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Ripper Street - Season 1

Series: Ripper Street

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Episodes

Rating

TVMA

Year

2012

Language

English

Publisher

BBC Studios

About

April 1889 – six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing, East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that this killer's reign of terror might at last have run its course. Nowhere is this truer than in the corridors of H Division, the police precinct charged with keeping order in the chaos of Whitechapel. Its men hunted this maniac; and failed to find him.

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Episodes

1. 01-I NEED LIGHT

A young woman is found brutally murdered, the hallmark signs of the Ripper upon her. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline believes it Jack's return, but Reid — the precinct's new man in charge — suspects a different evil at work.

2. 02-IN MY PROTECTION

A beloved toy maker is beaten to death. The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee presents a 14-year-old culprit who refuses to deny the charge, leading Reid and Drake into the savage world of merciless child gangs.

3. 03-THE KING CAME CALLING

H Division and the Independent City of London force are thrown together when the panic surrounding a sudden cholera outbreak leads them to scour both boroughs to find some underlying pattern amidst the rising tide of sickness and death.