The Missing is back next week PART 2!

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Thread one here

So, Sophie Giroux returned pretending to be Alice Webster. DNA results on the body in the shed confirm she is related to Sam.

Baptiste has found out about Henry Reed and the Brigadier being involved with a 9 year old girl in Iraq in 1991. Henry Reed was paying this girls brother.

There are 3 girls in the rollercoaster photo, Sophie, Alice and possibly the girl from Iraq? She has that colouring.

Henry Reed apparently committed suicide although Julien told Daniel he didn't. Whatever Daniel found out about him made him sick.

Nadia has been badly beaten and her husband is still in prison after being identified by Sophie/Alice. Matthew was made to promise to say sorry to the butcher.

Sophie is now in Switzerland. As is the newly spray painted yellow campervan that abducted Alice. Gemma and Baptiste doubt the DNA results as they are still looking for answers 2 years after she returned.

Birds keep being mentioned. Sophie and Alice both had the Web tattoo on their wrists.

I wonder if the Brig isn't actually as bad as he is being made out? It as very early on that his involvement was pointed at, too early I think. I wonder if he was also being coerced at all. When Baptiste was talking to him last night, he seemed to get upset at the girl in Iraq being hurt. Think Henry was good hence him being murdered and Sophie leaving flowers on his grave.

I still think Nadia was more involved. Funny how the Brig and Henry both spoke distastefully about her and Iraq and there was the bondage picture she deleted. I wonder if the framing of her husband was a message or punishment to her. I think she could have been more of a ringleader and the Brig and Henry weren't big players at all. Obviously driller killer is hugely involved. Still possible Sam is in the mix too as I'm sure he was in Iraq as well.

The Brig not remembering Eve's birth will be his dementia. We know he was showing signs of it in 2014.

Brig buying 2 of everything - could eve have caught him buying stuff for Alice and Sophie in the past and this was how he covered it up?

Somebody must have been looking after the dog tied to the van. But whooooo...?!
Also, the glasses must have been discarded recently as they'd be huge evidence if they / the van had been found and searched...

I'm not sure made. Surely Eve would question why he was buying 2 items for young girls. He couldn't pass it off as his own or for a relative as there we are no children in the family of the same age.

I'm an intelligent woman with letters after my name but fuck me, I am truly lost with this now. The time shifts are just impossible to track. I've stopped trying. I'm sure LFs belly was big/flat/big/flat in scenes that ought to be coherent last night.

The German polizei was a brief treat, particularly in his t-shirt, but now sadly gone the way of an Ikea wardrobe. It was too good to last.

I'm a huge David Mozza fan but the Harrington jacket must go. Over fifty, it's a blouson my friend.

I'm just taking it as it comes. Any analysis at all makes me want to turn my head inside out. I just can't.

Sorry, who bought two of stuff, and when?

Sorry long term lurker who has avidly followed this thread!

Also don't forget driller's comments about retiring next week (when he apologised for the mess)- obviously moving out so where will he go to? Find Sophie /Alice with the little girl??? The log cabin & campervan?

Also, could the footage of Alice / Sophie sitting in the cafe, strolling back to the cabin, sitting by the fire signify her just biding her time waiting for something to happen, such as the driller coming to live with her. She mentioned to the waiter that she was English / British & the driller is Scottish so ...

If the Brig (he who always bought two of everything - Eve points this out in a casual aside while moving him into home) is not a baddie (agree early signalling usually means a red herring) how do you explain the turtle and the stick story he told to Sophie/Alice before she pointed out the butcher? That seemed like a clear threat to me. Maybe press officer driller-killer was kindest of captors (if that makes sense) which is why Sophie formed an attraction - she seemed to be afraid of the Brig. Also she did talk fondly to Alice's parents about her baby and said there had been happy times - which made Alice's mum cry. I do think there are no wasted words so every incongruous bit of conversation has a significance (e.g. Did you never think of having children? Pointing to the surrogacy.) I think the buying two of everything will be another piece in the jigsaw. I'll feel cheated if the body in the shed isn't Alice and it turns out to be the other girl because it hasn't been signalled at all that Sam was unfaithful before Alice's disappearance. Do we now think Reed may have been murdered by his own son? He must have had some connection to the girls because Sophie/Alice put flowers on his grave - how would she have known who he was or cared (especially she is Sophie as I believe she is).

What did the Brig say to Alice-Sophie back in ep 1 (?) when she returned?

Epic x post, Lillian!

It's a bit unbelievable isn't it? The drill was fully charged and didn't lose power

Bec54 that's exactly what I think. I think Sophie has gone over to the other side as it were - killing the German girl and possibly even killing Alice so she can be with the driller and their baby. I think he is clearing out in preparation for joining her in the cottage in the woods. I think the three probably are Reed, Stone and driller - their being conveniently out of the way (Reed literally and Stone by losing his mind) means he can leave to be with Sophie.

I thought the drill was a bit unecessary - was there even evidence he was drilling when the policeman turned up? It does give us a handy nickname for him though as I can't remember his actual name.

The tattoo would need time to heal so would've been done a while before fake Alice/Sophie got ill so maybe they are more significant than just for identification purposes...

One of the articles above said something about not leaving it til the last episode to reveal everything but they would tell another story so hopefully we find out next week!!!

Who was drill man? Did we know him from elsewhere (facial blindness...) or was he just a friend of that family?

I think child is definitely Alice's . As it will end with Alice's parents and brother taking child back to England with them for a new start .

If drilla was planning to retire and move to the UK, how could he do so while he was still holding captives ? he can't lock them in a van and drive them to Calais . Could he be going to Switzerland to be with fake Alice?

Why is fake Alice wearing a wig? It's not as if anyone is searching for her , she's dead .

Re DNA - is it possible that press officer was told the results and then he lied to eve? So she believed she was telling the truth to the family . But then it would all come out at the inquest .

He is the army press officer. He was at the hospital in last night's episode, with the French journalist

Press officer aka Drilla is called Adam Gettrick

tv.bt.com/tv/tv-news/writers-of-the-missing-talk-about-violent-ending-of-the-latest-episode-11364111931398

beyond he is the army press officer.

Ah, thanks :)

What if Sam is the father of all the girls ? Maybe he's been a sperm donor ? Maybe he's been shagging women all over the place while he was posted away from home ? Is it some kind of stalkerish revenge on Sam for something evil he's done in the past ?

Was he involved in the murder of the girl in Iraq and it's pay back ? But why not just kill his daughter rather than inprison her ?

< Theories getting more crazy here >

The child is not Alice's. We haven't ever seen Alice - the girl who came back to have her appendix removed (the one who had the child) was not Alice. This is confirmed when two years after the death in the shed fire her mum finds a pic of real Alice with fake Alice on the rollercoaster. Has Alice's mum subsequently queried how the body in the shed could be that of her daughter if the girl who came back was only pretending to be her - having now established with the photo that her initial suspicion were correct? That's what is not clear to me. Why is Julian talking about Alice, even though he knows about the DNA test. Why hasn't the mum shown Sam the rollercoaster pics? Still a lot to unravel even with Driller revealing himself. I think the twist supposed to be that that at the start we think a girl has escaped whereas in fact she is happy to stay missing and is responsible for the disappearance of the other girls. Even now we think she has somehow escaped to Switzerland whereas she is still taken, by her own admission and is waiting there for driller and her daughter. Gosh I need to do some work, but can't stop thinking about this!

Maybe Drilla just lied about the dna? He told Eve, (maybe?) who told Gemma. But there was no DNA test done?

Which they then later find out, which allows Gemma to feel that RealAlice might actually not be dead after all?

I don't think that Henry's son killed him. Basically I don't want to belive that!
What did we see - him clearing up blood? Maybe he was going to make it look like it WASN'T a suicide (which he thought it was, even though it wasn't? ) for honour or pension reasons?

Or maybe there was something else incriminating there, like a letter or a picture, that he removed? Something to do with the diaries?