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These Lady Detectives Will Stop At Nothing To Catch A Criminal

Witness the unconventional, but brilliant, Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope stop at nothing to ensure criminals are brought to justice. Then, the no-nonsense Detective Jane Tennison, tracks down serial killers in Prime Suspect.

8pm Friday VERA Crime drama

Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. In her hunt to get to the bottom of murder cases that fall under her jurisdiction, Vera does not hold back to ensure criminals are brought to justice. Along with her loyal colleague and trusted friend DS Aiden Healy, Vera follows all the clues all the way to the end of the trails.

HOME - Quiet life in suburbia takes a dark turn when a woman is found murdered in her garden. When DCI Vera Stanhope discovers that the neighbours aren't all that they seem, buried secrets must be unearthed in order to catch the killer.

9:30 PRIME SUSPECT – Crime drama

A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.

Prime Suspect

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) has been passed over time and again to lead a murder investigation, so when one of her fellow DCIs has a heart attack just before he's ready to charge their prime suspect, Jane sees her chance to lead a murder investigation. But the murder squad she takes over is hostile to her, the men upstairs are eager to pull the plug on her investigation, her personal relationships suffer from her obsession with work, and the prime suspect remains elusive. Jane has her work cut out for her as she and her team work their way through computer data trails, legwork, intuitive leaps, chases, arrests, and confessions to find the killer.

PRICE TO PAY part 2 - D.C.I. Tennison seizes the opportunity to head a murder investigation--something she should have done long ago, had she not been passed over by her male superiors time and again. With a suspect already identified and her own team openly hostile, she uncovers errors and conflicting facts that point to a cover-up within the force. Is this a single murder or the latest act of a serial killer? Tennison refuses to back off the investigation.

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