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->'''Played by:''' Jerome Flynn
Creator/JeromeFlynn
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* BehindTheMask: [[spoiler: It's not totally incongruous with his other appearances, simply something that never comes up in his antagonistic interactions with the H Division team, but his private tenderness and concern for his boyfriend in ''Threads Of Silk And Gold'' is quite sweet, as well as shedding some light on his earlier position on moral hypocrisy.]]
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* BehindTheMask: BeneathTheMask: [[spoiler: It's not totally incongruous with his other appearances, simply something that never comes up in his antagonistic interactions with the H Division team, but his private tenderness and concern for his boyfriend in ''Threads Of Silk And Gold'' is quite sweet, as well as shedding some light on his earlier position on moral hypocrisy.]]
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* TheInspector: Reid, although unlike many examples of this trope he doesn't have a younger assistant tagging along nor do Jackson or Drake really act as TheWatson.
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* FakeBrit: Played by British based Swedish actress MyAnna Buring [[spoiler: also one in universe too as the character is from the USA, making her a FakeAmerican]]
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* UndyingLoyalty
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* UndyingLoyalty
UndyingLoyalty: To Reid
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: With Deborah Gormen]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: With Deborah Gormen]].
Goren in S1, and Jane Cobden in S2 - although by S2 he and Emily are estranged]].
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* [[spoiler: SympatheticMurderer]]: [[spoiler: [[MamaBear She killed that man that was about to kill one of her girls]].]]
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* [[spoiler: SympatheticMurderer]]: [[spoiler: [[MamaBear She killed that man that was about to kill one of her girls]]. In S3... less sympathetic.]]
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Drake.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Drake.
Drake. [[spoiler: Resolved]] as of S3.
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* [[spoiler: TheDragon: To Silas Duggan. He kills off people so Duggan can usurp their properties.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheDragon: To Silas Duggan. He kills off people so Duggan can usurp their properties.]]
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* LanternJawOfJustice
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* DirtyCop
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!!Carmichael
->'''Played by:''' Joe Gilgun
The adult leader of a gang of street urchins.
* BritishTeeth: In a show where most characters seem to have very good teeth for Victorian London, his stand out.
* BurnTheOrphanage: He tries to literally do it.
* EvilEyebrows: They have life of their own.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Smokes evil pipe while preparing to kill.
* KubrickStare.
* MadEye: He seems to be able to move his eyes independently of each other.
* TattooedCrook: His hands are covered with tattoos in the shape of playing cards, each representing a different crime.
* TheFagin.
->'''Played by:''' Joe Gilgun
The adult leader of a gang of street urchins.
* BritishTeeth: In a show where most characters seem to have very good teeth for Victorian London, his stand out.
* BurnTheOrphanage: He tries to literally do it.
* EvilEyebrows: They have life of their own.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Smokes evil pipe while preparing to kill.
* KubrickStare.
* MadEye: He seems to be able to move his eyes independently of each other.
* TattooedCrook: His hands are covered with tattoos in the shape of playing cards, each representing a different crime.
* TheFagin.
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* ByTheBookCop: Edmund Upright, [[TitleDrop pure as the driven]] snow. [[spoiler: However his morals are called into question in season 2.]]
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* FairCop: Edmund Upright, [[TitleDrop pure as the driven]] snow. [[spoiler: However his morals are called into question in season 2.]]
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* FairCop: Edmund Upright, [[TitleDrop pure as the driven]] snow. [[spoiler: However his morals are called into question in season 2.]]FairCop
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: After Bella's suicide.]]
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* FakeAmerican: played by [=MyAnna=] Buring, who is Swedish.
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* EarAche: [[spoiler: The Pinkerton looking for Katherine Swift cut off his ear when he refused to reveal her location.]]
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* EarAche: [[spoiler: The Pinkerton looking for Katherine Caitlin Swift cut off his ear when he refused to reveal her location.]]
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* {{Jerkass}} {{Jerkass}}
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Drake.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: The promotional material describes him as "A man obsessed by his own power and will. A will that has corrupted him and, if he has his way, will corrupt all and everything that falls within his reach."
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* CompleteMonster: If not completely, then very nearly.
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* EvilIsCool.
* EvilIsSexy: He's a professional boxer, and looks pretty good shirtless.
* EvilIsSexy: He's a professional boxer, and looks pretty good shirtless.
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: He kills Joseph Merrick to stop him from telling Chief Inspector Abberline that he saw Shine kill Maurice Linklater.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was "A little Paddy wretch, destined for jail or an early grave" before he joined the police.
* [[spoiler: DrivenToVillainy: He has to do Shine's bidding, because Shine's in possession of Flight's damning criminal record. Though for the most part, Shine's kept him in the dark about how he uses the information Flight supplies him with.]]
* [[spoiler: DrivenToVillainy: He has to do Shine's bidding, because Shine's in possession of Flight's damning criminal record. Though for the most part, Shine's kept him in the dark about how he uses the information Flight supplies him with.]]
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* WalkingSpoiler: Pretty much.
* AffablyEvil: He usually acts very friendly, and smiles most of the time.
* BigBad: Half the episodes of series 2 revolve around stopping him somehow. [[spoiler: But he's actually also TheDragon to a BiggerBad slumlord.]]
* CompleteMonster: If not completely, then very nearly.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's got a girlfriend in his first episode, and seems to treat her well. [[spoiler: He pretends not to know her later, when Reid hauls her off to jail]].
* EvilEyebrows: Has a serious pair of them.
* EvilIsCool.
* EvilIsSexy: He's a professional boxer, and looks pretty good shirtless.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: So much that viewers have trouble understanding what he's saying at times.
* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler: He doesn't work for Duggan for the money, he simply likes killing.]]
* LargeHam: He's got his moments.
* KarmaHoudini: To Edmund Reid's great despair.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: The murder of Joseph Merrick.]]
* BigBad: Half the episodes of series 2 revolve around stopping him somehow. [[spoiler: But he's actually also TheDragon to a BiggerBad slumlord.]]
* CompleteMonster: If not completely, then very nearly.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's got a girlfriend in his first episode, and seems to treat her well. [[spoiler: He pretends not to know her later, when Reid hauls her off to jail]].
* EvilEyebrows: Has a serious pair of them.
* EvilIsCool.
* EvilIsSexy: He's a professional boxer, and looks pretty good shirtless.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: So much that viewers have trouble understanding what he's saying at times.
* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler: He doesn't work for Duggan for the money, he simply likes killing.]]
* LargeHam: He's got his moments.
* KarmaHoudini: To Edmund Reid's great despair.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: The murder of Joseph Merrick.]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: He kills Joseph Merrick to stop him from telling Chief Inspector Abberline that he saw Shine kill Maurice Linklater.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: He seems to think so a lot of the time.
* [[spoiler: TheDragon: To Silas Duggan. He kills off people so Duggan can usurp their properties.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Certainly.
* SesquipedalianSmith.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: He seems to think so a lot of the time.
* [[spoiler: TheDragon: To Silas Duggan. He kills off people so Duggan can usurp their properties.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Certainly.
* SesquipedalianSmith.
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!!Albert Flight
->'''Played by:''' Damian Moloney
A young Irish constable who transfers to H-Division from Bloomsbury.
* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Twice. First when he realises that Shine must have killed Joseph Merrick, and again when he watches Shine kill Nathaniel Hinchcliffe.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: H-Division thinks he is one for [[spoiler: Hobbs]].
* TheIdealist: He wants to be a good man.
* [[spoiler: TheMole: He's actually sent to Whitechapel by DI Shine, to report on whether Reid is about to discover any more of Shine's corrupt schemes.]]
!!Jedediah Shine
->'''Played by:''' Joseph Mawle
Head of Limehouse K-Division, and thoroughly corrupt.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Joseph is said to be a very nice guy in real life.
->'''Played by:''' Damian Moloney
A young Irish constable who transfers to H-Division from Bloomsbury.
* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Twice. First when he realises that Shine must have killed Joseph Merrick, and again when he watches Shine kill Nathaniel Hinchcliffe.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: H-Division thinks he is one for [[spoiler: Hobbs]].
* TheIdealist: He wants to be a good man.
* [[spoiler: TheMole: He's actually sent to Whitechapel by DI Shine, to report on whether Reid is about to discover any more of Shine's corrupt schemes.]]
!!Jedediah Shine
->'''Played by:''' Joseph Mawle
Head of Limehouse K-Division, and thoroughly corrupt.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Joseph is said to be a very nice guy in real life.
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!!Bella Drake
Played By: Gillian Saker
The woman Bennett Drake married between the first and second season.
* [[spoiler: {{Cult}}: She is secretly part of one.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: She was part of a cult and her daughter died.]]
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: After her cult was arrested, she stabs herself because she believed she could never repair her relationship with Bennett.]]
* HappilyMarried: With Bennett [[spoiler: until it was horribly subverted.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Nearly, but marrying Bennett saved her from that.
* SecondLove: And painful aware of it.
Played By: Gillian Saker
The woman Bennett Drake married between the first and second season.
* [[spoiler: {{Cult}}: She is secretly part of one.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: She was part of a cult and her daughter died.]]
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: After her cult was arrested, she stabs herself because she believed she could never repair her relationship with Bennett.]]
* HappilyMarried: With Bennett [[spoiler: until it was horribly subverted.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Nearly, but marrying Bennett saved her from that.
* SecondLove: And painful aware of it.
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* IHaveManyNames: He's changed his name and skipped town when things got too hot at least once; it's implied that this is something of a habit for him.
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* IHaveManyNames: He's changed his name and skipped town when things got too hot at least once; it's implied that this is something of a habit for him. Though [[spoiler:Matthew Judge]] does appear to be his original name, as his brother has the same surname.
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* FakeAmerican: played by MyAnna [=MyAnna=] Buring, who is Swedish.
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** In the first episode, he gets into a physical scuffle with Reid and counters Reid's own attempts to shake him down by suggesting he knows more than he lets on about the man's DarkAndTroubledPast and wouldn't be afraid to tell the wrong kind of people. Shady, manipulative smartass not afraid to employ underhanded methods when under pressure or just for kicks: check.
** In the first episode, he gets into a physical scuffle with Reid and counters Reid's own attempts to shake him down by suggesting he knows more than he lets on about the man's DarkAndTroubledPast and wouldn't be afraid to tell the wrong kind of people. Shady, manipulative smartass not afraid to employ underhanded methods when under pressure or just for kicks: check.
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* CharacterEstablishingMoment:
** In the first episode, he gets into a physical scuffleBehindTheMask: [[spoiler: It's not totally incongruous with Reid his other appearances, simply something that never comes up in his antagonistic interactions with the H Division team, but his private tenderness and counters Reid's own attempts to shake him down by suggesting he knows more than he lets on about the man's DarkAndTroubledPast and wouldn't be afraid to tell the wrong kind of people. Shady, manipulative smartass not afraid to employ underhanded methods when under pressure or just concern for kicks: check. his boyfriend in ''Threads Of Silk And Gold'' is quite sweet, as well as shedding some light on his earlier position on moral hypocrisy.]]
** In the first episode, he gets into a physical scuffle
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** In the first episode, he gets into a physical scuffle with Reid and counters Reid's own attempts to shake him down by suggesting he knows more than he lets on about the man's DarkAndTroubledPast and wouldn't be afraid to tell the wrong kind of people. Shady, manipulative smartass not afraid to employ underhanded methods when under pressure or just for kicks? Sounds like Best.
** For the second season: Best [[spoiler: adjusting his prosthetic in the mirror, saying wryly to himself "Who's to say you are not beautiful?".]]
** In the first episode, he gets into a physical scuffle with Reid and counters Reid's own attempts to shake him down by suggesting he knows more than he lets on about the man's DarkAndTroubledPast and wouldn't be afraid to tell the wrong kind of people. Shady, manipulative smartass not afraid to employ underhanded methods when under pressure or just for kicks? Sounds like Best.
** For the second season: Best [[spoiler: adjusting his prosthetic in the mirror, saying wryly to himself "Who's to say you are not beautiful?".]]
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A journalist that is often at odds with Reid.
* BreakTheHaughty: He's almost never right [[spoiler: then he almost lost his ear (see below)]].
* BreakTheHaughty: He's almost never right [[spoiler: then he almost lost his ear (see below)]].
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* BreakTheHaughty: He's almost never right [[spoiler: then he
* CharacterEstablishingMoment:
** In the first episode, he gets into a physical scuffle with Reid and counters Reid's own attempts to shake him down by suggesting he knows more than he lets on about the man's DarkAndTroubledPast and wouldn't be afraid to tell the wrong kind of people. Shady, manipulative smartass not afraid to employ underhanded methods when under pressure or just for kicks: check.
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* EarAche: [[spoiler: The pinkerton looking for Katherin Swift cut off his ear when he woundn't reveal her location.]]
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* EarAche: [[spoiler: The pinkerton Pinkerton looking for Katherin Katherine Swift cut off his ear when he woundn't refused to reveal her location.]]
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* [[spoiler: StraightGay: As of ''"Threads Of Silk And Gold"''.]]
* [[spoiler: StraightGay: As of ''"Threads Of Silk And Gold"''.]]
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* DamselInDistress: In "Become Man"
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGoldHookerWithAHeartOfGold: Until season two, when she becomes a waitress.
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!!Susan Hart [[spoiler:Katherine Swift]]
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!!Susan Hart [[spoiler:Katherine ("Long Susan") / [[spoiler:Caitlin Swift]]
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* FairCop: Edmund Upright, [[TitleDrop pure as the driven]] snow. [[spoiler: However his morals are called into question in season 2.]]
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* KnightInSourArmor: He's trying to police the most crime riddensection crime-ridden section of London with nowhere near enough resources yet still tries to be a good cop.
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* BerserkButton: Rose. Don't mess with Rose.
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