Unforgotten - ITV

[southeastdweller]

Anyone else watch the start of the second series tonight?

I thought the three at the end may have been brought together by rights-based protest (gay, Irish, Muslim) originally. But don't all three get the b&w flash backs?

The ex prostitutes husband was also a policeman in the series where the main woman cop (in this) appeared with half her head missing.

Don't forget there's also the IRA woman, who has still to be found. She''s got to be worked into the mix somehow.

I think she will be part of the reason the triumvirate of lost souls changed the direction of their lives.

I wonder if the nurse's father (now dead, who was on a lecture tour of America when she "broke into" their house) was the paedophile school teacher who abused our victim while he was at school. This would explain the address on the travel card

yes i agree, nurses father abuser, hence the nurse is now a bitch

perhaps the nurse will spill the beans to her cancer patient

Yes I wondered whether the nurse had been abused by her father hence her cutting herself off from her family for years?

But David Walker could have gone to see the nurse at the house in 1990 (do we know what the date was on the ticket?) rather than to confront her father.

Remind me how the IRA woman features thus far (that part seems to have gone over my head!) - I've watched most of it on catch-up so may have inadvertently skipped a very relevant scene or two.

Agree the nurse was likely abused by her father or found out he was abusing pupils. I bet there's going to be a big scene in the final or penultimate episode with her and Wendy Craig when she confronts her mother, who's been in denial about it for years.

I think David was an IRA sympathiser and was donating to the organisation.

I think Wendy Craig did it! The nurse is the good one in all of this I'm sure.

It was all v quick when the police were doing there recap of what they'd found so far and putting pics on their big board.

From Wikipedia: "Checks on Marion's criminal history reveal she was arrested in 1988 for assaulting a police officer during a protest march, and that she was living at an address with a known IRA conspirator."

We saw a pic of IRA woman (blonde), so surely only a matter of time before she puts in an appearance.

*their recap

teddy we haven't seen the IRA woman (Sinead) yet. All we know of her is that she lived with the nurse (Marion) for a time in the 80's.

Muggle if it's anything like Series 1, it will be Wendy Craig who turns out to be the 'perp'.

Maybe it's to do with money laundering for the IRA????

Thanks for the clarification southeastdweller.

I think it'd be too obvious for Wendy Craig to have killed David, can't imagine the writer would have the killer being another O.A.P like in the first series. And what motive would she have?

"And what motive would she have?"

Not letting David expose that he had been assaulted by her husband?

I wondered if the nurse and the IRA woman are the same person - or at least some sort of identity swap went on. The nurse's missing years might coincide with the IRA woman's prison sentence. Could the nurse have been blackmailed into serving time for IRA woman? Also, how could she get employed as a nurse with a conviction (the 1988 one) she wouldn't pass a criminal record check?

I love the programme. I think it might have been the paedophile teacher who murdered David Walker, and it was covered up by the nurse (his daughter.) Or, the nurse was working as a prostitute too, DW told her of the abuse at school, she realised it was her father who was the paedophile, sent the DW off to kill her father, it all went wrong and DW was killed, then the nurse and her fellow prostitute the teacher - and somehow Colin the lawyer - had to cover it up because they'd all be implicated somehow.

Or something much less complicated.

We saw a picture of IRA woman. Def not the nurse.

I thought they looked similar

Loving this so far. Nicola Walker is brilliant.

southeastdweller hope it's not that formulaic that it follows the 'plot arch' of Series 1.

That the three key characters (four if you include his wife too) seemed to turn their lives around in 1990 (when DW died) would suggest that maybe they all knew about his death and were 'released' in some way, when he died - did he have a hold on all of them in some way?

I thought the nurse and IRA woman looked similar - similar enough to swap one for the other in 1990 when we didn't have such accurate photo ID? Maybe IRA woman is someone else and it's a total red herring, but it's a bit of a coincidence that both she and the nurse were MIA for a period of time.

I think we haven't seen the last of the other prostitue either. Actually, it could have been her, maybe she wasn't a prostitute, she was their madam at the flat.

And the lawyer's husband said something to him about 'that thing you do' - would that be having sex with women? or did he like violent sex too, like David Walker?

I am so intrigued......

They've also all got an 'absence' of some description, around 1990, haven't they? That's got to be significant unless a red herring.

agree, something happened, well we know something happened.
and they are all affected

All four main characters were early 20s in 1990, so 15 years younger than DW who most likely had some type of 'hold' on all of them.

Donating to the Conservatives could be the 'respectable front' of much more dubious business dealings...

Even the Wife decided to join the police after this happened.
needle in a haystack, invincible in the police perhaps? above suspicion

Not letting David expose that he had been assaulted by her husband?

It'd be a really dark twist having a woman effectively condone child abuse as part of the reveal, don't think many writers would go there personally. And I just can't see the killer being another female O.A.P, as with the first series.