The Missing - Was he found?

Me, along with the majority of people I know, have been hooked to The Missing for the last eight weeks. And last night we got our conclusion... 

The fate of little Oliver was revealed. So don't read on, if you haven't yet watched the final episode of this series.

It turns out that the young boy was accidentally run over by drunk Hotel owner Alain, who believed he had killed Ollie. However, when he called on his brother Georges, who then called in a favour from a Russian criminal to take care of disposing of Oliver's body, it was revealed that Ollie was not dead. 

Georges was further horrified to discover that the Russian had killed Oliver. But had he really?

At the beginning of last night's ep, we saw the famous drawing that Oliver had done of his dad, on a shed made of snow. Young teen boys all did a runner, as a big, strange stumbling man - faceless at this point - came toward them. This made us think 'actually, Oliver could still - must still - be alive...' 

Oliver's parents, Tony and Emily, seemingly accepted the fate of their boy. He was dead. But Tony, towards the end of the episode clearly hadn't moved on. Talking to Julien, he decided that Ollie could be alive and in Russia. Julien told Tony to accept and move on with his life. But Tony had drawn the same stick-man drawing as Ollie's on a notepad whilst on the phone... 

Back in Russia, in the final scenes, was where the chilling end to the series took place. The big, stumbling man now had a bearded face. It was Tony. He had travelled to Russia, believing his boy was there. 

When Tony knocked on the front door of a flat in an apartment block, a teen boy answered... 

Tony handed the frightened looking lad the picture he had, which Ollie had drawn of him. The boy, in my opinion seemed to recognise the picture. But Tony was soon dragged away by the police for harassment. The last shot was of a scared looking Tony, confused maybe. A broken man. 

And that was the end. 

It's left fans wondering whether the boy was really Oliver - or if Tony had made the drawing in the snow, and wrongly thought this boy was his son. 

An eagle-eyed fan on Twitter, posted this photo:

The 'e-fit' from a newspaper, was the same actor as the boy who Tony believed to be Ollie...

If you read the Daily Mail, they think that Oliver was killed and all of this was a figment of a broken Tony's imagination. Others believe that Ollie was alive, and was the 'Russian' boy. 

There was good news at the end of the credits last night, too, as it was confirmed that The Missing would be back for a second series, but revealed that it would focus on a 'new case'. 

The trailer voiceover, provided by Baptiste, explained: "To lose somebody can destroy a person. But to find them again, when so much has passed, that can be worse."

Brothers Harry and Jack Williams will return to write the series, and said:

"We always knew the story of Oliver Hughes would have an ending. But in writing the first series we found there were many themes and issues we didn't have the chance to explore,"

So - what did I think of The Missing's conclusion?

It confused, and annoyed me, at first to an extent that we didn't get a full conclusion. But thinking about it now, it was very clever of the writers to leave the ending 'open', as such, so that each fan can believe what they made of it. 

Sadly, in life, some poor families are living with this conclusion each day... So really, The Missing's ending was as near to reality as could be. 

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