
“Heavy is the head that wears the crown” says Captain Jackson in this episode, focused squarely on Inspector Drake as he takes control of Whitechapel in the most awful circumstances following last week’s shocking conclusion. This Reid-less episode has a middling, forgettable “crime of the week”, but the importance of the episode is not on that, but rather the intersecting storylines of Drake, Rose, the Captain and Miss Susan, and the effect of Reid’s disappearance on them.


Ashes and Diamonds closes out with both Alice’s escape, and Drake locating Reid hiding out somewhere near the sea. With Reid back in the picture but still in hiding, it can’t be long before everything starts to come to a head.