Baptiste season 2 spoilers follow – including its ending.
Julien Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo) did what he did best and found the missing person – or, in this case, persons – while also pulling out all the moves required to save the day.
Neck-tattooed Andras Juszt (Miklós Béres) had been deciphered as being "Gomorrah" all along; the leader and orchestrator of a far-right terrorist movement, trying to wage a culture war and incite violence.
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The sons of British ambassador Emma Chambers (Killing Eve's Fiona Shaw) had been radicalised by Gomorrah on the internet, following the death of their sister Laura. A man that Emma described as being troubled and in need of help, but that her sons viewed as nothing more than an "immigrant" who should not have been there in the first place, had entered the family home in the dead of night and delivered a fatal wound to Laura's stomach with a kitchen knife.
While on holiday in the Hungarian mountains, Emma's husband and her two sons went missing. Naturally, Baptiste showed up with an offer to put his eerily impressive intuition to good use once again. As the story unfolded, across flashbacks and the present day, we learned that Emma's eldest son Alex had made arrangements to meet someone linked to Gomorrah in the woodland, while her youngest – and the only witness to Laura's killing – tagged along.
Waking to find his children gone from their hotel beds in the early hours of the morning, Emma's husband went out to find them – only to come face-to-face with a very angry Andras, who quickly shot him. Leaving their father to die under the trees, Alex and Will went with Andras – which is what led Emma to initially believe that her whole family had been kidnapped.
It wasn't until an organised terrorist attack at Józsefváros (a location which was deciphered by Baptiste from some coded email exchanges on Emma's son's computer) that the ghastly truth was revealed.
After neutralising one of the gunmen responsible for the bloodshed, Baptiste unmasked him to find that it had been Alex – something that Emma was devastated to learn.
She had also become paralysed as a result of a bullet from that day, but was determined to find her remaining son Will. Noticing that Andras would visit Alex's grave, Emma set up a trap to capture him and take him to Baptiste – a new lead that re-started the hunt for Will.
He was captured by Baptiste as part of his ongoing investigation into Gomorrah, proving that Will had also been swept up in the very same movement that had recruited Alex. As part of an interrogation, Emma and Baptiste garnered Will's involvement and the depth of his radical beliefs, while his mother tried to reason with him.
It was Will that confirmed that Andras was, in fact, Gomorrah. He escaped their custody, but not before letting slip that another attack was being planned. Baptiste worked out that Will and Andras were hiding out in some woodland near a waterfall, close by a refugee centre.
Baptiste and Andras got into an altercation, while Will – who had been beaten to a pulp by Andras as part of his latest tactic to insight further violence – lay dying at the cabin. Emma found Will, and managed to get to him to tend to his wounds.
Having been stabbed multiple times, Baptiste lost consciousness. Here, viewers were treated to a montage of flashbacks from across The Missing and Baptiste, as Julien saw his life flash before his eyes.
Thankfully, Baptiste survived. We saw him reuniting with Emma Chambers on a rooftop. "With respect and gratitude, Mr Baptiste," she told him, "I hope I never have any reason to see you again."
It was a happy ending, of sorts, for Emma too. After all of the loss and trauma she had endured, she was able to save her son Will – calling on the 'Stayin' Alive' CPR technique that her daughter Laura had shown before she was killed.
As for Andras Juszt, prison was the inevitable outcome. Sadly, the beliefs and following of Gomorrah were harder to stamp out, with another far-right fanatic taking over. Politician Kamilla Agoston, who had stoked the flames and benefited from the violence, was also still capitalising on the country's division, despite proven links to the terrorist group.
Will there be a Baptiste season three? It looks highly likely that this is where Julien's journey ends, but with closure on the case and his own personal tragedy, it was a bittersweet way to go out.
Baptiste series 1 and 2 are available on BBC iPlayer, and the boxset of both series is available to pre-order now.
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