Settlement of bets may be interesting.

Phrasing used is who 'kidnapped' and multiple 'abductors'.

So it would be the person or person/s who took physically took the child away rather than any mastermind/s behind the idea??

Interesting to know others views on the images in the title sequences.  Some of it appears to be through the eyes of a child (Oliver?).  Towards the end of the sequence they appear to go into a wooded area.  I wonder if there are some clues in there.

Agreed, Jack, settlement could be interesting.

Re the woods, we are in 'Chalons du Bois' and the bois have yet to feature.  And guess what the latin word for Forest is, Jack?  Silva/Silvia/Sylvia

Re the opening titles, I see flashes of yellow.  I fact every where I turn I see bee imagery.  Look at the inside of Ollie's hood when he goes missing (yellow and black hoops), look at the colour of the football in the pool before he goes missing (yellow and black), the scarf etc etc.

Analysis paralysis has set in, I need a denouement.


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I had the same thought about the bois.

In the opening sequence there are views from the back seat of a car looking upwards.  An apparent reflection of a man in the windows of a multi-storey building.  A yellow rubber ring in a swimming pool.  A view down at someones feet underwater in a pool.  Back of Oliver in crowd.  Drinks at bar.  A hand against the sun (twice?).  A car in traffic (possibly viewed from back seat).  Then a fairly remote location and trees overhead.  All split second images.

So much goes on in each episode.  We have watched everyone twice and last night watched the 7th for a third time and still noticed new 'stuff'.

Wondered if there was a theme about drinking and smoking also.  Drink - Tony, Alain (alcoholic/token?)  Baptiste, Alain, Malik smoking.

Lots of yellow.  Not so much red.  Apart from the herrings.

To be honest it could be one of several people, as they filmed multiple endings its all down to which one they choose, the producer could have got out of bed the wrong way the morning he made a decision & changed his mind, imo the way the story has developed any theory is possible, I do hope its not the usual disappointing end to another good drama series.

note to self

read the post before yours before you post it.

Emily into 5/1

Interesting thing about Emily is that she is the one who got the Golden Globe nod.  Perhaps she gives a tour de force performance tonight?

Max £1.  Ta Ozy

No but I don't want to scroll down & read stuff I have already seen either & that doesn't happen when what I want to read it at the top of the page

After espousing dozens of theories, I have now come down to the following;

Karl Sieg (in cahoots with Mark) was supposed to kidnap James (Mark's son) that night at the pool.  Reasons
unclear.  He made a mistake and grabbed Ollie.  Sieg later plants the coin evidence to muddy the trail.

The main reason I think Sieg is working with Mark is because he asks for 15K .,,which is exactly the amount saved by Emily for wedding to Mark.  Too much of a coincidence....Mark told him how much to ask for.

Also don't think Sieg would risk incriminating the Romanian gang for 15K...he wanted to get the coin back into play.  Also left the drawing in a moment of weakness, a monument to the fact that Ollie was killed when they realised he wasn't James.

My Queen Bee theory is purer but farther fetched.

Good questions!

Roger if you look at 44.32 here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M25vw-06uzY 

you can see the coin in the basement during the flashback of Siegs cleaning.  It is on top of a blue coat.

So that is how he got the coin.

After that, speculation...who's is it?  Not nexcessarily Alains, though probably.  Suggest he was in the basement, or coin left there deliberately with instructions for Sieg to plant it in the drain.

Poor finish imo.

All explained in the first 15 minutes and no final twist.

Another CCDA fail clocked up.

1.01 he's not dead.

I think he is dead.  So much blood, George saw him, guessing he looked dead then.

Tony drew that figure on the window in Russia.

The Missing 2 will be a completely new case imo.

Blimey, that certainly fooled me then. Did everyone else figure that out?

Cheers all. I'll get me coat.

we don't know for sure Jack, but for me the blood tilts it towards ..dead.  Plus George saw the corpse..ok, he didn't check a pulse or anything.

never give up

Good series - turns out it was all about Tony's descent into some kind of madness, with the 'whodunnit' as the hook to hang his story on.

Now though, it looks like we're going to get the Eurovision version of 'Lost' (which is not a good thing)

The next series will be a new case but that doesn't mean that he can't be discovered alive at some point in future. The next series might uncover a paedo network Garrett was involved in for example. They chose not to conclude the story beyond all doubt by discovering the body. Considering the next series will feature a new case I see no reason why they would leave it open-ended unless there is a fair chance the boy is not dead.