Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness 

Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison's investigation of the murder of a Bosnian refugee leads her to one, or possibly two, Serbian war criminals determined to silence the last witness to a massacre a decade before.

Stars:

Helen Mirren, Liam Cunningham, Oleg Menshikov

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 18 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Helen Mirren	...	Det. Supt. Jane Tennison 2 episodes, 2003
Liam Cunningham	...	Robert West 2 episodes, 2003
Oleg Menshikov	...	Milan Lukic 2 episodes, 2003
Ben Miles	...	DCI Simon Finch 2 episodes, 2003
Robert Pugh	...	DS Alun Simms 2 episodes, 2003
Mark Strong	...	Det. Chief Supt. Larry Hall 2 episodes, 2003
Velibor Topic	...	Duscan Zigic 2 episodes, 2003
Barnaby Kay	...	DC Michael Philips / ... 2 episodes, 2003
Tanya Moodie	...	DC Lorna Greaves 2 episodes, 2003
Rad Lazar	...	Kasim / ... 2 episodes, 2003
Ingeborga Dapkunaite	...	Jasmina Belkic 2 episodes, 2003
Olegar Fedoro	...	Moslem 2 episodes, 2003
Sam Hazeldine	...	DC David Butcher 2 episodes, 2003
Anna Maria Ashe	...	Newsreader 2 episodes, 2003
Leena Dhingra	...	Pathologist 2 episodes, 2003
Kate Lynn Evans	...	Rosemary Henderson 2 episodes, 2003
Rupert Frazer	...	George Giblin, M.P. 2 episodes, 2003
Steve Gibbs	...	DC Sean Firth 2 episodes, 2003
Stuart Goodwin	...	Anthony Vane / ... 2 episodes, 2003
Sally Hurst	...	OCB Secretary 2 episodes, 2003
Anna Mountford	...	Police Doctor 2 episodes, 2003
Femi Oguns	...	Stephen Abacha 2 episodes, 2003
Bharti Patel	...	Tennison's secretary 2 episodes, 2003
Tony Pritchard	...	DAC Charles Evans 2 episodes, 2003
Finlay Robertson	...	Waterloo Vagrant 2 episodes, 2003
Hugh Sachs	...	Hotel Manager 2 episodes, 2003
Dennis Titus	...	Landlord 2 episodes, 2003
Ann Warungu	...	Haweeya 2 episodes, 2003
Sarah Winman	...	Rachel Bell 2 episodes, 2003

Storyline

Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls, Gosford Park) is back as Inspector Jane Tennison in an eagerly awaited new episode of the Emmy award-winning series Prime Suspect on ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre. It's been seven years since Tennison put the handcuffs on a psychotic killer in the last episode. Now, amid pressure to retire, she faces a death squad that has unleashed the horrors of the Balkan civil war on London.

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Plot Keywords:

suspect | serbian | prime suspect | bosnian | war criminal | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

PBS/Masterpiece Theatre

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 April 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: Prime Suspect 6

Filming Locations:

BFI IMAX Cinema, Charlie Chaplin Walk, South Bank, Lambeth, London, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Granada Television, ITV - Independent Television, WGBH

Technical Specs

Runtime:

195 min 200 min (2 parts)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Helen Mirren had director approval for this production, which meant she had the the right to look at directors and meet them. She met Tom Hooper and approved him to direct it, telling him it had to be his vision and she would protect it.

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Goofs

Tennison refers to Zigic as a Bosnian to the SWAT team leader, but earlier his nationality is represented as Serbian.

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Quotes

Det. Supt. Jane Tennison: [Regarding the murdered woman] What nationality do you think she was?
Pathologist: Possible East European; but I assumed Spanish the other day. That turned out to be Irish.

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Connections

Follows Prime Suspect: The Lost Child (1995)

User Reviews

The best of a brilliant series

The Prime Suspect plays and mini-series have provided benchmarks for TV drama for a decade. The latest, Prime Suspect 6, raises the bar again. This two-part series is far more than a crime drama. Helen Mirren gives a complete performance, clever, vulnerable, confused, determined in turn. It is a magnificent sustained piece of top-quality acting.

The supporting actors are equally strong, from Frank Finlay as Mirren's elderly father to the Bosnian victims and villains, whose tortured history DS Tennison (Mirren) unearths. They are helped by the quality of Peter Berry's script and Tom Hooper's direction. The story line is more complex even than previous Prime Suspects, involving Mirren in a terrifying visit to Bosnia in a search for the truth that neither the British nor the Bosnians want uncovered.

In short, four hours of gripping, unmissable drama.