Anyone watching Missing ?

I don't think there was Welshwife? The first series ended with Olly's father wandering around Russia.

Was about eighteen months after the first.

The first series was two years ago, rigby. It was good, and complex, but I found the ending a bit dull after all the twists and turns.

Second series - I missed that - When was it?

A mother's instinct - 'that girl is not my Alice'

Is it the same girl playing supposed Alice and supposed Sophie?

Difficult to tell

I think it's Sophie who came back and is now in Switzerland. Alice died and they(?) put her dead body in the shed. The little girl is either Sophie's or the 3 rd girl who is in the basement .

Prevalent us obviously the wrong 'correction' there --- should have been proper.

The first two series were about a totally different case - young English boy missing from a northern French town - he disappeared while in a large crowd watching a football match on a large screen. Baptiste was the detective in charge. The first series ended without a prevalent solution. The second series picked that story up some 7/8 years later and showed what happened to the main characters.

I am getting so now

I do hope it has a proper ending - did the first series have a conclusion or is this a continuation with Sophie?

Maybe Alice-who-is-really-Sophie made a hole at the back of the shed when she asked her brother to lock her in there the first time, in order to dispose of the dead body of the original Alice? Then "someone" dragged the original Alice in through the hole at the back after Alice/Sophie was locked in there on the 2nd night. That is why the body has Sam's DNA.

The pair of specs that Sophie-in-Switzerland has just thrown on the fire must belong to Lena, the 3rd girl on the rollercoaster.

No, and in love with Henry Reed, was it reciprocated?

Which would seem odd if he was involved with the three young girls and the one in Iraq.

The prostitute was not a girl.

That's right, and I am suspicious about the DNA anyway, as both parents should have seen the report, and how burnt was the body ?- if very burnt it would be very difficult to obtain DNA. That fire was very intense.

The way the military policewoman told the mother about the match was so casual it did not ring true. And if the DNA matched with the father why did she not get them both together and tell them together?

We don't know that the girl was Alice from the DNA. It was said that the DNA match was with her father - he could have been the father of any of the girls. That seems like a (deliberate?) hole in the plot to me. The DNA should have been matched with her mother.

I don't think she had been captured

I mean the third girl on the roller coaster, wearing spectacles, the policeman was just on the verge of finding out who she was before drill man put paid to his investigations.

Prostitute?.

The girl in the 'pleasure palace' who was close to Reed and found him dead.

Prostitute?

The military policewoman said the DNA was a match with Alice's father but can we believe her? I would ask to see the report.

Anyway, how burnt was the body and how contaminated with petrol? How did they obtain any good enough DNA?

Is the 3rd girl not the prostitute?

The butchers wife was perhaps beaten up to frighten her to keep quiet about what she knows rather than as we were lead to believe because her husband was charged as a peadophile.

We now know there is another violent soldier in the mix who could easily have murdered Reed and beat her up.

Yes she was ex Military Police I think and presumably served with Reed and Stone in Iraq.

They did a DNA test on the body in the shed and it was Alice.

The little girl is presumably Sophies , if that was who returned and now living in Switzerland, as the doctors said she had given birth.

Great stuff.

And who attacked the butcher's wife and why?

We're led to believe that it was the two thugs (friends of the brother) but not necessarily

gillybob I think that's it, but I could have missed something.

And who and where is the third girl?

If I had the time or the inclination I would watch again from the beginning and make a flow chart

Or if not ex army then def involved with the brigadier as he corrected her when she addressed him by a lesser rank.