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.
BLIND SPOT - Vera is called to the scene of the murder of trainee forensic psychologist Joanne Caswell, whose body has been found dumped at a landfill site. Vera zeroes in on Joanne's re-examination of an old crime, following the trail of the dead woman's investigation in order to catch her 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.
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.
OPERATION NADINE part 2 - The team receive a confession from their prime suspect, but both Jane and Bob believe that the murderer is still at large. However, the case is thrown into jeopardy when their affair is disclosed in the media, and it threatens to endanger Tennison's position as senior investigating officer.
