Vera
Episode: 1 of 4
Sunday, 22 April 2012, 8:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama
The Ghost Position:
Following the success of the first series broadcast in 2011 international award winning actress Brenda Blethyn, OBE, makes a welcome return to ITV1 as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope.
Set once again in contemporary Northumberland and Newcastle ITV Studios have produced four new stand-alone films of the hit crime thriller.
Guest stars include: Julie Graham (Lapland, Survivors, William & Mary), Steven Hartley (Doctors, The Bill), Ron Cook (Little Dorrit, The Diary of Anne Frank) and Nina Sosanya (Silk, Five Days).
Episode one:
In The Ghost Position D.C.I. Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) is reunited, under tragic circumstance, with her first ever Sergeant, Stuart Macken (Steven Hartley). When his house is petrol bombed, Stuart is left badly burned and his 18 year old daughter, Stella (Jessica Barden), is fighting for her life in intensive care. Vera is shocked to see Stuart is a shadow of the man she knew twenty years before and, when her back is turned, he commits suicide by throwing himself from the hospital balcony.
Vera, battling through grief for her former colleague and friend, is determined to track down the assailant and discover why someone would attempt to kill Stuart and Stella. Does the answer lie in the steep downturn Stuart’s personal and professional life has taken since they last met? With Stella in a coma, Vera and Joe pick their way through her former Sergeant’s recent history and uncover his broken family and the destruction caused by his inability to let them go. Soon they are hot on the trail of a suspect, but a dramatic discovery turns the case on its head, revealing the event at the heart of these catastrophic and heartbreaking events.
Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe