Anyone watching Missing ?

Brilliant, we can all sleep easy now we know !!

I enjoyed last night's episode, but too many unanswered questions, not least of which is how on earth could they have construed that Reed committed suicide? If he'd shot himself in the head, his arm wouldn't have been out to the side with the gun in his hand would it? The whole thing looked impossible to me, but I'm picky. I was sorry that Sam died though.

Someone - but not sure who - did say earlier that Reed had not killed himself.

I thought Alice looked very well when she came out of the cupboard!

Despite all the above I really enjoyed the series and hope there will be another one. The discrepancies did not spoil my enjoyment although my husband was acting as devil's advocate and pointing them out - grrr

Another great series from the BBC, one or two discrepancies of course, but the tension was there right to the end. More please

Oh I loved it surely with a drama we don't need to pick holes and look for everything that could be wrong I m sure we can find discrepancies in Shakespeare's work if we look hard enough
I was pleased it all came out in the wash and the jigsaw pieces for the most part fitted into how we were all working it out, ...I didn't expect the Dad to die though

Hearing the authors talk this morning they did say that stone does have dementia but no one can know what he remembers or what he doesn't and that would go for real life too
I was less confident Baptise will live I do hope so and I guess that's the cliff hanger we are left with
Brilliantly ant drama can't wait for the next one now

My DH hasn't really followed this but has driven me mad popping in and out asking who is who and what is what. About 3 episodes ago he popped his head round the door, (I was engrossed)pointing to Sam (the dad) he said "he'll be dead before the end". Imagine how smug he looked last night.

Was it acknowledged that Reed didn't kill himself? If not, it would have been difficult to shoot oneself in the head and die at that angle, like grey says.

Maybe the discrepancies are in fact teasers that will link to a future series hopes.

Gripping! They must write another series, everyone is talking about it.

I agree Bluebelle, we don't need to dwell on the discrepancies. Anyway, there are red herrings and confusions in real life too. The more answers we find, the more questions crop up.

Oh, it was good! There's still the drawer full of scan photos to explain away - I think (hope) that these will crop up again in the next series. As will Baptiste, with any luck.

Adam, the drillman murderer, has murdered other girls who also got pregnant by him while he kept them captive, hence all the scan photos. He didn't answer when Baptiste asked him if there were more girls ..... maybe the next series will be based on finding out what happened to them.

It wasn't explained how Sophie got out of the shed after setting fire to it.

I thought that I heard Adam say when he was being interviewed that he let Sophie out of the shed. I may be wrong.

He did, greyduster, I think.

She wasn't in it when she set fire to it Sparklefizz (was she???) I remember drill man saying he planted the body of Lena in the shed after she had died. He said something about it being a perfect solution. Then that creep Stone fiddled the DNA.

I just assumed that the scan photos were because she was having a surrogate baby and confuddled.

it did keep us all watching though didn't it! Quite a few far- fetched bits. Amazing how quickly they found them in Switzerland!!
Got to be a series 3 - lots of loose ends!

Anyone started watching Modus?

Was it acknowledged that Reed didn't kill himself? If not, it would have been difficult to shoot oneself in the head and die at that angle, like grey says.^
I did have a look at the credits to see if they had a forensic scientist as an adviser to the series, but didn't see one.

Even just skirting the edge of the blood spatter from the bullet wound would have caused some footprint smudging around the edge. Especially as there would seem to be no apparent reason for Henry Reid to kill himself. If the German police investigated then I would have thought they would have been more thorough; if it was the military police then perhaps reports got changed or lost.

Sophie was replaced in the shed with Lena by drillman before it was set fire.
If the fire was put out fairly quickly there could be DNA from the bones which were underneath as the fire would go upwards and Stone changed the report. However, if it was ferocious and long lasting the DNA would have been totally destroyed and Stone could have faked the whole report.

I did like Roger Allam in Endeavour.

Yes Morgana I am watching Modus (see my thread Swedish Thriller). I enjoyed the first episode. When I told DH I was watching Swedish telly he assumed, quite wrongly, that I was watching something racy

Whose was the body in the back of the car in Missing please ?

I watched the first very atmospheric episode of Rillington Place (or whatever it is called) about the mass murdered Christie - excellent acting.

I would be grateful for some more recommendations please as I feel a bit bereft now.

Just watched the last episode of The Missing, what an amazing series it has been.Loved it.

The body was the poor young detective (German) who went to Adam's house and then was killed horribly when he was about to find out that Lucy (child)and the girls were being kept in the basement.

Roger Allam is a great actor, but his tour de force was as Thursday ( in young Morse.)

The body in the boot was the policeman who was killed by 'drill man'

Roger Allam's finest hour occurs regularly on Cbeebies, where he is the voice-over on Sarah and Duck.

If Reed had committed suicide he would have had to have lain on the floor himself to do the deed - because of the gore out the back of the head and on the floor directly underneath his head. It would be a pretty odd way to do it.

I must watch that, sadly we don't seem to catch CBeebies any more

I may never feel the same about Thursday.

I think it WAS acknowledged that Reed's death was suicide (watched some episodes again last night).

Something else has been troubling me. I can't understand how the butcher was convicted of the abduction simply on the say-so of the returned girl. Unless I've missed something? I can't remember there being an investigation. There was nothing to link him forensically, and the photo on the camera was found after he was imprisoned, wasn't it? Even then it would have been circumstantial, surely?