Warning! Spoilers for Netflix’s Missing You ahead!
The end ofMissing Yousaw Kat Donovan find all the answers—even those she didn’t want to hear. The Netflix mini-series followed Kat 11 years after her father’s murder, the details of which never quite added up in her mind. Her dad, a police officer by the name of Clint Donovan, was thought to have been stabbed by the criminal Monte Leburne, who confessed to the crime after being imprisoned for other murders.Still, there was another print on the knife, which led Kat to suspect that there was more to her father’s death inMissing Youthan the police seemed willing to accept.
To make matters even worse, Kat’s fiance, Josh Buchanan, left her without a word after Clint’s murder. Eleven years later, she still hadn’t found new success in love, focusing all her energy on her work as a detective. However, everything changed when Kat joined up with a dating app and unexpectedly matched with Josh. Around that same time, a young man reported his father missing, noting that the woman had just gone on vacation with none other than Josh. Kat was left to put the pieces together inHarlan Coben’sMissing You, and the answers she found were far from what she had expected.
Who Killed Kat’s Father In Missing You
Clint Donovan’s Murder Wasn’t What It Seemed
ThroughoutMissing You, Kat slowly began to learn that her father hadn’t been the man she thought. Clint Donovan was a crooked cop, working for the crime lord Calligan for a hefty paycheck. This meant that just about anyone could have ordered the hit on Kat’s father, and the ending ofMissing Yousaw the detective essentially accept that she may never have all the answers. However, the partial fingerprint on the murder weapon came back with a match. Just after Kat reignited the flame between herself and Josh,she learned that her fiance himself had killed Clint.
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Josh explained that Clint’s death had been an accident. Kat’s friend Aqua had seen Clint with his lover and the man chased her to her home to ensure she would never share what she had seen with Kat. In his distress at his darkest secrets being revealed, Clint became violent with Aqua, even grabbing a knife and brandishing it at her. This is when Josh walks in, andin an effort to wrestle the knife away, Clint is accidentally stabbed. Kat’s boss, Ellis Stagger, convinced criminal Monte Leburne to take the fall to protect Josh, Aqua, and Clint’s reputation.
Why Josh Left Kat After Her Father’s Death Explained
Josh Couldn’t Handle His Big Secret
Earlier inMissing You, when Kat learned that Monte Leburne hadn’t killed her father after all, she discovered that Josh had visited the criminal in prison. This would have been just before he packed up all his things from Kat’s apartment and disappeared without a trace. Discovering precisely why Josh had visited Leburne became Kat’s obsession. She knew it must have something to do with why Josh left her. For a time, Stagger convinced Kat that Josh had left so that he wouldn’t risk revealing what he had learned at the prison—that LeBurne was innocent.
Josh had left because he couldn’t stand to watch Kat mourn the man that he himself had killed.
This wasn’t entirely true. Instead, the ending ofthe Netflix seriesreveals that Josh had left because he couldn’t stand to watch Kat mourn the man that he himself had killed. He couldn’t tell her the truth about why he had done it since this would mean tarnishing Kat’s flowery memory of her father. She didn’t know that Clint was a crooked cop or an adulterer or that the man had attacked and nearly killed Aqua.Josh disappeared from Kat’s life to spare her the painof learning all of this. However, he never stopped loving her.
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Kat’s Father Was A Complicated Man
Kat believed that her father, Clint, was the perfect man. He was a great husband, father, and cop, and she maintained this belief for over a decade after his death. However, in truth, Clint was far more complicated, and the man’s secrets unraveled from the moment Leburne admitted that he hadn’t killed him. Kat had long suspected that Clint’s death was a hit ordered by the crime lord Calligan. However, she ultimately learned thather father had instead been on Calligan’s payroll. Still, the cop hadn’t agreed to work for Calligan simply for the money.
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Calligan knew that Clint Donovan was having an affair, and he used this information to get the officer on his side. This went beyond the typical unfaithfulness common at the department during Clint’s heyday. When looking for Clint’s lover, Kat got ahold of the name “Parker.” After some investigation, she discovered that this was the name of the man her father had maintained a romantic relationship with for decades.It was Parker whom Aqua had seen Clint with that fateful day, and for this secret that Kat’s father had died.
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These Cases Weren’t Connected To Josh After All
It seemed for a time inMissing Youthat Josh Buchanan was up to something terrible. After Kat matched with Josh on the Melody dating app, a boy named Brandon turned up to report that his mother, Dana Fells, was missing.Brandon said that Dana had met a man on Melody, and they had gone away on vacation together; at which point, his mother stopped answering his calls or returning texts. Brandon knew something was wrong, so he investigated the mysterious man who spirited his mother away. Brandon ultimately discovered that it was none other than Josh Buchanan.
The reveal that Josh had something to do with the missing people inMissing Youwas meant to imply that he had something to do with Clint Donovan’s death. Of course, this was only somewhat true since Josh only accidentally killed Clint while defending Aqua. Further investigation on Kat’s part revealed thatsomeone had been using Josh’s picture to catfish people on the dating app. Once they were sufficiently in love, they would be lured to meet up with their new online boyfriend, at which point they would be kidnapped, robbed, and murdered.
Titus used Josh’s images to catfish men, and that of a woman to ensnare victims like Rishi Magari. Unfortunately, Rishi was killed before Kat discovered Titus' farm.
The person behind this was a dog breeder named Titus. His operation saw himkidnap the individuals he had catfished, convince them to give up their bank account information, and burn their bodieson his sizeable farm. Their loved ones and police would conclude that they had run away abroad with their new lovers and close the case without ever finding their way to Titus. Thankfully, Josh had nothing to do with this operation, asMissing Youhad implied. Still, if Titus hadn’t used Josh’s pictures to catfish Dana, Kat might never have taken on or solved the case.
Do Kat & Josh End Up Together In Missing You’s Ending?
Missing You Only Implies At Their Ending
Kat learned a lot of hard truths by the end ofMissing You. She and Josh had just rekindled their relationship when the partial fingerprint on her father’s murder weapon was confirmed, and Kat was utterly devastated. However, by this point, she had already learned the truth about Calligan and Parker. Kat knew Clint wasn’t the man she had thought he was. So,when Josh explained why he had been forced to wrestle the knife out of Clint’s hands, Kat seemed to understand.In the final scene ofMissing You,Kat and Josh sitsilently side by side, and their hands eventually come together.
It’s implied in Missing You’s ending that Kat and Josh stay together.
It’s implied inMissing You’s ending that Kat and Josh stay together. The 11-year gap in their relationship only happened because Josh wanted to avoid tarnishing Clint’s reputation and couldn’t stand to see Kat mourn the man he had been forced to kill. Now, however, all the secrets were out. The couple could finally heal, which means returning to one another’s arms. ThoughMissing Youleaves their continued story ambiguous, it can be assumed that they found happiness in the wake of all these dark secrets.
Missing You
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Missing You is a crime-drama television series based on the novel written by Harlan Coben. Detective Kat Donovan’s life is thrown into chaos when her fiance, who disappeared eleven years ago, suddenly appears on a dating app. With his reappearance, old wounds are reopened, including the mystery of her father, who was murdered.
