- 9.0/101 votes
#1 - The Darkest Evening
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 2/19/2023
On the night of a massive storm, trying to get home, DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) comes across an abandoned car with a baby inside. With no mobile signal and blocked roads at every turn, Vera is forced to seek refuge somewhere she’d rather not be, Brockburn House, the Stanhope’s ancestral pile. Vera doesn’t exactly receive a warm welcome from her estranged family as there’s a function in full swing and her turning up with a baby isn’t a great look. Things start to look even worse and take a far sinister turn when a body is found on the track leading to Brockburn House.
Director: Paul Gay
Writer: Colette Kane
- 8.0/102 votes
#2 - Recovery
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/2021
DCI Vera Stanhope is called to the scene when the body of addiction support worker Angela Konan is found hidden among the bleak woodlands of Northumberland National Park. Vera and her team must peel back the layers of the introverted victim 's life to uncover her closely guarded secrets and surprising depths. as It appears an increasingly erratic Angela clashed with two clients in the week before she died.
Director: Christiana Ebohon-Green
Writer: Colette Kane
- 7.0/102 votes
#3 - Parent Not Expected
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2020
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.
Director: Rob Evans
Writer: Colette Kane