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Release Date: 24 February, 2004 Retail Price: $29.98 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Prime Suspect 2 Reviews
Mirren does it again
DCI Jane Tennison is back. Jane has a knack for taking the clues and coming up with the right solution. Unfortunately, when this happens, there is always not enough evidence. So Jane and her team must prove her case.
This round a girl's body is found buried in the garden. The problem is the decomposed corps fits the description of Simone Cameron. Also, complicating things is her brother might have been "fitted up" (framed) for a murder he did not commit.
The inquiry starts off on a rocky note when one of the Inspectors arrests someone for possession causing quite a stir in the neighborhood. Jane brings in Nola Cameron, the suspected victim's mother to identify the corpse's possessions. Nola identifies everything as being Simone's including DCI Tennison's watch. To complicate things, insects found in the corpse put the murder in the summer when Simone went missing in February.
After the ME examines the remains, it is determined that is not Simone. Now the search for the victim's identity is on. They find some additional items buried in the garden which might make the corpse from Nigerian descent.
Jane follows up the ownership of home. She interviews the prior owner, theAllens and finds out that the house was a rental. The tenant at the time was David Harvey but he is nowhere to be found. Jane tracks him down on a hunch but Harvey has an alibi for the weekend.
Enter DI Robert Oswalde (Colin Salmon), a black detective that Jane just had a fling with - that ended ugly. He starts to follow up his own leads and finds a young Birmingham girl that went missing that weekend. He meets the mother and brings her back to London.
The have a facial reconstruction made from the skull. They also know that there was a Reggae festival that weekend. Tennison sends two detectives to interview the bands with the reconstruction to see if anyone can identify the victim. This scores some videos of the festival and the girl is found as a backup singer for a band.
The focus of the investigation turns to the Allen's son Tony (Fraser James). He was visibly shaken by the clay head. Further investigation shows that Tony and the victim, Joan were in the same band at Reggae Sunsplash and Tony's headmaster said that Tony's personality drastically changed the fall after the murder.
Jane is still convinced that Harvey had something to do with the murders and continue to investigate him. She is able to shake his alibi.
As part two starts Tennison is interviewing Harvey and Oswalde is interrogating a distraught Tony Allen. While being detained, Tony hangs himself causing another public relations nightmare. But Tennison wonders what drove him to this.
With both leads cold, Jane needs to find new leads. When Sara mentions to Jane information about the murder that had not been released, Jane knows that Sara was there. But her boss has made Sara out of bounds. So Jane goes back to David Harvey's apartment and finds some incriminating photographs implicating his nephew Jason.
Unlike American crime dramas, it doesn't end there. And as for all the Prime Suspects, everything doesn't turn out well for Jane.
Prime Suspect is the greatest collection of crime movies. Everyone actor who wants to play a detective should study Helen Mirren's performance. She is the greatest undiscovered actress of our time and this is her finest character.
Lynda La Plante did not write this one but it surely has her style. These films are not about who did it but how they get there.
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Great series, great acting, great writing
Superb series, well written. Helen Mirren is a miracle.
At last, the whole series has been reissued on DVD. Worth the investment...unlike most TV shows on DVD (hello, HBO and Fox?)
Beware of the old DVDs floating around from the original PBS presentations in the early 1990s. Strong language was dubbed over, rather poorly.
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