Unforgotten (TV Series)

Episode #3.5 (2018)

Alastair Mackenzie: John Bentley

Quotes 

• John Bentley : [standing up]  Yeah, I better push off.

  DCI Cassie Stuart : No, thank you for coming in.

  John Bentley : No worries.

  [pauses] 

  John Bentley : Uh... Look, I'm probably gonna head back down to Hampshire tomorrow, so...

  DCI Cassie Stuart : [nodding]  Right.

  John Bentley : But um... can I, can I call you?

  DCI Cassie Stuart : [closes her office door]  I don't know if this is a good idea right now, John. I've just got so much uh... crap on right now that I need to sort out and... I'm not sure starting... uh... Wouldn't be fair on you. Sorry.

  John Bentley : I'll call you, then.

• John Bentley : [over dinner with Cassie]  Well, we all mess up, we're all fallible, we've all done things in which we are ashamed. The trick in life, I think, is knowing which things we should forgive ourselves for, and which not.

  DCI Cassie Stuart : Except I'm not sure it really is that.

  Uniformed Copper : [reporting into his radio as Pete is shown on a gurney undergoing chest compressions]  Suspect is a white male, mid-40s, wearing a navy top and a grey baseball cap. He was last seen walking towards Burley Road, and the witness here said he had a knife in his hand, over.

  DCI Cassie Stuart : I think a part of me wonders if I'm just coming to a natural conclusion here. I've been doing this for... 28 years?

  [nodding] 

  DCI Cassie Stuart : There are other things to do in life.

  John Bentley : Not like this.