'Unforgotten' Season 6's Penultimate Episode Rounds Up the Unusual Suspects

As Unforgotten hits its penultimate episode, in which little happens other than gathering all our suspects in one place, Agatha Christie-style, several things have become clear about The Case of Gerald Cooper, starting with the most significant latest discovery: Everything we know about it is a lie. It begins with a brief scene between Jess and Kaz, discussing their review of the footage from Whitney Marsh's car park, which was taken in February and March 2021. Kaz cannot find a single second of footage of a car entering the lot in the middle of the night, at least, not if she starts looking from the point in time when he went missing.

However, if she rewinds it back all of 24 hours before his disappearance supposedly occurred, there it is, a car pulling into the lot at 3:30 in the morning. If that's the case, and this car turns out to be related (which it probably will), that means the man was dead for a full day longer than Jess and Sunny realize, and it changes the time frame of, well, everything. Kaz's slow building of the evidence over the course of the hour, a witness coming in having seen the billboard, leads to an elderly pensioner who biked through the area on the way home from his night shift, and remembers the night in question, and even promises to have a diary with conclusive proof.

But first, everyone is facing down a bad day, starting with Sunny still obsessing about Leanne instead of taking the Big Old Hint she dropped right in front of him that said, "Don't call me, I'll call you." In dualing relationship crises, Steve is faster on the uptake; however, Jess was also far more blunt, informing him she's talked to Debbie and he'd better start telling the truth right now, before she cuts him out of his sons' lives. (Jess's speech upon confirming just what a horrific weasel she's married, as he tries to plead "sex addiction," is the stuff divorce dreams are made of. Sinead Keenan is chefs kiss.)