9pm VERA: Old Wounds - Crime/Drama
When the remains of a teenage girl are found half-buried in a Northumberland wood, Vera and the team find themselves investigating a 30-year-old mystery. The remains are identified as those of miner's daughter Carrie Telling, who vanished during the strike clashes in 1984. A politically minded, rebellious teen, her father Bill insisted Carrie would never run away but his protests fell on deaf ears. The case brings Vera back in contact with her old boss, John Warrick, who is shocked to learn he may have dropped the ball.
10:30pm SCOTT & BAILEY - Crime/Drama Two female detectives, one motherly, the other emotionally immature, have varying levels of success applying their eccentric outlooks on life to their police cases and private lives.
IN THIS EPISODE: After promising that the chaos of her personal life was behind her, Rachel is torn when she discovers that her mother's new boyfriend is a violent domestic abuser. Janet goes on her first date, but gets cold feet at the last minute, when the idea of having to sell herself to a stranger makes her heart sink. When Rich Hutchings is found murdered in the flat he shares with his husband Adam, their neighbor Barry, an outspoken and violent homophobe, is the prime suspect. But as Adam's friend, Tim, struggles to remember the events of their night out, it seems that Barry might be in the clear.
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