Alice is immediately hospitalised as she has a ruptured appendix.

Opening with the reappearance of a missing child is an inversion of series one’s beginning, but this opening episode was no less traumatic for focussing on a family dealing with a missing child’s return. The young woman is Alice Webster (Abigail Hardingham) who was last seen sneaking out of a school for the children of British Army personnel stationed in Germany eleven years previously. The Missing series 2 episode 1 began with a young English woman, clearly in distress, stumbling out of a forest into a German town and collapsing in the market square. Nevertheless, how to continue a series that had effectively taken its story to the end of a dark and lonely road? The answer is to find a new story, with a new cast – only French detective Julien Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo) returns. The darkness of the theme was assuaged by a stream of compelling twists supplied by series creators Harry and Jack Williams which kept viewers hooked through eight episodes to a decisive conclusion.Ī second series was all but guaranteed by success both in ratings, and Bafta, Golden Globe and Emmy award nominations. It was a harsh series, the subject of child abduction often making it a very uncomfortable watch. The Missing’s first series was the story of a father’s obsessive and ultimately destructive quest to discover the fate of his abducted son.

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