When a sergeant from Limehouse’s neighbouring K Division is found, hurled from a Whitechapel tenement window on to the iron railings below, Reid is quick to act. If the police are to be so publicly assaulted on his streets, what hope for law-abiding civilian life?

Series 2 Episode 1 airs at 9pm on Monday 28 October on BBC One. To whet your appetite, here are ten teasing lines of dialogue from the episode…

» “Billy club if you please, Sergeant Drake.”

» “Inspector Reid! A rumpus, up in Chicksand!”

» “We must assume he was projected, by more than one man.”

» “Inspector Shine, you shall remove yourself and Sergeant Barton from my operating theatre or I shall remove your nose from your face. Are we understood?”

» “Reid knows the Elephant Man?”

» “You ever punch a man clean off his feet, Sergeant?”

» “All our enemies are dead and gone, darlin’, there’s no call to hide anymore.”

» “Think of a cold morning, ice on the inside of your window. You’re warm in your bed with a woman clasped beside you, no call to ever move, nor her.”

» “Hammer’s cocked, friend. Quick as you are, brass is quicker.”

» “For she now is London and her heart, I suspect, is black as soot.”

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