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Yes, but a distraught Alain reunited the scarf with Oliver all the way up to the unoccupied house where it had been left behind; and then ended up in a thrift shop years later.

Many voicemail boxes allow someone to call in from an outside number and access the voicemail as long as they have the password. While having to use the password might seem like a stumbling block, surveys have shown that large numbers of people use relatively simple passwords such as 12345, their name, or the word "password". While the show doesn't spell this out, Suri presumably just tried several easily guessed password combinations until he hit on the correct one.

The plot line was likely inspired by the News of the World phone hacking scandal where journalists hacked into several voice mail accounts to gain secret information. In the case of missing girl Millie Dowler, journalists actually deleted mesaages from her voicemail in order to free up space. This led police, and Dowlers family, to think that the girl, who had been murdered, was still alive and using her phone. The Missing echoes this incident when Suri deletes the message from Emily saying that she wants to reconcile with Tony.

No, the boy is not Ollie. The scene is there to show Tony continuing obsession with the case. While his unflagging determination to find Ollie is what drives the action of the show, the writers are also careful to demonstrate that Tony's obsession is incredibly damaging to him. Emily is able, to some extent, to put Oliver's disappearance behind her and move on with her life. The discovery of his true fate is the final piece with she needs to heal, and move forward in her new life with Mark. But Tony's obsession will not let him do that. He has nothing in his life beyond the search for Oliver. Even though he learns the truth about what happened, he cannot bring himself to accept it. Instead, he continued searching, relying on ever more tenuous leads. The Russia scene demonstrates the consequences of this. Tony has become an isolated weirdo, bothering people in a vein quest to find his son.