Where is airing: Amazon Prime Video
For what age: 15+
How many episodes in 2 season: 8 episodes
After a sergeant from K Division is discovered having been hurled from a Whitechapel tenement window on to the iron railings below, Reid investigates.
A young woman is found cuddled at the London Hospital and the only clue to her identity is an unusual deformity. The hunt for her hugger 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.
An important member of the newly formed London County Council is abducted from his table at Whitechapel's Blewett's Theatre of Varieties, where Rose Erskine now works as a waitress. The teams investigation brings Drake back into contact with Rose. Reid is introduced to Councilor Jane Cobden and it looks like the kidnappers are a female gang, and supporters of Cobden's aims.
Having spent the last twenty years in Newgate Gaol, Aiden Galvin is sprung from his prison wagon's journey through Whitechapel. Within a short time, he explodeds a device beneath the bed of the prominent MP Cecil Knightly, who is against The Home Rule movement. Chief Inspector Abberline believes that the Irish Republican Brotherhood is at work once again and orders Reid to send the Irish DC Flight undercover into Whitechapel's Irish community.
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.
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.
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.
Death and violence comes to Whitechapel once again. Some decayed and cuddled bodies are discovered in a slum tenement, and the advanced stages of the police divisional boxing championship reveasl the vengeful ferocity to be seen within the ranks of the police force.
