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Whitechapel,1889. It is some months since Jack the Ripper last struck but when another young woman is found slain with 'Down With Whores' daubed on an nearby wall the supposition is that he has returned. Tough inspector Reid,however,forces journalist Fred Best to confess he added the paintwork to perpetuate interest in the Ripper. American police doctor Jackson agrees that this is a different murderer and,through his friendship with brothel keeper Long Susan,finds that the victim,Maude Thwaites,was a married woman who posed for pornographic photos to support her unemployed husband Christian. Reid and his sergeant,Drake,save Christian from intruders but he later kills himself. Surviving an attempt on their lives Reid,Jackson and Drake are given a lead which takes them to their murderer - a man with an unhealthy interest in photography.
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Elderly toy maker Ernest Manby is murdered and robbed,his tongue cut out and the local vigilance group arrest fourteen year old street urchin Thomas Gower,who is found with Mr Manby's money box. The boy is sentenced to hang,having said nothing to defend himself,but Reid is aware that Gower was part of a street gang of boys whose leader ordered the killing. Thomas agrees to talk to Reid but the gang goes after him,killing the lawyer who tried to protect him. Thomas takes refuge at Deborah Goren's orphanage,from where he was taken to work the streets,and is joined by Reid and Drake. A siege ensues before Reid learns the real reason for the toy masker's slaying and justice is done.
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People are dying in the streets of Whitechapel and it seems that cholera has returned caused by a contaminated water pump. Jackson,however,examining the first victim,a man who has come from the city of London,detects the cause of death as ergotism,which sends its victims mad before they perish,and which has been deliberately added to the flour at Flora Gable's mill by a self-imposed judge of morals,who is also seeking notoriety in excess of the Ripper. With Reid's wife among the stricken the Whitechapel force must combine with Inspector Ressler from the city to catch the killer.
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After Susan declines to give pregnant Lucy Eames her job back in the brothel Lucy is found wandering,blood-stained and dazed. In a nearby tenement,due for demolition to make way for the rail-road,a rent collector and Lucy's mother are found dead but Lucy has no recollection of events and Reid brings in progressive psychiatrist Dr Crabbe to try and help her remember being in the house. Reid discovers that Susan was instrumental in helping Lucy,making her a suspect,though she also informs him of Lucy's medical condition,which made her stay at the brothel impossible. However the detectives' investigations turn up the name of one other who would definitely benefit by the death of one of the victims.
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Joshua Bloom is killed in an explosion at his house,supposedly by one of his home-made bombs as he was a member of a radical Jewish group...
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Millionaire shipping magnate Theodore Swift arrives from America with an armed bodyguard of Pinkerton detectives,to buy out the ailing Argentine Marine shipping line. Reid sees it as no accident that the body of Samuel Fanthorpe,the engineer who has designed a revolutionary engine which will save the company,is fished from the docks. At the same time journalist Fred Best finds out that Jackson is actually Matthew Judge,a renegade Pinkertoon officer,who abducted Swift's daughter and killed a man in the resultant shoot-out. Frank Goodnight,Swift's chief bodyguard,is out for revenge. Following a raid on the brothel and the disappearance of Fanthorpe's wife Reid discovers the double purpose of the Americans' visit,leading to an opportunity for Jackson to find redemption. Written by
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When a murdered woman is found at his lodgings Jackson is accused of being Jack the Ripper and arrested. Meanwhile ex-prostitute Rose answers a personal ad in the newspaper and meets a seemingly charming young man,Victor Silver. However he and his family are white slavers who drug and abduct Rose along with other young girls.Silver was once a suspect in the Ripper case but went missing in the pleasure boat accident in which the Reids' daughter also disappeared and Reid fears Silver may have killed her. The police set a trap,using a friend of Rose to pose as a want ad correspondent and Silver takes the bait. Reid then over-rules his superiors to release Jackson to help him and Drake smash the slavers ring and save Rose and the other victims. Written by
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Limehouse detective Maurice Linklater is thrown from a window in a house which belongs to a Chinese and his superior Inspector Shine tells Reid he suspects the Triads. However Susan links courtesan Blush Pang to the house and Reid realizes that it an opium den with Blush Pang and an accomplice importing opium, which they are turning into heroin. Reid suspects that somebody in the Limehouse force is Blush Pang's business partner and sets out to prove it whilst Susan has problems with her landlord.
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After attending Linklater's funeral Reid and Drake investigate the murder of a young woman and the abduction of her new-born baby from the London hospital. The fact that the woman has a tail leads them to a circus freak show where another exhibit, John Goode, proves to be the child's father but he panics and flees. Goode spent time in a mental asylum treated by Dr Crabbe, who explains that Goode had a deformity and points them towards Goode's doctor father, a man obsessed with perfection and anxious to stamp out any abnormalities. Also instrumental in helping solve the case is Joseph Merrick, the 'Elephant Man' but he is done away with before he can help Reid solve Linklater's murder and identify Blush Pang's accomplice.
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Councillor Walter De Souza is abducted from a music hell. He was known for his opposition to the election of Jane Cobden, the first female councillor in London though she denies involvement. Two further abductions follow, one from Susan's brothel with Susan being taken as well. The perpetrators are a gang of women led by one Raine and Reid works out the link. The women are workers in a factory making matches where phosphorus has caused their disfigurement, a grievance taken up by Jane, and the kidnapped men seen as being responsible for their misfortune. Susan is released with a ransom note for the men but sympathises with the women and helps them elude the police. Though the gang is eventually foiled Susan's outlook is immeasurably altered.
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Irish bomber Aiden Galvin escapes from a police van and blows up and kills Cecil Knightly, a bigoted MP opposed to Home Rule. Abberline suspects the recently recognized Irish Republican Brotherhood as complicit but Reid believes otherwise and sends young Irish policeman Flight undercover to gain the confidence of Galvin's daughter, barmaid Evelyn. Flight is present when Galvin suggests that he and Evie flee to America but she is puzzled by letters sent from the States by a man claiming that he, not Galvin, is her father. Reid also learns that Knightly was a key figure in deciding which of two contenders should have the contract to bring electricity to Shadwell and suspects a link between one of them and Galvin.
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As the police raid a homosexual brothel Reid investigates the murder of telegraph boy Otto Roberts though the intended victim David Goodbody was in bed with his boyfriend Vincent at the time. The boys were planning to blackmail Solomon Quint, a married banker recently dismissed from his post. Quint is found dead but Homer deduces that he was murdered and his death made to resemble suicide. Reid discovers that a rent boy ring was being run from the GPO offices but David tells him that Quint's boss Franklin Stone was the man who most wanted his disposal and indeed the eventual motive has nothing to do with sexual peccadilloes and everything with money. Meanwhile Homer's attempt to confront Duggan over the money Susan owes does not end well for him.
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A church is fire-bombed and Jews are blamed, leading to an attack on a synagogue though Reid suspects that one person is trying to create a religious war. At the same time Drake's wife Bella vanishes, reappearing with Gabriel Cain, apparently her recently deceased uncle whilst prostitute Rose leaves Susan's brothel and is befriended by a sect living in a squat. Reid discovers that Cain is not Bella's uncle but the self-appointed head of the suicidal cult who have adopted Rose and he must stop them from further atrocities as well as rescuing Bennet from their clutches.
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Homer's brother Daniel, whom he has not seen for eight years, returns from prospecting in South Africa with a large, uncut diamond. At the same time Constable Flight investigates con-man Werner, who has cheated tradesman Nathaniel Hinchcliffe but Werner flees to Limehouse, where he is under the aegis of corrupt Inspector Stride. Stride has a hold on the young constable, making him back off before killing Hinchcliffe. To flush Werner out Daniel uses the diamond as bait but he is discovered and captured as Jackson has taken the real diamond to help Susan pay off Duggan, substituting a fake.
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Three rotting corpses are found in a building Jane Cobden plans to clear for new housing, along with the body of Hinchcliffe. Jackson, aided by his brother - released on discovery of the fake diamond - deduces all three were killed by the same person and identifies the trio as a family of property owners who stood in the way of Duggan's development plans and were probably murdered by Slide on his orders. Using the diamond as bait Jackson finally traps Duggan and has him arrested for its theft. Meanwhile Flight admits to Reid that he is Shine's spy and saw him kill Hinchcliffe. Shine is arrested but released through insufficient evidence. However Bennet Drake determines to take his revenge on him in the boxing ring.
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Four years have passed. Rose is now an established music-hall performer and Susan has financed a clinic. Abberline is keen to promote the recently-widowed Reid and replace him with Drake, also an inspector, but Reid prefers to stay in Whitechapel, building up resources. A gang led by a man called Davies bribes embittered ex-signalman Enright to help them rob a train but this leads to a head-on collision with another train on which Drake is a passenger. Fifty-five people die. Reid and Drake team up with Jackson to pool their knowledge and instincts and to arrest the gang. However the mastermind is Susan's solicitor Caldwell and she is shocked when he tells her that he did it to gain badly-needed finances for the clinic though she keeps his secret on the condition he returns the money. Reid has his suspicions about Caldwell.
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Whilst giving a performance for bereaved train wreck relatives fake psychic Alex Le Cheyne drops down dead on stage, poisoned. In the absence of Reid, who has disappeared, Drake interviews the dead man's girlfriend Juniper Kohl and discovers that his jealous assistant Ezra Marvell stood to gain from his death whilst Jackson believes that his client, widowed Mrs Wakefield, also had the means and motive for murder. Furthermore Juniper was about to leave Alex for Mrs Wakefield's far from dead husband. Drake solves the murder but then finds himself faced with two more. Best approaches Jackson with evidence to link Susan to the robbery whilst Rose discovers that the little girl Susan said was dead is very much alive and is Reid's daughter Mathilda. He goes to find Reid to tell him but in the meantime Mathilda runs away.
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Drake discovers a dirty, dishevelled Reid hiding in a Margate beach hut and informs him that nobody else saw him kill Buckley and that Mathilda is alive. They return to Whitechapel and eventually locate Mathilda at a brothel, where she had been taken by teen-aged pimp Harry Ward. Reid is reunited with his daughter but Dr Frayn tells him she has reason to believe Mathilda saw Jack the Ripper murder two of his victims. Suspicious of Capshaw's part in the train robbery Fred Best shadows him and produces evidence to show that the stolen money belonged to Susan's father - which he gives to Jackson. Jackson confronts Susan but believes she is innocent and points Reid towards Capshaw but before he can arrest the solicitor Susan shoots him and then kills Capshaw, making it look as if they shot each other in self defence.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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. 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.
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It's now 1897 and everyone is preparing to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond Jubilee. Edmund Reid has left the police and now lives by the seaside with his daughter Mathilda - who is proving to be somewhat older than her years. He is soon approached by Deborah Goren who wants him to return to London and prove that Isaac Bloom is innocent of the crimes for which he has been convicted. In London, Det. Insp. Bennet Drake is in charge of the new and very modern Station H where Captain Jackson remains as the police surgeon. They are investigating the death of an Indian Muslim, Mr. Al Qadir, a respected solicitor who is found in the river with his throat slit. Jackson meanwhile is a reformed man, using every penny he can earn to get Long Susan freed from prison and from a trip to the gallows.
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Returning to work Reid discovers a dying boy in a derelict house and finds out that he has run away from the workhouse. His suspicions that workhouse master Wilde is ill-treating the inmates are confirmed when pub singer Leda Starling claims that her son disappeared from there but Jackson declares Leda to be delusional and Wilde dismisses her as insane. Reid finds an unexpected ally in convicted murderer Redskin Jack who gives him the evidence to arrest Wilde for malpractice and hiding the corpses of boys who died in his care. Meanwhile Rose has difficulty bringing up Susan's son and Susan herself impresses Croker with her business acumen when dealing with a fraudster sea captain, though she has disobeyed Jackson's instruction to keep herself hidden.
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With the publication of 'Dracula' there is a fear of vampirism when Reid, Drake and young sergeants Thatcher and Drummond are called to the local abattoir to find a male corpse hanging upside down and a female, both drained of blood. Jackson identifies the man as Percival Monks, a recently hanged murderer, and the woman as Agnieszka, a Polish sweat shop employee, whose co-worker Magda tells the police she was going to meet a man who would pay her money - the trail leading to Newgate prison and an illegal trade in blood transfusions. Meanwhile journalist Rachel Castello befriends Reid's daughter Mathilda in the hopes of finding out more about the Bloom case and Susan, having told her story to Croker, takes drastic action when prison doctor Probyn tries to blackmail her.
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Reid and Drake investigate when foundry worker Charlie Tanner is murdered . He was one of several boys rescued from the streets by iron master Felix Hackman and a star player in the foundry's soccer team. Another worker is Thomas Gower, a boy Drake rescued from a life of crime eight years earlier and who casts suspicion on Charlie's rival in the football team, Wilbur Wren. However Thomas is an alcoholic, drinking to blot out his traumatic experiences as a soldier and Reid suspects he killed Tanner whilst drunk and with no recollection of his crime. Jackson proves otherwise. Susan shocks Abel with a robbery plan which would fund her and Jackson's flight abroad with their son whilst Deborah accuses Rachel of exploiting Mathilda for her news story.
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The discovery of more victims killed in the same manner as Rabbi Rotovsky convinces Reid that Jacob Bloom was innocent, leading him to strike a deal with Rachel Castello. After Susan - to Jackson's fury - pays a nocturnal visit to look at her son Rose is convinced that she is still alive - as is Assistant Commissioner Dove, a local boy made good who shares a secret with Croker, a secret at which Reid guesses. Susan herself, along with Croker, his simple assistant Nathaniel and Jackson, break into the bank vaults to steal the gold which will allow the couple to leave the country, though a guard is killed in the process.
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Helped by evidence from Deborah Goren and Rachel Castello Reid persuades Drake that Dove is shielding the real murderer and perverting the course of justice. Drake also comes to believe Rose's claim that Susan is still alive, leading to Jackson's arrest and evidence found on him taking Reid to the wharf where Susan is hiding. Drake, angry that Dove is becoming attractive to Rose and aware of his crimes, threatens to expose him but Dove issues a warrant for the arrest of Drake and Reid. They go on the run and, guided by Susan and Jackson, prepare to locate Dove and the real Whitechapel Golem and thus prove why Dove is helping him.
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With half the police force in London at Drake's funeral Jackson and Susan suggest to the falsely accused Reid that they flee the country but he is determined to expose Dove and his brother Nathaniel as Drake's killers. Hiding out with Drake's old flame Mimi Morton they learn that Nathaniel was responsible for stealing a dog used in dog-fighting and set out to catch him at the next fight. However he escapes by letting the dogs free to cause a diversion. Meanwhile Reid's old adversary inspector Jedediah Shine is brought in as the new head of H Division and makes no secret of his intention to catch Reid.
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Shine and Sergeant Thatcher arrive at the theatre where the fugitives are hiding but Mimi manages to put them off the scent. As a ploy to trap Nathaniel Jackson and Reid find a corpse and using wolves' teeth mark it with the same injuries as were found on Nathaniel's victims but Shine realizes it is fake. Newspaper editor Rachel Castello, believing in Reid's innocence, prints a story portraying him as a vigilante hero, which does not go down well with Shine. Shocked by Shine's bullying treatment of her the honest Thatcher seeks out the fugitive trio to offer help whilst Dove finds a hiding place for his brother.
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Suspicious of Thatcher the opium addicted Shine demotes him, promoting Drummond, Mathilda's boy-friend whilst Mimi expresses doubts about continuing to hide the fugitives. Dove places Nathaniel with the Sumner family, eel-catchers in the Hackney marshes, but is angry when Nathaniel, smitten by single mother Prudence, travels to Whitechapel to help her sell eels, and visits the family, blowing his brother's cover to them. The sympathetic Prudence is forgiving as Nathaniel expresses his desire to suppress his murderous tendencies, but when he sees her brother Caleb behaving violently towards her there is carnage.
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Whilst Shine learns he has a terminal illness Thatcher finds Prudence's orphaned son Robin who takes Reid and Jackson to the murder site for proof of Nathaniel's crimes but the bodies are gone and the evidence has been cleared up. Shine arrives and, learning the truth from Reid, blackmails Dove into keeping his secret if he can take credit for arresting Reid. Robin runs off and, after finding Dove has killed him Jackson, with Susan, breaks into Dove's house to rescue their son Connor, and helped by the wounded Nathaniel ,who is shocked to hear of Simon's fate they escape with the boy.Meanwhile Dove pressurises Drummond into leading him to Reid, where, to Mathilda's horror, her father is taken into custody by the dying Shine.
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With Shine dead and Reid in prison Dove puts Drummond - rejected by Mathilda for his treachery - in charge of catching Susan and Jackson whilst Susan persuades Mimi to bring Mathilda to her to convince her of her father's innocence and goodness. Reid resists when Jackson tries to spring him from jail, hoping Thatcher's exhumation of Robin will prove Dove's guilt. However Dove is ready and drowns the honest policeman, secretly watched by Nathaniel, who brings Robin's body to Susan to incriminate Dove. Together thy surrender themselves to the law with Nathaniel accusing his brother of mass murder. They are supported by Abberline, summoned by Rachel, and Dove is finally exposed.
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A sad, remorseful Nathaniel confesses all to Abberline and Mathilda whilst Jackson proves that Dove killed Robin but, to avoid a public scandal, the Chief Commissioner orders that Dove is secretly taken to prison and quietly forgotten. Susan and Nathaniel are executed but Jackson is allowed to return to America with Connor on condition that Reid accepts reinstatement. Mathilda forgives Drummond and they marry, leaving London for the country whilst Mimi, having successfully reopened her theatre, also gets married and moves away from Whitechapel. Reid receives news that Jackson has died a hero in the States and reminisces on the old days and his happy partnership with Drake, remaining at his desk as the last survivor of the events in Ripper Street.
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