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Final season of 'Ripper Street' to premiere March 8 on BBC America

By Karen Butler
Matthew Macfadyen attends the premiere of "Anna Karenina" at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2012. The actor's period drama "Ripper Street" will begin its final season on BBC America on March 8. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI
1 of 2 | Matthew Macfadyen attends the premiere of "Anna Karenina" at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2012. The actor's period drama "Ripper Street" will begin its final season on BBC America on March 8. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo

Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The fifth and final season of Ripper Street is to debut on BBC America on March 8.

Co-starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, MyAnna Buring, Killian Scott and Jonas Armstrong, the police drama is set in 19th-century London.

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"The powerful closing chapter picks up mere days after the grisly death of Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, which reunites his old friends, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, surgeon Captain Homer Jackson and 'Long' Susan Hart, to bring his murderer to justice," the cable network said in a press release. "Last season introduced a new serial killer plaguing the streets of Whitechapel. Convinced that the murderer's cannibalistic crimes were being covered up by another party, DI Reid and DI Drake's investigation pointed to a trail of corruption that led them right to the heart of Scotland Yard -- specifically Assistant Commissioner Augustus Dove and his bestial brother Nathaniel Dove. During an attempt to bring down the Dove brothers, DI Drake lost his life to serial killer Nathanial, forcing DI Reid, CPT Jackson and 'Long' Susan on the run. Now, finding themselves on the other side of the law, revealing the truth about the unlawful siblings is not an easy task."

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