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Following on the one clue he had, Marlott (Sean Bean) visits artist and poet William Blake (Steven Berkoff), who's already on his deathbed but tells him to follow the "beast with the face of a man". At Blake's, Marlott also meets writer Mary Shelley (Anna Maxwell Martin), who's full of macabre ideas and gives him some hints - so much so that he eventually gets hold of her novel Frankenstein. From graverobber Pritty (Charlie Creed-Miles), Marlott learns about a gang of "graverobbers" who do not actually rob graves but kill people to sell their corpses to surgeons. But when he has Pritty followed by his right-hand man Nightingale (Richie Campbell), Pritty manages to give him the slip. During an anatomy class Marlott visits that demonstrates the effects of galvanism on the dead human body, sheeps are driven into the auditorium, and following the trail of the sheep back, he uncovers a lead to Sir Warburton (Elliot Cowan), a prominent member of parliament and activist who opposes surgery as such and tries everything to discredit it, be it on religious or less lofty grounds. However, when Marlott presents his findings to Home Secretary Peel (Tom Ward), who has sworn him into secrecy, Peel's less than happy about the net of intrigue he's presented with. Returning home that night, he's intercepted by Flora (Eloise Smyth), a child forced into prostitution who asks for his protection and in return offers him clues leading to Alice (Jessie Ross), a girl who Marlott is sure is the key to the mystery.

As promising as the first episode of the series was, this second one doesn't quite live up to the task. Now it's still well-acted, well-directed, oozes of atmosphere and has its macabre bits for sure, so totally worth a look, it just falls a bit short in the story department, failing to tell a homogenous story. Instead, it just seems to continue setting up events with really not nothing new to add to the narrative as such, and frankly, it tries a bit too hard when it comes to namedropping - besides William Drake and Mary Shelley, we're also presented to a very young Charles Dickens (Ryan Sampson) when he still went under his journalist pen name Boz. Basically, the episode still has one interested, just ... not quite so much anymore.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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