Ripper Street

Now, let's see.

Yeah, a few of the red ones, please.

- Special someone, sir? - None more so.

They say "truest love", red tulips. Did you know that?

No, I didn't.

For every bloom a meaning, sir, and every colour too.

Might the lady care for another?

Yeah. Yeah, she likes these.

Love forever lasting.

Go on, then, let's have a couple of the yellow ones, then I'm off.

Well, girl? What meaning these?

Love without hope.

It's only bloody flowers, innit?

Rose?

Rose, girl, what happened?

You're leaving?

What else can I do?

He owns this playhouse, Bennet, but he don't own me.

Well...

What'll you do, girl?

Find honest work somewhere I ain't told to let the boss rut

and grunt atop me for the privilege of it.

I just...

I wanted something better for meself, Bennet.

Rose, there will be something better, girl.

I mean, you've more wits and heart about you than anyone I...

You'll see, things'll work out.

Things do work out.

She's a lucky lady, Bennet, your Bella.

I'd, uh...

I'd better be on me way.

I'm sorry, Rose, I am.

Pardon my lateness, love.

The inspector needed me...

Bella?

Bella?

Ripper Street 2x06: A Stronger Loving World Original air date: December 2, 2013

You really need me to tell you this wasn't an accident?

Smells fishy, all right.

What is that stench?

It's whale oil.

This place was torched with whale oil.

Oi! It's the bloody Jews!

Hang a noose round the lot of the kike bastards!

- Who gave you these, boy? - Some bloke.

- Paid me to spread 'em. - What "bloke"?

- I dunno! His face was hid! - How about you leave him

and chase after the yids what done this?

You seem pretty sure who lit that match, son.

Left their mark, plain as day.

Is that Hebrew?

Flight, get a photographer.

Yes, sir.

Sergeant.

I was expecting you at the...

church.

It's not like her, sir.

I know my Bella, she's in trouble, I can feel it.

I've, er... I've scoured the streets.

I don't know what else to do.

You're certain there's no signs of abduction?

I don't think so. Least, not what I could see.

Bennet, when you first started courting Bella...

...I had concern...

Reid.

- Concern? - Not every wild cat can be tamed.

- You're wrong about her. - Look, Drake.

Did you talk to Susan?

- She's not back on her back! - Only to see if she has any other ideas.

No!

Why don't me and you go ask her, huh?

Long Susan threw you out. Are you welcome there?

About as welcome as your advice on every man's goddamn marriage.

I just...

I just need a small sum for lodging, till I find a new playhouse.

Rose, I've got nothing to give you.

The music hall remains your best option.

So I should just... crawl back to Blewett, then, should I?

Let him take what he wants?

Doesn't matter how hard we try, does it, girl?

In the end, we pay with the basest coin of all.

Sorry, are we interrupting something? It's about Bella.

She never spoke of family, friends or anyone

and I learnt long ago in the running of this house not to pry.

Well, was there ever a...

...another... gentleman?

Before the sergeant, that is.

Not known to me. Rose?

Nor me.

I am sorry, Sergeant. I wish I could tell you more.

I have matters to attend. You're welcome to finish your tea.

Susan.

Susan!

- Goddamn it! - Don't touch me.

And do not call again on this house, unannounced.

Or what? You'll call the police?

This is my home, Susan!

This is my home.

- Bennet... - You keep away from me, girl.

Bennet, I'm your friend.

No!

No, I should've been home.

Not with you.

If I'd been home, she wouldn't be gone, would she?

Nothing good comes from being round you.

Get back!

It was the Catholics!

What sorrow the Catholics have visited on us, Detective Reid.

- Inspector. - Mr Bloom.

A religious war brews in Whitechapel.

Mrs Goldstone said... you were looking for me.

I hope someday it is happier circumstances

that bring me to your door.

Inspector, save your photographs. I saw the graffito for myself.

"Shall a trumpet be blown in the city

"and the people not quake in fear?

"Shall there be evil in the city, if the Lord has not done it?"

The Torah?

Is it your belief that the Jews

are responsible for the burning of that church?

Are any so radical in their views known to you?

A boy was...

flinging these...

outside the shul

- like confetti. - A boy was pamphleteering

outside the church also.

Peddling anti-Semitic sentiment.

A striking coincidence, would you not say?

A call to Jews for savage retribution.

"Scorch the Gentiles as before with righteous fire for their desecration."

He says no member of this shul would write such words,

nor seek such violence.

And he is afraid what will befall us.

I will not allow the fomenting of hatred in this community.

Inspector... the men of these streets are no brotherhood.

We are neighbours of circumstance, necessity.

The fence of tolerance that pens us is frail.

We are not animals here, Mr Bloom.

Now that is a radical view.

Bella?

Bella?

Oh.

I... Forgive me.

Forgive me.

You're welcome to join us, if you like. We saw you sat alone.

Maggie.

What I'd like, Maggie, is to be left in peace with my gin.

I didn't mean...

I just thought you... was a time not long past

I was needful of friends and was lucky to find some, is all.

I'll leave you be.

Evening, pretty one. Tug us off?

I'll rip it off!

Hello!

Bella.

Where have you...?

Bennet, this is Gabriel.

- Who?! - My uncle.

Your uncle?!

Gabriel Cain.

I...

Where were you?

- I've been out of my mind, girl! - I left a note.

A note?

No, this...

I swear it wasn't there.

Bella, I've been searching all over. I thought...

I'm so sorry.

The apology should be mine, Mr Drake.

My visit was unannounced and I brought with me the worst of news.

My daughter, sir.

Lily.

For some months the typhus had clawed at her.

Lily had uttered many times a wish to see once more the sweet face of whom she,

in happier times, had cherished, dear as a sister.

When, by chance, Bella's whereabouts became known to me,

I came without a second thought

and, in no less haste, Bella rushed to spend the night by Lily's side.

Did she...?

She passed, sir.

Before sunrise.

I am sorry.

Bella never spoke of any family. May I ask of Lily's mother?

The sun does not rise upon a single day without my yearning for her.

This meal is delicious, my dear.

I feel blessed to be in your home.

There is no tie that binds more than family.

Do you not agree, Mr Drake?

Oh, I, er... I never knew much of family. Until Bella.

She tells me you took the queen's shilling. Egypt, was it?

For a time. You?

No such privilege, sir.

My travel was undertaken not for queen and country, but for study.

I travelled through Sinai en route to Persia, Bengal.

The study of what?

All kinds.

Exploration, anthropology.

A seeking, you might say.

Seeking of?

Truth.