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* CompleteMonster: In her distinguished career, Jane Tennison of the [[UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard London Metropolitan Police]] and her many teams have investigated some of the worst criminals imaginable; these are the very worst:
** "Operation Nadine": [[SerialRapist Jason Reynolds]], despite seeming a [[BitchInSheepsClothing charming, innocent young man]], is really a vicious, bigoted predator with a HairTriggerTemper. Obsessed with photography from a young age, as he grew older Jason's perversions manifested through desiring to have [[ControlFreak complete control over his models]]. At just 16 years old, Jason raped Joanne Fagunwa, then beat her to death in a fit of rage, hitting her so hard he shattered her skull. Developing an MO of finding naïve and impressionable teenagers on the coast, Jason would charm and seduce the girls, some as young as 14, until they agreed to pose for him. Roping them into increasingly explicit poses, Jason would take advantage of their vulnerable state to rape them while continuing to photograph as he did so. Afterwards, he discarded the girls and sell the images as illicit pornography. Carrying on for six years, racking up dozens of victims, following Joanne's body being discovered Jason took to stalking the only remaining witness--whose brother, traumatized by the experience, had recently [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]]--attempting to intimidate her into silence before proceeding to rape his latest victim.
** "Keeper of Souls":
*** [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Edward Parker-Jones]], the titular "Keeper of Souls", is a charming, wealthy businessman who presents himself as an attentive social activist with a long history of helping vulnerable youths. In reality, Parker-Jones is an utterly corrupt [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] who spent over a decade abused his positions and connections to find victims, all the while embezzling funds set up for the children. As the manager of several [[OrphanageOfFear children's homes]], Parker-Jones spent years raping numerous children, some as young as five years old, having all his activities covered up by his partner [[DirtyCop ADC John Kennington]]; some children were traumatized so badly that one attempted suicide out of fear of the mere possibility of Parker-Jones coming after him. Moving down to London to manage an Advice Centre, Parker-Jones used his connections to set up a pedophile ring based in Soho, exclusively catering to Upper Class pedophiles. Collecting homeless children, Parker-Jones kept them in his buildings to ensure a constant supply of victims, with himself also regularly raping them. When his former victim, 17-year-old Connie Jenkins, stole several incriminating photos, Parker-Jones tracked him down, leaving a paralyzed Connie [[ManOnFire to burn to death]].
*** [[TheBrute James "Jimmy" Jackson]] is a smug, [[LowerClassLout uncouth local thug]] who [[PsychoForHire works for Parker-Jones]], acting as his enforcer and recruiter for the pedophile ring. While not a pedophile himself, Jackson happily enables the rape and abuse, [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only caring about ensuring he gets paid]]. Targeting unaccompanied children at train stations, Jackson charms them into accompanying him, then drugs and keeps them until he needs to deliver them to the ring's members or his employer. Jackson likewise keeps the children in line through [[WouldHurtAChild regular threats and beatings]], ensuring that they're all too afraid of him to talk to the authorities. As well as supplying the ring, Jackson also runs his side businesses for extra cash, acting as an abusive pimp to the local transsexual prostitutes and forcing children into extreme pornography, often involving rape or brutal assault, having converted a room in one of Parker-Jones's properties into a twisted sex dungeon. Sent out by Parker-Jones to find Connie, Jackson nearly beats 14-year-old Martin Fletcher to death for information and, later convinced that Red was talking to the police, Jackson attempted to drown her.
** "Errors of Judgement": [[LowerClassLout Clive Norton]], aka [[{{Sadist}} The Street]], is a cocky Manchester gang leader who, despite his cultivated image, is really a [[AxCrazy psychopath]] with a love for [[CruelAndUnusualDeath especially cruel murders]]. A criminal since he was [[EnfantTerrible 10 years old]], The Street became the area's dominant gangster, using vulnerable teenagers as his dealers and running drugs through the city's poorer areas, all while secretly passing information on his rivals to [[WellIntentionedExtremist DCS Ballinger]]. When a dealer's murder disrupted his business, The Street kidnapped a rival's associate. Despite accepting the man didn't know anything, The Street still subjected him to his favorite execution, having [[FedToTheBeast him ripped apart by vicious Rottweilers]], uncaring it could spark a MobWar. His right-hand man unable to cope with the brutality, The Street strangled him for talking to the police. Finding 15-year-old Campbell Lafferty to be the murder culprit, The Street forced Michael Johns to perform the execution at gunpoint. Michael's unwillingness leads to a brutal, dragged-out affair that took six bullets to kill Campbell, all while the boy pleaded for mercy. Later blaming Michael for his problems, The Street trapped his girlfriend in an elevator shaft, where he planned to leave her to slowly die. Catching Tennison at gunpoint, The Street attempted to kill her and Ballinger.
** "The Last Witness": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dragan Yankovich/Jankovic]] is a falsely charming, sadistic [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Serbian war criminal]] known for his constant mocking smile. The commander of a paramilitary unit, Yankovich cared nothing for the politics, enjoying the power the position gave him and the excuse to "[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain hunt Muslims]]". When Yankovich's unit captured a bus full of Bosniak civilians attempting to flee the conflict, Yankovich, after pleasantly greeting them all, he had 26 men and boys massacred and [[SexSlave gave the women to his men]]. Personally taking two sisters, Jasmina and the 12-year-old Samaria, Yankovich raped and brutalized them for four days before ordering them to be shot. After the war, Yankovich fled to Britain, where he [[KillAndReplace strangled fellow Serb Milan Lukic and stole his identity]], then set up an arrangement with the Home Office that he would root out other war criminals in exchange for protection. Discovering the two sisters had survived, Yankovich, so that they could not expose him, tortured then strangled Samaria and sent his loyal sergeant Duscan Zigic to kill Jasmina. When the police investigation got close to exposing him, Yankovich set Zigic up to die at the hands of the authorities.
** "Operation Nadine": [[SerialRapist Jason Reynolds]], despite seeming a [[BitchInSheepsClothing charming, innocent young man]], is really a vicious, bigoted predator with a HairTriggerTemper. Obsessed with photography from a young age, as he grew older Jason's perversions manifested through desiring to have [[ControlFreak complete control over his models]]. At just 16 years old, Jason raped Joanne Fagunwa, then beat her to death in a fit of rage, hitting her so hard he shattered her skull. Developing an MO of finding naïve and impressionable teenagers on the coast, Jason would charm and seduce the girls, some as young as 14, until they agreed to pose for him. Roping them into increasingly explicit poses, Jason would take advantage of their vulnerable state to rape them while continuing to photograph as he did so. Afterwards, he discarded the girls and sell the images as illicit pornography. Carrying on for six years, racking up dozens of victims, following Joanne's body being discovered Jason took to stalking the only remaining witness--whose brother, traumatized by the experience, had recently [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]]--attempting to intimidate her into silence before proceeding to rape his latest victim.
** "Keeper of Souls":
*** [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Edward Parker-Jones]], the titular "Keeper of Souls", is a charming, wealthy businessman who presents himself as an attentive social activist with a long history of helping vulnerable youths. In reality, Parker-Jones is an utterly corrupt [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] who spent over a decade abused his positions and connections to find victims, all the while embezzling funds set up for the children. As the manager of several [[OrphanageOfFear children's homes]], Parker-Jones spent years raping numerous children, some as young as five years old, having all his activities covered up by his partner [[DirtyCop ADC John Kennington]]; some children were traumatized so badly that one attempted suicide out of fear of the mere possibility of Parker-Jones coming after him. Moving down to London to manage an Advice Centre, Parker-Jones used his connections to set up a pedophile ring based in Soho, exclusively catering to Upper Class pedophiles. Collecting homeless children, Parker-Jones kept them in his buildings to ensure a constant supply of victims, with himself also regularly raping them. When his former victim, 17-year-old Connie Jenkins, stole several incriminating photos, Parker-Jones tracked him down, leaving a paralyzed Connie [[ManOnFire to burn to death]].
*** [[TheBrute James "Jimmy" Jackson]] is a smug, [[LowerClassLout uncouth local thug]] who [[PsychoForHire works for Parker-Jones]], acting as his enforcer and recruiter for the pedophile ring. While not a pedophile himself, Jackson happily enables the rape and abuse, [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only caring about ensuring he gets paid]]. Targeting unaccompanied children at train stations, Jackson charms them into accompanying him, then drugs and keeps them until he needs to deliver them to the ring's members or his employer. Jackson likewise keeps the children in line through [[WouldHurtAChild regular threats and beatings]], ensuring that they're all too afraid of him to talk to the authorities. As well as supplying the ring, Jackson also runs his side businesses for extra cash, acting as an abusive pimp to the local transsexual prostitutes and forcing children into extreme pornography, often involving rape or brutal assault, having converted a room in one of Parker-Jones's properties into a twisted sex dungeon. Sent out by Parker-Jones to find Connie, Jackson nearly beats 14-year-old Martin Fletcher to death for information and, later convinced that Red was talking to the police, Jackson attempted to drown her.
** "Errors of Judgement": [[LowerClassLout Clive Norton]], aka [[{{Sadist}} The Street]], is a cocky Manchester gang leader who, despite his cultivated image, is really a [[AxCrazy psychopath]] with a love for [[CruelAndUnusualDeath especially cruel murders]]. A criminal since he was [[EnfantTerrible 10 years old]], The Street became the area's dominant gangster, using vulnerable teenagers as his dealers and running drugs through the city's poorer areas, all while secretly passing information on his rivals to [[WellIntentionedExtremist DCS Ballinger]]. When a dealer's murder disrupted his business, The Street kidnapped a rival's associate. Despite accepting the man didn't know anything, The Street still subjected him to his favorite execution, having [[FedToTheBeast him ripped apart by vicious Rottweilers]], uncaring it could spark a MobWar. His right-hand man unable to cope with the brutality, The Street strangled him for talking to the police. Finding 15-year-old Campbell Lafferty to be the murder culprit, The Street forced Michael Johns to perform the execution at gunpoint. Michael's unwillingness leads to a brutal, dragged-out affair that took six bullets to kill Campbell, all while the boy pleaded for mercy. Later blaming Michael for his problems, The Street trapped his girlfriend in an elevator shaft, where he planned to leave her to slowly die. Catching Tennison at gunpoint, The Street attempted to kill her and Ballinger.
** "The Last Witness": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dragan Yankovich/Jankovic]] is a falsely charming, sadistic [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Serbian war criminal]] known for his constant mocking smile. The commander of a paramilitary unit, Yankovich cared nothing for the politics, enjoying the power the position gave him and the excuse to "[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain hunt Muslims]]". When Yankovich's unit captured a bus full of Bosniak civilians attempting to flee the conflict, Yankovich, after pleasantly greeting them all, he had 26 men and boys massacred and [[SexSlave gave the women to his men]]. Personally taking two sisters, Jasmina and the 12-year-old Samaria, Yankovich raped and brutalized them for four days before ordering them to be shot. After the war, Yankovich fled to Britain, where he [[KillAndReplace strangled fellow Serb Milan Lukic and stole his identity]], then set up an arrangement with the Home Office that he would root out other war criminals in exchange for protection. Discovering the two sisters had survived, Yankovich, so that they could not expose him, tortured then strangled Samaria and sent his loyal sergeant Duscan Zigic to kill Jasmina. When the police investigation got close to exposing him, Yankovich set Zigic up to die at the hands of the authorities.
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** In the last series, Jane calls her sister a cow. In the first, the present that she got for her newborn baby was a cow plushie.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: The Street]] in Series 5.
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* HilariousInHindsight - In the first episode Tennison (played by Mirren) orders another office not to call her Ma'am, saying [[TheQueen [[Film/TheQueen "I'm not the bloody queen!]]"
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