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Ripper Street

Ripper Street Series 2 Episode Guide

Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg star in more episodes of the Victorian police drama, Ripper Street.

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  • Episode 1 - Pure as the Driven

    Episode 1 - Pure as the Driven

    When a sergeant from K Division is found hurled from a Whitechapel window onto the iron railings below, Reid is quick to act.

    An investigation leads DI Reid and the H-Division to the newly-emergent Chinatown - where Jackson discovers evidence of a new and devastatingly powerful opiate. Reid fears a new kind of hell is to be released on to his streets.

  • Episode 2 - Am I Not Monstrous

    Episode 2 - Am I Not Monstrous

    Only hours after she gave birth, a nameless young woman is found murdered in a stairwell at The London Hospital. The only suggestion of her identity is the strange protrusion at the base of her spine - a vestigial tail.

    This takes the team into the netherworld of circus freak shows and back to The London Hospital to seek help from its most celebrated resident, Joseph Merrick.

  • Episode 3 - Become Man

    Episode 3 - Become Man

    The abduction of a prominent member of the London County Council introduces Reid to Councillor Jane Cobden, the first woman appointed to the LCC - because it appears the kidnappers are radical supporters of Cobden's aims.

    Long Susan is taken by force to the gang's hideout, and she soon finds herself growing sympathetic to her captors' lives and aims.

  • Episode 4 - Dynamite and a Woman

    Episode 4 - Dynamite and a Woman

    An Irish dynamiter is sprung from prison and barely a day later a prominent opponent of The Home Rule movement is murdered.

    Chief Inspector Abberline is convinced that the Irish Republican Brotherhood is once more about its work and orders Reid to send the Irish DC Flight undercover into Whitechapel's Irish community.

  • Episode 5 - Threads of Silk and Gold

    Episode 5 - Threads of Silk and Gold

    Investigations into the brutal slaying of a Telegraph Boy lift the lid on a vice racket run from the offices of the GPO. The case leads Reid to the heart of the one of the city's most august financial institutions.

    Captain Jackson seeks ever more perilous means of ridding himself and Long Susan of the suffocating debt they owe Silas Duggan.

  • Episode 6 - A Stronger Loving World

    Episode 6 - A Stronger Loving World

    Churches and synagogues are being burnt and desecrated in Whitechapel and Reid suspects the same hand behind the various attacks.

    Meanwhile, the all-too-brief domestic happiness that Sergeant Drake has enjoyed is disrupted by the arrival of a friend from his wife Bella's past, the mysterious and charismatic scholar, Gabriel Cain (Paul Kaye).

  • Episode 7 - Our Betrayal Part 1

    Episode 7 - Our Betrayal Part 1

    Captain Jackson's reckless and untrustworthy elder brother arrives in Whitechapel carrying a valuable uncut diamond.

    Reid and Flight are drawn to the plight of a local craftsman defrauded of his income by a long-firm scam.

    Long Susan finds herself powerless to resist the ever-encroaching influence that Silas Duggan is determined to exert on her life.

  • Episode 8 - Our Betrayal Part 2

    Episode 8 - Our Betrayal Part 2

    As Reid and Drake find themselves powerless to resist the awful temptation of a final reckoning with K Division's Jedediah Shine, so Jackson and Judge's ever more desperate attempts to profit from the stolen diamond, lead them into the teeth of the murderous agents of the De Graal monopoly.

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  • Episode 1 - Pure as the Driven
  • Episode 2 - Am I Not Monstrous
  • Episode 3 - Become Man
  • Episode 4 - Dynamite and a Woman
  • Episode 5 - Threads of Silk and Gold
  • Episode 6 - A Stronger Loving World
  • Episode 7 - Our Betrayal Part 1
  • Episode 8 - Our Betrayal Part 2

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About Series 2

About Series 2

Eighteen Ninety. The long shadow of Jack The Ripper may be receding.

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