It's the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship in 'Unforgotten' Season 5

They say when stress hits, people revert to their base selves. That certainly seems true of our suspects as Unforgotten Episode 4 opens. Faced with his mortality, Tony tries to buy his way out of his cancer diagnosis and then turns ugly towards Medhi Hussein when his glad-handing doesn't get him his grant for the youth center because he didn't actually put any work into it. Faced with her past, Ebele drinks herself into sleeping homeless in a doorway. Faced with a drunk girlfriend who disappeared, Mark starts covering and lying for her. Not that she's contrite when she shows up, still drinking like a fish, and she disappears again immediately when Mark says a "London Lawyer" called for her.

Sal: It's hard to feel jealous of a dead woman.

Sunny's in Paris, helplessly leaving messages for Sal post-miscarriage, but a funny thing's happening in his absence. The morning meeting's underway, not in Jess' office, but in the main room, and it's going well. Jess and Kaz bond over holes in Ebele's firearms arrest; Fran laughs when Jess cracks a joke about financial responsibility not usually being the habit of meth addicts. Murray confirmed Precious' last bank card use was the same day as Karol's last visit. Also, Fran found Jay in the system and is requesting the team be allowed to talk to him. But there is an awkward moment when they ask where Sunny is at the end of the meeting; they didn't know he'd been sent to Paris.