The Missing is back next week PART 2!

[HarryPottersMagicWand]

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.

[MarthasHarbour]

Alas that is exactly how i interpreted the ending of S1 too

[AlasEarwax]

I definitely think you should watch series 1!! Its just as gripping as series 2, although I do think series 1 is a lot less complicated!

[AnnieNoMouse]

The ending of The Missing One. It was unbearable to think of the dad being unable to accept Olly was dead and roaming the world looking for him, so I interpreted it as the Russia scene being a metaphor for his state of mind - that he would never accept Olly's death, and that his mind would be in a state of searching frozen wilderness for ever.

[AnnieNoMouse]

I think the difference between M1 and M2 is that in M1 there was one main question - what happened to Olly?
In M2 I don't know what the main question is, let alone the answer!

[LillianGish]

Enjoyed your musings altik. Always useful to rewatch - can't seem to find time. I do think no scene is wasted - it's like putting together an enormous jigsaw puzzle. We don't have all the pieces yet so there are still holes, but we are starting to piece together little bits - exactly as you do in your post. Still three more episodes so lots of bits to fall into place. Enjoying watching it so much more for being able to come on this thread so to all.

[CheshireSplat]

A few people have suggested that Brig was a goodie. I really don't think so. When he took Alice outside (in episode 2, was it?) alone, deliberately, and told her the story of the tortoise he was telling her to keep quiet and then he said, when she said it wasn't the ending she remembered, that the happy ending was the child's ending and she wasn't a child anymore. That was ominous and sounded to me like she'd been sexually abused - presumably resulting in pregnancy (the girl in driller killer's house).

Can't wait for tomorrow!

[Fiderer]

The scene with the Brig was odd. Abducting and keeping girls imprisoned is a massively horrendous thing to be involved in. He has two daughters of his own.

Unless Sophie was referring to the Brig's abuse of Alice before she was abducted. The girls were together for years (how many?) and would have confided in each other and told stories of their lives before the abductions. That's also how she knew enough to pass as Alice.

May also explain why Alice was going off the rails before she was taken.

[Fiderer]

Although just thought (showering and sleuthing simultaneously) - the tale of the turtle being a threat, what on earth could he threaten her with?

Anything she'd done as a child wouldn't bother her parents now.

What he'd done could be something about Iraq she knew from Reed.

She thought he knew somehow she was Sophie and assumed he knew about the child.

Though how he'd know when Alice's parents accepted her I don't know. He did refuse the DNA test, maybe he had seen the results and put 2 and 2 together.

When I do that I get 13 But can't help thinking he's not involved in the abduction bit. Neither was Reed.

[LuxembergerQueen92]

The butchers wife (aldi) must be involved somehow - who else would have had access to the butchers wallet enabling an incriminating receipt ( with his cc number on) to be planted in the soil of the bunker that Alice/Sophie
directed the police to and which Baptiste found. She either planted it there or passed it to someone - Drilla? So they have some sort of hold over her,something she was involved in in Iraq - or something she found out and threatened to blow?

[TheFlounder]

So excited for tonight

[SapphireStrange]

May also explain why Alice was going off the rails before she was taken.

I thought it was the third girl (with glasses) who was going off the rails? Did I miss something and Alice was too?

I know this is shallow and not the point, but I'll miss the hot German police officer.

[GrumbleBumble]

sapphire Alice was skipping school and had tattooed herself so she wasn't a model 11 year old.

[SapphireStrange]

Thanks Grumble.

[LillianGish]

What could could he threaten her with? He knew she was not Alice - the fact that he knew she had to go back means he must have known (if that makes sense). The little girl was being held hostage - if she didn't go back she might never see her again. The Brig seemed to very much in control in that situation - he made her pick out the butcher. She could have spoken out, but she chose not to. It also occurs to me as I type this that if she had really wanted to be rescued she could have left a note - explained her situation, said why she did what she did, pointed the finger at the real perpetrators and warned Alice's parents, or her brother or who ever she felt it was safe to confide in not to go to the army police, but perhaps to talk to Julien.

[ceeveebee]

I wonder if she faked her own death to stop driller killer from looking for her. So that she can eventually rescue her daughter?

[HarryPottersMagicWand]

I expect the people involved knew which one was Alice and which one was Sophie so I doubt they would fall for the faked death thing as she also must have had help because the shed was locked from the outside so someone let her out and put another body in there.

[altik]

Grumble - Alice was skipping school and had tattooed herself so she wasn't a model 11 year old.

I also wondered whether the girls had been groomed. We know Lena went off the rails and was classed a runaway. Alice tattooed herself and skipped school / got into trouble. Could the tattooing have been part of the grooming? So that would explain how Sophie would also have what appeared to be an old tattoo.

Also like the symbolism of the web entrapping the girls... or maybe I'm overthinking things again.

[GrumbleBumble]

Altik I keep thinking of "oh what a tangled web weave when first we practice to deceive" when we see the tattoo.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

ive started a new thread here as this one is almost full, hope thats ok

sure by end of tonights we will be no wiser

[HalfShellHero]

Eurgh that awful non apology Eve gave to Keeley !! ....what an odious woman