Program Title
Prime Suspect 5

Episode Title
Errors of Judgement, Part 1

Episode number:
1 2

Original broadcast date
1997-02-09

Cast	Characters
Helen Mirren	Superintendent Jane Tennison
John McArdle	DCS Ballinger
Steven Mackintosh	The Street
Julia Lane	DI Devanny
David O'Hara	DS Jerry Rankine
John Brobbey	DC Henry Adeliyeka
Chris Bisson	Nazir
Joseph Jones
Ray E Brown	Michael Johns
Paul Oldham	Toots
Marsha Thomson	Janice Lafferty
Vanessa E Knox-Mawer	Louise Ballinger
Joe Speare	Radio
Paul Simpson	Outboard
Badi Uzzman	Mr. Ahmed
Anne Hornby	DC Skinner
Steve Money	Desk Sergeant
Anthony Audenshaw	DC Growse
Paul Warriner	Paramedic
Gabriell Reidy	Noreen Lafferty
Sarah Jones	Deborah
Ravin Ganattra	Mooz
David Webber	Rector
Martin Ronan	DS Pardy
Adam Evans	Photographer
Julian Kerridge	Young Doctor
Emma Longbottom	Girl w/ child

Credits
Executive Producer: Rebecca Eaton, Gub Neal
Producer: Lynn Horsford
Director: Phil Davis

Intro
PRIME SUSPECT V/Episode 1/Intro by Russell Baker

The detective story was invented by an American Edgar Allan Poe. But the British immediately made it their own with a raft of fictional detectives, led by Sherlock Holmes.

Like Poe's detective, Holmes solved his cases with pure intellect. And for a long time, the detective story was a civilized gentleman's exercise in problem solving --

-- and we had a long run of brilliant puzzle solvers like Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot.

After the first World War, the gentleman detective gave way to the tough-guy detective like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

Maybe the war had created an appetite for more violent stories. Anyhow, Spade and Marlowe went out among bloody-minded thugs to crack their cases and took terrible beatings.

We now have yet another new development: the tough-woman detective story. Its pioneer is a British police detective named Jane Tennison, the central character in our "Prime Suspect" stories.

Tonight we start the fifth show in the Prime Suspect series. It will be presented in two episodes, each about two hours long.

Jane Tennison is played, as always, by Helen Mirren, who has become so identified with the role that she owns it -- the way Humphrey Bogart owned Sam Spade and Marlowe.

In tonight's episode Jane has just been transferred from London to Manchester.

There, working with an all-new team, she is assigned to what looks like a routine drug-gang murder.

Arriving at the murder scene she encounters a man everybody calls "The Street." A loud, arrogant character feared throughout the neighborhood.

The Street is a drug kingpin -- and his contemptuous treatment of Detective Tennison makes him her passionate enemy.

A cop ruled by passion can make terrible mistakes. Jane Tennison will make one or two as the case expands.

Now, Prime Suspect, First Episode.



Episode number: 1 2




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