Investigations into the brutal slaying of a Telegraph Boy lift the lid on a vice racket run from the offices of the GPO.

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

It is a trail that will reveal blackmail, looming economic disaster, financial corruption – the great passions shaped in men by both love and gold, and passions that are starkly shaped in Captain Jackson’s life as he seeks ever more perilous means of ridding himself and Long Susan of the suffocating debt they owe the moneylender, Silas Duggan.

Cast
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid – Macfadyen
Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake – Jerome Flynn
Capt Homer Jackson – Adam Rothenberg
Long Susan – MyAnna Buring
Fred Best – David Dawson
Sgt Donald Artherton – David Wilmot
Jane Cobden – Leanne Best
Silas Duggan – Frank Harper
Bella Drake – Gillian Saker
Detective Constable Albert Flight – Damien Molony
Franklin Stone – Peter Sullivan
Solomon Quint – Scott Handy
Prudence Quint – Belinda Stewart-Wilson
James Self – Andrew Tiernan
Hotel Manager – Frankie McCafferty
David Goodbody – Alfie Stewart
Vincent Featherwell – Jassa Ahluwalia
Luke Nuttal – Alexander Cobb
Otto Roberts – David Glynn Crowley
Harry Collins – Dale Leadon Bolger
Charlie Frost – Stephen Jones
Maggie – Kirsty Oswald

Producer – Stephen Smallwood
Director – Kieron Hawkes
Writer – Thomas Martin
Writer – Toby Finlay