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Ripper Street

Season 1

2012 · 8 episodes

Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division - the toughest police district in the East End.

  1. 1. I Need Light

    2012-12-30 · 52m

    When a woman is found murdered, Chief Inspector Abberline believes Jack the Ripper has returned.

  2. 2. In My Protection

    2013-01-06 · 52m

    A toymaker is beaten to death, and a possible culprit refuses to deny the charge.

  3. 3. The King Came Calling

    2013-01-13 · 52m

    Deliberate contamination is suspected in a sudden cholera outbreak . Emily's search for a charity patron proves difficult.

  4. 4. The Good of This City

    2013-01-20 · 52m

    The brutal clearing of a local slum for the underground railway reveals an almost indecipherable murder scene and an unreliable slum girl witness. Lucy Eames, beautiful and disturbed, is the unlikely key to a Byzantine web of conspiracy.

  5. 5. The Weight of One Man's Heart

    2013-01-27 · 52m

    A string of brilliantly masterminded robberies keeps Reid and his team busy and leads to a blast from the past for Drake when he is confronted by his former army colonel. As the net closes in on the robbers, the sergeant finds his loyalties put to the test.

  6. 6. Tournament of Shadows

    2013-02-03 · 52m

    As the dock strike of August '89 takes hold of the city, the killing of a Jewish anarchist leads Reid and the team into the heartless chicanery of the British government's fight against distant empires and global terrorism.

  7. 7. A Man of My Company

    2013-02-17 · 52m

    International haulage tycoon TP Swift arrives in town to acquire an ailing shipping line, accompanied by a team of private detectives, who proceed to cut a violent swathe through the borough on a mission of vengeance. As Reid focuses on the murder of an engine inventor, Jackson and Susan's past comes back to haunt them, bringing their future in Whitechapel - and their very lives - into question.

  8. 8. What Use Our Work?

    2013-02-24 · 52m

    Reid is adrift, his team in pieces and Leman Street shaken to its foundations following recent events. A kidnapping offers him cause to assemble his men and tackle the white slavery ring operating in their midst. But Reid is gripped by a growing obsession that this leads back to the terrible secret from his own past.

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