Churches and synagogues are being burnt and desecrated in Whitechapel and Reid suspects the same hand is behind the various attacks – someone who would exploit the fragile peace that exists between East London’s diverse communities and see the streets escalate into sectarian mayhem.

Seeking once more the help of the Jewish mathematician, Isaac Bloom, Reid’s inquiries take him beyond orthodox religious beliefs, however – into the occult, millennial beliefs of those who see the world moving into a great and transforming cataclysm.

Meanwhile, the all-too-brief domestic happiness that Sergeant Drake has enjoyed is to be disrupted by the arrival of a friend from his wife Bella’s past, the mysterious and charismatic scholar Gabriel Cain.

Cast
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid – Macfadyen
Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake – Jerome Flynn
Capt Homer Jackson – Adam Rothenberg
Long Susan – MyAnna Buring
Rose Erskine – Charlene McKenna
Sergeant Donald Artherton – David Wilmot
Fred Best – David Dawson
Bella Drake – Gillian Saker
Detective Constable Albert Flight – Damien Molony
Gabriel Cain – Paul Kaye
Jemima Swann – Gina Bellman
Isaac Bloom – Justin Avoth
Samuel Gaddis – Chris Patrick-Simpson
Maggie – Kirsty Oswald
Philip – Callum Turner
Rabbi – Liam Burke
Churchgoer – Gwynne McElveen
Flower girl – Hazel Doupe
Drunken man – Simon O’Gorman

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