THE MISSING IS BACK - part 4

[MrsderPunkt]

As part 3 is full.

I'm having a day off due to illness, so am planning a re-watch from the beginning as have got used to the time switches that confused me at first. Quite looking forward to it - will pay extra attention to all things yellow, legs in fireplaces and anything else that you suggest. Probably cover my eyes at the drilla moment again though!

Wow! Def faked the dementia, or extent of it.

If we're counting threes, there was one in the opening credits - noticed it when I paused the tv.

Didn't the writers say in that interview that there was a slight thing to make you see a character differently- I took that to be Stone faking...

I think it was deliberate that Sophie and Alice didn't look much alike, in a nod to the Nicholas Barclay case in Texas (missing boy whose parents were tricked into accepting the "return" of an imposter with different hair and eye colour, and a French rather than Texan accent). They wanted and needed her to be Alice so that was all that mattered.

I thiught it was all a fitting and moving conclusion. Cried my eyes out when Gemma and Alice hugged in the woods!

Alice was Alice and Sophie was Sophie. Sophie had to pretend to be Alice and it was indeed Lena in the shed and the DNA interfered with (by the Brig).

What I don't understand is why Reed's son suddenly found out about him. Perhaps Getterick passed on a note to him after his dad's suicide - as in 'I know what your father did and why he killed himself'.

Sam was indeed the fall guy but I have in my mind lovely summer picnics with Alice and her brother, Gemma, Eve and the baby. Sadly for Sophie things are not so straight forward.

As for Baptiste?

I did like that as soon as Adam went for Lucy, Sophie fought him - I think she was just very confused having tried to make the best of her life and convince herself that he really did love her. But when it came to it she would do whatever she could to protect her daughter

She wasn't taking g him "home", she was taking him with her for questioning surely.
Didn't we see him raking medication in his office in one episode? I'm sure he did gave dementia. That doesn't mean that he could remember at times and exagerate symptoms when needed.

I cried for the last half hour was an emotional rollercoaster

the first series was excellent too though the ending was really really sad

Couldn't!

Frazzled,
The armed response team found the hut because Eve put a trace on Baptiste's phone when he told her he was in Switzerland.
Sophie had a English accent because the only person she had been around in all those years was Alice .

I think when Sophie went missing that there was some suggestion that her father had been mistreating her, which led to Julien wrongly suspecting him of her abduction. He might have been innocent of that, but whatever he had done came out as part of the investigation and caused him to lose his good job and end up in a retail warehouse.
Also Gettrick may have led Sophie to believe that her dad was a lot worse than he actually was, which she believed in the end.

I think the meeting with his grand-daughter Lucy was to show that there was a prospect of Lucy and him reconciling at some point.

I think when Eve said 'he's coming with me' she was taking him for questioning.

Who was following Baptiste in Iraq or was it just the start of his hallucinations?

Why didn't Sophie want to see her dad ?

Did Sophie and Alice maintain their friendship once released or had Sophie 'thrown Alice under the bus' for the sake of herself and Lucy?

So, Stone was much more of a baddie than I wondered at one point. Adam said something about what they did with the girls in Iraq, and Stone didn't seem particularly shocked / disgusted about Adam and the 13 year old girl.

I LOVED this series!! It was tremendously gripping and utterly exciting....and I appreciated so much how they showed male violence against girls and women out there in all its raw reality, with girls and women's strength really emphasised!! Fantastic!!!!!

The most moving part for me, was when Sam and the mum (sorry can't remember her name saw Alice in the woods and the mum knew it was her daughter. Had me in tears.

Can anyone throw light on the body in the boot st the end? DH said it was the Brig, that he'd taken his own life but I'm not convinced.

elendon Daniel was trying to understand why his dad committed suicide. He read his diaries, which stopped whilst he was in Iraq and he wondered why. He found bank records showing payments to Iraq boy. He travelled to Iraq and spoke to Iraq boy (emailed his girlfriend and told her he'd found something out about his dad in Iraq).

I thought that was a good end to the series, if I was Alices mother I don't think I would ever let her out of my sight again! Glad Sophie didn't jump and had a feeling someone was going to die so all things considered didn't mind it being Sam, would have been more upset if it had been one of the girls.

Elendon I think Reeds son found out when going through his affairs that he was paying the man in Iraq whose sister he killed and found out what had happened from contacting him.

The waiter scene was clunky, as was the

'Remember when we went out for a drink last Wednesday and talked about that night in Iraq- well I recorded it'

But to be honest, I can let it go because I was so damned relieved that they were covering everything and not leaving 'the viewer to decide'

Me too Bakeoff
I think with Sophie as well Gettrick had told her that everyone "on the outside" would take Lucy away from her.

Noregrets- it was the policeman who was killed by the drill

X post with Ewan there

Mums name is Gemma, I struggle to remember it too.

Sad that Sam essentially had no daughter around for all those years, then suddenly there were two and he won't be around

I too loved when Gemma said Yes. I'll never let you go. I thought, yes, I'm never going to let my children think they are never loved.

And then Sam said I was wrong, was so sad.