The Bill lost an icon in Cass Rickman. We all watched this episode through our fingers because we knew after the previous episode's cliffhanger that our beloved Cass was going to be found dead. Best friend Nick finding her body destroyed so many of us and you could see how devastating her loss was when even hard-faced characters like Des Taviner and Gina Gold were rocked by gobby and gregarious copper's demise. The plot seemed so needless to kill off such an iconic character after barely four years with the show, especially when nine other characters had been killed off in this one year - as many as in the previous 17 years the series had been running for at this point. It was pointless, a waste of Suzanne Maddock's talent and a character death many of us aren't over even 20 years after the episode originally aired.
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