Spoilers
Initially I was going to give BBC1’s ‘The Missing’ a miss, because I reckoned it would be McCann-based, and too exploitative for my taste, but I’m hooked now. It’s spread over eight episodes so there’s a long way to go, but already I know that there’s something very wrong about the guy Mark, the UK police liaison at the start of the story, who’s with Tony’s ex at the present time. At the moment we’re being led towards Ken Stott as the bad guy, but I want to know more about the guy that Tony put in hospital, I want to know how the French cop wound up in jail, and I want to know how Baptiste got that limp and what’s the back story of his English wife.
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Quintin Jardine's blog 
I agree but it’s still hard to shake off the eerie feeling that you’re merging somehow into the agony of the McCanns. In me, at least, it generated a niggling doubt that I was teetering on the outermost boundary of discretion. Meanwhile back at the ranch, another sub-plot that’s still loose on the hinge is whether Vincent made a clean breast of things to the nurse at his injection and if so ….