Episodes
| # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Viewers / Share (million) / (%) |
Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Episode One" | Douglas Mackinnon | Steven Moffat | 5.1 / 24 | 16 June 2007 (2007-06-16) | ICDA641D |
| Tom Jackman is plagued by strange transformations into a stronger, more animal-like version of himself. To ease the situation he hires an assistant in Katherine Reimer to see to the needs of both himself and his alter ego. He later finds that his estranged wife Claire has employed a detective, Miranda Calender, to find out why he left her. Calender is able to reveal to Jackman that he is apparently the last living descendant of Henry Jekyll, and that they look exactly alike, despite the fact that Jekyll never had children. She is unable to reveal who the other party observing him is. Meanwhile, Hyde continues to grow stronger as this third party introduces itself through Benjamin. | ||||||
| 2 | "Episode Two" | Douglas Mackinnon | Steven Moffat | 3.9 / 21 | 23 June 2007 (2007-06-23) | ICDA642X |
| On a visit to a zoo, Benjamin's team set Tom up to force out Hyde by placing his son, Eddie, in the lion's den. Benjamin, who says he has controlled Tom for forty years waiting for Hyde to emerge, asks Hyde to work with him. Hyde refuses, driving away with Benjamin’s henchman, Christopher, whose battered body Hyde later dumps. Tom awakes to be confronted by a woman, with who Katherine has been working. The woman confesses that she left Tom in a railway station 40 years ago with only a letter and a photo. She reveals that his he is a direct descendant of Dr Henry Jekyll. Peter, who has been working for Benjamin, has tipped him off about Tom's whereabouts. When Benjamin's team arrive at the hospital, Tom's mother urges Tom to disappear permanently. |
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| 3 | "Episode Three" | Douglas Mackinnon | Steven Moffat | 3.8 / 17 | 30 June 2007 (2007-06-30) | ICDA643R |
| Tom discovers that the organisation tracking him is 'Klein & Utterson', the very company he works for. He confronts Peter at his house. However, Peter had drugged him. Fearing that Hyde will attack his family when he's unconscious, Tom locks Peter in the basement with Hyde and forces him to swallow the key. Claire appears to witness her husband’s transformation in Hyde. Twelve hours later, Tom awakens with a key. Hyde kills Benjamin — one of the organisation's leaders. Posing as police, Benjamin's team place Tom in a very confined box and transfer him to another location. | ||||||
| 4 | "Episode Four" | Matt Lipsey | Steven Moffat | 2.8 / 14 | 14 July 2007 (2007-07-14) | ICDA644K |
| When a private detective confronts Klein & Utterson with the theory that Tom is Jekyll's clone, Tom's old friend Peter reveals that they don't know how Tom came to be. Flashback sequences reveal how Tom and Claire first met as well as Hyde's first 'awakenings'. The flashback recounts how the couple were surprised that Claire gave birth to twins as there had only been one heartbeat. In the present, Claire demands to know where her children are, why her husband is locked in a box, and the nature of her husband's relationship with Katherine. | ||||||
| 5 | "Episode Five" | Matt Lipsey | Steven Moffat | 3.5 / 18 | 21 July 2007 (2007-07-21) | ICDA645E |
| At the home of Dr Henry Jekyll, in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson presents a manuscript. The story lacks only an ending. Jekyll is dying because he can no longer control the changes and his last secret will die with him as he destroys a vital piece of paper in the fire. Back in the present, Tom is believed dead, with Hyde having taken over after Tom succumbed to terror due to his claustrophobia. Dipping into Tom's memories, Hyde taps into genetic memory from Henry Jekyll, and learns that Jekyll never used a potion, (something that was widely believed, and evidently something that Klein & Utterson were aiming to reproduce). He also discovers that Jekyll's maid looked identical to his wife, shortly before Klein & Utterson abduct his wife and children. | ||||||
| 6 | "Episode Six" | Matt Lipsey | Steven Moffat | 3.2 / 17 | 28 July 2007 (2007-07-28) | ICDA646Y |
| With Tom and Hyde having fully combined their personalities- Tom needing Hyde's physical strength while Hyde requires Tom's emotional maturity-, Claire is revealed to be a clone of Jekyll's maid- created in order to stimulate the transformation in Tom that her 'template' triggered in Jekyll-, while Tom is a descendant of Hyde's illegitimate children. Hyde dies protecting Tom's children, refusing to 'share the damage' with his other self after he is shot. The Jackman children appear to have inherited some of the Jekyll/Hyde family genes. It is revealed that the American woman from Klein & Utterson is the Hyde version of Tom Jackman's mother, from whom he inherited the Hyde genes. |
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