剧中的《星报》记者贝斯特，一个传统的英国小报记者，专门搜集各种流言八卦。在火车脱轨案中，他的男友逝去，这是这部剧中又增加的一个“同性恋元素”。他为了追查事件的真相，最后惹上了大BOSS——苏珊的父亲，一个十恶不赦的美帝国资本主义抢匪。他死时的场景也了这部剧定下了一个烙印，即使面对死亡，小报记者那种哗众取宠的态度也不能灭亡（That Mr. Theodore Patrick Swift longs for nothing more in his life than a proud cock in one hole whilst he sucks from another in the other.）。
London will remember him for this, that he was the detective who alongside detective inspector Frederick Abberline, led the persuit of the man we at the Star named "Jack the Ripper". But whilst his streets might, in the years since have found some measure of recovery, it is this obituarist's fear that Edmund Reid did not. If there is justice where he now walks, it might be that the care which he wore so heavily will be lifted from him. Those who knew him, those who did not, those who may have only seen him stride passed in pursuit of whatever villainy beset him that day, he might offer a prayer for him, and this might be our prayer for peace, for his peace.
We，the children of the East ,of the docksides, highways, rookeries, and laneways, we pray for the peace of Edmund Reid.
第8集完结
