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Vera: Muddy Waters
- Director: Stewart Svaasand
- Writer: Ann Cleeves; Glen Laker
- Producer: Myar Craig; Margaret Mitchell
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Sometimes a police drama comes around that breaks the mould.
Brenda Blethyn does the dowdy, hard-as-nails, heart-of-gold detective...to perfection.
This feature-length episode treads into territory that few have gone before - homosexuality in the travelling community.
It's brittle, it's poignant...it's heartbreaking.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Farmer Danny Pryor discovers the corpse of young Jack Reeves in his slurry tank. Danny employs Kosovans, one of whom has also recently died in suspicious circumstances but Vera discovers that Jack was a traveller, who had left his camp after a row with his parents. The travellers had been in a land dispute with Danny, whose publican brother had also barred Jack after a fight and, to complicate matters, Jack had broken off his engagement to another traveller, Sigourney - much to her father's anger - because he was gay. Vera locates Jack's camper van, containing a wad of notes, suggesting he was involved in something illegal, possibly with the Kosovans. However it is Danny's little boy, the profoundly deaf Toby, who gives Vera the means to solve the case.
Cast & Characters
Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope;
Kenny Doughty as DS Aiden Healy;
Enoch Frost as Father Paul;
Danny Horn as Pete Marsh;
Aisling Franciosi as Sigourney O'Brien;
Alex Reid as Karen Pryor;
Mark Bonnar as Danny Pryor;
Mark Womack as Billy Reeves;
Lee Ross as Frank O'Brien;
Cat Simmons as Lisa