The WORST episodes of Missing (2008)

#1 - Andre

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

#2 - 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.

#3 - Frank

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

#4 - Kathleen

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

#5 - 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?

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - Tessa

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/12/2010

Leuven university student Tessa Vermeersch, a test person in a diabetes drug trial, goes missing. her father, procureur (D.A.) Anton ignores here whereabouts. The day before, as sadistic pledge-master with lover De Ridder, she ordered freshman Koen 'Ketchup' Cuyaerts' genitals exposed and smeared during a public hazing orgy. Since the Weemaes case, Steve and Nick's rapport is affected, but they make up. Koen saw Tessa being visited by the Moroccan father of her friend Dashia Boussedra, about keeping her rape secret, it's not the only one, and Tessa's abuse is hard to tackle. Especially given Tine's procedural clumsiness. But Steve cunningly finds an 'unofficial' angle to a family complication.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - Christine

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/2012

Antwerp police administrative supervisor Christine Seynaeve is reported missing just after she instigated an I.A. investigation by commissioner Bourlon against her superior, Joris Tavernier. His unlikely claim she made career 'on the couch' proves right, and Bourlon was her last adulterous lover. Christie's colleague was her cahoot in blackmail. Nick ultimately accepts Eric's offer to join his undercover section.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - 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.

#21 - Ief (1)

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/2012

Ief Boussard is reported missing by his mother, who admits he's an unruly football hooligan. His 'bad friends' are a Neo Nazi gang, who are involved in a war with a rival gang, whose leader was shot recently. Erik Coppens decides to share no information when the team discover their other former member, Nick, is undercover to infiltrate their circle. Steve is ordered to tail Nick, but that endangers all of them.

#22 - Bernard

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/5/2014

Alzheimer patient Bernard has disappeared from the old people's home. Did he run away out of confusion, or is something else going on? Nevertheless it is not a secret that the man felt unhappy at the home.

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.