Prime Suspect

Detective Tennison battles her male colleagues while searching for a murderer who targets sex workers.

Detective Jane Tennison battles her male colleagues while searching for a murderer who kills sex workers.

Tennison looks into a case involving the discovery of the skeletal remains of a young girl in a garden. Tensions in the community arise when a black youth is arrested.

The police department complicates Tennison's case with their concerns about its relationship to the community.

When a corpse is discovered in an Afro-Caribbean neighbourhood, the controversial subject of racism in the police force rears its head. DCI Jane Tennison is called in to head a sensitive enquiry into how the corpse came to lie in its burial place.

While DCI Tennison and her team track down their prime suspect, David Harvey; her colleague, DCI Oswalde, pursues a young black man, whom he believes is responsible for the murder of the girl.