The first part of Vera’s swansong is surprisingly emotional ...Middle East

As DCI Vera Stanhope, Brenda Blethyn has been sedately solving murders on Tyneside for 14 years on ITV, but these two episodes will be her last.

For her penultimate outing, Vera was juggling two investigations. One was the murder of Zac Martin, a young man recently released from prison where he was serving a sentence for paralysing his best friend in a bar fight. The other was a cold case reopened when a man named Lucas Corbridge, convicted of killing his wife, had his sentence overturned 20 years after the event due to discredited forensic evidence. While everyone else seemed to think it was merely a coincidence that both men were incarcerated on the same prison wing, Vera – naturally – doesn’t believe in coincidences.

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They had no issue juggling two cases simultaneously, but the episode itself struggled. It hopped around between the two investigations making sure that every few minutes, Vera announced that they were definitely connected (as if we didn’t already know that).

With the end nigh, the show was evidently building to a more emotional climax than we usually see with Vera, who is always empathetic but rarely sentimental. The offer of a promotion to Chief Superintendent had thrown her: while pleased her talents were being acknowledged, she believes the role to be “all paperwork and politics” and she was dithering about making a decision.

Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope and George Beach as Theo Patterdale (Photo: Silverprint Pictures/ITV/Helen Williams)

Bizarrely we never even found out exactly how Zac was killed beyond being hit with a blunt object (surely the first time in TV detective history that the murder weapon wasn’t vital evidence). It was also a strange move to raise the issue of one suspect displaying controlling and coercive behaviour without following through in any way narratively. 

‘Vera’ continues tomorrow at 8pm on ITV1

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