Vera: Parent Not Expected

The body of 19-year-old apprentice electrician Dennis Bayliss is discovered washed up on the shore of a North Northumberland rural estate. The victim turns out to be the estranged son of Steph and Rob Bayliss who are left crippled by his death, having lost him once already when he abandoned them to seek out his biological father, Thomas Walken, who just happens to run a salmon farm on the spot where the body was found. Vera is forced to look closer at the strained relationships of Dennis's two families in order to find the truth about his death