This episode while brilliantly acted, and well plotted, suffers from a recurrent theme of leftist revisionism of recent history, in particular The Miners Strike. I.e Miners= 'fighting for their lives'. Police = Thatchers attack dogs. Unfortunately it makes for boring viewing because the essentials of a whodunnit are that we can't guess just by the profession of the character. It also fails to chime with Vera's usual character that she is the mouthpiece for this inaccurate and incomplete retelling of the conflict. I wonder if the writer is even old enough to have any direct experience, even memory of the actual events, not because that is needed to tell the story, but because I note the tone and it fits with the reductive view of the 1980s, Thatcher, Britain and British politics, popular with people under 40, I.e. That the decade was all about greed and selfishness. Such is and has been the power of the leftist view in media and entertainment. It's dull.