Prime Suspect
Season 5
2 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 5 of Prime Suspect (1991–2006) on ITV as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 7) — 2 listed hours, 1996-10-20–1996-10-21 from “Errors of Judgment, Part 1” (S05E01) to “Errors of Judgment, Part 2” (S05E02). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
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S05E01 Errors of Judgment, Part 1
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.
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S05E02 Errors of Judgment, Part 2
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.
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