Line #196 Characters/Unforgotten


1	The CharacterSheet for ''{{Series/Unforgotten}}''.
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5	!Police
6	[[folder:DCI Cassie Stuart]]
7	!!DCI Cassandra 'Cassie' Stuart
8	->'''Played By''': Nicola Walker
9	* AloneAmongTheCouples: In series 3, Sunny is happy in his new relationship, her father is nearing proposing to his current girlfriend and her son Adam is off in America with his girlfriend, leaving Cassie struggling with loneliness. It gets better, though.
10	* BrokenAce: At the end of series 3 and in series 4.
11	* DaddysGirl: Cassie has a very close and loving relationship with her father, Martin. In fact she still lives with him.
12	** Subverted in Series 4, when she finds out he has dementia and is doing her best to protect him but isn't able to know if she's doing so due to her dislike of his girlfriend.
13	* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler:She is hit by a joyrider who was not connected to the case she was working and died of her injuries without getting to patch things up with her beloved father.]]
14	* EmptyNest: Both of Cassie's children have left home and according to her only see her when they want money or laundry doing. When Adam, Cassie's son, comes to visit however he asks for neither and she's overjoyed when he's home.
15	* TheHeart: Cassie argues the importance of solving cold cases because if anyone knew the victims or even if anyone remembers the people that knew them society has an obligation to help.
16	** During the Jimmy Sullivan case Cassie kept calling Maureen, the victim's mother, even when she had no new breaks in the case, just to talk to her.
17	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Cassie dies at the end of Series 4.]]
18	* HeroicBSOD: Cassie goes through one after Pete's death and learning that Tim Finch is a serial killer back to back in a very short period of time.
19	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has one when she realises she left the police file on Peter Carr behind in a cafe and again later after he's stabbed as a result of the file's contents going public and he ends up dying. Cue Cassie weeping in a toilet cubicle over the mess up.
20	* MyGreatestFailure: She feels this way about Pete Carr's death.
21	* PlatonicLifePartners: With Sunny, after they decide they're BetterAsFriends after a brief kiss.
22	* TenMinuteRetirement: Subverted. Cassie wants to retire between series 3 and 4, but she isn't able to because she hasn't served her 30 years.
23	* TookALevelInJerkass: Is much more bad-tempered, snappy and angry in Series 4 due to her being unable to retire and the aftereffects of her HeroicBSOD at the end of Series 3.
24	[[/folder]]
25
26	[[folder:DI Sunny Khan]]
27	!!DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan
28	->'''Played By''': Sanjeev Bhaskar
29	* AffectionateNickname: Sunny's name is Sunil but everyone calls him Sunny.
30	* FamilyMan: Often seen talking with Cassie about his daughters, often asking for advice on some problem he's having with them.
31	* HenpeckedHusband: Ex-husband to his high-maintenance wife.
32	* ParentsAsPeople: Sunny struggles to be a good father to his two daughters often not understanding them but comes across mostly as a [[GoodParents good parent]].
33	* PlatonicLifePartners: With Cassie.
34	* RankUp: Refereed to as Detective Sergeant in all the series' credits but is more commonly called Detective Inspector and this is seen on his warrant card in series 3.
35	* SecondLove: Finds one in Sal in series 3.
36	[[/folder]]
37
38	!Series 1
39	[[folder:Jimmy Sullivan]]
40	!! James 'Jimmy' Sullivan
41	->'''Played By''': Harley Alexander-Sule
42	* AbusiveParents: Thomas, Jimmy's father, was violent alcoholic and used to beat both his wife and child. Maureen his mother was also an alcoholic but loved her son dearly and only drank to cope with her abuse.
43	* UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}}: In the voice over we hear of Jimmy's letters he had a ''very'' thick Scouse accent.
44	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Jimmy worked as a male prostitute to earn money to send back to his mother so she could escape his abusive father.
45	[[/folder]]
46
47	[[folder:Eric Slater]]
48	!!Eric Slater
49	->'''Played By''': Tom Courtenay
50	* BungledSuicide: Didn't quite manage to kill himself in the car crash he causes but he did end up paralysing himself.
51	* {{Gayngst}}: Eric was a gay man during the time when homosexuality was still illegal in England and was torn up about it, wishing that he wasn't.
52	* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: To Claire, after [[spoiler:she killed Jimmy]].
53	* ThePenance: While the car crash that disabled him and put him in his wheelchair was inflicted upon himself by himself, Eric sees the chair as a more fitting punishment for his perceived role in Jimmy's death.
54	[[/folder]]
55
56	[[folder:Phillip Cross]]
57	!!Frank Phillip Cross
58	->'''Played By''': Trevor Eve
59	* BeardOfEvil: Has a prominent white beard and has a particularly questionable past.
60	* DrivenToSuicide: Ends series 1 by hanging himself in his prison cell.
61	* HappilyMarried: Before the Sullivan case Phillip appears to be happily married to his wife and has good relationships with his children, particularly his daughter Bella.
62	* LondonGangster: Phillip worked as a debt collector for a prominent family, the Fenwicks. His speciality was apparently breaking the joints in people's fingers with bolt cutters and nailing their hands down.
63	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As a former Eastender with a strong accent turned business magnate, Phillip evokes Lord Alan Sugar.
64	* RagsToRiches: Has rough beginning in the East End of London but became a successful business magnate later on in life, successful enough to earn himself a knighthood.
65	[[/folder]]
66
67	[[folder:Father Greaves]]
68	!!Father Robert Greaves
69	->'''Played By''': Bernard Hill
70	* DirtyOldMan: Engaged in a several weeks long relationships with a woman he claimed was seventeen but was actually fifteen.
71	* PedophilePriest: Had a "relationship" with a fifteen-year-old girl.
72	[[/folder]]
73
74	[[folder:Lizzie Wilton]]
75	!!Lizzie Wilton
76	->'''Played By''': Ruth Sheen
77	* AbusiveParents: After her mother's death, Lizzie's relationship with her father turned abusive. She never specifies if the abuse was emotional, physical, or sexual.
78	* CharacterDevelopment: In-universe. Lizzie was a member of the National Front, a far-right political group, when she was younger, during which she took part in various hate crimes. She soon matured when she was outside the influence of her boyfriend and marries a black man, has a child with him, helps found a football team for young people of colour and mentors a young black teen to help him with his education.
79	[[/folder]]
80
81	[[folder:Claire Slater]]
82	!!Claire Slater
83	->'''Played By''': Gemma Jones
84	* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler:She killed Jimmy because Eric cheated on her with him.]]
85	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Horrifyingly inverted. Claire's son knows all about [[spoiler:her murder of Jimmy]] and seems prepared to punish her for it.
86	* EvilOldFolks / RetiredMonster: [[spoiler:Claire killed Jimmy]], but she is no longer dangerous due to her dementia.
87	* SanitySlippage: After giving birth to both of her children Claire displayed symptoms of postpartum psychosis and Eric says even before this she wasn't well mentally. Later in life Claire develops dementia.
88	[[/folder]]
89
90	!Series 2
91	[[folder:David Walker]]
92	!!David Walker
93	->'''Played By''': Daniel Gosling
94	* AssholeVictim: Once you learn what Walker did in the past you quickly don't feel sorry about him being murdered. Sunny {{Lampshades}} this.
95	* BondageIsBad: Enjoyed sex of the rougher variety and is a complete monster.
96	* PosthumousCharacter: He is linked to most of the misdeeds of the series, even ones that initially appear not to be about him, such as [[spoiler:Colin being accused of rape.]]
97	* RapeAsBackstory: Walker was sexually abused by a teacher when he was in primary school.
98	** This becomes a point of contention between Cassie and Sunny when it's revealed Walker went on to ''become and abuser himself''. The former says she can understand how abuse like that can mess someone up but the latter says anyone who endures abuse like that should know how it feels and should never go on to inflict it.
99	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Sexually assaulted a girl twice when she was twelve and raped Sara Mahmoud when she was thirteen.
100	[[/folder]]
101
102	[[folder:Colin Osborne]]
103	!!Colin Osborne
104	->'''Played By''': Mark Bonnar
105	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sexually assaulted by a family friend for around six months of time when he was only ''nine-years-old''. Particular NightmareFuel mentions goes to how he describes the abuse to Cassie:
106	--> '''Colin:''' He did things...which actually physically damaged me for life. [''beat''] Because a 48-year-old man is not meant to put himself inside a nine-year-old boy.
107	* DepravedBisexual: Subverted. It appears to be played straight with the revelation that he raped a woman during a staff party (as he's currently married to a man), but he didn't do it.
108	* FamilyMan: David Walker's murder case muddies the water of his and Simon's adoption of a young girl, Flora.
109	* HairTriggerTemper: Simon mentions that Colin has a particularly volatile temper but seems to have gotten to grips with managing it. However, we do see it slip through a few times.
110	* RapeAndSwitch: Played with. Colin is a gay man who was raped by a family friend as a child, but he actually suggests that this left him in more denial about his sexuality.
111	* StraightGay: Colin is [[HappilyMarried happily married]] to his husband Simon but shows nothing in the way of overt stereotypically "gay" behaviour.
112	[[/folder]]
113
114	[[folder:Marion Kelsey]]
115	!!Marion Kelsey
116	->'''Played By''': Rosie Cavaliero
117	* AbusiveParents: Marion's father began molesting her in her early teens before out and out raping her. Her mother, while not abusive herself, was complicit in that Marion told her of the abuse but she did little to nothing to stop it.
118	* AmbiguousDisorder: It's mentioned by Tony, Marion's husband, that she should go back onto some medication and she herself makes reference to her family thinking she's "nuts".
119	* CainAndAbel: Seen as the Cain to her sister's Abel by her sister, husband and mother. Though when the cause behind her anger and other issues comes to light this becomes much less apparent.
120	* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: A dark version between she and her sister, who seems to have everything Marion doesn't, but it gets happily settled when her sister finds out about Marion's prior rape and [[FreakOut freaks out]].
121	* InverseLawOfFertility: Is seen talking with a fertility doctor and appears desperate for children but at her age the odds aren't good.
122	* NurseWithGoodIntentions: Marion isn't bad nurse at all but she oversteps the boundaries she has with one of patients out of care.
123	* SourOutsideSadInside: She is extremely abrasive to anyone trying to help her, as a result of her deep sadness over being sexually abused by her father.
124	[[/folder]]
125
126	[[folder:Sara Mahmoud]]
127	!!Sara Mahmoud
128	->'''Played By''': Badria Timimi
129	* DarkAndTroubledPast: After her mother died, Sara began acting out and ran away from home at thirteen and some time later was subject to sexual abuse at the hands of David Walker.
130	* HappilyMarried: Enjoys a warm and loving marriage to her husband Hassan and the two have three sons together.
131	* UsefulNotes/IslamicDress: Sara wears a hijab but like many Muslim women doesn't wear one when at home with only her family around.
132	* MissingMom: The death of her mother in a car crash is what steered Sara down the path that lead to her abuse.
133	* OldShame: In-universe, her past as a prostitute.
134	* PromiscuityAfterRape: [[spoiler:In the past, after David sexually abused her.]]
135	[[/folder]]
136
137	[[folder:DI Tessa Nixon]]
138	!!DI Tessa Nixon
139	->'''Played By''': Lorraine Ashbourne
140	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Initially comes off as a straight copper who Cassie tries to find common ground with over this. Eventually it's revealed she knew of her husband's abuse and did nothing.
141	* MyGreatestFailure: Admits that she was wrong to overlook the fact that David raped Sara.
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	[[folder:Jason Walker]]
145	!!Jason Walker
146	->'''Played By''': Will Brown
147
148	* DisappearedDad: The disappearance of his father has left him angst-ridden.
149	* HappilyFailedSuicide: [[spoiler:He is on the brink of committing suicide when his roommate asks him out.]]
150	[[/folder]]
151
152	!Series 3
153	[[folder:Hayley Reid]]
154	!!Hayley Reid
155	->'''Played By''': Bronagh Waugh
156	* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: She and her sister.
157	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Hayley is kind, sweet, gentle...
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159	[[/folder]]
160
161	[[folder:Chris Lowe]]
162	!!Chris Lowe
163	->'''Played By''': James Fleet
164	* AmbiguousDisorder: Averted. He outright says that he has bipolar disorder but it went diagnosed around the time of Hayley Reid's death.
165	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Of the four Finchley friends, [[spoiler: Chris is the kindest and most innocent. He ends the series with his new wife and stepson in their flat, with a baby on the way, and still close to James]].
166	* HeroWithBadPublicity: Chris was a loving, responsible father, who was unfairly accused of being a child pornographer and so lost his wife and daughter, who he has never seen again.
167	* InsaneEqualsViolent: Played with before being subverted. Chris had a meltdown the night of Hayley Reed's death due to his undiagnosed bipolar disorder, which causes him to come under suspicion, but he had nothing to do with it.
168	* MadArtist: A bipolar artist.
169	* MyGreatestSecondChance: Hasn't recovered from losing his daughter (after he was falsely accused of viewing child pornography), but he manages to eventually enter a stable and loving relationship with a woman who has a young son.
170	* RenaissanceMan: A downplayed example - Chris was both a skilled advertiser and extremely successful businessman, and is also a talented artist.
171	* StarvingArtist: He's a brilliant artist and highly creative man who lives in a caravan and never has enough money. Justified, though - he was previously a respected advertiser who was [[spoiler: unfairly accused of child pornography charges]] and so dropped out of society and lost his business. This experience also left him greatly distrustful of bank accounts.
172	[[/folder]]
173
174	[[folder:James Hollis]]
175	!!James Hollis
176	->'''Played By''': Kevin [McNally=]
177	* FamedInStory: As a TV host.
178	* KnightTemplarParent: Although unusually not a positive version, he covers up most of his son's indiscretions because he really believes he could be a murderer.
179	* ItsAllAboutMe: Notably when [[spoiler:his wife leaves home]], he throws Pete out and [[spoiler:indirectly causes his death]].
180	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: James's career (but not his personal life) is clearly reminiscent of Jeremy Paxman.
181	* ParentsAsPeople: James is an extremely flawed parent, who contributed to (but perhaps not caused) Elliott's troubles, but he fundamentally loves Elliott and tries to help him.
182	* RedHerring: [[spoiler: James's sexual proclivities include sex in the woods and a possible rape fantasy]], but they have nothing to do with Hayley Reid's death.
183	* WhenYouComingHomeDad: His relationship with his son Elliott.
184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:Tim Finch]]
187	!!Tim Finch
188	->'''Played By''': Alex Jennings
189	* AbusiveParents: Finch mentions a father who could be violent occasionally.
190	* BigBadFriend: He takes care of his friends, such as giving Chris money and constantly looking after him, but [[spoiler:he is a serial rapist and murderer who admits he would feel nothing if his friends weren't in his life.]]
191	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Finch has no problem setting his friends up [[spoiler:for multiple crimes he committed]], while giving them all - especially Chris - help and money.
192	* {{Expy}}: He's a lot like [[spoiler:Martin Vanger, from the ''Fiction/MillenniumTrilogy'' books]]. His monologue near the end is almost identical.
193	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Discussed. Whilst he agrees that he feels ''something'' towards his daughters it is uncertain if it's outright ''love''.
194	* FalseFriend: In contrast to James and Chris, [[spoiler: Finch feels nothing for his friends. Despite saying to James that he loved him, Finch readily said it would mean nothing if he never saw them again]].
195	* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:A serial killer who appears polite and calm while being a despicable murderer and rapist of teen girls.]]
196	* {{Foil}}: To Cassie. Both are very smart individuals, Finch a doctor and Cassie a DCI, but while Cassie is TheHeart and full of love, empathy and emotion, [[spoiler: Finch is cold, unfeeling and a rancid hebephile and murderer.]]
197	* MadDoctor: Realistically, but he's a [[spoiler:murderer and rapist.]]
198	* MurderersAreRapists: [[spoiler: Tim primarily considers himself a rapist, saying that he only kills his victims to stop them from talking]].
199	* NatureVsNurture: He brings up the argument in his interrogation stating that it must be an interaction between the two but wonders why [[spoiler: he is a serial killer but his sister isn't.]]
200	* SerialRapist: [[spoiler: Not only did Finch rape and murder Hayley Reid he also raped and murdered Alison Baldwin and two other teenage girls, Natasha and Victoria. His murder of them lends itself towards MurderersAreRapists - he says he only killed them to cover his crimes.]]
201	* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Finch refers to himself as a textbook ''psychopath'' listing a lack of empathy, above average intelligence and superficial charm. The chilling way in which he recounts Hayley's rape and murder makes him seem almost ''bored''.]]
202	--> '''Sunny''': Whatever he's doing I think that's the closest thing to evil I've ever witnessed.
203	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:A highly respected GP who is abusive to his patients, murderous, and sexually sadistic.]]
204	* WineIsClassy: Enough so that he's confident in confronting a waitress over a corked wine.
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:Peter Carr]]
208	!!Peter Carr
209	->'''Played By''': Neil Morrissey
210
211	* AffablyEvil: Unlike [[spoiler:Finch]], the FauxAffablyEvil villain of the series, Pete behaves in a way that is often reprehensible - such as stealing from vulnerable people - but he genuinely loves his family and wants to be better than he is.
212	* ConMan: Although he doesn't see himself as one. Carr takes advantage of opportunities that arise rather than planning to scam people.
213	* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Before being stabbed to death by a vigilante, he shows his softer side.]]
214	* HenpeckedHusband: Due to his family's financial problems.
215	* LovableRogue: Deconstructed - he comes across as one on the surface and might even see himself as one but the reality is someone behaving like him when he has family responsibilities is grossly irresponsible.
216	* ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: Carr's wife]] lampshades that Carr's moral compass is so skewed that he struggles to really understand how his financial crimes are wrong, as shown by how he justified stealing from the disabled by the fact it was supposed to only be a "temporary" borrowing. Carr has limits though: he knows how disgusting [[spoiler: robbing a church of its silverware]] was.
217	* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Ultimately had nothing to do with Hayley's death despite all his crimes major and minor coming out.]]
218	[[/folder]]
219
220	! Series 4
221	[[folder: Matthew Walsh]]
222	!! Matthew Walsh
223	-->'''Played by''': James Craze
224	* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel ''too'' sorry for the guy when you find out what he got up to prior to his death: [[spoiler: not only did he sexually assault Fiona in a pub and then beat the shit out of Ram for trying to come to her defence, he also murdered Dean Barton's beloved brother]].
225	* KarmicDeath: He was [[spoiler: stabbed in the head with a pen by Dean Barton, mirroring the way he stabbed Dean's brother in the head almost a year previously]]. However, considering he'd already suffered a serious head injury, it's a question of whether that actually killed him or merely sped up the process.
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder: Liz Baildon]]
229	!! Liz Baildon
230	-->'''Played by''': Susan Lynch
231
232	* AbusiveParents: Her mother is extremely unpleasant to her, although it's obvious she knows something bad about Liz. It's implied that this knowledge drives her mother's cruelty and callousness.
233	** However when Liz finally stands up to her mother she implies that her mother has always been abusive to her, and her mother's [[spoiler:knowledge of Liz's involvement in Matthew Walsh's death and covering up for Fiona's drunk driving]] just made things worse rather than being the thing that caused the abuse.
234	* DaddysGirl: Her mother was emotionally abusive to her, but she mentions being very close to her father, and she confided in him about Matthew Walsh. Although her mother still torments her about her father.
235	* TheDogBitesBack: She eventually snaps and tells her mother to 'shut the fuck up' before telling her, [[DissonantSerenity eerily calmly]], that if she keeps behaving the way she is, then she has no qualms about coming into her room and suffocating her to death.
236	* DirtyCop: It appears numerous times that she might be this. [[spoiler:She is, but not of her own volition.]]
237	* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:When she's eventually caught, she shows genuine remorse and apologises for having brought the police into disrepute.]]
238	* UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}}: She is famously considered to be the cleverest suspect, and she attended Balliol College, Oxford. On top of that, she is a police officer in Cambridge just to underline the Oxbridge connection.
239	* PetTheDog: After Eugenia's clumsy attempt at blackmailing her, Liz actually behaves gracefully, tells Eugenia that she knows she deserves more money, and pays her what she asked.
240	* PrideBeforeAFall: When we first see Liz, she's going for a promotion to be the head of the police force and she attacks a mugger on the street. We later learn she is nowhere near as clean as this makes her appear.
241	* PsychoLesbian: Deconstructed. Liz has none of the stereotypical qualities of being a standard example (she's very calm, collected, and intelligent), but her relationship with Fiona, Fiona's [[spoiler:blackmail]], and her ongoing feelings for her makes her act more erratically and to break the law multiple times.
242	[[/folder]]
243
244	[[folder:Fiona Grayson]]
245	!! Fiona Grayson
246	--> '''Played by''': Liz White
247
248	* AddledAddict: She was one, mentioning that she can't remember years of her life due to alcohol abuse.
249	* TheAlcoholic: Formerly. It resulted in her [[spoiler:accidentally killing a child in a car accident]].
250	* AllForNothing: She notes that her own father didn't want to be a police officer, yet she became a police officer in a misplaced attempt to impress him.
251	* {{Blackmail}}: Blackmails Liz into [[spoiler:losing the blood samples for her drunk driving incident which killed a child]] by threatening to reveal [[spoiler:her involvement in the death of Matthew Walsh]].
252	* BrokenBird: A past of addiction, sexual assault, and the death of her father has left her very worse for wear.
253	* InformedAttractiveness: Liz and her brother-in-law both comment on her beauty, with Liz not over her decades after their breakup, and almost everybody seems to want her.
254	* NeverMyFault: Played with. Although Fiona does feel guilty, she's also willing to blackmail and manipulate Liz to avoid ''public'' fault.
255	* PsychoPsychologist: Downplayed, but with a strong side of TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes. Fiona is a genuinely good therapist, but she is defective in her personal life and a criminal.
256	* SanitySlippage: A mild example, but over the course of the series, Fiona appears to be getting more and more unstable until she's finally hysterically babbling to her terrified stepchildren about all the screw-ups in her life so far. [[spoiler: By the end of the final episode, she's much calmer and appears to have composed herself.]]
257	* SoBeautifulItsACurse: She was sexually assaulted by Matthew Walsh, a source of much desire when she was at police college, and her brother-in-law offers her SexForServices in order to hide her DarkAndTroubledPast.
258	* WellDoneDaughterGirl: In the past. She joined the police solely to impress her father. It didn't end well.
259	[[/folder]]
260
261	[[folder: Dean Barton]]
262	!! Dean Barton
263	-->'''Played by''': Andy Nyman
264
265	* AbusiveParents: He was brutally beaten up by his father and two of his brothers when he joined the police force and he describes his family as very violent.
266	* AffablyEvil: Involved in drug smuggling and also [[spoiler:responsible for Matthew Walsh's death]], but is a genuinely loving family man and feels immense regret over his past actions.
267	* BewareTheNiceOnes: He is a genuinely nice family man [[spoiler:who also murdered Matthew Walsh.]]
268	* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: He was brutally beaten up and put in hospital by his father and two of his brothers and was raised in a violent criminal family, but he is an adoring father to the point that his wife says he makes her feel inadequate.
269	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Apparently used to work as a smuggler. Not only that, his name was originally Dean ''Quinn'', and was part of a family heavily involved in crime. He was also effectively disowned after his family found out he was in training to become a police officer. The only member of his family who supported him through this, his brother Stephen, ended up being killed by [[spoiler:Matthew Walsh]], resulting in Dean [[spoiler:murdering Walsh in revenge.]]
270	* HeelFaceRevolvingTurn: He underwent a HeelFaceTurn to join the police, only to turn back [[spoiler:after seeing Matthew Walsh.]] He then went back to his nonviolent past self.
271	* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:He killed Walsh, but only because Walsh had murdered his brother in a gangland attack for no good reason.]]
272	* WhiteSheep: Deconstructed. He was this to the rest of his criminal family, [[spoiler:until his brother was murdered and he killed Matthew Walsh for being the killer.]] He explicitly says that the murder made him realize he could never get out.
273	[[/folder]]
274
275	[[folder:DCI Ram Sidhu]]
276	!! Ram Sidhu
277	--->'''Played by''': Phaldut Sharma
278	* AlasPoorVillain: He's a corrupt cop and an all-round jerk, but [[spoiler:as Sunny is arresting him]], he tells the truth and says that he could tell he was going to be scapegoated by the other officers - which is what happens when the police catch up with him. It doesn't outweigh his other crimes - like the drug smuggling or general dickishness - but it gives him a moment of genuine sympathy.
279	* CowboyCop: Has a long list of crimes to his name despite his status as a DCI. He's been able to get out of consequences for them by [[EverythingIsRacist playing the race card]].
280	* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[UnreliableNarrator According to himself at least]], he's the only one who [[spoiler:wanted to call for an ambulance for Matthew Walsh the night Walsh was killed]]. (Although Dean confirms his first instinct was to call an ambulance.)
281	* EverythingIsRacist: Has a habit of playing the race card in order to escape consequences for his bad actions.
282	* {{Jerkass}}: Smug, arrogant, corrupt and just plain rude.
283	* JerkassHasAPoint: As horrible as Ram is, he's also totally correct (and sympathetic) when he points out that [[spoiler:he knew he would be scapegoated -- and, indeed, that's exactly what happened when Cassie and Sunny arrested Fiona and Liz.]]
284	* NotMeThisTime: He committed crimes including drug smuggling and [[spoiler:disposing of Walsh's body]], but he genuinely didn't [[spoiler:kill Matthew Walsh, and wanted to call the police. And he did it because he knew he would be scapegoated.]]
285	* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:He claims to have only covered up Walsh's murder because he knew that he would be scapegoated -- and, indeed, that's what happens when Liz and Fiona get taken in.]]
286	* ShadowArchetype: For Sunny. Both are Indian police officers, but Ram is a CowboyCop who can't play well with others and isn't sure if he wants to have kids, while Sunny is a loving father and pacifist on top of being a good partner to Cassie.
287	* WellDoneSonGuy: His father won't even ''look'' at him, let alone talk to him or tell him he's proud. A surprisingly heartbreaking scene late in the series shows Ram quietly begging his dad to just look at him and acknowledge him for once, and he implies that part of his {{Jerkass}} nature is down to a lack of love and affection from his dad.
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