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We certainly wanted to make Susan at the fore of this narrative and give her a sort of Breaking Bad journey into darkness. And to make this overarching story Reid versus Susan, really put them both through the ringer. It was only in February or so of this year that we got the green light again and suddenly realised we had to work out those stories and indeed the rest of the series.īut the shorter answer is, we knew we wanted the train crash – that was something Richard had harboured for a while, I think – and to bring back Mathilda. And then, as we were all set to work deeper on the stories and Richard and I were primed to commence eps 1 and 2 – the show was axed. (For instance ep 3 with the clairvoyant was just something we kept bandying around as a joke about a dead clairvoyant who didn’t see it coming, and it was very much later that I realised there was actually a story in there, so I kept the line as a little in-joke). We had the bones of the stories to a greater extent in some episodes than others. What we storylined were the big beats of the first four episodes. Toby: Back in September 2013 – before the cancellation – Richard and I (along with Joe Donaldson our superb script-editor and Will Gould, the exec producer and godfather of the show) went off to a hotel in the countryside for a few days and started throwing ideas around.

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I think we pushed each other a bit over the three seasons, and it’s always good to be working with someone you want to beat.ĭamian: To what extent was the aforementioned overarching story and individual plots for series three planned prior to the news of Ripper Street’s cancellation last December? We knew each other from before Ripper Street was even a twinkle and we’d got along and had a mutual respect, but it was during Ripper that we found our writing was simpatico in a lot of ways and intriguingly different in others.

Toby: Well, I suppose you’d have to ask Richard that question. You are therefore, the most prolific of cuckoos in Richard Warlow’s nest. Episode 5), Tournament of Shadows (1.6), Threads of Silk and Gold (2.5), A Stronger Loving World (2.6), The Beating of Her Wings (3.2) and Ashes and Diamonds (3.3) not to mention your collaboration in devising the overarching story.

Damian: Toby, you have written the following episodes of Ripper Street: The Weight of One Man’s Heart (Series 1.

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