I usually rewatch on fridays anyway, i could do one. 

Here is my  review of Ripper Street 2.05, any feedback, edits, comments welcome!

A REVIEW OF DAMIEN MOLONY IN RIPPER STREET 2 EP5 ‘Threads of Silk and Gold’

November 29, 2013

 A Review of DC Flight’s Short journey through Ripper Street 2 Episode 5

by Glofigs24

All Screencaps by the lovely Domino

Investigations into the brutal slaying of a Telegraph Boy lift the lid on a vice racket run from the offices of the GPO.

The telegraph ledger leads Reid to the heart of the one of the city’s most august financial institutions, Barings Bank.

It is a trail that will reveal blackmail, looming economic disaster, financial corruption - the great passions shaped in men by both love and gold, and passions that are starkly shaped in Captain Jackson’s life as he seeks ever more perilous means of ridding himself and Long Susan of the suffocating debt they owe the moneylender, Silas Duggan.

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 Damien though underused in this episode, really grabs your attention when he is on screen with his many facial expressions in this fifth installment of Ripper Street Series 2. However, despite not having very much screen time, he did play an intricate part in this episode. 

The mystery surrounding DC Albert Flight deepens with this episode, as we haven't learned anything new about him since last week's reveal about his parentage. 

In the first scene we see him in this week, he is coming down the stairs of the H division. Finding new evidence of the case of the week. 

Flight giving out important info about the most recent murder that just occurred. 

As the episode goes on, we next see Flight investigating with the others the murder of one of the telegraph ledgers. He was very informative here but had little to do. 

Flight giving his crew the lowdown.

I did think it was funny that it was so blatantly obvious that Flight was watching Fred Best and one of the Telegraph boys (whose name escapes me)behind that pillar. I mean he could have been a little bit more inconspicuous. 

Flight not so sneakily keeping an eye on Fred Best

Although, I have to say, I am not quite sure why the boy turned himself in though. But it was good he did. He ended up helping the precinct quite a bit. 

Flight finally given a reason to use those handcuffs

The last and final time we see Flight (although he is called towards the end of the episode but never shows up) is a quick scene with Reid in his office. The best part of the episode was when upon asking Flight to call him a cab, then dismisses him. The expression Flight makes was just utter perfection. A face all of us has made to our bosses/parents/siblings etc. 

Flight ain't having none of Reid's Shit. 

All and all, even though not much flight happening. It was a pretty good episode that really drew you in. 

Ripper Street series 2 continues at 9pm on BBC One, Monday 02 December with Episode 6- ‘A Stronger, Loving World’

Side note: if you guys enjoy my review, I would be happy to do others, if you gals like, and if it's ok with Domino. 

Happy Reading! 

glofigs, good writeup.  I think I've made my feelings known how I was not a fan of this episode.  Still have yet to go back and watch a second time, which is a first for me.  I do have one comment - Vincent, the boy Flight was tailing - turned himself in to Flight because that other man that came in through the door was after him.  He figured he was safer with the copper than the hitman.  Also, is it me or are the screencaps getting smooshed?

Aw whimsy just saw your review of my review, thank you, how lovely of you x

Thanks domino! 

Youre welcome. Oh, whoops! Gotta fix that then. I was.  If I do this again next time I will remember that and do my own format then. Yeah. I copied the pix address from the ones that you posted and inserted it where the photo icon is above. That's all I did with then though. Tbh I was having a little trouble with them. 

Hear, hear!!

I've seen a couple of reviews which suggest that this should have been brought out earlier in the series....and I have to say I agree!  The indiviual cases have been brilliant....but they needed a bit more continuity, and dipping into storylines like this one along the way would have provided that.

I'm not sure the tension and suspense was there though, domino.....at least not for the non Flight-obsessed majority of the audience.  Most of them won't have read the character profile...and will have forgotten/dismissed the confession at the start of ep 4....and will have been oblivious to the 'hidden truths' that he lied to Evelyn with.  Admittedly that potentially will have made the reveal all the more shocking, but I just feel that there was so much else going on in that ep with susan/duggan, susan/jackson, jackson/judge, drake/rose, etc, it didn't really get the space that it (by which, obviously, I mean Damien(!)) deserved.

This, though....re: Shine and Flight......"They play their roles to a tee and make for a powerful combination."

I guess I can only speak for myself when it comes to the tension and suspense!

Another review mentioning Flight / Damien from Cultbox tv

"The headline of the day, though – and the biggest WTF of the whole series – was seeing natty Irish gent Constable Flight (Damian Molony) revealed as a dastardly traitor, secretly in league with Inspector Shine (Joseph Mawle). Though the reveal was oddly underplayed and would have perhaps worked better – and given more breathing room to the story – occurring earlier on, Molony did a great job with his suddenly meaty role. Naturally our loyalty is to Reid, but we found ourselves sympathizing with Flight as he observed the extent of Shine’s evil and was forced to betray his desire to be a good policeman."

'Ripper Street' Series 2 Episode 7: 'Our Betrayal - Part 1' review | Cultbox TV

domino I thoroughly agreed with that article, especially how it says it was underplayed and should have come earlier.

Review of last night's episode from Den Of Geek
(not my spelling!)


"The discovery last week about Flight’s relationship with Shine leads to several more revelations about both their work and Flight’s past, a most unsavoury record involving fraud and poisoning. Moloney sells his conflict well, particularly in his scene with Reid in which he insists he had changed. Whilst the scene in which Flight confronts Shine is excellent with Molony’s fidgety panic clashing well with Mawle’s stillness, I think this reveal, and indeed Shine’s involvement in Whitechapel, would have benefited from a series-long arc."

Read more: http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/ripper-street/28625/ripper-street-series-2-finale-review-our-betrayal-part-2

Agree with comments on Damien's performance but...it was a series long arc, so not sure what reviewer is getting at here!