Have just watched this on DVD. However, completely mystified as to how a sudden telephone call to the main police station at the end (according to the useful IMDb synopsis, from Tennison herself) leads detective "Mitchell" to exclaim "we've got him" - and then suddenly the viewer is made aware that the killer of victims 7 and 8 is actually the prison guard of Marlowe.
How, may one ask, did Tennison (if, she) "suddenly" become aware that it was after all the prison guard of Marlowe? In credible crime thrillers you just can't spring this sort of thing on a viewer. It just is not "on" because that kind of denouement has to be built up very carefully indeed.
How, may one ask, did Tennison (if, she) "suddenly" become aware that it was after all the prison guard of Marlowe? In credible crime thrillers you just can't spring this sort of thing on a viewer. It just is not "on" because that kind of denouement has to be built up very carefully indeed.