Anyone watching Missing ?

He was offered plastic surgery in Germany but told he would have to pay for it. I wondered about it because I know there is an excellent army plastic surgery unit in Hatfield and would have thought he would have been sent there. (Oh and that's a thought he would be 'sent' not go by choice). I suspect there are loads of holes in this series if you look carefully, but it is gripping and thought provoking. Just don't look too closely!!!

Perhaps he refused any more treatment; he certainly seemed to want to discharge himself from hospital too soon
(I think, getting a bit )

Re length of service in Germany - don't different regiments go for a set period then another regiment take their place - surely they don't decide how long they want to stay there themselves?

I wondered about the treatment for Alice's dad's burns. I know there are army plastic surgeons who work to repair damage from war wounds, would he not be entitled to the same treatment? Or does the army not treat soldiers whose injuries aren't received in battle?

That gets us too, morethan. The first couple of episodes they looked like they had pancakes on their heads; then someone must have sorted them out! I don't suppose they have time to soak them, shape them to their heads and then kick them up and down a corridor like we used to!

Its getting more confusing than ever!

No Blubell I wasn't talking about the naughties, that sort of thing goes on, even the smallest village everywhere in the world. It was more the ambience, the feel of the personnel, the quarters and barracks. I too spent a long time living in army quarters and now have a son who does. It's just a personal take on it from my own experiences. Mind you what really gets to my husband is in any film or t.v show featuring army personnel is the way they wear their berets, but this is digressing from the main point of the thread. I have real trouble following the story line. Do any of you know when is the last episode? Soon I hope. I just want it wrapped up.

I didn't know we still had sush large camps still in Germany - do people stay in one posting for so long?

What bit about living in army barracks isn't true morethan I spent 12 years living in service quarters and if you mean all the naughties that is going on blimey the News of the World wouldn't have handled what was going on in my experience one posting we had was known as Suicide alley because of the number of wives who killed themselves ( mostly gas oven stuff in those days) because of husbands affairs etc Wouldn't have been a bit surprised to have found a murder or two although I didn't

It's just too confusing for me. I'm not really enjoying it that much I just want to know the ending. Although I have a horrible feeling it will be disappointing...again. The other reason I'm finding it annoying is because the family life on an army barracks just doesn't ring true. I must be getting old because I like a storyline to have a beginning, a middle and an end. Not an beginning, middle, beginning middle, middle, beginning middle of the middle, and probably no real ending. I'll have to stick to midsummer murders from now on.

Having googled a bit about Baptise ( I can't pronounce or spell his real name) said it was so complicated the cast had to ask the directors to write down a sort of timeline of events for them to follow as they were all confused Makes me feel a whole lot better

Maybe someone tampered with the evidence.

Oh, there's a thought!

But - I don't know a lot about sexual deviation but if he is guilty would that fit in with other things he has possibly done?

I wondered if she knew things about him but was threatened by him as he is a senior rank?
Why did she leave the army and marry the butcher?

The picture of the butchers wife gagged was that her husband behind her I couldn't see it very well and I did wonder if it was the brig I wondered if they re had a fling just the way he spoke to her when he came to the shop

Waking the Dead is so annoying.
I don't watch Silent Witness.

The body was burnt, depending on the degree and heat of the fire the possibility of any DNA being recoverable would be a variant.
With such a large amount of petrol being used the fire would have been intense. If it was reduced to very burnt bones then it may not always be possible to extract enough DNA to test.

Hang on a minute. The burnt body in the shed was "A genetic daughter" of the father who was tested.
It may not have been the original "Alice". It might be another daughter of the father by a different mother, unless they tested both mothers of the of the original Alice they cannot be sure.
If she could only be identified by DNA she would not have been reconisable by features.
If the DNA matches it is possible for police to decide that is who it is and CBA to look no further.

Jalima that body was very "fresh" they would have just had to dig deep enough into the body to find some viable DNA.

What might make you think that I watch too many episodes of Silent Witness and Waking the Dead.

grumppa it is so gripping but .....
I don't want to think how absurd it is

yes, that was odd trisher

Does anyone know - do army personnel stay in Germany permanently or do they go on eg a 3 year deployment?

Anyone else wonder about why the Brigadier couldn't tell his daughter about her birth when she wanted him to? Was it the beginning of his memory problems or is there some other reason? Another deep, dark secret?

The way things are going, the whole British Army Of the Rhine will end up implicated.. Gripping stuff, but more absurd by the week.

I certainly watched it as one series of eight episodes, the same as this one.

Just had a look on google and it seems the other long story is now shown as one series - I thought that there was a break between some of the story - maybe not. There is also an American series called The Missing just to confused things.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missing_(TV_series)

No - did not see the Returned at all.
The second series of Missing took the story up about 8 years later and showed the father could not let go and was going back and staying at the same hotel whereas the mother had found a new relationship and wanted to get on with her life.
The first series ended with the rich man who had the house -he was building I think - in a remote place with a lake and it became clear he was implicated and it was all to do with a Paedophile ring. There would have been too many episodes and too long a story for it to have been one series. James Nesbit was roaming round still looking at the end of the second series.

Are you thinking of The Returned with all the dead people wandering around Lake Annecy?