Anyone watching Missing ?

Ilsa was the prostitute in episode 2 who was a friend of Henry Reed. S/he may or may not be transgender. But I think she is Alice.

That's exactly what I said on the very first page of the thread Jalima
Oops, must have read it and forgotten already!

Blame the series, it is making me

Greyduster yes, although if she is Alice she could have learnt French from Sophie. I missed the bit where he called her Sophie.

Mamie never thought of that. I took Ilsa at face value and surely she is older than Alice would be? She looks well into her 30s if not 40s.

The actress (interesting) was born in 1983 so yes just in her thirties. Ho hum.
Possibly the third girl?

I think she was the one in the shed (but dead already before the fire started).

It is at last beginning to make some sense to me. I think Alice is living with her captor under a "Stockholm sydrome" situation.
The little child is hers and the captors. She is either pretending to do along with her captor so she can escape with her baby or she really feels he is there to protect her.
I think there was a serious incident in the British Army that has been covered up and now the secrets about it are coming to light. (Well that is what I think has happened.)

Yes, I think that is it.

Of course, it could be Stockholm Syndrome (and after 11 years? of brainwashing it probably is, although I still think that Stone, Reed and whoever took her in the first place), but he still has Lucy and presumably she will do whatever it takes to protect her.

Just caught up with this and a couple of things puzzle me. Didn't the butcher's wife have a Downs syndrome son? and How did Baptiste know that she was the officer he needed to see when he looked at the army papers? By the time he arrived she was married to the butcher and retired, the papers would have had her maiden name.

trisher
perhaps all will be explained or perhaps Gransnetters are too good at picking up the flaws in the story

I must have missed something I don't remember any downs child where was that gosh did I shut my eyes at a crucial moment ( that's not unheard of )

I remember seeing a young man with some kind of learning difficulty now you mention it but I'm not sure if he was a son of anyone.

I don't remember anyone with learning difficulties in Missing (stand to be corrected) but there was someone with learning difficulties in The Level. Sometimes there are so many of these crime dramas running at the same time that they tend to morph into one!

I thought the young man with Down's Syndrome worked in the butcher's shop?

Yes there was definitely a young man with Down's working in the butchers shop but I don't think he was their/her/his son. As I remember him being told to "get himself home". Presumably the paper that Baptists saw had her name on it trisher. Do we know that her and the butcher were married?

Is it the last episode this week?

My head's hurting

Two more.

Definitely was one Greyduster and I think he was the one who found her (but could be wrong about that) One of the impressions I got early on was that the butcher offered her and the boy some sort of sanctuary.
She has been addressed as whatever the butcher's surname is, but I suppose that could be good manners.

Two more.
oh no!

What I don't understand is that, if she was the commanding officer and Stone and Reid were in her regiment or platoon (or whatever it's called in the Army) and something awful happened - why, when she left the Army would she stay around where the regiment is stationed? Why not go back home to the UK?

(and they wouldn't be stationed there permanently - would they?)

That's a good point. To date, her character has been peripheral. If she was involved in something criminal and was cashiered (sacked) I doubt if she would have wanted to stay anywhere near her former regiment. As for whether soldiers stay in one place permanently, these days, in a place like Germany, they very well might do longer tours of duty. It used to be two or three years. There aren't that many places for them to go these days. We had a friend who seemed to be swanning around at Rheindahlen forever before he retired. On TV they can make it up as they go along!

It must have been covered up or they would have been court-martialled.
If it was covered up and she left at 40+ she would have got a pension so I can't understand why on earth she would stay there and marry the butcher.

Someone blackmailing her?

I thought the "cover up" was an essential part of the story. Unless she knew about it all along and has helped to cover up for Stone and Reid whether she wanted to or not. She knows that her husband??? did not do it.

The actor who plays the press officer (drillman) is 49 in real life, so if he is playing his real age then it's possible that he could have been in Iraq in 1991 as he would have been 24.

Looks like the final episode will be exciting!

Last night was good and all starting to fit into place a bit

Yes, it's all unravelling now, but whose was the body in the shed fire then?