Prime Suspect
Episode 1
Season 3, Episode 1 · Aired 1993-12-19
Synopsis
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.
In the series
This episode is part of Prime Suspect (1991–2006) on ITV.
Jane Tennison breaks the boys’ club — prestige British crime as event import.
Key cast
- Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison
- Tom Bell as Bill Otley
- John Benfield as Michael Kernan