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!

There's no way the Brig faked dementia. Remember when Sam had to go and babysit him?

The two questions I would like answering are,

1. Who was the burnt body in the shed? 2)How did the body get into the shed? Any thoughts as I haven't got a clue?

Lena, Adam said he put her in there

Goodness me. Have just watched. And have just scrolled through a few posts, after watching.

And YES OP, I also thought that about the hare - you'd not get one in a forest.

Did Brig have dementia? Erm, I'm going with yes, a bit. But that he also wanted to forget, and wanted the protection that forgetting gave him.

Glad Sam is dead., but I didn't want a hero's death for him.

schmack EXACTLY!

meatloaf that's ace, I completely missed it! Jason Flemyng played Mark didn't he?

There wasn't a single weak character, first rate acting.

I do think Brig was behaved despicably and I don't know how his daughter forgave him and took him home.
I'd have left him in a home if I'd hound out he'd not immediately gone to the authorities when he knew about Sophie/Alice.

schmack but Gemma didn't believe it was her Dd, she had misgivings very early on.

So who put the body in the shed?

Bakeoff we don't know that Eve dod forgive him or take him home. She said "he's coming with me" that could have been home or it could have been to an interview room for questioning.

avamiah Drilla put Lena's body in the shed!

Ok, I will now concede that it wasn't Lena's leg log in the cabin fire. Nor was she that nurse.

She said "he's coming with me" that could have been home or it could have been to an interview room for questioning

My money is on questioning.

Can we take it someone took the guard dog away?

I mentioned the Swiss butcher but he was a waiter- he told them he'd seen Sophie.
So many of our theories were wrong
Interpol were very quick getting an armed response to the woods.

TheSpottedZebra,
Yes, of course it was,
Thanks .

I loved, not only the whole series but also these threads.

That episode seemed over in a flash and I swear I held my breath throughout.

Also love how female dominated it was at the end.
All these girl's lives destroyed and ruined by Adam (representing many men, indeed the 'first' man) the two girls in Iraq, the butcher wife, Sophie's mum, Sophie, Alice, Gemma, Lena, Lucy...maybe more.

Final episode and the women save the day.
Gemma convinces Sam to help.
Eve gets back up.
Sophie protects her daughter.
Perfect that is was all 'girl power' and so, of course, the baby Eve is carrying will be a little girl.

Tiny, tiny disappointments:
No way suicide claim would've stuck.
Really wanted the surgeon at the end to be the man following Baptiste in his hallucinations when in Iraq.

Come on and get writing series 3!!

BakeOffBiscuits - yeah Gemma knew it wasn't her daughter, that's the point, but I just think it would be a much more visceral, back or white, yes that's my daughter or it's not. I'd damn well insist on an immediate DNA test from both parents if I had any doubt, woouldn't you? I just dont think it wa that believable that he would completely believe it and she would kind of half-heartedly go along with it, no matter how much they wanted it to be true. You would immediately know from a child that went missing as an adolecent I think. I mean i can tell the difference between my kids by the way they smell!

anyway, very watchable nonetheless and less bleak ending that the first series which still haunts me!

I wonder if the 3rd series could be baptiste finding other girls?

I'm sure ewhen stone was explaining the black mail to reed he said something about "the girls we were with " so I took it to be not just the fire but general dodgy sexual behaviour when they were in Iraq

Missanneshirley,
I think if there were other girls, they would be dead otherwise he would of had them in that cellar.

I really loved it but there was one thing that bugged me over all - this may have been discussed already - but when Nadia found the camera it had a picture of Alice on it.
I found it strange that the pictures wouldn't have cropped up as evidence in the court case against the butcher - so surely Alice's parents would have seen it and realised it was a different girl to the one who came back/ was the real Alice.
Did the police just assume the picture was of Sophie as it was just a different girl to the one who came back and they knew "Sophie" was still missing.

maybe I am over thinking it.

The series was amazing, loved the resolutions and am gutted its finished, although I sort of feel bad for enjoying something so dark
and stressful!

whyistheru,
The two girls looked similar, that's why Sophie could go back and pretend to be Alice.
I think . 🤔

I thought the brig's question on behalf of the sister was about Eve and the baby.

They didnt look at all similar. One actress had massive eyes and unusual lips and the other had a very distinctive snub nose. I dont really understand why the producers didnt choose more similar looking actresses. Well I do - to make the point about parents wanting to believe it so overlooking the differences - just not sure i believe it would happen (the US case, I know, but i am convinved i wouldn't believe it)

I thought the butcher's camera was a photo of Sophie (pretending to be Alice at that point)

THEY DIDN'T EVEN LOOK THE LEAST FUCKING BIT REMOTELY SIMILAR!!!!!!!

Right, I'm going to bed. schmack carry the torch 😂.