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Plot[]
Vera investigates the murder of young Niall Coulter, whose body fell from a bridge onto a lorry which ended up in Portsmouth. Both his employer Marty and his mother Shirley attest to his being a model citizen though Shirley plainly has something to hide and it seems that Niall was planning to leave home to move in with an older, terminally ill friend. When the drug dealer who attacked Shirley after she accused him of killing Niall is murdered, Vera realises that Niall was not the clean-cut boy he was painted to be. She also meets for the first time, Maggie, her father's old girlfriend.
Trivia[]
- Phyllis Logan ("Shirley") co-starred with Brenda Blethyn in the Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies (1996), generally regarded as Blethyn's breakout role.
- Despite being a regular character, Bethany Whelan is missing from the next 9 storylines.
- Judy Parfitt plays the character of "Maggie" in this episode of "Vera" while she played a character named "Vera" in the film Dolores Claiborne (1995).
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