'Unforgotten's Suspects Bring a Fresh Perspective on Our Victim

As expected, Unforgotten's third episode opens with the team quickly starting to round up the names of the suspects we've already met. Ram's tip about the ex-employee who was not paid during the pandemic leads to the pub's manager, a lovely lady named Alice (Sabrina Wu), who gives them Marty's name and a heads-up that he's disabled. She's of Asian descent, and though she never says it outright, her description of Cooper to Fran that "he was an old white guy" already rings alarm bells. As it is, her opinion of the Coopers' marriage is that Juliet thought herself more intelligent than her husband, as she taught at a college and he owned pubs.

Unfortunately, Fran doesn't ask if Cooper was having an affair; she might have gotten a straight answer of yes. Instead, Jess asks Juliet if her husband slept around, and receives a denial vehement enough that even Taylor recognizes her mother is lying to her face. She won't let mum out of family therapy either, which promises to be a fun ride. ("What are you seeking?" the therapist asks her. Taylor: "Honesty." Ouch.) Juliet is so rattled that she drops her fight with the students and agrees to meet with Liz and her friends to discuss whether her English course is too colonialist in 2025 and offer an apology for giving her a deliberately provocative book to read.

Speaking of the other woman, Mel's just been informed that her fiancé (apparently also drunk when they were hit by someone more intoxicated than they were) is not only paralyzed from the waist down, but impotent as well. Considering she still has to break all of this to him, it's somewhat understandable she's also acting like a complete idiot about Gerry's body being found, leaving not only last week's phone record for the team to see, but an unfortunate Google search history to boot.