Anyone watching Missing ?

I don't remember anyone with learning difficulties in Missing (stand to be corrected) but there was someone with learning difficulties in The Level. Sometimes there are so many of these crime dramas running at the same time that they tend to morph into one!

I remember seeing a young man with some kind of learning difficulty now you mention it but I'm not sure if he was a son of anyone.

I must have missed something I don't remember any downs child where was that gosh did I shut my eyes at a crucial moment ( that's not unheard of )

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perhaps all will be explained or perhaps Gransnetters are too good at picking up the flaws in the story

Just caught up with this and a couple of things puzzle me. Didn't the butcher's wife have a Downs syndrome son? and How did Baptiste know that she was the officer he needed to see when he looked at the army papers? By the time he arrived she was married to the butcher and retired, the papers would have had her maiden name.

Yes, I think that is it.

Of course, it could be Stockholm Syndrome (and after 11 years? of brainwashing it probably is, although I still think that Stone, Reed and whoever took her in the first place), but he still has Lucy and presumably she will do whatever it takes to protect her.

It is at last beginning to make some sense to me. I think Alice is living with her captor under a "Stockholm sydrome" situation.
The little child is hers and the captors. She is either pretending to do along with her captor so she can escape with her baby or she really feels he is there to protect her.
I think there was a serious incident in the British Army that has been covered up and now the secrets about it are coming to light. (Well that is what I think has happened.)

I think she was the one in the shed (but dead already before the fire started).

The actress (interesting) was born in 1983 so yes just in her thirties. Ho hum.
Possibly the third girl?

That's exactly what I said on the very first page of the thread Jalima
Oops, must have read it and forgotten already!

Blame the series, it is making me

Greyduster yes, although if she is Alice she could have learnt French from Sophie. I missed the bit where he called her Sophie.

Mamie never thought of that. I took Ilsa at face value and surely she is older than Alice would be? She looks well into her 30s if not 40s.

Ilsa was the prostitute in episode 2 who was a friend of Henry Reed. S/he may or may not be transgender. But I think she is Alice.

I thought I heard the press officer (aka drill man) call the girl Sophie when he was talking to her about going away? She also spoke to him in French and he chastised her for it. The plot thickens (or is it me that thickens??).

Sometimes the only way I could keep up with the year was by the length of Keeley Hawes's hair

That's exactly what I said on the very first page of the thread Jalima and so far I think it is the only thing helping me keep track of what year we are in ! Glad it's working for you too.

let Alice/Sophie out the the shed, not her

jalima I am full of admiration for anyone that can come up with any sort of theory as to what is going on at the moment
My theory is probably completely way off beam
I started getting confused when they introduced 2015.

Sometimes the only way I could keep up with the year was by the length of Keeley Hawes's hair!

I don't think the army officer Eve? was pregnant by Sam the first time, their affair started after Alice/Sophie/Lena had died in the shed. The first was the surrogate baby she handed over to her sister and bil. This one is Sam's baby (we presume).

In the bedroom where Alice/Sophie and little Lucy were locked in then drill man said she would be going away and she wanted Lucy to go with her, but he said no, Lucy would be staying with him.
So the girl in Switzerland is Alice/Sophie
He presumably kept Lucy to blackmail Alice/Sophie into not going to the police and revealing all. She has to phone in every day.

Surely the 3rd girl was Lena, not a boy?, and Alice/Sophie in Switzerland threw her spectacles on to the fire - symbolic of the fire that Lena died in because it was her in the shed? Drill man would have come along and let her out of the shed and replaced her with a dead body.

I think.

Mamie who is this person you say we are encouraged to think is male I ve lost that bit completely ?

I don't think we have been told who the father of the first baby was. It was probably her sisters husband as it was a surrogate baby. The second (most recent) pregnancy is Sam's baby though. I always had a feeling that the butchers wife was setting him up to take the blame (knowing full well he didn't do it).

can't wait until the next episode.

Surely the first baby ( surrogate) was not fathered by Sam though?
It's very well acted, one of those dramas which sucks you in to it.

I can't cope with the time changes, the violence or the plot!

Thanks Merlotgran I now remember the soldier handing her baby to the sister. Thanks for jogging my rather flagging memory.

I thought the first baby was by Sam but she gave it to her sister then was pregnant again by Sam oh blimey have I got this all wrong?

I m loving it though although it's tying me in knots

Yes who is the middle eastern man Baptise is hallucinating about ? I know he's the one he kept seeing in the bazaars etc but where is he in the story

I don't mean pregnant twice by Sam. I just can't think straight

The female army officer is pregnant (by Sam) for the second time. Her first pregnancy was a surrogate one for her sister.

Baptiste was followed in Iraq by a sinister looking chap and he's now hallucinating about him.

Question - is the female army person pregnant for the second time having lost baby 1, or Is this her first ?

Answer please................

I am thoroughly enjoying the series even though I am veering from understanding the story line, to not having a clue on a minute by minute basis.

Finally who us the foreign looking chap that Baptiste is hallucinating about ?

The policeman went to the Army Press Officer's house to ask about Lena Garber (missing girl) Apparently he knew her family.