Prime Suspect
Season 4
3 listed hours · 1991–2006 · ITV
From the desk
How this season is filed
Helen Mirren’s Jane Tennison walks into a boys’-club murder room and does not ask permission. British prestige crime as event import: class, sexism, and procedure without the American hug. Detective television that treats authority as something a woman has to seize weekly — cold, adult, and still the benchmark every later female cop drama gets measured against.
TV Flash files Season 4 of Prime Suspect (1991–2006) on ITV as a mid listed season (4; 4 of 7) — 3 listed hours, 1995-04-30–1995-05-15 from “The Lost Child” (S04E01) to “The Scent of Darkness” (S04E03). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S04E01 The Lost Child
The Lost Child: later-run event crime, cold and adult, fandom still treating Tennison as the benchmark not a mascot.
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S04E01 The Lost Child
Superintendent Jane Tennison orchestrates a search for an abducted baby, but events take a turn for the worst when personal emotions cause complications.
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S04E02 Inner Circles
A seemingly straightforward sex murder investigation by Superintendent Jane Tennison leads to a hidden political scandal.
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S04E03 The Scent of Darkness
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.
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