Warning: This post contains spoilers for Miss you.

It’s the beginning of a new year and apparently time for a new Harlan Coben adaptation on Netflix. Due to 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 chart, right behind him, in the days since its debut on January 1st Squid gameis the new season.

Based on Coben’s bestselling 2014 novel of the same name, the five-part limited series, which moves the setting of the story from New York City to Manchester, follows police detective Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar) as she goes back down the rabbit hole of murder mystery to her father Clint Donovan (Lenny Henry) after she comes across the dating profile of her ex-fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters). While Kat believes Josh ghosted her eleven years earlier after the night career criminal Monte Leburne (Marc Warren) supposedly killed her father, she soon realizes 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 learns that he was paid to take the fall to accept for Clint’s murder. Although Kat was suspended from the police force after her boss, Clint’s former partner Stagger (Richard Armitage), discovered that she had gained access to Monte through unofficial channels, she continues to investigate the truth about her father Josh and the strange cases of her disappearances. Her investigation leads to a series of shocking discoveries that could upend everything Kat thought she knew about the people around her.

“She’s having one revelation after another, and she doesn’t really have time to breathe,” Netflix’s Eleazar Tudum said of her character arc. “You almost want her to just stop, take a breath, take stock and move on. But she doesn’t. She literally doesn’t have a moment to think about how much trauma she’s been through and how much trauma she’s still going through.”

How works 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 disappearances – an organization that uses the app to lure wealthy singles, kidnap them and then to blackmail with all his might – The real Josh is still there and it turns out that he actually had something to do with Clint’s death.

Kat eventually learns that her father, a police officer, was not only secretly allied with the well-known crime boss Calligan (James Nesbitt), but also had a long-term extramarital affair. However, Clint cheated on Kat’s mother not with another woman, but with a man, Parker (Cyril Nri), who he was truly in love with. Calligan used this information to blackmail Clint into working for him, and so Clint had decided to break up with Parker.

The night Clint died, Kat’s friend and Josh’s roommate Aqua (Mary Malone) had seen Clint and Parker hugging in the street, causing Clint to call Stagger in a panic to get Aqua’s address and then go after her to follow home. When Clint arrived and saw Aqua (accidentally) receiving a call from Kat, he became physically aggressive towards her, forcing Aqua to grab a knife to defend himself. Clint wrestled the knife away from her, but Josh came home at that moment and joined the fight, causing him to accidentally stab Clint. Just as Clint was dying, Stagger burst in and got everyone to cover up what happened to protect Kat and her mother from the truth about Clint. Stagger and Josh made sure Monte, who was already facing a life sentence, took the fall, and Josh fled town because he couldn’t stand being with Kat and knowing what he had done.

However, Josh never stopped loving Kat, and after he finally tells her the whole story, the series ends with a distraught Kat brushing her pinky against his. “There’s something really beautiful about her reaching for him in the end,” Eleazar told Tudum. “I think that can be understood in many ways.”