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!

Good point TableforJuan - she might simply have been blaming him for his part in the making of a monster.

I don't think the body could be a Gettrick offspring, as it would need to have a skeleton roughly the right height. Unless of course Gettrick faked that part of the PM paperwork or ljust ied about it (same level of difficulty as interfering with DNA samples)

The Brig, Stone, absolutely is in on it, otherwise the conversation between him and Sophie in Alice's garden makes no sense.

As I said in the last thread, I think his cry of what we did to that girl, has no relation to Iraq in 91. I think he is referring to Lena and her death and her disposal (plus Alice is clearly damaged, alive, but damaged).

There is no way I'm clicking on a link for the Daily Mail, not after the reporting on the sickening murder of MP Jo Cox.

The Telegraph has been following this and the reporting and writing is very good.

My latest theories. All the girls were groomed not forcibly abducted. Sophie was always the one. Alice was acquired as a playmate. I wonder if Lena escaped. Possibly with Alice's son. The boy who noticed the camper van.
I think Sophie is planning to escape but won't leave Lucy so can't leave unless she can take Lucy too. Gettrick knows this.
I think the body in the shed was Henry Read. That is why Sophie put flowers on his grave.

Who died in the shed? Do we know?

Morris. It isn't Alice. It isn't Sophie. Lena is missing.

Whoever died in the shed shared DNA with Sam, if it wasn't faked. But given that Sam likes to spread his sperm around...?

I think Lena is Sam's daughter. He's not had much luck with his own children. Nor does he really seem to care.

Elendon you don't need to click the DM link, the article is set out in full up thread.

So after rewatching 2&3, I'm convinced that the brig knew that Alice was fake, and I think the real Alice might have arranged to meet the camper, rather than being abducted from the roadside.

There is a widespread assumption that the forensics were interfered with.

Even though there is no British army capability for both autopsy and DNA testing in Germany, and the investigation was at that stage joint (British Army, as per Brig's offer, assisting the German police - because he was there when Alice went missing and remembers errors (nfd) in the investigation at the time)

'Alice' also had the tattoo. Did she copy Alice's, in preparation for the reappearance (which suggests lengthy planning), or just copy it as something to do in captivity?

Millie, Thanks I did notice, but did not read. The Daily Mail is a rag of the highest order. It's a shambles of a newspaper. Just disgraceful.

The Daily Telegraph has been reporting weekly on this, and it's quite good. Plus the Radio Times does a great recap.

I read a theory somewhere online that the man Baptiste thinks is following him might actually be him hallucinating about his surgeon .

Re the dna, would the lab just request a sample from sam, or would they collect it themselves. Assuming that drilla is liaising with the lab, he knows lena's family, could he have asked lena's father for a sample to rule out the possibility that it was his missing daughter's body that was found in the shed? In fact it might already be on file. Then just deliver that sample to the lab as Sams? And tell lena's father it wasnt a match. Or is that all just bollix.

No.

The lab (which would have to be in UK if this was really handled by the Army throughout) would simply process the sample and report results. As this involved identifying a corpse (presumably to rule out foul play, as suicide suspected). The lead invesitgator (German police and RMP jointly at this stage) would request the test, Sam - in hospital - would have the sample taken by the (German) HCPs treated get him, and (if German standards match British ones) would be passed under evidential chain-of-control to the testing lab. Who would keep a copy results themselves (in case called to give evidence) and who would report back to those commissioning the test.

Which isn't the press officer.

Was worried then when I couldn't post on thread 3.

Phew!

I think he was hallucinating bald man all along and wondered if he represented his tumour.

Noticed the first episode was on iplayers top 20 along with a few of the others. Guessed people were researching for clues.

Re-watching

Thanks allpowerful, my head is bent trying to get around all the facts.

Checking in and my reply to end of last thread

I reckon either all a hallucination or most a hallucination and seeing him when getting his money out was real

Didn't the police man find out Gettrick was a friend of Lenas family? Could he be her biological father? If it was her body in the shed and he submitted his own DNA wouldn't that explain the paternal match? But then again, surely that would have come up when she went missing.

I have an idea brewing. Perhaps Driller somehow facilitated Stone's penchant for young girls through access to his captives (explains how Sophie knew him.. her comments might relate to Lena - perhaps Brig was responsible for her death somehow). Maybe Reid became aware or, given their history and knowledge of what happened in Iraq, invited into this on a mistaken assumption that he'd be interested. Reid threatens to blow their cover, Driller (most likely) or Reid kills him. Reid is ultimately good. Sophie must have been aware given she to him flowers. DNA results are fudged between Driller and Brig (not sure of Brig's involvement with that given his mental state). Hmmm. I'm sure that still leaves lots of questions.
COME ON WEDNESDAY, GET HERE!

I was the one who mentioned significance Baptiste's ?hallucination? bald man. Thanks to pp who have answered.

I wonder if Sam is in the background of the Brig's photo?

I'm really sorry if this had already been mentioned in an earlier thread by Brig Stone is the narrator's voice from "Sarah & Duck"!