When the remains of a teenage girl are found half-buried in a wood, Vera and her team find themselves investigating a 30-year-old mystery.When the remains of a teenage girl are found half-buried in a wood, Vera and her team find themselves investigating a 30-year-old mystery.When the remains of a teenage girl are found half-buried in a wood, Vera and her team find themselves investigating a 30-year-old mystery.
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- TriviaThe filming for the flashbacks of miners strike was done at the Woodhorn Museum in Ashington, Northumberland.
- GoofsWhen Michael Tennant is being interviewed under caution by the police, DS Healy is careful to follow the Police and Criminal Evidence Act by stating for the tape recording that items of evidence are being shown to the suspect. However, when another officer knocks on the door and DCI Stanhope and DS Healy leave the room, neither of them mentions this. Nor do they mention for the tape that the interview is being suspended or switch the tape recorder off.
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the first comment is fascinating and well worth reading
Vera: Old Wounds has to do with the body of a young woman who disappeared 30 years earlier.
The skeleton of Carrie Telling is found by bikers. She disappeared during the time miners were on strike, which was a time of great unrest.
Vera and her associate go about digging up old friends and also attempt to retrace her steps. One of her friends is Michael Tennant, a member of Parliament. A credit card went missing from his and Carrie's boss, and Vera thinks it might have been to fund an abortion.
Vera locates Carrie's mother, who is no longer with Carrie's father. She points Vera to a boy Carrie liked, Terry Manttan, who has been in and out of trouble.
When there is another murder, Vera realizes that the murders occurred because someone is trying to hide something Carrie perhaps knew.
I'm American, and I do not have the background to discuss this episode as the other commenter does. He says the episode suffers from revisionist history -- leftist revisionism, he calls it, where the miners wore the white hats and the police the black.
I suppose it depends on who you talk to, but I'm well aware of conflicts taken out of their time that suddenly are seen from a different point of view.
Vera has a lighter personality this season, as I have noted before, and with her old partner gone, she is trying to get her new one in line. He has time issues, showing up late, and sometimes speaking out of turn and getting the fish eye from her.
Nevertheless, they work together well, and you can tell she likes him. When he doesn't act surprised that a former investigator made passes at everyone but her, she says, "I didn't always look like this." He responds, "You were much too intelligent for him. You saw through his game." He's right - I can't imagine anyone trying to mess around with Vera.
Good episode, and not an easy one for Vera to work out.
The skeleton of Carrie Telling is found by bikers. She disappeared during the time miners were on strike, which was a time of great unrest.
Vera and her associate go about digging up old friends and also attempt to retrace her steps. One of her friends is Michael Tennant, a member of Parliament. A credit card went missing from his and Carrie's boss, and Vera thinks it might have been to fund an abortion.
Vera locates Carrie's mother, who is no longer with Carrie's father. She points Vera to a boy Carrie liked, Terry Manttan, who has been in and out of trouble.
When there is another murder, Vera realizes that the murders occurred because someone is trying to hide something Carrie perhaps knew.
I'm American, and I do not have the background to discuss this episode as the other commenter does. He says the episode suffers from revisionist history -- leftist revisionism, he calls it, where the miners wore the white hats and the police the black.
I suppose it depends on who you talk to, but I'm well aware of conflicts taken out of their time that suddenly are seen from a different point of view.
Vera has a lighter personality this season, as I have noted before, and with her old partner gone, she is trying to get her new one in line. He has time issues, showing up late, and sometimes speaking out of turn and getting the fish eye from her.
Nevertheless, they work together well, and you can tell she likes him. When he doesn't act surprised that a former investigator made passes at everyone but her, she says, "I didn't always look like this." He responds, "You were much too intelligent for him. You saw through his game." He's right - I can't imagine anyone trying to mess around with Vera.
Good episode, and not an easy one for Vera to work out.
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- Dec 12, 2015
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