(Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Netflix series finale Miss you. Read at your own risk!)

When it comes to crime thrillers with epic twists and unexpected turns, Harlan Coben is the reigning king. There’s a reason so many of his books have been adapted into Netflix series: they keep us on the edge of our seats.

This particularly applies to the newcomer in 2025, Miss you. The five-part series is based on Coben’s 2014 book of the same name. But instead of taking place in New York, the action moves across the pond to Great Britain, where Detective Inspector Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar) is determined to find out what really happened to her murdered man Father Clint (Sir Lenny Henry). once and for all. At the same time, she enters the world of online dating and comes across the profile of her ex-fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters), who ghosted her 11 years earlier. Unsurprisingly, the two threads are connected in ways she could never have predicted.

As if that wasn’t enough to keep you hooked, Kat is also searching for a missing man whose disappearance may have more to do with her ex than she knows.

While each of the five episodes contains a curious moment or a breathtaking cliffhanger, the finale creates an excellent conclusion. Here are the biggest moments that cap off another excellent Coben series.

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Come face to face

After searching for Josh all season, Kat finally meets her ex in the final moments of Episode 4. The finale picks up there and it’s immediately clear that the chemistry between the two is still there, even 11 years later. Since Josh’s sudden disappearance, he is married, widowed and has a child, who created Josh’s Facebook profile because he believed he was lonely.

Josh explains to Kat that he never started the dating profile and that someone else is using his photo. Something in the back of Kat’s mind must click, but she becomes too overwhelmed by her emotions and runs away, leaving Josh alone by the water.

A hectic search

While Kat deals with her feelings, Dana (Lisa Faulkner) desperately tries to escape the farm where she is being held against her will. She remembers a telephone in the main house and returns to call for help.

There, Dana tries to call her son Brendon (Oscar Kennedy) to warn him about the kidnappers coming his way. Before she can call the police or anyone who can actually help, one of the thugs spots her and rips the phone off the wall. Dana accidentally hits him in the stomach with an ax, leaving her to free the other prisoners from the barn.

Titus kidnaps the wrong person

Convinced that Dana is working with Kat, Titus (Steve Pemberton) decides his best course of action is to kidnap Kat’s son when he spots him outside Kat’s apartment. Although everyone should know by now not to go near strangers’ vans, Titus tricks Brendan into coming to the van, where he and his buddy immediately shove him into the trunk and start beating him up. Eventually Kat returns home to hear Brendan’s screams, and although she can’t stop Titus from driving off, she manages to get the license plate and involve her colleagues at the station.

A fiery end

Titus isn’t the type to let go of his grudges, so he immediately uses Brendan to threaten Dana at the farm. As Dana and the other prisoners try to run away, she stops when she hears the man standing over her son. Dana returns to the fiery farm that Titus burned down, knowing the police are on the way. Little does he know that Kat is already there, and she also approaches with a gun in hopes of saving Brendan.

Titus shoots Brendan in the leg, but luckily that’s all. Kat arrives just in time to save mother and son in a heated shootout that leaves Titus dead on the ground.

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Calligan grants Kat’s wish

With Dana and Brendan safe, Kat refocuses on her father’s case, especially when Calligan (James Nesbitt) tracks down her father’s secret lover, Parker (Cyril Nri). Kat goes to Parker’s address expecting a woman, only to discover that there is much more to her father than she previously realized. Parker is happy to see Kat and fills in some blanks, but cannot provide any further details about the night of his death.

A romantic revival

Now that Kat knows more about her father and is able to work again, she also seems ready to get her personal life in order. When Josh calls them, they work it out and get back together in a happy montage that shows them all connected. Although Kat doesn’t know the whole truth, life is good, and it seems like she can almost be okay with that going forward. Almost.

The fingerprint

Although Stagger (Richard Armitage) tries to stop Kat’s father’s second crime scene fingerprint from entering the lab, he misses Charlie’s (Charlie Hamblett) second request for ID. In the closing moments he finally comes through and he calls Kat while Josh freshens up in the bathroom.

It turned out that the fingerprint matched a guy who was involved in a bar fight in Scotland. Kat’s Spidey sense immediately recognizes the shocking, world-turning, Harlan Coben-twisted truth: It was Josh who killed her father, and he’s kept it a secret from her ever since.

Everyone protected Kat

Kat is, of course, devastated, but the truth is more complicated than she realizes. In a flashback, we see that Aqua (Mary Malone) saw him with Parker the night Kat’s father was murdered. Clint then tracked Aqua down to the apartment and threatened her, fearing she would tell his family. He didn’t want Kat to know that he was in a secret relationship and wasn’t ready to face his sexual identity.

In the flashback, it looked like Aqua was able to smooth things over, but then Kat called her and Clint saw her name on the caller ID. He raged at Aqua, and Josh came over and tried to break up the fight. In a confusing moment, Josh accidentally stabbed Clint with a knife, and Calligan stormed in, having suspected something was wrong with Clint during their earlier phone conversation.

The trio failed to save Clint’s life and to honor the man’s final wishes, Calligan covered up the crime scene to protect Josh and Aqua. While Kat grieved the loss of her father, Josh couldn’t live with the truth that he killed her father – even if it was an accident – so he packed up and left.

Be careful what you wish for

Now that Kat knows the full truth, she realizes that everyone around her was trying to protect her and follow her father’s final wishes. In the final moments, she sits on the bed next to Josh and processes everything she has learned. Forgiveness seems impossible, but Josh is also the love of her life. And so she takes the first, smallest step toward a possible reconciliation and touches Josh’s pinky finger before the credits roll.

Miss you is now streaming on Netflix.