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The Worst Episodes of Vera

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The Worst Episodes of Vera

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and...
  1. Background image for Telling Tales
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #1 - Telling Tales

    S1:E2

    After Jeanie Long commits suicide, evidence comes to light exonerating her for the murder of teenager Abigail Mantel 11 years earlier. DCI Vera Stanhope and her team set out to retrospectively solve the killing, delving into the secrets and lies of a small community which still feels the repercussions of Abigail's death. Then the case takes an violent and unexpected turn - can Vera use her skill and instinct to find the truth and lay ghosts to rest?

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    Director:Peter Hoar
  2. Background image for Hidden Depths
    6.9/10(8 votes)

    #2 - Hidden Depths

    S1:E1

    After two young people are killed in the same way - placed in water and surrounded by flowers - DCI Vera Stanhope knows that she must catch the murderer before they strike again. Aided by her team, especially her trusted right-hand man Sgt Joe Ashworth, she unpicks the complex and dysfunctional relationships amongst a group of bird-watching friends. As the friends' loyalty turns to betrayal, Vera finds that a small act of teenage blackmail and an illicit affair may have driven someone to kill.

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  3. Background image for The Crow Trap
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #3 - The Crow Trap

    S1:E3

    When a woman is murdered in the remote Northumbrian countryside, DCI Vera Stanhope is led back to a place from her past. As she and her team investigate, they uncover shadowy liaisons, conflicting sympathies and hidden injustices.

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  4. Background image for Little Lazarus
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #4 - Little Lazarus

    S1:E4

    Last in the series of the detective drama based on the novels by Ann Cleeves. DI Vera Stanhope rescues a young boy from a freezing pond after he escapes from a violent attack which left his mother dead. As Vera and her team investigate what happened to the child, they unravel a web of deadly secrets and discover a murderous sequence of events set in motion by power, money and a mother's love. Although she is usually awkward and uninterested around children, Vera finds a kindred spirit in the boy, and begins to realise that the key to the investigation may lie hidden in his memory.

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  5. Background image for The Deer Hunters
    7.4/10(627 votes)

    #5 - The Deer Hunters

    S4:E3

    When a suspected poacher is found dead from a gunshot wound, Vera must unearth the real truth behind his return to the Northumberland moors.

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  6. Background image for Sandancers
    7.6/10(665 votes)

    #6 - Sandancers

    S2:E4

    DCI Vera Stanhope and DS Joe Ashworth investigate a suspicious death in an army barracks. Although the scene has been made to look like a suicide, Vera quickly establishes that Staff Sgt 'Dev' Deverson was murdered. Sensing a connection to a soldier named Ollie who was killed in Afghanistan, Vera interviews Dev's loyal comrades and Ollie's grieving family, exposing a deeply concealed trauma at the heart of the crime.

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  8. Background image for Changing Tides
    7.6/10(704 votes)

    #7 - Changing Tides

    S5:E1

    Vera takes a look into a suspicious fire that rips through a holiday park on the Northumberland coast. Three cabins are destroyed and the body of a woman is discovered inside inside one of them.

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  9. Background image for Cuckoo
    7.6/10(600 votes)

    #8 - Cuckoo

    S9:E2

    Vera must get to the bottom of why a teenage boy is found murdered far away from his home in a coastal town.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Parent Not Expected
    7.6/10(572 votes)

    #9 - Parent Not Expected

    S10:E2

    DCI Vera Stanhope must unravel a tangled web of deceit between two wildly different families when the body of a teenage boy is discovered floating near a Northumberland salmon farm.

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    Director:Rob Evans
  11. Background image for Natural Selection
    7.7/10(1.2k votes)

    #10 - Natural Selection

    S7:E1

    CI Vera Stanhope is drawn into a suspicious death on Ternstone, a remote and inaccessible island off the coast of Northumberland, home only to numerous species of birds and the rangers who observe them. The last thing anyone expected to see was a body, cruelly washed up on the shore.

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  12. Background image for Darkwater
    7.7/10(588 votes)

    #11 - Darkwater

    S8:E4

    Vera is confronted with a tragic mystery when the dead body of teenager Ethan Dewley is found floating in a reservoir in a remote rural town, DCI Vera Stanhope must scrutinise the fractured relationships of the surrounding community to find his killer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Castles in the Air
    7.8/10(711 votes)

    #12 - Castles in the Air

    S3:E1

    DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the brutal murder of a young physiotherapist gunned down at a luxury country retreat.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Poster Child
    7.8/10(671 votes)

    #13 - Poster Child

    S3:E2

    DCI Vera Stanhope and her team must race against time to track down the killer of a respected surgeon and save his abducted teenage daughters.

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    Director:Paul Cotter
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Dark Road
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #14 - Dark Road

    S6:E1

    The body of a woman is found on the bleak Northumberland moors.

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  16. Background image for Black Ice
    7.8/10(622 votes)

    #15 - Black Ice

    S8:E2

    When a seemingly beloved resident of a coastal community is fatally driven off the road, DCI Vera digs up the victim's past in the hope of unmasking the killer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Blood Will Tell
    7.8/10(600 votes)

    #16 - Blood Will Tell

    S10:E1

    DCI Vera Stanhope must unravel the circumstances of self-styled entrepreneur Freddie Gill's death when his body is found by bailiffs, attempting to repossess his house.

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    Director:Paul Gay
    Writer:Paul Logue
  18. Background image for The Escape Turn
    7.8/10(540 votes)

    #17 - The Escape Turn

    S10:E4

    Wealthy betting shop tycoon Alun Wilmott is shot and killed during a home invasion, leaving his wife and daughter traumatized - with large amounts of cash missing from his personal safe, it is assumed he is the unlucky victim of a burglary.

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  19. Background image for Tyger Tyger
    7.8/10(573 votes)

    #18 - Tyger Tyger

    S11:E3

    When security foreman Gary Mallon is fatally wounded during a robbery at a Blyth container port the evidence points to an audacious heist that went awry. Vera begins to suspect an inside job. But the investigation takes an unexpected turn when Gary’s ex-wife contacts police with the news that their 13-year-old son is missing. Gary Mallon was acting under duress - the victim of a tiger kidnapping. His son was being held as collateral - but where is he now? In order to rescue the missing boy, Vera first needs to work out who was behind the robbery. Further complications ensue when she finds herself forced to collaborate with an NCA Officer who is working on a covert surveillance operation with links to organised crime. As Vera closes in on the kidnappers a misstep in the investigation leads to tragic repercussions, and she finds herself taken off the case.

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  20. Background image for The Ghost Position
    7.9/10(807 votes)

    #19 - The Ghost Position

    S2:E1

    Vera's reunion with her first-ever sergeant, Stuart Macken, occurs under tragic circumstances when his house is petrol-bombed. Stuart is badly burned by the attack and his 18-year-old daughter Stella is left fighting for her life in intensive care. Vera is shocked to see that Stuart is a shadow of the man she knew 20 years before and, when her investigation uncovers unpleasant revelations about his personal life, she is faced with some long-buried memories of her own.

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    Director:Peter Hoar
  21. Background image for A Certain Samaritan
    7.9/10(688 votes)

    #20 - A Certain Samaritan

    S2:E3

    DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the murder of 29-year-old Niall Coulter. With those closest to Niall intent upon obscuring the truth, it is not until the body of a drug dealer is found washed up on a Northumberland beach that the dreadful truth begins to emerge about Niall's past. While coping with revelations from her own past, Vera sifts through evidence of the grief, love and addiction that characterised Niall's life and deduces that his murderer acted through selfless and unrequited love.

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  22. Background image for Prodigal Son
    7.9/10(673 votes)

    #21 - Prodigal Son

    S3:E4

    Vera and her team investigate the fatal stabbing of an ex-Met police officer outside a busy Newcastle nightclub.

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  23. Background image for On Harbour Street
    7.9/10(720 votes)

    #22 - On Harbour Street

    S4:E1

    Investigating a mysterious death, DCI Vera Stanhope finds herself in a quiet coastal town with clues that keep revolving around one street.

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  24. Background image for Protected
    7.9/10(661 votes)

    #23 - Protected

    S4:E2

    Vera unearths a 30-year-old mystery when the son of a prominent local family is found brutally murdered on the sands of a seaside resort.

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    Director:Daikin Marsh
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Death of a Family Man
    7.9/10(685 votes)

    #24 - Death of a Family Man

    S4:E4

    DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the mysterious death of a businessman found floating in the water under the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.

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  26. Background image for Muddy Waters
    7.9/10(736 votes)

    #25 - Muddy Waters

    S5:E3

    Vera investigates the death of an unidentified man dredged up from a slurry pit on a remote Northumberland farm.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Telling Tales" is the worst rated episode of "Vera". It scored 6.8/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by Peter Hoar and written by Paul Rutman, it aired on 5/8/2011. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hidden Depths".