The second to the last episode of ITV's crime-horror series, "The Frankenstein Chronicles," reveals hints as to the identity of the child-killer, even as the aristocrats in 19th-century London continue their experiments animating the dead. Meanwhile, Inspector John Marlott (Sean Bean) finally decides to stop wallowing in the loss of his late wife and children and makes his feelings known to Lady Hervey.
In its review of the show's episode 5 in its first and only season, entitled "The Frankenstein Murders," The Den of Geek hints that the mastermind behind the missing children, who later turn up as dead, mutilated, or with missing body parts, just might come from the ruling class. The episode starts with Mary Shelley (the author of the gothic novel "Frankenstein" played in this series by Anna Maxwell Martin), her husband poet Percy Bysse Shelley (Richard Clements), Sir William Chester (Samuel West), and James Hogg (Hugh O'Connor) drawing straws as to who will be the guinea pig in an experiment that will stop his body from functioning and afterwards reviving him. Hogg ends up as the subject, but unfortunately does not come back to life despite the electric volts being zapped into his body.
This whole incident traumatizes Mary, and prompts her to confess to Marlott that Chester is still continuing with the animator experiments despite the failures. This props up Chester as a prime suspect, especially when he worsens his case by attacking Mary.
Not that it's all gloom and doom. In the review of Pop Matters, the honorable Marlott finally finds the courage to show his love to Lady Harvey (Vanessa Kirby). The aristocracy continues to reveal its secrets when it turns out that Lady Harvey's fiance, Lord Warbuton, is a frequent guest in an underground gay brothel.
Still, romance will not deter the dogged detective from his goal. Despite Chester's erratic behavior, the ITV Press Centre says that Marlott will take a trip to Greenwich where he believes the kidnapped children were held in a safe house.
"The Frankenstein Chronicles" airs every Wednesday at The ITV Encore.
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