The final episode of Vera Stanhope delves into the detective's personal life, exploring her childhood and relationship with her father through a flashback.
Brenda Blethyn 's final outing as Vera Stanhope told an unusually personal and revealing story about the detective's past. With a no-nonsense approach to chit-chat, a penchant for eating chips out of a paper bag at the side of an A-road, a beady eye for clues everyone else has missed and an ability to deploy the term “pet” with either great affection or utter disdain, Blethyn has ensured that Ann Cleeves’s novels have been in the safest of hands on ITV .
The series combined a classic murder mystery with a more personal story. Vera has rarely given much of herself away, but we finally got a glimpse into what made her into the forthright sleuth we know and love. The opening of a young girl rock climbing and being ordered to steal eggs from a nest turned out to be a flashback to Vera’s childhood and her complicated relationship with her father. The site of the flashback – three upright stones known as “The Dark Wives” on the fictional Ghyllstead Moor – was where, in the modern day, a local birder had discovered the body of a student named Josh who had been stabbed to death. Tracing his killing to the children’s home where he volunteered, Vera found herself facing another mystery: the disappearance of 16-year-old Chloe, one of the home’s residents. This was a far more satisfying storyline than that of the slightly pedestrian penultimate episode: here we had a race against time to solve Josh’s murder before anything awful happened to Chloe.Complicating matters was the fact that Vera herself was in a foul mood: always brusque, here she was downright rude – snapping and snarking at her poor team who were doing perfectly good police work. Vera had been rattled by her fight with Detective Inspector Joe in the last episode; he had suggested he didn’t need her any more
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