The Missing

[bobbie22]

I could not understand the last part. It did not help that I could not hear half of what the actors said. There's a hew case coming up in this series apparently. Please can anyone give me some understanding of the end?

[Ken4155]

Thought the final episode was absolute trash and spoiled an otherwise decent series. The idea that the parents would be allowed to attend a dying man's bedside in what was, after all, an official police investigation, to interrogate and almost throttle said dying man was laughable. Yeah, i know it wasn't real but you get my gist.

[uncle al]

Why not have a programme with an eight week length a friggin ending that a mere mortal could friggin understand
Who was the cleaner upper that killed him?
Or not as we never saw the body

[DaisyNonna]

Recorded the series.
Do I take it that I may as well not have bothered?

[Jennykenny]

I can't believe that no-body, even in passing, mentioned that the 'judge' was the hotel owner's brother.
Surely his wife would have said at one point to Tony, 'Don't worry. My brother-in-law is a senior officer in the justice system and he will help you.'
Very poor ending of what was a great series.

[knowabit]

It was a terrible ending.... with all the extra stuff going on thru the 8 weeks, there was potential for so much better! The whole killing of the boy cos he had seen the mans face was just stupid... he could have just been left at a hospital and would have been fine.

[Prudie]

Well I missed the last episode and am not in a position to watch carch-up but have read about it in the Mail who describes it as "a truly brilliant whodunnit..but what a chilling final twist". I watched the first 7 episodes and personally, like Broad church, it left me cold and disinterested.

[chaptazbru2]

Why didn't they let George tell the police where the body was, was that because there wasn't a body ??? *** ending !

[Ken4155]

chaptazbru2; Because if there was a body, then the search is over and we would not have had that ridiculous last scene in Russia. No doubt the writers left it like that in anticipation of a second series and i read this morning that a 2nd series has, indeed, been commissioned. Though just how many of the characters from series 1 will be involved is, as yet, undetermined.

[ladybirder]

Jenny it was mentioned more than once that they were related but can't remember which episode.
I thought it was a good ending but I wouldn't give up until I'd seen a body if I were Olly's parent.
Maybe in France you can just walk in, but don't forget they had Baptiste with them so ...?
And Bobbie, put your subtitles/text on then you'll know what they are saying in either language although rather late now, sorry.

[netibiza]

I thoroughly enjoyed it although I guess I didn't understand it all. I was wondering if Ollie is still alive, but Russia?

[netibiza]

So it was a sickening blow to realise that Tony himself had drawn the figure on the snowy window, and that Tony was the trudging figure — bearded and half-mad, terrifying children as he searched every street in the world for the son he knew was dead.

Taken from the DM, but I didn't realise that Tony had drawn the stick figure!

[netibiza]

oh dear about that!

[puzzled54]

Yes I read that in the paper too,but I didn't pick up that Tony had drawn the picture himself. I was hoping that the next series would be tony tracing Ollie to Russia, as I was not 100% sure that Ollie was dead. Excellent acting by James nesbitt.

[sp1814]

There is a BAFTA nomination waiting for Mr Nesbitt in 2015.

[Deskdiary]

Great series, and easy to follow (I've seen a few posts over the last few weeks where people couldn't - which surprised me) but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed with the end.

I'm a pretty simple soul and therefore I like closure in dramas and, generally, happy endings - especially when I've invested 8 weeks. I would have liked to have known 100% whether the child was dead or, better still, have seen him found and they all lived happily ever after.

sp - there may well be a nomination for James Nesbitt....but the winner should be Cillian Murphy in the best thing I've seen on TV for many years, the utterly faultless and brilliant, Peaky Blinders.

[Veebird]

I still think it's open ended and Ollie could be either dead or transported off somewhere by the evil traffickers, Caid de Cite. We don't know what Tony found out to take him to Russia. Georges certainly didn't examine the body so the only problem I have with him being trafficked is the amount of blood in the cellar and what was the white fluid, like milk mixed with it? Not any sort of body fluid so what could it be? Did he put up a struggle and was drugged?

[ladybirder]

Or was it made to look like Olly's blood and that they had murdered him, when in fact he was more valuable to the Bulgarians alive and trafficked? That must be what Tony thinks. And I'm not sure Julien really believes Olly's dead either.

[thugulike]

I didn't get the bit about the Ken Stott character who was put in the lake after have been murdered by Tony and was then seen on a boat with his wife????

[aelmpvw]

he wasn't there, it was in her imagination