The BBC One airing of Ripper Street has wrapped up until 2014ish and we here at the Apple want to give a little shoutout to all of Adam’s new British fans. You weren’t the chattiest bunch, but we did notice you all stopping by every week and we hope to notice you stopping by again for Adam’s future projects. We also realize that we maybe catered to the locals a bit too much by working off the BBC America airdates this go-round and we’ll be revisiting that plan in Series 2, assuming our favorite Yank returns.
As the dock strike of August 1889 takes hold of the city, the killing of a Jewish anarchist leads Reid and the team into the merciless chicanery of the British government’s fight against distant empires and global terrorism.
Ripper Street completists facing the long drought to come might want to check out the pilot script for the show, which seems to have given more details on our heroes’ backstory upfront than the filmed pilot did. (h/t Purple Beards tumblr)
A string of brilliantly masterminded robberies draw the attention of Reid and his team, while Drake is confronted with a specter from his past in the form of his onetime Colonel – returned to London to seek redress for the unjust treatment of the Empire’s soldiers.
As legions of Downton Abbey fans can attest, an American follower of a British series can occasionally find themselves spoiled about major revelations due to the nonsensical gap between airdates. Fans of Adam’s troubled forensic specialist are about to face what appears to be a massive spoilergeddon when the seventh episode of Ripper Street airs on February 17th in the UK.
The ep, “A Man of My Company,” features Pinkertons and big revelations about Homer Jackson’s backstory and should make internet-surfing a perilous journey for BBC America viewers sans access to illegal sites or BBC iPlayer looking to remain unspoiled for a few more weeks. You’ve been warned. You’ve all been warned.
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.
It’s a little old, but Collider had a pretty good interview recently with Adam and Jerome Flynn about various aspects of Ripper Street. Apple readers will want to check the whole thing out, but, in this excerpt, Adam lays out his own theory about how he ended up on the Reid team.
I think we had this fantasy that maybe Jackson had been thrown in a holding cell one night and drunkenly starting diagnosing people in the room. They picked him up and, without meaning to, he started helping them out. Jackson must have gotten Reid’s attention, some sort of weird way. Because he’s boastful and a bit egotistical, he probably started showing off and it came to bite him in the ass. He’s dragged, kicking and screaming, into this little partnership. He’s a very reluctant helper.
