Victorian villains beware: it's DI Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, left) with DS Drake (Jerome Flynn)
Last week we left Homer Jackson, the raffish ex-Pinkerton detective with the exceedingly chequered past, languishing in jail, after being fitted up for a Ripper-style killing by the murderous Frank Goodnight (played by cultish US actor Edoardo Ballerini). For this week's finale, Matthew Macfadyen's DI Reid urgently needed to get Jackson out again in order to apply his advanced forensic skills to unravelling a white slaving racket.
Jackson was slickly able to prove his own innocence, then quickly extracted crucial clues about the gang who were drugging and kidnapping young women. His medical know-how and boffinly mucking about with test tubes, chemicals and tissue samples have made him a kind of Victorian prototype of CSI's Gil Grissom, and it's reflective of Ripper Street's wider interest in new trends and fashions of its era (Adam Rothenberg as Jackson and MyAnna Buring as Long Susan, pictured below).
Strong characters, generally dynamic stories and a powerful sense of period have meant that Ripper Street has grown steadily as it's gone along. Series two is already under construction
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