- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
The dowdy DCI is returning from a shopping trip (pizza, oven chips, ice cream – nothing fancy) when she stumbles on a crime scene by the side of a country road. We know what has happened there because of the chilling opening sequence: a child running for his life at night, by a river, having just heard his mother clubbed to death. Who did the clubbing and why takes a long time to figure out, even for the perspicacious Vera. Peacocks are involved, and a “shiny man” — or is that just the child’s vivid imagination? It turns into a dark, troubling tale of lost childhood, warped love and hiding — a lot of hiding.
About this programme
4/4. A woman is murdered in a hedgerow but her son survives the attack, only to fall beneath the ice of a frozen pond as he makes his escape. DCI Vera Stanhope wades in and drags him out, and against all the odds he pulls through. As the investigation into the mother's killing unfolds, Vera finds a kindred spirit in the boy and comes to realise the key to solving the case lies deep in his memory. Detective drama, starring Brenda Blethyn, with Kerry Fox and Kieran O'Brien. Last in the series.
Cast and crew
Cast
- DCI Vera Stanhope
- Brenda Blethyn
- DS Joe Ashworth
- David Leon
- DC Holly
- Wunmi Mosaku
- Billy Cartwright
- Paul Ritter
- Aidan Carmichael
- Tim Dutton
- Theresa
- Judi Earl
- Patricia Carmichael
- Kerry Fox
- Adam Wilde
- Sam Jarvis
- PC Edwards
- Riley Jones
- Renagh Salter
- Emma Lowndes
- DC Kenny Lockhart
- Jon Morrison
- Margaret Wilde
- Laura Norton
- Bobby Salter
- Kieran O'Brien
- Danny Hale
- Joe Renton
- Amrit Singh
- Renu Setna
- Sorcha Carmichael
- Alice Sykes
- Photographer
- Philip Harrison
Crew
- Director
- Paul Whittington
- Editor
- Nick McPhee
- Executive Producer
- Kate Bartlett
- Executive Producer
- Kate Lewis
- Producer
- Elaine Collins
- Writer
- Paul Rutman
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