Vera – Season 5 – DVD

Changing Tides DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) investigates a suspicious fire that rips through a holiday park on the Northumberland coast. Three cabins are destroyed and the body of a woman is found inside. Park owner, Jim Viner (Wayne Foskett) returns from a weekend away with his daughter Clare (Katherine Rose Morley). He quickly suspects the body is his sister, Deena, but he can’t explain why she was there and not at the family home. Long-term resident Malcolm (Dorian Lough) returns to find his cabin has also burned to the ground. Old Wounds When the remains of a teenage girl are found half-buried in a Northumberland wood, DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) and her team find themselves investigating a thirty -year old mystery. The remains are identified as those of miner’s daughter Carrie Telling, who vanished during the strike clashes in 1984. A politically minded, rebellious teen, her father Bill (George Costigan) insisted Carrie would never run away but his protests fell on deaf ears. Muddy Waters DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) and partner DS Aiden Healy (Kenny Doughty) investigate the death of an unidentified man dredged up from a slurry pit on a remote Northumberland farm. Owner Danny Pryor (Mark Bonnar) and his right hand man Milosh Beqiri (Velibor Topic) are forced to admit they use a number of illegal Serbian workers. But Goran Vlasic (Greg Kolpakchi) has fled to the nearest port and Zamir Ilic (George Lasha) is lying in his bedsit with a gunshot wound to the neck. Shadows in the Sky Dock worker Owen Thorne (Keith Newby) plunges from the roof of a multi-storey car park whilst picking up daughter Lila from her school prom. For DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) everything points to foul play but his wife Ellie (Nadine Marshall) insists he was a good man and loving father to their son Cameron (Daniel Ezra) and Lila (Carla Melaco), who they are in the process of adopting.