'Missing"

Watched this and was reminded of the scene ouside the court
house at the end of the film "The Eraser." What you think
you see is not what actually happens.

Don, Meg and Kath agree with me that the father is still
alive and he is the one behind taking the boy.

Makes sense, he found out about the wife's affair, took
measures and when she chooses him it is too late, the plan
is already in action and he can't back out. He sends the
boy back into the hotel for the ball so that he can exit
the car which is then blown up. The body was already in
the trunk and is thus found in the wreckage when the bits
and pieces are reassembled.

This explains the photos of the boy over the ten years
since (not of the mother the ex spy), the father has
been keeping an eye on the boy. He was not kidnapped by
the usual gangs in Italy that target rich tourists as
they contact the parents with 24 hours and he was
missing a week with no contact. He was not taken to force
his mother to give up information otherwise once again she
would have been contacted immediately. If he was taken in
revenge he would be dead and his body displayed somewhere
for her to find.

But as Meg said "I hope this does not go on and on like
"Lost" did."

When will the producers get it right? Every show has a
'Use by Date' and when it's up it's up.

Some shows start off with one idea, like "Weeds" where
a middle class woman finds on her husband's death that
he had no insurance and she has no skills so resorts to
selling drugs to continue in her life stlye and to
support her two boys. Now there should have been a few
funny adventures and a few twists but she should have
married the policeman and returned to her 'normal' life
and lived happily ever after. Instead she becomes more
of an idiot as the show went on, gets more involved in
more drugs and starts dating a south American drug lord,
to whom she has a child, then runs away from him with
family in tow, with a male friend whom I thought played
role of town mayor. Her younger son (out of no where)
becomes an pscho killer and her older son wants to date
and get married! At which point I stopped watching!!

Don't even get me started about "Lost" it lost me after
the second season, when it too began to get 'way out there'.

Yet there have been shows that did the right thing, about
two years ago there was a show about a Hollywood producer's
wife who gets dumped and how most of her so called friends
also dump her, how she and her child cope, and how she
finnally makes it back into the inner circle bigger and
better than ever. Loved it! Took no more than a dozen
episodes to get the story told.

Last year the ABC did a show about how everyone stops dying
and what happens next, took about six episodes to reach a
thrilling climax. Short and sweet!