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(bell tolling) (horses neighing)
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(tense music)
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(keys clacking)
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FRED: "As summer turned to autumn
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the horrors piled up."
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There's been a body found
in Whitechapel, a woman.
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- It was murder.
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FRED: "Three women brutally slain.
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Their mutilated bodies
burnt into my mind."
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It's the work of monsters. Maniacs.
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- (crowd clamouring)
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FRED: With police facing
panic on the streets...
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(commotion)
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- Just put out the statement.
It will all blow over soon enough.
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FRED: We decorated the front
page with the women's deaths.
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There's been another murder!
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Turning blood into profit.
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- To The Star newspaper!
- (laughter)
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FRED: Without any evidence,
we linked the murders.
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- What if they were all the work
of one crazed, maniacal monster?
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- Have you got any idea
of who it could be?
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- We know him alright.
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FRED: And now, we had a name.
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- The newspaper world
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is one of the most competitive
industries there is.
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You are always told
be first and accurate.
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- Let's get this into
the last edition, boys.
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- But if you can't be accurate,
just at least be first.
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- We are going to change the game!
(laughing)
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(tense music)
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NEWSPAPER BOY:
London gripped by fear!
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Read it in The Star!
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- Hello, everyone.
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Gather around, gather around.
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Right.
So, there is a maniac on the loose.
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And we now know that
the suspect's alias is in fact...
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..Leather Apron.
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BOB: The Star were the first
to print the name Leather Apron.
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It was said that he was known
to the sex workers
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who lived in Whitechapel.
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And he also had a track
record of violent behaviour
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and intimidation.
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He was also supposedly Jewish.
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(hooves clopping)
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NEWSPAPER BOY:
Police hunt for Leather Apron!
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Wanted on the streets
of Whitechapel.
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Read all about it!
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- If you are pointing the finger
at somebody from an ethnic
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minority background,
you need to be really responsible.
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Once the information is out there,
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you have absolutely
no control over it.
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Because there will be thousands
of people reading what you write.
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- Good day, Mrs O'Connor.
- Is it, Fred?
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- Commissioner Warren has proved
to be utterly inept as per usual.
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- He is a crazy Jew, Thomas?
- (he clears throat)
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- Your suspect is a
crazy Jew, really?
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- He is of Hebrew descent, yes.
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- You know exactly
what I am talking about.
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As an Irishman, I thought you more
than anybody would understand
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the dangers of whipping up such
ancient and demeaning hatreds.
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- No, this is different.
- How? How is it different?
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- Well, for starters,
I haven't killed anyone.
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- This is despicable.
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You should all be ashamed
of yourselves!
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Go back to your scheming.
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(tense music)
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- The Star focusing in on the
potential that our killer was
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a Jewish man,
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I would describe as
irresponsible reporting.
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And it could've a really serious,
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detrimental effect
on the investigation.
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- The Star's reporting on
Leather Apron was really
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designed to whip up public anger.
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(glass patters) (crowd clamouring)
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Just like now where
a tweet on social media
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can bring people out onto
the streets and cause riots.
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And Jewish communities
became the target.
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- In 1888, London was changing.
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You had the Jewish
community coming in
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living next to East London locals.
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And it's extremely tribal.
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MAN: Oi!
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(blow thuds)
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(blows thudding)
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(crowd yelling)
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(man groaning)
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- There are people prowling
the streets all over the place.
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They are in Spitalfields,
they are in Whitechapel.
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And now I hear that
they are crossing the river.
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When I told you about Leather Apron
I gave you many details about him.
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- You did, and I gratefully relayed
those details onto TP,
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and that information
will help catch a killer.
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- So, OK, tell me why is it
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that your boss fixated on
the fact that he was Jewish?
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Because I just don't get
how that's relevant.
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- As a journalist,
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if you take information and
turn it and make it fit your story,
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that's going to come back
and bite you.
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- I knew that my words
would get twisted,
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I should have just
stayed out of this.
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Because the hatred
going on out there
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has got nothing to do with finding
the person that killed these women.
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- It's not our doing.
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- Wow!
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(door slams)
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- The Leather Apron story
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was causing chaos on
the streets of Whitechapel.
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(commotion)
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And whilst the police
were dealing with the riots,
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the murder investigation
was going nowhere.
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Meaning the killer was walking free,
leaving women even more vulnerable.
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(muffled commotion)
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- In the poorer parts
of Victorian London,
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it's very easy for women
to find themselves on the streets.
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(dog barking)
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And that's exactly what
happened to Annie Chapman.
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(tense music sting)
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Having married a coachman,
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she had a relatively
comfortable life.
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But by 1888, Annie's husband
has been dead for two years
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and this means
that she has got no allowance
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and she's homeless and struggling.
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(melancholic music)
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- When you don't have a home,
nor anybody to help you,
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it's a very, very
desolate experience.
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You are society's throwaways,
society's trash.
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There are people who matter
and people who don't.
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We all know it...
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..and the predators know it too.
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(tense music sting)
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(disembodied shrieks)
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(horse neighs)
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NEWSPAPER BOY:
Maniac on the streets of London!
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Get the latest!
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(typewriters clacking)
(office chatter)
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(suspenseful music)
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- TP, there's been another one.
- Fred, get the story!
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- Yes, boss. Thank you!
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- It doesn't take long for word to
get out that there's been a murder.
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(tense music sting)
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When you investigate
suspicious death,
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the most important step
for those officers there,
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preserve the crime scene and
keep members of the public out.
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COPPER: Get in line. Get in line!
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- And if you don't
get it under control,
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potential evidence could be lost.
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- Come see the body!
Line up, people!
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A penny to see the dreadful sight.
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A penny a go, sir.
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Thank you!
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A penny a go.
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(street chatter)
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- Thank you.
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- People have always
been drawn to murder.
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(crowd chatter outside)
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And they want to understand it.
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It's human nature to want
to get closer and closer,
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until you are seeing things
that you will never forget.
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(tense music building)
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(tense music sting)
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(tense music sting)
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- A penny a go, sir.
Best seat in the house.
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Thank you very much.
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(crowd clamouring)
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Thank you! A penny a go!
Thank you very much!
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- If you have never seen the dead
body of a murdered victim,
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especially in horrific,
grotesque killings,
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you cannot understand
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what Fred would have
been thinking and feeling.
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Now, in this situation, as the clock
is ticking, you are in a race.
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The press pack
is right over your shoulder.
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So, having a police contact
was really important.
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Because they would be the ones
that would be giving you
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the steer off the record.
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- A police officer getting money
from Fred Best for information,
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would that surprise me?
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Well, the simple answer is no.
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We just have to look at modern
times to see bribery going on.
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- (man advertising the body)
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- With the murder of Annie Chapman
the police were now confronted with
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another murder where
the injuries were horrific.
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- In Annie Chapman's case,
there was more injury to the abdomen
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than there was in
Polly Nichol's case.
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The intestines were thrown
over her shoulder
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and an organ was taken
for the first time.
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-It's not unusual
that there are killers
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who like to have a particular
ritual that they go through.
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By removing organs,
they can assert their dominance,
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feel like they are in control
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and have possession over the victim
that they have taken the life of.
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(office chatter)
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- TP? Ernest.
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- Get this man a drink.
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Come on, Fred, sit down, sit down.
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Sit down, boy.
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- Thank you!
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- What have we got?
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(shakily) The victim is called Annie
Chapman. Her throat was slit.
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Stomach was cut open.
It was mutilation.
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Her internal organs were cut out.
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Heart, liver, intestines,
all removed.
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- Anything else?
- Yes.
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The police searching at the scene
found that Annie's injuries
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matched that of the previous victim,
Polly Nichols.
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The same wounds which-
which must mean...
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- Does mean...
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..it's the same killer.
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It's a confirmation. Jesus Christ!
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There really is a lone maniac here.
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Emma Smith was
set upon by a gang.
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Martha Tabram was most
likely killed by a bayonet.
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But Polly and Annie, two women,
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both killed in the same
way with the same hand.
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Jesus, it's... it's incredible.
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What wasn't true becomes so.
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- We have to remember that
the theory of a serial killer was
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created by The Star to sell papers.
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When the paper is describing
these three murders,
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Emma Smith, Martha Tabram
and Polly Nichols,
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it's very much a choice of The Star
to tie these murders together.
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- With the wounds inflicted on Mary
Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman,
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there were huge amounts
of similarity.
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But the injuries were very, very
different to the preceding victims.
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FERN: Now, with the death
of Annie Chapman
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just eight days after
Polly Nichols was killed,
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and less than a half a mile away,
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it did indeed look like
this press invention
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was turning out to be true.
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- To connect the dots that
there is in fact a serial killer
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operating in Whitechapel,
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that's a really serious moment
for everyone.
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Everyone that is,
other than the press,
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who need more salacious
details to titillate the public.
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(typewriters clacking)
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- Whitechapel's streets
are now a hunting ground.
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The women are the prey.
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And the police seem powerless
to do anything about it.
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- (clicks fingers) That's it.
That's how we will finish the piece.
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We start a call to arms.
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We tell the people of Whitechapel
to get out onto the streets
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and do it for themselves.
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Because if the police
can't catch the maniac,
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well the people can do it for them.
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- I like that!
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- And create even more chaos
for the police to deal with?
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Have you considered that you may
actually be hindering their work?
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And what that could mean
for another woman?
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- What TP would be looking for
is the angle of the story
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that no other journalist has got.
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- TP O'Connor decides to push the
view that the police are incompetent
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and to galvanise the community
to, you know,
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take the law into their own hands
and become vigilantes.
253
00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,920
- The East End people
are people of action.
254
00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,800
And all they are reading about
and hearing about is the police
255
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and the investigation going nowhere.
256
00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:39,360
The Eastenders would take that
as they're at war
257
00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,320
and just take things
into their own hands.
258
00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,920
It doesn't mean that
they would get it right.
259
00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,760
It could easily fall into territory
of lynching the wrong person.
260
00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,840
- The Star did this, Fred.
261
00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,480
You wound them up and
set them on the war path.
262
00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,080
- People will do what they
want, Hen, it's not up to me.
263
00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,400
- Is that what you really think?
Is that what we are seeing?
264
00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,200
Words have power, Fred,
now more than ever.
265
00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,040
- This would have been extremely
concerning for the police.
266
00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,360
You can't have members
of the public running around
267
00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:11,960
carrying out their own justice.
268
00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,480
It not only would interfere
with their investigation,
269
00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,400
but it put lives at risk.
270
00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:23,120
(tense music sting)
271
00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:25,920
(knocking at door)
- Enter!
272
00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,120
This rag, The Star, is calling
upon the people of Whitechapel
273
00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,200
to take matters
into their own hands.
274
00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,760
"The police have not even a clue,
275
00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:42,960
they are in despair
at their utter failure
276
00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,480
to not even get
a scent of the criminal."
277
00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:50,440
- They are humiliating us.
278
00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:53,960
- Senior officers now drafted in
279
00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,040
Detective Inspector
Frederick Abberline.
280
00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,800
Abberline was in a unique position
281
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in that he was an experienced
murder investigator.
282
00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,880
But he also had a really strong
knowledge of the Whitechapel area.
283
00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,680
- Well, what about this Leather
Apron? The so called "crazy Jew."
284
00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,880
Do we know who this man is?
285
00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,280
- John Pizer, sir.
John Pizer is Leather Apron.
286
00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,680
- Yes, we have been searching
the lodging houses and casual wards
287
00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,120
for a week now, sir, and-
- Well, search harder!
288
00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,360
Now, both of you get out there
and do your duty.
289
00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,080
- John Pizer -
better known as Leather Apron -
290
00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,880
worked as a boot maker
in the Whitechapel area.
291
00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,760
And he was always wearing
a leather apron. Hence the name.
292
00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,040
And his arrest would be at the top
of Abberline and Thick's priorities.
293
00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:48,680
(crowd clamouring)
294
00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,520
At this stage, John Pizer -
AKA Leather Apron -
295
00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,080
was the best suspect
they had for these crimes.
296
00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,240
Going on the descriptions
given by the girls,
297
00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,200
he was someone known
to use aggressive behaviour
298
00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:03,600
and carry a knife.
299
00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,310
Having been searching
for over a week,
300
00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,720
and despite several sightings
of Leather Apron,
301
00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,720
the police eventually got a tip off
that he was staying with family
302
00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,720
at 22 Mulberry Street.
303
00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,760
Now, he was within
the police's grasp.
304
00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,760
(crowd clamouring)
305
00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,310
- When you consider John Pizer's
previous records,
306
00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,600
his predatory nature towards women,
his behaviours,
307
00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,280
the fact that he was proficient
in terms of using a knife,
308
00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,760
he fits the bill for
a potential suspect.
309
00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,760
(crowd clamouring)
310
00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,640
- Fuck you too!
311
00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,160
(copper giving orders)
312
00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,760
- When the police arrest John Pizer,
313
00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,160
everyone would have been
really praying and hoping
314
00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,320
that we're going to
put an end to it now.
315
00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,360
We are going to stop these crimes.
316
00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,480
Everyone that is,
other than the press.
317
00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,200
(crowd clamouring) (grunting)
318
00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:04,440
(dog barking)
319
00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:07,480
(hooves clopping)
320
00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,720
- I was beginning to have my doubts
about your editorship, Tay Pay, but
321
00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,400
you have turned the ship around.
322
00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,600
This means that your
next challenge will be
323
00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:21,760
maintaining this level of sales
for, um, well, forever.
324
00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,960
- (inhales) Well, forever
might be a bit of a stretch.
325
00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:32,240
But until the end of the century
perhaps. (chuckles)
326
00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,040
- The amount of pressure that
somebody like TP would be under
327
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,600
from the owners of the paper
would be huge.
328
00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:44,480
They are looking at the newspaper
sales every single day.
329
00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,000
That editor knows
he has to come out on top.
330
00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,160
- The paper's backers couldn't
possibly have dreamt of the kind
331
00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,040
of numbers they were now seeing.
332
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:59,560
The paper was now selling
around about 260,000 copies a day.
333
00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,800
That was 90,000 more
than just a few days earlier.
334
00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:05,880
But in the cutthroat world
of Victorian journalism,
335
00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,800
you couldn't live on past triumphs.
336
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,240
- Your, um, methods...
337
00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,960
You are a bit of a rabble rouser.
338
00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,120
- A rabble rouser?
Whatever do you mean?
339
00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,320
- Your editorial angle.
340
00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:30,040
The crazy Jew, vigilante mobs,
attacking the police.
341
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,680
Let's not upset the natural
order of things too much.
342
00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,360
Do you understand what I am saying?
343
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,400
- (takes deep breath)
344
00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,520
- For an editor like TP,
345
00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,320
the highs that come with the success
of getting the exclusive
346
00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:48,960
are very short-lived.
347
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,160
- At this stage,
348
00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:57,160
John Pizer was the best suspect
The Star had for these crimes.
349
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,760
But now, John Pizer had an alibi.
350
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,920
Leather Apron is not the killer.
351
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,360
BOY: Leather Apron walks free!
Get your morning papers!
352
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,760
- (he grunts)
353
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,040
How the hell could the police
release John Pizer so quickly?
354
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,480
He was only in custody a day.
355
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,400
- And there is something else.
356
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,840
While we were not
able to speak to Pizer,
357
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,160
it seems he did speak
to the Associated Press.
358
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,440
- Oh, for fuck's sake.
359
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,360
- TP. Not good.
360
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:47,600
- What does it say?
361
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,120
- He's threatening legal action,
and he might just win it.
362
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,280
- When you're pointing
the finger at someone
363
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:58,120
and you are accusing them of murder,
you had better be right.
364
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,160
Because if you are wrong,
you are going to lose.
365
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:02,880
And you are going to lose big.
366
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,720
And the sums involved
in a defamation or libel case
367
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:08,080
could bring down a paper.
368
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,760
- If you have been
hounded by the press,
369
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,160
what are you going to do?
370
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,480
Most people are going to seek
libel damages
371
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,800
and that's exactly what Pizer does.
372
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,440
He's determined that The Star
373
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,760
is going to pay for what
they have done to him.
374
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:30,480
- My name is John Pizer,
and you have wronged me.
375
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,040
(tense music sting)
376
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,400
BOY: Buy a copy of The Star!
Get The Star!
377
00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:52,040
- Alex, it's alright. Thank you.
378
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,440
Mr Pizer, I don't think this
is the right time or place.
379
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,760
- Do you have any idea
what you have done?
380
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:05,840
- My family has been abused.
My business is ruined.
381
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,680
My name is now tarnished forever
by your lies and distortions.
382
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,200
I will have my day in court.
- (stuttering)
383
00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:15,720
- I will have justice.
384
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,120
- C-Come on, man. D-Don't do that.
385
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:19,720
Let's work together.
386
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,120
I mean, what would satisfy you?
50 pounds?
387
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,240
- A hundred.
388
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,480
- Oh, come on, be serious, man,
50 pounds is more than generous.
389
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:30,640
- I said a hundred!
390
00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:34,400
- One moment, please.
391
00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:41,520
- John Pizer, being accused
of the Whitechapel murders,
392
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,640
once you are tarred,
it would be impossible to go back.
393
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,320
You know,
like no smoke without fire.
394
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,440
- 50 pounds.
395
00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:11,720
Now, I am sure
Pall Mall Gazette would be
396
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,080
more than willing to
give you the other half.
397
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,120
That is if they allow you to darken
their door in the first place.
398
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,360
Not everyone is as
kind-hearted as I am, you see.
399
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,240
If you will excuse me,
I have a news floor to run.
400
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,680
Come on, back to work, everybody.
401
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,120
- To have such a dangerous
libel claim put towards The Star
402
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,120
would risk their entire business.
403
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,360
So, The Star is very, very lucky
404
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,320
that Pizer accepts this 50 pounds.
405
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,680
- If you are going to name someone
as a killer
406
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,040
and you have got it wrong,
407
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,360
attention and focus is diverted away
from the actual killer,
408
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,160
and you are allowing
them to continue killing.
409
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,680
(tense music sting)
410
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,400
HENRIETTA: Frederick.
411
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:34,600
Fred!
412
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,360
- Yeah, sorry, love. I'm miles away.
413
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,080
- It's certainly left it's
mark on you, hasn't it?
414
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:43,240
- What has?
415
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,360
- Well, what do you think
I am talking about?
416
00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:50,280
- Go on then, spit it out.
417
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,840
- I still feel sick
418
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,280
about the muck and the hatred
that your paper's spread.
419
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,400
Did you ever really think
it was John Pizer?
420
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,040
Or did his face just fit?
421
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,040
This isn't the Fred I know.
- (he scoffs)
422
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,560
- The Fred I know had morals and
was decent and honest with himself.
423
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,160
(footsteps receding)
(door opens, slams shut)
424
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,720
(Fred sighs)
425
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,120
(hooves clopping)
426
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:36,720
(TP sighs)
427
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,120
- With the release of John Pizer,
428
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,520
O'Connor and The Star
are back to square one.
429
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,320
The reality is there is
no longer a tangible
430
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,600
candidate for the sole killer.
431
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,600
The Star had totally lost focus now.
432
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,280
There is a very big danger that
they are going to lose the story,
433
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,440
lose the momentum.
434
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:58,520
- Sir?
435
00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:00,960
- TP?
436
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:03,960
- Yes. (clears throat)
437
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:06,920
You know you could...
438
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,160
You could look around
this room and you could...
439
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,760
..comfort yourself by what you see,
but that would be a mistake.
440
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,040
The well is drying up, boys.
Sales are down.
441
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,360
What are you going to do?
442
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,080
- Surely, we just- we just wait.
You can't control a killer.
443
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,640
- Why not, Best?
444
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,680
I only have a need of people
who think big.
445
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:32,920
Do you think big?
446
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,960
- Of course.
- Good.
447
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,640
Then fetch some paper
and a pen and some ink.
448
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,880
Preferably red ink.
Bring it in here.
449
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,000
(ominous music)
450
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,600
- TP was at a real crossroads now.
451
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,680
There hadn't been a killing
for several weeks.
452
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,000
He needed a new suspect.
453
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,800
But he also had to be careful.
454
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,200
He got burnt with Leather Apron.
He got it wrong.
455
00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:02,200
He couldn't make that mistake again.
456
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,840
- Now, you may not be
able to control the killer.
457
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,680
But can you make him speak?
458
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,400
We're going to write a letter.
459
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,920
- A let- A letter? Who to?
- All will become clear. Fred.
460
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,600
(ominous music)
461
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:24,160
Now, remember...
462
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,720
..think big. Hm?
463
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,200
Big.
464
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,480
That's my boy, Fred.
465
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,280
Make him speak, Fred.
466
00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:47,120
Make him speak.
467
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,600
- When you're desperate and casting
around for any information,
468
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,280
you could be persuaded to
take any new leads seriously.
469
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,360
Even when it comes
as a bolt from the blue,
470
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,760
maybe a random piece of intel
or even a letter.
471
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,560
The police need a break.
472
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:12,240
- To make something up to keep
the story alive, to sell papers,
473
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:18,360
it is so far beyond the line
of morality within journalism.
474
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:23,040
Once they make this decision,
there is no way back from that.
475
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,320
- "Dear Boss, I keep on hearing
the police have caught me.
476
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,520
But they won't fix me just yet.
477
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,240
I have laughed when
they look so clever
478
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,400
and talk about being
on the right track.
479
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,760
That joke about Leather Apron
gave me real fits."
480
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,160
- Good lad, Fred.
481
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:50,920
- TP O'Connor and his reporters
have crossed the Rubicon as it were.
482
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,320
They are now on a very,
very, very dangerous path.
483
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,040
- Soon after the Dear Boss letter
484
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,000
was delivered at the
Central News Agency,
485
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,720
it was sent to the police.
486
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,280
When TP and Fred forged this letter,
they were inserting themselves
487
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,600
right into the centre
of the investigation.
488
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,120
They were no longer reporters,
489
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,720
they were potentially
fabricating evidence.
490
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,320
- "I am down on whores,
and I shan't quit ripping them
491
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,240
until I do get buckled.
492
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,440
The next job I do I shall...
493
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,560
..clip the lady's ears off
494
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,360
and send to the police officers
495
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,880
just for jolly. Wouldn't you?
496
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,840
My knife is so nice and sharp,
I want to get to work right away.
497
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,600
Good luck.
498
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,440
Yours truly, Jack the Ripper."
499
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,720
- The Dear Boss letter
is a pivotal moment
500
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,480
in the invention of the Ripper.
501
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,440
This after all is the first time
that the name
502
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,320
Jack the Ripper is used.
503
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,560
- If I were in Frederick Abberline's
position,
504
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,840
having just seen and received
the Dear Boss letter,
505
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,240
you have to approach it
with an open mind.
506
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,680
Could it be from the killer?
507
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,440
Even if in your own mind
you are doubtful,
508
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,280
you have to follow that lead.
509
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,320
- If this letter hadn't
been written,
510
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,640
if it hadn't given
the killer a name,
511
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,040
I think it's unlikely
we would still be talking about it
512
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,040
over 130 years later.
513
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,240
- What are you thinking, sir?
514
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,520
- I am uncertain.
It could be a hoax.
515
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:32,400
Either way, let's keep the letter
of the public domain... for now.
516
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,640
- This was a potential line
of enquiry.
517
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,120
But the real killer was still
out there free to kill again.
518
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,200
And looking for his next victim.
519
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,280
(tense music sting)
520
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,400
- That's it. In you come.
521
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,280
(grunts) Drunk and disorderly,
522
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,960
found laying on the footway
on Aldgate High Street.
523
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,120
Come on. (grunts)
524
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,040
(tense music sting)
525
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,000
- Catherine Eddowes, known as Kate,
526
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,640
was incredibly down on her luck
and she is often on the streets.
527
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,440
And reliant on alcohol.
528
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:21,960
- What you are really tyring to do
529
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:27,320
when you drink alcohol
is create psychological distance.
530
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,440
If you can't escape physically,
531
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,520
well then you escape mentally.
532
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,400
This offers that escape to women.
533
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,120
- Let's get you signed in
and you can sleep it off.
534
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,280
Name?
535
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,240
- Nothing.
536
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,400
- Being homeless,
there is the sensation
537
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,160
that you're very much
outside of society.
538
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:52,880
- I have got a room for you.
539
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,840
- That you are living in a society
that doesn't recognise you
540
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,720
as having any worth or value.
541
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:01,440
- Now, just prop yourself up there.
542
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,560
- People would ask,
"How would you keep going?"
543
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,960
Well, I would say,
"What's the alternative?"
544
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,880
(tense music sting)
545
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,920
(bell tolling)
546
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,640
(pub chatter)
547
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,480
- Elizabeth Stride is
a Swedish immigrant
548
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,200
and in Sweden,
she had been a sex worker.
549
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:30,680
But at some point, she'd made the
choice to seek a new life in London.
550
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:35,480
She meets a man and falls in love.
And they open a coffee house.
551
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,600
This is a real change from
the life that she left in Sweden.
552
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,680
Unfortunately, the business fails.
553
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:46,280
After her husband's death,
she's really, really struggling
554
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,120
and she's forced back into sex work.
555
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,760
- Prostitution is always
a gamble in my experience.
556
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,240
The idea that a woman
gets to choose is a lie.
557
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,840
No they don't.
They never have, they never will.
558
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,440
That's not how prostitution works.
559
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:06,600
(pub chatter)
560
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:17,520
- Looking for some fun?
561
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,840
RACHEL: Women in the sex trade
train themselves not to feel.
562
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,520
They dissociate.
563
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,760
Distancing yourself is
just simply necessary.
564
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,520
- I don't charge by the minute.
565
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:32,520
- Let's go.
566
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,400
- But you're still aware that you
don't know who you are dealing with
567
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,440
until you are alone with that man.
568
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,000
- (inmate humming)
569
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,760
(dogs barking)
570
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,920
- When are you going
to let me out of this hole?
571
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,480
- When you are capable
of looking after yourself.
572
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,640
- Then you can let me out right now.
573
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,360
- (he sighs)
(keys jangle)
574
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,400
(door unlocking)
575
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,280
- Thank you.
576
00:34:17,150 --> 00:34:20,400
- There is something about
vulnerability that kind of like,
577
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:25,080
it's like there's a... an alarm
above your head or something.
578
00:34:25,230 --> 00:34:27,520
You know, predators can see you.
579
00:34:27,670 --> 00:34:30,280
They can clock vulnerability.
580
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,080
- (humming)
581
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,520
- They know what
they are looking for
582
00:34:38,670 --> 00:34:40,800
and they see it in you.
583
00:34:51,150 --> 00:34:53,120
(ominous music)
584
00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,720
(tense music sting)
585
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:01,600
(disembodied shrieks)
586
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:02,920
- Fred!
587
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,280
Fred! Someone is there!
588
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,160
- (Fred sighs)
589
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,800
There's nothing, go to sleep.
(something clangs)
590
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,440
- (breathing shakily)
591
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,360
OK. You stay here, yeah?
592
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,600
(door creaks)
593
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,200
(door creaks)
594
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,040
(tense music)
595
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,520
(tense music swelling)
596
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,160
(tense music sting)
597
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,320
- (Fred gasps)
598
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:12,880
What do you want, Titch?
599
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,800
- The butcher has been busy tonight.
600
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:17,080
- Where's the body?
601
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:21,960
(coins jangle)
602
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,040
- Well, that depends.
- On what?
603
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:28,320
- Which one.
604
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,160
(ominous music)
605
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:31,360
Dutfield's Yard.
606
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:33,480
- Dutfield's Yard.
607
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,560
(suspenseful music)
608
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,200
- On the 30th of September 1888,
609
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:55,800
two murders occurred
610
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,240
within the space of about an hour
of each other.
611
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,080
Which became known
as the Double Event.
612
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,080
(music swells, peaks, softens)
613
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:10,200
- (panting)
614
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,760
He's struck again.
- Yeah.
615
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,040
Except this time he just slashed her
from ear to ear and ran off.
616
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,080
- Just after midnight
in Dutfield Yard
617
00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:24,160
Elizabeth Stride was attacked
and murdered.
618
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,040
- Elizabeth Stride's injuries
were essentially
619
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,960
throat cut from left to right
620
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,360
in the manner that we are
starting to become familiar with
621
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,120
through the earlier deaths.
622
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,240
But there were no
abdominal injuries.
623
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,880
It is quite possible that someone
returning home on his pony and cart
624
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:42,440
interrupted the killer.
625
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,520
- This is someone who gets a great
deal of satisfaction from maiming.
626
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,400
And the more someone
engages in an act like this,
627
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:54,880
the more they fantasise.
628
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,400
The more they think about
what they would like to be
629
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:58,920
able to do to the body.
630
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,960
And so, feeling that frustration
from not having the time he wanted
631
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:06,040
to have with that person earlier,
he then seeks a second victim.
632
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,400
(ominous music)
633
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:09,840
- Where is the other woman?
634
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,640
Oh.
(coins jangle)
635
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,760
- Mitre Square. It's carnage.
Blood everywhere.
636
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,440
Come on, move on.
637
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,160
Nothing to see here.
638
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,560
(suspenseful music)
639
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:46,960
(crowd clamouring)
640
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,120
- Jesus Christ!
641
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,840
-Shortly after the murder
of Elizabeth Stride,
642
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,640
Catherine Eddowes was murdered
within a space of a mile.
643
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,240
- With the death of
Catherine Eddowes
644
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:06,280
the intestines were removed
from the abdomen
645
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,080
and part of the kidney was taken.
646
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:16,240
But in addition to that,
she also had facial wounds as well,
647
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,600
which were a new feature.
648
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:26,200
- To do something that is so brutal,
so barbaric, to another human being
649
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,560
just shows the anger that this
person has been harbouring.
650
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:30,920
And I think, for me,
651
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,560
this goes back to the fact that he
has a deep hatred towards women.
652
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:37,720
He wants to mutilate
the female internal organs
653
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,720
and the genitalia of the victims.
654
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,120
He's taking everything away
from them that makes them female
655
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:45,680
including their beauty.
656
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,360
- The night of the Double Event
657
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,840
was a significant moment
for the investigation.
658
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,520
Multiple people claimed to have seen
Liz Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
659
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,320
And importantly,
claim to have seen the killer
660
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,040
underneath the streetlamps.
661
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,240
Witness descriptions
suggest a man in his 30s
662
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,840
with fair complexion
and a moustache.
663
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,080
A significant step forward,
664
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:11,880
but describes many thousands
of men in London at that time.
665
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,840
(chatter, sobbing)
666
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,040
- Commissioner Warren,
can I get a comment for The Star?
667
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,200
- Hey! No, no, no, no, no.
668
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,960
- Despite the growing body count,
Charles Warren was somebody
669
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,280
who would stay locked away
in his office.
670
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,400
If he were to turn up
at a crime scene,
671
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,640
you knew there was
something else going on.
672
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,800
BOB: Whilst utterly horrific,
673
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,480
the Double Event
of 30th of September
674
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,160
was meat and drink to The Star.
675
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,920
- I have given you enough.
676
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,120
This new story was really
now underpinning
677
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:55,680
the success of the paper.
678
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:57,680
This was almost a licence
for them to print money.
679
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,040
(office chatter)
680
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:01,280
- Ernest!
681
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:06,640
- Gosh, you look a sight.
- So would you, read that.
682
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,840
- Jesus Christ!
683
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,320
How did he do all that to
her without being seen?
684
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:14,640
- And twice. Two.
685
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,480
The police reckoned
he was disturbed,
686
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,040
so he found another victim.
And listen to this...
687
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,640
..he cut her fucking ear off,
Ernest.
688
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,800
- What?
689
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,160
- Just like we said
he would in the letter.
690
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,080
- "The next job I do I shall...
691
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:32,800
..clip the lady's ears off."
692
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,600
- My God! W-What are the chances?
693
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,040
- In the Dear Boss letter,
694
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,360
they created this threat
to cut off ladies' ears.
695
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,200
What is so interesting is that
Catherine Eddowes murder,
696
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,520
we know one of her ears
was tampered with.
697
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,440
And there was certainly a feeling
in the police, at the time,
698
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,960
that this connected
the Dear Boss letter to her murder.
699
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,040
- If somebody is purporting
to be the killer
700
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,880
and communicating with the police,
701
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:09,480
they will be looking for content,
evidence within that communication
702
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,320
that potentially only
the killer would know.
703
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,640
- And one more thing,
I saw Warren at Mitre Square.
704
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,280
He left in a hurry
just as I got there.
705
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:20,960
- What was the old bastard up to?
706
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,880
- I don't know. But it looked off.
707
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:25,840
- Keep digging.
- Yeah.
708
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,880
(phone rings)
709
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:31,440
- What's going on?
710
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,920
- TP, it's good stuff.
711
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,760
The killer has only gone and
cut one of the women's ears off.
712
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,960
TP: The police will have to think
our letter is genuine now.
713
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,680
ERNEST: And what if they don't?
714
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:47,280
- Well, we'll just have to
encourage them, won't we?
715
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,200
You can tell Fred
he needs to write another letter.
716
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,160
(chuckling)
717
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,080
- TP, they are publishing
the letters.
718
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:01,880
- It would have been a really
explosive moment;
719
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,760
the world learns the name
Jack the Ripper.
720
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,200
- What a name!
I mean, it sells itself.
721
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,880
- If this truly is the work
of the Ripper,
722
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,800
perhaps he's just
made his first mistake.
723
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,040
- You know I am not a killer.
You know I am not Jack, right?
724
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,040
- You do realise if they find out it
was you, you are a dead man.
725
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,480
- A message had been
written on the wall in chalk.
726
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,280
Warren had them wash it off.
- This is it.
727
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,960
This is the story
we could take them down with.
728
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:28,880
- (laughing)
729
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,880
- To hell with the fucking truth,
is that it, TP?
730
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,080
- There is only one of us here
with red ink on their hands, Fred.
731
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,680
(ominous music)
732
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:11,080
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