Vera Damaged Promise is episode 3 of season 7 and exhibits how a lot the previous can hang-out the current and the way not everybody you’re keen on can actually be trusted.
With a particular episode nonetheless to come back forward of the brand new collection of Vera lastly touchdown, followers of the Northumberland-based raincoat-wearing DCI Vera Stanhope have been patiently ready for extra information for a lot of months now after Vera The Darkest Night aired. Till launch dates are lastly given, ITV3 has been treating us this summer time by re-showing a few of the drama’s most intriguing and heartbreaking episodes. This consists of the newest one set to air on twenty fourth August which is Vera season 7 episode 3, cryptically entitled Damaged Promise. This episode is each bit as filled with betrayal because the title would recommend as Vera investigates the demise of Jamie Marshall.
Right here we clarify Vera Damaged Promise together with who killed Jamie Marshall on this heart-wrenching episode and why he modified his title…
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Vera Damaged Promise defined: Who killed Jamie Marshall?
Following some brilliantly intriguing episodes like Vera Pure Choice and Vera The Sea Glass, Vera Damaged Promise definitely didn’t let up within the emotional depth stakes. In season 7 episode 3 DCI Vera Stanhope and her group have been referred to as out to research the sudden demise of Jamie Marshall – a scholar on the fictional College of Northumberland who broke large information tales. He’d apparently both fallen or jumped from the previous science block whereas a celebration was occurring close by.
Not one to simply accept the apparent conclusion, Vera was desirous to look into all points of Jamie’s life and the pathologist later confirmed that Jamie had been punched exhausting within the face previous to his fall. Figuring out that another person was on the very least with Jamie earlier than he died, Vera quickly managed to uncover some significantly intriguing revelations concerning the scholar. He’d not solely modified his title however his relationship together with his greatest buddy Lucy had grown distant lately.
PC Mark Edwards additionally confirmed Vera one of many final video logs (vlogs) that he recorded lower than two hours earlier than his demise that noticed a drunk and distraught Jamie saying he knew “a whole lot of issues about lots of people” and that he may “make them pay”. Vera commented that Jamie was in “self-destruct” mode and all through the Vera Damaged Promise episode the group learnt extra about his dwelling life.
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He’d lied in his vlogs saying his father was an funding banker and his sister labored in Shanghai. In actuality his father Derek was battling dependancy and Jamie’s sister had handed away as a consequence of taking heroin earlier than he left for uni. It’s solely in the direction of the top of Vera Damaged Promise that the decided DCI attracts a unfastened comparability between Jamie’s dwelling life and his fellow scholar Rory Marston.
Rory was on the rugby group and was the son of the rich Alan Marston – a person described by DS Kenny Lockhart because the “defence lawyer from hell”. Rory was additionally introduced up by his dad and had a susceptible sister, besides his sister Jennifer had lately undergone an operation after being recognized with kidney failure.
Throughout a go to to the hospital to query Derek a couple of case from the previous, Jennifer got here throughout Vera and instructed her that Jamie had visited her the day of her operation on the lookout for Rory.
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He’d been threatening and she or he’d instructed her brother, who’d been livid and had got down to confront him. Vera had the additional suspicion about Rory as he’d mentioned he by no means knew Jamie, however he was the perfect buddy of Lucy, Rory’s girlfriend. They then found Rory had been having an affair with Jamie however had ended it, resulting in Jamie ingesting and going to see Jennifer.
Satisfied that Rory was accountable, Vera tracked him right down to the previous science block the place Jamie died. Alan Marston additionally made his approach there and the entire fact of what actually occurred got here out. Alan had been away on enterprise and Jamie had been invited to the Marston’s home by Rory and seen Alan’s issues.
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The budding investigative journalist had discovered proof that Alan was concerned in a property rip-off to defraud the college out of hundreds of thousands. It was when Vera and Aiden defined what had occurred that Rory broke down in tears, saying to his father, “You mentioned he was drunk and he fell.”
Rory broke down as he realised his father had killed his ex-boyfriend and that he’d lied about how Jamie had actually died. Alan then confessed that he’d met Jamie up there and instructed him that Jamie had needed to “destroy” the Marstons as a result of he was jealous of them. In a really tragic coincidence, Vera Damaged Promise ended with Vera telling Aiden that she believes Alan genuinely hadn’t meant to kill Jamie when he’d punched him.
Why did Jamie Marshall change his title?
Jamie Marshall was born Jamie Stoddart however modified his title earlier than coming to college and mendacity about his background and his household state of affairs. It’s potential that a part of it may’ve been to try to slot in with the center class college students round him, however Jamie primarily appeared eager to flee his previous and the demise of Nicky Holland which haunted him and his household. Altering his title was a approach of distancing himself from Nicky’s demise and specifically his father Derek Stoddart.
Who attacked Jamie and why?
It emerged throughout Jamie Marshall’s autopsy that he’d been attacked lately however the sample of the bruising advised that this had taken place days earlier. It later emerged that the perpetrator was Ian Holland – the daddy of Nicky. He’d been killed in a hit-and-run incident and it looks as if Derek did it and his refusal to confess it had appalled Jamie, inspiring him to depart dwelling and by no means look again. Derek had by no means confessed, although, even when Vera requested.
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Ian and Jamie had come into contact as a result of the coed instructed him that he was writing a e-book concerning the males who’d been trapped within the Allenby pit within the Nineteen Seventies. Ian’s father had been one among them but it surely quickly emerged that Jamie’s actual cause for making contact with Ian gave the impression to be out of guilt over his information about Nicky’s demise.
After Vera and Aiden had put two-and-two collectively they discovered Ian by his son’s grave and confronted him. He admitted that Jamie had instructed him what Derek had performed “ultimately” and Ian had attacked Jamie after which later went on to violently assault Derek at his dwelling as an act of revenge.
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Did Jamie know concerning the property rip-off?
It turned out that Jamie did know concerning the property rip-off and had been engaged on a narrative about it. He’d discovered the proof towards Alan however he wasn’t the one one concerned. Greenhill the surveyor had performed a survey falsifying findings that advised the constructing was in want of main structural work and was harmful. This meant that the constructing might be offered off cheaply however that after renovated it may apparently be price many hundreds of thousands. Tyneford Estates bought the science block to show it into luxurious lodging and Alan Marston was an investor within the firm, as Jamie discovered.
Vera seasons 1-12 can be found to look at by way of ITVX.
