All Episodes of Ripper Street
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Season 1
7.7/10929 votesLoading...I Need Light
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/30/2012
A young woman is discovered brutally murdered in the fashion of Jack the Ripper. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline believes The Ripper has returned, but Reid, the new head of the precinct, believes a different kind of evil may be at work.
Director: Tom Shankland
Writer: Richard Warlow
7.7/10755 votesLoading...In My Protection
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/2013
When a toy-maker is murdered, a 14-year-old boy is the suspect but Reid digs deeper and discovers a vicious child gang and its brutal master. Jackson's gambling may expose his American past.
Director: Tom Shankland
Writer: Richard Warlow
7.8/10680 votesLoading...The King Came Calling
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/2013
Deliberate contamination is suspected in a sudden cholera outbreak . Emily's search for a charity patron proves difficult.
Director: Andy Wilson
Writer: Richard Warlow, Declan Croghan
7.9/10665 votesLoading...The Good of This City
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/2013
The brutal clearing of a local slum for the underground railway reveals an almost indecipherable murder scene and an unreliable slum girl witness. Lucy Eames, beautiful and disturbed, is the unlikely key to a Byzantine web of conspiracy.
Director: Andy Wilson
Writer: Richard Warlow, Julie Rutterford
8.1/10663 votesLoading...The Weight of One Man's Heart
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/2013
A string of brilliantly masterminded robberies keeps Reid and his team busy and leads to a blast from the past for Drake when he is confronted by his former army colonel. As the net closes in on the robbers, the sergeant finds his loyalties put to the test.
Director: Colm McCarthy
Writer: Richard Warlow, Toby Finlay
7.9/10579 votesLoading...Tournament of Shadows
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/2013
As the dock strike of August '89 takes hold of the city, the killing of a Jewish anarchist leads Reid and the team into the heartless chicanery of the British government's fight against distant empires and global terrorism.
Director: Colm McCarthy
Writer: Richard Warlow, Toby Finlay
- 8.5/10587 votesLoading...
A Man of My Company
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/17/2013
International haulage tycoon TP Swift arrives in town to acquire an ailing shipping line, accompanied by a team of private detectives, who proceed to cut a violent swathe through the borough on a mission of vengeance. As Reid focuses on the murder of an engine inventor, Jackson and Susan's past comes back to haunt them, bringing their future in Whitechapel - and their very lives - into question.
Director: Andy Wilson
Writer: Richard Warlow
8.5/10585 votesLoading...What Use Our Work?
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/24/2013
Reid is adrift, his team in pieces and Leman Street shaken to its foundations following recent events. A kidnapping offers him cause to assemble his men and tackle the white slavery ring operating in their midst. But Reid is gripped by a growing obsession that this leads back to the terrible secret from his own past.
Director: Andy Wilson
Writer: Richard Warlow