

Prime Suspect
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
Cast
Seasons & Episodes

E1Price to Pay (1)
Apr 7, 1991
DCI Shefford dies suddenly whilst investigating a murder case. Jane Tennison is given the opportunity to take over the investigation which involves the brutal murder of a young girl. The girl's body has been badly mutilated and her hands have been tied behind her back. Jane suspects that it is the work of George Marlow. Jane also has to win the respect and approval of her male colleagues.

E2Price to Pay (2)
Apr 8, 1991
The investigation continues.
DCI Jane Tennison's investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.

E1Operation Nadine (1)
Dec 15, 1992
The body of a teenage girl is found and the investigation leads Jane into a community who distrust the police. Jane has recently had an affair with DS Bob Oswalde and he is assigned to the case. David Harvey confesses to the murder but neither Jane or Bob believe him. Bob is convinced that it is really the girl's young neighbour Tony Allen. Together they are able to discover who the real murderer is.

E2Operation Nadine (2)
Dec 16, 1992
The investigation continues...
Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Jane Tennison investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.

E1The Keeper of Souls (1)
Dec 19, 1993
Transferred to a new station with the new job of 'cleaning up the streets' of Soho, DCI Jane Tennison and her new team become involved in the seedy underworld of vice involving rent boys and transvestites, pornography and sickening abuse.

E2The Keeper of Souls (2)
Dec 20, 1993
A local photographer is questioned after being caught destroying evidence linking him with the victim, and further searches of his studio reveal some shocking video evidence.

E1The Lost Child
Apr 30, 1995
Following her promotion, Jane Tennison returns to Southampton Row to head an investigation into the murder of a young child.

E2Inner Circles
May 7, 1995
DS Tennison travels to a residential commuter suburb to investigate a murder which has been staged to look like suicide.

E3The Scent of Darkness
May 15, 1995
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds her private and professional life in tatters when a series of murders lead to her old adversary, George Marlow.
Detective Tennison investigates a seemingly straightforward drug murder that she believes is linked to a smugly smooth crime boss.

E1Errors of Judgement (1)
Oct 20, 1996
Jane Tennison has been transferred from the Met to Manchester and a drug runner is shot dead returning to his apartment and Tennison finds she is hot on the case.

E2Errors of Judgement (2)
Oct 21, 1996
Tennison's error of judgement has cost a young boy his life. She must use all her ingenuity to trap the man she believes is responsible.
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison's investigation of the murder of a Bosnian refugee leads her to one, or possibly two, Serbian war criminals determined to silence the last witness to a massacre a decade before.

E1The Last Witness (1)
Nov 9, 2003
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison has a new case when a woman who is found to be an illegal Bosnian refugee is found dead.

E2The Last Witness (2)
Nov 10, 2003
Tennison travels to Bosnia where she makes a breakthrough, only to find her suspect is protected by the UK government.
Retirement looms for Detective Superintendent Tennison, but as her career draws to a close, the body of a missing schoolgirl is found, and the hunt for her killer begins.

E1The Final Act (1)
Oct 15, 2006
Tony and Ruth Sturdy's 14 year old daughter Sallie is missing. Due to retire, this could be Tennison's last case: but she has more than this to contend with. Her father is seriously ill and she has turned to alcohol.

E2The Final Act (2)
Oct 22, 2006
Curtis Flynn flees the scene of his brutal encounter with Tennison. As the end draws near the truth surrounding the death of Sallie finally emerges and the hunt for the killer ends in a shattering confrontation.
Storyline
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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