# Prime Suspect **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969 "2003-11-07T21:10:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/21 "2003-11-10T14:49:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by curly chick \* > **Lukic could have planted the wire on Zigic, though, couldn’t he?** Seems if he were to go to all that trouble he wouldn’t have hid the evidence under the floors, though. > [@](#): > > I don’t know that Lukic and Zigic greeted each other as though they hadn’t seen each other for ages, because, surely if they hadn’t seen each other since the war, Zigic would have been a bit more circumspect? > Stone me, here’s that scary old sadist whose orders I disobeyed when I didn’t shoot that poor little girl and her sister. I don’t mean “since the war”, it just looked like it had been more than a couple days. Didn’t they say that Zigic had personally selected Lukic from a list of interpreters? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/22 "2003-11-10T23:04:35Z")
Still don’t understand that thing about the wire. Fabulous episode, though. And deeply moving. I never did sleep particularly well after watching this show. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/23 "2003-11-11T11:19:33Z")
I didn’t get the wire thing either, glad you said that - I thought I had just missed it, somehow. But I don’t think anyone mentioned it again. It was very good, though and I thought that the nameless mousy woman from the shadowy government department was _really_ creepy. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/24 "2003-11-11T11:57:56Z")
Can someone offer me a short explanation of how it worked out? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/25 "2003-11-11T12:13:31Z")
Well, curly chick was right about Lukic being The Devil. Except, he wasn’t really Lukic. Jane travelled to Bosnia and found another optician who had trained with both the real Lukic and The Devil (whose real name was Yankovic or something like that). He said that Yankovic had joined a paramilitary not for political reasons but just to kill Muslims. On returning to London, Jane was taken into a room with a couple of government spooks and told that Yankovic was being protected by them in return for giving them information about more serious war criminals. She was also told that the massacre the sisters claimed to have been a part of never happened, and that Zigic had killed both of them on his own. She was made to sign an Official Secrets form and ordered not to use anything they’d told her in her investigation. She finally managed to get him through his wife - by surreptitiously tape recording her saying that her husband was grassing on his countryment in return for British government protection. Jane then took this tape to Zigic to show him “what kind of man you’re protecting”. Zigic then told her that he had killed the real Lukic on Yankovic’s orders (Yankovic had told him Lukic was an informer) and brought her to where the body was buried. They matched the dental records from the real Lukic and Jane then arrested Yankovic for murdering Lukic - in the presence of one of the shocked government spooks. That’s actually one of the things I was disappointed in, the implication that the spooks really didn’t know Yankovic was still killing people. I doubt IRL they would have cared if he was. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/26 "2003-11-11T12:21:01Z")
“countrymen”, not “countryment”. I’ve skipped a lot BTW, so feel free to ask questions. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/27 "2003-11-11T12:40:03Z")
Thanks for that. Why did Yankovic have the real Lukic killed? Was Kasim involved any further? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/28 "2003-11-11T12:52:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by everton \* > **Thanks for that. Why did Yankovic have the real Lukic killed?** To assume his identity, I guess. > [@](#): > > Was Kasim involved any further? Yeah, Jane sent the journo guy (what was his name?) to the sisters’ funeral on her behalf. He spilled the beans to Kasim about what they’d discovered in Bosnia and Kasim and his friends then kidnapped Yankovic and were trying to smuggle him across the channel (I’m not really clear on why they did this instead of killing him) but were caught. The government then decided to give Yankovic a new identity in another country which is why the spook was with him when Jane showed up to arrest him - he was just about to be taken away. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/29 "2003-11-11T13:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*He spilled the beans to Kasim about what they’d discovered in Bosnia and Kasim and his friends then kidnapped Yankovic and were trying to smuggle him across the channel (I’m not really clear on why they did this instead of killing him) \*\* I thought it was so that he would face a court/tribunal/firingsquad in Bosnia. One wonders what would happen to a policeman who went against MI5 in real life. I suspect things would not have gone so smoothly. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969/30 "2003-11-11T13:52:19Z")
Forgot to mention, they provided a perfectly plausible explanation for how the Devil could recognise the younger sister ten years later: because she now looked exactly like her sister (ten years older than her) did at the time. I guess that’s why they write television series and I don’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-suspect/211969.md?page=1)