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A Goon House Christmas

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## Overview

A Goon House Christmas is a Gmod machinima video made by Slick with cooperation from the rest of The Goon House. It follows Slick, Nepeno, and Schmoper in their quest to steal back their Christmas presents from those who had stolen from them.

## Plot

### Inside the House

Our story begins with everyone inside the goon house sleeping. Slick wakes up first thanks to his abnormally loud alarm clock, chooses his outfit, and then goes to wake Schmoper up (violently), who initially questions Slick's actions due to her forgetting that today was Christmas. The 2 then run past Nepeno, who is resting inside of his large wooden box, as he breaks out of it to say "Did somebody say...Christmas?!?"

Slick (after shifting towards his position) then grabs Nepeno by the head and throws him out of the box towards the Christmas tree. As the trio gather round the tree to begin opening their presents, Slick immediately notices a problem, however, when he opens a Christmas present that has nothing in it. After dropping his present, he checks his stocking to notice it also has nothing in it. When Nepeno asks what's wrong, Slick alerts everyone to the fact that all of the Christmas presents are missing.

Schmoper then speaks up, saying that she noticed a group of armed assailants entering the Goon House last night, doing something with their christmas presents. She deduces that they were a mercenary group posing as Amazon workers, and states that the goons must formulate a plan to get their presents back. Slick then questions how she remembered that but couldn't remember that today was Christmas, but was interrupted by nepeno who says that they could never get to the nearest amazon warehouse in time, followed by Schmoper saying that she knows how they can get there. The 3 proceed to the secret Goon Hangar, where Schmoper was storing the Goon Helicopter. After Slick questions who could possibly drive it, Slick is voted to be the pilot.

### Arrival at "Amazon" warehouse

The goons arrive at BigCity, where the nearest Amazon warehouse was located. After landing the Goon helicopter miraculously undamaged, the team begin entering the warehouse.

### Trivia

* A Goon House Christmas was originally uploaded on Christmas Day of 2022, though Slick decided it wasn't a quality video and removed it from the platform. The current edition is technically a remake.
* The scream that Schmoper makes as she is thrown out of her bed originally comes from Nick from Left 4 Dead 2.
* The vehicle chase sequence is largely inspired by the Spiral episode from Red Vs. Blue season 9.
Vera (Series)

***Vera*** is a British crime drama series based on the Vera Stanhope series of novels written by crime writer Ann Cleeves. It was first broadcast on ITV on 1 May 2011, and to date, twelve series have aired, with the latest debuting on 15 January 2023. The series stars Brenda Blethyn as the principal character, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope.

Vera is a nearly retired employee of the fictional 'Northumberland & City Police', who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. She plods along in a constantly disheveled state, but has a calculating mind and, despite her irascible personality, she cares deeply about her work and colleagues. She often proves her superior skills by picking up small errors in her team members' thought processes.

Vera forms a close relationship with sergeants Joe Ashworth (David Leon) and Aiden Healy (Kenny Doughty).

In 2021, Ann Cleeves confirmed that the character of Vera was based on a neighbour of her maternal grandmother. The neighbour had been something of a busybody and her personality was the basis for Vera.

On 30 March 2023, ITV confirmed that the show had been renewed for a thirteenth series. And David Leon is set to rejoin the Vera cast almost a decade since he last appeared on the show. The actor played the role of DS Joe Ashworth in the first four seasons of the crime drama between 2011 and 2014, and will once again star alongside Brenda Blethyn, who is reprising her role as the titular character. Blethyn said she was "absolutely over the moon to welcome David back to the show" adding that she "can’t wait to get started."

But there are a couple of familiar faces who won't be back: Kenny Doughty, who has played DS Aidan Healey since 2015, recently announced his departure from the drama, while DC Jacqueline ‘Jac’ Williams star Ibinabo Jack will not be returning for the 13th season due to her theatre commitments. Commenting on the departure of the two stars, Blethyn said: "It's been such a pleasure to work alongside Kenny and Ibinabo. They've both been terrific members of the Vera team, and I'll miss them."
Muddy Waters

## Plot

Vera and her team investigate the death of a young man dredged up from a slurry pit. Vera discovers the victim was a traveller who had left his camp following a row with his parents about his being gay. Vera locates the victim's camper van, which contains a wad of notes, suggesting the victim was involved in something illegal. However, it is a deaf little boy who presents Vera with the solution to the case.

## Trivia

* The market place scenes here were filmed in Alnwick, during the actual market day. There were two "staged stalls" but everyone else there are true local market traders and patrons of the towns market.
* Brenda Blethyn and Lee Ross appeared together in the film Secrets And Lies.
* Mark Bonnar (Danny Pryor) & Mairead McKinley (Rene O'Brien) also worked together on Unforgotten: Episode #2.4 (2017) as Colin Osborne & Sinead Quinn respectively.

## Goofs

### Continuity

* In the Tyneside Ferry Passenger Terminal we see Goran Vlasic approaching the ticket desk. In the background you can see DS Healey walking towards him. The next shot is outside the terminal and DS Healey is handing out slips of paper to 4 police officers telling them to be on the lookout for him before they enter. The next shot is back inside the terminal again and DS Healey has now reached the desk and makes contact with Vlasic.
Prodigal Son

## Plot

Former London Metropolitan Police detective and well-documented ladies man, John Warnock, is found stabbed in an alleyway adjacent to a quayside pub he had been visiting earlier in the evening. Suspicion initially falls on young street thief Reece, who is well known to Kenny, who had arrested him several times in the past. Although Reece admits to lifting the victim's credit card, he denies murder. A complex web of relationships and deceit begins to boil to the surface, and it soon becomes apparent that Warnock had been using his skills as a detective to act as a spy for a local firm of solicitors, to uncover the secrets of his current boss, brewery owner Sam Harper. But with Sam, his wife and his daughter all having rock solid alibis for the time of Warnock's murder, Vera is left to decipher just how one of them managed to slip away to commit the crime.

## Trivia

* The last appearance by Paul Ritter as Billy Cartwright, leaving Joe Ashworth and Vera herself as the only characters to appear in every story to date.
* Christine Bottomley (Lisa Strachan) & Jill Halfpenny (Maggie Warnock) also worked together on In the Club (2014) as Vicky & Diane respectively.
* Brenda Blethyn and Angela Curran both appeared in the film Secrets And Lies but didn't appear in any scenes together.
Northumberland and City Police

Template:Police Force Template
**Northumberland and City Police** is a fictitious police force featured in the ITV crime drama series *Vera*.

## Jurisdiction

Throughout the show the force is shown to have jurisdiction in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, the county of Northumberland and the North Tyneside area of the county of Tyne and Wear.

## Information

* The service is occasionally mistakenly referred to as **Northumbria and City Police** throughout the show.
* The force logo is very similar in appearance to the real life Northumbria Police.

## Staff

* Chief Superintendent Rachel Waite (Nina Sosanya)

* Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhorpe (Brenda Blethyn)
* Detective Chief Inspector John Warrick (Daragh O'Malley)

* Detective Inspector Sunetra Chandra (Shereen Martin)
* Detective Inspector Casey (Jay Mullen)

* Detective Sergeant Aiden Helay ( Kenny Doughty)
* Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth (David Leon)
* Sergeant Stuart Macken (Steven Hartley)

* Detective Constable Kenny Lockhart (Jon Morrison)
* Detective Constable Hicham Cherradi (Noof McEwan)
* Detective Constable Barry Kelman (Gareth Farr)
* Detective Constable Jacqueline Williams (Ibinabo Jack)
* Detective Constable Holly Lawson (Wunmi Mosaku)
* Detective Constable John Warren (Tom Hutch)
* Detective Constable Bethany Whelan (Cush Jumbo)
* Detective Constable Mark Edwards (Riley Jones)

* Constable Collette Hughes (Katherine Monaghan)
* Constable Josh Siggins (Bradley Banton)
* Constable Mike Randall (Joshua Hill)
* Constable Shaun Turnly (John Hollingworth)
* Constable George Wooten (Steve Evets)

## Real Life Equivalent

In reality the areas focused on in the series are covered by Northumbria Police.

## Gallery

Logo on police cap.Peyton Police Station sign.Logo on police car.NACP Warrant Card 2.pngWarrant card belonging to DCI Vera Stanhope.NACP Police Patch 2.pngCustom police vest patch.
Third Chronicle

The Third Chronicle documents history of the An Orwellian Reality world from 1955-1959. The Third Chronicle focuses on the course of the early Oceanian War, the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the radicalization of the Oceanians to deviate from Stalinism to English Socialism. The Chronicle also documents the slow takeover of the French Communist Party, and their eventual rise to power in 1956.

## 1959

### December

December 31st - End of the Third Chronicle. To access history from 1950-1954, please read Fourth Chronicle.
Jonathan Smith

## Episodes Jonathan Smith worked on

Hidden Depths, The Crow Trap, Little Lazarus, The Ghost Position, Silent Voices, A Certain Samaritan, Sandancers, Castles in the Air, Young Gods, Prodigal Son, Protected, The Deer Hunters, Death of a Family Man, Changing Tides, Old Wounds, Muddy Waters, Shadows in the Sky, Dark Road, Natural Selection, Dark Angel, Broken Promise, The Blanket Mire, Blood and Bone, Black Ice, Home, Darkwater, Blind Spot, Cuckoo, Cold River, The Seagull, Blood Will Tell, Parent Not Expected, Dirty, The Escape Turn
Young Gods

## Plot

A group of sixth form students on a weekend retreat at a leisure centre bear witness to a man on fire who falls from a cliff into the river below. The victim, Gideon Frane, is discovered to have been a former head boy at a local boarding school for high achieving students, but is also known to have a chequered past, having been responsible for 97 incidents of harassment against his ex-girlfriend. When Billy discovers the cause of death was poisoning, Vera begins to look at the case from a completely different perspective. When the team finally track down Gideon's former best friend, Jamie Levinson, both he and Vera fall victim to a further poisoning. Connections start to build when Joe links the case to the death of a former teacher at their school, whose daughter happened to be present when Gideon was murdered.

## Trivia

* Clare Calbraith makes her second of 7 appearances in this episode.
The Escape Turn

## Plot

When wealthy betting shop magnate Alun Wilmott is shot and killed after returning home early amid a terrifying home invasion, it's assumed that he is the unlucky victim of a burglary gone wrong. The culprits abscond with a huge amount of cash from Alun's personal safe, leaving his wife and daughter traumatised in their wake. Vera suspects an inside job and immediately targets the affluent neighbourhood's shady head of private security, Ciaran Duggan, whose history of violent crime calls his reformed character into question.
Fourth Chronicle

The Second Chronicle documents history of the An Orwellian Reality world from 1960-1964. The Fourth Chronicle documents the fall of the United Kingdom, and the collapse of the American Front for the United States. The Chronicle also documents the solidification of Soviet dominance over the globe. The Chronicle also focuses on the early stages of the Japanese Civil War, which gripped all of East Asia throughout the 1960's and 1970's.

## 1964

### December

December 31st - End of the Fourth Chronicle. To access history from 1964-1969, please read Fifth Chronicle.
Will Nicholson

## Episodes Will Nicholson worked on

* Castles in the Air
* Poster Child
* Young Gods
* Prodigal Son
* On Harbour Street
* Protected
* The Deer Hunters
* Death of a Family Man
* Changing Tides
* Old Wounds
* Muddy Waters
* Shadows in the Sky
* Natural Selection
* Dark Angel
* Broken Promise
* The Blanket Mire
* Blood and Bone
* Black Ice
* Home
* Darkwater
* Blind Spot
* Cuckoo
* Cold River
* The Seagull
* Blood Will Tell
* Parent Not Expected
* Dirty
* The Escape Turn
* Witness
* Recovery
* Tyger Tyger
* As the Crow Flies
* Vital Signs
* The Way the Wind Blows
Elaine Collins

**Elaine Collins** is an actress, producer and script editor.

She was born on April 21, 1958 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and is known for Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992), Play for Today (1970) and Mrs Brown (1997). She has been married to Peter Capaldi since June 1991. They have one child.

Elaine, whose own company is called Tod Productions, was previously a Producer and Executive Producer at ITV Studios. There, she optioned Ann Cleeves’ *Vera Stanhope* novels which she then developed and produced as *Vera,* starring Brenda Blethyn. She was also responsible for developing and executive producing three series of the hugely successful BBC1 crime drama *Shetland* starring Douglas Henshall. Most recently, Elaine was Creative Director at BBC Drama. In 2017 Elaine signed an exclusive deal with STV Productions to develop and co-produce a slate of TV drama projects.

1. ↑ IMDB entry nm0172296
2. ↑ STV Pic
Kingsley Ben-Adir

**Kingsley Ben-Adir** is a British actor. He has performed in several plays in London theatres. He played pathologist Marcus Summer in ITV's detective drama *Vera* and private detective Karim Washington on the second season of the Netflix series *The OA*. From 2017 to 2019, he appeared in series four and five of the BBC One television series *Peaky Blinders*. In 2020, he starred as Malcolm X in the Amazon Studios film *One Night in Miami...* (2020).

## Early life and education

Ben-Adir was born in Gospel Oak, London, England, to a black Trinidadian mother and a white British father. He attended William Ellis School in Gospel Oak, Northwest London. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011.

## Career

In 2011, Ben-Adir performed in Gillian Slovo's critically acclaimed play *The Riots* at the Tricycle Theatre. In 2012, he played Demetrius in *A Midsummer Night's Dream* at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

In 2013, he played Borachio in Mark Rylance's production of *Much Ado About Nothing* at the Old Vic in London and also played in *God's Property* at the Soho Theatre.

In 2014, Ben-Adir performed in the play *We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915* at the Bush Theatre in London. The play received positive reviews.

From 2017 to 2019, Ben-Adir appeared in series four and five of the BBC One television series *Peaky Blinders*, playing the role of Colonel Ben Younger.

In 2020, Ben-Adir starred as Malcolm X in the Amazon Studios film *One Night in Miami...* directed by Regina King. Ben-Adir starred alongside Eli Goree (Cassius Clay), Leslie Odom Jr. (Sam Cooke), and Aldis Hodge (Jim Brown).

In March 2021, *Deadline Hollywood* reported that Ben-Adir had joined the *Secret Invasion* series for Marvel Studios as the main villain.

In February 2022, Ben-Adir was set to play Bob Marley in its untitled biopic directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. In April 2022, he joined the ensemble cast of *Barbie* movie.
Black Ice

## Plot

Vera is called to the scene of a violent car crash. She quickly realises that the crash was not accidental. After the victim, Faye Wakeland, dies in hospital, Vera suspects that her murder may be connected to the recent suicide of a local man. But Vera and Aiden find it difficult to get to the truth when everyone they interview seems to be protecting a secret.

## Trivia

* This episode is directed by David Leon who played DS Ashworth the first four seasons.
* Ben Batt and director David Leon appeared in the series In The Dark the year before this was screened.

## Goofs

### Incorrectly regarded as goofs

* The car has been rammed off the road from behind by another vehicle, but when the back of the car is shown, there is not a scratch on it. **It hit the bumper, which is what they are there for.**

### Revealing mistakes

* The garage in which the big white transit van is supposedly normally kept is way too small, only big enough for a small car.
Patrick Smith

## Episodes Patrick Smith worked on

Hidden Depths, Telling Tales, The Crow Trap, Little Lazarus, The Ghost Position, Silent Voices, A Certain Samaritan, Sandancers, Castles in the Air, Poster Child, Young Gods, Prodigal Son, On Harbour Street, Protected, The Deer Hunters, Death of a Family Man, Changing Tides, Old Wounds, Muddy Waters, Shadows in the Sky, Dark Road, Tuesday's Child, The Moth Catcher, The Sea Glass, Natural Selection, Dark Angel, Broken Promise, The Blanket Mire, Blood and Bone, Black Ice, Home, Darkwater, Blind Spot, Cuckoo, Cold River, The Seagul, Blood Will Tell, Parent Not Expected, Dirty, The Escape Turn, Witness, Recovery
Hilary Stewart

## Episodes Hilary Stewart worked on

Hidden Depths, Little Lazarus, The Ghost Position,Silent Voices, A Certain Samaritan, Sandancers, Castles in the Air, Young Gods, Prodigal Son, The Deer Hunters, Changing Tides, Old Wounds, Muddy Waters, Shadows in the Sky, Dark Road, Tuesday's Child, The Moth Catcher, The Sea Glass, Natural Selection, Dark Angel, Broken Promise, The Blanket Mire, Blood and Bone, Black Ice, Home, Darkwater, Blind Spot, Cuckoo, Cold River, The Seagull, Blood Will Tell, Parent Not Expected, Dirty
Barry

Barry is the name of the sole survivor of the initial Rotovirus Incident, that took place inside his workplace. While he was looking through crates, his co-workers were killed one by one, causing him to hide behind the crates. It wasn't until Shadow Company arrived that he came out from his hiding spot. He allies with Shadow 4-1 and gives the soldier information about the lab.
Victor Humphries

**Victor Humphries** is an Action Vehicles Co-Odinator, via his company Vision Motor Services Ltd, which supplies all types of motorised vehicles, from farm tractors to super-cars as well as bicycles & specialist mobility equipment. From vans to trucks and military equipment. UK, European, American & world brands. Victor and the company are specilaists in Police & Ambulance/Paramedic vehicles, with alterations for camera, light & sound mounting can be accommodated, as can alterations to enable special effects operation.
Vera Stanhope

**Vera Stanhope** is a nearly retired employee of the 'Northumberland & City Police'. She is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. She plods along in a constantly disheveled state, but has a calculating mind and, despite her irascible personality, she cares deeply about her work and colleagues. She often proves her superior skills by picking up small errors in her team members' thought processes.

## Trivia

In 2021 Ann Cleeves, who wrote the original novels which inspired the series, confirmed that the character of Vera was based on a neighbour of her maternal grandmother. The neighbour had been something of a busybody and her personality was the basis for Vera.

## Notes

1. ↑ Based on the fact that, when Vera shows Joe her birthday height markings, the last one is dated 1st January 1963, and she indicates she was 10.
2. ↑ This force doesn't exsist in real life
The Blanket Mire

## Plot

Surveyors out on the Northumberland moors make a shocking discovery: the body of a young woman buried beneath the soil. On the scene, assumptions are that this is the body of local teenager, Mia Hinkin, who disappeared six weeks ago. Vera is forced to deliver the terrible news to a broken family, desperate for answers. With her body found so close to home, Vera must re-trace the vulnerable young woman’s footsteps from her isolated rural life and into a dark and tangled web of deceit to track down her killer.

## Trivia

* Steve Evets makes the first of his occasional appearances as PC George Wooten.
* Kenny Doughty (DS Aiden Healy) & Noof Ousellam (DC Hicham Cherradi) also worked together on Love, Lies and Records (2017) as Rick & Amir respectively.
* Noof Ousellam's final appearance as Hicham Cherradi. As with Shep and Helen Milton before him, no reason is given for his departure.
* Christopher Colquhoun makes his final appearances as Tony Carmichael.
* The actress who plays the victim, Mia Hinkin, is uncredited although she is seen in numerous photographs throughout the episode.
David Leon

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**David Jeremy Leon** is an English actor, director, writer and producer. As an actor, he is known for appearing in Rankin and Chris Cottam's 2002 feature film, *Lives of the Saints* (as the character Othello), and director Guy Ritchie's 2008 feature, *RocknRolla*, as Malcolm. From 2011 to 2014, Leon co-starred with Brenda Blethyn in the ITV detective series *Vera.*

Leon's directorial debut, the 2010 short, *Man and Boy*, co-directed with Marcus McSweeney, won the award for best narrative short at the Tribeca Film Festival. His next short film, the 2012 *Orthodox*, an entry in the 58th BFI's London Film Festival, led to his first feature-length film of the same name, which was released in 2015.
Blind Spot/Credits

* Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope
* Kenny Doughty  as DS Aiden Healy
* Jon Morrison as DC Kenny Lockhart
* Ibinabo Jack as D.C. Jacqueline 'Jac' Williams
* Riley Jones as DC Mark Edwards
* Paul Kaye as Dr Malcolm Donahue
* Peter Davison as Matthew Wells
* Adrian Lukis as Graham Caswell
* Jodie McNee as Natalie Webb
* Amira Ghazalla as Ava Caswell
* Seeta Indrani as Sandra Madani
* Andrew Readman as Jim Paisley
* Faith Alabi as Melanie Kirk
* James Atherton as Kieran Webb
* Sean Cernow as Paul Eastman
* Caitlin Drabble as Ashleigh Beck
* Sharon Singh as Joanne Caswell
* Edward Kingham as Peter Lyle
* Navinder Bhatti as Nazeem
* Malcolm Freeman as Hostel Manager
* Gerard Mcdermott as Frank Payne
* Chris Iddon as Simon Beck
* Heather Walker as Natalie's Mum
* Tori Du Pree as Nosey Neighbour
* Brad Hopper as Train Passenger

## Crew

* Directed by Paul Gay
* Written by Paul Logue, , based on characters created by Ann Cleeves.
* Produced by Fahima Chowdhury (Line Producer), Phil Hunter (Executive Producer) Will Nicholson (Producer)
* Music by Ben Bartlett
* Cinematography by Ryan Kernaghan
* Film Editing by Tim Hodges
* Dailies Operator: Charbel Bou-Antoun
* Colourist: Dan Coles
* First Assistant Editor: Rob Garwood
* Producer: Dailies: Jason T. Morrow
* On-Line Editor: Siôn Penny
* Post-Production Coordinator (Uncredited): Elaine Robertson
* Casting by Maureen Duff and Gertie Pye
* Production Design by Madelaine Leech
* Art Direction by Mike McLoughlin
* Standby Art Director: Virginia Reina
* Set Decoration by Kim Logan
* Costume Design by Marlene Lawlor
Cosmic Gems

The **Cosmic Gems** were seven immensely powerful gem-like objects tied to different aspects of the universe, created by the Celestials. Each of the stones possesses unique capabilities that have been enhanced and altered by various alien civilizations for millennia.

## Stones

### Space Gem

* **Stone Color**: Blue
* **Owner(s)**:
* **Last Location**:
* **Description**: Outer space manipulation, black hole manipulation, gravity manipulation, can teleport, manipulate meteor showers, etc.

### Mind Gem

* **Stone Color**: Yellow
* **Owner(s)**:
* **Last Location**:
* **Description**: Allows users to read minds, mind manipulation, telepathy, Omni-Telepathy, etc.

### Reality Gem

* **Stone Color**: Red
* **Owner(s)**:
* **Last Location**:
* **Description**: Manipulation of reality, bring up whatever you want, request anything according to the user's wishes, Reality warping, etc.

### Power Gem

* **Stone Color**: Purple
* **Owner(s)**:
* **Last Location**:
* **Description**: Gives the user strength, can inhibit attacks, can reflect attacks, can increase strength, can destroy areas, etc.

### Time Gem

* **Stone Color**: Green
* **Owner(s)**:
* **Last Location**:
* **Description**: Total control over all aspects of time including time travel, time stopping, slowing down or accelerating the flow of time and to accelerate or slow down aging, time manipulation.

### Soul Gem

* **Stone Color**: Orange
* **Owner(s)**:
* **Last Location**:
* **Description**: Manipulation of the soul is unlimited, pulling the soul from the body, confining the soul.

### Magic Gem

* **Stone Color**: White
* **Owner(s)**:
* **Last Location**:
* **Description**: Use all aspects of magic.
Protected

## Plot

When a young property developer dies on a beach in Whitley Bay, Vera's investigation begins to tread on many toes. It appears that the victim was not only having a secret relationship with his estranged sister, but that he had confronted a local arcade owner, whose son had died at his house many years before, having slipped from a flat roof in a supposed 'burglary'. When the victim's father dies of cardiac arrest, Vera suspects foul play, but it turns out not to be the case. However, a scam involving the family's rental business may hold the key to the motive behind the victim's death. But in order to place all of the pieces of the puzzle together, Vera has to reveal some long buried - and heartbreaking - secrets, leading to a shock revelation which points the team firmly in the direction of the real killer.

## Trivia

* The episode takes place in Whitley Bay, where Vera novelist Ann Cleeves resides.

## Goofs

### Anachronisms

* Patrick Crowe's death certificate shows that he was fifteen years old at his death in 1977, and that he'd been in employment as a labourer. The School Leaving Age was raised to sixteen in 1972 so, by law, Patrick would have been still at school. This isn't correct. First of all. They have to change dates when using a name as it may be the same as someone in a similar situation. Also, just because that's what the age is doesn't mean everyone adheres to it. It happens all the time.

### Continuity

* When Vera and Joe first visit the deceased's parents she leaves on the side lights on the Land Rover. When they come out they are off.
* The car window behind Joe moves up and down during his conversation about estrangement with Vera.
Neutrals

**Neutrals** or **Deuteragonists** are practically just characters whose characters are in no specific role as to whether they are allies or enemies. Those who are both allies and, at one point, enemies, are contrary to traditional heroes, although they may still have heroic qualities.

The alternate word for this faction are called **Anti-Heroes** (Male) or **Anti-Heroines** (Female).

"*.*"

—About Neutrals.

## Groups

Whether they operate independently or in a partnership, neutral anti-heroes will sometimes need to team together with other heroes to combat threats or problems that they would be unable to deal with solo.

The following is a list of signature neutral groups:

## See also

* Supportives
* Heroes
* Allies
* Villains
A Certain Samaritan

## 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).
Broken Promise

## Plot

Vera is called to the University of Northumberland when Jamie Marshall, a young, promising journalism student, plummets to his death from the top of a disused science building. With no eyewitnesses and no immediate leads, Vera turns to friends and family to glean all she can about Jamie, and to discover who might have wanted him dead. Her investigation delves further into Jamie’s academic and personal life, as it becomes apparent that all is not as it seems. His sunny persona is betrayed by vlog posts that cast Jamie in a different light altogether, with anger and resentment bubbling to the surface. But what was Jamie railing against?
Castles in the Air

## Plot

When a young woman, Lizzie Faulkner, is shot late at night outside the holiday chalet where she and two friends are staying for the weekend, Vera and Joe suspect that her murder is linked to poachers operating in nearby fields. They identify a suspect, Robert Doran, but despite being in the vicinity at the time, he denies being responsible for Lizzie's murder. Vera begins to suspect the woman's death may have been a case of mistaken identity, and that the intended victim may have been one of the chalet designers, Corrine Franks, who was meant to have been staying there at the time. A link to a tragic car accident a few months earlier involving Corrine, which led to an innocent woman losing her life, appears to confirm their theory. When Corrine is later killed in a hit-and-run, the team finally get the breakthrough they have been looking for.

## Trivia

* A young brunette drew a smiley face on steamed glass. After the brunette is shown dead, the smiley face is shown again with an angular drip running through some of it. It, suspiciously, resembles the smiley button with a blood streak from "The Watchman".
* Nicholas Gleaves (Tim Hopkins) & Richard Riddell (Robert Doran) also worked together on Bodyguard (2018) as Roger Penhaligon & Tom Fenton respectively. They were also series regulars in different seasons of Scott & Bailey (2011-2016), with Gleaves playing DS Andy Roper in seasons 1 & 2, and Riddell playing Steve Dench in season 5.
* Nicholas Gleaves (Tim Hopkins) & John Light (Andrew Franks) have both appeared in the series Father Brown (2013)
Parent Not Expected

## Plot

Vera must unravel a tangled web of deceit between two wildly different families when the body of a teenage boy is discovered floating near a Northumberland salmon farm.

## Goofs

### Miscellaneous

* When Vera is questioning the security guard in the salmon farm offices, the scenery reflected off the windows from the outside looking in don't seem to match the scenery shown out the window from inside.
Siôn Penny

**Siôn Penny** is an online editor.

## Episodes Siôn Penny worked on

Hidden Depths, Telling Tales, The Crow Trap, Little Lazarus, The Ghost Position, Silent Voices, A Certain Samaritan, Sandancers, Castles in the Air, Poster Child, Young Gods, Prodigal Son, On Harbour Street, Protected, The Deer Hunters, Death of a Family Man, Changing Tides, Old Wounds, Muddy Waters, Shadows in the Sky, Dark Road, Tuesday's Child, The Moth Catcher, The Sea Glass, Natural Selection, Dark Angel, Broken Promise, The Blanket Mire, Blood and Bone, Black Ice, Darkwater, Blind Spot, Cuckoo, Cold River, The Seagull, Blood Will Tell, Parent Not Expected, Dirty
Villains

**Villains** or **Antagonists** are individuals who possesses extraordinary talents, supernatural phenomena, or superhuman powers and uses them in pursuit of a personal or professional objective that is usually at the detriment of the public, the greater good, and/or any other moral standard. As their actions usually cause community disturbance, Villains are actively opposed by Heroes who seek to curb the destruction the actions of villains' cause.

A villain's motivation to break moral law varies; some break it as part of a personal pursuit of obtaining a goal (whether it be the ambition for power or the pursuit of revenge), others break it as a consequence of a professional occupation or task, others still will break it simply for kicks and for the thrill of "crossing the line" (due to a lack of empathy for anything beyond themselves) and there are others who are diagnosed as "Criminally Insane"; to whom laws like morality do not register due to mental instabilities.

"*.*"

—About Villains.

## Groups

Whether they operate independently or in a partnership, villains will sometimes need to team together with other villains to combat threats or problems that they would be unable to deal with solo.

The following is a list of signature villainous groups:

## See also

* Supportives
* Heroes
* Allies
* Anti-Heroes
Hidden Depths

## Plot

DCI Vera Stanhope has two apparently unrelated murders and a kidnapping. Her life is complicated by the death of her father and her decision to live in his home which sadly contains the cluttered remains of his life. The story unfolds with Vera discovering that the murders are tied to photos and a missing camera.

## Trivia

Up to S10E04, this is the only story not to include Jon Morrison as Kenny Lockhart. Only Vera herself has appeared in every episode.

## Goofs

### IMDB

#### Incorrectly regarded as goofs

1. As the ashes are dropped overboard, the urn appears to be visible floating behind the ferry, but Vera later is handling the urn when Joe got back on the Quayside. However, it wasn't the urn seen in the water, it was the brown cardboard box the urn came in.
The Sea Glass

## Plot

Former trawler-man Tommy Stonnall's corpse is pulled from the sea six weeks after his sons reported him missing. He was depressed following his wife's death, huge debts and an accusation - never proved - by unpopular siblings Ellie and Jay Connock that he burned down their fish market, killing their father. Vera however discounts suicide when she finds an abandoned van stained by Tommy's blood, leading her to a lodgings house where he stayed for the missing weeks and where she finds contraband cigarettes. She also uncovers a more sinister smuggling racket in which Tommy was involved, along with a secret liaison and an explanation for the arson attack.

## Trivia

* The auctioneers in the fish market scene are real fish auctioneers from North Shields fish quay (where the scene was filmed). The others in that scene are, however, extras.
* The scenes with the finding of the Stonnel van with links to Quinn, the fire on the boat, and some of the "beach hut" scenes, all in an area referred to as Blythe Point, were all filmed at the mouth of the River Tees. The final scenes where the murderer confesses were also filmed here.
* Kingsley Ben-Adir makes an appearance as Marcus Summer but then misses the next 4 stories
* Phillip Hill-Pearson and Ciaran Griffiths also starred in The Bay which centred around fishing trawlers and a murder mystery
Dark Road

## Plot

When Anne-Marie Richards is found dead on the moors, shoe-less, Vera deduces that she was killed at home and the body dumped. Later, Vera discovers that Anne-Marie was keeping secrets, including a secret boyfriend and a hidden mobile phone. Suspicion falls on her family, a seemingly respectable teacher married to a veterinarian, with a young daughter, and a former drug addict, but the conclusion of the investigation is marked by a deadly attack on one of her team.

## Trivia

* Final appearance of Cush Jumbo as D.C. Bethany Whelan.
* In the previous episode, Vera: Shadows in the Sky (2015), the restaurant overlooking the "tilt bridge," AKA the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, crossing the River Tyne between Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne was featured. It is featured again here, but has become an Asian/Chinese establishment, owned/managed by Huang (Paul Courtenay Hyu). Note, however, that some Chinese hanging lamps and red table cloths have been added.
* Lisa Hammond (Helen Milton) & Daniel Ings (Simon) also worked together on Psychoville (2009) as Kerry & Kelvin respectively.

## Goofs

### Incorrectly regarded as goofs

* After Bethany is killed by a large caliber handgun, Vera asks who in the department failed to properly check for a firearms license when doing background checks on the suspects. The embarrassed reaction of the other officers indicate they missed a firearms license. However, since 1996, large caliber handguns have been illegal in the UK. As an illegal firearm cannot be licensed, the check would not have turned up anything.
Democratic Republic of Italy

The **Democratic Republic of Italy**, commonly known as Central Italy, is an Eurocommunist One-Party Socialist State located in Southern Europe. Formed as part of a rebellion in 1972, it is regarded as the most successful state in Italy after the collapse of the Republic. The country is led by Enrico Belinguer, who led the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the Republic era before the PCI took over the Central part of the country during their rebellion. Belinguer is revered across the entire European bloc, with France's head of state, Georges Marchais calling him "the new Lenin".

Central Italy is a highly militarized state, and is a part of the European Eurocommunist Community. They are in a cold war against the other three states of Italy due to ideological differences.
Tuesday's Child

## Plot

Vera investigates the death of a local lad whose body is found wrapped in plastic sheets at a rural teenage hang out.

## Trivia

* The scene where the body is found was filmed in St Cuthbert's Cave, near Belford, Northumberland.
* When Vera wakes up on the sofa in her office, she checks a report. The date on the report is June 2016, which was after this series was first broadcast on British TV on 7 February 2016.
* Nisa Cole (Mia Haleford), Jason Done (Philip) & Ben-Ryan Davies (Harris) also worked together on Waterloo Road (2006) as Amy Porter, Tom Clarkson & Ronan Burley respectively.
* Cush Jumbo is not credited as appearing in the story but Vera is seen holding a picture of her.
* Talkie Ayala (Amber) and Sean Gilder (Bobby) both appeared in Midsomer Murders Series 17 Ep. 3 The Ballad of Midsomer County.
Noah Mizu

**Noah Mizu** was an eldian living within The Liberio Internament zone along with The Tybur Family, and The Mizu Family living in liberio noah was looking forward to being the best successor of inheriting the war hammer titan among all other Warriors in marley.

## Noah Mizu

### Relatives

* Mizu Family
	+ Rinn Mizu "(Father, Deceased)"
	+ Lilly Mizu-Tybur "(Mother)"
	+ Zander Tybur "(Brother)"
	+ Deion Henura Mizu Hoover *(Cousin)*
* Tybur Family
	+ Lily Mizu-Tybur "(Mother)"
	+ Zander Tybur "(Brother)"

### Affiliation

* + Marleyan Black Ops
	+ Marleyan Military
	+ Warrior Unit

## Physical description

### Weight

155 lbs

**Noah's Warhammer Titan**

Noah Mizu's Warhammer Titan FormThe **War Hammer Titan** (戦鎚の巨人 *Sentsui no Kyojin*?) was one of the Nine Titans, and it possessed the ability to create structures out of hardened Titan flesh. The War Hammer Titan could produce and manipulate structures that were made of hardened Titan flesh. These structures could be weaponized—for example, forming pikes large enough to impale and lift a 15m Titan, flooding areas with protrusions such as spikes, and manifesting the Titan's signature war hammer. This ability could also create serrated and bladed weapons, such as a sickle, battle axe or a broadsword; even more noteworthy was that the War Hammer Titan was capable of manifesting flexible weaponry components, such as the string of a crossbow or the whips of a cat-o'-nine-tails, making this a particularly unique brand of hardening. Much like the Female Titan, this hardening could also be used to encase the human operator of the War Hammer Titan inside a crystal casing. Unlike the Female Titan, however, the human retains consciousness while encased inside the crystal, allowing them to control the Titan body. While durable, this crystal casing could be damaged when struck or crushed by a more resilient structure; the Jaw Titan's claws and teeth were the only structures seen to have been capable of such a feat.
Cold River

## Plot

Successful business woman Lisa Varsey throws a party for her family and friends on the River Tyne. But it goes horribly wrong when her sister Dani is found dead in the water. At first the family believe that Dani’s death was an accident but Vera and pathologist Malcolm know that the forensics point to murder. Vera and the team alight on concerning rumours that Dani could have been in an abusive relationship and questions whether this could have led to her death. But the investigation takes a turn when evidence points to the fact that something was rotten in another area of Dani’s life. Vera begins to believe that Dani was going to expose an unpalatable truth. Vera must unpick the tightly woven threads that hold the family together to discover who killed an innocent woman.
Darkwater

DCI Stanhope wearing a lifejacket

## Plot

The nude corpse of teenager Ethan Dewley is fished from a reservoir near the saw-mill where his father Sean, who reported him missing three days earlier, works. Adam Jannen, son of the aggressive mill owner, denies knowing Ethan but apparently was known for bullying him and Adam's mother Glenda was seemingly in an affair with Sean. When Adam's alibi is blown apart he is arrested but Vera finds out that Ethan was obsessed with art teacher Laura Halcombe, whose boyfriend Jim Briscoe had threatened him to leave her alone. In fact Ethan's interest in Laura was more sinister and when Vera sees his laptop it helps her get closer to solving the murder.

## Trivia

* Shot around Kielder Reservoir and forest park, Northumberland.
* Kingsley Ben-Adir makes his final appearance as Marcus Summer.

## Goofs

### Crew or equipment visible

* When Marcus calls Vera with news from the lake, twice a shot taken from inside a building looking out towards Marcus has a crew member standing in the frame filling up the far right of the screen. In the first shot, the crew member puts down either a camera or mic at the end of the shot.
Home

## Plot

After Alison Glenn is found dead in her garden her prison officer husband Michael tells Vera she had fallen out with best friend Asha over Asha's son Sahil's obsession with her daughter Molly. Vera is surprised to learn that Alison had a father and brother from whom she had been estranged for over twenty years and never mentioned though she had recently encountered her brother Tom, a young man of limited intelligence dominated by his father and anxious to seek her out. Michael had also been involved in drug smuggling for imprisoned racketeer Brian Delaney. With several parties from the past and present with likely motives Vera must work out which was the murderer.
Clare Calbraith

Just Voices entry image.

**Clare Michelle Calbraith** is an English actress, born in Winsford, Cheshire, and raised in Liverpool and Cheshire, whose appearances include roles in the ITV period drama series *Home Fires* and *Downton Abbey*, together with the BBC2 drama *The Shadow Line*.

## Biography

Calbraith has appeared in many other television series including *DCI Banks*, *Silent Witness*, *Casualty*, *Holby City*, *The Bill*, *55 Degrees North* and Dr Tricia Summerbee in *Heartbeat*. She joined *Coronation Street* in 2005 for a short time to play Robyn, girlfriend of Martin Platt. In 2007, she guest-starred in the *Doctor Who* audio dramas *Urban Myths* and *Son of the Dragon*. In 2008 she guest-starred in the *Sapphire and Steel* audio drama *Second Sight* and *Doctors*. In 2011, she played Laura Gabriel in the BBC TV series, *The Shadow Line*. From 2011 to 2013 she played Shep in the ITV series *Vera*.

## Episodes in which Clare Calbraith appeared

Sandancers, Young Gods, Prodigal Son, On Harbour Street, Protected, The Deer Hunters, Death of a Family Man

1. ↑ Just Voices
2. ↑ Wikipedia
Cuckoo

## Plot

Vera is confronted with the sight of Caden Lennon's murder, by knife, in a coastal town's shipyard. The teenager had absconded from his support worker's care six weeks previously but, with few leads, Vera looks into a gang connection and discovers a drugs network.

## Trivia

* Set in the Northumberland town of Amble but was named Peyton for the episode

## Goofs

### Continuity

* Near the end, Vera is talking to the young man, and two police officers arrive at the top of the sand dune behind them. In a later shot, one of the police officers is standing on the sand just behind Vera. Next shot, he is still standing at the top of the dune again and doesn't come down until she calls them.

### Incorrectly regarded as goofs

* When Kayleigh is leaving the station with her parents and Tyler tries to reach her, he is stopped because he can't open the security door with the passcode lock mechanism. However, Tyler is on the employee side of the door which doesn't require a passcode and can be opened normally. No, it can't. For the protection of everyone in the station, those doors automatically lock. While there is no passcode needed, it needs to be ' buzzed' open.
The Ghost Position

## Plot

When an old colleague of DCI Vera Stanhope, Sergeant Stuart Macken, commits suicide at the hospital where his daughter lies critically injured after his home had been firebombed, the investigation leads to a number of suspects: the daughter's stepfather, a missing protester Sergeant Macken had under surveillance, the protester's pregnant girlfriend and an art teacher. Furthermore, a senior officer's affair with Macken comes to light and a second attempt on the daughter in hospital breaks the case wide open to explain the sergeant's suicide.

## Trivia

* Final appearance of Wunmi Mosaku as DC Holly Lawson.
* Unlike many other members of the CID team, Holly actually gets to leave on screen. In forthcoming years, some team members disappear from the show without a mention.
* Brenda Blethyn and Ron Cook both appeared in the film Secrets And Lies but didn't appear in any scenes together.

## Goofs

### IMDB

#### Miscellaneous

* Stuart leaps to his death from three or four floors up and lands on the tile floor, but there is not a spot of blood around his body. He would have had a massive head wound.
Sonya Cassidy

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**Sonya Cassidy** is a British actress.

## Career

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Cassidy is known for her roles as Clara in the BBC period drama *The Paradise*, as Celine Ashworth in the police detective series *Vera*, as the Oracle in Syfy fantasy series *Olympus*, and as Hester in the Channel 4 science fiction series *Humans*. Cassidy starred in the AMC television series *Lodge 49*. She also has some film appearances and has also done theatre work.

She will next star in the science fiction series *The Man Who Fell to Earth*, a television adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel.

## Episodes in which Sonya Cassidy appears

The Ghost Position, A Certain Samaritan, Sandancers, Castles in the Air, Poster Child, On Harbour Street, Protected, Death of a Family Man

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 IMDB Entry nm3250161
2. ↑ Wikipedia entry
Thor

Donald Blake

The God of Thunder

Son of Odin

Loki (Adopted Brother)

Angela (Sister)

Hela (Sister)

Asgard

Thor is the son of Odin and the god of thunder. He is also a founding member of The Avengers

Rest is TBA

## Trivia

* Thor's voice is higher-pitched than it normally is in MR.
* Thor's initial armor is based off of the steel-plate armor from *The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim*.
	+ Thor's appearance after Thanos steals Mjolnir is based off of his "Unworthy Thor" appearance from Marvel Comics.