Unforgotten

I hope she is not leaving

Having watched a second time, it's hard to see how Cassie can survive the crash. Remarkable escapes and recoveries happen all the time on TV (Steve being thrown down the stairs in Line of Duty, for example), but not so far in this series. There are theories elsewhere that the crash was deliberate, but it seems to me to have been a horrible accident, a result of her being tired and distracted, upset by her father not returning her calls, and absent-mindedly jumping a red light (which we could see reflected on her hand as she held the phone, with the green light showing through the window). In any case, I can't see how removing her from the investigation would help any of the suspects as all the facts so far known will still be there and she had discussed strategy with Sunny, who is perfectly capable.

If she isn't killed she will certainly be incapacitated, leaving Sunny to lead the investigation. Perhaps though it will bring her the closure she needs, reconciliation with her father, and not having to work out the rest of her notice.

I'm still not convinced either by Liz or Fiona. Liz is very credible as an emotionally abused daughter, seeking her mother's approval just as Ram seeks his father's – in fact that seems to be the thread connecting them as the others were also scarred by their parents in some way. But it doesn't square with her rise through the police, a notoriously difficult profession for women. The women we see in real life who have made it to the top are brimming with self-confidence. And it irks that the police interviews are being conducted without legal representation or, in the case of the two coppers, their Fed Rep.

And Fiona – my goodness! What a back story, and we still don't know the whole truth there, I think. No wonder Geoff and the kids were looking shell-shocked. The lack of licence to practise seems a bit over the top – psychotherapists are not required to be licensed in the UK, though presumably she could command a better rate if she were. I'm still puzzled by why they were opening new premises that required a business loan in the first place – she said back in the first episode that it wasn't her idea and she was dragging her heels, particularly at signing the papers. And we don't know what Geoff does for a living, not that it matters to the story but it's strange that it's never been mentioned, given that he is financially liable too. Unless, as they are not married, he isn't!

Seems a long wait between episodes.

Ram seems to be too obvious a villain to me. And the pen being the murder weapon doesn’t seem like something he would use.

Yes, why a pen of all things - surely there's got to be some significance in that? Somebody wrote or signed something, or refused to sign something?

All four of them have been seen using fountain pens. I'm guessing they all had them to celebrate their passing out day. I've been glued to the fountain pens bit as there's one in the opening sequence too, lying on the ground with a snail on the nib. I don't see how the pen in the head will tell for sure who killed Matt Walsh because anyone could have found it and then used it. Also I don't see that it killed him as he was already lying there with a broken head by the sound of it, fell against bricks or whatever. Then someone drove the pen into the wound. I think.

Didn't the pathologist say that the pen went in post-mortem? Suggesting Matt Walsh was dead before the pen entered his brain.