DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) found her feathers ruffled when her original right-hand-man DI Joe Ashworth (David Leon) made a surprise return to Northumberland and City Police after 10 years working away in London in the first episode of Vera season 13 on Sunday January 7.
With Joe arriving as an assessor to scrutinise whether Vera and her team were sticking to codes of professional practice, the reunion was certainly frosty.
