I'm at a loss to understand why this episode scores so highly. To my eye this is an astoundingly dull entry in the series. Most of the episodes suffer to some extent by being overly lengthy but this one in particular is stretched beyond the bounds of reason. It might have made a decent 90 minute programme but three hours is an insane length for this material. Every point in the procedure is dragged out to such an extent that it doesn't matter if you fall asleep at any point because the plot will not have advanced when you wake up half an hour later. I'm a big fan of Prime Suspect but lets not pretend it is without faults. This has hardly any of the characters we have seen before and the new team Tennyson manages are exceptionally dull. Even the sub-plot of how she is oppressed, this time by being too old, has worn thin. The premise is a good one but the direction is pedestrian and the script is poor. This is the only Prime Suspect episode that should be avoided.
Review of Prime Suspect: The Last Witness
