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Title: Prime Suspect 3 (1993– )
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| Helen Mirren | ... |
DCI Jane Tennison
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| Tom Bell | ... |
Sgt. Bill Otley
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Karen Tomlin | ... |
WPC Norma Hastings
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| David Thewlis | ... |
James Jackson
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| Peter Capaldi | ... |
Vera Reynolds
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| Struan Rodger | ... |
Supt. Halliday
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| Liza Sadovy | ... |
WPC Kathy Bibby
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| Mark Strong | ... |
Insp. Larry Hall
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Terrence Hardiman | ... |
Commander Chiswick
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| Andrew Woodall | ... |
DI Brian Dalton
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Richard Hawley | ... |
DS Richard Haskons
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Philip Wright | ... |
DC Lillie
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Mark Drewry | ... |
DI Ray Hebdon
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| John Benfield | ... |
Chief Supt. Kernan
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| Terence Harvey | ... |
John Kennington
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Pearce Quigley | ... |
Red
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| Ciarán Hinds | ... |
Edward Parker-Jones
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Andrew Dicks | ... |
Billy Matthews
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Alyson Spiro | ... |
Margaret Speel
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Steven Crossley | ... |
Mark Lewis
(2 episodes, 1993)
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John Axon | ... |
Jackson's Lawyer
(2 episodes, 1993)
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| Kelly Hunter | ... |
Jessica Smithy
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Felix Bell | ... |
Rutter
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Robin Polley | ... |
Club MC
(2 episodes, 1993)
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Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of homicide. But soon a homicide case impinges on her new job when a very young male prostitute is murdered in the apartment of Vera Reynolds, a female impersonator. Soon Jane is on the trail of the boy's brutal young pimp (played by David Thewlis). But her investigation is complicated by the Old Boy's Network, which is spying on her and is more concerned with preventing scandal than bringing the villain to justice. Written by Reid Gagle
Everything everyone is saying about this one is true. One thing to add: it's a lot for a single sitting. It runs almost four hours. People couldn't have had an option when it was transmitted on telly - they had to wait for the subsequent episodes - but when you rent or purchase it now you can't be forced into that option - and you'll find it nigh on impossible to break things off at the hour or two hour mark - it's just too good as everyone says.
Perhaps the best news is that Lynda La Plante is back. Episode two wasn't bad - but it wasn't La Plante's writing and it didn't have her magical hand on it. This one does. It's as if she took all the stuff she found out worked in the first episode, concentrated it, and flung it back. Everything is deeper, grittier, gorier.
There are seven huge episodes in this opus, all told twenty two hours of viewing. So to single out any one episode and say it's 'best' is going to be difficult, but taking only the first three it's not hard to see which excel more than others, and this one has to rank right at the very top.