This is probably the point of the Show where it becomes less of a contained episodic production and more of a inter-linked episodic production.
The plot is seemingly simple with Eddie Izzard's character of Dr. Gideon , a psychopathic killer who is incarcerated at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, killing a night nurse in a gruesome manner similar to that of the notorious serial killer known as the Chesapeake Ripper, causing the press to start wondering if Gideon IS the Ripper. However, the plot rapidly grows complex as it is steadily revealed that Gideon is lying and the Real Ripper is still out there, and he's tormenting Jack Crawford with his failure to catch him.
This is an important episode, not just because of the plot, but also it introduces two key characters in the series: Dr. Frederick Chilton and Miriam Lass, an FBI trainee who gets to close to the Ripper case. Chilton, who many of the movie fans will remember as being one of the biggest slime-bags out there, is just as slimy in this production, if not more so. Miriam Lass is a clear composite of Clarice Starling, but with a different fate at the moment.
Great atmospheric episode that doesn't rely too heavily on the gore-art as the previous ones.
#stayscared!
The plot is seemingly simple with Eddie Izzard's character of Dr. Gideon , a psychopathic killer who is incarcerated at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, killing a night nurse in a gruesome manner similar to that of the notorious serial killer known as the Chesapeake Ripper, causing the press to start wondering if Gideon IS the Ripper. However, the plot rapidly grows complex as it is steadily revealed that Gideon is lying and the Real Ripper is still out there, and he's tormenting Jack Crawford with his failure to catch him.
This is an important episode, not just because of the plot, but also it introduces two key characters in the series: Dr. Frederick Chilton and Miriam Lass, an FBI trainee who gets to close to the Ripper case. Chilton, who many of the movie fans will remember as being one of the biggest slime-bags out there, is just as slimy in this production, if not more so. Miriam Lass is a clear composite of Clarice Starling, but with a different fate at the moment.
Great atmospheric episode that doesn't rely too heavily on the gore-art as the previous ones.
#stayscared!