Unforgotten (TV Series)

Episode #4.1 (2021)

Colin R. Campbell: DSI Clive Andrews

Quotes 

• 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.