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Whitechapel - Season 1

Series: Whitechapel

4.5

(211)

Episodes

Rating

TV14

Year

2009

Language

English

Publisher

BBC Studios

About

The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler do what his fellow officers failed to do over 100 years before, and catch the person responsible?

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Episodes

1. Episode 1

45m

Ambitious DI Joseph Chandler is assigned an open-and-shut case, the killing of a woman in the East End of London. Get a quick result, he is told, and you will get the promotion you have been waiting for. Unfortunately for him, however, things don't turn out to be so straight forward.

2. Episode 2

45m

Chandler continues to clash with his team, led by the cynical DS Miles. Further suspects lead to dead-ends as the detectives attempt to penetrate the conspiracies and myths that surround the legend of Jack the Ripper. Frustrated, Chandler pins his hopes on trapping their latest suspect, a solider named Leary, but the operation goes horribly, tragically wrong.

3. Episode 3

45m

The final act begins - the Ripper must kill one more victim to complete his re-enactment of the 1888 murders. Chandler is near to breakdown as he struggles to find an answer. Forensics and CCTV are useless, and the team is forced to rely on its instincts, hoping that the past will provide some clue to the killer's identity. But time is ticking away, and history tells us that Jack the Ripper was never caught.