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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Deconstructed in "In My Protection", where we're introduced to a gang of child criminals who commit various crimes, including brutal murder. But they were led / brainwashed by an [[TheFagin adult man]]. The trope is averted even harder in the third season episode "Your Father, My Friend", where we meet a maybe 13- or 14-years-old boy who apparently makes a pretty good living[[note]] He wears a fancy suit. [[/note]] locking up young girls to sell them to groups of men. [[note]] Also, considering that he already has a file in Reid's archive as a known pimp selling "the young", that boy must have been doing this for some time, despite his own youth. [[/note]] (And he was going to rape at least his current victim by himself, too.)
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** In the last season, Reid and Jackson hold a former colleague and current underling of [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] at gunpoint and strip him naked (which would nowadays be considered sexual assault) and then publically humiliate him by tying him onto a horse and making him ride through Whitechapel - all just to send [[spoiler: Shine]] a message. In the show, everyone laughs about it and even the victim [[spoiler: switches sides to help Reid and Jackson shortly later.]] Though it's unclear if this was meant to be ''deliberate'' values dissonance, or if it's just a case of double standards on part of the writers, who thought this was funny...
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** In the last season, Reid and Jackson hold a former colleague of theirs and current underling of [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] at gunpoint and strip him naked (which would nowadays be considered sexual assault) and then publically humiliate him by tying him onto a horse and making him ride through Whitechapel - all just to send [[spoiler: Shine]] a message. In the show, everyone laughs about it and even the victim [[spoiler: switches sides to help Reid and Jackson shortly later.]] Though it's unclear if this was meant to be ''deliberate'' values dissonance, or if it's just a case of double standards on part of the writers, who thought this was funny...
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** The jury is out on whether she's still sympathetic after [[spoiler: her train robbery goes wrong and gets several dozen innocent people killed.]]
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** The jury is out on whether she's still sympathetic after [[spoiler: her train robbery goes wrong and gets several dozen innocent people killed.]] And after [[spoiler: she tries to shoot Reid to cover things up.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Reid would, if the child is a pubescent sociopath who captured [[spoiler: his daughter]] and was just about to sell her to be gang-raped. In fact, he will [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique half drown]] that boy to find her, not even bothering to try threatening him first, which probably would have been sufficient. Drake, on the other hand, has more scruples. (At least at that point in his CharacterDevelopment.)
--> '''Reid''': Fear not, Inspector, I will not kill him. Not yet.
--> '''Reid''': Fear not, Inspector, I will not kill him. Not yet.
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** [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] lets a small-time crook hang from his wrists for a few hours to get information and his cooperation in capturing [[Reid, Jackson and Susan]], in season 5.
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** [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] lets a small-time crook hang from his wrists for a few hours to get information and his cooperation in capturing [[Reid, [[spoiler:Reid, Jackson and Susan]], in season 5.
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* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Fred Best]] was the only regular character who wasn't straight, unlike the main 3 straight guys he never got a romance storyline[[note]] other than a brief encounter with a teenage sex worker that was just in the plot to provide blackmail material; and a man who was implied to have been his lover, but who only showed up in the show as a corpse [[/note]], and he gets killed off to motivate the main characters at the end of season 3. [[note]] If one is charitable, one can believe that this was not because he was unimportant enough to be expendable and the writers didn't know what to do with him, but because the actor got a major role in ((series/TheLastKingdom)). Though who knows which came first. [[/note]]
** Also, almost all one-episode characters who are gay or genderqueer end up dead or arrested and soon-to-be-executed [[note]] Like the crossdressing woman / transgender guy (It's left unclear whether the character lived as a man because he really felt like a man, or just because it was the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job.) in "Live Free, Live True", who was a very sympathetic character, but still got arrested for murder and sent to the gallows - in a dress. [[/note]], with the only one who got away committing vigilante murder instead of fleeing the city as planned (with no hint as to whether he got away with it or got caought and hanged). Only background bit players like the hostess of the gay / transgender club in "The King Came Calling" survive the episodes they show up in, never to be mentioned again.
** Also, almost all one-episode characters who are gay or genderqueer end up dead or arrested and soon-to-be-executed [[note]] Like the crossdressing woman / transgender guy (It's left unclear whether the character lived as a man because he really felt like a man, or just because it was the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job.) in "Live Free, Live True", who was a very sympathetic character, but still got arrested for murder and sent to the gallows - in a dress. [[/note]], with the only one who got away committing vigilante murder instead of fleeing the city as planned (with no hint as to whether he got away with it or got caought and hanged). Only background bit players like the hostess of the gay / transgender club in "The King Came Calling" survive the episodes they show up in, never to be mentioned again.
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* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Fred Best]] was the only regular character who wasn't straight, unlike the main 3 straight guys he never got a romance storyline[[note]] other than a brief encounter with a teenage sex worker that was just in the plot to provide blackmail material; and a man who was implied to have been his lover, but who only showed up in the show as a corpse [[/note]], and he gets killed off to motivate the main characters at the end of season 3. [[note]] If one is charitable, one can believe that this was not because he was unimportant enough to be expendable and the writers didn't know what to do with him, but because the actor got a major role in ((series/TheLastKingdom)).''TheLastKingdom''. Though who knows which came first. [[/note]]
** Also, almost all one-episode characters who are gay or genderqueer end up dead or arrested and soon-to-be-executed [[note]] Like thecrossdressing cross-dressing woman / transgender guy (It's left unclear whether the character lived as a man because he really felt like a man, or just because it was the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job.) in "Live Free, Live True", who was a very sympathetic character, but still got arrested for murder and sent to the gallows - in a dress. [[/note]], with the only one who got away committing vigilante murder instead of fleeing the city as planned (with no hint as to whether he got away with it or got caought caught and hanged). Only background bit players like the hostess of the gay / transgender club in "The King Came Calling" survive the episodes they show up in, never to be mentioned again.
** Also, almost all one-episode characters who are gay or genderqueer end up dead or arrested and soon-to-be-executed [[note]] Like the
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: When Reid, Jackson, and Drake trace the origins of ThePlague in "The King Came Calling", they find that some of the initial victims were part of a secret club / brothel for gay men and transgender women (a "Molly house"). The people at the club panicked when the police showed up because they thought they were under arrest for being homosexual and/or crossdressing. Jackson at least doesn't judge them for what [[UnusualEuphemism raises their flag.]] Reid, to his credit, also treats the owner of the club repectfully (taking off his hat and even calling them "Madam") and promises them that he won't prosecute any "bawdy house" for the next few months, not even one catering to gay men.
** In "Threads of Silk and Gold", Jackson continues to be an ally [[note]] "Don't knock it till you tried it, Bennito! I know some stevadors who'd treat you like a princess." [[/note]] and Reid continues to be polite and as compassionate as he can. (Except to the himself still-teenage boy who was pimping the underage male sex workers, even though he was shown to be their friend and basically just acting as an organizer for the "bookings", not forcing anyone.) And even casually homophobic Drake is led to become unsure of the rightfulness of a law that requires them to arrest men just for whom they love. But in the beginning of the episode, they had just raided a private house party and arrested a bunch of (middle class, adult) gay men, which none of the officers seems to have any problem with. And the real villain gets away scott-free [[spoiler: (Well, he would have, if not for one heartbroken boy commiting a hanging offense to get vigilante justice.)]], because he blackmails Fred Best [[spoiler: with photos proving his homosexuality]] - and in this time period, there's just nothing the reporter can do to defend himself against that, and no-one he can turn to, not even Reid (who gave him evidence to publish in order to at least destroy the villain's business reputation). [[note]] In their next interaction, Reid's attitude to Best is back to contemptuous and hostile, presumably because he doesn't know why Best didn't publish the evidence like he promised he would. [[/note]]
** In "Live Free, Live True", a person we'd today consider transgender [[note]] Though it's left unclear whether he really feels like a man, or if he just lives as a man because that's the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job. In any case, the show keeps using the pronoun "he". [[/note]] wasn't even out to their own adopted daugther. And when the character gets sent off to prison (for vigilante killing, not for crossdressing), the "good guys", while being polite, still make them wear a white robe like a nightdress instead of letting them keep their male clothing, which the daughter points out is humiliating and cruel.
** In the same episode, it's shown how society criminalized abortion, and even just education about contraception - and even ex- HookerWithAHeartOfGold Susan refuses to finance such services in her new hospital, when the female doctor there begs her to consider the suffering and damage from badly performed back alley abortions and toxic abortificants it could prevent. (Susan only agrees after [[spoiler: she finds herself pregnant and unmarried,]] which already ruins her ambitions to gain respectability.) However, it turns out that the feminist-ally male abortion doctor introduced in the episode [[spoiler: really is evil, since he was really using the poor women he was supposedly helping for medical experimentation on sterilization motivated by classist / eugenicist goals]], making this somewhat of a zigzagged application of the trope.
** Sympathetic Jewish characters suffered from antisemitism in the form of hateful slurs, political disempowerment, and physical violence. Economic based antisemitism was a major plot point in the seventh episode.
** Police violence and even outright torture is normal. At one point Jackson even uses a (conveniently CompleteMonster) criminal for medical experimentation by letting him die of a poison he'd ingested, without any palliative care. Even Reid, who is shown to be very ethical and "modern" for the time, frequently uses Drake to beat up suspects - [[spoiler: until Drake rebells against it and calls out Reid's hypocrisy in not wanting to get his own hands dirty.]] In later seasons, they get a bit better in this regard, only sometimes threatening to torture or poison suspects to make them talk, but not actually going through with it. Though [[spoiler: Inspector Shine's]] treatment of a small-time criminal witness shows that torture is still considered a perfectly acceptable method of getting information by most of the police force.
** In the last season, Reid and Jackson hold an an underling of [[spoiler: Inspector Shine]] at gunpoint and strip him naked (which would nowadays be considered sexual assault) and then publically humiliate him by tying him onto a horse and making him ride through Whitechapel - all just to send [[spoiler: Shine]] a message. In the show, everyone laughs about it and even the victim [[spoiler: switches sides to help Reid and Jackson shortly later.]] Though it's unclear if this was meant to be ''deliberate'' values dissonance, or if it's just a case of values dissonance / double standards on part of the writers, who thought this was funny...
** In "Threads of Silk and Gold", Jackson continues to be an ally [[note]] "Don't knock it till you tried it, Bennito! I know some stevadors who'd treat you like a princess." [[/note]] and Reid continues to be polite and as compassionate as he can. (Except to the himself still-teenage boy who was pimping the underage male sex workers, even though he was shown to be their friend and basically just acting as an organizer for the "bookings", not forcing anyone.) And even casually homophobic Drake is led to become unsure of the rightfulness of a law that requires them to arrest men just for whom they love. But in the beginning of the episode, they had just raided a private house party and arrested a bunch of (middle class, adult) gay men, which none of the officers seems to have any problem with. And the real villain gets away scott-free [[spoiler: (Well, he would have, if not for one heartbroken boy commiting a hanging offense to get vigilante justice.)]], because he blackmails Fred Best [[spoiler: with photos proving his homosexuality]] - and in this time period, there's just nothing the reporter can do to defend himself against that, and no-one he can turn to, not even Reid (who gave him evidence to publish in order to at least destroy the villain's business reputation). [[note]] In their next interaction, Reid's attitude to Best is back to contemptuous and hostile, presumably because he doesn't know why Best didn't publish the evidence like he promised he would. [[/note]]
** In "Live Free, Live True", a person we'd today consider transgender [[note]] Though it's left unclear whether he really feels like a man, or if he just lives as a man because that's the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job. In any case, the show keeps using the pronoun "he". [[/note]] wasn't even out to their own adopted daugther. And when the character gets sent off to prison (for vigilante killing, not for crossdressing), the "good guys", while being polite, still make them wear a white robe like a nightdress instead of letting them keep their male clothing, which the daughter points out is humiliating and cruel.
** In the same episode, it's shown how society criminalized abortion, and even just education about contraception - and even ex- HookerWithAHeartOfGold Susan refuses to finance such services in her new hospital, when the female doctor there begs her to consider the suffering and damage from badly performed back alley abortions and toxic abortificants it could prevent. (Susan only agrees after [[spoiler: she finds herself pregnant and unmarried,]] which already ruins her ambitions to gain respectability.) However, it turns out that the feminist-ally male abortion doctor introduced in the episode [[spoiler: really is evil, since he was really using the poor women he was supposedly helping for medical experimentation on sterilization motivated by classist / eugenicist goals]], making this somewhat of a zigzagged application of the trope.
** Sympathetic Jewish characters suffered from antisemitism in the form of hateful slurs, political disempowerment, and physical violence. Economic based antisemitism was a major plot point in the seventh episode.
** Police violence and even outright torture is normal. At one point Jackson even uses a (conveniently CompleteMonster) criminal for medical experimentation by letting him die of a poison he'd ingested, without any palliative care. Even Reid, who is shown to be very ethical and "modern" for the time, frequently uses Drake to beat up suspects - [[spoiler: until Drake rebells against it and calls out Reid's hypocrisy in not wanting to get his own hands dirty.]] In later seasons, they get a bit better in this regard, only sometimes threatening to torture or poison suspects to make them talk, but not actually going through with it. Though [[spoiler: Inspector Shine's]] treatment of a small-time criminal witness shows that torture is still considered a perfectly acceptable method of getting information by most of the police force.
** In the last season, Reid and Jackson hold an an underling of [[spoiler: Inspector Shine]] at gunpoint and strip him naked (which would nowadays be considered sexual assault) and then publically humiliate him by tying him onto a horse and making him ride through Whitechapel - all just to send [[spoiler: Shine]] a message. In the show, everyone laughs about it and even the victim [[spoiler: switches sides to help Reid and Jackson shortly later.]] Though it's unclear if this was meant to be ''deliberate'' values dissonance, or if it's just a case of values dissonance / double standards on part of the writers, who thought this was funny...
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: When Reid, Jackson, and Drake trace the origins of ThePlague in "The King Came Calling", they find that some of the initial victims were part of a secret club / brothel for gay men and transgender women (a "Molly house"). The people at the club panicked when the police showed up because they thought they were under arrest for being homosexual and/or crossdressing.cross-dressing. Jackson at least doesn't judge them for what [[UnusualEuphemism raises their flag.]] Reid, to his credit, also treats the owner of the club repectfully respectfully (taking off his hat and even calling them "Madam") and promises them that he won't prosecute any "bawdy house" for the next few months, not even one catering to gay men.
** In "Threads of Silk and Gold", Jackson continues to be an ally [[note]] "Don't knock it till you tried it, Bennito! I know somestevadors stevedores who'd treat you like a princess." [[/note]] and Reid continues to be polite and as compassionate as he can. (Except to the himself still-teenage boy who was pimping the underage male sex workers, even though he was shown to be their friend and basically just acting as an organizer for the "bookings", not forcing anyone.) And even casually homophobic Drake is led to become unsure of the rightfulness of a law that requires them to arrest men just for whom they love. But in the beginning of the episode, they had just raided a private house party and arrested a bunch of (middle class, adult) gay men, which none of the officers seems to have any problem with. And the real villain gets away scott-free scot-free [[spoiler: (Well, he would have, if not for one heartbroken boy commiting committing a hanging offense to get vigilante justice.)]], because he blackmails Fred Best [[spoiler: with photos proving his homosexuality]] - and in this time period, there's just nothing the reporter can do to defend himself against that, and no-one he can turn to, not even Reid (who gave him evidence to publish in order to at least destroy the villain's business reputation). [[note]] In their next interaction, Reid's attitude to Best is back to contemptuous and hostile, presumably because he doesn't know why Best didn't publish the evidence like he promised he would. [[/note]]
** In "Live Free, Live True", a person we'd today consider transgender [[note]] Though it's left unclear whether he really feels like a man, or if he just lives as a man because that's the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job. In any case, the show keeps using the pronoun"he". "he", even after the character has been outed. [[/note]] wasn't even out to their own adopted daugther. daughter. And when the character gets sent off to prison (for vigilante killing, not for crossdressing), cross-dressing), the "good guys", while being polite, still make them wear a white robe like a nightdress instead of letting them keep their male clothing, which the daughter points out is humiliating and cruel.
** In the same episode, it's shown how society criminalized abortion, and even just education about contraception - and even ex- HookerWithAHeartOfGold Susan refuses to finance such services in her new hospital, when the female doctor there begs her to consider the suffering and damage from badly performed back alley abortions and toxic abortificants it could prevent. (Susan only agrees after [[spoiler: she finds herself pregnant and unmarried,]] whichalready ruins in time would ruin her ambitions to gain respectability.respectability anyway.) However, it turns out that the feminist-ally male abortion doctor introduced in the episode [[spoiler: really is evil, since he was really using the poor women he was supposedly helping for medical experimentation on sterilization motivated by classist / eugenicist goals]], making this somewhat of a zigzagged application of the trope.
** Sympathetic Jewish characters suffered fromantisemitism anti-Semitism in the form of hateful slurs, political disempowerment, and physical violence. Economic based antisemitism anti-Semitism was a major plot point in the seventh episode.
** Police violence and even outright torture is normal. At one point Jackson even uses a (convenientlyCompleteMonster) really horrible and confessed guilty) criminal for medical experimentation by letting him die of a poison he'd ingested, without any palliative care. Even Reid, who is shown to be very ethical and "modern" for the time, "ahead of his time", frequently uses Drake to beat up suspects - [[spoiler: until Drake rebells rebels against it and calls out Reid's hypocrisy in not wanting to get his own hands dirty.]] In later seasons, they get a bit better in this regard, only sometimes threatening to torture or poison suspects to make them talk, but not actually going through with it. Though [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine's]] treatment unchallenged physical abuse of a small-time criminal witness [[spoiler: after taking over H Division]] shows that torture is still considered a perfectly acceptable method of getting information by most of the police force.
** Isaac Bloom was hanged in "The Strangers' Home" despite the fact that he was severely mentally ill [[spoiler: and innocent, as it turns out later]].
** In the last season, Reid and Jackson holdan an a former colleague and current underling of [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] at gunpoint and strip him naked (which would nowadays be considered sexual assault) and then publically humiliate him by tying him onto a horse and making him ride through Whitechapel - all just to send [[spoiler: Shine]] a message. In the show, everyone laughs about it and even the victim [[spoiler: switches sides to help Reid and Jackson shortly later.]] Though it's unclear if this was meant to be ''deliberate'' values dissonance, or if it's just a case of values dissonance / double standards on part of the writers, who thought this was funny...
** In "Threads of Silk and Gold", Jackson continues to be an ally [[note]] "Don't knock it till you tried it, Bennito! I know some
** In "Live Free, Live True", a person we'd today consider transgender [[note]] Though it's left unclear whether he really feels like a man, or if he just lives as a man because that's the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job. In any case, the show keeps using the pronoun
** In the same episode, it's shown how society criminalized abortion, and even just education about contraception - and even ex- HookerWithAHeartOfGold Susan refuses to finance such services in her new hospital, when the female doctor there begs her to consider the suffering and damage from badly performed back alley abortions and toxic abortificants it could prevent. (Susan only agrees after [[spoiler: she finds herself pregnant and unmarried,]] which
** Sympathetic Jewish characters suffered from
** Police violence and even outright torture is normal. At one point Jackson even uses a (conveniently
** Isaac Bloom was hanged in "The Strangers' Home" despite the fact that he was severely mentally ill [[spoiler: and innocent, as it turns out later]].
** In the last season, Reid and Jackson hold
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** The only reason the police give Susan's girls any protection is because Jackson, who lives in the brothel, has friends on the force.
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** The only reason the police give Susan's girls any protection and don't raid the brothel is because Jackson, who lives in the brothel, has friends on the force.
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** In an oddly positive deconstruction, a wealth entrepreneur thought no-one would cared enough about his [[TheOphelia emotionally fragile]] SexSlave to investigate his attempts to murder her in order to save face. It turns out, H division care. He's exposed in a publicly humiliating fashion [[spoiler: and receives a KarmicDeath.]]
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** In an oddly positive deconstruction, a wealth entrepreneur thought no-one would cared enough about his [[TheOphelia emotionally fragile]] SexSlave to investigate his attempts to murder her in order to save face. It turns out, H division Division care. He's exposed in a publicly humiliating fashion [[spoiler: and receives a KarmicDeath.]]
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]: By the end of the show, [[spoiler: every last major character from the early seasons (except Reid [[note]] and Rose, though she was explicitly suicidal when she left [[/note]]) is dead, and the later-introduced significant characters have left Whitechapel and Reid for good. Reid himself is last seen all alone, burying himself in his work, and is implied to self-imprison himself in the district of Whitechapel for the rest of his life to atone for the crime he really should have gone to prison for.]]
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]: By the end of the show, [[spoiler: every last major character from the early seasons (except Reid [[note]] and Rose, though she was explicitly suicidal when she left [[/note]]) is dead, and the later-introduced significant characters have left Whitechapel and Reid for good. Reid himself is last seen all alone, burying himself in his work, and is implied to self-imprison himself in the district of Whitechapel for the rest of his life to atone for the crime crimes he really should have gone to prison for.]]
** [[spoiler: Bella]], because she thought Drake loved Rose more than her.
** A young woman in "The Stranger's Home", [[spoiler: because her racist father murdered the Indian Muslim father of her child.]]
** [[spoiler: Rose is suicidal after Drake's death, though she leaves Whitechapel for a singing engagement, not caring what comes after.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Rose''']]: You think I give two hoots to be made dead? I do not. It's twice a day only weariness stops me doing it myself.
** [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] takes an overdose eventually, just after [[spoiler:arresting Reid and thus getting his revenge]], due to a painful terminal illness. (And possibly because he knew [[spoiler: Commissioner Augustus Dove]] was coming to kill him to tie up lose ends.)
--> [[spoiler: '''Shine''']]: I am my own master. And no man brings down [[spoiler: Jedediah Shine]], except [[spoiler: Jedediah Shine]].
** A young woman in "The Stranger's Home", [[spoiler: because her racist father murdered the Indian Muslim father of her child.]]
** [[spoiler: Rose is suicidal after Drake's death, though she leaves Whitechapel for a singing engagement, not caring what comes after.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Rose''']]: You think I give two hoots to be made dead? I do not. It's twice a day only weariness stops me doing it myself.
** [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] takes an overdose eventually, just after [[spoiler:arresting Reid and thus getting his revenge]], due to a painful terminal illness. (And possibly because he knew [[spoiler: Commissioner Augustus Dove]] was coming to kill him to tie up lose ends.)
--> [[spoiler: '''Shine''']]: I am my own master. And no man brings down [[spoiler: Jedediah Shine]], except [[spoiler: Jedediah Shine]].
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: If you consider the ages of her brother and her son, Prudence in the episode "All the Glittering Blades" must have had sex with her much younger brother when he had barely reached puberty, whereas she would have been an adult already (or at least almost). And yet, she's presented as the victim, because several years later, her still teenage brother has become a physically abusive drunk and according to her, he already was abusive when he was younger (burning her hand on the stove when she became pregnant). It's a complicated situation, but from her creepy "beautiful boy" talk and the age difference between the siblings that's so big she's acting like a mother towards her brother, it's hard to believe that he forced himself on her when she would have been bigger and stronger than him. It's much more likely that she sexually abused her kid brother, and probably more than once, considering that he reacts like a jealous lover when Nathaniel starts getting close to Prudence. She may well have been lying about how her hand got burned – after all, back then their father was still living with them, and the brother must have learned that it was okay to beat women from someone.]]
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* TheFagin: Carmichael in "In My Protection".
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Abel Croker is a thief, smuggler, murderer and [[AffablyEvil all-around rogue]], [[spoiler: who also knowingly shelters a dangerous, mentally disabled serial killer]], but he does not take kindly to people who murder for ''xenophobic'' reasons.
* TheFagin: Carmichael in "In My Protection". Deconstructed in that he is ''not'' a caring man – he just brainwashes vulnerable boys into doing his dirty work - including rape and murder - essentially turning them into child soldiers which he uses to carve out his criminal empire.
* TheFagin: Carmichael in "In My Protection". Deconstructed in that he is ''not'' a caring man – he just brainwashes vulnerable boys into doing his dirty work - including rape and murder - essentially turning them into child soldiers which he uses to carve out his criminal empire.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Reid, Bennet and Jackson do this to the poisoner Claxton - squeezing his broken arm - in "The King Came Calling" to find out where he sent the consignment of poisoned flour.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Reid, Bennet Drake and Jackson do this to the poisoner Claxton - squeezing his broken arm - in "The King Came Calling" to find out where he sent the consignment of poisoned flour.flour. They frequently beat up suspects, too, at least in the early seasons, or sometimes even threaten to maim or poison them.
** Special Branch Inspector Constantine has an Indian Muslim man tortured to help him find some supposed terrorists (read: Indian independence activists) in "The Strangers' Home". For once, the show goes with a realistic outcome of torture though, with Drake very much disapproving (presumably because the guy wasn't a criminal) and Constantine himself later stating that the information he gathered is useless because the victim was "too eager to please" and confirmed everything he asked just to make the pain stop.
** [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] lets a small-time crook hang from his wrists for a few hours to get information and his cooperation in capturing [[Reid, Jackson and Susan]], in season 5.
** Special Branch Inspector Constantine has an Indian Muslim man tortured to help him find some supposed terrorists (read: Indian independence activists) in "The Strangers' Home". For once, the show goes with a realistic outcome of torture though, with Drake very much disapproving (presumably because the guy wasn't a criminal) and Constantine himself later stating that the information he gathered is useless because the victim was "too eager to please" and confirmed everything he asked just to make the pain stop.
** [[spoiler: Detective Inspector Shine]] lets a small-time crook hang from his wrists for a few hours to get information and his cooperation in capturing [[Reid, Jackson and Susan]], in season 5.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Susan after the [[spoiler:bond robbery]] goes tragically wrong. It drives a lot of the plot of season 3 and 4. [[spoiler: And even though she first escapes prison, ultimately she feels she deserves to be punished and so hands herself over to be executed in "A Last Good Act".]]
--> Susan: "All who kill must be punished."
--> Susan: "All who kill must be punished."
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Susan after the [[spoiler:bond robbery]] goes tragically wrong. It drives a lot of the plot of season 3 and 4. [[spoiler: And even though she first escapes prison, prison and her execution, ultimately she feels she deserves to be punished and so hands herself over to be executed the law in "A Last Good Act".]]
-->Susan: "All '''Susan''': All who kill must be punished."
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "In My Protection", they let a murderer go because he was just a boy and acting on somebody else's orders, and Drake "volunteers" him for the army to get him out of the country. Years later, they come across the character again – and he's turned into an alcoholic ShellShockedVeteran.
--> '''Thomas''': I'd sooner have took the rope than seen what I'd seen. Done what I've done. You think you've saved me? You sent me somewhere worse than death.
** Also, Reid could have saved himself a whole lot of trouble [[spoiler:(and possibly Drake's life)]] if he'd just [[spoiler: killed Susan's father outright instead of locking him up and letting him slowly die of dehydration – thereby giving him time to scratch a message identifying Reid as his murderer into the wall.]]
--> '''Thomas''': I'd sooner have took the rope than seen what I'd seen. Done what I've done. You think you've saved me? You sent me somewhere worse than death.
** Also, Reid could have saved himself a whole lot of trouble [[spoiler:(and possibly Drake's life)]] if he'd just [[spoiler: killed Susan's father outright instead of locking him up and letting him slowly die of dehydration – thereby giving him time to scratch a message identifying Reid as his murderer into the wall.]]
** [[spoiler: Reid's wife]] in season 2, though off-screen. She cracked after the HopeSpot, and his affair with Deborah Goren probably didn't help either.
** And Leda Starling from season 4's "Some Conscience Lost", a grieving mother and ex-prostitute suffering from tertiary syphilis, complete with MadnessMantra. She reminds Reid so much [[spoiler: of his wife]] that that her offer to forgive him in her stead actually seems to work to help him move on.
** [[spoiler: Mathilda Reid]], though in her case it seems to be more a combination of brainwashing and stunted mental development due to years-long imprisonment, rather than actual insanity. She gets over it and catches up amazingly quickly, attending a normal school grade for her age just a couple of years later and even having plans to go to college.
** And Leda Starling from season 4's "Some Conscience Lost", a grieving mother and ex-prostitute suffering from tertiary syphilis, complete with MadnessMantra. She reminds Reid so much [[spoiler: of his wife]] that that her offer to forgive him in her stead actually seems to work to help him move on.
** [[spoiler: Mathilda Reid]], though in her case it seems to be more a combination of brainwashing and stunted mental development due to years-long imprisonment, rather than actual insanity. She gets over it and catches up amazingly quickly, attending a normal school grade for her age just a couple of years later and even having plans to go to college.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The child criminals in Charmicheal's gang get specific playing card tattoos as "trophies" for crimes they have committed. Thomas, the boy who brutally beat an old man to death at the beginning of the episode, shows that he already has almost the complete set, including tattoos for mugging and house-breaking – but he does not have a Queen, because that's for rape. The scene is clearly meant to make him more sympathetic for the audience.
** Reconstructed in "Men of Iron, Men of Smoke" – Thomas isn't exactly a great guy and he's an alcoholic, but [[spoiler: it turns out he's innocent regarding the violent crime in that episode.]]
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* ShowdownAtHighNoon: "A Man Of My Company". Two Americans have a score to settle, so what else can be done?
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* ShowdownAtHighNoon: "A Man Of of My Company". Two Americans have a score to settle, so what else can be done?
** The jury is out on whether she's still sympathetic after [[spoiler: her train robbery goes wrong and gets several dozen innocent people killed.]]
** Reid himself murders a couple of people over the course of the show, and not always people who would have been executed anyway if they weren't too powerful to arrest for their crimes. [[spoiler: (E.g. the clearly mentally disabled guy who kept Reid's daughter prisoner for years, but didn't otherwise harm her.)]]
** The bereaved lover of one victim in "Threads of Silk and Gold" takes bloody revenge on the murderer in the end, after the police couldn't arrest him.
** Quite a few of the murders-of-the-week turn out to have been committed by people who had very good reasons to hate the victim, but for reasons of historical values dissonance and social inequality couldn't seek justice the legal way.
** Reid himself murders a couple of people over the course of the show, and not always people who would have been executed anyway if they weren't too powerful to arrest for their crimes. [[spoiler: (E.g. the clearly mentally disabled guy who kept Reid's daughter prisoner for years, but didn't otherwise harm her.)]]
** The bereaved lover of one victim in "Threads of Silk and Gold" takes bloody revenge on the murderer in the end, after the police couldn't arrest him.
** Quite a few of the murders-of-the-week turn out to have been committed by people who had very good reasons to hate the victim, but for reasons of historical values dissonance and social inequality couldn't seek justice the legal way.
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* TheReasonYouSuck: Epic one delivered by Best as his death speech. Flight also delivers a stinging one to the crowd harassing Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) in Season 2's '''''"Am I Not Monstrous?"''''':
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* TheReasonYouSuck: Epic one delivered by Best as his [[spoiler: death speech. speech.]] Flight also delivers a stinging one to the crowd harassing Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) in Season 2's '''''"Am "Am I Not Monstrous?"''''':Monstrous?":
** Abel Croker delivers one to the racist murderer in "The Strangers' Home", giving special attention to the futility of his attempt of stopping immigration and globalized trade to try to protect English jobs for English men, given that London's economy largely depends on that trade. [[note]] The first broadcast of this episode on Amazon happened not long before the Brexit vote. [[/note]]
--> '''Croker''': You need to take a look about. There is a city out there queuing to cheer its Queen as she parades through it. But what is that Queen? She is an Empress. But her empire is not solely England, boy. It is the world. And therefore, the world comes to London and London becomes the world. This is not because Englishmen are good, or pretty, but because we understood quicker than all that good trade makes for greater power. Power, which you will always lack for, boy, until you understand that there is but one boat that floats in this world, and it is this: You roll with the future times, or the future times will roll over you. (stabs him) …It was a Burmese silk captain showed me that. Slip a knife between a man's ribs without him even feeling it. See what a man might learn, if he opens his heart to the world, boy? But you, as we know, are an ignorant fellow.
** In the same episode, there's a darker version of this trope given by Special Service Inspector Constantine to an Indian nobleman who's a proud officer in the British army (and who throughout the episode had been rebuking younger Indian men who were protesting against the British occupation of India). In-universe it's meant as a nasty TheReasonYouSuck speech, but towards the modern audience it works more as a TakeThat truth bomb about the history of their country:
--> '''Major Al-Qadir''': If I learn that this man has been [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique injured or harmed in any way]], your Secretary Chamberlain shall hear from me, Sir.
--> '''Constantine''': And you imagine he shall give two tosses, do you? He's the Colonial Secretary and you're the colonial. You are to him no more than a trained circus pony. Best you understand that. Here is the lesson, Major: They dress you in this… costume, and puff you full of a confected self-importance, the purpose of which is only this: That we here in this country may slowly bleed your country dry - whilst your back is turned parading in our honour.
--> '''Croker''': You need to take a look about. There is a city out there queuing to cheer its Queen as she parades through it. But what is that Queen? She is an Empress. But her empire is not solely England, boy. It is the world. And therefore, the world comes to London and London becomes the world. This is not because Englishmen are good, or pretty, but because we understood quicker than all that good trade makes for greater power. Power, which you will always lack for, boy, until you understand that there is but one boat that floats in this world, and it is this: You roll with the future times, or the future times will roll over you. (stabs him) …It was a Burmese silk captain showed me that. Slip a knife between a man's ribs without him even feeling it. See what a man might learn, if he opens his heart to the world, boy? But you, as we know, are an ignorant fellow.
** In the same episode, there's a darker version of this trope given by Special Service Inspector Constantine to an Indian nobleman who's a proud officer in the British army (and who throughout the episode had been rebuking younger Indian men who were protesting against the British occupation of India). In-universe it's meant as a nasty TheReasonYouSuck speech, but towards the modern audience it works more as a TakeThat truth bomb about the history of their country:
--> '''Major Al-Qadir''': If I learn that this man has been [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique injured or harmed in any way]], your Secretary Chamberlain shall hear from me, Sir.
--> '''Constantine''': And you imagine he shall give two tosses, do you? He's the Colonial Secretary and you're the colonial. You are to him no more than a trained circus pony. Best you understand that. Here is the lesson, Major: They dress you in this… costume, and puff you full of a confected self-importance, the purpose of which is only this: That we here in this country may slowly bleed your country dry - whilst your back is turned parading in our honour.
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** Reid and Susan with regards to [[spoiler: locking up Susan's father in an abandoned cellar and letting him die slowly, because they can't arrest him for his crimes.]] This comes back to haunt Reid with a vengeance at the end of season 4, along with the [[spoiler: murder]] described below under WhamEpisode, and several other indcidents where he wasn't exactly policing "by the book", which had been covered up by Aberline.
* WhamEpisode: "The Beating of her Wings", episode two of the third season, packs one hell of a wallop. [[spoiler: Reid's daughter is alive and insane. The Inspector, unaware of this, finds the man he thinks killed her, ''beats him to death against a stone wall'' and, blood-spattered and staring, walks off into the streets of Whitechapel. This is made worse by the fact that, while the man had been imprisoning her, he hadn't actually raped or starved her as Reid was made to believe but instead cared for her like a daughter. And the man was clearly mentally disabled and didn't understand what he was doing was wrong.]]
* WhamEpisode: "The Beating of her Wings", episode two of the third season, packs one hell of a wallop. [[spoiler: Reid's daughter is alive and insane. The Inspector, unaware of this, finds the man he thinks killed her, ''beats him to death against a stone wall'' and, blood-spattered and staring, walks off into the streets of Whitechapel. This is made worse by the fact that, while the man had been imprisoning her, he hadn't actually raped or starved her as Reid was made to believe but instead cared for her like a daughter. And the man was clearly mentally disabled and didn't understand what he was doing was wrong.]]
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** Reid and Susan with regards to [[spoiler: locking up Susan's father in an abandoned a soon-to-be-built-over cellar and letting him die slowly, because they can't arrest him for his crimes.]] This comes back to haunt Reid with a vengeance at the end of season 4, along with the [[spoiler: murder]] described below under WhamEpisode, and several other indcidents where incidents when he wasn't exactly policing "by the book", which had been covered up by Aberline.
Chief Inspector Abberline.
* WhamEpisode: "The Beating of her Wings", episode two of the third season, packs one hell of a wallop. [[spoiler: Reid's daughter is alive andinsane.brainwashed. The Inspector, unaware of this, finds the man he thinks killed her, ''beats him to death against a stone wall'' and, blood-spattered and staring, walks off into the streets of Whitechapel. This is made worse by the fact that, while the man had been imprisoning her, he hadn't actually raped or starved her as Reid was made to believe but instead cared for her like a daughter. And the man was clearly mentally disabled and didn't understand what he was doing was wrong.]]]]
** Also, the last episode of season 4 "Edmund Reid Did This", which sends the heroes on the run from the law ([[spoiler: and kills off Drake]]), which then changes the whole structure of the show for the last season from a social-justice-themed police procedural with mystery-of-the-week plots to an even darker character drama with a more serialized plot about unmasking [[spoiler: the Police Commissioner]] as the villain he is, while they're being hunted by the new boss of H Division, Detective Inspector [[spoiler: Shine]].
* WhamEpisode: "The Beating of her Wings", episode two of the third season, packs one hell of a wallop. [[spoiler: Reid's daughter is alive and
** Also, the last episode of season 4 "Edmund Reid Did This", which sends the heroes on the run from the law ([[spoiler: and kills off Drake]]), which then changes the whole structure of the show for the last season from a social-justice-themed police procedural with mystery-of-the-week plots to an even darker character drama with a more serialized plot about unmasking [[spoiler: the Police Commissioner]] as the villain he is, while they're being hunted by the new boss of H Division, Detective Inspector [[spoiler: Shine]].
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Hobbs]].
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Hobbs]].[[spoiler: Hobbs]].
** [[spoiler: Fred Best]] in season 3.
** [[spoiler: Bennet Drake]] in season 4.
** And at the end of the show [[spoiler: Susan and Jackson (the latter gets an heroic death offscreen after leaving Whitechapel). Probably Rose, too, considering she was severely depressed and suicidal when she was last seen, though it wasn't stated in the show what became of her after she left Whitechapel.]]
** [[spoiler: Fred Best]] in season 3.
** [[spoiler: Bennet Drake]] in season 4.
** And at the end of the show [[spoiler: Susan and Jackson (the latter gets an heroic death offscreen after leaving Whitechapel). Probably Rose, too, considering she was severely depressed and suicidal when she was last seen, though it wasn't stated in the show what became of her after she left Whitechapel.]]
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Fred Best]] was the only regular character who wasn't straight, unlike the main 3 straight guys he never got a romance storyline[[note]] other than a brief encounter with a teenage sex worker that was just in the plot to provide blackmail material; and a man who was implied to have been his lover, but who only showed up in the show as a corpse [[/note]], and he gets killed off to motivate the main characters at the end of season 3. [[note]] If one is charitable, one can believe that this was not because he was unimportant enough to be expendable and the writers didn't know what to do with him, but because the actor got a major role in ((series/TheLastKingdom)). Though who knows which came first. [[/note]]
** Also, almost all one-episode characters who are gay or genderqueer end up dead or arrested and soon-to-be-executed [[note]] Like the crossdressing woman / transgender guy (It's left unclear whether the character lived as a man because he really felt like a man, or just because it was the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job.) in "Live Free, Live True", who was a very sympathetic character, but still got arrested for murder and sent to the gallows - in a dress. [[/note]], with the only one who got away committing vigilante murder instead of fleeing the city as planned (with no hint as to whether he got away with it or got caought and hanged). Only background bit players like the hostess of the gay / transgender club in "The King Came Calling" survive the episodes they show up in, never to be mentioned again.
** Also, almost all one-episode characters who are gay or genderqueer end up dead or arrested and soon-to-be-executed [[note]] Like the crossdressing woman / transgender guy (It's left unclear whether the character lived as a man because he really felt like a man, or just because it was the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job.) in "Live Free, Live True", who was a very sympathetic character, but still got arrested for murder and sent to the gallows - in a dress. [[/note]], with the only one who got away committing vigilante murder instead of fleeing the city as planned (with no hint as to whether he got away with it or got caought and hanged). Only background bit players like the hostess of the gay / transgender club in "The King Came Calling" survive the episodes they show up in, never to be mentioned again.
** Drake's is worse - so bad even he doubts his worthiness to live and be among other human beings.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: When Reid, Jackson, and Drake trace the origins of ThePlague in "The King Came Calling", they find that the initial victims were all part of a secret club of a queer men. The men in question panicked when the police showed up because they thought they under arrest for being homosexual and/or crossdressing. Jackson at least doesn't judge them for what [[UnusualEuphemism raises their flag.]]
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: When Reid, Jackson, and Drake trace the origins of ThePlague in "The King Came Calling", they find that some of the initial victims were all part of a secret club of a queer men. / brothel for gay men and transgender women (a "Molly house"). The men in question people at the club panicked when the police showed up because they thought they were under arrest for being homosexual and/or crossdressing. Jackson at least doesn't judge them for what [[UnusualEuphemism raises their flag.]]]] Reid, to his credit, also treats the owner of the club repectfully (taking off his hat and even calling them "Madam") and promises them that he won't prosecute any "bawdy house" for the next few months, not even one catering to gay men.
** In "Threads of Silk and Gold", Jackson continues to be an ally [[note]] "Don't knock it till you tried it, Bennito! I know some stevadors who'd treat you like a princess." [[/note]] and Reid continues to be polite and as compassionate as he can. (Except to the himself still-teenage boy who was pimping the underage male sex workers, even though he was shown to be their friend and basically just acting as an organizer for the "bookings", not forcing anyone.) And even casually homophobic Drake is led to become unsure of the rightfulness of a law that requires them to arrest men just for whom they love. But in the beginning of the episode, they had just raided a private house party and arrested a bunch of (middle class, adult) gay men, which none of the officers seems to have any problem with. And the real villain gets away scott-free [[spoiler: (Well, he would have, if not for one heartbroken boy commiting a hanging offense to get vigilante justice.)]], because he blackmails Fred Best [[spoiler: with photos proving his homosexuality]] - and in this time period, there's just nothing the reporter can do to defend himself against that, and no-one he can turn to, not even Reid (who gave him evidence to publish in order to at least destroy the villain's business reputation). [[note]] In their next interaction, Reid's attitude to Best is back to contemptuous and hostile, presumably because he doesn't know why Best didn't publish the evidence like he promised he would. [[/note]]
** In "Live Free, Live True", a person we'd today consider transgender [[note]] Though it's left unclear whether he really feels like a man, or if he just lives as a man because that's the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job. In any case, the show keeps using the pronoun "he". [[/note]] wasn't even out to their own adopted daugther. And when the character gets sent off to prison (for vigilante killing, not for crossdressing), the "good guys", while being polite, still make them wear a white robe like a nightdress instead of letting them keep their male clothing, which the daughter points out is humiliating and cruel.
** In the same episode, it's shown how society criminalized abortion, and even just education about contraception - and even ex- HookerWithAHeartOfGold Susan refuses to finance such services in her new hospital, when the female doctor there begs her to consider the suffering and damage from badly performed back alley abortions and toxic abortificants it could prevent. (Susan only agrees after [[spoiler: she finds herself pregnant and unmarried,]] which already ruins her ambitions to gain respectability.) However, it turns out that the feminist-ally male abortion doctor introduced in the episode [[spoiler: really is evil, since he was really using the poor women he was supposedly helping for medical experimentation on sterilization motivated by classist / eugenicist goals]], making this somewhat of a zigzagged application of the trope.
** In "Threads of Silk and Gold", Jackson continues to be an ally [[note]] "Don't knock it till you tried it, Bennito! I know some stevadors who'd treat you like a princess." [[/note]] and Reid continues to be polite and as compassionate as he can. (Except to the himself still-teenage boy who was pimping the underage male sex workers, even though he was shown to be their friend and basically just acting as an organizer for the "bookings", not forcing anyone.) And even casually homophobic Drake is led to become unsure of the rightfulness of a law that requires them to arrest men just for whom they love. But in the beginning of the episode, they had just raided a private house party and arrested a bunch of (middle class, adult) gay men, which none of the officers seems to have any problem with. And the real villain gets away scott-free [[spoiler: (Well, he would have, if not for one heartbroken boy commiting a hanging offense to get vigilante justice.)]], because he blackmails Fred Best [[spoiler: with photos proving his homosexuality]] - and in this time period, there's just nothing the reporter can do to defend himself against that, and no-one he can turn to, not even Reid (who gave him evidence to publish in order to at least destroy the villain's business reputation). [[note]] In their next interaction, Reid's attitude to Best is back to contemptuous and hostile, presumably because he doesn't know why Best didn't publish the evidence like he promised he would. [[/note]]
** In "Live Free, Live True", a person we'd today consider transgender [[note]] Though it's left unclear whether he really feels like a man, or if he just lives as a man because that's the only way for a poor woman to be independent, safe and hold down a decent job. In any case, the show keeps using the pronoun "he". [[/note]] wasn't even out to their own adopted daugther. And when the character gets sent off to prison (for vigilante killing, not for crossdressing), the "good guys", while being polite, still make them wear a white robe like a nightdress instead of letting them keep their male clothing, which the daughter points out is humiliating and cruel.
** In the same episode, it's shown how society criminalized abortion, and even just education about contraception - and even ex- HookerWithAHeartOfGold Susan refuses to finance such services in her new hospital, when the female doctor there begs her to consider the suffering and damage from badly performed back alley abortions and toxic abortificants it could prevent. (Susan only agrees after [[spoiler: she finds herself pregnant and unmarried,]] which already ruins her ambitions to gain respectability.) However, it turns out that the feminist-ally male abortion doctor introduced in the episode [[spoiler: really is evil, since he was really using the poor women he was supposedly helping for medical experimentation on sterilization motivated by classist / eugenicist goals]], making this somewhat of a zigzagged application of the trope.
** Police violence and even outright torture is normal. At one point Jackson even uses a (conveniently CompleteMonster) criminal for medical experimentation by letting him die of a poison he'd ingested, without any palliative care. Even Reid, who is shown to be very ethical and "modern" for the time, frequently uses Drake to beat up suspects - [[spoiler: until Drake rebells against it and calls out Reid's hypocrisy in not wanting to get his own hands dirty.]] In later seasons, they get a bit better in this regard, only sometimes threatening to torture or poison suspects to make them talk, but not actually going through with it. Though [[spoiler: Inspector Shine's]] treatment of a small-time criminal witness shows that torture is still considered a perfectly acceptable method of getting information by most of the police force.
** In the last season, Reid and Jackson hold an an underling of [[spoiler: Inspector Shine]] at gunpoint and strip him naked (which would nowadays be considered sexual assault) and then publically humiliate him by tying him onto a horse and making him ride through Whitechapel - all just to send [[spoiler: Shine]] a message. In the show, everyone laughs about it and even the victim [[spoiler: switches sides to help Reid and Jackson shortly later.]] Though it's unclear if this was meant to be ''deliberate'' values dissonance, or if it's just a case of values dissonance / double standards on part of the writers, who thought this was funny...
** In the last season, Reid and Jackson hold an an underling of [[spoiler: Inspector Shine]] at gunpoint and strip him naked (which would nowadays be considered sexual assault) and then publically humiliate him by tying him onto a horse and making him ride through Whitechapel - all just to send [[spoiler: Shine]] a message. In the show, everyone laughs about it and even the victim [[spoiler: switches sides to help Reid and Jackson shortly later.]] Though it's unclear if this was meant to be ''deliberate'' values dissonance, or if it's just a case of values dissonance / double standards on part of the writers, who thought this was funny...
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]: By the end of the show, [[spoiler: every last major character from the early seasons (except Reid [[note]] and Rose, though she was explicitly suicidal when she left [[/note]]) is dead, and the later-introduced significant characters have left Whitechapel and Reid for good. Reid himself is last seen all alone, burying himself in his work, and is implied to self-imprison himself in the district of Whitechapel for the rest of his life to atone for the crime he really should have gone to prison for.]]
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rose, absolutely. [[spoiler:Drake's]] wife Bella was also formerly a prostitute. Finally, to an extent, there is Long Susan, brothel owner and manager if not a prostitute herself.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rose, absolutely. [[spoiler:Drake's]] [[spoiler: Drake's]] wife Bella was also formerly a prostitute. Finally, to an extent, there is Long Susan, brothel owner and manager if not a prostitute herself.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Susan after the [[spoiler:bond robbery]] goes tragically wrong. It drives a lot of the plot of season three.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Susan after the [[spoiler:bond robbery]] goes tragically wrong. It drives a lot of the plot of season three. 3 and 4. [[spoiler: And even though she first escapes prison, ultimately she feels she deserves to be punished and so hands herself over to be executed in "A Last Good Act".]]
--> Susan: "All who kill must be punished."
--> Susan: "All who kill must be punished."
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* RealityEnsues: In "A Man of My Company" after the stockholders of the shipping company find out that [[spoiler: a ''woman'' designed the new engine that could save the company]] they react exactly the way a bunch of late Victorian old men would react and throw a collective fit. It's implied that this allowed [[spoiler:Mr. Swift to get the company.]]
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* RealityEnsues: In "A Man of My Company" after the stockholders of the shipping company find out that [[spoiler: a ''woman'' designed the new engine that could save the company]] they react exactly the way a bunch of late Victorian old men would react and throw a collective fit. It's implied that this allowed [[spoiler:Mr.[[spoiler: Mr. Swift to get the company.]]
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* WhamEpisode: "The Beating of her Wings", episode two of the third season, packs one hell of a wallop. [[spoiler:Reid's daughter is alive and insane. The Inspector, unaware of this, finds the man he thinks killed her, ''beats him to death against a stone wall'' and, blood-spattered and staring, walks off into the streets of Whitechapel.]]
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** Reid and Susan with regards to [[spoiler: locking up Susan's father in an abandoned cellar and letting him die slowly, because they can't arrest him for his crimes.]] This comes back to haunt Reid with a vengeance at the end of season 4, along with the [[spoiler: murder]] described below under WhamEpisode, and several other indcidents where he wasn't exactly policing "by the book", which had been covered up by Aberline.
* WhamEpisode: "The Beating of her Wings", episode two of the third season, packs one hell of a wallop.[[spoiler:Reid's [[spoiler: Reid's daughter is alive and insane. The Inspector, unaware of this, finds the man he thinks killed her, ''beats him to death against a stone wall'' and, blood-spattered and staring, walks off into the streets of Whitechapel. This is made worse by the fact that, while the man had been imprisoning her, he hadn't actually raped or starved her as Reid was made to believe but instead cared for her like a daughter. And the man was clearly mentally disabled and didn't understand what he was doing was wrong.]]
* WhamEpisode: "The Beating of her Wings", episode two of the third season, packs one hell of a wallop.
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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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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Yes, there was an Inspector Edmund Reid. {{Wikipedia}} Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Reid more]]
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* {{Badass}}: Drake and Jackson stand out
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* UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper: Begins place six months after the last murder. The pilot deals with the lingering fear left behind by the ripper murders.
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* UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard: The focus of the show is around the Metropolitan Police. H Division really existed in that area, although it became much larger and eventually Tower Hamlets Borough Operational Command Unit.
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* [[DoublingForLondon Dublin For London]]: The London street scenes are actually filmed in Dublin. Most of the 1880s East End has long been demolished.
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* [[DoublingForLondon Dublin For London]]: DoublingForLondon: The London street scenes are actually filmed in Dublin. Most of the 1880s East End has long been demolished.
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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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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Yes, there was an Inspector Edmund Reid. WikiPedia {{Wikipedia}} has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Reid more]]
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* OutsideContextVillain: Occurs to BigBad slumlord Silas who spends the second season menacing Susan and Jackson for their debts which they eventually pay off with a diamond - what he isn't prepared for is the pissed off De Graal Diamond Company thugs coming to get their diamond back. Cue [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]
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* OutsideContextVillain: OutsideContextProblem: Occurs to BigBad slumlord Silas who spends the second season menacing Susan and Jackson for their debts which they eventually pay off with a diamond - what he isn't prepared for is the pissed off De Graal Diamond Company thugs coming to get their diamond back. Cue [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]
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Among the factories, rookeries, 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.
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Among the factories, rookeries, brothels and pubs, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) and Detective Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) (Creator/JeromeFlynn) team with US Army surgeon and former Pinkerton detective Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) to investigate the killings.
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* BodyInABreadbox: In "Heavy Boots", two naked bodies are found stuffed into two barrels, but though their joints were broken to make them fit there's not a scratch on them. Turns out the barrels were built ''around'' the bodies, which leads to the identity of the perpetrator.
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* BottleEpisode: "The Incontrovertible Truth" in season 3.
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* BottleEpisode: "The Incontrovertible Truth" in season 3. 3, which takes place over a single night at Leman Street Station.
* GoodCopBadCop: In Season 3 Drake threatens to remove a suspect's big toe, and has the screaming man's foot on his lap and the bone knife ready when Reid rushes into the cell and throws him out. Reid promises protection, and the man gives him everything he knows.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rose, absolutely. Long Susan, to an extent.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rose, absolutely. [[spoiler:Drake's]] wife Bella was also formerly a prostitute. Finally, to an extent, there is Long Susan, to an extent.brothel owner and manager if not a prostitute herself.
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* PowerWalk: Reid and Drake step out of the station house to rescue [[spoiler:Reid's daughter]], people scattering away from them in slo-mo. (It was probably the shotguns that did it.)
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* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [[spoiler: One episode has a Russian secret policeman coming undercover to England, pretending to be a socialist instigator, getting turned to becoming a British double-agent who intended to have him discredit the socialist movement, then betraying them to bomb London for real. Yes, it's as twisted as it sounds.]]
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* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [[spoiler: One episode "Tournament of Shadows" has a [[spoiler:a Russian secret policeman coming undercover to England, pretending to be a socialist instigator, getting turned to becoming a British double-agent who intended to have him discredit the socialist movement, then betraying them to bomb London for real. Yes, it's as twisted as it sounds.]]
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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Victor Silver and Matilda Reid.]]
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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Victor Silver and Matilda Reid.]]]] Rather cleverly {{zigzagged|trope}}, with the former dropping heavy hints at the survival of the latter. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a lie, and Matilda is still missing.]]
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* OutsideContextVillain: Occurs to BigBad slumlord Silas who spends the second season menacing Susan and Jackson for their debts which they eventually pay off with a diamond - what he isn't prepared for is the pissed off De Graal Diamond Company thugs coming to get their diamond back. cue [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]
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* OutsideContextVillain: Occurs to BigBad slumlord Silas who spends the second season menacing Susan and Jackson for their debts which they eventually pay off with a diamond - what he isn't prepared for is the pissed off De Graal Diamond Company thugs coming to get their diamond back. cue Cue [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]
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* ShowdownAtHighNoon: "A Man Of My Company"
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* ShowdownAtHighNoon: "A Man Of My Company"Company". Two Americans have a score to settle, so what else can be done?
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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler: [[MamaBear Long Susan]] killed a man as he tried to kill her favorite girl.]]
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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler: [[MamaBear Long Susan]] Susan]]]] killed a man as he tried to kill her favorite girl.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuck: Epic one delivered by Best as his death speech. Flight also delivers a stinging one to the crowd harrassing Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) in Season 2's '''''"Am I Not Monstrous?"''''':
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* TheReasonYouSuck: Epic one delivered by Best as his death speech. Flight also delivers a stinging one to the crowd harrassing harassing Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) in Season 2's '''''"Am I Not Monstrous?"''''':
* ThousandYardStare: Reid is prone to this when thinking of his daughter.
* WhamEpisode: "The Beating of her Wings", episode two of the third season, packs one hell of a wallop. [[spoiler:Reid's daughter is alive and insane. The Inspector, unaware of this, finds the man he thinks killed her, ''beats him to death against a stone wall'' and, blood-spattered and staring, walks off into the streets of Whitechapel.]]
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Jackson calls Susan by her real name, Caitlin, when trying to defend his actions in investing in a doomed mining scheme. Susan is having none of it, though.
** She uses his real name, Matthew, as she calls him out
** She uses his real name, Matthew, as she calls him out
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Jackson calls Susan by her real name, Caitlin, when trying to defend his actions in investing in a doomed mining scheme. Susan is having none of it, though. \n** She uses his real name, Matthew, as she calls him outout.
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* BottleEpisode: "The Incontrovertible Truth" in season 3.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Susan after the [[spoiler:bond robbery]] goes tragically wrong. It drives a lot of the plot of season three.
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* TheInspector: Reid, although unlike many examples of this trope he doesn't have a younger assistant tagging along nor do Jackson or Drake really act as {{The Watson}}.
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* TheReasonYouSuck: Epic one delivered by Best as his death speech.
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* TheReasonYouSuck: Epic one delivered by Best as his death speech. Flight also delivers a stinging one to the crowd harrassing Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) in Season 2's '''''"Am I Not Monstrous?"''''':
-->'''Flight''': What is wrong with you?! This man is your fellow! You would stone him?! You call ''him'' monster?! [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Look on your own sins]].
-->'''Flight''': What is wrong with you?! This man is your fellow! You would stone him?! You call ''him'' monster?! [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Look on your own sins]].
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* TheReasonYouSuck: Epic one delivered by Best as his death speech.
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** And [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Ziani_de_Ferranti Sebastoam de Ferranti]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_effect Ferranti Effect]]
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** And [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Ziani_de_Ferranti Sebastoam Sebastian de Ferranti]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_effect Ferranti Effect]]
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** And [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Ziani_de_Ferranti Sebastoam de Ferranti]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_effect Ferranti Effect]]
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Treves,_1st_Baronet, Sir Frederick Treves]] appear in season 2.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Treves,_1st_Baronet, org/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Treves,_1st_Baronet Sir Frederick Treves]] appear in season 2.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Treves,_1st_Baronet, Sir Frederick Treves]] appear in season 2.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man]] and [[https://en.[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Treves,_1st_Baronet, Sir Frederick Treves]] appear in season 2.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man]] appears in season 2.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man]] appears and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Treves,_1st_Baronet, Sir Frederick Treves]] appear in season 2.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Linklater in "Pure as the Driven..."
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* WhamLine: "Sir, when we find the people who did this... may we kill them?"
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** Though Edmund Reid, who historically did have a beard, goes clean-chinned.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Everyone, but especially Jackson and Long Susan.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Everyone, but especially Jackson and Long Susan. Susan.
* DeadpanSnarker: Chief Inspector Abberline. Most characters have moments of this but he's the king of it.
* DeadpanSnarker: Chief Inspector Abberline. Most characters have moments of this but he's the king of it.
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* FinishHim: Reid to Drake, about Shine, at the climax of season 2. From Drake's response, it's clear he isn't going to do it, but it's a sign that Reid has gone dangerously down the WellIntentionedExtremist route. The season ends at that point, but we can expect season three to begin with Reid having an enormous MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.
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* FinishHim: Reid to Drake, about Shine, at the climax of season 2. From Drake's response, it's clear he isn't going to do it, but it's a sign that Reid has gone dangerously down the WellIntentionedExtremist route. The season ends at that point, but we can expect season three to begin with Reid having an enormous MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.point.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rose and Long Susan
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rose and Rose, absolutely. Long SusanSusan, to an extent.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: First [[spoiler: Flight]] and then [[spoiler: Grace]] look like being this to Hobbs - though in the former case it's ultimately averted.
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* ArtifactTitle: In-Universe. Jack the Ripper's crimes and the investigation into them are relegated to {{backstory}}. The show actually begins several months after the last of the Ripper killings when the crimes are still very much on everyone's minds but Whitechapel is slowly adjusting back to "normal".
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* ArtifactTitle: In-Universe. Jack the Ripper's crimes and the investigation into them are relegated to {{backstory}}. The show actually begins several months after the last of the Ripper killings when the crimes are still very much on everyone's minds but Whitechapel is slowly adjusting back to "normal". "normal".
* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Although it's well researched, a number of small liberties are taken with the biographies of the historical characters.
** Most notably, Edmund and Emily Reid have one child, Matilda, apparently born c. 1880. In real life they had two, Elizabeth (b. 1873) and Harold (b. 1882).
** Emily [[spoiler: dies offscreen sometime before 1894]]; in reality she [[spoiler: died in 1900]].
** Fred Best is [[spoiler: murdered in 1894]]; the real Best was [[spoiler: apparently still alive in 1931]].
** Reid and Abberline [[spoiler: retire]] at the same time in 1894 - historically, Abberline did this in 1892 and Reid not until 1896.
* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Although it's well researched, a number of small liberties are taken with the biographies of the historical characters.
** Most notably, Edmund and Emily Reid have one child, Matilda, apparently born c. 1880. In real life they had two, Elizabeth (b. 1873) and Harold (b. 1882).
** Emily [[spoiler: dies offscreen sometime before 1894]]; in reality she [[spoiler: died in 1900]].
** Fred Best is [[spoiler: murdered in 1894]]; the real Best was [[spoiler: apparently still alive in 1931]].
** Reid and Abberline [[spoiler: retire]] at the same time in 1894 - historically, Abberline did this in 1892 and Reid not until 1896.
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* DisposableSexWorker: Frequently deconstructed, since the series starts on the heels of the JackTheRipper case. Sex workers are portrayed as well-meaning people in a less-than-ideal situations and the audience is meant to sympathize with them even though the society they live in doesn't.
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* DisposableSexWorker: Frequently deconstructed, since the series starts on the heels of the JackTheRipper UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case. Sex workers are portrayed as well-meaning people in a less-than-ideal situations and the audience is meant to sympathize with them even though the society they live in doesn't.
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* JackTheRipper: Begins place six months after the last murder. The pilot deals with the lingering fear left behind by the ripper murders.
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* JackTheRipper: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper: Begins place six months after the last murder. The pilot deals with the lingering fear left behind by the ripper murders.
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* MasterPoisoner: Claxton in "The King Came Calling", who creates a poison combining antimony and ergot and uses it to contaminate the flour supply in an attempt to become more famous than JackTheRipper.
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* MasterPoisoner: Claxton in "The King Came Calling", who creates a poison combining antimony and ergot and uses it to contaminate the flour supply in an attempt to become more famous than JackTheRipper.UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
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* OutsideContextVillain: Occurs to BigBad slumlord Silas who spends the second season menacing Susan and Jackson for their debts which they eventually pay off with a diamond - what he isn't prepared for is the pissed of off De Graal Diamond Company thugs coming to get their diamond back. cue [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]
