The BEST episodes of Missing (2008)
Every episode of Missing (2008) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Missing (2008)!
The missing persons unit of the Belgian federal police goes all the way each time a child or adult is likely to be in need of urgent help. Some cases are just domestic or false alerts, other link to various other crimes, from blackmail to terrorism. The team members barely have any time left for personal lives, so their relationships tend to suffer badly.
#2 - Taxi
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/20/2008
Junior business executive Geert Potums went missing after taking a Brussels taxi for a hotel to meet a foreign client. Algerian cab driver Jamel Agui didn't report back to his firm either. Naive Potums is found in jail after being fed drunk and robbed by a call-girl. Agui and his cab remain missing. But his criminal record puts the team on the trace of a shady Islamic fundamentalist society. And that investigation leads to Afghan terrorist Emad Kubi, and a suicide bomb-belt. But that interferes with higher powers.
#3 - Evi
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/2008
Boarding school student Evi, is reported missing by her overprotective, influential father Hendrik De Schrijver. Walter Sibelius's federal missing persons unit soon finds several traces. She had a scorned lover and took part in crazy parties as well as contraband, both drugs and soft-porn, leading to several suspects. Not only meticulously procedure-conscientious Sibelius's people find it hard to stick to the rules and legal restrictions, Hendrik keeps interfering, with grave results.
#4 - Kika
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/2008
Kimberly 'Kim' Kamps goes missing at the launch of her first single as 'Kika' in the bar of her friend Dimitri 'Dimi' Lagast, who is also missing. Pa Kamps assumes it's Dimi's fault. Kim's friend and colleague as presenter of a TV callers game, Joyce, tells Dimi, her fiancé, had poker debts. Indeed loan-shark Gus 'the Rat' Leemans recently trashed his bar as a reminder. Dimi is found at Gus's. Phone records show dad kept silent about her being called by an ex, Michael Dewulf, who sort of stalked her and has a psychiatric past.
#5 - Baby Alisha
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/2008
Teenage mother Isabelle Maes's baby Alisha went missing from a maternity ward. Father Francesco's domineering parents forbade the sixteen year-old to see either. Francesco still discretely came along when she failed to get a abortion, having waited too long, so Sibelius fears she may have disposed of the baby herself. Sibelius's estranged daughter Lena is in the same hospital, but reluctant to see him since he left her mother. An infertile midwife makes another suspect, as well as a mysterious couple which left fingerprints.
#6 - Rens
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/2008
Peter Nachtegale is reported missing when his wife Vanessa finds their son Jeremy unattended. The team finds out he has an affair in a motel overlooking a primary school, where a 'pervert stalker' was reported- him. They're just in time to save him from torture to death by the goons of Dutch mobsters barons Willem and Klaas De Welt. Those persist to take in hand the disappearance of 6-year old son Rens De Welt. Yet the team digs deeper, and finds motives up for discussion. Sibelius doesn't hesitate to compromise serious crime colleague Erik Coppens's undercover work, worse follows.
#7 - Sara
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/6/2008
Divorced mother Van Peel, a neglectful workaholic, reports her daughter Sara (9) didn't return from school, where she gets bad grades and is a virtual outcast. Mother spends more time with her boyfriends and didn't even notice sexually provocative pictures for which Sara posed in the living room. A neighbor noticed Sara, like her own daughter, regularly spend time with bachelor fast food restaurant manager Karel Dooms, who always carries a camera and was accused of, never tried for, sexual liberties. Sara's bike is found and linked to trucker Willy and his commercial shipping equipment scam cahoot. Walter can't concentrate as his daughter Lena, whom his ex dumped on him for a week, was caught shoplifting. Nick risks an illegal search in Dooms's doting widow mother's home.
#8 - Anja
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/13/2008
Frederik Bayens reports his depressive wife Anja missing for days, shortly before her car is found abandoned. Steve catches their son, drug-troublesome student Wesley whom a neighbor witnessed arguing with her about money, robbing the parental home, but father covers for him. Blood in the basement suggests Anja may have died there. Wesley admits she blackmailed him to spy on father's presumably resumed affair with much younger Kim De Vries. Commissioner Sibelius stays on leave to concentrate on his shoplifting daughter, refusing to bail out incompetent deputy Peeters now IA commissioner Bourlon is after Nick's badge, but actually may seek revenge for missing out on Walter's job years ago.
#9 - Weilandboy
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/29/2008
Human remains are found in a meadow, mysteriously reduced to pulp. It turns out to be a stowaway illegal immigrant. Identification as a missing African doesn't fit actual records. Sibelius uses his experience a Congo-raised colonial brat to find out about real deceased and missing men. And he faces belated fall-out of traumatizing decolonization.
#10 - Sander
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/2008
Sander Govaerts (16), a bullying target, is reported missing for a day by his gentle parents. A violent computer game modification he programmed skillfully worries the police team: he stole dad's long rifle, but not to intrude his high school as feared. Classmates minimize their abuse, even a hate website, but Jurgen's own cellphone recordings prove vicious gang-beating organized by truant Jens Wauters. A picture recently posted on school computers also show Sander kissed his computing teacher. Sander's mate Robbie is also missing, unnoticed till noon. So where are the boys, and why?
#11 - Ruben
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/19/2015
Elementary school teacher Ruben Michiels goes missing, three days after Lara Van Gingelom, one of his female pupils, accused him of sexual abuse. During the investigation, the team discovers that Lara lied in order to protect the real offender: her own grandfather.
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Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/2012
Nick has a very hard time to preserve his Neo Nazi cover and preventing his captured colleagues form being killed, ultimately even helping them escape. Yet he succeeds, seducing apparent leader Lotte, an estranged industrial heiress, and wins the trust of the real mastermind, her equally discredited uncle Cyriel Wijnants. A sniper episode isn't conclusive. Thus he can warn Erik in time to sabotage operation Ragnarok, which turns out to be a murderous attack o the PM's anti-nationalist party.
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#13 - Tine
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/2015
The team is investigating the disappearance of its own commissioner, Tine Peeters. Her husband Dirk is able to provide them with a facial composition of a man he recently spotted watching their house. The drawing is a perfect match to Jan Degraeve, a condemned murderer whose case belonged to Tine back when she was working as a homicide detective. When they discover that Degraeve was recently released on parole and is now nowhere to be found, Tine's colleagues believe her life to be in danger.
#14 - Lucas
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/5/2015
Lucas Verduyn, son of a rich car dealer, suddenly goes missing from his own wedding party. The team, joined by Michael Van Acker since Walter Sibelius left for another teaching job abroad, starts interrogating Lucas's worried wife, as well as his parents and in-laws. They discover that things went wrong after the more low class Nathalie was inspired by her parents to trick Lucas into an unexpected pregnancy. Lucas acted happy at first, but soon started to see another girl, Ella Michiels, who belonged to his own social class.
#18 - Inez
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/2014
The young police officer Inez Daels disappears right after an incident involving a released criminal. During the investigation, the team discovers Inez was extremely fascinated by Walter Sibelius, her former police school mentor.
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