The Man in the Freezer
DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan are back! This Monday, the popular ITV series Unforgotten, starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar, kicked off its fourth season. The two detectives are investigating a new murder mystery, decades old.
In season four, the team is investigating the murder of Robert Fogerty, a beheaded man recently discovered thawed after being frozen for 30 years. Who was this man, and who beheaded and froze him in 1990? By the end of the first episode, Cassie and Sunny uncover something very disturbing about the person potentially responsible for this murder. Leave it to Cassie and Sunny to solve this bizarre case.
The series also delves into Cassie's return to the police force after being traumatized by the events of season three. Nicola Walker spoke with ITV about what we can expect from her character in the upcoming episodes: "When we meet her this series, you realize she doesn’t really want to come back, but she is in a terrible position that she will lose a massive amount of her pension payout on a technicality if she doesn’t come back and complete a certain number of months to comply with her pension. It is awful; she is in a complete trap so she agrees to come back so she can access the full amount of her pension because her dad is getting more and more ill, and she is looking at the fact that she will probably be financially responsible for her father’s care. So she is completely caught. Her entire career she has very dedicatedly given to the police force. She is angry and feels very betrayed, and that’s how she goes into this series’ story."
This season was originally filmed in early 2020, but due to COVID-19, production had to temporarily halt. Reflecting on this unprecedented situation, Nicola said: "Through lockdown, it was really strange because you are carrying this character around, all you’re thinking about is this storyline and realizing a few weeks in that you have to let it all go, including the lines. But it meant when we came back, the one thing I needed was four weeks advance notice to learn the lines again - you can’t hold them in your head for that long. That’s what happened. I had to re-read scripts to get the story back in my head and get the lines back in."
The popular series also welcomes a host of new guest stars each season, somehow involved in the murder, and this season is no different. In the new episodes, Susan Lynch, Sheila Hancock, Phaldut Sharma, Liz White, and Andy Nyman will join the cast, among others.
For the coming weeks, we are certainly looking forward to Mondays. If you're unfamiliar with this series, start with season 1. The series is available on platforms like Amazon Prime.