Missing You – Season 1 Episode 4 Recap & Review

Don’t You Forget About Me

Episode 4 of Missing You starts with us in the past, with Josh hanging around with Aqua. He shows off a ring he’s going to give Kat and promises that everything is going to be great.

Fast forward to the present, and Kat speaks to Aqua. She followed him, as she needed to see exactly what he was saying about Josh. She wanted Brendan to stop spreading lies about Josh, so she snatched up the phone and ran after panicking. The police tracked the phone to her house, and that’s how Aqua was arrested. There’s something we’re not seeing here though, and some of it stems from flashbacks involving banging at Aqua’s front door. For now though, we’re in the dark over how this relates to the story!

Kat takes Aqua back home, where Stacey pops over too. Stacey admits that she spoke to Josh originally at the yoga class and told Josh to leave her alone. And he did.

Back in the present, Charlie rings Kat and reveals that Dana’s account has been flagged as suspicious. The person who flagged it is Ashkan Chuback. Charlie and Kat show up at his house and learn that the money was wired to Rishi Magari. Turns out Rishi met Vanessa on Melody Cupid, the same dating app that both Kat and Rishi have used. Now it becomes clear that Vanessa is just an alias and in reality, it’s all Titus and his goons using these fake profiles to scam people out of money.

Dana is brought to Titus, who asks her to wire money over. However, his Swiss Account gets frozen while the police are investigating. This, inevitably, sees the group realize that Kat is connected to the Missing Persons Case and that she knows Josh by his “real name” rather than the alias they’ve been using for the scams online.

Kat does some research the next day and checks online to see that Josh’s writing has shown up online under a different alias. Thanks to Stacey’s investigative work, they also trace it to a PO Box under the name of Reggie Cross.

Kat heads out to investigate, but she learns that the fingerprints have come back as inconclusive. She does, however, learn that Calligan is connected to someone called “Parker”, thanks to her Mum.

Kat checks the register at the post office and notices the timing is the same every week. Kat isn’t exactly discreet, and she follows a guy who shows up at the post office all the way out to the woods. Kat gets nowhere when she shows at this man’s house asking questions, but there is a 9 year old kid by the dock. The same kid that set up Josh’s profile, allegedly.

Kat gets too close to the truth and she’s quickly bagged and brought to Calligan, at an art gallery. He claims he didn’t have Clint killed and wants to try and strike a bargain with her. In exchange for revealing everything he knows about Clint’s murder, he wants her to stop sniffing around and leave him to it.

Monte didn’t kill Clint, but he confessed because he’s loyal to Calligan. Furthermore, he also was given a better deal for being behind bars – an easier life in his cell. That means there must have been a police officer to help out and he could have framed Monte for it, giving him a better deal and sweetening everything up. 

Calligan is also going to help Kat find Parker as well, but he promises that after he does, they’re done with each other.

As the episode closes out, Dana manages to subdue her attacker, hitting them with a plank of wood thanks to one of the dogs bringing it to her in the barn, and she hurries away. So much for these dogs being trained, eh?

As for Kat, she shows back up at the secluded house and finds Josh there waiting.

The Episode Review

So now it becomes clear what’s going on, ad it’s just a matter of our characters scrambling to catch up, which is always a bit of an annoying way to structure a story. Seeing all those shots of Titus and his operation doesn’t help this drama at all and it completely sucks the mystery out of this.

It’s obvious that the police officer that helped (thanks to those deleted emails and general skittish behaviour) is Stagger. He may well be either working with Aqua or threatening her into staying quiet.

The show also relies very heavily on Kat signing up to this Melody Cupid site to kick the story off, although all of this could have been orchestrated by Stacey, who may be working against Kat.

I can’t help but feel the structure of this story would have worked so much more effectively had we not see any of Titus’ operation until the very end. That way we could have built a proper mystery and tried to figure all of this out.

Either way though, the ending finally sees Kat and Josh face to face, so all that’s left now is to close everything out with a neat little bow.