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.
Helen Mirren
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison
John Benfield
DCS Michael Kernan
Tom Bell
DS Bill Otley
Ian Fitzgibbon
DC Jones
Jack Ellis
DI Tony Muddyman