[Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Unforgotten Season 6 finale.]
Six seasons in, British crime drama Unforgotten continues to tell gripping, complex stories. When the killer of brutish husband, father and business proprietor Gerry Cooper was revealed in the Masterpiece series’ Sunday, September 28 finale on PBS, it turned out not to be any of the four persons of interest set up at the start: his wife Juliet (Victoria Hamilton), onetime mistress Melinda (MyAnna Buring), former employee Marty (Maximilian Fairley), and the Afghani translator who had aided some of Gerry’s immigrant tenants, Asif (Elham Ehsas).
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