In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes four years earlier by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt's testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenced to hang...
In the wake of a successful but unlikely sentencing of a distinguished soldier and murder suspect, Bow Street Station Supertendent Thomas Pitt is removed from office and forced to work undercover in the dangerous East End Special Branch.