After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.

Paddy Considine
as Peter Hunter

Warren Clarke
as Bill Molloy

Maxine Peake
as Helen Marshall

James Fox
as Philip Evans

David Calder
as Sir John Marsden

Nicholas Woodeson
as Michael Warren

Tony Pitts
as John Nolan

Jim Carter
as Harold Angus

David Morrissey
as Maurice Jobson

Eddie Marsan
as Jack Whitehead