Vera: Season 2

2012 · 4 episodes · ★ 8.2

Series 2

What Season 2 of Vera

Season 2 opens with an arson attack that leaves former Vera sergeant Stuart Macken badly burned. She wants to find out who would want to kill him and his daughter. From there, the Detective Chief Inspector with Northumberland & City Police takes on one case after another across northeast England, from social services to an army barracks to a man everyone admires. Vera is short-tempered, untidy and nearly retired, but her mind spots the flaws in her colleagues' reasoning. Alongside Sergeant Joe Ashworth, whom she treats like a son, she tackles each case with enthusiasm and professionalism.

4episodes

Apr 22, 2012premiered

Jun 3, 2012latest episode

6 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 The Ghost Position
Apr 22, 2012 · 90 min · ★ 8.2
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.
Directing: Peter Hoar · Writing: Paul Rutman · Starring: Wunmi Mosaku, Sonya Cassidy, Jessica Barden, Ron Cook
2x02 Silent Voices
Apr 29, 2012 · 90 min · ★ 8.3
Vera investigates the case of a murdered social worked named Jenny Lister, who was universally considered to have been principled and popular. However, in an overworked and understaffed social work system, a notorious case involving the death of a child seems to hold the key to solving the killing. As Vera pursues the truth, she discovers the real secret at the heart of Jenny's death - and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it hidden
Directing: Paul Whittington · Writing: Gaby Chiappe · Starring: Cush Jumbo, Hannah Britland, Daymon Britton, Penny Downie
2x03 A Certain Samaritan Season Finale
Jun 3, 2012 · 90 min · ★ 8.2
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.
Directing: Edward Bazalgette · Writing: Paul Rutman · Starring: Cush Jumbo, Sonya Cassidy, James Burrows, Sean Campion
2x04 Sandancers
May 20, 2012 · 90 min · ★ 8.0
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.
Directing: Julian Holmes · Writing: Colin Teevan · Starring: Cush Jumbo, Sonya Cassidy, Naomi Bentley, Mia Wyles