To anyone who watched Ripper Street 2.02 on Drama Channel last night, please feel free to vote in the episode poll!


Rosie and Kallie, I came into this topic to say almost exactly the same thing! Although I've watched this series of Ripper Street many times (can't think why) watching from the beginning, knowing Flight's full story (at least, what is revealed to us.. there is so much more we dont know) does make you look at everything in a new light... and that seems to grow with each repeat viewing! It's great that even though we know the story, it takes nothing away from re watching, in fact it seems to add endlessly fascinating layers.

Last night I found myself even more curious about Flight, his attitude on arrival... his arrogance and simmering... and also his keenness and seeming innocence in some things. I found myself really wondering about Flight in that scene at the shelter, where he and Bennett go looking for John Goode. For someone with Flight's background his naivety about the situtation and the threat to their safety is intriguing. Was it because he didn't see himself as too different from those men, that he was no an outsider? When he shouted "Police" I didn't think so. We know Flight must have been fairly streetwise from his past?

I know for sure when I first watched the episode, I saw Flight as an enigma and his arrogance as frustration due to his ambition and keenness. I was also totally convince that his moral compass pointed towards goodness. The scene where he helped Merrick up in the street, where he could have suffocated on his back, compounded that. So the scene at the end where he 'fell asleep' outside his door I definitely did not think he had anything to do with. I thought is was a tragic mirror scene to the one where he saved Merrick because he was alert and vigilant and good hearted - that he has worked himself too hard and fallen asleep - causing him to miss the fact that Merrick was dying in the room behind him. Now knowing the actual events of that changes the whole feeling and experience of the episode.