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Ripper Street Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
I Need Light
Sat, Jan 19, 201362 mins
Edmund Reid patrols a city poisoned by memory. One dead woman is enough to crack open Whitechapel's old terror, and every gutter rat, reporter, and drunk starts whispering the Ripper's name again. Reid refuses the panic. He pushes through alleys, brothels, and filthy photography dens beside the reckless surgeon Homer Jackson and the brutal loyalist Drake. The deeper they go, the uglier the machinery becomes. Men profit from fear. Women sell pieces of themselves just to eat. Reid keeps chasing order through the smoke, but every answer drags him closer to the same sickness he thinks he can contain.
Episode 2
In My Protection
Sat, Jan 26, 201362 mins
After 14 year-old Thomas Gower is convicted of the murder of Ernest Manby and sentenced to death, the boy's lawyer, Mr, Steele, asks Insp. Reid to look into the gangs that were really behind the killing. Thomas had refused to speak at his trial but had been caught red-handed with Manby's money box. An examination of the dead man reveals that his tongue had been cut out leasing Reid to conclude that this was far more than a simple robbery. Thomas was a member of a gang run by money-lender Carmichael. As Reid tries to help young Thomas, who is scheduled to hang in just a few days, he realizes that Manby's death was bought and paid for. Meanwhile. Reid recovers a ring which gives him some information about Homer Jackson's true identity.
Episode 3
The King Came Calling
Sat, Feb 2, 201362 mins
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.
Episode 4
The Good of This City
Sat, Feb 9, 201361 mins
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.
Episode 5
The Weight of One Man's Heart
Sat, Feb 16, 201362 mins
The area is hit by a series of robberies in which safes are blown open. Madoc Faulkner, Drake's former commanding officer, comes to see him and is bitter about the treatment of ex-soldiers now fallen on hard times who are seen as scroungers. Reid's inquiries lead him to George Doggett, another ex-soldier, who agrees to a deal and tells him when the next robbery will take place. Drake, now aware that the perpetrators are his old comrades and disgruntled former soldiers, finds his loyalties torn and opts to put duty before old friendships.
Episode 6
Tournament of Shadows
Sat, Feb 23, 201362 mins
Joshua Bloom is killed in an explosion at his house, supposedly by one of his homemade bombs as he was a member of a radical Jewish group. The group is linked to a strike at the docks, but Jackson establishes that Joshua was murdered. Joshua's brother Isaac tells Reid it was because he had recognized a spy for the Russian secret police, who had come to Whitechapel. Going undercover as a striker, Jackson identifies the spy, whose assignment is to whip up hatred against Jewish groups by launching a bombing campaign for which the Jews will be blamed. Reid is appalled to learn that the thuggish special branch officer, Constantine, approves this. Reid has to prevent a bombing outrage on a scale far larger than Constantine had imagined. Reid also confides in Deborah Goren how he lost his daughter, whose body was never found after a boating accident. They kiss but are observed by Drake.
Episode 7
A Man of My Company
Sat, Mar 2, 201362 mins
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.
Episode 8
What Use Our Work?
Sat, Mar 9, 201362 mins
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.
