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 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.
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Read MoreComplicating 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. With her potential promotion to Chief Superintendent weighing on her, she also found herself feeling emotionally connected to the missing Chloe who reminded Vera of herself.
At this point, things got a little darker than Vera generally tends to go with an upsetting second murder and commentary on the profiteering of private care providers (which allowed Vera to deliver some trademark stern admonishment to a self serving care boss).
Blethyn has played Vera since 2011 (Photo: Helen Williams/Silverprint Pictures/ITV)Instead, it was learning more about our old faithful Vera as she was on the brink of a major transition. The continuing flashbacks revealed that her dad never wanted her to join the police – “no place for a lass” – and that she has, in essence, been trying to prove him wrong ever since.
A touching ending for a TV great. Ah Vera, pet, you’ll be missed.
‘Vera’ is streaming on ITVX
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