The WORST episodes of Missing (2008)

#1 - Jasper

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/7/2016

#2 - Laurent

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/24/2016

#3 - Joeri

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/3/2016

#4 - Lotte

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2016

#5 - Femke

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/2014

During a routine control, the police find a girl who claims to be Femke Segers. Ten years ago, the disappearance of Femke was Tine's first unresolved case. Is this girl really her, or is she lying?

#6 - Dina

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/2011

Mark Coppens ordered a paternity test, but worries if he can be the single Jeroen needs even if he is biologically. Ethnic Moroccan Dina Ben Sallah (18) is reported missing after a bus holiday in the home country by sister Nora, who ultimately admits Dina refused her arranged fiancé Hanif. Big brother Sabir is suspected of an 'honor crime', but has an alibi. Security camera recordings and luggage tracing leads the team to social worker Driss, who turned her down romantically, and a hash smuggling trail.

#7 - Andre

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/2016

#8 - Myriam

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2012

Business consultant Myriam is reported missing by her supervisor after he found her inseparable cell-phone crushed on the street. Steve is not amused with new colleague Eva Meyer's arrogant, unhelpful attitude. A street camera recorded Myriam being pulled into a minivan. She was last seen with a friend, the wife of Alex Beurssens, whom he and Myriam warned in vain against conman Rolf De Caluwé's 'church branch'. The couple still grieves the senseless killing of their young son in an armed robbery.

#9 - Frank

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/2016

#10 - Kathleen

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/26/2015

#11 - Meisje X (Deel 1)

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/17/2010

The team knows that Internet pedophiles Kerberos and Hades are planning to abduct a 12 year-old girl, but can't identify either party. Kim is reported missing but is found. Eric discovers Nick's amphetamines addiction and suspends him after another illegal encounter with never-condemned suspect Karel Dooms. But Nick, who is in therapy for nightmares, calls his markers on former partner Vic to entrap the abductors. To pose as pedophiles, they need hard porn, which they extract from Karel Dooms.

#12 - Mike

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/10/2010

Mike De Vries is reported missing by his naive sister Carla. She assumed him happy with his former prison-pen-pal, Tabitha Moens. In fact her husband Yves happily arranged Mike to be fired by exposing his criminal record. Leysen, Veronique Tabitha Moens. He also quit boxing with Hassan Ben Abdessalem after a gym fight with drug dealing minor Ahmed. Mike is also presumed to have stashed the lot from robberies. Traces lead to fellow ex-con Vic, dirty P.I. Rottiers and Tabitha's ex, Andy Meersman, not the only one to have lied about his own past.

#13 - Amber

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/2011

When teenager Amber Dierickx disappears, her parents are clueless. Searching her room and questioning her best friend indicate the 'good girl' had affairs with popular teacher 'McDreamy', who took her to Amsterdam for fun and drugs, and with big sister Roos's fiancée, slick advertising executive Lars Vermeer. Yet Amber is spotted alive at the funeral of another, recent friend, Jolien Geeraerts, who proves the link to a grim character. Meanwhile Coppens suspends Nick from active duty until he handles mandatory psychotherapy.

#14 - Thomas

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2012

Ambulance EMT Thomas Malfliet is reported missing by his wife, who also devotes her life to their daughter Klaartje, whose only hope of surgically curing her paralysis was recently squashed. After Thomas's car is found, his colleague Gust Tijsmans reveals Thomas was diagnosed terminal and not only stole pills from the hospital but also cash from the site of a Turkish mob shooting. The team discovers a complex pot involving Turks and his wife. Nick hesitates when Erik offers him a transfer to the undercover section.

#15 - Sofia

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/19/2015

#16 - Tristan

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/2015

A promising young art gallery keeper is reported missing by his elder, gay lover. During the investigation, the team identifies the missing man as Andy Mertens, a man who has been using fake identities in order to scam rich clients.

#17 - Dimi

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/31/2016

#18 - Lars

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/5/2015

Clever criminal blackmailer John De Bruyn's five-year old, autistic son Lars goes missing after a paternal anger outburst. To Steve's horror, Tine, who stubbornly keeps working and neglects her own psychiatric trauma therapy since her abduction, focuses only on John, assuming he must have resumed crime and thus have become the indirect target. There was a man lurking around, but doesn't fir here theory, and her precipitous shooting needlessly costs a life. The team also works out that De Bruyn's marriage to the boy's mother Maureen was falling apart, but again Tine's assumption that John must have abused her and maybe disposed of the boy proves utterly false.

#19 - Vincent

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/5/2010

Vincent Weemaes, Nick's first police partner, goes missing after the reconstruction IA commissioner Bourlon organized of how Weemaes shot at escaped serial 'Armani gang' jewelry shop robber Johnny Heylens but fatally hit a girl. Weemaes didn't report his earlier meeting with Vincent's recently paroled crime parter Didier Renard. Johny's corps is found, shot in the gut. Nick tries to find help Vince, but Stan keeps track while Bourlon watches both. Vince admits he was trying to help his shady kid brother Davy, who is in trouble with Israeli mobster Avi Rapkin's gang. After meeting his wife and daughter Lena's murderer, Sibelius resigns.

#20 - Marie

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/2012

Tine's highly irresponsible kid sister Hanne is still missing. Sole suspect Carl, whom Tine abused and killed in his home, actually had a criminal alibi: a rape elsewhere. While she's suspended, the rest of the team tries to focus on the next case, Flemish Islam-convert Marie De Bock, last seen with ethnic Moroccan presumed boy-friend Abdel Hadbou, suspect of planning a terrorist bombing after a home-search. It soon becomes clear that's no abduction but a hold-up, during which they and a third accomplice are arrested. The team discovers they are part of the gang of Dutch Moroccan murderer on trial Karim Assaraf. Tine, illegally in the office, recognizes him on a shop security video suggesting a link with Hanne's kidnapping, and remembers their father Jos is on the palatial court house's security team. The plot twists with blackmail and a fraternal switch.

#21 - Lena

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/22/2010

Workaholic Walter Sibelius was supposed to mind his daughter Lena, while his ex Anna concentrated on her career, but he gave priority to an urgent investigation. Lena, who refused to confide in him, goes missing. Her cellphone is found. It turns out ma didn't realize either she kept dubious company, including some involved in gambling, private porn, drag racing and drug dealing, even an ex-con. Most of them lie of hide the truth.

#22 - Valentina

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/3/2010

After a traffic accident, an amnesiac Jane Doe, who speaks only Russian and gets nicknamed 'Valentina' by Steve, is brought to hospital. Two men in white coats try to abduct her. One of them soon appears officially as Yegor Lugavoy, deputy of Russian embassy security chief Leonid Bereshoy, who claims her as wanted Russian mobster Svetlana Kirilova. The team tends to believe her, but that proves a dangerous gut feeling.

#23 - Meisje X (Deel 2)

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/24/2010

Nick continues his extreme undercover infiltration, posing as Karel Dooms in Kerberos's sadistic retreat, where they await cahoot Hades. Even Steve has lost all contact, yet Eric grudgingly tries to cover him. Even after learning Nick's father is a convicted pedophile. Doms is found starkers, dumped handcuffed on a waste-site. Vincent finally tells Eric's team the truth, who keep it discrete. Already sick to his stomach, Nick finds and frees the captive girl and makes her pretend to know 'Karel', but that way out backfires. Clever Steve is finally on a trace. Nick fights loose.

#24 - Bart

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/3/2011

Steve's fiancée Jolien's legally dead ex, Bart Geeraerts, is spotted after being missing for six years, so the wedding is delayed. Nick has been cleared by IA and returns on the job, albeit under drug supervision. he stills braves Coppens's instructions by telling Steve, who informs Jolien, but she's kidnapped soon after. Nick and Steve investigate, although the team is officially off the case, discovering not only Bart's fake Brazilian identity but also he must be entangled in dirty cops' organized drug crime.

#25 - Emma

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2012

Commissioner Erik Coppens has transferred to the undercover section to avoid breaking up the team he feels will never trust him enough. Toddler Emma Stubbe (3) is reported missing from Nadia Ingels's private day care. her inseparable cuddly animal in the nearby canal gives the team an uneasy sense of urgency. They work out Emma's divorced father Stefaan Stubbe and mother Katrien Van Daele are keeping secrets, as well as Nadia, who was fired from a large crèche, and her somewhat teenage son Tuur.