Missing You: Netflix Mystery Series Explained

Warning: This post contains spoilers for miss you

It’s the start of a new year, which apparently now means it’s also time for a new Harlan Coben adaptation on Netflix. In the wake of the viral popularity of last year’s release, Fool me oncemystery thriller miss you has risen to number two on the streamer’s most-watched charts in the days since its debut on January 1, second only to Play octopusits new season.

Based on Coben’s best-selling 2014 novel of the same name, the five-part limited series, which shifts the story from New York City to Manchester, follows police detective Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar) as she goes back down the rabbit hole of mystery surrounding the murder of her father, Clint Donovan (Lenny Henry), after stumbling across her dating profile ex-fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters). While Kat believes Josh was ghosting her 11 years earlier after the night career criminal Monte Leburne (Marc Warren) allegedly killed her father, she quickly begins to realize there may be more to both stories.

After taking on a missing persons case involving a man named Rishi Migari (Rudi Dharmalingam) – and later a woman named Dana Fells (Lisa Faulkner) – Kat visits a terminally ill Monte in prison and discovers that he was paid to take the fall for Clint’s murder. Despite being suspended from the force after her boss, Clint’s former partner Stagger (Richard Armitage), finds out she gained access to Monte through unofficial channels, Kat continues to pursue the truth about her father, Josh , and the strange disappearances at hand. Her investigation leads to a series of shocking discoveries that threaten to destroy everything Kat thought she knew about the people around her.

“She gets epiphany after epiphany, and she doesn’t really have time to breathe,” Eleazar shared Netflix’s Tudum about her character arc. “You almost want her to just stop and take a breath, take stock and move forward. But she doesn’t. She literally doesn’t have a moment to reflect on how much trauma she’s been through and how much trauma she’s still going through.”

How do miss you end?

While Josh’s dating profile turns out to be a fake created by the same crime syndicate responsible for Rishi and Dana’s disappearance – an organization that uses the app to lure in wealthy singles, kidnap them and then blackmail them for everything they’re worth . – the real Josh is still around and it turns out he actually had something to do with Clint’s death.

Kat eventually learns that not only was her cop father secretly in league with famous crime boss Calligan (James Nesbitt), he also had a long-term extramarital affair. However, Clint did not cheat on Kat’s mother with another woman, but rather a man, Parker (Cyril Nri), with whom he was truly in love. Calligan used this information to blackmail Clint into working for him, so Clint had decided to break things off with Parker.

On the night Clint died, Kat’s friend and Josh’s flatmate Aqua (Mary Malone) had seen Clint and Parker embracing on the street, prompting a panicked Clint to call Stagger to get Aqua’s address and then follow her home. When Clint arrived and saw Aqua (accidentally) getting a call from Kat, he became physically aggressive towards her, forcing Aqua to grab a knife to defend herself. Clint wrestled the knife away from her, but Josh came home at that moment and entered the fight, resulting in him accidentally stabbing Clint. Stagger broke in just as Clint was dying and made them all agree to cover up what had happened to protect Kat and her mother from the truth about Clint. Stagger and Josh arranged for Monte, who was already set to be sentenced to life in prison, to take the fall and Josh fled town because he couldn’t stand being with Kat knowing what he had done.

However, Josh never stopped loving Kat, and after he finally reveals the whole story to her, the series ends with a distraught Kat brushing her little finger against his. “There’s something quite nice about her reaching out to him at the end,” Eleazar told Tudum. “I think you could read it in many ways.”