Summary
Missing You delivers a head-spinning flurry of developments in Episode 3 that will surely have audiences hitting “Next Episode”, but some logical leaps are required.
It’s ironic that Episode 3 of Missing You is titled “Never Too Much” – after the Luther Vandross song – since there’s a compelling argument to be made that it does indeed include too much. There are so many sudden swerves in the last five minutes that I felt like my head was going to spin.
The connections are becoming slightly clearer, at least. It’s obvious that Dana Fell is connected to Titus’s farm, which is connected to Josh’s disappearance, which is connected to Kat’s father’s murder. But it remains a little unclear precisely how all of these pieces fit together, and who’s involved and in what capacity. That’s what is going to keep audiences pushing through, despite some lingering silliness that does make the whole thing quite difficult to take seriously.
Friends Like These
I haven’t delved into Kat’s circle of friends much with the exception of Stacey, since the plot seems to turn exclusively on her phone book of contacts and seemingly limitless resources, which we’ll see again here in “Never Too Much”. But this episode also lends a bit of focus to Kat’s friend Aqua, who happens to mention to Kat – who has now been suspended, by the way – that she has seen Josh not once but twice since he left; once immediately after, and once six months ago, hiding in a park while she was teaching a yoga class.
It isn’t made expressly clear, but Aqua and Josh were good friends and roommates, so there’s a clear implication bubbling away in the background that Aqua’s loyalties might be to him, rather than Kat. And this comes to the fore when she tries to dissuade Kat from looking for or talking to him. Like everyone else in Missing You, Aqua clearly knows more than she’s letting on.
But Stacey also turns up more information about Josh. He was in a bad bar fight eleven years prior, got arrested, and then apparently disappeared.
Technical Details
Through Charlie, who doesn’t know she’s suspended, Kat gets the CCTV footage of Dana Fell withdrawing money from the ATM. She shows this to Brendan and tells him to look into his mother’s other accounts – savings and such – to find out if there was any suspicious financial activity going on.
Brendan also reveals that he reverse-searched Josh’s image from his Melody Cupid profile and turned up a Facebook page under the name Reggie Cross. This was deleted almost immediately after its creation, but while it was active it contained information about Josh’s personality and interests – especially his music tastes – that Kat knows to be accurate. But why would someone create and then delete a Facebook page under a false name?
While considering that mystery Kat just waltzes into the police station and finds another angle of the CCTV footage open on Charlie’s desk. He’s not happy when he catches her. The footage shows the number plate of the car Dana Fell got into. She had booked a taxi for that night through an agency she uses a lot but canceled last minute on the grounds that her boyfriend was getting her in a Bentley.
That Bentley is now at Titus’s farm, and its driver, Claude, who had rather stupidly made Dana stop off to withdraw some spending money, is summarily executed by Reynaldo. He, like Rishi Magari and Dana’s dress before him, goes into the furnace.
Jessica Plummer as Stacey in Missing You | Image via Netflix
Follow the Money
Taking his new task from Kat seriously, Brendan calls his uncle, Arthur, to ask why his mother withdrew a quarter of a million quid. During the conversation, though, he’s jumped from behind, hitting his head on a rock, and his phone is stolen. From the hospital, he calls Kat, and she accompanies him to speak to Arthur.
Arthur is entirely unconcerned by the situation. He claims that Dana was buying a house overseas and had transferred the money into an account in Switzerland to serve as a downpayment. He also claims to have spoken to Dana on the phone the previous day, when she apparently delivered the exciting news that Josh had proposed to her.
This leaves the small matter of why she’d uncharacteristically keep all of this information from her son, and Arthur’s claims that he’s a bit of a burden don’t really ring true. Either way, Kat – who’s being followed – does her due diligence and goes to see Charlie, who lives in a very nice house that he’s rather vague about being able to afford. She asks him to look into the Swiss account. And since he already believed Kat’s claims when he saw her earlier, he has been looking into the Bentley’s license plate and has discovered it was cloned from a car abandoned in the airport’s long-term lot. Kat also asks Charlie to look into the second fingerprint that was discovered during the Monte Leburne case, on the murder weapon used to kill her father. It was a partial print and was never looked into at the time, swept under the rug as an acceptable loose end in an otherwise closed case.
As Kat’s leaving, Nia arrives with a bottle of wine. It seems like their flirty banter in the previous episode has developed into the beginnings of a relationship.
More Twists Than You Can Count
Missing You Episode 3 ends with a flurry of revelations and suggestions so dense that it’s legitimately quite difficult to keep up with. And it starts with Stagger, who asks to meet Kat to imply that Calligan had a bought-and-paid-for officer on the force and that it was her father.
Kat struggles to rationalize the idea of her father being crooked, but a photo of him and Calligan together seems to prove it. Stagger claims that he was killed because he wanted to get out of the arrangement and that her mother, Odette, was well aware of this. When Kat confronts her mother it turns out to be true, but more worrying than that is Clint also apparently had a mistress. Back then, everyone on the force did.
As if this wasn’t enough to be going on with, Charlie calls Kat and reveals that Josh’s Reggie Cross Facebook page was set up by a nine-year-old kid. Then she gets another call revealing that Brendan’s attacker has been arrested, and it turns out to be Aqua!
But that’s not all! In the episode’s closing montage, we see Dana as a captive on Titus’s farm – which, to be fair, we’d deduced anyway – and Stagger deleting Charlie’s request to analyze the fingerprint from the Monte Leburne case. So, despite having revealed the connection between Clint and Calligan, he’s still hiding something.
Oh, and that little girl who set up the Facebook page? Her name is Sadie, and she seems to be Josh’s daughter.
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