My review of the first season of Vera.
My review of the second season of Vera.
My review of the third season of Vera.
My reviews of the fourth season of Vera.
And it's back to the country - now Vera and Aiden investigate a death on a farm. We have a chilling body discovery in a slurry pit - the workers are trying to remove a blockage when up he bobs from the black goo. Whoever he was, his body was weighted down, which means this was no accident (or else a very creative suicide).
The farmer, Danny Pryor, and the foreman, Milosh Beqiri, decided to dismiss the two foreign workers who were with him when they discovered the body, as a favor. This decision quickly backfires, for by the time Vera and Aiden track down the men's homes, one, Zamir, is hovering on the edge of death from a gunshot wound to the neck and the other, Goran, on the run. A mistake on Aiden's part means Goran - suspect number one - gets off scot free.
At last, they discover the dead man's identity - he's Jack Reeves, the son of travelers. His parents are shocked at the news - and there's another little storyline: the mother blames his father for driving the boy away. According to them, he'd been involved with drugs, but had cleaned up recently. He was helped on that score by the local priest who describes Jack as a charitable and kind person.
It turns out that Jack was living in a camper close to the farm. Vera and Aiden track it down and discover that the Pryors' homeschooled deaf son, Toby, had been visiting him there. Thickened, the plot has.
A fairly solid episode, it's marred by a weirdly un-foreshadowed ending. The motive is ridiculously unconvincing, and the ploy feels more like an attempt to surprise the audience than a reasonable solution to the story so far.
(I never did get around to writing about the last episode of Series 5. Here's a link to my Series 6 reviews.)
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Yay for Vera returning to form, as you note. It is those glaring character faults that endears her to me. I would like one episode in which Aiden does not make a mistake that should seriously cost him--oversleeping last week, forgetting to identify himself as police, this week. Then again, he is more plausible than the always perfect Joe. Plot detail that is puzzling me--what was the point of all the money found in the trailer. Not drugs, not blackmail...any idea?
ReplyDeleteThe money left hanging bothers me too. Did they just forget?
ReplyDeleteVera have it to Jack Reeves dad at the very end of the story. They were by that big lake and sharing sips from a bottle of whiskey
DeleteMenu errors in this episode. First are names. Milosh Beqiri is highly unlikely to exist. Ordinary Serbian man with Serbian name and Albanian surename?? Also Serbian man Samir Ilic, with Muslim name and Serbian surename. Next is that Milosh family live in Pristina. Albanian people cleaned Pristina from Serbs. Also we see that Milosh go to Catolic church. Serbs have their Eastern Orthodox Church and there is no way that ordinary Serbian man go to Catolic church.
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