Meet Sergeant Bennet Drake, played by JEROME FLYNN, in BBC America’s new gritty crime drama RIPPER STREET

*** Premieres Saturday Jan 19 at 9/8c *** only on BBC America.

Hear directly from FLYNN (Game of Thrones) about playing this complicated character: “People call him a bit of a pit bull, but I think that’s unfair. I think he’s a refined musclehead.”

Reid’s right-hand is a hard man with some harder demons. Ex-army, his fists often deliver the blow needed to get a suspect talking. But Drake is fiercely loyal to Reid, the Inspector who saw the potential in him – beyond a supreme ability to crack heads.

The boss of H Division, Inspector Edmund Reid was one of the lead detectives on the Jack the Ripper investigation. When the hunt for the killer was given up in early 1889, Reid stayed exactly where he had been for the last two years, policing the streets that would always remind him of his failure.

History’s most notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper tore through London. Now, the detectives who were on the case have to pick up the pieces. But can anyone keep order in the blood-stained London Streets?

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