Missed Call star talks drama's surprise ending: "It’s much darker than you might anticipate"

Tonight kicks off the week-long reign of Missed Call on 5, which puts Joanna Scanlan front and centre as a single mother in distress after her daughter vanishes while on a school trip to France.

The new thriller kicks off as Scanlan's Sarah is forced to take matters into her own hands after her daughter disappears during a school exchange in Saint Michel, with Sarah intent on finding out the truth about what's happened.

Across five episodes, viewers are set to go on quite the rollercoaster ride as Sarah hunts for clues and is also surprisingly met with coldness from her daughter's host family.

Chatting exclusively to Radio Times about what's to come in the show's final episodes, Scanlan teased: “Well, I definitely didn't guess the end when I was reading it.

"I would defy anybody other than you know, Sherlock Holmes, to do so. It is a is a really good plot. Really, really chunkily enjoyable plot."

She went on: "We have a lot of very fabulous suspects – wonderful, exotic, interesting, plausible suspects. I mean, I won't even say it ends well. It's not a guarantee that we're going to run through this and have the answer we want at the end of it.

"It's multi-layered and what happens in that village when Sarah arrives and starts, you know, kicking the hornets nest is that it all sorts of really nasty, nasty things emerge. And it's much darker, actually, than you might anticipate from the start of the story.”

Well, we'll just have to remain strapped in for what's to come!

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Also speaking to Radio Times about how his character slots into proceedings, Rupert Graves said of his character Jason: “I think one of the interesting things about this story is that when Sarah goes to investigate and something really important happens and all the bulls**t stops in her life, she just wants to find the truth and find her daughter and find out what's going on.

"Inevitably, she looks at people and people are, like all people in the world, they have secrets. They start to come out and some of them are unsavoury. And yes, that is part of this story, the side that people show and the other darker or more mysterious side. And Jason definitely has mysteries and secrets.”

The synopsis for Missed Call reads: "Set against the backdrop of a picturesque French village, Missed Call follows single mother Sarah, whose world is upended after receiving a late-night missed call from her teenage daughter, Katie, while she’s on a school exchange.

"When Sarah arrives in France, she finds the host family and local authorities disturbingly indifferent to Katie’s disappearance. As Sarah refuses to accept their complacency, her search for her daughter spirals into a gripping and dangerous race against time."

Missed Call will air on 5 on Monday 13 April at 9pm.

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