Sometime either before or after the Oliver Hughes investigation and its despairing denoument in 2014, retired inspector Julien Baptiste (Tcheky Karyo, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD) managed to find time to fly Eckhausen, Germany to meddle in the joint British Military Police and German Polizei investigation of Alice Webster (Abigail Hardingham), a schoolgirl nabbed from the same spot eleven years earlier who reappears in the same spot eleven years later with a ruptured appendix and the name of Sophie Giroux on her lips. Sophie was a French girl who had gone missing the year before Alice, and Baptiste had made a promise to her parents that he would not rest until he found her. Dying of cancer, Baptiste is now racing the clock to discover from Alice anything of Sophie's whereabouts and the their captor, but he is not the only one who comes to believe that Alice is not what or who she seems. Just as the the previous series juggled timelines, so to does this one with Alice's reappearance in 2014 intercut with Baptiste's present day trek into the middle of an Iraq war zone with war correspondent Stefan Andersen (TRUE DETECTIVE's Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) in search of an AWOL soldier (Daniel Ezra, BLOOD CELLS) who may have discovered a link between his recently-deceased father and Alice's and Sophie's kidnapper in something that happened in 1991 during the Gulf War. Those thrown into emotional turmoil by the 2014 investigation and developments in Baptiste's 2016 investigation this time around include Alice's parents Sam (David Morrissey, DROWNING BY NUMBERS) and Gemma (Keeley Hawes, DEATH AT A FUNERAL), their troubled son Matthew (Jake Davies), Staff Sergeant Eve Stone (BREAKING BAD's Laura Fraser) who ends up having an affair with Sam while helping Gemma follow leads provided by Baptiste, Eve's father Brigadier Stone (Roger Allam, V FOR VENDETTA) whose reveals more than he has let on as he succumbs to Alzheimer's, German policeman Jorn Lenhart (Florian Bartholomäi, THE READER) who continues to help Baptiste as the rest of the force and British military police shut him out of the official investigation, butcher's wife Nadia (Lia Williams, FIRELIGHT) whose husband (SALAMANDER's Filip Peeters) who becomes the prime suspect in Alice's and Sophie's disappearance but swears he is being set up, and military press liaison Adam Gettrick (Derek Riddell, HAPPY VALLEY) who may or may not be leaking sensitive information to the press for stories he must solicit statements on from Alice's family and the investigators. Just as twisty in its plotting as the first series but feeling a bit more calculated and less organic in its turns, series two is nevertheless an edge of your seat binge viewing experience.