The ending was as nerve-wracking as any moment in this series. It’s actually a whodunit, rather than a thriller, but that’s not to say there aren’t nail-biting moments. Unlike the last two, it’s more focused on characters, and seems to be confined to a narrower list of locations. Silent Voices is another episode based on a book. She is faced with other failures as she worries that she has failed both her old sergeant, and Holly Lawson. Last season ended as she went into the hospital, now we know she has angina, a fact she blurts out in an exquisitely painful scene at Joe’s house. Vera is forced to deal with her weaknesses. For what it’s worth, I think this is a better episode, but it’s a little annoying that the second episode not based on a book is basically a repeat. This was the first element that bothered me a bit, for it’s a repeat of the same formula as the previous season’s finale: black-hooded mysterious stranger is chased by the police for an attack on a kid for the entire story. His daughter lies on the point of death - she was in the house when a hooded figure lobbed a petrol bomb through the window. This is really the sidekicks’ episode, too, opening as Vera reunites with her first sergeant. Sergeant Ellie Miller is the only one to give him anything like competition, and that’s saying something. He’s more sociable than Sergeant Hathaway, more virtuous than Sergeant Bacchus and yet more interesting that stick-in-the-mud Sergeant Milner, more motherly to his boss than Sergeant Lewis, better looking than any of the above.
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