List of East Enders Characters (1985) - Roy Quick

Detective Sergeant Roy Quick, played by Douglas Fielding, first arrives in Albert Square on 20 August 1985 in order to put his old adversary, Nick Cotton (John Altman), in prison. He fails at this, but finds the woman he wants to marry, Debbie Wilkins (Shirley Cheriton), who is seeing Andy O'Brien (Ross Davidson) in an open relationship. Roy tries to woo Debbie, sending her bouquets of flowers and demonstrating his jujutsu techniques in order to impress her. Andy becomes jealous of their friendship and tries to make them feel as uncomfortable as possible.

After a few months of platonic dating, Roy eventually asks Debbie to marry him. A surprised Debbie turns the proposal down, but Roy continues to pester her until Debbie tells him that she can't marry him as she has only been using him to make Andy jealous. Debbie's rejection adds to Roy's dissatisfaction with the course his life has taken. He feels he is in a dead-end career with the police force and so he decides to leave to work for a security firm. His parting remarks to the citizenry in The Queen Vic public house are "You lot deserve each other!" His last appearance is in July 1986.