The Missing - BBC1 9pm Tuesdays

[Mr Gray]

Try and get in the real world davel.

BHH said 'murder investigation' in his slip-

Which 'you' acknowledged before.

Perhaps you should pay attention to what 'you' type. &%+((£

no slip..maddie may be dead or may be alive...obviously a murder investigation rules out your accident theory

[Mr Gray]

The Met have also said Madeleine may not have left the apartment alive.
Maybe alive; maybe dead; "there was a window of opportunity in which an abduction may have taken place" or words to that effect.
None of which really says anything or gives much of a clue what The Met are thinking unless one wishes to put words in their mouth.

how is repeating their actual words....putting words in their mouth

[jassi]

The police always like to think the worse.
Obviously, in the absence of a body, they cannot determine any cause of death and therefore cannot distinguish between death being deliberate or accidental.

[stephen25000]

The Met have also said Madeleine may not have left the apartment alive.
Maybe alive; maybe dead; "there was a window of opportunity in which an abduction may have taken place" or words to that effect.
None of which really says anything or gives much of a clue what The Met are thinking unless one wishes to put words in their mouth.

It's the old ploy of 'maybe yes or maybe no'.

[Brietta]

Missing will be broadcast in eight parts … wonder which one will feature the internet trolls and blogs which now seem to be de rigueur whenever there is a tragedy of any kind in real life?

[Eleanor]

I watched the first episode and found it quite riveting, albeit predictable, with knowledge aforethought.  Seven years ago I would have been shocked.  How could people be so cruel?  Now I am merely curious to see the drama unfold.

I suppose it must be loosely based on the disappearance of Madeleine.  But then the disappearance of any child these days would be likely to follow the same pattern of human unkindness in some quarters.

Nesbitt as ever, is brilliant.

[colombosstogey]

I watched the first episode and found it quite riveting, albeit predictable, with knowledge aforethought.  Seven years ago I would have been shocked.  How could people be so cruel?  Now I am merely curious to see the drama unfold.

I suppose it must be loosely based on the disappearance of Madeleine.  But then the disappearance of any child these days would be likely to follow the same pattern of human unkindness in some quarters.

Nesbitt as ever, is brilliant.

I didnt think much of it. The plot was full of holes, and i would not compare it with the missing McCann case not at all.

I just been on digital spy, and a lot of the viewers hadnt even realised the dark haired women was the mother lol...or with the liaision police officer.

Where did the yellow scarf come from, the boy was not wearing it after he came out of the pool.

The father put the bags on a chair OUTSIDE the cafe and the boy was following behind him holding his hand, i never saw his scarf on his body at the time.

Outside the father picks up bags from the path....

The father of the Nesbitts character intimated there was a problem in the thier past so could it be a revenge attack.

I could hardly hear some of the dialogue.

So one charity shop writes down everyones address with what they left? Right sure they did.

BUT I am going to have another look at that scene, as I only saw the scarf written down, the women in the house, said it could have got muddled up with a box of other things, so why were they not logged too.

No I found it thick and hard to follow. I dont like Nesbitt anyway sadly. I might just keep an eye on it see how it pans out, but I expect the plot could have just been done in a 2.5 our film rather then stretch it out for 8 hours.

[sadie]

I didnt think much of it. The plot was full of holes, and i would not compare it with the missing McCann case not at all.

I just been on digital spy, and a lot of the viewers hadnt even realised the dark haired women was the mother lol...or with the liaision police officer.

Where did the yellow scarf come from, the boy was not wearing it after he came out of the pool.

The father put the bags on a chair OUTSIDE the cafe and the boy was following behind him holding his hand, i never saw his scarf on his body at the time.

Outside the father picks up bags from the path....

The father of the Nesbitts character intimated there was a problem in the thier past so could it be a revenge attack.

I could hardly hear some of the dialogue.

So one charity shop writes down everyones address with what they left? Right sure they did.

BUT I am going to have another look at that scene, as I only saw the scarf written down, the women in the house, said it could have got muddled up with a box of other things, so why were they not logged too.

No I found it thick and hard to follow. I dont like Nesbitt anyway sadly. I might just keep an eye on it see how it pans out, but I expect the plot could have just been done in a 2.5 our film rather then stretch it out for 8 hours.

Oh, interesting.

Have you seen the whole plot then?

In the first episode?

[slartibartfast]

Oh, interesting.

Have you seen the whole plot then?

In the first episode?

Those were the holes in the first episode...

[Eleanor]

I am not going to speculate on how the yellow scarf came into it, but you are right, Slarty, this is worth thinking of.  But I did get a sense of something lurking before the child disappeared.

I didn't have any problem with the child's mother changing her hair colour, or with the detective.  And as for the rest of the clothes being logged in at the second hand shop, they could have been but no one was looking for anything else.  And the French are notorious for paperwork anyway.

[colombosstogey]

Those were the holes in the first episode...

Big holes. I just re watched it, there is no way that scarf was around the childs neck and the father found his rucksack and toy on the path.....which could have contained it.?

Also one minute they are getting out of the pool and its light and then they are in pitch black, does it come down that fast in the med?

[Brietta]

Those were the holes in the first episode...

It is a drama which is billed as showing some of the emotional upheaval suffered by those closest to missing children. 

To replicate that, no doubt the writer researched information about families who have suffered such trauma … and I think in just the first episode has captured those destructive effects as well as the desperation and guilt.

Madeleine McCann and Ben Needham are the only British children who may have been taken by an abductor while abroad … apart from that sad fact … I don’t see a direct link to either case.

In the drama … an abduction alert, complete with photograph, was sent out timeously … this was explained as enabling resources unavailable to the local police force to be immediately put into play.

I found that interesting as I don't think it replicated what happened in either Madeleine or Ben's case ... but it does illustrate what the procedure would have been in 2006, when 'The Missing' is set.

[Brietta]

I am not going to speculate on how the yellow scarf came into it, but you are right, Slarty, this is worth thinking of.  But I did get a sense of something lurking before the child disappeared.

I didn't have any problem with the child's mother changing her hair colour, or with the detective.  And as for the rest of the clothes being logged in at the second hand shop, they could have been but no one was looking for anything else.  And the French are notorious for paperwork anyway.

The man on his own who walked past and looked at them when they were playing in the pool??  Everyone else was watching the World Cup game.

I thought the portrayal of the child's mother trying to get on with her life ... and not quite managing it ... powerful.

The co-incidence of the second hand shop ??? well ... it is a drama ... but who is to say such things are impossible?

[Eleanor]

France has long been hot on Alerts.  I can remember posters of missing children posted in my area before 2007.  And these of children missing from many miles away.  And of Banners under Television Programmes, and flashed on Motorways.

[Carana]

It is a drama which is billed as showing some of the emotional upheaval suffered by those closest to missing children. 

To replicate that, no doubt the writer researched information about families who have suffered such trauma … and I think in just the first episode has captured those destructive effects as well as the desperation and guilt.

Madeleine McCann and Ben Needham are the only British children who may have been taken by an abductor while abroad … apart from that sad fact … I don’t see a direct link to either case.

In the drama … an abduction alert, complete with photograph, was sent out timeously … this was explained as enabling resources unavailable to the local police force to be immediately put into play.

I found that interesting as I don't think it replicated what happened in either Madeleine or Ben's case ... but it does illustrate what the procedure would have been in 2006, when 'The Missing' is set.

I wonder if that is why it was set in 2006 and in France? The French version of the Amber alert had just been created in February 2006, but Belgium was still thinking about it a year later.

http://pro.guidesocial.be/actualites/bientot-une-alerte-enlevement-en-belgique.html