Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) now deals with a racially-charged murder. The long-dead body of a young black woman is discovered in a district recently convulsed by police brutality and which now is in the midst of a highly-charged political campaign. Her investigation is hampered by the hostility of the local populace, and the clumsy methods of some of her subordinates and irresponsible journalists make things worse. Can she solve the case before a race riot breaks out? Her job is further complicated when a former lover is assigned to her command as a subordinate.—Reid Gagle

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) and her team have a murder on their hands when the new owners of a home find human remains in the back garden. Everyone believes the remains to be that of Simone Cameron, a young woman who went missing several years before, with someone serving a prison sentence for causing her death. The environment is racially charged and the local Afro-Caribbean community believes that the wrong man is in jail and the new discovery proves it. The case becomes complicated when Detective Sergeant Robert Oswalde (Colin Salmon), a former lover, is assigned to her squad unexpectedly; and the remains prove to actually be those of Joanne Fagunwa, a young woman from Brimingham who had disappeared around the same time. Tennyson's prime suspect is David Harvey (Tom Watson), the man who lived in the house at the time of the killing. She manages to get a deathbed confession, albeit doubtful, from him. At the same time, Detective Sergeant Oswaldo arrests a next-door neighbor to the crime scene. But Tennison continues to push until the right person is arrested for the crime.—garykmcd