Unforgotten (TV Series)
Episode #4.1 (2021)
Nicola Walker: DCI Cassie Stuart
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DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : Fiver if you know when Marathons changed to Snickers.
DCI Cassie Stuart : 2000.
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : Way out. 1990.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Oh, wow. Where did my life go?
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Alan Hamilton : Well, weirdly, I actually remember this incident remarkably well.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Oh, okay. Good. Why?
Alan Hamilton : 'Cause it was so strange. Nothing like this had ever happened to me before or, indeed, ever happened again.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Wow. Go on.
Alan Hamilton : So, as it says here, the car was speeding. That's why we pulled it over. And when the driver got out, Fogerty, I could smell alcohol on his breath. He didn't seem drunk, but we did a test and he failed it, so, obviously, I had to nick him, which is when he started to cry. And he was a big lad, tall. But he was crying like a child, like he was utterly broken-hearted. It was upsetting, you know? Because, well, he seemed like a nice enough kid. I mean, he'd been silly, but as I said to him, he'd get a couple of points on his license and a year ban, but it wasn't the end of the world.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Hm.
Alan Hamilton : Which is when he told me. He was driving back from a party in Hendon. A celebration party.
DCI Cassie Stuart : A celebration party for what?
Alan Hamilton : Passing out.
DCI Cassie Stuart : No...
Alan Hamilton : He was a probationer who'd just qualified, and he was crying because he knew... Well, he knew he'd just fucked his entire career.
DCI Cassie Stuart : And the others, in the car. Had they been at the same party?
Alan Hamilton : Yeah. That's why it's stayed in my head all these years. Because all five of them were newly-qualified coppers.
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DSI Clive Andrews : They just won't budge. I'm so sorry.
[Cassie nods]
DSI Clive Andrews : As I say, they're very happy with the first six months as sick leave, and they're happy to go half pay for another six, but, uh... they just won't allow a medical retirement. Which obviously still leaves you three months shy of your full 30 years. And I'm as angry as you are. Because I know five years ago, they just would have waved this through without a second thought. Maybe, in five years, they will. But... now? You know what it's like, Cass. They're still counting every single penny.
DCI Cassie Stuart : And what was that figure again? What does it equate to, exactly?
DSI Clive Andrews : Erm... It's, uh... 124,467 pounds.
DCI Cassie Stuart : That I'd lose. Despite me not being able to come back three months ago.
DSI Clive Andrews : Which they say -- they, not me -- is not the case.
DCI Cassie Stuart : And what the fuck do they know? Sir. They're bean counters. Never done a single day on the job in their lives. Meaning they have not one single scintilla of an idea what 30 years of -- sorry, 29 years and nine months - of doing this job does to a person. 29 years and nine months of having to mop up the... blood and the tears and the... rage and the despair, on a daily basis. This judgment does not recognize, that, Sir. This judgment does not cut me any slack.
DSI Clive Andrews : And, again, I'm, uh... I'm so sorry, Cass.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Yeah, well. Me, me too.
[stands to leave]
DSI Clive Andrews : We'll need to go back to them. What do you want me to say?
DCI Cassie Stuart : I dunno, I need to think.
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DCI Cassie Stuart : So, what did you say to them?
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : What you told me to. That you didn't want a fuss.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Yeah, more of a fuss than that. That was like I went out to get a cup of bleedin' tea.
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : [laughs] You okay?
DCI Cassie Stuart : Yeah. Just gonna keep my head down, Sunny. Do the job, not get too involved. Be fine.
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : It will.
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Martin Hughes : Well, I think they're perfectly within their rights.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Really?
Martin Hughes : Listen, they want and need people to stay for 30 years, so if they start making exceptions for someone who's just had enough...
DCI Cassie Stuart : Just had enough?
Martin Hughes : ...tomorrow, some bloke comes along and says, Oh, well, in that case, can I finish six months earlier?
DCI Cassie Stuart : Alright, I think you're slightly missing the point, Dad. I haven't just had enough. I've been off sick.
Martin Hughes : Yeah, well, that's another bloody con.
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DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : I'm so sorry.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Yeah.
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : What are you gonna do?
DCI Cassie Stuart : What can I do?
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : There's always projects, Cass, jump on one of those. Or take a job in admin, or...
DCI Cassie Stuart : I'm not taking a job in fucking admin.
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DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : Okay. Well, come back in with us, then.
DCI Cassie Stuart : And lose it again?
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : It was one man.
DCI Cassie Stuart : You think? It was everything, Sunny. It was Finch, it was 30 years of doing this shit, it was the Walker case, what I did...
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : What we did.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Everything. And being away from it, the questions fade. Well, they don't go away, but they fade.
DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan : I... I don't know what to say, Cass.
DCI Cassie Stuart : Nope. Me neither.