Unforgotten (TV Series)

Episode #2.3 (2017)

Nicola Walker: DCI Cassie Stuart

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  DC Jake Collier : [over lunch at the station]  So if David was at primary school in the mid-'50s, we'd be looking at a possible abuser who's, what, in their... early 80s now?

  DC Fran Lingley : Which obviously rules out any of the people we're currently talking to.

  DS Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : Unless the murder was committed on behalf of the abuser.

  DC Jake Collier : What, the primary school teacher ordered a hit?

  DS Murray Boulting : Walker allegedly confronted him 25 years later. The teacher could have been anything by then.

  DS Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : And with everything to lose if David had gone to the police.

  DCI Cassie Stuart : Okay, well, look, let's keep an open mind about that.

• DCI Cassie Stuart : Good day?

  Martin Hughes : Yup. You?

  DCI Cassie Stuart : Yeah, yeah. You're late tonight?

  Martin Hughes : You said when I was 70 I could stay out until eleven.

  DCI Cassie Stuart : [laughs]  Sorry.

• DCI Cassie Stuart : This was the address, in fact, that you gave after you were arrested in 1988 for for assaulting a police officer...

  Marion Kelsey : I never assaulted anyone.

  DCI Cassie Stuart : ...at a demonstration in North London.

  Marion Kelsey : A policeman attacked me. I was defending myself.

  DCI Cassie Stuart : For which you were found guilty at Horseferry Road Magistrate's court and fined 100 pounds.

  Marion Kelsey : You look like a smart woman to me. I'm sure you couldn't be so spectacularly dim as to suggest that a police officer from the '80s - well fuck it, from any point in the last 50 years actually - couldn't have lied?

  DCI Cassie Stuart : I'm not sure why you're being so defensive, Marion.

  Marion Kelsey : I'm being defensive because I was on a perfectly legal march, exercising my right to protest, and I was assaulted by a police officer. And you're now trying to imply that I have some kind of violent past, and that therefore I must be connected in some way to this unfortunate man's tragic death. And I find that annoying, I'm sorry. Are we done, because I have a very busy ward.

  DCI Cassie Stuart : Sure.

  Marion Kelsey : Great, nice to meet you.

  [stands up] 

  DCI Cassie Stuart : And you, and if we need to speak to you again...

  [watches Marion storm out of the room] 

  DCI Cassie Stuart : ... we'll be in touch.