What would you do if the love of your life, who disappeared without a word, turned up 11 years later on a dating app? That’s the jarring position Detective Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazer) finds herself in as she comes across her ex-fiancé, Josh (Ashley Walters), while mindlessly swiping through potential connections. In the limited series Missing You — based on Harlan Coben’s mystery-thriller novel — Kat’s brief interaction with Josh on the app is just one small piece of a larger conspiracy. 

“Suppose the love of your life vanished, then one day you’re scrolling through one of those apps,” author and creator Coben tells Tudum. “And all of a sudden he’s back, and it leads to death and destruction and family secrets and all sorts of buried reasons for why he left the first time.” 

The series opens with a man on horseback, seemingly in a panic. Before he falls from the horse, we see visions of a woman and hear a mysterious voice that says: “I dream of you, kissing you, holding you, the feel of your skin against mine. I love you.” 

Then, the scene cuts to Kat, wearing a sleek leather jacket and a red lip, on her way to meet a man for a date. As they share some flirtatious banter, the couple prepares to leave the restaurant — but then Kat hears a commotion among the kitchen staff. A man has just stabbed someone and is wielding a knife against his girlfriend because, he says, she cheated on him. Kat springs into action to try and neutralize the situation — which comes as quite the surprise to her date. 

“When you see Kat, she seems very put together and strong and resilient, but inside she's actually quite childlike and vulnerable, and you sometimes see glimpses of that,” Eleazar tells Tudum. “I think that's sort of true of most humans in a way that you put on a mask when you go out into the world, and then there are very few people that know the real core of you.” 

Watch the first five minutes of Missing You now to prepare for all the twists and turns, then count down to watching the full series starting New Year’s Day.