WHITECHAPEL BY BEN COURT AND CAROLINE IP WHITECHAPEL 1 WHITECHAPEL GOES TO SERIES 6x1 hour 3x2 part stories Whitechapel, written by Ben Court and Caroline Ip, is produced by Carnival Films for ITV 1 and stars Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton. Other cast members include Ben Bishop, Claire Rushbrook, Sam Stockman and new team member Hannah Walters who plays DC Megan Riley. Producer, David Boulter (He Kills Coppers) says; "Whitechapel is back, bigger and bolder than before. Gruesome present day investigations summon the ghosts of the past, screaming and restless. Chandler’s team must decipher their historic relevance, but history can be unreliable: convincing and confusing in equal measure. These new Whitechapel stories are dark, compelling and full of surprises." Chandler and his new unit are still based in Whitechapel nick but as before feel slightly removed from the prosaic and mundane day to day, run of the mill policing. They have rescued a huge crime archive, a vast but chaotic collection of files and papers beneath the incident room. Buchan begins eagerly sorting this treasure trove of primary sources. When a new case lands on the team’s desk and the race is on to find the killer, Miles is cynical about Buchan’s value to the team, but Chandler is convinced that history holds clues. This is where the nightmares of the past help solve the horrors of the present. Whitechapel remains a dark and scary place, laden with villainy and foreboding. The series will take us through three hundred years of history, peeling back the layers of the East End. There will be Gothic shadows, cobblestones and ancient hostelries, fear in the Huguenot weaving houses of Wilkes Street, and terrifying discoveries in the dark corners and rooftops around Brick Lane. With tinges of black comedy the series is heady, visceral and terrifying. In Whitechapel, history isn’t dead, it’s deadly. Executive Producer, Sally Woodward Gentle says: “I am delighted we are getting the chance to tell brand new Whitechapel stories but this time as a series. The East End of London is steeped in history, secrets and gore and we now have the opportunity to take Chandler, Miles and Buchan to places darker still. If you thought the Ripper and Krays were scary, just wait.” Laura Mackie, Director of Drama, ITV says: “Whitechapel is a striking and distinctive crime drama that has struck a real chord with the ITV 1 audience. The longer run will allow us to tell an even richer range of stories from the Whitechapel area” The new series is produced by David Boulter (He Kills Coppers, Prime Suspect 6) and executive produced by Sally Woodward Gentle, Creative Director of Carnival Films (Enid, Any Human Heart). The directors are John Strickland (Bedlam, Bodies, Apparitions), Richard Clark (Life On Mars, Doctor Who) and Jon East (Summerhill, That Summer Day). WHITECHAPEL 2 Notes to Editors: The original three part serial of Whitechapel debuted on February 02, 2009 with overnight ratings reaching 8.13 million viewers. A second serial was commissioned by ITV in September 2009 with the focus on the infamous Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie. The first episode of this second series was broadcast on 11 October 2010 and achieved 7 million viewers (25% share of the audience). The ratings average for series two was 6.5 million and a 23% share. ENDS Press contact for Carnival Films: Una Maguire at Milk Publicity, una@milkpublicity.com | 0207 5201087 | 07801 036272 Victoria Brooks at Milk Publicity, Victoria@milkpublicity.com | 0207 520 1087 | 07712 009588 Jessica Morris at Milk Publicity, Jessica@milkpublicity.com | 0207 520 1087 | 07736 472752 WHITECHAPEL 3 WHITECHAPEL Press Release .................................................................................................. .…Page 2 Cast and Crew .................................................................................................... Page 4 Rupert Penry-Jones is DI Joseph Chandler .......................................................... Page 6 Phil Davis is DS Ray Miles .................................................................................. Page 9 Steve Pemberton is Edward Buchan .................................................................. Page 11 Ben Bishop is DC Finley Mansell........................................................................ Page 13 Sam Stockman is DC Emerson Kent .................................................................. Page 14 Hannah Walters is DC Megan Riley………………………………………………. ... Page 15 Synopses ........................................................................................................... Page 16 Historical cases of Whitechapel…………………………………………………. ...... Page 17 Carnival Films .................................................................................................... Page 21 WHITECHAPEL 4 CAST DI Joseph Chandler.......................................................................... Rupert Penry-Jones DS Ray Miles ................................................................................................... Phil Davis Edward Buchan .................................................................................... Steve Pemberton DC Finley Mansell ..........................................................................................Ben Bishop DC Emerson Kent .................................................................................... Sam Stockman Dr Llewellyn ......................................................................................... Claire Rushbrook DC Megan Riley……………………………………………………...............Hannah Walters CREW Executive Producer ..................................................................... Sally Woodward Gentle Producer .................................................................................................... David Boulter Director Story 1………….………………………………………………………John Strickland Director Story 2………….………………………………………………………...Richard Clark Director Story 3…..……….…………………………………………………………….Jon East Writers..................................................................................... Ben Court and Caroline Ip Line Producer .............................................................................................. David Mason Director of Photography 1 .................................................................... Kieran McGuigan Director of Photography 2…………………………………………………………...Ulf Brantas Director of Photography 3……………………………………………………….Owen McPolin Production Designer .......................................................................................Tom Brown Art Director ................................................................................. Justin Warburton Brown Make-Up & Hair Designer ........................................................................ Caroline Noble Costume Designer ...................................................................................... Andrea Galer Editor 1 & 3 ...........................................................................................Anthony Combes Editor 2...................................................................................................... Xavier Russell Casting Director .......................................................................................... Susie Parriss WHITECHAPEL 5 Rupert Penry-Jones is Detective Inspector Joseph Chandler When we last saw DI Chandler, he and the team had been doing battle on the streets of Whitechapel with delusional identical twins that believed they were the last living relatives of Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Still based in Whitechapel’s police station, the team, bored of the petty crimes that fill up their days, are startled when they are called to a massacre at a tailors shop. With a new format and three new stories to get his teeth into Rupert wasn’t fazed in the least by some of the gruesome prosthetics he had to face. “The torso story is pretty gory,’ claims Rupert. “We had prosthetic bodies made and torsos with legs, arms and heads chopped off and you see it all - I mean it’s pretty hard-core. I don’t know how much of that footage they’re actually going to use in the final show, but when you first saw it, it was quite shocking,’ he laughs. This series sees a slight gear change in Chandler by way of a tougher exterior. “He has been investigating murders for three or four years so he has seen his fair share of gore by now. I think he can cope with it a lot better, but still he doesn’t like it. He’s not immune to it but he can keep it under control.” Having copy-catted Whitechapel’s most notorious murders, the Ripper and the Krays in previous serials, the format has changed to three, 2 x 1 hour stories but remain true to the gothic roots of the Ripper. As Rupert explains, “The format has changed slightly this year because there are only a certain number of suitable copycat crimes you can write about,’ he admits. “What Ben and Caroline [writers] have done is brought Buchan in to advise us by using history as a kind of a map to guide us through present day crimes. So we use the crimes of the past to help us solve the crimes of the present.” It is Chandler who is responsible for bringing Buchan on board. When a vast archive of case files are digitised and released for destruction, Chandler sees their value and rescues them. An ecstatic Buchan is then recruited to help sort through and organise an archive at Whitechapel. “Bringing Buchan in is a risk for both Chandler and Buchan but he soon becomes invaluable to the team with even Miles realising that he is doing his bit to help,” says Rupert. “ Having said that, he’s kept down in the basement most of the time so you don’t really see him around and the other police don’t have to deal with him too much,” he laughs. “Whenever we need information we go down to him, this sort of ‘Guru’ in the basement who has all the information at his fingertips. He’s become quite good, he’s like this sort of wise soothsayer underneath the police station.” For Rupert what’s appealing about how the show has moved on is that it hasn’t lost that link with real historical crimes. “What’s great about Whitechapel this year is how the crimes we’re solving are fictitious, but the crimes that we use to help us are real so the audience is still getting that wonderful authenticity when you’re still learning about the history of the WHITECHAPEL 6 Whitechapel area,” he explains. “This makes it a lot more fun and adds atmosphere to the show as well as learning something new and real as an actor.” Whitechapel was filmed partly on a purpose built set in an old municipal building in Crouch End and partly out on the streets of Brick Lane and Whitechapel as well as other nearby East End locations. As the stories and locations have developed, so too have the team who become more integrated and involved in the case solving. “Everyone is more involved with the detecting side of things now, especially in the third story,’ adds Rupert. “To begin with it was very much Chandler working things out with the help of Miles, who basically argued with everything that Chandler said. However, now everyone works together and individuals have been given a bit more responsibility. The job feels like it’s a group effort and people actually contribute to the solving of the crime rather than Llewellyn and Buchan giving us all the information we need and Chandler putting it together. It’s much more detailed now.” As well as having new female detective DC Megan Riley, played by Hannah Walters join the team, audiences can also look forward to seeing a more personal side to Chandler, though not particularly romantic. “The audience won’t see Chandler’s private life as such they will see a chink in his armour when he realises early on in the series that there is something missing in his life. Chandler would like to have a family and someone to share his life with,” explains Rupert. “He sees Miles and the life he has and Mansell and his wife and realises that it is maybe something he needs and he gives it a go. Miles is pushing him to try and he does give it a go but we can safely say romance is not going well for Chandler.” “What’s happened with Chandler in this series is that he is much more alert to women whereas before if a beautiful woman looked at him he wouldn’t even notice. Now, if somebody finds him attractive, he senses it right away. He still does not know what to do about it or how to react to it but he’s aware. And it’s given me a load of fun things to play with like moments where he wants to kiss a woman and can’t because he doesn’t know how to.” Another romance that Chandler isn’t quite ready for is his ‘bromance’ with DC Kent. “Kent looks up to Chandler and when Chandler focuses in on him that makes him happy. But I don’t think Kent is gay; it’s more like he has a sort of older brother crush going on and wants to be like Chandler,” he says. Having been commissioned for a series, Whitechapel is clearly continuing to capture the imagination and attention of the audience. “I think what keeps our audience there is the thrill,” says Rupert. “It’s that thrill factor that they chase. How much they can take and how scared they can get before they can’t handle it any more,” he adds. “There is a certain thrill that goes into watching something that scares you and although Whitechapel is scary you kind of know it’s going to be ok in the end.” “I think it is more edge of the seat this year and certainly there are sequences in it that are more reminiscent of a horror film than a detective show and that’s a good thing. There should be that sense of tension there and I’ve always wanted to be in a horror film or a slasher movie. The last story particularly reads more like a horror film which was fantastic. It’s these sort of sequences where you’re wandering around WHITECHAPEL 7 houses and hearing all sorts of noises and being terrified which are so much fun to act.” WHITECHAPEL 8 Phil Davis plays Detective Sergeant Ray Miles Phil Davis was delighted when Whitechapel was commissioned for a third series for a variety of reasons not least of which was an excuse to reunite him with his friend of over ten years Rupert Penry-Jones, not to mention the prospect of a mere ten minute walk to work. “I love working in Hornsey Town Hall, because I live so close by. So it’s ideal for me, and my family can pop down and see me at work. I like working here and it has a great atmosphere.” “It was great to be back,” he says. “We had so much fun doing the last two, and Rupert and I are such old friends that I always enjoy working with him. It was good to get back into the swing of it.” Phil will be working with Rupert again in 2012 when he joins the cast of the BBC legal drama Silk, also starring alongside Maxine Peake. “It will be like old times in chambers with Rupert,” says Phil who is referring to the ground-breaking predecessor to Silk, Channel 4’s acclaimed drama North Square which was cancelled after only one series. “It was such a great series that ran for ten episodes and was well received by the audience but Channel 4 just didn’t go for it.” Away from the peace and quiet of Hornsey Town Hall, the cast and crew had to contend with the streets of Whitechapel and other East End locations, which threw up all sorts of obstacles. “Well it’s always difficult filming in London because there’s a plane every 20 seconds. And because of the gothic atmosphere we create in Whitechapel, it has to be filmed at night. So it’s by no means easy. Then throw into the mix the fact that we filmed during the summer so there isn’t a lot of darkness and certainly not like there is in February or March which is when we filmed the first two serials,” he admits. One thing that hasn’t changed much since the first episode is Miles’ relationship with Buchan, despite him being a fully-fledged member on the team now. “There is always going to be antagonism between Miles and Buchan and Miles still thinks he’s a waste of space. He’s very sceptical about what he actually adds to the investigation, but that’s part of the fun,’ he adds. “I mean Miles is one of those characters who wears his heart on his sleeve and if he doesn’t like something then you’ll find out about it.” Where Chandler appears to have a natural interest in history and in particular the history of Whitechapel, Miles’ interest lies in catching the criminals. “Miles isn’t convinced that spending time going through ancient cases from the 18th and 19th centuries will be of any use to modern day policing.” Miles had a tough time in series two suffering from panic attacks brought on by his father’s association with the Krays. In series three he experiences a different kind of pressure. “This year Miles is under a lot of strain in his personal life which is to do with his wife’s health which inevitably has an effect on his work. He is incredibly worried WHITECHAPEL 9 about her and with her maternal family history of terminal illness the prognosis doesn’t look good,” he suggests. As well as having his wife to worry about, Miles’ feelings towards Chandler have developed to encompass something of an older brother or uncle but he is increasingly frustrated by Chandler’s reluctance to put himself out there and find someone to spend his life with. As a result he resorts to all kinds of tactics to secure Chandler some dates. “Miles does worry about Chandler’s solitary lifestyle and there is a little bit in the plot where he tries to fix him up with various young ladies but none of them seem to work out for one reason or another.” The strength of Miles’ affection for Chandler comes to the surface when Chandler does something extremely foolish on the job. “Miles gets very angry with Chandler when he does something stupid and risks his life,” says Phil. “So strong are Ray’s feelings that it looks for a while as if that might be the end of their friendship. “When new team member Megan Riley turns up for work it is clear she is a family friend. When Miles’s wife is ill it is Megan who helps him by taking Judy away for the weekend to cheer her up. It is a good thing to get to know the characters a bit more and to get to know them outside of the context of the crimes.” “Riley is a great role for me and it’s interesting to have a girl as a main character. It was a very male environment with the last lot and so all that changes things, and Hannah Walters plays it very well indeed” he says. “It’s a close-knit team this year and they do seem to have a sort of autonomy, I mean this is a murder squad, so they’re not dealing with the normal run of the mill cases.” The cases featured in this series are all pretty gruesome in one-way or another but does Phil remember one more than any other? “I think all the cases affect all the policemen deep down; it must have a sort of cumulative physiological effect,” explains Phil. “But you develop a thick skin and these are the guys who have to deal with this stuff, just as policemen in real life have to deal with this. It must have some kind of effect on them. I think the key is being able to turn off when they go home - that’s what Miles can do, and that’s what Chandler can’t do. Because he’s got no personal life, no home life, and so I think Miles’s relationship with his wife and his family is all the more important because the work is so difficult.” WHITECHAPEL 10 Steve Pemberton plays Edward Buchan For Ed Buchan, becoming part of DI Chandler’s team is like all of his Christmas’s coming at once as Steve explains. “It’s his dream come true in many ways,” he says. “Buchan is someone who has very much been an aid to Chandler and although he has been proven right in previous cases, there’s still a lot of mistrust and non-acceptance of him as a fullyfledged police aide. So for him to be able to come and move his pot-plant and his personal knick-knacks into his own room in the police station, is his absolute dream come true.” Having his own office space has given Buchan a greater sense of self-importance and confidence and ultimately more autonomy within that team as well. “In the first story he certainly gets carried away and takes it upon himself to hold a briefing, which is completely unofficial and very much to Chandler’s annoyance,” explains Steve. “He takes over the incident room, has people doing the lights, calling them ushers and commandeers the powerpoint presentation. So it’s true to say that it all goes to his head a bit.” Buchan’s job is to report directly to Chandler. “He’s turned himself into Jane Tennyson in Prime Suspect and mistakenly thinks he’s more senior than he is, but quickly gets taken down a peg or two by Chandler.” Having his room in the basement keeps him separate from the team but one by one the rest of the team find themselves calling on his expertise to help with the investigations. “He is not actually a fully fledged part of the team - its very dark and he’s happy being surrounded by paperwork and files and historical documents, because that’s what he knows about. He’s not so comfortable being around bodies and forensics and autopsies in the mortuary, so he’s in the building, but locked in his own world.” It’s not all plain sailing for Buchan and we see his confidence knocked throughout the series. “He sort of goes through a journey over the course of the three stories,” explains Steve. “He starts off very confident, then he loses a lot of it in the second case because he feels he’s made mistakes and that he hasn’t done everything he could to help save the lives of the victims.” “He beats himself up a lot over that until he realises, with the help of a therapist, that he can’t save every life and that if you’re going to do this job, i.e. work for the police, then you’ve got to accept that.” In some ways the pressure is greater for Buchan than it is for the bone fide police teams he works with. “Before, in previous cases, Buchan was being asked for his opinion as an expert on the subject, and he gave his opinion willingly as he wasn’t directly involved with it. Now they are coming to him looking for answers in an official capacity and he definitely feels that pressure.” WHITECHAPEL 11 Whilst Buchan appears to seek Miles’ acceptance Steve believes it is acceptance from the other policemen that he is really after. “By the time we get to the final story, what you see is all the different members of the team, Kent, Riley and Mansell, come down to seek advice from Buchan individually. So over the series, its very cleverly done, there’s a growing acceptance. I think Miles will be the last one to fall.” “With a crime scene you’ve only got a limited amount of stuff you can do,” he continues. “With the whole of crime history that’s a huge amount to try and get your head around.” Buchan believes that there’s a missing piece in a jigsaw and if he can just find that missing piece, he’ll help solve a crime. “He has a very logical way of thinking about things and some of the team like Miles for example, rely a lot more on intuition and being face to face with a suspect or a witness and being able to read them. I don’t think Buchan has those skills; his lie more in academic studies. So he really beats himself up if he feels he doesn’t know everything. So he’s under a lot of pressure.” Steve Pemberton is known for playing off the wall characters in Psychoville but he particularly likes playing Ed Buchan. “There’s an awful lot in there to play with,” says Steve. “In the first serial there was this notion that he could be a suspect, he had quite a creepy interest in Jack the Ripper which was fun to play. “When the second serial moved onto the Kray twins it was a more emotional kind of Buchan that emerged as he investigated the death of Miles’ father,” he continues. “Buchan also has some great comedic moments and some very emotional scenes where he feels this tremendous guilt at being unable to solve the cases and he breaks down and yet, against that backdrop, you’ve got the fruity language that he uses with relish and that’s what I love about him.” Steve is known for Whitchapel, The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville but has recently turned his hand to writing Benidorm, in which he also stars and has written three of the seven episodes in the forthcoming series. “In terms of my writing career, I’m interested in anything that can surprise the audience and I enjoy putting stuff on screen that you haven’t seen before which was one of the great challenges about Psychoville,” he remarks. “Reece Shearsmith and I have always had a very dark sense of humour and I think that just comes out whatever we’re writing,” he laughs. “It’s the combination of horror and comedy, of being scared one minute and laughing the next that we enjoy. Which is a very potent combination and I’ve loved doing that.” “Variety is also fantastic and you couldn’t get more variety than writing and acting in Benidorm and then doing Whitechapel and Psychoville. There’s a dark message, even in Benidorm. Just that tiny cry of darkness that people enjoy, people like stuff that isn’t all gleaming, shining, happy families. I think it allows it to be real and we all have a bit of darkness inside us.” WHITECHAPEL 12 Ben Bishop plays DC Finley Mansell Ben Bishop didn’t have to look too far from home for tips of the trade with a family member in the police force. “Humour is one way of dealing with difficult and often gruesome situations, my sisterin-law tells me, and in Whitechapel Mansell in particular uses his humour to lighten the mood.” Mansell is known as a bit of a womaniser and things get out of hand when he is supposed to be working undercover but decides to try his luck in a club. “Mansell is a real ladies man,” says Ben. “I think he is completely drawn to women and having a woman in the office is a real buzz. In fact, he actually connects with Riley more than anyone else and he likes that buzz of having female attention, he thrives on it. So I don’t think he has a problem with it though it does get him into trouble when he tries his hand with a girl in a club he is meant to be working undercover in…let’s just say it is a make or break moment for him and Chandler.” With the addition of Hannah Walters to the team Ben and the rest of the cast are finding their softer side on camera. “Having Riley on the team has made us guys a lot softer – it’s warmed us up no end and that’s really good for a lot of the family scenes this year,” claims Ben. “Both Sam and I met Hannah at the audition and there was instant chemistry between the three of us – we got on really, really well.” Throughout the series, Chandler and his team come face to face with their fears and Ben thoroughly enjoyed every moment of playing these storylines. “Mansell is feeling vulnerable since Chandler threatened him with the sack. When his fear kicks in it really opens up in his mind,” explains Ben. “He begins to question everything about what’s real, what’s not, what’s in his head and what isn’t. And for me what’s exciting is actually acting out this fear - it’s a real buzz to experience those anxious feelings.” As Ben explains there are two camps in the station and Mansell knows firmly which camp he belongs to. “Mansell identifies very much with Miles and can banter with him in the office and outside, whereas Kent looks up to Chandler. Mansell doesn’t have that connection with Chandler and sees more of a father figure in Miles, though he has really warmed up to Buchan and feels he has added value to the team. Mansell lives very much off instinct and isn’t the brightest button in the box whereas Buchan is educated and has a fierce intellect which Mansell admires.” “They’re quite chalk and cheese but I like the idea that they work well together,” he laughs. WHITECHAPEL 13 Sam Stockman is DC Emerson Kent When Sam Stockman found himself on a late night shoot during the second story little did he know that one tiny tap would result in a props disaster! “We were filming the second story in an eerie house that was packed full of rubbish and booby traps and I nearly got my head chopped off,” he explains. “Everything was carefully arranged and teetering in this room. We went into this one room and in the scene we were filming I had to jump out of the way as quickly as possible so I asked someone if this would fall, tapped it and it all came crashing down and the poor props guys had to set it all up again. I wasn’t popular that night,” he laughs. To create the dark, gothic backdrop that Whitechapel’s millions of fans find so appealing takes a huge amount of creative skill and logistics. A challenging filming schedule involving multiple location moves and a mix of day and night shoots means that team spirit is required both on and off camera as Sam explains. “Whilst doing night shoots you have to keep spirits up but with Ben, it could be the last shot at six in the morning and he’s still behaving like a four year old so he keeps everyone going, cast and crew alike and we all joke around. Hannah is a good laugh as well as Phil and Rupert. Being out on location makes a nice change from being indoors because after two weeks in the incident room you start to feel a bit cooped up and then we get to run around outside and let off steam.” Kent goes on quite an emotional journey during the series as the cases become spookier and more gruesome. “I wouldn’t say Kent is wimpy or anything like that but the cases take their toll on him and he becomes more affected by them than anyone else. It’s not often you see detectives on television becoming scared but I think these stories are so spooky they push even a hardened police officer like Miles to get frightened.” Despite letting his imagination run away with him Chandler keeps Kent in check and forces him to snap back to reality. “Chandler does say to him that you can’t allow yourself to believe these things and he’s right. His mind drifts a bit and he needs someone rational to tell him to calm down. He’s the youngest so he’s pretty childish at heart. His aunt was a psychic so he’s been around the paranormal all his life and it’s never left him. He knows in his head it’s not true but there’s something that intrigues him” he adds. DC Kent’s admiration of his DI is almost at fever pitch in the new series which Sam puts down to nothing more than a spot of hero-worship. “I think Kent is experiencing a bit of a bromance for Chandler,” laughs Sam. “It’s clear he idolises Joe and before he came along Kent had no one to look up to as he was trying to make his way in the force. He got on with Miles but other than that he was a bit of a loner. However, Chandler joined the team and was his knight in shining armour, he’s very eager to please. Kent is also protective of him more when Chandler begins dating because he doesn’t want to see him get hurt but that’s because he’d miss him so much and then he’d have no one again. Bless him!” WHITECHAPEL 14 Hannah Walters is DC Megan Riley DC Megan Riley may be the only woman in a team of blokes and classed as one of the boys but she is very much a woman’s woman. “Megan is very maternal, she’s very sensitive to all the other men around her but at the end of the day, you don’t mess with DC Riley, she can hold her own.” “She’s had to gain the respect from the boys and we’ve worked out that Phil’s character Miles had worked with Riley before, so with that comes a certain built in respect,” she continues. “She’s still got to earn her place but she does it in such a good way. She is also meticulous about her work and thoughtful and because she can hold her own in that male environment it’s important not to have a ‘girly’ girl in there who can take offence to any of the conversations that are happening. Believe me she can be as foul mouthed and masculine as the rest of them.” Despite the gruesome nature of some of the storylines, Riley is able to deal with the difficulties of the day job with determination and resolution. “Riley takes her job seriously but she has a solid foundation at home - a family life and children, so for her work is work” explains Hannah. There are certain scenes that affect Riley more than others and in particular those involving children and young people. “In the third story a little girl is hiding under a bed and it effects Riley quite a bit more than the boys because she is so maternal,” says Hannah. Hannah was a huge fan of the show and joining the cast was a dream come true for her. “I’ve loved it since series one,” she says. “It’s just so different from other dramas, with complex characters and great stories. And the way it is filmed is just exquisite, the whole thing together is absolutely superb and I was so incredibly excited to be joining the show.” Riley may be all about the work but for Hannah it is crucial to have a laugh on the job. “As our characters we do have a bit of a laugh but when we switch off, we switch off. You’ve got to be able to do that, there’s a right time and a wrong time to do that obviously but we’re all such different personalities we bring the naughtiness out of each other on set when we’re not filming. There’s a lot of joking around, a lot of banter and a lot of giggling which is a fantastic environment to work in.” WHITECHAPEL 15 N.B. THESE SYNOPSES ARE FOR FORWARD PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY AND WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU DO NOT REPLICATE THESE OR REVEAL THE STORYLINES THEREIN Whitechapel III Story One [Episodes 1 & 2] When four people are slaughtered at night at a seemingly fortified tailor’s workshop, the East End is gripped with fear and panic at this seemingly impossible gruesome crime. Chandler, Miles and the team unearth the history of the Ratcliffe Highway Murders. Clearly not a copycat, what can Chandler and Miles learn from history, other than not to repeat the same mistakes, which will help them solve this particularly grizzly series of murders? When a second mass murder occurs where there is no obvious break-in, no obvious escape and no forensics the crimes take on an almost supernatural edge. Who or what is responsible and how can anyone sleep soundly in their beds in Whitechapel when doors and walls offer no protection? Story Two [Episodes 3 & 4] As Chandler, Miles and the team attend the christening of Miles’s daughter, Martha, a fox runs through Whitechapel. It has a human arm in its mouth. A torso is washed up at Putney Bridge. Both the arm and the torso show signs of poisoning. When Llewellyn discovers traces of ‘Spanish Fly’, an aphrodisiac drug used by the Marquis de Sade at his infamous orgies Chandler, Miles and the team question what sort of killer they could be up against. The investigation in Story 2 references historical cases of poisoning, the Thames Torso murders, and the serial killer HH Holmes. Story Three [Episodes 5 & 6] At the end of a shift, news comes in that a dangerous patient, Calvin Mantus, has escaped from a psychiatric unit. Originally from Whitechapel, Mantus killed his parents and young sister ten years ago, and left them macabrely posed in a Sunday lunch setting. When a babysitter is murdered, and the area becomes the focus of a series of terrifying events in quick succession, Chandler, Miles and the team must act fast as they fear a masked spree killer is on the loose. Story 3 uses the conventions of 1970s/1980s slasher films to create a terrifying killer, a reincarnation of the bogeyman for Chandler to track down. WHITECHAPEL 16 Whitechapel – Real life cases highlighted by Buchan in the series Story 1 Ratcliffe Highway Murders The Ratcliffe Highway murders were two vicious attacks that resulted in multiple fatalities, and occurred over twelve days in the year 1811, in homes half a mile apart near Wapping in London. The first attack took place on 7th December 1811 at a home behind a linen draper’s shop on Ratcliffe Highway (now called The Highway). The victims were Timothy Marr (a 24 year old linen draper and hosier), his wife Celia, their 3-month-old son Timothy and James Gowen, their shop boy. Margaret Jewell, a servant of the Marrs, had been sent to purchase oysters, and subsequently escaped. The murder caused the government to offer a reward of 500 guineas for the apprehension of the perpetrator. Twelve days later on the 19th December, the second attack happened at The Kings Arms in New Gravel Lane (now Garnet street). The victims were John Williamson, 56 year old publican who had been at the Kings Arms for 15 years, his 60 year old wife Elizabeth and Bridget Anna Harrington in her late 50's, a servant. Williamson's 14year-old granddaughter, Catherine (Kitty) Stillwell, slept through the incident and was thus not discovered. John Turner, a lodger and journeyman, discovered the murders and escaped out of an upper window, using a knotted sheet to climb down to the street below. A principal suspect in the murders, John Williams (also known as Murphy), was a lodger at the nearby Pear Tree public house in Old Wapping. He was a 27-year-old Scottish or Irish seaman. He had nursed a grievance against Marr from when they were shipmates, but the subsequent murders at the Kings Arms remain unexplained. Williams was arrested, but committed suicide by hanging himself in prison; he was buried with a stake through his heart at the junction of Commercial Road and Cannon Street Road. Charles Manson, 1969, Sharon Tate On the night of August 8, Manson directed Charles Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to "that house where Melcher used to live" and "totally destroy everyone in [it], as gruesome as you can." He told the women to do as Watson would instruct them. The current occupants of the house, all of whom were strangers to the Manson followers, were movie actress Sharon Tate, wife of famed director Roman Polanski and eight and a half months pregnant; her friend and former lover, hairstylist Jay Sebring; Polanski's friend and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and Frykowski’s lover Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune. Tate's husband, Polanski, was in London working on a film project; Tate had been visiting with him and had returned to the United States only three weeks earlier. Richard Farley Richard Farley is an American convicted mass murderer. A former employee of Electromagnetic Systems Labs (ESL) in Sunnyvale, California, he stalked co-worker Laura Black for four years beginning in 1984. Black obtained a temporary restraining order against him on February 2, 1988, with a court date set for February 17, 1988 to make the order permanent. On February 16, 1988, Farley shot and killed seven people at ESL and wounded four others, including Black. He was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder, and is currently sitting on death row at San Quentin. WHITECHAPEL 17 Story 2 The Thames Torso mystersties of 1887-1889 The Whitehall Mystery is an unsolved murder from London in 1888. The dismembered remains of a woman were found at three different sites in central London, including the future site of Scotland Yard. Newspapers suggested a tie to Jack the Ripper's killings of prostitutes that were occurring simultaneously, but the Metropolitan Police said there was no connection. Mary Ann Cotton Born Mary Ann Robson in October 1832 in Low Moorsley, County Durham, she died 24 March 1873. She was an English woman convicted of murdering her husband and children and is believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning. Mary Wilson – killed four lovers with phosphorus and claimed they took it in ‘sexual stimulation pills’s Mary Wilson (c. 1893 - 1963) also known as the Merry widow of Windy Nook, was a serial killer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, in 1958. However the sentence was not carried out as it was commuted to a prison sentence. An exhumation of the bodies of her last two husbands revealed high levels of phosphorus. Her defense claimed the substance was contained in their medication. Wilson was convicted of murdering two of her four husbands with beetle poison in 1956 and 1957. The remains of her earlier two husbands were exhumed at a later date and pointed to the same cause of death. Dr Crippen Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopathic physician hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, on 23 November 1910, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. A theory, which was first propounded by Edward Marshall Hall, was that Crippen was using hyoscine on his wife as a depressant or an aphrodisiac but accidentally gave her an overdose and then panicked when she died. The Lonely heart Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who met after Beck placed a lonely-hearts ad, became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" after their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949. Between 1947 and 1949 they are believed to have killed as many as twenty women. The Black Eyed Borgia and her Playboy lover Mary Frances Creighton and Everett Appelgate, both convicted and executed for the murder of Ada Creighton (Appelgate’s wife) from arsenic poisoning. H.H.Holmes (May 16, 1861[1] – May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 250. He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was less than 2 miles away from his "World's Fair" hotel. WHITECHAPEL 18 Marquis de Sade An episode in Marseille, in 1772, involved the non-lethal poisoning of prostitutes with the supposed aphrodisiac Spanish fly and sodomy with his manservant Latour. That year the two men were sentenced to death in absentia for sodomy and said poisoning. Thomas Huskey, 1999 Knoxville, Tennessee Accused killer of 4 women in Tennessee. Nicknamed the "Zoo Man", Huskey worked at the Knoxville Zoo and allegedly took his victims here. He talked of ‘Kyle’, a separate, darker personality that was responsible for a series of murders. Arthur Ford, 1954 Arthur Ford became infatuated with a woman called Betty Grant who worked in his office on Euston Road. He bought a coconut nice for both Betty and a friend that he had laced with cantharidin; both died after eating it. Story 3 Bogeyman A bogeyman is an amorphous imaginary being used by adults to frighten children into compliant behaviour. The monster has no specific appearance, and conceptions about it can vary drastically from household to household within the same community; in many cases, he has no set appearance in the mind of an adult or child, but is simply a non-specific embodiment of terror. Parents may tell their children that if they misbehave, the bogeyman will get them. Bogeymen may target a specific mischief — for instance, a bogeyman that punishes children who suck their thumbs — or general misbehavior, depending on what purpose needs serving. In some cases, the bogeyman is a nickname for the devil. Zodiac Killer Masked serial killer in California in 1960s/1970s who said that ‘hunting humans was the most exciting of all sports’ The Phantom US, 1940s. Killed on full moons, wore a white mask and attacked eight by the light of the moon. Of whom the sheriff said “no one sees him, no one hears him in time.” Robert Williams The case of the man who killed a girl in Hyde Park in 1928. The man claimed that the film ‘London After Midnight’ sent him insane, and that he saw Lon Chaney in the park, forcing him to murder the girl with a razor. Scared to death In 1840, Sir Robert Warboys had heard of a tale of a parlour maid who had seen the spectral presence and had been driven insane. He wanted to disprove the haunting, and armed with a shotgun, went to spend the night in the attic room. The house was woken at midnight when a shot rang out. They found Warboys dead from fright. Then in 1878, Lord Lyttleton stayed the night. He loaded his gun with silver sixpennies said to ward off evil. For him it worked and he survived to tell the tale. Couple on a spree together – Caril Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather. Nebraska, 1957. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. They killed 11 in all. Including her parents and two year old sister. She was only 14 at the time. Nobody WHITECHAPEL 19 knows how many she killed. She said she was held hostage by Starkweather. He said she was a willing participant. He was executed in 1959. She was paroled in 1976. And to this day she has never spoken of the murders, so no one knows how involved she really was. Tsuyama Massacre The Tsuyama massacre was a spree killing that occurred on 21 May 1938 in the rural village of Kaio close to Tsuyama city in Okayama, Japan. Mutsuo Toi, a 21-year-old man, killed 30 people, including his grandmother, with a shotgun, Japanese sword, and axe, and seriously injured three others before killing himself with the shotgun. Until the 1982 killing by Woo Bum-kon, this incident was re WHITECHAPEL 20 CARNIVAL FILMS Carnival is one of the UK's leading production companies. In 2011, in addition to producing the second series of the critically acclaimed Downton Abbey and a two hour Christmas episode for ITV1, Carnival also collected six Primetime Emmy Awards and two Bafta Awards for the show that has been sold in over 200 territories around the world. The company also produced the multi Bafta award-winning adaptation of William Boyd's Any Human Heart for Channel 4 and production has recently completed on the latest series of Whitechapel, the popular and original crime drama for ITV1. In 2011 Carnival has also been a producer on David Hare's television film, Page Eight for the BBC and is currently in production with Neal Street on Sam Mendes’ cycle of four Shakespeare history plays, again for the BBC. Originally founded over thirty years ago, the company has brought hundreds of hours of popular television and film to audiences worldwide, from series such as Poirot, Jeeves & Wooster, Hotel Babylon, As If and Rosemary & Thyme to powerful international mini-series such as Traffik, The Philanthropist and The Grid to classics such as Shadowlands and Porterhouse Blue. Carnival is run by producer Gareth Neame who in 2008 sold the company to NBCUniversal as the cornerstone of its new international TV business. In 2007, Sally Woodward Gentle joined the company as Creative Director. NBCUniversal International Television Production is headed by Michael Edelstein, President. To complement Carnival’s success in drama, Edelstein has established an impressive range of television production labels covering all genres. Monkey Kingdom specialises in entertainment and produces the hit reality drama series, Made in Chelsea for E4 and Newlyweds for Bravo. Additionally, Chocolate Media is NBCUniversal International’s factual entertainment brand. More latterly, in 2011, NBCUniversal announced a majority investment in Australian-based Matchbox Pictures, producers of critically acclaimed drama series, The Slap, an adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’s best-selling novel, currently transmitting on BBC Four. December 2011 WHITECHAPEL 21