Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in Ripper Street

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Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in Ripper Street is the principled yet haunted head of H Division in Victorian Whitechapel, leading complex criminal investigations in the turbulent aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
television character
appearsIn Ripper Street
basedOn Edmund Reid
characterTrait determined
haunted
intelligent
morally driven
principled
countryOfWork United Kingdom
createdBy Richard Warlow
createdFor television series
employer H Division
firstAppearance Ripper Street, series 1 episode 1
genre crime drama
period drama
hasBackstoryElement guilt over failure to catch Jack the Ripper
trauma related to his family
hasColleague Captain Homer Jackson
Sergeant Bennet Drake
investigates murders
violent crime in Whitechapel
languageOfWork English
moralConflict balancing justice and law in a corrupt environment
narrativeContext aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders
narrativeRole lead detective
protagonist
nationalityInFiction British
network Amazon Prime Video
BBC One
occupation detective inspector
policeForce Metropolitan Police Service
portrayedBy Matthew Macfadyen
positionHeld head of H Division
setInPlace Whitechapel, London, England
surface form: Whitechapel, London
setInTimePeriod Victorian era
themeAssociated aftermath of serial murder
corruption and justice
personal guilt and redemption
timeInFiction late 19th century
workLocation Whitechapel
worksAgainst organized crime in Whitechapel

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Matthew Macfadyen portrayed Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in Ripper Street
David Matthew Macfadyen portrayed Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in Ripper Street