05x01 - Closed Casket

[bunniefuu]

There will be bad things said about me, things that perhaps you will not recognise as acts I could have carried out.

Not again, Father. Do not leave me.

You stay close to your Samuel Drummond. Understand?

Should you need to speak with me, place a candle in your window.

Nathaniel, is it?

Jackson: Those are bite marks, Reid.

Flesh torn out with teeth.

We find him, his capture will bring us also his brother, Augustus Dove.

Bennet: Where'd he say?

Susan: Somewhere. It is... it is a whole system of tunnels.

Hide. I shall find you.

Reid: Bennet!

Reid: Bennet!

Cut me open and eat out my heart, but all you will find there is dust.

Arrrgh!

[g*nshots]

Bennet, you fight. You fight.

Fight.

No, my friend.

No more fight.

No!

Undertaker?

Undertaker: Yes, sir.

A closed casket for this man, if you will.

Male choir: ♪ The Lord's my shepherd ♪
♪ I'll not want ♪
♪ He makes me down ♪
♪ To lie ♪
♪ In pastures green ♪
♪ He leadth me ♪
♪ The quiet ♪
♪ Waters by ♪
♪ My soul He doth ♪
♪ Restore again ♪
♪ And me to walk ♪
♪ Doth make ♪
♪ Within the paths ♪
♪ Of righteousness ♪
♪ E'en for His own ♪
♪ Name's sake ♪
♪ Yea, tho' I walk ♪
♪ In death's dark vale ♪

[Singing mutes]

[Rose sobbing]

[Rose sobbing]

[Sobbing continues]

[Jackson hushed] Reid?

Reid!

What do you say?

Three nights we've been down here.

This day, every uniform from the city to the marshes is gonna be at his gravesite.

If we're quick about it, we can move freely.

Where?

Someplace that ain't a sewer, where we can sleep, eat.

Then say.

If I say, you won't go.

That thing's more conspicuous than you are.

This way now. Quick!

Come. The stage door gives out onto the laneway.

[Jackson hums]

[Dogs bark in distance]

Here. There's food.

[g*nshots]

Hermione: You think you'd have the decency to keep your murderous fingers off my lunch.

[g*n decocks]

All the decayed ruins in this town and you bring me to hers?

I did warn you.

[Susan sighs]

It's a real nice place you got here, Hermione.

[Theme music]

[Bell ringing, dogs barking, crowd shouting]

[Dog barks, yelps and whimpers]

See this unhappy beast lies dead.

All right.

I wanna tell you, but he still had you.

Pay up, and you, that's right.

There's skill in such savagery. Ain't that so, Chopper?

Who's next, hey?!

Who dare risk their animal against mine?

[Bell rings, dogs bark]

[Crowd cheering]

This way.

[Growling]

Would not if I were you, brother. He ain't the pettin' kind.

What kind is he?

The k*lling kind.

[Dog whimpers]

Is that so?

What you want?

I want your dog.

Well, you can't have him.

[Grunting and groaning]

No, we're done.

Wait, no, don't hurt me!

Please.

[Glass breaks]

Man: Hey!

[Muffled grunt]

[Woman laughs in background]

[Grunts]

[Barking]

[Dog growls then whimpers]

Good boy. Good boy. Come on.

Come on. [Sniffles]

[Dog whimpers]

You come with me, boy.

You're mine now.

[Read by Mathilda] "Why Inspector Reid resorted to such action is a question that may only be answered by the man himself. But the facts of the ghastly fate suffered by Mr Swift cannot be ignored. The recorded cause of death was dehydration, but that eventual end must, one imagines, have come as mighty relief for a once eminent man who had lived for 10 days in conditions which defy imagination. 10 days in which his body, in starving desperation, would have slowly turned to eating itself, before death came to spare him further suffering. Before that blessed hour, however, dehydration would have brought him to a mad delirium. In that state, he had chewed his own tongue to ribbons, and shattered the bones of his fingers and wrists in repeated attempts to break down the bars of his prison. As for Mr Reid, the only man who might shed light on his own motives, his whereabouts remain unknown."

There is more food and water, too, if you would like to wash.

And believe me, you ought to do so.

Because never mind talk of you, I expect the stink carries to Scotland Yard.

How do we know she may be trusted?

I imagine that depends on whether you intend to become charming or not, Mr Reid.

You, might I have a word, please?

Where is it you go, Mr Reid?

Get eyes on my girl if I can.

See if she's lit her candle to call for me.

I shan't expose you if I am taken, were that your chief concern.

When is it you are planning to leave?

You are running, I imagine.

We are.

Then, why are you in my play house?

All the ports are watched. And besides me and Susan, we're a family now.

[Lighter clicks]

You will not leave your son behind?

No.

And Mr Reid?

Pour two.

Reid, ah, yeah... look, his-his gruffness... ah, he's barely spoken two words since.

Since what? Since they came for him?

No.

Since we watched Drake die.

You were there?

When that man Abel Croker m*rder*d him?

Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers.

Did he not, in fact, m*rder Inspector Drake?

Was the man fitted for the crime?

It's best you don't know.

Then that which Mr Reid is accused of, what happened to Miss Swift out there's father, is that it also a questionable version of events?

Is he, is she, in fact blameless?

Blameless?

Er... never that.

And to think when I read of her supposed passing, I...

I... I mean, I should be sh*t, but I... I sorrowed for you.

Ah, look, Mimi, darlin'...

Don't call me "darling". You call me "darling" one more time, and I will walk you to Leman Street myself.

I don't understand how you dare come to me.

Was there no one nowhere else?

Oh, we had a long list.

[Dog yelping outside]

[Train clatters in distance]

[Horse whinnies in distance]

[Knocking]

[Jackson sighs]

[Long sigh of relief]

[Door closes]

No candle?

Well, she has Drummond staying with her, right? Well.

Correct.

And all the while, Augustus Dove... that brother of his now hid in some safe place, while he makes certain the world is fully apprised of the evil I have done.

And I may not protest.

And I may not hold my girl and explain to her the... the ghastly truth of her Uncle Bennet's passing.

Hey, Reid.

She knows that truth, she then knows danger.

And you're in no place too offer her your protection.

We must continue to cower, must we?

And while the world is poisoned, justice and truth are made August Dove's whores.

What are we to do then, Reid?

We go get our justice.

Though the heavens fall.

[Door closes]

What will he do?

[Sighs] What can he do?

He chooses to fix his will to vengeance, he will tear this world down about us.

Well, you don't wish for justice?

You're asking the wrong woman entirely the wrong question.

Whatever... common factors shared by Miss Morton and myself, I am today grateful for them.

But we cannot imagine ourselves protected by her.

So you believe her disloyal?

What motive does she have to lean to loyalty when she brings you to mind?

We do not act, you and I, whether it is with fury or another's idle tongue.

We must act, is all I say.

Yeah, well, and this great action you describe?

Our vases, I have a sense of where Croker may have hid them.

If that sense is accurate, there is not a soul left to stop me taking them.

You don't think you're gonna be seen on the dockside?

Yes, and I have a thought on how that might be addressed.

I don't like it, Caitlin.

I'll go. You just... you stay here where it's safe.

No.

Because you must go to Connor, set eyes on our son, if you can.

All that has passed in the house which he must call home.

We must see that he's well, Matthew. And I will be watched for there.

Darlin', we are watched for everywhere by everybody.

No. No. Not everywhere.

What was that fixation, anyway?

Besides, what is a theatre if not a place in which we might transform ourselves, transform myself?

[Gasps]

What?

You be careful...

'cause I might fall in love with you all over again.

[Street hubbub]

This new chief of ours who comes here this morning, he's a proper heavy weight, from what they say, right?

And okay, when he ran Limehouse, 10 commissioner's recommendations in one year.

Nigh on 50 nicker, won from the Bow Street farm, for bringing down an armed robbery single-handed.

That was over five years past, Frank.

Where's he been since, eh?

And now he comes here to run this division.

From the sound of it, he's entirely the stripe of man required for this sink in which we here currently find ourselves.

And I for one should be happy to walk alongside such a man.

Aye, fall on your arse, most like.

[Door bursts open]

Oi!

[Door swings]

I've been robbed. Why d'you need that?

Name?

So we can come by and cook your dinner for ya.

It is a legal requirement, sir.

Oh. It's Jenkins.

And what is took from you, sir?

[Clears throat] My dog.

Thatcher: Breed?

English Bull Terrier.

Oh, it's a fighting dog, is it?

It is not.

It's my domestic companion.

It's pure breed, understand?

25 pound to replace.

Some pet.

You see those scars about his hands, Drum?

I'll have my pension on it, that's a Pit Bull stolen, and he's a Pit Bull handler.

Now, you just be glad we here are currently exercised by graver matters than a ballick sack like you.

Constable: Mr Dove comes, the new chief with him!

Get out of here, Mr Jenkins.

[Train whistle sounds]

Men of H Division, I expect you to show your new leader all the loyalty you showed your last.

[Slowly cracks neck]

[Clears throat]

Your men welcome you.

Portland stone pillars, Mr Shine.

Money's been spent or lost... dependant on your outlook.

What is that?

[Phone ringing]

It is a telephone, Inspector Shine.

You are Desk Sergeant...?

Drummond, sir.

I know what a telephone is, Drummond.

Of course.

Perhaps Mr Shine refers to your micro reader, Sergeant.

Uh, um, Mr Reid's files were photographed and their size then shrunk by a ratio of 160 to 1.

Which Reid?

Hm? This Reid?

His brain made put in glass, is it?

Shall we move on?

Dove: Gentlemen.

You do know I advertised the American's position.

That is your prerogative, Mr Shine.

No, it's not mine.

In truth, I do not overly care for such empirical provings.

Lead on, Drummond.

Hmmm, no wonder you suffer such strife in this division, sir.

This bang-up is not full enough, not near, Mr Dove.

Example needs setting.

Then see it set, Mr Shine.

[Typewriter clacks in background]

This was Bennett Drake's seat?

It was.

How soon are great men replaced.

Who was this man, Croker, this Whitechapel golum?

A wharfinger, a nobody.

A nobody ended Bennett Drake?

Ate his flesh, four others besides?

Er... that is not a nobody.

The file in front of you, all you need know on Mr Reid.

These charges, justifiable homicide, truthful or cooked?

It is all there, Inspector.

Ed Reid... called for my death once.

So I fought Bennett Drake for the Lafone Cup.

Drake was Base Sergeant then, and Reid ordered it to him.

To my finishing, Mr Dove.

But, Mr Drake disobeyed him.

It was widely spoke of for many years after.

He saved your life, Mr Shine.

[Ringing]

As I understand it, the doctors have passed you fit, Inspector?

'Cause I threatened to burn down their homes if they did not.

[Clicks tongue]

[Clears throat]

Well, I expect you to be well enough for your duties here, chief amongst which, the capture of these fugitives.

So I understand it, sir.

For why is it you believe I have accepted your invitation back here?

Bring in this man...

[Sucks lip]

This retribution, well... that'll be the highest of high days.

Shine: Mm.

[Door squeaks open and bangs]

[Door closes]

[Fire doors creak open]

Hermione: I have coffee and hot rolls.

Thank you, Miss Morton.

I hope you will forgive me my poor manners.

Oh come, Mr Reid. I've heard worse.

You're hardly a scaffolder.

You had left this place, had you not?

Why is it you come back here, Miss Morton?

I'm happy here... happier than I am anywhere else at least.

You cannot settle over west?

Mm.

Yes... it's diverting for a while.

When... when I'm there, I think of here.

[Street hubbub]

[Stiffled yell]

You don't think I can deal with that turd up top?

Where's our boy, Rose?

Wouldn't you like to know?

Tell me why you're here, I'll tell you where he is likewise.

You're gonna tell me now, g*dd*mn it.

[Cocks g*n]

You think I give two hoots to be made dead?

I do not.

There's twice a day it's only weariness stops me doin' it myself.

[Jackson sighs]

[Decocks g*n]

Where d'you go? I see your life's all packed away.

They will have me at Blackpool for a season.

And then?

Rose: I do not care. Somewhere.

Where's my son, Rose?

What is your name?

My name's Matthew Judge.

What is hers?

It's Caitlin.

And despite what you believe, she's your friend, and she loves you.

[Sighs] As do I, Rose.

And how we understand the time between then and now, I have no clue, but it's true, Rose, you are loved.

Where's Connor?

I could not even be close to him... after Bennet.

When I looked at the child, I could see aught but... her... and you.

Could feel aught but hate.

I have given him away.

g*dd*mn it.

To who?

Rose, to who?

To a life that you will not prise him from.

They are papers.

Connor Judge is now the ward of Augustus Dove.

Rose, where is he? I beg ya.

Hackney... he has said, but I do not know where and I do not wish to know neither.

Will you leave me, please, Captain?

I am Chudleigh.

He'll be glad for more permanent company, I believe.

He grows restless.

It's not company he needs. It's order.

Or has the moral discipline I was brought to teach you as a foul-mouthed mudlarking boy been forgot now you are a frock-coated gentleman?

No, of course not, Mrs Chudleigh.

Oh, see.

He comes to greet you himself.

[Dove chuckles quietly]

Well, Connor, do you have a word of greeting for your new governess?

[Horse whinnies]

Constable: Excuse me, out of the way.

Police coming through.

Move. Make way.

His name is Nathaniel.

A nudge two yards in height.

He'll be rough and dirty, but you see him, you treat him kind.

And Constable, this is not police business.

This is my own affair. You understand?

Constable: Yes, Mr Dove.

Mr Dove thinks he can set the hour of the world by his own pocket watch... surveying the dogs like the heir, Abel Croker might have wished him to be.

And he has your son.

He knows you will not leave without him, cannot but try to retake him.

And he's correct on both counts.

But he does not have all within his control, however.

He does not take his private guard to the docks for his health.

Nor, indeed, to seek our vases.

You mean he looks Nathaniel.

He must hunt him himself.

Because if that man kills again, if he even speaks, Dove himself will fall.

All I have done, what you and I did to your father, perhaps I am as black of heart as Augustus Dove would have the world believe, but...

Bennet Drake, my friend, was not.

There never was a more dedicated or honest soul.

God knows I used that integrity to my own ends, but... before I die, I will see his voice given back to him.

Then we need to trap the beast which k*lled him.

[Street hubbub]

What makes you so certain he hides in the Jewish quarter?

Nathaniel has lost everything, remember.

Whatever kind of father the man Croker was to him, he cannot simply call on his brother to ask for a bed.

He must wait for that brother to find him.

Cannot stray too far, therefore.

And like any human male...

Any mammal, any wolf cub. he may seek comfort in where he found it before.

Amongst the people he's preyed on.

[Knocking]

The last three days, a man, early 30s.

Don't talk much, but when he does, it's English.

No stranger. Will know his way about.

Madame: Yeah, this man.

I had him thrown out.

Why?

No dogs.

Lamb chops. Costly eating to give away to an animal.

Is he fattening it up?

What breed?

Bull Terrier, a brute of a thing.

Fight dog.

A way to raise funds, certainly.

Where is he fighting it?

What is this? Church of the Latter-day Saints.

You think it's code?

Well, a street crier would be unwise.

The whereabouts of their match-ups must be communicated somehow.

Last I knew, there were no Mormons settin' up church in Whitechapel.

See there, tending to his flock.

Peace be upon you.

And upon you, brother.

Do you wish to give thanks?

We do.

Cassock or congregation.

Fight or play?

Play.

[Dogs growling]

Bless you, brother!

[Barking]

Lovely.

[Chuckling] All right?

All right, let's get it started!

[Growling]

[Crowd shouting exictedly]

[Barking and yelping]

Please, come on!

Come on!

Fear not, Abel. Fear not.

We ain't here to watch 'em suffer.

[Yelping and whimpering]

No! Oi!

What are you doing? What?

Oi, you!

[Blade sings]

You have some brass to come here to my kingdom with that animal, a dog I raised.

Raised for v*olence, raised for blood.

That dog was bought as such, so you give him up now!

Give him up!

As you wish.

Go on!

[Screaming]

Get away, Arrrgh! Get off! Arrrgh!

[Screaming continues]

Get off!

[Whistles]

Abel.

Get off, arrrgh!

Get... off!

[Barking]

Watch out, watch out!

[Barking continues]

[General commotion]

You, tell what has happened here!

Jackson: Reid, I see him!

Reid: Get after him, then!

Jackson: We're gonna lose him! Mm!

Reid: We must not!

[g*nsh*t]

[Yelping]

Nathaniel: Come on, boy, come on!

[g*nsh*t]

Jackson: Hey, bad man?!.

Nathaniel: Come on, boy!

Who is it brews the coffee here?

That'd be Sergeant Drummond, sir.

We leave all matters domestic to him.

That's good drinking, Sergeant Drummond.

Thank you, sir.

Is it you, who instead of his own soft bed, warms the stone hearth of Miss Mathilda Reid?

Yeah, it is, Mr Shine.

Sleeps like a dog there.

Well, dogs are loyal, Mister...?

Thatcher, DS, sir.

Huh.

Mr Drummond, would you be so kind as to introduce me to the young lady.

I would feel it an honour to lay my eyes upon her.

Of course, sir.

[Street hubbub]

The smell of this town, Drummond, mmm, I do not think I could mistake it though I live to be 500.

It is sh*t, bad gin, and dead flowers.

Miss Reid, I am to introduce you to Inspector Shine.

I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr Shine.

Miss Reid.

What is this work you do?

I'm a researcher for the work of Mr Charles Booth.

Yeah? And what do you research?

How people live on what they have.

[Scoffs] Well, I hope you'll let me know the answer, 'cause that is a skill I am yet to master myself.

Will you excuse me, Inspector Shine.

You know, your news travelled to Ireland, where I worked at the time.

Forgive me, which news?

Your resurrection.

Sir, ought we not to...

No, you ought not, Drummond.

I share the experience, see... of all having thought me gone... only to be restored.

Who else may say that, save yourself and myself?

Man may stop and wonder if perhaps we are kin, you and I.

[Chuckles and inhales emotionally]

You should know, it is me now that hunts your pappy.

Drum?

I wish you only to know this... whatever may pass, you will always have a defender in Jedediah Shine.

Life is precious, Miss... particularly that which is given twice.

Good day, Miss Reid.

You think we were seen?

An American sh**ting his p*stol off in broad daylight?

Who would remark on such a thing?

Hey, he's the animal we hunt.

What the hell was I supposed to do?

Not k*ll him, for one.

His use to us dead is exactly nil.

That man, Nathaniel, what... what is it that he hunts?

The chaos back there, the unleashed fighting dogs, he is releasing them, not fighting them.

An act of liberation, not v*olence.

From a violent man.

Well, dogs ain't just dogs to Nathaniel.

What, then?

His wolf brothers, who he now seeks to free?

An act of compassion from a man who tore my friend's throat from him.

I hear Susan said he's more of a man-child than a monster.

He may have developed an affection for her, and she for him...

I believe.

So this compassion he has for the dogs, we must assume he will persevere with these acts.

Unless his brother may lay hands on him and stop him.

We must hope he does not, trap him once more.

[Sighs] And more Methodist pit fights then?

Yes, until we have him, yes.

And perhaps Miss Swift may use their mutual affection and turn him to our own ends.

It is a great risk you take for a man who let you down so.

He betrayed me with you.

Then you see my argument.

Why not turn us out to the streets?

Hmm.

He's very charming, your man.

He is.

He's also an idiot.

[Laughs]

But if in this life, we do not trust our instinct as to who is a good person, then, I think we might be ruined.

It's Hackney, is it not, where, according to Rose Drake, this Mr Dove now resides?

It is.

Now that it lives again, I must re-register my theatre here for its purpose.

I do so via a young man called Eric at the land registry on Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Mr Dove... good man of the law that he is, must also register his new domicile for gas, waterworks, the like.

Oh, dear Eric is a little bit in love with me, I think.

He makes a household there and will be advertising for staff, I imagine.

Do you know, Miss Morton, we have far too much in common not to be friends.

[Barking]

Pit fight, up the old wool works.

Word is the dogs were released.

They're now scattered throughout Whitechapel.

[Scoffs]

Think you're immune to arrest, Jenkins?

Perhaps, I am.

The ruckus what saw these dogs set loose, your men here in attendance, in a pursuit all their own, a pursuit of the wretch what thieved my dog, Chopper.

You're not so spry now.

Shine: Hello, Mr Jenkins.

That is valuable intelligence, and no mistake.

Mmm. Don't I know it.

Then perhaps you will allow us to show you our gratitude.

By all means, Inspector.

Yeah.

Now this.

Aww!

[Breathing heavily]

[Grunts and breathes heavily]

Higher.

[Groans]

Higher.

[Struggles to speak]

Higher.

[Groans and pants]

Now, Mr Jenkins, you dance there on your tippy toes for an hour or four while we establish the truth of your snitching on Edmund Reid.

[Panting]

With me, Sergeant Thatcher.

[Grimaces]

[Cell door creaks and clangs shut]

Yes, sir, Mr Shine.

[Cell door clangs again]

Inspector Shine, sir, I think you might wanna come see this.

Right, come on.

Mr Thatcher, can you bring to mind any man of these parts who might have need for a 0.45 cartridge?

Yeah, I can, Inspector.

That would be Captain Jackson.

[Sniffs and clears throat]

Lunch, I think.

Aye.

Mr Drake not allow you your lunch, then?

Not such a lunch as this.

Nah, he, um... he felt... well, he and Mr Dove felt that we here who police these streets must be seen to work as hard as them who must live on them and not place ourselves above them in any way.

But we are above them, son.

They defer the law. We... we are the law.

There is no equality in that fact, nor ought there to be.

Yeah, yes. Ah, yes, Inspector.

Now we must ask ourselves why Mr Reid would show himself so.

Because aside from the certain fact he is about as conceited, hmmm, as sanctimonious a soul as ever pissed up the wall, he is proper police.

He and his American associate do not go around letting off firecrackers without good reason.

These pit fights, they have significance for them.

Well, that being the case, there's one today.

Might not be the only such fight they might attend.

My, you are a quick fellow, Detective.

What else does that quick wit of yours ponder?

Our new friend Jenkins, who you've got now strung up in our cells.

Indeed.

He might be set to the organising of another such fight, the coordinates of which to be described a little bit differently to Mr Reid and Captain Jackson.

And there, where there was in fact no pit fighting...

There would instead be ourselves, lying in wait.

It is a happy thing.

You are a man of foresight, is it not?

[Groaning]

[Exhales sharply] Jesus, unchain me. I'm not an evil man.

[Screaming]

Were I a dog bred for profit, would you make such a claim?

[Panting] I mean, yes. Yes, I am an evil man.

I am an evil man.

Then do you say I am a dog?

Mr Shine, my pardon, 1,000 pardons!

Ought I to release you?

I don't know, sir.

It's for you to say.

If I were to, would you do my bidding?

[Whispered] Forever more. [Sighs]

Forever more!

Forever more!

Forever more.

Then, do what you do best, and then by way of example, see another pit fight arranged and broadcast.

Shine: Take him down.

[Groaning in relief]

[Panting]

Sign here.

And you, Frank.

He is meticulous, our desk sergeant.

Oh, he is that. [Sighs]

And more besides.

Right.

Be on your way now, Mr Jenkins.

Don't be forgetting our love for ya, Mr Jenkins.

What, Drum?

What would you prefer, Tilda, that he were caught and returned, to make his case, I mean, claim his innocence, or that he were never caught?

And never returned?

I cannot say, but I do not think it only the law which motivates Mr Shine's pursuit of him.

No.

He was right, however.

What he said about resurrection.

Father said it too, that I was born to him twice.

And now I am perhaps lost to him twice.

[Drum sighs]

[Fork clatters]

They set a trap for him.

Shine and Frank Thatcher.

Drum...

Mathilda: What is it? Please, will you say?

He is my father.

There. Your Mormons again.

Captain, find the coordinates of this next pit fight.

And where is it you go?

See my girl.

Have you lost your mind?

If you're taken...

Then I am taken.

But she lit a candle for me last night, so I must go to her.

You go, Mr Reid.

[Door closes]

Do not sling your accusations at me.

I know how he feels, is all.

So you go to Hackney, do you?

I know where our son is. I must go.

Mathilda, my girl.

You were watching?

I have been every night I could.

You are well, my darling, is there any trouble?

Are you threatened?

No, Father. I am well.

Samuel Drummond keeps a weather eye.

He stops the night at our home?

He does.

Well, Mathilda, you lit your candle.

I did.

Father, Mr Swift.

Yes, um...

Mathilda, please, we need space and freedom, time for such talk.

No, it is not so much Mr Swift I wish to speak of, but... the cellar, Father.

Why would you put him there?

Why?

The cellar that was once my home.

Tilda, please... it had the force of logic at the time.

We will in due course talk on it, and I will explain all, but for now, please, is there anything you need to tell me?

They plan for your capture.

This is Mr Dove. It's he plans it?

No, it is not.

Then, who?

There is a new man sits in Uncle Bennet's office.

He came to talk to me.

What is his name?

He is named Shine.

Are you certain? Jedediah Shine?

Has he threatened you?

No, Father. Quite the reverse, in fact.

Never, ever let yourself be alone with him. Do you understand?

Do you understand?!

Yes, I understand.

Now, what is his strategy?

Mathilda, please. His strategy.

[Knocks twice]

[Barking]

Peace be with you, brother.

And you.

Gather round, gather round.

All those seeking employment, the household has need for a footman, a cook, and two maids.

All applicants are to form a line and hand their credentials in here.

Footman, is it?

That's right.

[Sighs quietly]

[Sighs] He has a governess.

Well, governesses can be dissuaded with firearms.

You have not seen this woman.

She has the look of someone who has sent Satan himself back to Hell.

Besides, there is a bodyguard also.

Two uniformed men.

It's Whitechapel men, H Division?

No, A.

Oh, it's Westminster.

Even they're not immune to a b*llet sh*t from a firearm.

I suspect it may come to that.

Well, you took your sweet time.

Any longer, we'd have missed our window.

There's another pit fight scheduled.

I know.

It is upon the waste ground beyond the charcoal works.

What? How?

I only just came from the man...

Never mind.

But I have found opportunity also.

[Whistling]

They construct this animal fight to draw us out, but we shall see their claws pulled from them first.

DS Thatcher.

My heart has sorely missed you, son.

As I have it, Sergeant, you are half in love with your new inspector.

[Draws g*n]

[Cocks g*n]

Sergeant Thatcher, the unreliable stripe of copper, is he?

Where the hell is he, Drummond?

You men with me.

We must move now, or the chance trap Reid is...

[Laughter]

What's that noise.

[Laughter and jeering in the street]

Man: It's not that cold out here, Thatcher. Is it always that small?

[Laughs]

Man: Aw, is it chafing?

[Laughter]

Man: Lovely bunch of flowers!

[Crowd laughing]

[Jeers and laughter]

Man: Feel sorry for the horse.

Are you out there, Ed Reid?

Shine: I know you too vain a man not to now be watching your own acts.

I'm fierce glad to be here, fierce glad to know you yet!

A worthy antagonist.

Shine: I have thirsted long and hard for this fight!

I'm in your house, my feet under your table.

And I will not be leaving till I've looked you in the eye.

And then I'm gonna paint these streets with your blood!

All men, every address within 100 yards, tear 'em apart.

Do it now.

Tear 'em apart!

Tear 'em apart! I want him found... now!

Well, best run, eh, Matthew?

[Police whistle sounds]

[Whimpering]

It's gonna be all right.

Hey.

[Whimpering]

Oh, sh, shhh.

Forgive me, Abel.

[Snap]

Sh, shhh.

Sh, sh, shhh.

[Poliice whistle sounds]

Woman: Don't let 'em get ya!

We'll miss ya!

Man: Go, Mr Reid!

We believe in you, Mr Reid!

[Theme music]