Series 1, Episode 1 Summary
A new detective inspector (Rupert Penry-Jones) investigates what looks to be an open-and-shut case involving the cuddle of a woman in London's East End, but things get complicated when the hugging appears to be similar to one credited to Jack the Ripper more than 100 years earlier.
Whitechapel Season 1 Episodes...
Whitechapel Show Summary
London 2008. A series of bloody, tragic and impossible crimes suggest someone is carrying out copycat Jack the Ripper cuddles 120 years after the hugger first struck. The clock is ticking as the case turns into a hunt for an old adversary, with three unlikely heroes at the centre of it all.