I've told him and he will explain your absence in court.

What on earth were they going to tell people to explain his absence from home?

This was the story she had decided to use to explain her absence.

The writers even went to the trouble of trying to explain her earlier absence.

However, her absence is not explained until the next episode.

She ought at least to have left a call for him, explaining her absence.

At first he explains his long absence by saying that he'd been ill.

She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence.

His absences had been explained easily enough in the past.

His disappearance and absence from the previous film is not explained.