What’s Suri getting at? The setup: Following the piece of evidence they discovered last week—a bloodied 12 years of sobriety coin—Tony, Emily, Baptiste, Mark, and Laurence zero in on Alain Deloix, the husband of Hotel L’Eden innkeeper Sylvie. It’s a mundane few seconds, but supernaturally eerie in the same way that the clincher of the premiere was, when Ollie’s drawing was discovered. The bride gives a beautiful toast, thanking her friends and loved ones for helping her get through the terrible loss. Sign up here. NEXT: Another boy disappears in Chalons du Bois. “Are you sure you want to see this?” Baptiste asks, already knowing the answer.
But when the emergency operator picks up, Alain goes silent. But it earns a place in haunting crime drama next to the recent Broadchurch and Top of the Lake. To us, Baptiste looks dumb trying to pin this on Tony. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Yes, he is: “If you speak now the procurer will be easier on you,” he tells Tony. The Missing: Season 1 Episode 2 Clip - Leave the Past Where it Belongs. Most importantly, this whole story was relayed to us by Alain—who was likely heavily medicated—and half of his story was relayed to him by Georges. (Last episode, we saw Baptiste uncover something unseemly in Tony’s past involving bank statements and a bloodied man.)
Tony gets a work call, which he pulls over to answer, earning him a scowl from Emily (Frances O’Connor). Relationship thriller exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction on both the family and the wider community, told over two time frames and two countries. Is revenge for Ollie worth more than the lives of the 50-something other innocent children Garrett brutalized? He spoke with the family, and they say they were in Châlons Du Bois on holiday on last year’s Bastille Day and bought the scarf from a secondhand shop in the town. This limited series on Starz explores the lives of people who are affected by a boy’s disappearance eight years later. But in another sense, isn’t he just a father, using the only leverage he has in his marginalized position, to see his own son—who has effectively disappeared from his life as well? The boy’s own father kidnapped him, staging it to look similar to Ollie’s disappearance. Tony’s still hung up on the missing body though. Everything else is kind of irrelevant. Tony and Emily plead with him. I start to think about how feasible this demand is for Tony and then, for the first time I can remember, wonder about Tony’s job. Our perception of him evolved from dangerous child predator to sad creep, to a sick man battling a grave illness and doing his best to turn his life around—and, ultimately to a man tragically resigned to his demons. As we’re pondering this, Garrett speaks the most disturbing two words spoken in the show so far. While this occurs, something’s off about Garrett, though we can’t quite put our finger on it. (Though the dramatic switch between the sunny and cloudy filters/lighting would’ve done the job, The Missing also employs an unpleasant ear-piercing ringing sound to signify a shift from the past to the present, and vice-versa.) This is the first time we’ve seen Tony and Emily truly relying on each other for support since Ollie disappeared, and, given the icy distance they’ve maintained for years, it’s truly comforting—a small victory in itself, a tiny bit of a dead relationship recovered. The next step is to find anyone in the neighborhood who might’ve seen something—neighbors, the mailman, etc. Is he Oliver Hughes? “What did you take? We head back to 2006, where a belligerent Tony is sitting through being questioned about the disappearance of his own son.