There are two ways the first episode of a new cop show can go. Bull at a gate - like the excellent "No Offence" or nice and easy. "Unforgotten" goes the second route.Introducing the characters,apparently disparate but clearly in some way connected.Then providing the catalyst - in this case the body of a young man murdered over thirty five years ago that sparks the action. The excellent Miss N.Walker is the CID officer who decides to investigate this cold case and her team quickly discovers the identity of the victim thanks to a car key found with the body. This is for a hand - made sports model which they eventually track down to a scrap yard.The car looks suspiciously like an MGB roadster to me but I guess you could hardly expect the BBC to custom build one just to scrap it. The police find a diary in the car and the story is off and running at just the right stage - the end of the first episode. Interestingly we know more about the suspects' personal lives that we do about the detective's.She is living with that nice Mr P Egan;and that's about it so far. Contrastingly we know Mr T.Courtenay is wheelchair - bound with a wife suffering from Dementia and Mr T Eve is a menacing figure(what else?) with a dodgy past. There is a nice middle - aged couple whose son tragically died that are so lovely they must be guilty of something by the first rule of TV cop shows. All these people are about to have their lives blown apart as the redoubtable Miss Walker investigates. I shall look forward to seeing what she finds out about them and what we find out about her.
Review of Unforgotten
