The telegraph ledger leads Reid to the heart of the one of the city’s most august financial institutions, Barings Bank.

Series 2 Episode 5 airs at 9pm on Monday 25 November on BBC One. To whet your appetite, here are ten teasing lines of dialogue from the episode…

» “Tell me Sergeant, what room here for the cutthroats and filches of Whitechapel, when your cells runneth over with mandrakes and rantipoles?”

» “It is not muck I seek to shovel into cold light here, but rank hypocrisy.”

» “I am an abominable bugger, sir. A proud Uranian. A hunter of hinder parts. A keen participant in behaviours grotesque and indecent.”

» “Yet what else is there, Mr Self? How else to know, even for a moment, that we live?”

» “I begin to think a law that makes a crime of human love will police itself in pure despair.”

» “The only thing you ever look to is your next swashbuckling bloody daydream.”

» “We each wanted for the other happiness, wherever that may be found. And what is love sir, if not that?”

» “Do you understand, lawman? The one goodness I may achieve in this wretched life will be the timely leaving of it. Bring me your rope.”

» “Love and justice are not the primal forces of our world, sir. Gold is the primal force of our world.”

» “I have had enough of the darkness, if you would help me know the sun.”

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