Stalking Jack the Ripper

Blackburn takes Thomas and Audrey to a bustling newsroom where an editor has received a note signed by Jack the Ripper addressed to his “boss.” In the letter, Jack the Ripper boasts about his murders and suggests that he will send the ears of his next victim to the police.

Thomas asks Audrey whether the envelope is familiar; confused, she says that it is not, and they leave. Outside, Thomas explains that the envelope smelt of the perfume she had been wearing on the night of the circus when they went to Bedlam and Thomas’s apartment. Insulted at what Thomas is implying, Audrey leaves.

Audrey’s father returns from his month in the country just as two bodies are discovered in Mitre Square. Audrey joins the crowd at the scene the next day; she feels guilty about being glad that these deaths will help to prove her Uncle’s innocence as he is still locked up at Bedlam. Blackburn finds Audrey and asks her to inspect the scene with him.

Audrey is shocked by the gory sight of the murdered woman but tries to hide this from the onlooking policemen. She notes that the intestines of the woman have been pulled out and thrown over her shoulder and concludes that the killer first cut her throat before mutilating her further.