PRIME SUSPECT:SR 5

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• Release Year: 1997
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: Helen Mirren is Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the fifth of the series Prime Suspect that aired on PBS in January, 1992. Having been demoted and transferred to the north, D.C.I. Tennison finds herself under-used until she gets a case where a 12-year-old-boy confesses to murder.; ; Helen Mirren returns as police detective Jane Tennison in the fifth cycle of the award-winning television series Prime Suspect. Tennison is transferred to Manchester, where her superiors, unsure of what to do with her, initially put her in the public relations department, explaining police work to schoolchildren. Tennison wants a more substantial assignment, and she gets her wish when she is sent out to investigate the murder of a drug pusher. But Tennison quickly discovers the case is more complex than she imagined; a 14-year-old boy has claimed responsibility for the murder, but she believes the true culprit is a man known as 'The Street' (Steven Mackintosh), who controls Manchester's drug traffic and has a number of lieutenants to cover his tracks. Tennison also finds herself in potentially hot water when she becomes romantically involved with DCS Ballinger (John McArdle), who is her superior -- and also a married man
• Cast: Helen Mirren, John McArdle, Julia Lane, David O'Hara, John Brobbey, Steven Mackintosh, Ray Emmet Brown, Paul Oldham, Joe Speare, Paul Simpson, Joe Jacobs, Marsha Thomason, Vanessa Knox-Mawer, Badi Uzzaman, Anne Hornby, Steve Money, Chris Bisson, Antony Audenshaw, Gabrielle Reidy, Sarah Jones, Paul Warriner, Ravin J. Ganatra, David Webber, Martin Ronan, Emma Longbottom, David Kangas, Julian Kerridge, David Norman, Everal Walsh, Gordon Burns, Fiona Bruce, Jack Marsden, Emil Wolk, Richard Stevens, Kaye Wragg, John Jardine, Andrew Readman, Stuart Wolfenden, Andy Devine, Adam Evans, Glyn Dilley, Romy Baskerville, Kevin Knapman, Philip Davis
• Director: Philip Davis
• Runtime: 3:28
• Company: Granada Television
• Media Format: series