1 00:00:01,136 --> 00:00:05,360 - There is a little boy we could have. - This boy, Connor, has a father, 2 00:00:05,424 --> 00:00:09,549 Rose. When the mother is gone, it is up to Jackson to resolve, right? 3 00:00:09,616 --> 00:00:10,828 - Take him. - Please. 4 00:00:10,897 --> 00:00:14,029 - Please, Connor, it's for the best. - (CONNOR WAILS) 5 00:00:18,096 --> 00:00:21,229 - Don't ever die for real. - This borough here 6 00:00:21,297 --> 00:00:23,153 - has a taste for monsters. - Then let us hear of 7 00:00:23,217 --> 00:00:24,974 the man behind that monster. 8 00:00:25,041 --> 00:00:26,319 He's Isaac Bloom. 9 00:00:26,385 --> 00:00:29,615 It would not be so hard a thing to have a warrant card made for you. 10 00:00:29,681 --> 00:00:33,392 Needs must you would work under me, however. 11 00:00:35,825 --> 00:00:36,807 (STREET HUBBUB) 12 00:01:02,803 --> 00:01:06,601 - MATHILDA: You are anxious. - REID: No, I'm not. I'm not anxious. 13 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:10,451 This work I am set to, my research in Whitechapel, 14 00:01:10,515 --> 00:01:12,043 you do not wish me to undertake it. 15 00:01:12,115 --> 00:01:13,490 That I do not, no. 16 00:01:13,556 --> 00:01:17,005 You think I'll be set upon by wolves and demons. 17 00:01:17,076 --> 00:01:18,986 But I told you before, I'm equal to them. 18 00:01:19,060 --> 00:01:22,803 We are, none of us, equal to Whitechapel. 19 00:01:22,867 --> 00:01:24,876 Then you are not only anxious for me, 20 00:01:24,948 --> 00:01:27,764 for today you return to your duties at Leman Street. 21 00:01:27,828 --> 00:01:32,106 I am not anxious for that, Mathilda. I am not anxious at all. 22 00:01:32,180 --> 00:01:34,353 Then I may go about my work alone. 23 00:01:34,421 --> 00:01:35,469 You know you may not. 24 00:01:35,541 --> 00:01:38,771 It is your first day at it, and you will go with me or not at all. 25 00:01:38,836 --> 00:01:42,416 And so you win yourself an hour or two's delay 26 00:01:42,485 --> 00:01:46,894 before you walk through those doors and become a policeman again. 27 00:01:54,005 --> 00:01:56,373 Idle, drinking, violent. 28 00:01:56,437 --> 00:02:00,945 I shall mark these houses lowest class, loafer, vicious. 29 00:02:02,646 --> 00:02:05,396 I have my doubts of these categories of Mr Booth's. 30 00:02:05,462 --> 00:02:07,373 They do not do justice to the human reality. 31 00:02:07,446 --> 00:02:10,480 These people are not vicious or idle or violent. 32 00:02:10,550 --> 00:02:12,210 They do not choose this existence. 33 00:02:12,279 --> 00:02:14,005 And yet in but three words they are condemned. 34 00:02:14,070 --> 00:02:16,275 Mr Booth's categories are none of your concern. 35 00:02:16,342 --> 00:02:19,573 This is not your work. It is mine. 36 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,804 I shall see to this house myself, alone. 37 00:02:24,918 --> 00:02:26,196 (KNOCKS AT DOOR) 38 00:02:38,679 --> 00:02:39,662 (CHILD WHIMPERS) 39 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:44,088 (WHIMPERING CONTINUES) 40 00:03:07,481 --> 00:03:08,562 (WEAKLY) I die. 41 00:03:08,633 --> 00:03:09,681 Father! 42 00:03:11,289 --> 00:03:12,305 Father! 43 00:03:17,241 --> 00:03:21,017 - Father, he's dying! - There, boy. 44 00:03:21,082 --> 00:03:23,800 Open your chest. What's your name? Where's your mother? 45 00:03:24,890 --> 00:03:27,925 - I'm dying. I die. - I am here. You are not alone. 46 00:03:27,994 --> 00:03:29,369 - What is your name? - (BOY MURMURS) 47 00:03:33,114 --> 00:03:34,839 - Tommy. - Tommy. 48 00:03:34,906 --> 00:03:38,485 There, Tommy, do not be afraid. I am here. 49 00:03:39,706 --> 00:03:40,754 I'm here. 50 00:03:44,827 --> 00:03:45,908 (LABOURED BREATH) 51 00:04:44,766 --> 00:04:46,022 Where is it, my love? I shall be late. 52 00:04:46,045 --> 00:04:49,789 Well, I'm quite sure I washed at least one of your shirts. 53 00:04:49,854 --> 00:04:52,757 - And then there's so much linen. - All right, it's all right. Here it is. 54 00:04:52,830 --> 00:04:55,220 Yeah, a little damp, but, er... 55 00:04:55,294 --> 00:04:57,204 Here you go, Connor. Here. 56 00:04:57,278 --> 00:04:59,286 - No. - Come on, Connor. 57 00:04:59,358 --> 00:05:00,712 - No. - All right, all right, all right. 58 00:05:00,735 --> 00:05:01,848 - Connor. - Give us a go. 59 00:05:01,918 --> 00:05:05,531 Now, little fella, how are you gonna grow up big and strong 60 00:05:05,598 --> 00:05:07,323 unless you drink your milk? 61 00:05:07,391 --> 00:05:08,472 Ha! 62 00:05:15,935 --> 00:05:20,606 Connor Drake, I hereby arrest you for the criminal waste of milk 63 00:05:20,671 --> 00:05:23,934 and the destruction of police property. 64 00:05:23,999 --> 00:05:25,342 Eh? 65 00:05:25,407 --> 00:05:27,383 - Now, what do you think about that? - (GIGGLES) 66 00:05:27,456 --> 00:05:29,366 What you gonna do about that, young sir? 67 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:30,619 - Eh? - (GIGGLES) 68 00:05:30,688 --> 00:05:33,143 JACKSON: He is safe. 69 00:05:33,216 --> 00:05:35,159 He is loved, our boy. 70 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,351 Even now, your Rose holds him in her arms. Do you find no comfort in that? 71 00:05:49,633 --> 00:05:50,811 You're free. 72 00:05:53,121 --> 00:05:54,748 You're alive. 73 00:05:55,809 --> 00:05:56,890 And we're together. 74 00:05:58,017 --> 00:05:58,999 Yeah. 75 00:06:00,609 --> 00:06:01,920 We are. We are safe. 76 00:06:03,490 --> 00:06:05,214 Let us delight in that. 77 00:06:07,330 --> 00:06:09,698 900 days we were apart... 78 00:06:11,137 --> 00:06:15,928 but I counted them, every one, and I bled each and every hour. 79 00:06:19,394 --> 00:06:20,639 You can't leave. 80 00:06:24,194 --> 00:06:25,690 900 days. 81 00:06:33,411 --> 00:06:35,168 All the hours we have lost. 82 00:06:38,371 --> 00:06:39,965 We must make amends. 83 00:06:55,876 --> 00:06:58,463 Captain Jackson will be along shortly, I have no doubt, sir. 84 00:06:58,532 --> 00:07:00,573 It's a workhouse boy. 85 00:07:00,644 --> 00:07:02,336 His red scalp is iodine. 86 00:07:02,404 --> 00:07:04,511 Workhouse practice against ringworm. 87 00:07:04,581 --> 00:07:07,069 Sergeant, get on to the workhouses between here and Poplar. 88 00:07:07,140 --> 00:07:08,558 See who's gone missing. Find out who he is. 89 00:07:08,581 --> 00:07:11,451 His name is Tommy, and he has a birthmark here behind his left ear. 90 00:07:11,524 --> 00:07:14,373 And how shall I mark the case, sir? It is murder? 91 00:07:14,437 --> 00:07:16,543 It is not a case as such. 92 00:07:16,613 --> 00:07:18,981 I mean to find his family, give him a proper burial. 93 00:07:19,045 --> 00:07:23,236 But... But I must log the action, sir. It's how it is done now. 94 00:07:23,301 --> 00:07:26,815 - And what is your name, lad? - Drummond, sir. 95 00:07:26,885 --> 00:07:28,195 Samuel Drummond. 96 00:07:28,261 --> 00:07:30,204 Do not worry yourself, Samuel Drummond. 97 00:07:30,277 --> 00:07:32,613 It is a matter only for me. 98 00:07:32,678 --> 00:07:34,654 Very good, sir. 99 00:07:34,726 --> 00:07:37,956 And if you come with me now, Mr Drake is expecting you, sir. 100 00:07:52,743 --> 00:07:56,541 I, Edmund John James Reid, being appointed a constable 101 00:07:56,615 --> 00:07:59,431 of the police force of the Metropolitan Police district, 102 00:07:59,495 --> 00:08:02,049 do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare 103 00:08:02,119 --> 00:08:05,698 that I will serve our sovereign lady Queen Victoria, and in all respects 104 00:08:05,767 --> 00:08:10,340 to the best of my skill and knowledge, discharge the said office faithfully 105 00:08:10,407 --> 00:08:12,099 and according to law. 106 00:08:16,168 --> 00:08:17,379 Who'd have thought, eh? 107 00:08:22,344 --> 00:08:24,484 Welcome back, Inspector. 108 00:08:27,688 --> 00:08:31,880 You have heard me speak often enough of this gentleman, Mr Edmund Reid. 109 00:08:31,945 --> 00:08:35,262 We are lucky indeed to have him back with us. 110 00:08:35,337 --> 00:08:37,640 I see this wall soon empty, now he has returned. 111 00:08:44,009 --> 00:08:47,523 And if I may, a little something to ease you back to work. 112 00:08:48,969 --> 00:08:51,720 A curious case, a spate of attacks, 113 00:08:51,785 --> 00:08:54,470 the victims separated from their right hands. 114 00:08:54,538 --> 00:08:56,808 I have other business I must attend to, 115 00:08:56,873 --> 00:08:59,176 but Sergeant Drummond will see you fitted 116 00:08:59,242 --> 00:09:03,138 with all the particulars of the case and show you to the suspect. 117 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:06,594 Give this silent fellow a stir. See if you can't make him whistle. 118 00:09:17,290 --> 00:09:21,186 - Your name and business, sir. - I told them slops before. 119 00:09:21,259 --> 00:09:23,235 I don't talk to the police. 120 00:09:23,307 --> 00:09:24,715 - Slops? - Mm. 121 00:09:24,779 --> 00:09:28,424 You've been accused of severing the hands of four men. 122 00:09:28,492 --> 00:09:32,617 It's a most particular crime, in some cultures, the punishment for thieving. 123 00:09:32,684 --> 00:09:38,850 Slops, coster speak for police. You're a costermonger, a market trader. 124 00:09:38,924 --> 00:09:42,372 And you serve your own justice on those who would thieve from you. 125 00:09:42,444 --> 00:09:44,900 You part them from their light-fingered hands. 126 00:09:44,972 --> 00:09:46,729 It's old coster practice, this. 127 00:09:49,484 --> 00:09:55,498 These scars, you must need knives for your trade. 128 00:09:55,565 --> 00:09:56,940 You are a butcher. 129 00:09:58,381 --> 00:10:00,836 But the scars are on the underside of your palm. 130 00:10:04,429 --> 00:10:07,691 So you hold your work in your left, your knife in your right. 131 00:10:11,181 --> 00:10:12,841 You are an oyster shucker. 132 00:10:12,910 --> 00:10:15,115 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) 133 00:10:15,182 --> 00:10:20,039 Mr Reid, you are asked for, sir. The boy's mother is found. 134 00:10:25,806 --> 00:10:27,333 (DOOR CLANGS) 135 00:10:37,230 --> 00:10:40,199 You have my boy. Where is he, sir? 136 00:10:40,271 --> 00:10:42,377 I was at my interviews down Durwood Street 137 00:10:42,447 --> 00:10:45,165 and along comes this lady, knocking on all the doors just as I was. 138 00:10:45,231 --> 00:10:49,029 - Looking for her boy, she says. - Madam, be advised, 139 00:10:49,103 --> 00:10:51,689 the boy that we hold is dead. 140 00:11:07,728 --> 00:11:10,250 Oh, God, save us. 141 00:11:14,256 --> 00:11:16,745 Oh, God, forgive me. I've lost my boy. 142 00:11:18,256 --> 00:11:20,297 I couldn't keep him no more. 143 00:11:21,905 --> 00:11:25,932 I must put him in the workhouse. I couldn't feed him. 144 00:11:27,569 --> 00:11:31,880 I... I thought he would be safest there, but look at him. 145 00:11:34,225 --> 00:11:37,968 Oh, God, look what they did to him. (WEEPS) 146 00:11:43,538 --> 00:11:44,520 Poor boy. 147 00:11:45,650 --> 00:11:50,026 The boy, sir, is Tommy Riggs, missing from Whitechapel Union Workhouse. 148 00:11:51,538 --> 00:11:54,027 Go to the mother. See she wants for nothing. 149 00:11:54,098 --> 00:11:56,466 I have questions that must be answered at the workhouse. 150 00:11:56,530 --> 00:11:59,499 I wish to know how a boy in its care may die in such abjection. 151 00:12:13,651 --> 00:12:17,427 Mr Wilde, I have in my morgue in Leman Street a young boy, Tommy Riggs. 152 00:12:17,491 --> 00:12:18,540 I am concerned, sir, 153 00:12:18,612 --> 00:12:21,962 at the state in which I found him - underfed, neglected. Mortally, sir. 154 00:12:22,035 --> 00:12:23,727 Tommy Riggs? 155 00:12:23,795 --> 00:12:25,357 Yes, a... 156 00:12:25,428 --> 00:12:27,883 a runaway, missing this week past. 157 00:12:27,956 --> 00:12:31,153 I'm afraid I can not account for what became of him beyond these walls. 158 00:12:31,220 --> 00:12:34,188 These poor souls whose parents have neglected them, 159 00:12:34,260 --> 00:12:36,465 so many feel compelled to run away. 160 00:12:36,532 --> 00:12:39,403 They do not see that the workhouse is for their own safety. 161 00:12:40,628 --> 00:12:42,637 It is our... our greatest sorrow. 162 00:12:42,709 --> 00:12:44,946 Nevertheless, sir, I should like to see for myself 163 00:12:45,012 --> 00:12:47,185 the conditions in which the children are kept. 164 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:51,156 Here, you see we teach literacy. 165 00:12:54,421 --> 00:12:57,324 Along here, domestic skills. 166 00:12:57,397 --> 00:13:01,741 For too long, the workhouse has been a form of incarceration for the poor, 167 00:13:01,814 --> 00:13:05,808 no hope of release, no hope of a future. 168 00:13:05,877 --> 00:13:09,010 We must let go of this notion of deterrent, 169 00:13:09,078 --> 00:13:13,519 of threat, and instead give the poor hope and possibility. 170 00:13:13,590 --> 00:13:18,829 I will not consign these people to despair, sir, nor to sickness. 171 00:13:25,271 --> 00:13:28,022 We have separated the children's infirmary 172 00:13:28,087 --> 00:13:30,509 from the rest of the workhouse, 173 00:13:30,582 --> 00:13:33,038 a kind of cordon sanitaire. 174 00:13:33,111 --> 00:13:37,585 We must take the spread of disease very seriously, even ringworm. 175 00:13:45,272 --> 00:13:47,891 And this, what is this place? 176 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:53,046 The casual ward for tramps and vagrants, those who stay only one night. 177 00:13:53,112 --> 00:13:55,457 We're obliged to feed and water them, let them return to the streets. 178 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,034 We are, as you see, in the process of fumigating it, 179 00:13:58,104 --> 00:14:00,724 for they bring the filth of the world with them. 180 00:14:00,793 --> 00:14:03,925 Salus populi suprema est lex. 181 00:14:03,992 --> 00:14:07,255 The health of the people is the highest law. Indeed. 182 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,710 Well, I hope you'll agree that the workhouse has much changed 183 00:14:09,785 --> 00:14:10,767 since you knew it. 184 00:14:10,841 --> 00:14:13,378 It is indeed a marvel of order and hygiene, which gives me to wonder, sir, 185 00:14:13,401 --> 00:14:16,053 why Tommy Riggs should wish to run away from such a place. 186 00:14:17,593 --> 00:14:19,667 Pauper spirit, Inspector Reid. 187 00:14:20,665 --> 00:14:24,049 The spirit of the streets, it is... it is too strong in some. 188 00:14:24,121 --> 00:14:26,195 They insist upon their freedom. 189 00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:29,332 His mother blames the workhouse for his demise. 190 00:14:29,401 --> 00:14:30,547 What say you to that? 191 00:14:31,673 --> 00:14:32,852 His mother? 192 00:14:33,945 --> 00:14:36,216 - Why, sir, that cannot be. - How so? 193 00:14:36,282 --> 00:14:37,810 His mother is dead. 194 00:14:56,827 --> 00:15:01,204 This is braided from my hair for remembrance of me. 195 00:15:01,276 --> 00:15:03,382 And they had us make them for our loved ones 196 00:15:03,452 --> 00:15:05,460 that they might share their mourning. 197 00:15:07,324 --> 00:15:09,943 Jesus, he's English. 198 00:15:18,940 --> 00:15:19,956 (KISSES) 199 00:15:21,341 --> 00:15:24,025 And I'll grieve for you every hour, on the hour. 200 00:15:25,820 --> 00:15:26,901 And you... 201 00:15:29,117 --> 00:15:31,289 oh, my Caitlin, 202 00:15:31,356 --> 00:15:34,870 you will stay within the bounds of this place, within these walls, 203 00:15:34,940 --> 00:15:38,040 and you will show yourself to none but Croker. Promise me. 204 00:15:40,445 --> 00:15:42,234 I promise. 205 00:15:44,222 --> 00:15:48,314 And for that, Matthew, you must stay away from our boy. 206 00:15:49,726 --> 00:15:50,937 You made a promise to Drake. 207 00:15:51,005 --> 00:15:55,479 You must keep that promise, lest you ruffle his feathers. 208 00:15:56,990 --> 00:15:58,616 For they'll not trouble us here. 209 00:16:03,006 --> 00:16:05,658 Ah, Mr Reid, sir, I've been seeking word of the coster. 210 00:16:05,726 --> 00:16:07,418 Yes, yes, yes, the woman, the grieving woman. 211 00:16:07,486 --> 00:16:08,861 Oh, she's gone, sir. 212 00:16:08,927 --> 00:16:11,033 - She's gone? - She packed up suddenly, lit out. 213 00:16:11,103 --> 00:16:15,195 She left no word, she gave no sign, no clue to her identity? 214 00:16:15,262 --> 00:16:16,278 Indeed, sir. 215 00:16:17,727 --> 00:16:19,550 It was found in the waiting room. 216 00:16:22,719 --> 00:16:26,463 Bromide of potassium. Greasepaint. She treads the boards. 217 00:16:26,527 --> 00:16:28,055 I know how she may be found. 218 00:16:28,128 --> 00:16:30,779 Sir, about the oyster seller. I found three stalls 219 00:16:30,848 --> 00:16:32,745 on Hanbury Street, Mitre Square and Middlesex Street. 220 00:16:32,768 --> 00:16:33,816 Middlesex Street. 221 00:16:33,888 --> 00:16:37,751 Trader there some years ago charged with several accounts of violent affray. Ah. 222 00:16:37,824 --> 00:16:39,897 Orton, Orton, his name. 223 00:16:39,967 --> 00:16:41,016 This may be his son. 224 00:16:41,088 --> 00:16:42,857 Seek him in the archives. Learn what you can of him. 225 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,216 And I would have an autopsy done on this boy, Tommy, 226 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,128 though I do not imagine Captain Jackson is of a mind to work. 227 00:16:48,193 --> 00:16:50,201 On the contrary, Mr Reid. 228 00:16:51,712 --> 00:16:57,114 Work is my mind's only refuge, after the old oak smoke, that is. 229 00:17:00,961 --> 00:17:02,042 Captain. 230 00:17:05,953 --> 00:17:07,863 Captain. 231 00:17:10,370 --> 00:17:11,581 You are not expected here. 232 00:17:12,642 --> 00:17:14,977 - Go home, man. - Riot victim. 233 00:17:15,041 --> 00:17:16,319 Straight to the morgue, boys. 234 00:17:17,346 --> 00:17:18,907 But it would seem I am needed. 235 00:17:24,194 --> 00:17:25,176 Blessed murder. 236 00:17:31,587 --> 00:17:33,824 What's the case, Sergeant Drummond? 237 00:17:33,890 --> 00:17:36,444 This riot we've had at the Salvation Army shelters. 238 00:17:36,514 --> 00:17:40,160 The Salvations are again set upon, and their captain is now dead, murdered, 239 00:17:40,227 --> 00:17:41,657 and strung up. 240 00:17:48,228 --> 00:17:52,801 Captain Solomon Shaw, stabbed in the guts multiple times, head sheared, 241 00:17:52,868 --> 00:17:55,651 strung up like a piece of meat for all to see. 242 00:17:55,715 --> 00:17:57,210 A statement. 243 00:17:57,283 --> 00:17:59,456 This is the work of the Skeleton Army. 244 00:17:59,524 --> 00:18:02,394 It's a ragtag army of the poor. 245 00:18:02,468 --> 00:18:06,179 They've risen against the Salvationists and their so-called charity. 246 00:18:06,244 --> 00:18:08,612 JACKSON: Jesus, that's some kind of frenzy, huh? 247 00:18:08,676 --> 00:18:10,619 Nuts. 248 00:18:10,692 --> 00:18:14,687 DRAKE: Mr Reid, who's this boy in our morgue? 249 00:18:14,756 --> 00:18:16,961 Tommy Riggs, workhouse runway. 250 00:18:17,029 --> 00:18:18,972 I would request an autopsy. 251 00:18:19,045 --> 00:18:21,861 I am concerned it is negligence caused his death. 252 00:18:21,925 --> 00:18:24,113 DRAKE: Well, you can see the work waiting to be done here. 253 00:18:24,165 --> 00:18:26,075 You will get your autopsy, Inspector Reid, 254 00:18:26,149 --> 00:18:28,604 but we have a murder must be solved first. 255 00:18:35,237 --> 00:18:36,219 Thank you, Mr Reid. 256 00:18:39,269 --> 00:18:41,409 JACKSON: These are double wounds. 257 00:18:41,478 --> 00:18:43,967 My guess is blades, some kind of shears. 258 00:18:45,094 --> 00:18:47,964 See the lateral splits in the wound, most likely the impact of the hinge 259 00:18:48,038 --> 00:18:49,446 as the shears hit the flesh. 260 00:18:53,894 --> 00:18:55,357 (STREET CHATTER) 261 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,339 Mrs Drake, I wonder if you might be able to help me. 262 00:19:14,407 --> 00:19:17,278 Er, I seek to discover the identity of a woman who came to me 263 00:19:17,352 --> 00:19:18,629 and since disappeared. 264 00:19:18,695 --> 00:19:22,374 She is, er, I believe, a fellow performer, an actress or a singer. 265 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,935 She's dark, perhaps your height. 266 00:19:24,008 --> 00:19:27,140 She left this. Recognise it? 267 00:19:27,208 --> 00:19:31,006 There is a... handkerchief. 268 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,448 - It's embroidered with a swan. - Um... 269 00:19:33,512 --> 00:19:36,775 She wears a cluster of flowers in her hair. 270 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,816 Leda Starling. 271 00:19:38,888 --> 00:19:42,664 She had a spot at Blewett's for a while, but they let her go. 272 00:19:42,728 --> 00:19:47,170 Last I heard, she was singing for her supper at the Four Knives. 273 00:19:47,241 --> 00:19:48,933 - No. - Come on, Connor. 274 00:19:49,001 --> 00:19:50,082 No. 275 00:19:51,114 --> 00:19:52,227 (SIGHS DEEPLY) 276 00:19:53,449 --> 00:19:55,555 He will eat for Bennet, but not for me. 277 00:19:56,874 --> 00:19:59,690 Smile for Bennet, sleep for Bennet. 278 00:20:01,321 --> 00:20:03,461 (SIGHS) What am I to do with him? 279 00:20:03,530 --> 00:20:05,287 Well, you are grieving, both. 280 00:20:06,538 --> 00:20:07,848 It is only to be expected. 281 00:20:10,538 --> 00:20:12,230 It's good to see you again, Mr Reid. 282 00:20:12,298 --> 00:20:15,648 - (KNOCK ON DOOR) - Who is that now? 283 00:20:21,738 --> 00:20:22,949 Augustus! 284 00:20:24,235 --> 00:20:26,440 - Hello, old friend. - (SIGHS HAPPILY) 285 00:20:31,179 --> 00:20:32,228 Oh. 286 00:20:32,299 --> 00:20:34,372 Commissioner Dove. 287 00:20:34,443 --> 00:20:37,194 Er, Augustus and I were at the ragged school together. 288 00:20:37,259 --> 00:20:39,627 He taught me to write the perfect R. 289 00:20:39,691 --> 00:20:43,108 But, Augustus, I don't... doubt you've met Inspector Edmund Reid. 290 00:20:43,179 --> 00:20:44,293 Indeed, I have not. 291 00:20:44,364 --> 00:20:45,575 Sir. 292 00:20:45,643 --> 00:20:49,092 The honour is mine, Mr Reid. Whitechapel rejoices at your return. 293 00:20:49,164 --> 00:20:50,627 Hm! 294 00:20:54,124 --> 00:21:00,268 ♪ Shall we never meet again, love 295 00:21:00,333 --> 00:21:05,931 ♪ As we used to in the past? 296 00:21:05,997 --> 00:21:11,944 ♪ And the bright links in love's chain, love 297 00:21:12,013 --> 00:21:16,007 ♪ Be rudely snapped at last? 298 00:21:16,077 --> 00:21:19,493 ♪ Yet my... 299 00:21:19,565 --> 00:21:24,269 ♪ Heart will still be thine, love 300 00:21:24,334 --> 00:21:29,092 ♪ And its thoughts still cling to thee 301 00:21:29,166 --> 00:21:34,983 ♪ Like the tendrils of the vine, love 302 00:21:35,054 --> 00:21:38,884 ♪ Around the old oak tree... ♪ 303 00:21:44,943 --> 00:21:45,991 (APPLAUSE) 304 00:21:51,183 --> 00:21:52,165 Ah, thank you. 305 00:21:57,487 --> 00:21:58,949 - Thank you. - Madam. 306 00:22:00,239 --> 00:22:02,542 You do not remember me? 307 00:22:02,607 --> 00:22:05,543 I'm Inspector Reid from the police station at Leman Street. 308 00:22:05,616 --> 00:22:08,781 You are Leda Starling. This is yours, is it not? 309 00:22:08,848 --> 00:22:12,395 Oh, er, you must excuse me, sir. 310 00:22:12,464 --> 00:22:15,367 I am, as you can see, a little mops and brooms. 311 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,546 There was a boy. You came to see him. 312 00:22:17,616 --> 00:22:20,006 No, he was not my boy. 313 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,542 Madam, you must explain yourself. 314 00:22:21,616 --> 00:22:24,749 You had me believe that you were the mother of the boy in my morgue. 315 00:22:24,817 --> 00:22:27,949 No, I am the mother of a boy who is lost. 316 00:22:28,016 --> 00:22:29,840 How is he lost? 317 00:22:32,497 --> 00:22:33,676 I gave him up. 318 00:22:33,745 --> 00:22:35,175 God bless him. 319 00:22:35,249 --> 00:22:38,381 I would have kept him, but you see what I'm reduced to. 320 00:22:39,537 --> 00:22:42,833 So I... put him in the workhouse. 321 00:22:42,898 --> 00:22:45,353 Oh, God, what has become of him? 322 00:22:46,578 --> 00:22:48,269 Do you believe some harm has come to him? 323 00:22:48,337 --> 00:22:51,121 - Sir, I do fear it. - In the workhouse? 324 00:22:51,186 --> 00:22:53,129 It's a fearful, dark place. 325 00:22:53,202 --> 00:22:54,665 But they say he's not there, 326 00:22:54,737 --> 00:22:56,877 but if he were not there, he would be here with me. 327 00:22:56,946 --> 00:22:59,020 Where else in the world could he be? 328 00:22:59,090 --> 00:23:02,157 Shall we not go there, get to the heart of this matter? 329 00:23:03,442 --> 00:23:05,353 And find my boy? 330 00:23:37,044 --> 00:23:39,019 The master is not in his office, sir, at present. 331 00:23:39,092 --> 00:23:42,509 Then find him. We're here for a boy-Starling. 332 00:23:42,581 --> 00:23:44,043 What's his Christian name? 333 00:23:53,108 --> 00:23:54,091 Um... 334 00:24:05,653 --> 00:24:06,734 My boy. 335 00:24:06,805 --> 00:24:09,905 - My boy! - Ma? 336 00:24:11,093 --> 00:24:12,174 Yes. 337 00:24:12,246 --> 00:24:14,800 Yes, your ma's here. Come to me. 338 00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:16,944 - Ma! - My boy. 339 00:24:17,014 --> 00:24:18,127 Oh! 340 00:24:20,342 --> 00:24:21,652 Uh... 341 00:24:22,710 --> 00:24:25,100 No, you're... you're not my boy. 342 00:24:29,494 --> 00:24:32,310 This... This is my boy. Come to your ma now. 343 00:24:32,374 --> 00:24:33,619 Are you my ma? 344 00:24:36,567 --> 00:24:39,764 Miss Starling, you must come away now. You must come away. You must come away. 345 00:24:41,463 --> 00:24:44,912 What is this now? Please remove her. She is disturbing the children. 346 00:24:44,984 --> 00:24:48,246 I... I know I left him. I know I left him. 347 00:24:48,312 --> 00:24:49,906 My office, if you please. 348 00:24:53,335 --> 00:24:56,271 She seeks her son. She is much distressed. 349 00:24:56,344 --> 00:24:59,957 Inspector Reid, is this woman the origin and cause of your earlier visit? 350 00:25:00,024 --> 00:25:03,800 For you must understand, sir, she is deranged. Do you not see? 351 00:25:03,864 --> 00:25:05,720 She has lost her wits. 352 00:25:05,784 --> 00:25:08,385 I do not doubt that it was she claimed to be the mother of Tommy Riggs. 353 00:25:08,408 --> 00:25:11,705 She is distracted, I own, but she is driven to it by the absence of her son. 354 00:25:11,769 --> 00:25:13,199 Then I grieve for her, 355 00:25:13,273 --> 00:25:15,314 but she comes here twice, often three times in a week, 356 00:25:15,385 --> 00:25:19,477 to ask after him, and every time I must tell her that she is mistaken. 357 00:25:19,545 --> 00:25:23,124 We have no knowledge of her son. He has never been an inmate here. 358 00:25:23,193 --> 00:25:25,779 I... cannot help her. 359 00:25:25,849 --> 00:25:27,760 She is unwell, sir. 360 00:25:28,985 --> 00:25:30,775 Provision must be made for her. 361 00:25:33,530 --> 00:25:36,313 - I will call the Mile End asylum. - No, no. 362 00:25:36,377 --> 00:25:39,826 No, do not trouble yourself. I will see that she's taken care of. 363 00:25:39,898 --> 00:25:40,880 Very well. 364 00:25:49,051 --> 00:25:52,597 - Will you take me away from this place? - Yes. 365 00:25:52,666 --> 00:25:54,129 - Come. - Please. 366 00:25:55,546 --> 00:25:58,482 I see now, Inspector Reid, how it is that you take such an interest. 367 00:26:01,115 --> 00:26:02,523 You insinuate, sir? 368 00:26:02,587 --> 00:26:06,745 I merely remark that it is not a criminal case you pursue here, is it? 369 00:26:06,811 --> 00:26:10,161 I do not doubt you have more pressing police matters to attend to. 370 00:26:13,979 --> 00:26:16,980 (JACKSON WHISPERS) 371 00:26:17,052 --> 00:26:19,126 I have something for it. Take one more. 372 00:26:31,901 --> 00:26:33,276 (DOOR CLOSES) 373 00:26:36,572 --> 00:26:40,316 Loss of short-term memory, neurasthenia, insomnia. 374 00:26:40,381 --> 00:26:41,975 She's taken bromide of potassium. 375 00:26:43,997 --> 00:26:45,459 Tertiary syphilis. 376 00:26:46,589 --> 00:26:48,892 It's in her brain. 377 00:26:48,957 --> 00:26:51,195 At one moment, she'll be lucid, rational, 378 00:26:51,261 --> 00:26:54,807 the next, she'll be scattered, maniacal, bewildered. 379 00:26:54,877 --> 00:26:59,035 - The asylum's her only future now. - Oh, dear God. What a road. 380 00:26:59,101 --> 00:27:00,379 What sanctuary is there? 381 00:27:02,110 --> 00:27:06,366 I will take her home for tonight. Er, she needs rest, 382 00:27:06,430 --> 00:27:09,031 and I would know more of this story of her boy and how he is missing. 383 00:27:09,054 --> 00:27:10,964 And perhaps she will be calmer when she is rested. 384 00:27:11,038 --> 00:27:13,095 - Perhaps she will remember more. - You cannot take her home, Reid. 385 00:27:13,118 --> 00:27:16,087 She is suffering the general paresis of the insane. 386 00:27:16,159 --> 00:27:20,186 For that I will find some place for her tomorrow, somewhere better. 387 00:27:22,463 --> 00:27:24,187 She's not your concern. 388 00:27:36,639 --> 00:27:38,429 Morning, ladies. 389 00:27:38,496 --> 00:27:41,082 Jake Carter, otherwise known as Redskin Jake, 390 00:27:41,151 --> 00:27:42,536 - chief of the Skeleton Army... - (BELL RINGS) 391 00:27:42,559 --> 00:27:44,982 and soon to be convicted of the murder 392 00:27:45,056 --> 00:27:47,129 of Captain Solomon Shaw. Caught him trying to shear 393 00:27:47,199 --> 00:27:48,937 a Salvation Army lad with these little beauties. 394 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,903 It's the black cap for you, my friend. Come on. 395 00:27:50,976 --> 00:27:52,570 Hallelujah! Look at him now. 396 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,442 He's a proper little workhouse boy, ain't you, lad? 397 00:27:54,465 --> 00:27:57,313 - Come here to my sergeant. - Can you tell me what happened? 398 00:27:57,376 --> 00:28:00,956 Wilfred Higgins... That man, he grabbed me. 399 00:28:01,025 --> 00:28:02,400 You sheared this boy. 400 00:28:04,321 --> 00:28:06,210 I have two other such assaults, or am I wrong? 401 00:28:06,273 --> 00:28:08,183 This is your practice, is it not? 402 00:28:09,281 --> 00:28:10,656 Explain yourself. 403 00:28:12,097 --> 00:28:13,527 Ah, to teach him a lesson. 404 00:28:15,873 --> 00:28:18,209 You ever had a Salvation Army breakfast? 405 00:28:18,273 --> 00:28:20,161 Cos they make you beg for it. 406 00:28:20,226 --> 00:28:24,089 (CHUCKLES) I've had many a Salvation breakfast. Never once was I made to beg. 407 00:28:24,162 --> 00:28:29,531 Good people, merciful, who filled my belly, and I was glad of it, grateful. 408 00:28:29,602 --> 00:28:32,472 They want your soul in return. 409 00:28:35,458 --> 00:28:40,794 I sheared the boy just to show he's one of us - human. 410 00:28:40,866 --> 00:28:43,715 And for that, you sheared Solomon Shaw an' all. 411 00:28:45,219 --> 00:28:47,194 It was not for this you killed him. 412 00:28:47,267 --> 00:28:49,952 He came upon your territory, 413 00:28:50,019 --> 00:28:53,598 threatened your criminal dominion, and you made him answer for it. 414 00:28:53,667 --> 00:28:55,163 Stabbed him in the guts, strung him up. 415 00:28:55,235 --> 00:28:56,730 Do you think me stupid? 416 00:28:58,403 --> 00:29:01,699 I began my days in a prison, a workhouse. 417 00:29:02,980 --> 00:29:05,469 What, d'you think I mean to end them locked up an' all? 418 00:29:05,540 --> 00:29:11,073 We, the Skeleton Army, are the army of the free poor. 419 00:29:12,068 --> 00:29:15,201 We've known the paupers' punishments. 420 00:29:15,268 --> 00:29:18,717 "You may leave, but if you're worthy." 421 00:29:18,788 --> 00:29:22,434 "You may live, if you're deserving." 422 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:24,323 We defy 'em. 423 00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:27,488 We will live as we choose, 424 00:29:27,556 --> 00:29:29,794 without shame of our poverty, 425 00:29:29,861 --> 00:29:30,975 without apology! 426 00:29:31,045 --> 00:29:35,007 Beef, good beef! 427 00:29:35,077 --> 00:29:37,445 Beer, good beer! 428 00:29:37,509 --> 00:29:40,030 - Banger! - Shut your noise! 429 00:29:42,757 --> 00:29:45,311 - Yes, miss? - I'm here to take Mrs Starling home. 430 00:29:46,438 --> 00:29:50,465 Miss Reid, oh, good evening. 431 00:29:54,886 --> 00:29:56,829 Mathilda, come. 432 00:30:04,679 --> 00:30:05,661 (CLEARS THROAT) 433 00:30:07,751 --> 00:30:09,312 (DOG BARKS IN THE DISTANCE) 434 00:30:15,111 --> 00:30:17,316 There is soup, should she be hungry later. 435 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:20,989 Thank you for this care of her. It's only for tonight. 436 00:30:21,063 --> 00:30:24,228 Tomorrow we'll find the right and proper place for her. 437 00:30:31,528 --> 00:30:32,805 (KNOCK ON DOOR) 438 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,279 Inspector Drake... Given the late hour, I assume this is not a social call. 439 00:30:45,353 --> 00:30:47,176 It is not. 440 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:48,222 (DOGS BARK) 441 00:30:51,528 --> 00:30:55,108 Oh, I think you know it. You overstepped the mark. 442 00:30:56,425 --> 00:30:58,761 And I cannot help but wonder why this is so, 443 00:30:58,825 --> 00:31:03,616 when I ask you to pursue one task for me, this amputating costermonger, 444 00:31:03,690 --> 00:31:07,400 yet I must find you inventing quite another. 445 00:31:07,465 --> 00:31:10,914 Inspector Drake, I do not act in opposition to you. 446 00:31:10,985 --> 00:31:13,408 I mean no disrespect. It is... 447 00:31:13,482 --> 00:31:15,937 It is only my doggedness that drives me. 448 00:31:16,010 --> 00:31:18,018 I think you know that well enough. 449 00:31:18,090 --> 00:31:22,085 (CHUCKLES) Oh, I know that, Edmund Reid. 450 00:31:24,874 --> 00:31:28,836 What of this lady, hm? This Leda Starling? 451 00:31:28,907 --> 00:31:31,690 Jackson tells me you've brought her home. 452 00:31:31,754 --> 00:31:33,992 And no doubt that I've lost my judgment in this matter. 453 00:31:35,147 --> 00:31:38,857 But she is ill... and she will be given proper care, 454 00:31:38,923 --> 00:31:42,339 but first she must rest so that I might pursue my inquiries of her. 455 00:31:43,531 --> 00:31:46,379 And these inquiries are? 456 00:31:46,444 --> 00:31:48,517 She's lost her son. 457 00:31:48,587 --> 00:31:52,004 She says that in dire straits she gave him up to the union workhouse, 458 00:31:52,075 --> 00:31:53,735 but he has since gone missing. 459 00:31:53,804 --> 00:31:55,093 She haunts the union for news of him, 460 00:31:55,116 --> 00:31:57,353 but the master there claims no knowledge of the boy. 461 00:31:58,572 --> 00:32:00,199 I have some sense, 462 00:32:00,268 --> 00:32:04,131 a sickening thrum, that there is some kind of malice at work here. 463 00:32:04,204 --> 00:32:09,606 The master, this Cornelius Wilde, he has a needling, deflecting way about him 464 00:32:09,677 --> 00:32:11,238 that resists all inquiry. 465 00:32:11,309 --> 00:32:12,903 I wish to talk to the Redskin. 466 00:32:12,973 --> 00:32:14,218 He was a workhouse boy. 467 00:32:14,285 --> 00:32:16,318 I should like to hear what he has to say of the place. 468 00:32:18,573 --> 00:32:21,476 I, er, must say, Mr Reid, I have my doubts for this. 469 00:32:22,733 --> 00:32:26,083 Well, I fear this case is food for the pigs, there are that many scraps. 470 00:32:27,277 --> 00:32:30,726 You are working on a say-so of, forgive me, a lunatic. 471 00:32:31,725 --> 00:32:34,508 Workhouse boys. I mean, they run away every day. 472 00:32:34,574 --> 00:32:36,429 What is there to see in this? 473 00:32:36,494 --> 00:32:38,535 Your boy Tommy is dead. 474 00:32:38,606 --> 00:32:42,829 I grieve for him, but you forget, this is Whitechapel. 475 00:32:44,078 --> 00:32:47,527 For all that we have done here, she is still the merciless bitch of the east. 476 00:32:47,598 --> 00:32:52,421 And it gives me to ask, what possessed you to come back here? 477 00:32:58,991 --> 00:33:00,519 You've seen Hampton... 478 00:33:03,119 --> 00:33:04,746 the promenade... 479 00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:10,412 the parasols, the polite conversation amidst the teacups. 480 00:33:10,479 --> 00:33:13,775 There is nothing of it that breathes. 481 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,827 There is nothing of it that is alive and quick and stinking and bright. 482 00:33:18,896 --> 00:33:23,370 Whitechapel is life, in all its wild and rotten splendour. 483 00:33:24,528 --> 00:33:27,114 Beside it, the rest of the world seems a tomb. 484 00:33:29,073 --> 00:33:31,562 It is rotten and wild. 485 00:33:31,633 --> 00:33:34,001 It is heaving and pitiless and ignorant. 486 00:33:35,056 --> 00:33:37,294 And I have yet seen nowhere to match it. 487 00:33:39,761 --> 00:33:43,406 It is our heartland, Bennet Drake. 488 00:33:45,233 --> 00:33:48,333 It is our life's work, Edmund Reid. 489 00:34:01,009 --> 00:34:03,149 (TRAIN RUMBLES PAST) 490 00:34:03,218 --> 00:34:04,943 LEDA: No! No! 491 00:34:05,010 --> 00:34:07,728 (SOBS) Will... William. 492 00:34:07,794 --> 00:34:09,999 William? William, William. 493 00:34:11,411 --> 00:34:12,492 Leda. 494 00:34:14,035 --> 00:34:15,017 Where's William? 495 00:34:15,091 --> 00:34:17,481 - Hm? - William is your boy? 496 00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:21,833 Where's Barnabas? Where's William? Where's Barnabas? Where's William? 497 00:34:24,339 --> 00:34:26,609 They're missing. You must listen to me. 498 00:34:26,676 --> 00:34:30,092 My mind is so often clouded, but it is clear now for a moment. 499 00:34:30,163 --> 00:34:32,847 Hear it, please. M-My little boy was afraid. 500 00:34:32,915 --> 00:34:35,884 His friend William and his friend Barnabas, they disappeared. 501 00:34:35,956 --> 00:34:38,542 - Disappeared? - From the house, from the workhouse. 502 00:34:38,611 --> 00:34:39,725 He was afraid for 'em. 503 00:34:39,796 --> 00:34:41,106 Well, I'm afraid. 504 00:34:41,172 --> 00:34:44,818 - You do believe me, do you? - Yes. Yes. 505 00:34:44,884 --> 00:34:47,405 Oh, God, and now my boy's such another. 506 00:34:51,604 --> 00:34:55,435 You will find him for me, hm? Say you will find him. 507 00:34:56,692 --> 00:34:58,351 If he be... 508 00:34:59,893 --> 00:35:01,388 dead, 509 00:35:01,461 --> 00:35:04,811 I do not care who or why or how. 510 00:35:04,885 --> 00:35:07,536 I do not even ask for justice. 511 00:35:07,605 --> 00:35:10,672 Only that my boy be not alone in the world 512 00:35:10,741 --> 00:35:15,663 - and forgotten and unknown. - I will find him. 513 00:35:15,734 --> 00:35:19,084 I vow it. I will find your child. 514 00:35:23,894 --> 00:35:27,156 - MATHILDA: Is she mad? - REID: She is on that path, yes. 515 00:35:27,222 --> 00:35:29,045 My mother... 516 00:35:30,454 --> 00:35:31,862 was she so? 517 00:35:38,167 --> 00:35:39,597 She was very like. 518 00:35:43,767 --> 00:35:47,117 I should not have brought her here-Leda - forgive me. 519 00:35:49,655 --> 00:35:53,617 I have wondered at it so often, my mother's madness. 520 00:35:55,607 --> 00:35:57,680 I could not imagine it. I dared not. 521 00:36:00,856 --> 00:36:04,054 But I know it now. I have seen it. 522 00:36:07,544 --> 00:36:10,098 I am no longer so, so afraid. 523 00:36:16,024 --> 00:36:19,221 And... to have her here... 524 00:36:22,937 --> 00:36:24,760 It's almost to be near her again. 525 00:36:37,849 --> 00:36:39,705 You brought Lady Luck with you, sir. 526 00:36:40,762 --> 00:36:43,348 Ah, this winning is too easy. 527 00:36:43,417 --> 00:36:45,785 - (CHUCKLES) - You mean to make me generous? 528 00:36:45,850 --> 00:36:50,291 You think me some feeble-headed girl with her brains in her tits. 529 00:36:50,362 --> 00:36:53,592 No, sir. No, indeed. (CHUCKLES) 530 00:36:53,658 --> 00:36:57,173 I will give the job the man who offers me the best price. 531 00:36:57,243 --> 00:37:00,691 For three, four... We'll do it for half your fee. 532 00:37:00,762 --> 00:37:02,192 (CREAKING) 533 00:37:06,587 --> 00:37:08,955 Well, then make yourself useful. I am dry. 534 00:37:09,019 --> 00:37:13,298 Not cripple, I think. There is the wine, and there are your legs. 535 00:37:18,299 --> 00:37:19,478 Now, forgive me, my dear. 536 00:37:20,699 --> 00:37:22,773 You have not been introduced. 537 00:37:36,924 --> 00:37:37,972 This is... 538 00:37:39,452 --> 00:37:40,762 Jenny. 539 00:37:40,828 --> 00:37:43,251 I bought her to pretty things up. 540 00:37:50,013 --> 00:37:50,995 How much? 541 00:37:56,701 --> 00:37:58,841 How long have you been waiting in dock, 542 00:37:58,909 --> 00:38:01,561 while you float around for this cheap price? 543 00:38:01,629 --> 00:38:04,925 And all the while paying in port fees and interest? 544 00:38:06,622 --> 00:38:08,598 What is interest on your cargo? 545 00:38:10,814 --> 00:38:13,182 It is not for this that you are yet unloaded. 546 00:38:13,246 --> 00:38:18,037 It is not the best price that you seek. It is discretion. 547 00:38:20,927 --> 00:38:23,197 Clever little whore. 548 00:38:23,262 --> 00:38:25,336 - Uhh! - If you mean to do business with us, 549 00:38:25,407 --> 00:38:28,986 you will learn to keep a civil tongue, Bo Nystrom? 550 00:38:29,055 --> 00:38:31,390 (TUTS) Yeah, you have a memorable name. 551 00:38:31,455 --> 00:38:35,417 You have not traded in the Port of London for many years, sir. 552 00:38:35,487 --> 00:38:38,783 Not since the steamship Gustavus went down with all hands. 553 00:38:38,847 --> 00:38:42,460 An unwarranted wreck in a calm sea. 554 00:38:44,256 --> 00:38:49,974 Nevertheless, the insurance was paid handsomely, fraudulently. 555 00:38:51,072 --> 00:38:53,888 Our friends at Lloyd's would be interested 556 00:38:53,952 --> 00:38:56,190 to know of your return to the London Docks. 557 00:39:03,009 --> 00:39:05,017 These are our terms. 558 00:39:05,089 --> 00:39:07,512 The job is ours and no others. 559 00:39:07,584 --> 00:39:08,829 The price is double. 560 00:39:08,896 --> 00:39:12,858 And there is a premium to pay for my silence. 561 00:39:18,113 --> 00:39:20,187 One minute and the offer is closed. 562 00:39:36,354 --> 00:39:40,927 If you betray me... I will carve you like scrimshaw. 563 00:39:48,546 --> 00:39:50,041 Jenny's a wildcat. 564 00:40:03,459 --> 00:40:06,046 Inspector Reid, is it not? 565 00:40:06,116 --> 00:40:07,971 Your name travels ahead, sir. 566 00:40:10,916 --> 00:40:12,924 My name is Castello. 567 00:40:12,996 --> 00:40:17,023 Castello of the Star. Yours travels, too, miss. 568 00:40:17,092 --> 00:40:19,712 And who is this wonderful girl? 569 00:40:19,780 --> 00:40:20,795 I am Mathilda Reid. 570 00:40:20,868 --> 00:40:22,877 Miss Castello, you have some business with me? 571 00:40:22,949 --> 00:40:26,211 Er... Your marvellous return to us here, 572 00:40:26,277 --> 00:40:28,699 it is owed to the fate of Isaac Bloom, I understand. 573 00:40:28,772 --> 00:40:31,643 - You understand how? - We have a mutual friend. 574 00:40:31,716 --> 00:40:33,987 - And who that? - Deborah Goren, 575 00:40:34,053 --> 00:40:37,087 - of the orphanage on Woodseer Street. - Come, Mathilda. We'll be late. 576 00:40:37,156 --> 00:40:40,802 She asks herself why it is you have not sought her out since your return, 577 00:40:40,869 --> 00:40:43,740 wonders if that return is motivated by the execution 578 00:40:43,813 --> 00:40:48,354 of your other mutual friend, Mr Bloom, if the murder of the rabbi Ratovski 579 00:40:48,421 --> 00:40:51,422 still occupies that restless mind of yours. 580 00:40:51,494 --> 00:40:53,884 As you know, that case is now closed. 581 00:40:53,958 --> 00:40:57,188 And yet so much of its detail still stands injuncted, 582 00:40:57,254 --> 00:41:01,412 withheld from the public by the unseen hand of police officialdom. 583 00:41:01,478 --> 00:41:04,927 Why is that, sir, if, indeed, that case is closed? 584 00:41:04,998 --> 00:41:09,407 Will you now leave us, Miss Castello, or allow us to leave you? 585 00:41:10,951 --> 00:41:12,130 Be my guest, Mr Reid. 586 00:41:14,150 --> 00:41:16,420 And a good day to you, Miss Mathilda Reid. 587 00:41:30,663 --> 00:41:34,276 Cornelius Wilde told me this boy had been missing for a week. 588 00:41:34,344 --> 00:41:37,312 Can a mere week out of the workhouse reduce a child to this? 589 00:41:41,384 --> 00:41:42,628 JACKSON: Fingernails missing... 590 00:41:44,776 --> 00:41:47,527 sores in the mouth and the tongue. 591 00:41:47,592 --> 00:41:50,909 And this cracking about the lips, that's severe dehydration. 592 00:41:50,984 --> 00:41:54,912 I'd say that's chronic in nature, a matter of months. 593 00:41:54,984 --> 00:41:56,163 Then no more delay. 594 00:41:56,232 --> 00:41:57,760 An autopsy must be done on this boy. 595 00:41:57,833 --> 00:42:00,452 Well, my work's done here anyway, so... 596 00:42:00,521 --> 00:42:02,530 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) 597 00:42:09,321 --> 00:42:12,224 Got a, er, fragment of steel lodged in the vertebra. 598 00:42:14,473 --> 00:42:15,783 Broken blade. 599 00:42:16,938 --> 00:42:18,826 Redskin's your man. 600 00:42:25,258 --> 00:42:29,961 You wished to have words with him, Mr Reid. Do you come, then? 601 00:42:41,067 --> 00:42:44,450 Redskin Jake, murderer. These your shears. 602 00:42:44,523 --> 00:42:48,169 The missing piece found in the backbone of Solomon Shaw. 603 00:42:48,235 --> 00:42:49,217 What say you now? 604 00:42:50,283 --> 00:42:51,243 We have you, boy. 605 00:42:51,307 --> 00:42:53,512 Your motive, sir? What drove you to this act? 606 00:42:53,580 --> 00:42:55,337 My protest... 607 00:42:56,779 --> 00:43:00,741 my defiance against the disposing of the poor. 608 00:43:01,867 --> 00:43:04,454 I charge you with the murder of Captain Solomon Shaw. 609 00:43:04,524 --> 00:43:06,380 Inspector Drake, if I may. 610 00:43:09,901 --> 00:43:12,487 You were a workhouse boy, sir. 611 00:43:12,556 --> 00:43:14,859 Here is another fine institution. 612 00:43:17,421 --> 00:43:19,811 I should have killed him. 613 00:43:19,885 --> 00:43:23,498 The master, should have killed him first, 614 00:43:23,565 --> 00:43:28,323 for it is he that started this pretty business... 615 00:43:28,397 --> 00:43:32,522 - peddling the lives of the poor. - This pretty business, expound it. 616 00:43:32,589 --> 00:43:35,044 Well, he shut down the casual ward, 617 00:43:35,117 --> 00:43:39,493 pays the Salvation Army a penny a man for the vagrants he now turns away. 618 00:43:39,565 --> 00:43:42,730 - Shut down the casual ward when? - Two months since. 619 00:43:42,797 --> 00:43:44,489 There is a lie told. This Cornelius Wilde, 620 00:43:44,558 --> 00:43:46,120 he claims he shut it for disinfection. 621 00:43:46,190 --> 00:43:51,276 It's cheaper to pay off these souls at a penny a go than to keep 'em. 622 00:43:52,591 --> 00:43:54,828 He is managing his costs. 623 00:43:57,678 --> 00:44:00,101 Here are boys, one dead, three missing, 624 00:44:00,175 --> 00:44:02,926 and here is a man obsessed with his books, 625 00:44:02,991 --> 00:44:07,302 his accounts, disposing of the casual wards. What else is he disposing of? 626 00:44:08,559 --> 00:44:12,684 - Your name, these... these markings? - I'm a redskin and proud. 627 00:44:12,751 --> 00:44:17,838 A redskin. These are the infirmary boys shaved and painted. This is iodine. 628 00:44:17,904 --> 00:44:19,977 My badge of honour. 629 00:44:22,384 --> 00:44:26,029 You think the workhouse is the lowest of the low, hm? 630 00:44:27,504 --> 00:44:28,650 Wrong. 631 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:31,591 It's the workhouse infirmary. 632 00:44:31,664 --> 00:44:33,487 That's the lowest. 633 00:44:33,552 --> 00:44:35,658 The sick and the weak. 634 00:44:35,728 --> 00:44:37,966 You're just a burden, ain't you? 635 00:44:38,032 --> 00:44:41,678 Left to rot, or... 636 00:44:43,601 --> 00:44:48,653 better yet, they give you the old black potion. 637 00:44:48,721 --> 00:44:51,111 What is the black potion? 638 00:44:51,185 --> 00:44:53,008 Poison. 639 00:44:53,073 --> 00:44:55,693 This old black potion, it is folklore. 640 00:44:55,761 --> 00:45:00,268 You ask at any workhouse, you'll hear them talk of it. It is a pauper's myth. 641 00:45:05,586 --> 00:45:10,060 Scarring in the intestinal tract, severe bleeding in the lower intestine, 642 00:45:10,130 --> 00:45:13,579 - dehydration, blood in the faeces. - Caused by? 643 00:45:13,650 --> 00:45:16,618 Well, it's many possible causes, er... 644 00:45:17,746 --> 00:45:21,609 Excessive ingestion of iron or lead. But, equally, it could be hog's cholera. 645 00:45:21,682 --> 00:45:25,328 It's a savage son of a bitch. It's found in dustheaps and bad meat. 646 00:45:25,395 --> 00:45:28,712 You do not rule out that Tommy Riggs was poisoned? 647 00:45:30,515 --> 00:45:31,497 I do not. 648 00:45:31,571 --> 00:45:34,638 That's reason enough for me. Bring him in. Bring in Cornelius Wilde. 649 00:45:36,851 --> 00:45:38,232 - We will not bring him in. - (SIGHS) 650 00:45:38,292 --> 00:45:40,780 We do not have enough to justify it. We will go there. 651 00:45:40,851 --> 00:45:45,642 We will make a full and thorough search, then I may at least take your reins. 652 00:46:13,045 --> 00:46:15,283 Find Cornelius Wilde. Detain him here. 653 00:46:15,349 --> 00:46:17,172 Scour this place. Seek out any hidden place, 654 00:46:17,237 --> 00:46:19,791 any locked cupboard. Bring me whatsoever you may find there. 655 00:46:22,037 --> 00:46:25,334 Do you see it? There's something inhuman here. 656 00:46:25,397 --> 00:46:28,660 - It is neat and correct, orderly. - This order, 657 00:46:28,726 --> 00:46:31,411 this marvellous efficiency, this systematisation, 658 00:46:31,478 --> 00:46:34,130 I believe that here yet attends some unforeseen evil, 659 00:46:34,198 --> 00:46:37,647 some coldness to humankind, some conscience lost. 660 00:46:47,607 --> 00:46:50,029 - This way. - (CHILD COUGHS) 661 00:46:52,855 --> 00:46:55,922 - What is this you give them? - Cod liver oil, sir. 662 00:47:06,295 --> 00:47:08,533 - This? - An outbreak of scarlet fever. 663 00:47:09,752 --> 00:47:12,306 You may not go in, sir. It's quarantined. 664 00:47:12,376 --> 00:47:15,344 - (DOOR RATTLES) - Mr Reid, it's quarantined. 665 00:47:15,416 --> 00:47:16,562 You cannot go in there. 666 00:47:16,632 --> 00:47:18,896 - (RATTLING CONTINUES) - Mr Reid, you are going beyond here. 667 00:47:34,937 --> 00:47:38,233 - Where to now? - The casual ward. 668 00:47:38,297 --> 00:47:40,306 It was recently fumigated. 669 00:47:54,138 --> 00:47:57,041 Some poor kind of building work. Ceiling's in the wrong place. 670 00:47:58,202 --> 00:47:59,665 Stinks of carbolic. 671 00:48:04,602 --> 00:48:08,400 POLICEMAN: Mr Drake, sir, Cornelius Wilde is found. 672 00:48:11,739 --> 00:48:15,035 You see me here, Inspector Drake, an innocent man shackled. 673 00:48:15,098 --> 00:48:16,922 You will not hear the end of this. 674 00:48:21,275 --> 00:48:23,829 Here is a man with a vision. 675 00:48:23,899 --> 00:48:26,934 He means to invest in his young inmates, 676 00:48:27,004 --> 00:48:29,274 teach them skills, build them up ready for life. 677 00:48:29,340 --> 00:48:33,018 It's a worthy vision, but it costs money, a great deal of money, 678 00:48:33,083 --> 00:48:34,873 and he has only limited resources. 679 00:48:34,940 --> 00:48:36,796 And we see here 680 00:48:36,860 --> 00:48:39,250 busy accounts indeed, as money moved from here to there, 681 00:48:39,324 --> 00:48:41,114 robbing Peter to pay Paul. 682 00:48:41,180 --> 00:48:44,083 You pay a small fee to the Salvation Army to rid yourself 683 00:48:44,156 --> 00:48:47,190 - of the great cost of the casual ward. - There's nothing illegal in that. 684 00:48:47,260 --> 00:48:50,393 The casual ward was a drain on my resources. I freely own it. 685 00:48:50,461 --> 00:48:53,212 These men, the... these loafer paupers, 686 00:48:53,277 --> 00:48:56,856 they are the lazy, the indolent, the residuum. 687 00:48:56,925 --> 00:48:58,933 They are irredeemable. 688 00:48:59,004 --> 00:49:02,235 Undeserving of sympathy, of kindness, undeserving of life. 689 00:49:02,301 --> 00:49:07,124 Tommy Riggs, a boy in your care, and yet he died in abjection in my arms. 690 00:49:07,197 --> 00:49:10,711 - Tommy Riggs ran away. - Tommy Riggs escaped from you. 691 00:49:10,781 --> 00:49:12,538 He... He fled for his life! 692 00:49:12,605 --> 00:49:15,159 Mr Reid, here is something you must see. 693 00:49:16,222 --> 00:49:18,362 The boy, Starling, marked here. 694 00:49:21,534 --> 00:49:22,779 Jabez Starling... 695 00:49:24,158 --> 00:49:25,436 lost to his mother. 696 00:49:26,782 --> 00:49:30,297 She dying of grief, and you denied all knowledge of him. 697 00:49:31,775 --> 00:49:34,623 You denied her her boy. You told her she was mad. 698 00:49:34,686 --> 00:49:38,943 That woman... That woman, she... She gave him up to the house. 699 00:49:39,007 --> 00:49:41,910 - She is a prostitute, a lunatic! - You bluster, sir. 700 00:49:41,983 --> 00:49:44,246 You could not acknowledge him for you could not produce him. 701 00:49:44,287 --> 00:49:46,024 What have you done with him? What have you done with him?! 702 00:49:46,047 --> 00:49:48,120 - How have you disposed of him? - Mr Reid, Mr Reid. 703 00:49:49,919 --> 00:49:51,895 I will find you out, sir. 704 00:49:53,248 --> 00:49:55,288 You have taken leave of your senses, Mr Reid. 705 00:49:55,359 --> 00:49:58,394 You accuse me of killing the boys in my care! 706 00:49:58,464 --> 00:50:01,694 Inspector Drake, will you allow this obsession, this... this mania? 707 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:03,933 You stop your yapping now and be silent! 708 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,237 The money from the casual ward, then. 709 00:50:06,305 --> 00:50:07,516 Yes. 710 00:50:07,584 --> 00:50:09,821 Here. You pay the salaries of three schoolteachers, 711 00:50:09,889 --> 00:50:12,094 and yet you are still in the red! 712 00:50:12,161 --> 00:50:14,715 Now, let me see. Where is the greatest expenditure made? 713 00:50:14,785 --> 00:50:17,503 I will warrant it is in the infirmary. 714 00:50:19,041 --> 00:50:20,733 The children's infirmary. 715 00:50:23,745 --> 00:50:27,707 Costs fall month on month this last quarter. 716 00:50:27,778 --> 00:50:32,056 Says the children are dispatched. How much does a sick child cost, Mr Wilde? 717 00:50:32,129 --> 00:50:34,475 How many do you need to be rid of before you balance your books? 718 00:50:34,498 --> 00:50:39,006 Why would I want to kill my boys when my only purpose is to give them life?! 719 00:50:40,065 --> 00:50:45,336 A locked cabinet, Mr Reid, and inside, these. 720 00:50:45,410 --> 00:50:48,673 "Blaud pills, treatment of anaemia, sulphate of iron." 721 00:50:48,738 --> 00:50:51,773 Huge cupboard, full of them. Hundreds of bottles. 722 00:50:51,842 --> 00:50:56,218 Tommy Riggs died from scarring of the intestinal tract and dehydration 723 00:50:56,290 --> 00:50:59,291 caused by the excessive ingestion of iron. 724 00:51:01,890 --> 00:51:06,147 - He's killing the sick. - For it is cheaper than keeping 'em. 725 00:51:07,363 --> 00:51:09,219 Dear God, he is killing children. 726 00:51:11,619 --> 00:51:13,759 Tommy Riggs ran away. 727 00:51:15,491 --> 00:51:18,013 Jabez Starling ran away. 728 00:51:19,652 --> 00:51:23,035 Inspector Reid has taken leave of his senses not for the first time. 729 00:51:32,101 --> 00:51:33,825 Deaths. 730 00:51:39,973 --> 00:51:42,014 They are not marked here. 731 00:51:42,085 --> 00:51:43,278 He is not taking them to the pits, 732 00:51:43,301 --> 00:51:45,334 - or he must document them. - Where's he putting them? 733 00:51:48,133 --> 00:51:49,410 The casual ward. 734 00:51:50,885 --> 00:51:53,308 It was not the ceiling that was too low. 735 00:51:53,381 --> 00:51:55,422 It was the floor. It was too high. 736 00:52:44,968 --> 00:52:45,984 Sweet Jesus. 737 00:52:55,432 --> 00:52:59,426 You will dig up every single one of these boys that you have buried... 738 00:52:59,496 --> 00:53:01,320 - (COUGHING) - and you will identify them! 739 00:53:01,385 --> 00:53:06,437 You will identify this boy, or you will join him in the earth! 740 00:53:06,504 --> 00:53:10,466 (COUGHS) This... Jabez Starling... 741 00:53:10,536 --> 00:53:15,775 you... you... you do not understand. You cannot. 742 00:53:15,849 --> 00:53:22,408 This place, the waste of life, it is... it is intolerable. 743 00:53:22,473 --> 00:53:26,304 This... This... This boy... This Jabez... 744 00:53:27,594 --> 00:53:30,278 himself blighted with syphilis, 745 00:53:30,345 --> 00:53:35,714 his mother deranged, his... his father absent. 746 00:53:35,786 --> 00:53:38,242 There... There is no hope for him, 747 00:53:38,315 --> 00:53:42,985 only poverty and degradation. 748 00:53:43,050 --> 00:53:48,900 These... These... These others, polio, rickets. 749 00:53:48,971 --> 00:53:52,682 I only hasten the inevitable. 750 00:53:52,747 --> 00:53:55,431 And there is... There is a kindness in it. 751 00:53:55,499 --> 00:53:58,348 There is a kindness in it for them. 752 00:53:58,411 --> 00:54:01,030 Their sufferings, their... 753 00:54:02,828 --> 00:54:05,250 pitiful lives are shortened. 754 00:54:06,508 --> 00:54:09,411 These useless boys... 755 00:54:10,700 --> 00:54:16,200 I have given 100 children, 100 children, 756 00:54:16,268 --> 00:54:19,172 the start in life they deserve. 757 00:54:22,829 --> 00:54:26,026 At what cost, hm? 758 00:54:26,092 --> 00:54:31,593 Deserving poor, the undeserving poor, who are you to judge? 759 00:54:56,238 --> 00:54:57,287 Connor. 760 00:55:00,718 --> 00:55:02,694 - Come. - (GROANS) 761 00:55:09,230 --> 00:55:10,508 Come. 762 00:55:11,695 --> 00:55:13,190 Connor, calm yourself. 763 00:55:14,831 --> 00:55:15,945 Rose. 764 00:55:20,911 --> 00:55:22,767 All day it is like this. 765 00:55:22,831 --> 00:55:24,807 He will have nothing of me. 766 00:55:26,256 --> 00:55:29,126 Why don't you quit your fooling, little man? Huh? 767 00:55:32,304 --> 00:55:33,450 You gotta behave... 768 00:55:35,151 --> 00:55:36,494 for your mum. 769 00:55:37,712 --> 00:55:39,022 (CONNOR GIGGLES) 770 00:55:48,273 --> 00:55:51,787 JACKSON: ♪ Little girl, little girl 771 00:55:51,857 --> 00:55:55,087 ♪ Don't you lie to me 772 00:55:55,153 --> 00:56:00,719 ♪ Tell me where did you sleep last night? 773 00:56:02,673 --> 00:56:05,708 ♪ In the pines, in the pines 774 00:56:05,777 --> 00:56:08,877 ♪ Where the sun never shines 775 00:56:08,946 --> 00:56:10,474 ♪ Shiver... ♪ 776 00:56:15,506 --> 00:56:17,776 The only kind of song I know. 777 00:56:17,842 --> 00:56:19,370 Oh... 778 00:56:20,754 --> 00:56:22,064 You will come see him again? 779 00:56:24,946 --> 00:56:28,144 I don't think Mr Drake will care for that very much. 780 00:56:29,395 --> 00:56:30,410 Well... 781 00:56:31,987 --> 00:56:33,930 he need never know. 782 00:56:38,866 --> 00:56:40,242 LEDA: I lost my boy. 783 00:56:45,587 --> 00:56:47,628 I know where he lies. 784 00:56:49,235 --> 00:56:51,724 It's a bright spot 785 00:56:51,796 --> 00:56:55,474 - beside the trees, where birds sing. - (WOMAN WEEPS) 786 00:57:03,380 --> 00:57:05,039 Why do you weep, sir? 787 00:57:16,725 --> 00:57:18,482 The comfort you have for your son... 788 00:57:20,245 --> 00:57:21,773 I could not give to my wife. 789 00:57:23,669 --> 00:57:25,525 Our girl was lost to her forever. 790 00:57:27,766 --> 00:57:30,188 You're a good man, Mr Reid. 791 00:57:30,261 --> 00:57:31,669 Do you not know it? 792 00:57:32,982 --> 00:57:34,227 You're a mighty heart. 793 00:57:43,670 --> 00:57:46,802 (SOBS) I lost my boy. 794 00:57:51,927 --> 00:57:54,033 But I know where he lies. 795 00:57:55,799 --> 00:57:57,425 Beside the trees... 796 00:57:58,679 --> 00:58:00,240 among the birds. 797 00:58:11,767 --> 00:58:12,979 Edmund Reid... 798 00:58:15,608 --> 00:58:17,583 you are forgiven. 799 00:58:32,601 --> 00:58:37,206 MATHILDA: When the Count comes to London he makes his lair in Whitechapel. 800 00:58:37,272 --> 00:58:38,899 (SCREAMS) 801 00:58:38,969 --> 00:58:40,977 JACKSON: Skin's penetrated at the jugular. 802 00:58:41,048 --> 00:58:42,740 You find what killed her? 803 00:58:42,809 --> 00:58:44,883 - What purpose? - Blood is life. 804 00:58:44,953 --> 00:58:47,921 - With me. - Your secret will be told. 805 00:58:49,626 --> 00:58:50,674 Do not do this.