Unforgotten - ITV

[southeastdweller]

Anyone else watch the start of the second series tonight?

Wasn't DW's son only 5 years old when his father disappeared? I don't think he murdered his dad and hid the body!

I agree it seems improbable but stranger things have happened...

I don't think it's him or his mother - although she wasn't a police officer at the time of DW's death, was she, so wouldn't necessarily been forensically aware enough to get rid of the watch which provided clues to ID initially.

Great series. Wife is top of my list, although I was thrown by a scene in pub with lawyer, Sara and nurse or did I imagine that?!

The son is obviously a troubled person. I initially wondered if he was on the spectrum but now I wonder if he had been abused by his father and that is why his mum is so protective of him. It does sound ridiculous when I put it in black and white but you never know....

More confusion

I blame sara/ex prositute dh for shouting at her when son in house. His fault all know so he bad better not to blame her for being shunned in the community

So nurse wanted ira lover to kill dw

I'm wondering if SARA went away/abroad for 6:9mths as preg with dw child?

Lawyer shouldn't have paid in the beginning. Blackmailers always come back for more :(

Sure the daughter left at school wouldn't be in the playground. She would be school colouring etc while waiting for dad to collect

I don't think any of the 3 murdered dw. Tho would have been nice to know what they discussed in pub together

Wife of dw seems very reluctant to help /give info

I think we had something to do with it. Whether son accident murdered dad and she covered it up or she did it

Yes Opti I find the opening titles captivating!

I'm even more sure now Jason did it, and his mum (who I think knew he was being abused) covered up the killing and disposed of the body. I quite like the nurses sister theory but she's hardly been in it so far - I doubt the killer would be a minor character.

Yes, although in Series 1 (Gemma Jones's character, who turned out to be the killer, was very peripheral to the investigation until the last episode).

The actress from Call the Midwife is currently so peripheral she's only uttered about four lines - maybe her important scenes with Jason are still to come and will in some way facilitate a big reveal...It seems most unlikely that she will continue to have a small part, I would have thought.

Maybe the meeting between the main suspects is not what it seems - it could be that they meet regularly to support each other rather than it being the crisis talks 'one-off' we, the viewers, may believe it to be

Well that was intriguing. I'm guessing more of the men who frequented that house will have disappeared.

And I was drinking in that very pub last night!

I quite like the DW's wife, the police inspector, theory.

I'm thinking the DI !

I don't know who Call The Midwife actress is, but on a similar theme, i reckon it is the husband of the widow of DW - only because Douglas Hodge is too big an actor to just stand in the kitchen.

Can't be though, as I assume Tessa only met him years after David disappeared?

I'm also suspicious of the DI's second husband...

At the house where the abuse took place, it was said that there was 'something for everyone.' I reckon all three of them killed each others abusers. That's why they all have alibis and why there are more bodies.

Bloody hell, I just discovered Nicola Walker was half of the Christian folk singing duo in Four Weddings and a Funeral!

Still think Jason killed DW. I think Douglas Hodge is there because he's going to have a big scene with Tessa when she confesses to him next week (in the final episode) that she knew about the abuse and covered up the killing.

cowgirl Interesting theory, but didn't last night Marion and Colin both say they were living in other countries until 1985??

Love this series!

I had tears in my eye when Sara's dh picked her up from the police station and told her he loved her in the car. I also really respect the way he kept calm with her father even though he was appalled by what he did. I hope she is able to reconcile with her father.

Dh's theory is that Colin, Sara and Marion all killed someone for eachother; each of them had a period of time when they were definitely NOT in the UK which means they have an alibi. They will have killed someone they cannot be directly linked to so it can't be proved. That's why they are pretending not to know eachother. I think they were all abused and all killed someone in the extended paedophile ring which , I think, will include Marion's dad (who had just died in the first episode I think) and other police officers. I reckon Marion's headmaster dad was a 'fixer' who procured kids, including Marion, for paedophiles. .

Anyway I could be wrong. It's brilliant TV whatever the conclusion.

Didn't the IRA woman tell the cops that marion asked her to kill David whatsit for her?

I think you are on to something with the three of them swapping murders, as it were, like the film, Strangers on a Train. It will be intriguing to see how it pans out next week, especially as I feel if they did kill their abusers then it was justified iyswim. What justice would they have got otherwise?

A lot of it is very close to home and based on real situations as well which is upsetting - eg Gerry Adams' brother has been convicted recently of sexually abusing his own children, and the house where they had the parties in Brentwood or wherever is clearly based on Elm Guest House in SW London, just near where I went to college.

Pepperpot a lot of what you say makes sense and tallies with what Cassie said about there being more bodies. I actually don't want anyone of them being guilty because all three have apparently faced some trauma in the past and are basically decent people who have tried to lead positive adult lives (perhaps to compensate for something bad ). For this reason I hope it's Tess!

Silent Witness recentlydid a Strangers on a Train type thing, didn't they?

Will be disappointed if it's that.

Pissed off with the solicitor being blackmailed.

Why not just admit to the car keying and be done with it?

It does seem a tad convenient that the three main suspects have all got cast-iron alibis for the time-frame when DW was murdered.

And how would Cassie and Sonny have any idea where to look for other bodies - presumably if the three did the murders for each other aren't we assuming they would have acted alone (so as not to implicate the others) and would have disposed of the bodies in different places?

Or will Cassie and Sonny do some type of historical 'missing persons/found bodies' records' analysis to highlight other possible victims?

It is interesting that all three have gone on to have very responsible and respectable jobs - atonement??