Gentleman Jack viewers spot serial killer on the loose in season 2 after ‘huge clue’

GENTLEMAN Jack viewers have spotted a deadly twist in season two with a serial killer apparently on the loose.

They’re convinced Suzannah’s husband Thomas Sowden (Tom Lewis), who is Anne Lister‘s tenant, has killed his uncle Ben and fed him to the pigs.

Ben had grown suspicious about his missing brother Sam, Thomas’ abusive father, who had been making life miserable for Suzannah.

Ben dropped hints that Thomas was behind his disappearance but made it clear he would let the matter go as long as he was allowed to stay on the farm.

However, when Thomas ordered Ben to leave, he threatened to voice his theories.

Then tonight, when Thomas’ mother raised questions about Sam and Ben’s whereabouts, he snapped at her.

Taking to Twitter, one person remarked: “Oh God Thomas isn’t turning into a serial killer, as well as a parricide, is he?!

Another said: “Looks like Tom has done away with the Uncle too!”

As a third typed: “She’ll be the main course!”

Meanwhile, life is growing more complicated for Anne Lister as she returned to visit Mariana in season 2’s third episode, leaving new lover Ann Walker – despite them taking the next step in their relationship and moving in together.

The BBC drama has been written and directed by Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright.

Sally said: “Anne Lister is a gift to a dramatist — one of the most exuberant, thrilling, brilliant women in British history.

“Landowner, industrialist, traveller, mountaineer, scholar, would-be brain surgeon and prolific diarist, she returns from years of travel to her ancestral home, Shibden Hall in West Yorkshire, to restore it — and marry Ann Walker. It’s a beautifully rich, complex, surprising love story.”

This is not the first time Lister’s life has been brought to TV.

Maxine Peake played her in The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister, on BBC Two in 2010.