Ripper Street

2013 • BBC

4.8

255 reviews

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Season 2 episodes (8)

1 Pure as the Driven

10/27/13

Season-only

When a sergeant from K Division is found, hurled from a Whitechapel window on to 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.

2 Am I Not Monstrous?

11/4/13

Season-only

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.

3 Become Man

11/11/13

Season-only

Long Susan finds herself sympathising with a group of kidnappers with radical aims.

4 Dynamite and a Woman

11/18/13

Season-only

Reid sends DC Flight undercover into Whitechapel's Irish community.

5 Threads of Silk and Gold

11/25/13

Season-only

Investigations into the slaying of a Telegraph Boy lift the lid on a secret vice racket.

6 A Stronger Loving World

12/2/13

Season-only

The domestic happiness that Drake has enjoyed is disrupted by a friend from Bella's past.

7 Our Betrayal - Part I

12/9/13

Season-only

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

8 Our Betrayal - Part II

12/16/13

Season-only

Reid and Drake are powerless to resist a final reckoning with K Division's Jedediah Shine.

About this show

Haunted by the failure to catch Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) is charged with keeping law and order in Whitechapel. Reid is assisted by Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn) and former US Army surgeon and Pinkerton agent Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg). They frequently cross paths with brothel madam Long Susan (MyAnna Buring), who came to London with Jackson. All will come to depend on one another to uphold justice - both moral and legal - in the dying days of Victorian England.

Ratings and reviews

4.8

255 reviews

MS DRAGONFIRE

October 7, 2016

I wasn't too keen at first as I hate these kind of dramas but after 2 or 3 episodes I was hooked and think it is very well done, well acted and brilliant to watch, such a shame the BBC sold it. I am currently watching it on amazon prime, I am on series 3 and watch it every single night.

Malcolm Cleverley

June 19, 2017

Drama at its best! Great storyline with real villains and heroes you can have and love. I can't believe once upon a time this dramamwas nearly canned!!!

angela salter

January 15, 2015

What an incredible piece of drama. Even the music and titles are fabulous. As something of a student of historical drama, I have been so impressed by the script, which uses the authentic language which would have been the norm at the time, rather than modernising it as happens so often. The best drama I have seen for many years, the atmosphere is amazing. Love it.