Vera: Series 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Vera Season 4.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Changing Tides
Apr 5, 2015 · 90 min
Vera takes a look into a suspicious fire that rips through a holiday park on the Northumberland coast. Three cabins are destroyed and the body of a woman is discovered inside insid
Old Wounds
Apr 12, 2015 · 90 min
Following the discovery of the remains of a teenage girl half-buried in a Northumberland wood, Vera and her team end up looking into a thirty-year old mystery.
Muddy Waters
Apr 19, 2015 · 90 min
Vera investigates the death of an unidentified man dredged up from a slurry pit on a remote Northumberland farm.
Shadows in the Sky
Apr 26, 2015 · 90 min
A dock worker plunges from the roof of a multistory car park whilst picking up daughter from her school prom and everything points to foul play.