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* TheCoroner: Jackson's official role, although he has also been seen gathering information and kicking ass.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: The main trio enjoy snarking at each other, but there seems to a growing level of trust between them.
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They cross paths with Tenter Street brothel madam Long Susan ([=MyAnna=] Buring), who came to London with Jackson from America and lets him reside at the brothel. Their relationship becomes strained due to Jackson's attraction to one of her most profitable girls, Rose Erskine (Charlene [=McKenna=]), and because of his close involvement with H Division and Reid.

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They cross paths with Tenter Street brothel madam Long Susan ([=MyAnna=] Buring), who came to London with Jackson from America and lets him reside at the brothel. Their relationship becomes strained due to Jackson's attraction to one of her most profitable girls, Rose Erskine (Charlene [=McKenna=]), and because of his close involvement with H Division and Reid.
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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Reed, who was once the shortest man on the force at 5'6", is played by 6'2" tall Matthew Macfadyen.

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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Reed, Reid, who was once the shortest man on the force at 5'6", is played by 6'2" tall Matthew Macfadyen.
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They cross paths with Tenter Street brothel madam Long Susan (MyAnna Buring), who came to London with Jackson from America and lets him reside at the brothel. Their relationship becomes strained due to Jackson's attraction to one of her most profitable girls, Rose Erskine (Charlene McKenna), and because of his close involvement with H Division and Reid.

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They cross paths with Tenter Street brothel madam Long Susan (MyAnna ([=MyAnna=] Buring), who came to London with Jackson from America and lets him reside at the brothel. Their relationship becomes strained due to Jackson's attraction to one of her most profitable girls, Rose Erskine (Charlene McKenna), [=McKenna=]), and because of his close involvement with H Division and Reid.
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* TheOphelia: Lucy, the murder witness from "The Good of the City".
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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler: Long Susan]]

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Reed, who was once the shortest man on the force at 5'6", is played by 6'2" tall Matthew Macfadyen.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Reed, who was once the shortest man on the force at 5'6", is played by 6'2" tall Matthew Macfadyen.


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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Reed, who was once the shortest man on the force at 5'6", is played by 6'2" tall Matthew Macfadyen.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Reed, who was once the shortest man on the force at 5'6", is played by 6'2" tall Matthew Macfadyen.

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* CompleteMonster: Several of the villains but the Scouser from episode 2 stands out, mainly for using child soldiers



* NightmareFuel: Where to begin with "The King Came Calling"?
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* CallForward: Reid gives Hobbs an arduous task of inspecting a huge stack of files.
-->'''Reid:''' One day, constable, there will be gleaming machines that will perhaps make light work of such process, but for now you will find in the custody of Sergeant Atherton some excellent Turkish coffee with which I suggest you make keen acquaintance.


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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Yes, there was an Inspector Edmund Reid. WikiPedia has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Reid more]]
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* [[DoublingForLondon Dublin For London]]: The London street scenes are actually filmed in Dublin.
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* NightmareFuel: Where to begin with "The King Came Calling"?

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* NiceHat: TruthInTelevision; people wore hats ''a lot'' in those days.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Long Susan and her ladies.
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* VictorianLondon: The setting of the show.
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* [[Badass]]: Drake and Jackson stand out

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* [[Badass]]: {{Badass}}: Drake and Jackson stand out

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* [[Badass]]: Drake and Jackson stand out
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* DrivenToSuicide: The photographer who betrays Reid

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* Pinkerton Detective: Jackson used to be one

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* Pinkerton Detective: JackTheRipoff: [[spoiler: In "I Need Light" the killer hoped to pass off his victim as one of Jack's.]]
* PinkertonDetective:
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* DarkAndTroubledPast Everyone, but especially Jackson and Long Susan.
* JackTheRipper Takes place six months after the last murder. The pilot deals with the lingering fear left behind by the ripper murders.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast DarkAndTroubledPast: Everyone, but especially Jackson and Long Susan.
* JackTheRipper Takes HookerWithAHeartofGold: Rose and Long Susan
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* Pinkerton Detective: Jackson used to be one

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* DarkAndTroubledPast Everyone, but especially Jackson and Long Susan.
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[[caption-width-right:214:Jack's crimes will not be forgotten.]]
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* [jacktheripper] Takes place six months after the last murder. The pilot deals with the lingering fear left behind by the ripper murders.

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Among the factories, rookeries, chop shops, brothels and pubs, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) and Detective Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) team with US Army surgeon and former Pinkerton detective Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) to investigate the killings.[3]

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Among the factories, rookeries, chop shops, brothels and pubs, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) and Detective Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) team with US Army surgeon and former Pinkerton detective Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) to investigate the killings.[3]killings.






Each episode features stand-alone crimes that test Reid, Drake and Jackson, both in their working and private lives.

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Each episode features stand-alone crimes that test Reid, Drake and Jackson, both in their working and private lives.lives.

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In April 1889 (six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing), H Division is responsible for policing one and a quarter square miles of East London, a district with a population of 67,000 poor and dispossessed. The men of H Division had hunted Jack the Ripper and failed to find him. When more women are murdered on the streets of Whitechapel, the police begin to wonder if the killer has returned.
Among the factories, rookeries, chop shops, brothels and pubs, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) and Detective Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) team with US Army surgeon and former Pinkerton detective Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) to investigate the killings.[3]
They cross paths with Tenter Street brothel madam Long Susan (MyAnna Buring), who came to London with Jackson from America and lets him reside at the brothel. Their relationship becomes strained due to Jackson's attraction to one of her most profitable girls, Rose Erskine (Charlene McKenna), and because of his close involvement with H Division and Reid.
Sensationalist newspaperman Fred Best (David Dawson) knows a dark secret about Reid's daughter's death. Although still being troubled by her daughter's death, Emily Reid (Amanda Hale) determines to make a new life by helping the fallen women of Whitechapel despite her husband's reservations.
Each episode features stand-alone crimes that test Reid, Drake and Jackson, both in their working and private lives.

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