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Ripper Street Premiered on BBC One on December 30, 2012

About the Show:
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel.

Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.

Cast:

Actor’s name	Character’s name
Matthew MacFadyen	Det. Insp. Edmund Reid
Jerome Flynn	Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake
Adam Rothenberg	Cpt. Homer Jackson
David Dawson	Fred Best
MyAnna Buring	Long Susan
Amanda Hale	Emily Reid
Clive Russell	Ch. Insp. Fred Abberline
Charlene McKenna	Rose Erskine
Lucy Cohu	Deborah Goren
Michael McElhatton	Commissr. James Monro

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Episode 1: I Need Light (Dec/30/2012)
A young woman is discovered brutally murdered with the hallmark signs of the Ripper upon her. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline, believes it Jack’s return but Reid the precinct’s new master believes that it's a different kind of evil at work.

Episode 2: In My Protection (Jan/06/2013)
Ernest Manby who works as a toy maker, is beaten to death for a mysterious brass box and the coins indie his pocket. The main suspect is 14-year-old Thomas Gower, who refuses to deny the charge. Reid who his conscience challenged by a lawyer called Eagles and orphanage Governess Deborah Goren attempts to test the security of the case.

Episode 3: The King Came Calling (Jan/13/2013)
H Division and the independent City of London have to work together after the panic surrounding a sudden cholera outbreak leads them to the conclusion that a contamination is afoot in both boroughs. Inspector Sydney Ressler works with Reid’s team as they look around Whitechapel for clues and connections.

Episode 4: The Good of This City (Jan/20/2013)
During the clearing of a local slum for the underground railway an almost indecipherable murder scene is revealed and an unreliable slum girl witness is also found.

Episode 5: The Weight of One Man's Heart (Jan/27/2013)
A series of celverly masterminded robberies comes to theattention of Reid and his team, and also manges to steal Drake away from his attempted courtship of Rose.

Episode 6: Tournament of Shadows (Feb/03/2013)
With the dock strike of August ’89 taking grip of the city, the killing of a Jewish anarchist sees Reid and the team moving into the merciless chicanery of the British government’s fight against international terrorism.

Episode 7: A Man of My Company (Feb/17/2013)
TP Swift shows up in town with his Pinkerton retinue with him to complete the acquisition of an ailing London shipping line. The murdered body of an engine inventor draws Reid’s attentionas Jackson and Susan find their past coming back to haunt them.

Episode 8: What Use Our Work (Feb/24/2013)
Jackson is in custody facing the death penalty for a murder he never committed. Drake feeling is despondent as his personal life is a shambles. Reid's team is in pieces with Leman Street in mourning, and his heart torn between two women.

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Episode 1: Pure as the Driven (Oct/28/2013)
After a sergeant from K Division is discovered having been hurled from a Whitechapel tenement window on to the iron railings below, Reid investigates.

Episode 2: Am I Not Monstrous? (Nov/04/2013)
Just a couple of hours after she gave birth in its maternity ward, a vagrant young woman is discovered murdered in a stairwell at Whitechapel’s The London Hospital. As they investigate, Reid and the team find themselves been drawn the netherworld of the circus freakshows.

Episode 3: Become Man (Nov/11/2013)
An important member of the newly formed London County Council is abducted from his table at Whitechapel’s Blewett’s Theatre of Varieties, where Rose Erskine now works as a waitress. The teams investigation brings Drake back into contact with Rose. Reid is introduced to Councilor Jane Cobden and it looks like the kidnappers are a female gang, and supporters of Cobden’s aims.

Episode 4: Dynamite and a Woman (Nov/18/2013)
Having spent the last twenty years in Newgate Gaol, Aiden Galvin is sprung from his prison wagon’s journey through Whitechapel. Within a short time, he explodeds a device beneath the bed of the prominent MP Cecil Knightly, who is against The Home Rule movement. Chief Inspector Abberline believes that the Irish Republican Brotherhood is at work once again and orders Reid to send the Irish DC Flight undercover into Whitechapel’s Irish community.

Episode 5: Threads of Silk and Gold (Nov/25/2013)
An investigation into the brutal murder of a Telegraph Boy reveal a vice racket being run from the offices of the GPO. A ledger leads Reid to the centre of the one of London’s most august financial institutions, Barings Bank.

Episode 6: A Stronger Loving World (Dec/02/2013)
Local churches and synagogues are being burnt and desecrated in the area and Reid believes that the same person is behind the various attacks who wants to exploit the fragile peace that exists between East London’s different communities.

Episode 7: Our Betrayal (1) (Dec/09/2013)
A valuable symbol of the British Empire’s wealth shows up in the form of an uncut diamond. It is a jewel ‘freed’ from the diamond monopoly of De Graal by one Daniel Judge, Captain Jackson’s untrustworthy older brother. Reid and Flight find themselves being drawn to the plight of a local craftsman defrauded of his work and income by a scam that is set to return H Division to the malign influence of Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine.

Episode 8: Our Betrayal (2) (Dec/16/2013)
Death and violence comes to Whitechapel once again. Some decayed and murdered bodies are discovered in a slum tenement, and the advanced stages of the police divisional boxing championship reveasl the vengeful ferocity to be seen within the ranks of the police force.

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Episode 1: Whitechapel Terminus (Nov/14/2014)
It's now 1894, a train robbery has taken place resulting in a disastrous consequence. Detective Inspector Reid is on the case with his usual team unknowing that there is a greater plot unfolding under his eyes.

Episode 2: The Beating of Her Wings (Nov/14/2014)
The discovery of a captive girl brings Inspector Reid to Long Susan's doorstep once more. Avoiding what is and hiding it from those she believes might react negatively. Reid must control himself as the truth is revealed before he does something he'll learn to regret.

Episode 3: Ashes and Diamonds (Nov/21/2014)
The mysterious death of a clairvoyant unlocks the heart of a deceptive scheme.

Episode 4: Your Father, My Friend (Nov/28/2014)
An unsolved case from Whitechapel's past set Reid and Drake on a path of destruction.

Episode 5: Heavy Boots (Dec/05/2014)
A destructive gang of youths unleash hell upon the streets, but it?s not until daylight breaks that the true horror of their brutal work is revealed. The trail leads the team of H Division into the heartland of one of the city?s oldest trades - the London Breweries - where conflicted loyalties reign, and grief and anger create a potent concoction.

Episode 6: The Incontrovertible Truth (Dec/12/2014)
The recovering Reid arrests Lady Vera Montacute, an aristocrat who enjoys slumming it, who has been found unconscious in a Whitechapel lodging house next to the corpse of flower seller Ida Watts. Both women were drugged and Ida's cousin Tom Denton, a known thief who drugs his victims, is also brought in. He explains that he procured Ida for sex with Lady Vera and her husband, who arrives at the police station demanding his wife's release. Lady Vera admits to the murder but the modern finger-printing device proves that hers was not the hand upon the fatal weapon. When Abberline intervenes Reid realizes that he may not be able to make an arrest after all.

Episode 7: Live Free, Live True (Dec/19/2014)
John Currie, a chemist, is murdered, with evidence that he was an abortionist who treated his clients with dangerous lead compounds. His apprentice points the police to a deserted surgery and a strong box, containing evidence that the doctor who owned the surgery was experimenting in sterilization. Dr Frayn persuades Susan to employ Dr Rolle, who will conduct medically supervised terminations to prevent girls visiting back street abortionists but it is too late for Mary Tait, mutilated by Currie and the cause of a fight between her boyfriend Edwin Havelock and her adopted father George Tait. Reid discovers that both George and Rolle have very dark secrets, which lead to the solving of Currie's murderer. Having outwitted a fraudulent property developer Susan is still pursued by Fred for more news of the train robbery loot and then confronted by her father Theodore Swift, who has fled from America.

Episode 8: The Peace of Edmund Reid (Dec/28/2014)
American Journalist Ralph Ackerman comes to Whitechapel on the trail of Swift, whose corruption he exposed in the States but Swift catches and kills him, later murdering Best, to whom Ackerman had given his story. Before shooting Best Swift reveals that he is dealing in arms sales to anti-Imperialists. From Best's research the police deduce that the stolen money was Swift's which he was illegally moving to England but they can find no trace of it. Jackson however finds evidence of Swift's guilt on Ackerman's body and tells Susan he knows she shot Reid but she stops him from going to the police by announcing that she is pregnant with his child. A suspicious Drake arrests Jackson and the truth comes out. Susan and Jackson help to exact justice on Swift but their own futures are now in doubt, given their illegal activities. Reid however having seen the case through and been reunited with his daughter is able to find peace at last.

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