The Missing left viewers stunned in closing scenes that showed a policeman DRILLED in the HEAD

VIEWERS of the hit BBC show The Missing were left in shock on Wednesday night when a major character was killed off after being stabbed in the head with a DRILL.

*WARNING* THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD.

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The intense thriller kicked up to eleven on the show when policeman Jorn Lenhart arrived at the home of Adam Getterick to ask questions about a girl who went missing several years ago.

Claiming to be a family friend, Adam finds himself under suspicion when a little girl appears with a picture for her 'dad' - showing her and her mum in the basement.

Telling the little girl to stay upstairs, the two men come to blows and it is believed that Jorn had unwittingly found the kidnapper of the three missing girls Alice Webster, Sophie Giroux, and a third girl who wore red glasses.

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The military press officer pins the cop to the floor, picks up an electric drill that was laying nearby, switch it on an drive it into the poor cop's head.

Fans of the show ran to Twitter to find other people to share their shock with at the unexpected development of the latest episode, with one writing: "he did not just drill that guy to death that is grim  #TheMissing"

Another fan stayed topical with their reaction and wrote: "That death by drill scene was more shocking than Trump getting elected"

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One fan's worry went into overdrive as they commented: "That's no sleep for me tonight knowing I have a power drill in the house. Time to find the trip switch... #TheMissing"

Someone else saw the comic side to it though and wrote: "THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A.....Oh, wait a minute"

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On his choice of murder weapon, writer Jack Williams told the "To be honest, he’s doing things in the house, he’s there, he’s got stuff knocking around. You always want to do something specific with these kind of things. You want to do something that’s memorable."

He added: "The difference between knocking someone over the head and getting a drill is, one is potentially accidental or in the heat of the moment. The other is very intentional. There’s a big lack of humanity there."

Watch The Missing, Wednesday at 9pm on BBC1. 

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