Timoney

Timoney quit the NYPD after being passed over for police commissioner and derided the mayor's choice, Safir, as a "lightweight."

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In 1996, he organized the retirement dinner at the Hilton Hotel for former First Deputy John Timoney.

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From the watch-it-while-you can files, NBC presents one of the last new episodes of the underrated Prime Suspect (10/9c), as Jane Timoney (Maria Bello) and crew look into the death of a Jewish diamond merchant. ...

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Timoney quit the NYPD after being passed over for police commissioner and derided the mayor's choice, Safir, as a "lightweight."

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As Jane Timoney, whose main vice is smoking — and a reliance on a particularly unflattering hat — Bello is scrappy and intuitive, combative and fun to watch in action, but her demons are mostly external, as she takes on a "beef trust" of grotesquely overt sexist pigs at work who act like they've never seen a lady cop.

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In the premiere, the lead detective in the precinct suddenly dies and Timoney wastes no time asking for his job.

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It promises to be another strong showcase for Maria Bello as the scrappy Jane Timoney, who reaches into events from her own past to help her solve the case of a boy found dead at a posh preschool.

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While the series will stick to the case-of-the-week theme, viewers will also go home with Timoney each week and watch her work on her relationship with boyfriend Matt Kenny Johnson, who has a son.

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None of the female cops inhabiting the current TV landscape may be quite as unapologetically outspoken and abrasive as Jane Timoney on Prime Suspect.

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Yet the relationship between the two men stands in sharp contrast to the close alliance forged by their predecessors—Mayor Manny Diaz and Police Chief John Timoney.

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