Season guide

Prime Suspect: Season 4

3 episodes Premiered Apr 30, 1995

Previously on Prime Suspect

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Prime Suspect Season 3.
⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (2): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (1): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S4·E1 Mytharc

The Lost Child

Apr 30, 1995

Following her promotion, Jane Tennison returns to Southampton Row to head an investigation into the murder of a young child.

S4·E2 Core

Inner Circles

May 7, 1995

DS Tennison travels to a residential commuter suburb to investigate a murder which has been staged to look like suicide.

S4·E3 Mytharc

The Scent of Darkness

May 15, 1995

Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds her private and professional life in tatters when a series of murders lead to her old adversary, George Marlow.