“This poor woman wasn’t murdered, she was plundered”. This two-part Euston Films drama sees Michael Caine pick up the role of Scotland Yard’s finest Insp. Abberline as he has to investigate the ritual slaughtering of some unfortunate women on the streets of Victorian East London. He’s a penchant for the bottle, has this policeman, but luckily he has stalwart Sgt. Godley (Lewis Collins) to help keep him on the straight and narrow as they have to juggle the internal politics from his superiors with the rumour-mongering press who are determined to stoke up resentment against not just the constabulary but possibly even the Great British (ok, so yes it’s always, lazily, referred to as the English) state. He also has the help of his former girlfriend “Emma” (Jane Seymour) who is an artist working for a newspaper hack “Bates” (Jonathan Moore) and who just happens to be friendly with thespian suspect Mansfield (Armand Assante) who has been firmly put in the frame by eccentric psychic medium Lees (Ken Bones). Now it happens that this latter gent is an advisor to none other than the Queen herself, and so that also sees our dynamic sleuthing duo having to consult with her personal physician Sir William Gull (Ray McAnally) who has, himself, some fairly groundbreaking views on madness, schizophrenia and mental illness. Information overload for Abberline and Godley, and with the corpses and…

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