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Ripper Street

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Drama: Crime

Six months after the Ripper's reign, Whitechapel police fight to bring law to the lawless.

The Whitechapel police fight to bring law to the lawless in the wake of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror.

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Ripper Street: Series 5

Matthew Macfadyen

Jerome Flynn

Adam Rothenberg

MyAnna Buring

Killian Scott

Matthew Lewis

Benjamin O'Mahony

Jonas Armstrong

Joseph Mawle

Lydia Wilson

Anna Burnett

Kahl Murphy

Kye Murphy

Ellie Haddington

Ian Pirie

Richard Warlow

Daniel Nettheim

Ripper Street: Series 5: Episode 1: Closed Casket

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Episode 1: Closed Casket

Series 5

Closed Casket

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Edmund Reid, Homer Jackson and Long Susan band together to avenge Bennet Drake's death.

Thriller set during the Victorian era. Just days after the murder of Bennet Drake, Edmund Reid, Homer Jackson and Long Susan are drawn together to avenge his death.

Just days after the cruel murder of Bennet Drake, and despite being outlaws, his old friends Edmund Reid, Homer Jackson and Long Susan are drawn together to avenge his death. But there is one problem - they themselves are now hunted by the police. 

With Reid on the wrong side of the law, assistant commissioner Augustus Dove has hired a notorious enemy from his past - Jedediah Shine - to take charge of Leman Street police station. But Shine has come back hellbent on vengeance against his former rival.

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