After DI Chandler manages to convince his team of investigators that a Jack the Ripper copycat is on the prowl, they spend this week’s episode trying to prevent the next murder. Three women have been mutilated, and according to the Ripper canon, the next two will be killed on the same night—September 30. Chandler debates with Buchan, the self-declared Ripperologist, about whether or not both women were actual victims of the Ripper or if there had been a copycat even back in 1888. The trick is in deciding which murder scenario the current killer would imitate.
Meanwhile, the police talk to several local prostitutes, who say a man resembling a soldier is a regular who likes to play rough. They quickly zero in on Private John Leary and even get DNA evidence from the body of the last victim. Apparently the killer licked her eyes—because disembowelment isn’t enough?—but the evidence is contaminated before they can compare it to a sample from Leary. So DS Miles coerces Mary Bousfield, the eyewitness at the first murder, into positively ID’ing Leary from a photo lineup. The police put surveillance on him, as well as on Mitre Square—where the Ripper once left a body—on the night in question.
Leary leads the cops on a wild goose chase that takes them straight to a press mob, and Buchan inadvertently causes a scene and gets arrested while trying to get involved. Chandler is the first to realize that during the distractions, no one was watching Mitre Square. He screams, “Noooooo!” and runs in slo-mo, which is TV code for, “He’ll be too late to stop some horrible thing.” Sure enough, he and DS Miles find Mary’s eviscerated body back at the square. The episode ends with one of her kidneys being mailed in a box to DS Miles’s home, where his kid receives it and brings it to Miles at the breakfast table and it starts leaking blood. Talk about a jumpstart for your day.
Any guesses?
Read about the first episode of Whitechapel here.
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You’ve made several references to this being the first season of Whitechapel.
To my knowledge, this is the only season of this series as a second series was never made.
So has BBC announced plans for a second season?
The second season aired on ITV in the UK last fall, and BBC America will start showing it next Wednesday after season one wraps tomorrow night.
The third season has completed production and is scheduled to air in the UK next year.
After DI Chandler manages to convince his team of investigators that a Jack the Ripper copycat is on the prowl, they spend this week’s episode .
This week’s episode follows the team of investigators as DI Chandler has convinced them that a Jack the Ripper imitator is on the loose.
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