Episode three
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In the concluding episode DS Ray Miles is sent the gruesome package containing half of Mary Bousfield’s kidney along with a letter from the Ripper, an exact replica of the letter sent to George Lusk in 1888, along with half of Catherine Eddowes’ kidney. The squad find the post office where the Ripper sent the package and see him on the CCTV, but are unable to identify him and they hit another dead end.
Meanwhile Chandler decides to release Buchan as they have no evidence to hold him, but he puts a police tail on him. Buchan, his soul tortured, dramatically burns all his books in front of a press audience and denounces his life’s work and theories in an attempt to stop the Ripper. But is this too little too late? And can the squad really trust Buchan and his theatrics as genuine?
The CCTV footage of Mitre Square is more successful for the squad and leads them to Maduro’s Health and Safety. They find evidence that proves Mary Bousfield was killed in one of Maduro’s vans, driven by Antoni Pricha, the morgue man at the hospital. However when it becomes evident that the killer stole Pricha’s identity, the squad draw another blank. All they have to go on is what happened in 1888: all they know is that Jack the Ripper’s next victim was red-haired Mary Kelly, that she had fish and potatoes for her supper and the date she was murdered. Not a lot to go on…
Chandler becomes increasingly obsessed and disturbed by feelings of personal responsibility. After much time, thinking and searching for the answer, he suddenly has a "eureka" moment, acts on his instincts and works out where the Ripper’s flat is, but not before being attacked by the killer. In the Ripper’s lair the squad find photos of the next victim and what’s more they recognise her. They send a tactical team round to her flat – but she’s not there. Everyone desperately tries to work out where she is before it’s too late.
Will the squad get there in time? Will they manage to rescue the next victim? Will Chandler apprehend the Ripper and succeed where his police equivalent in 1888, Inspector Abberline, failed.
