Barely a day later he has exploded a device beneath the bed of the prominent MP Cecil Knightly, a vociferous opponent of The Home Rule movement. Despite their outward protestations of peace, Chief Inspector Abberline is convinced that the Irish Republican Brotherhood is once more about its work and orders Reid to send the Irish DC Flight undercover into Whitechapel’s Irish community.

Series 2 Episode 4 airs at 9pm on Monday 18 November on BBC One. To whet your appetite, here are ten teasing lines of dialogue from the episode…

» “Bless me, father, for I have sinned.”

» “What do you call a dead Englishman? A good start.”

» “The balls on you would shame an elephant.”

» “It is the arsehole of the world, is it not?”

» “Trust an Irishman? I’d sooner play chess with an orangutan!”

» “And then of course there’s the matter of how best to penetrate that frosty exterior and melt the fruitful vine within.”

» “I have no need to resort to murder when I have the perfect logic of science at my side.”

» “Captain, you would trust Edison to own a telegraph machine, would you not?”

» “This task you would set me on is not for ideas, but for your own advancement and profit.”

» “Dynamite, that’s all we ever shared.”

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