The Best Episodes of Ripper Street
Last Updated: Nov 13, 2018
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
#1 - Our Betrayal (2)
Season 2 - Episode 8
Death and violence comes to Whitechapel once again. Some decayed and murdered bodies are discovered in a slum tenement, and the advanced stages of the police divisional boxing championship reveals the vengeful ferocity to be seen within the ranks of the police force.
8.45
#2 - The Peace of Edmund Reid
Season 3 - Episode 8
When an American journalist is killed in Whitechapel, his story threatens the peace.
8.29
#3 - Our Betrayal (1)
Season 2 - Episode 7
A valuable symbol of the British Empire’s wealth shows up in the form of an uncut diamond. It is a jewel ‘freed’ from the diamond monopoly of De Graal by one Daniel Judge, Captain Jackson’s untrustworthy older brother. Reid and Flight find themselves being drawn to the plight of a local craftsman defrauded of his work and income by a scam that is set to return H Division to the malign influence of Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine.
8.23
#4 - What Use Our Work?
Season 1 - Episode 8
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.
8.22
#5 - Your Father, My Friend
Season 3 - Episode 4
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake investigate the latest criminal activity.
8.22
#6 - The Beating of Her Wings
Season 3 - Episode 2
A curiosity shop is the scene of a murder, with signs of a secret dungeon and a girl held captive.
8.18
#7 - A Last Good Act
Season 5 - Episode 5
8.16
#8 - A Man of My Company
Season 1 - Episode 7
An international shipping magnate arrives in town, with a retinue of Pinkerton Agency bodyguards, to complete the acquisition of an ailing London shipping line. Meanwhile, the murdered body of a brilliant engineer draws Reid's attention just as Jackson and Susan's forgotten past returns to claim them.
8.13
#9 - A Stronger Loving World
Season 2 - Episode 6
Churches and synagogues are being burnt and desecrated in Whitechapel and Reid suspects the same hand behind the various attacks. Meanwhile, the all-too-brief domestic happiness that Sergeant Drake has enjoyed is disrupted by the arrival of a friend from his wife Bella's past, the mysterious and charismatic scholar, Gabriel Cain.
8.11
#10 - Edmund Reid Did This
Season 4 - Episode 6
The walls close in on Reid as a secret from his past threatens to destroy his future in Whitechapel.
8.00
#11 - Dynamite and a Woman
Season 2 - Episode 4
An Irish bomber is sprung from prison and barely a day later a prominent opponent of the Home Rule movement is murdered. Chief Inspector Abberline is convinced that the Irish Republican Brotherhood is active once more and orders Reid to send the Irish DC Flight undercover into Whitechapel's Irish community.
8.00
#12 - The Dreaming Dead
Season 5 - Episode 4
7.99
#13 - Live Free, Live True
Season 3 - Episode 7
The murder of a chemist lifts the lid on a backstreet abortion racket.
7.95
#14 - Whitechapel Terminus
Season 3 - Episode 1
Reid and Long Susan are set on a collision course after a locomotive disaster.
7.92
#15 - Pure as the Driven
Season 2 - Episode 1
Jack the Ripper may be fading into memory, but east London has found no peace. An investigation into the assault of a policeman leads DI Reid and the men of H-Division to the newly-emergent Chinatown, where Jackson discovers evidence of a new and devastatingly powerful opiate. Reid fears a new kind of hell is to be released onto his streets.
7.91
#16 - The Incontrovertible Truth
Season 3 - Episode 6
The recovering Reid finds the unconscious Lady Vera Montacute in Whitechapel next to the corpse of a flower seller.
7.91
#17 - The Good of This City
Season 1 - Episode 4
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.
7.90
#18 - Some Conscience Lost
Season 4 - Episode 2
Reid struggles to adapt on his first day back at H Division under Drake’s command.
7.89
#19 - Am I Not Monstrous?
Season 2 - Episode 2
A young woman is found murdered at the London Hospital and the only clue to her identity is an unusual deformity. The hunt for her killer takes Reid and the team into the shadowy netherworld of the freakshows, where they must seek the help of Joseph Merrick, aka the Elephant Man. Reinforcements for H-Division arrive in the form of DC Albert Flight.
7.89
#20 - Threads of Silk and Gold
Season 2 - Episode 5
Investigations into the brutal slaying of a telegraph boy lift the lid on a vice racket run from the offices of the GPO. The case leads Reid to the heart of the one of the city's most august financial institutions. Captain Jackson seeks ever more perilous means of ridding he and Long Susan of the suffocating debt they owe Silas Duggan.
7.87
#21 - The Stranger's Home
Season 4 - Episode 1
Reid must return to Whitechapel to covertly re-investigate a case made by Drake and Jackson.
7.87
#22 - Ashes and Diamonds
Season 3 - Episode 3
Alex le Shayne, a mysterious clairvoyant is found dead at the local performance place. Jackson presumes poison has a part to play. As Reid is missing Drake steps in to investigate. Elsewhere Susan continues to care for Mathilda and plans to send her to Switzerland.
7.87
#23 - Become Man
Season 2 - Episode 3
The abduction of a prominent member of the London County Council introduces Reid to Councilor Jane Cobden, the first woman appointed to the LCC - because it appears the kidnappers are radical supporters of Cobden's aims. Long Susan is taken by force to the gang's hideout, and she soon finds herself growing sympathetic to her captors' lives and aims.
7.86
#24 - I Need Light
Season 1 - Episode 1
A young woman is found brutally murdered, the hallmark signs of the Ripper upon her. One-time H Division boss Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline believes that Jack has returned, but Reid - the precinct's new master - suspects a different evil at work.
7.83
#25 - All the Glittering Blades
Season 5 - Episode 3
7.82