The essential episodes of Prime Suspect
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Prime Suspect — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Jane Tennison is a Detective Chief Inspector assigned to Southampton Row Police Station in Central London. She is repeatedly passed over for major cases but, following the death of a Senior Investigating Officer, DCI Shefford, she is given the opportunity to take over his 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. Forensic evidence puts a suspect in the frame.
- 02
As further bodies are found, the investigation becomes a hunt for a serial killer. Jane's personal life suffers as she tries to solve the case and win the respect and approval of her male colleagues, including DS Bill Otley. She later earns the respect of her team by locating and arresting George Marlow.
- 03
Part one of this murder mystery in which a corpse is discovered in an Afro-Caribbean neighbourhood; causing the controversial subject of racism in the police force to rear its head.
- 04
Part two of this murder mystery in which when David Harvey confesses to the murder of Joanne Fagunwa on his death bed, police enquiries are suppressed; and Jane Tennison faces problems as her investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.
- 05
DCI Tennison has been transferred to a new station and a new assignment: getting prostitutes off the streets of Soho. But when a 17-year-old rent boy is burned to death, her superiors aren't keen on her investigating the murder. The victim was a regular at a center for homeless kids run by Edward Parker-Jones, the darling of the department. As if matters aren't thorny enough, a former lover comes to town and causes Tennison to question her life.
- 06
Jackson and Vera offer conflicting versions of their whereabouts the night Connie died, and Tennison makes an arrest.
- 07
Superintendent Jane Tennison orchestrates a search for an abducted baby, but events take a turn for the worst when personal emotions cause complications.
- 08
A seemingly straightforward sex murder investigation by Superintendent Jane Tennison leads to a hidden political scandal.
- 09
A series of brutal sex murders disturbingly similar to the pattern of Superintendent Jane Tennison's first major case leads to the awful suggestion that she may have caught the wrong man the first time.
- 10
DSI Jane Tennison has been transferred to Manchester and to ease her into the job, she is sent around schools to lecture but feels her abilities are being wasted.
- 11
In this concluding episode, Jane Tennison and the team try to find out where Campbell Lafferty was executed after being released. Appearing on 'Crime Night', she decides to pull in 'The Street', believing that he is responsible.
- 12
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.
- 13
Tennison makes a breakthrough after travelling to Bosnia, only to find her suspect is protected by the UK government.
- 14
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.
- 15
Curtis Flynn flees the scene of his brutal encounter with Tennison and the truth surrounding Sallie's death emerges.
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