Miss Scarlet
Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) stars in a six-part mystery as the headstrong, first-ever female detective in Victorian London. Stuart Martin (Jamestown) plays her childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector William Wellington, a.k.a., The Duke.
- Metascore67
- 2020-2027
- 7 seasons
- PBS
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) stars in a six-part mystery as the headstrong, first-ever female detective in Victorian London. Stuart Martin (Jamestown) plays her childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector William Wellington, a.k.a., The Duke.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2020
Episode 1
Inheritance
Sun, Jan 17, 2021 50 mins
When Eliza Scarlett's father dies suddenly, she's faced with a stark choice. Accept the fact she is now penniless or take on and run her dad's detective business, but can she succeed against all the odds in this male-dominated world?
Episode 2
The Woman in Red
Sun, Jan 24, 2021 50 mins
Desperate for money, relying on her gay ex-fiance Rupert Parker giving her time to pay the rent, but finding mother Parker viciously unwilling, Eliza Scarlet takes a seemingly impossible case; proving the innocence of a accountant Edward Butler, found at a murder scene with a bloodied knife in his hand, who soon pleads guilty. Wife Tabitha pays the bail and hires Scarlet to prove his innocence, only to fire her the next day, after finding a letter. Drowning in crime cases with six detectives ill, Wellington is not amused to have to save her from court via his magistrate friend as she keeps intruding crime scenes and the morgue. On site she unethically took a second client, Jamaican apparent thief Moses, to find a snuff box allegedly donated to his father at emancipation. Luck teaches her the case revolves around the secrecy of a -strictly illegal- gay club.
Episode 3
Deeds Not Words
Sun, Jan 31, 2021 50 mins
Scotland Yard has its eye on potentially disruptive gangs and political groups. Eliza is hired by The Duke to go undercover and infiltrate one such group.
Episode 4
Memento Mori
Sun, Feb 7, 2021 50 mins
The Duke finds his snob superior, superintendent Stirling, is sitting on his due promotion, unless he can cater a good image in the internal police magazine by treating the reporter to the 'juicy' cases he seeks. As current serious crimes don't appeal, he's forced to turn to the odd case he previously declined helping Scarlett with, but assigned his deputy to help document. It involves an alleged clairvoyant's claims supported by seemingly impossible, even posthumous photographs, even involving her own father, whose detective secrets she still ignores. As suspected, the key is in undertaker bribing for private info, even from her German acquaintance Herr Hildegard .
Episode 5
Cell 99
Sun, Feb 14, 2021 50 mins
Wellington is in a fold mood as Superintendent Stirling, who keep dangling a promotion in front of him, made him research pointless crime statistics, shows no interest in the results but orders him to dress up and present them at a socialite event. He guesses right he'l be late when told Scarlett is missing. He tracks her down to an abandoned prison, where she got locked in following a lead from her late father diary, suspecting Henry was murdered. He gets the ingrate out despite her rude attitude and has to face masked killers from an ominous gang after liberating a mystery man from the out of range cell 99.
Episode 6
The Case of Henry Scarlet
Sun, Feb 21, 2021 50 mins
Wellington and Scarlet find the forgers were part of a huge, well-planned plot to cash enormous gold quantities from various London banks, which already succeeded. Scarlet keeps dodging police protection, abusing closet-gay landlord Rupert Parker whom she advises a double marriage of convenience. She even receives a nightly visit from Jamaican scum Moses, and maintains they must believe him, so she ends up locked in the police station, where she helps going through a pile of police c-suspect files. Superintendent Stirling is their prime suspect, but his corpse is found, the other conspirators got away. William keeps forgiving her impertinence and failure to keep promises, even a simple dinner date when she pledges undying gratitude, both remaining devoted to solve her father Henry's covered-up murder. Sadly, Wellington finds a viper in his team.
