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Does Jo keep going on about the retirement for Nelson seem a bit obsessive and almost constructive dismissal territory? Is this a surprise when he is only 51?

I think it's grown a bit old. Fifty one is not old enough to retire, especially if you don't want to. He not French....lol.

I think it is a bit soon to be asking Nelson to retire.

Jo is myopic regarding Nelson's retirement. She needs to view the whole picture. She is too cost driven, not result driven.

Surely at 51 too young to be retiring. Feels as if she is trying to force him out and he’d have a right to put a grievance in.

There seems to another motive we don't yet see that may become more obvious as we progress in the story.

In the UK he still has 16 years until he is of pensionable age (though, I presume he’ll get his police pension earlier than that). What’s he meant to do in the meantime, become a security guard? What a shocking waste of talent…

ps Perhaps they should offer him a promotion instead? He’d then deserve the higher wage (in the money-men’s eyes), and it might even drive him into voluntary retirement, 🤭.

>7 Sergeirocks:. Thanks for the insight Sergei. I kept wondering if his 30 years in service made him eligible for retirement benefits. That would partially explain Jo’s obsessiveness with pushing him out. She is too single-minded. Cut the budget at all costs. Losing him would be a bad thing for the department. Maybe he’ll get sick of it and decide to join Clough. He certainly misses him alot!

>4 JohnDBurke: Agree - she is staring at Nelson as an obstacle, and not as the "brain trust" that his *decades* of experience bring to the department. Also wonder if there is some ageism going on, or if there is >6 ColinMichaelFelix: another motive going on behind the scenes.