Prime Suspect (US series): Difference between revisions

* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: All over the place, and the main form of world-building for the homicide squad.

* [[Happily Married]]: Well, not married, but Jane is happily living with her boyfriend, even trying to get his son to stay over.

* [[Hollywood Heart Attack]]: Somewhat averted. The detective manages to choke out a sound and the others think he's still joking before he collapses.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Jane is a ''homicide detective'', thank you very much. One reason she does this is that the men she works with sometimes intentionally call her something else to try to diminish her.

* [[Old Shame]]: Jane had an affair with a higher ranking police official several years into the past. She regrets it immensely, but her fellow detectives might not let her live it down.

* [[Paedo Hunt]]: In the second episode, the investigators go after a known child molester who lives in the area where a little girl was abducted after her mother was killed, and was seen at a distance by the girl's nanny. {{spoiler|The guy was innocent, but his life gets so messed up by them casting suspicion on him that he takes his girlfriend and her daughter hostage, and even after Jane tells him that they know he didn't do it he opts to kill himself, so this counts as a ''very'' cynical deconstruction}}.

* [[Rule of Three]]: In episode 3, Jane and two of the other detectives are trying to figure out if their suspect could have run from the bar to the dumpster when the body was dumped in a certain amount of time. Jane starts running, and can barely get a block because of the aforementioned hit to her endurance because she's been trying to quit smoking. So then Calderon starts running, but he's ''too'' fast, and in fact has run the New York Marathon. So then they have Blando do it.

{{quote|'''Jane''': Okay, average Augie, let's see something completely mediocre!}}