Unforgotten

Glad I stayed with this as the final episode was very moving.

Could not quite understand why the engraved pen was left behind. Could someone please explain.

I think the pen was pushed right in, so you couldn't see it from the surface in all the blood.

I think he told his mother he'd done it.

Not sure what you mean there, Reithian.  The engraved pen was left inside Matt Walsh's head.  It was driven right in and left there.

A great, but sad ending.  Still lots of questions in my mind that I wish had been answered.

Solving the crime was quite anticlimactic. I felt quite sorry for Ram, but not the rest of them.

Oh, but the end wrecked me. So sad.

I think if I hadn't seen the amazing interviews in the last series, I would have felt the same. But they were very hard to top. The confession gave me chills and was brilliantly acted.

Yes, I realised it was embedded and left inside but why use a murder weapon that has your initials engraved on it and was given as a special present?. If it was the only thing you had then why not try to remove it after the dreadful deed? A recently qualified police officer would surely realise how incriminating it could be if ever found. It was I suppose symbolic in an act of revenge.

But this is not going to detract from the excellence of the drama and the acting. 

I imagine Dean's action was committed as in a fit of blind rage when he realised who Walsh was, and having murdered him his instinct was to cover it up, just as the two women did, while Ram was the only one of the four who tried to save him – though carrying out CPR on someone with a blunt instrument in his brain was futile and even if they had called an ambulance, Matt was dead. Dean said in one of his interviews that we never really leave out past behind us, which in his case was true.

The business of Fiona's licence to practice does seem to have been an error in the writer's research. She said she had a PhD which was real, and her training was real, so she was qualified. It might have been simpler to give her a profession that did require her to have accreditation, or indeed have her accredited as a psychotherapist – that wouldn't have lessened her guilt. The reason for her psychotherapy was so that we could see her with a patient early on. I think we were simply meant to understand that she was a bundle of contradictions and behind the capable mother and psychotherapist was a lost child still seeking parental approval. I never understood why Geoff was pushing her into acquiring new premises in the first place, which is how it all came out – though it would have done anyway when the police came calling.

So Cassie is gone. I shall miss her and her team's quiet, unshowy policing, in stark contrast to other police dramas including Waking the Dead, also about cold cases, which became increasingly ludicrous as the series rolled on and on and on. There's talk of Unforgotten continuing with a new lead, or Sunny stepping up with a new DI. If they do, I will watch, but I kind of hope they don't!