The WORST episodes of Unforgotten
Every episode of Unforgotten ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Unforgotten!
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#1 - Episode 4
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/20/2023
Sunny and Jess’s personal lives go from bad to worse while they struggle to keep focused. Meanwhile, the suspect list grows and a mother and son are put under the microscope.
#2 - Episode 2
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/1/2021
Cassie and Sunny identify four potential suspects who trained as police probationers together, and two of them are still serving officers. They have no luck finding the rest of the body and decide to go public about the discovery of Walsh's remains.
#3 - Episode 3
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/9/2021
Cassie and Sunny interview each of the four suspects, who all deny knowing the victim. Boulting discovers Walsh was cautioned three weeks before his death and believes it was with Ram, while Collier manages to locate the rest of Walsh's body.
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#4 - Episode 4
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/15/2021
Cassie and Sunny discover Walsh was chased by all four suspects on the night in question. Willets realises Fiona's blood sample may have been deliberately lost by Liz. The pathologist identifies a cause of death implying Walsh was murdered.
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#6 - Episode 6
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/29/2021
Despite a tragic turn of events, Sunny and the team narrow down the suspects.
#7 - Episode 1
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/27/2023
When a severed leg is discovered in a bricked-up chimney flue the team get to work identifying the victim and cause of death. Cassie’s replacement on the force, DCI Jess James, has a rocky start as she clashes with a grieving Sunny.
#8 - Episode 2
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/2023
The team work to identify the body found in the chimney flue as forensics reveal the cause of death. Jess and Sunny visit the victim’s mother to break the devastating news. They find the pair had a tumultuous relationship.
#9 - Episode 3
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/13/2023
The victim’s turbulent past comes to light. While Sunny takes a trip to Paris and Jess drops in on an unsuspecting Lord, the pair continue to butt heads.
#10 - Episode 1
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/22/2021
A dismembered body is found in a scrapyard and the team believes the remains had been stored in a domestic freezer for 30 years. After making the decision to retire from the police force, Cassie faces a dilemma when she learns she isn't entitled to her full pension payment unless she completes her 30 years of service.
#12 - Episode 6
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/3/2023
Can Sunny, Jess and the team bring the clues in the case together and unravel the secrets to solve it?
#13 - Episode 1
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2025
When a spine is dredged out of Whitney Marsh, a new case begins for Jess and Sunny’s team at Bishop Street CID. Four potential suspects soon appear, each with secrets to hide.
#14 - Episode 2
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/10/2025
The Bishop Street team investigate the deceased's record, relationships, and enemies, and Jess and Sunny make contact with his widow. No one is as innocent as they first seem.
#16 - Episode 4
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/17/2025
With the details of the deceased's life becoming clearer and one suspect already being questioned, the Bishop Street team find suspects further afield.
#17 - Episode 5
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/2025
Lies are uncovered, and suspects are taken into custody, but who's protecting who? Meanwhile, Jess plans a conversation with Steve.
#19 - Episode 6
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/19/2018
Following the discovery of seemingly incriminating items found at his house, Tim insists he bought them for his girls at a fete in Middenham. However, the team are not buying Tim's story. A new discovery leaves the team shocked and devastated, hitting Cassie particularly hard.
#20 - Episode 5
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/12/2018
James, Tim and Chris are exposed as having lied about their whereabouts on the night Hayley died. Pete reveals that he saw Eliot climbing into the holiday home through a window on New Year's Day, while leaves James struggling with the possibility that his son may have killed Hayley. Fran cracks a code in the dead girl's diary, suggesting that she met a local drug dealer on the night she disappeared.
#21 - Episode 4
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/2018
It becomes clear to the detectives that the four men have conspired to come up with a false account of what took place the night Hayley disappeared. Jake is assigned to track down Tim Finch's ex-wife to hear her version of events - and uncovers disturbing information about Chris Lowe's past. On a personal front, Sunny is offered the opportunity to rekindle his past marriage, and Cassie worries about her father's failing memory.
#22 - Episode 3
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/29/2018
Cassie and Sunny begin their interviews...
#23 - Episode 2
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2018
Cassie and Sunny go in search of Hayley's family as the press begin to take an interest in the story. A detective who was involved in the original investigation offers his thoughts on why her disappearance remained unsolved, pointing out that Hayley's boyfriend was suspected of the crime but was never charged. The distance between where Hayley was last seen and where her body was found leads Cassie to form a new theory - that the killer may have travelled up from London, then returned before they could be questioned
#24 - Episode 1
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2018
When the body of a teenage girl who went missing at the turn of the millennium is found at a building site off the M1 motorway, four men are placed under the spotlight and their relationships are tested to the limit.
#25 - Episode 3
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/2017
Further examination of David Walker's history suggests that he was a troubled man with a number of issues. Marion has a prickly chat with Cassie about her past and the investigation reveals her close relationship with an IRA activist. As the police enquiries encroach on their lives, Sara and Colin open up to their partners.