When a young woman is found brutally murdered, and the DCI in charge is unable to take up the case, the role is passed on to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, the first female DCI to handle such a responsibility. Between a slippery suspect and resistence from her team of detectives, Tennison has her hands full.

Videodisc release of the 1991 British television production, which was originally broadcast in the United States as an episode of the PBS television series, Mobil masterpiece theatre. Based on the novel "Prime suspect" by Lynda La Plante.