Roy Quick

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EastEnders character
Roy Quick
Portrayed by	Douglas Fielding
Duration	1985–1986
Marital status	Single
Occupation	Detective Sergeant

Detective Sergeant Roy Quick was a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Douglas Fielding.

[edit] History

Roy Quick first arrived in Albert Square on 20 August 1985 in order to put his old adversary, Nick Cotton, away. He failed at that but found the woman he wanted to marry, Debbie Wilkins, who was seeing Andy O'Brien. Roy made a conscious effort to woo Debbie, sending her bouquets of flowers and demonstrating his jujitsu techniques in order to impress her. Andy became extremely jealous of their friendship, but as he and Debbie had an open relationship, he had no choice but to put up with them dating, although he did everything he could to make them as uncomfortable as possible.

After a few months of dating, Roy eventually asked Debbie to marry him. A surprised Debbie turned the proposal down, but they agreed to continue seeing each other. However, Roy didn't give up, and over the next few months he continuously pressured Debbie to marry him. Eventually Debbie put Roy out of his misery and told him that she couldn't marry him as she was only using his to make Andy jealous.

Debbie's rejection added to Roy's dissatisfaction with the course his life had taken. He felt he was in a dead-end career with the police force and so he decided to leave the force to work for a security firm. It seemed that Walford had been inhospitable to him as his parting remarks to the citizenry in The Queen Vic were "You lot deserve one another!" His last appearance was in July 1986.