her teeth and went from blonde to brown hair. Identity disguise? What happened to the Butcher Herz?

Do not understand about twins. Heh? Couldn't figure out if the Holiday Family were speaking Dutch or Swiss German as was by then cooking for annoyingly loud offspring but think they were also only plot device re camper so prob not important.

Found the time hopping also annoying. And blimey, typing all that has made me want to get on with some work. Almost

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For me, the Iraq part is just a bridge too far. I just can't engage with those scenes at all. Also they're laughable really - soldier engages in plot exposition chat while firing at enemy??

There was an advert for it last night showing a fresh scene, with Keeley berating her husband as he lay in his hospital bed 'she was different! That wasn't my girl!' etc.

Actually if I'm honest the butcher stuff is a bridge too far too.

I'm pretty sure the butcher is still in prison in the present day because skinhead brother went to see him. We haven't yet found out who the father of Eve's baby is have we? What if it was Henry Reed?

Like others, the time-hopping is confusing me in spite of the different hair pointers. Would it be too much to ask that they leave a subtitle on the screen telling viewers whether it's present day or the past for the entire programme ? (Re-reading that, I sound like one of the outraged viewers on Points of View or whatever they call that now. )

I agree optimist. Baptiste is the only one I'm 100% on

If Henry Reed was the father of Eve's baby, that would account for the payments and for his older son being upset - nice and tidy.

Alice's dad didn't want to hear about the baby, Eve doesn't want to hear about his family. I thought at that point Alice's dad was the father of Eve's baby.

For me, the Iraq part is just a bridge too far. I just can't engage with those scenes at all. Also they're laughable really - soldier engages in plot exposition chat while firing at enemy??

It was a transparent attempt to ramp up the dramatic tension, wasn't it? It grated on me too.

Daniel Reed said to Baptiste that the world was "a better place" for his father's death - so it would seem that whatever he discovered not only upset him, it disgusted him.

I also noticed on re-watching that the Brig said to Eve as they left the butcher's shop that Nadia was "a mess" in Iraq. Didn't know what to make of that.

I did think in the scene between Gemma and Eve (re the rollercoaster image) that the Brig was understanding what was being said. The scriptwriter had gone to some trouble to set up his being present at that moment - carer going AWOL, a fall at home, Eve taking him to her own place.

Yeah the Iraq stuff is ridiculous.

Especially the convenient explosion so Baptiste would have to be dragged away without finding out anything other than yet one more tantalising clue.

Glad Faux Alice is dead though. Couldn't look at her Frankenstein make up one more week, tbh.

I keep reminding myself of the many red herrings there turned out to be in the first series - I think the same will be the case for this series.

I think Aldi's attackers were henchmen hired by Brig to remind Aldi to keep quiet about whatever it is she knows, and to accept her husband being the sacrificial cow and not to protest his innocence.