Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is the serial killer at the centre of the Jack the Ripper expansion, set in Whitechapel in 1888. Evie Frye returns from India to hunt him, and you also play as Jack himself in several story segments, using his fear-based kit against civilians and police.
- Role
- Antagonist
- Affiliation
- Rooks
Good to know
- Voiced by the Scottish actor Alec Newman.
- Wears a greatcoat with a double cape and a burlap sack over his head, so his face is never shown.
- Carries a curved dagger that resembles an Indo-Persian pesh-kabz.
- Fights with fear bombs, spikes and piercing screams that rattle anyone near him.
- Runs the Rooks and a web of lieutenants across Whitechapel and the City of London in 1888.
- Keeps hostages in a private prison on the hulks at Deptford, run by John Billingsworth.
- Olwyn Owers, known as Lady O, feeds him information through her brothels.
- Signs the letters published by Arthur Weaversbrook's newspapers with the name Jack the Ripper.
His grip on London
By autumn 1888 Jack has taken the Rooks from Jacob Frye and turned Whitechapel into his territory. His lieutenants control petty crime, Lady O's brothels act as his eyes and ears, and kidnapped relatives at Deptford keep wealthy families paying. The expansion's side activities (lieutenant hits, fight clubs, cargo hijacks, brothel attacks and the Ripper letters) are all ways of pulling that network apart.
Playing as Jack
Some memories put you in Jack's coat. His sections lean on terror rather than stealth: screams and fear bombs make enemies freeze or flee, and Abberline notes that he has seen this level of skill at killing unseen only once before, in the Frye twins themselves.
Who Jack really isSpoilerShow
Jack was a member of the British Assassins. He was an orphan from Whitechapel whose mother was killed by Crawford Starrick's men; he was then locked in Lambeth Asylum until Jacob freed him after 1868 and trained him. A trip to India around 1873 to study the Indian Brotherhood's fear tactics shaped his belief that Assassins should be feared, even if innocents die. In 1888 he seized the Rooks from Jacob.
The Whitechapel murdersSpoilerShow
The women killed in late 1888 were mostly not who the public thought. Jacob had placed female initiates undercover in place of the real women to draw Jack out, and Jack killed them, taking their Assassin rings so the Brotherhood would not be exposed. On 30 September he also beat Jacob and imprisoned him beneath Lambeth Asylum. Mary Jane Kelly's killing in November was aimed at Evie.
The end of the RipperSpoilerShow
After Evie kills Lady O, Jack massacres everyone at Owers Manor to frame her. He then cleans up loose ends, killing the asylum staff who knew him as a boy, and lures Evie to Lambeth Asylum. He releases the inmates to slow her, but Evie kills him with his own dagger and frees Jacob. At her request, Abberline never reveals who Jack was or that he died.
ProloguePrologue is the first memory of the Jack the Ripper DLC, dated 30 September 1888. You play as Jack the Ripper himself, chasing Jacob Frye through Whitechapel after Jacob reaches a double murder scene at Mitre Square.- Autumn of TerrorAutumn of Terror is the second Jack the Ripper memory: Evie Frye arrives at Scotland Yard in October 1888, learns from Inspector Abberline that Jacob is missing, and rides with him to Whitechapel to investigate the first murder scene.
- The UnfortunatesThe Unfortunates is the third Jack the Ripper memory: Evie searches Jacob's Whitechapel lodgings, picks up her first fear bombs and spikes, then tracks Jacob's contact Nellie from a brothel to a charity event run by Lady Owers at the Kenway Mansion.
- The Lady TalksThe Lady Talks is the fourth Jack the Ripper memory, dated 2 November 1888: Evie infiltrates Owers Manor northwest of London to assassinate Lady Olwyn Owers, Jack's lieutenant. The guards are expecting her, so stealth and fear matter here.
- Letters of IntentLetters of Intent is the fifth Jack the Ripper memory, dated 3 November 1888: Evie gets a lead from Abberline, rescues newspaper owner Arthur Weaversbrook from Rooks near St Paul's, and then frees his kidnapped son from Jack's men at the docks.
- PrisonersPrisoners is the sixth Jack the Ripper memory, dated 9 November 1888: Evie goes downriver to Deptford to free Jack's hostages from prison hulks and an old garrison, and to kill Chief Warder John Billingsworth, the hangman running the place.
- The Mother of All CrimesThe Mother of All Crimes is the eighth Jack the Ripper memory, set on 9 November 1888: Evie examines the scene of Mary Jane Kelly's murder, then follows a message from Jack back to the earlier murder sites in Spitalfields and Mitre Square, searching for clues without killing anyone.
- Family ReunionFamily Reunion is the ninth Jack the Ripper memory: you play as Jack inside Lambeth Asylum, killing the staff who remember him as a child patient and burning the records of his stay before Evie arrives.
- Live by the Creed, Die by the CreedLive by the Creed, Die by the Creed is the final memory of the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie sneaks into Lambeth Asylum, follows Jack's messages down to the basement and faces him in a boss fight that rewards stealth over brawling.
- Sequence 10: A Monster's CreedSequence 10: A Monster's Creed is the story of the Jack the Ripper DLC, set in London in 1888, twenty years after the main game. Evie Frye comes home from India to find Jacob missing and a killer terrorising Whitechapel, and you hunt him over ten memories using new fear tools.
- Dear BossDear Boss is the last Ripper Letters activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Weaversbrook needs to know whether the 'Dear Boss' letter came from a madman or a newspaperman, so Evie follows its suspected author to a dockyard and makes him talk.
- From HellFrom Hell is the first Ripper Letters activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC: handwriting experts have named a suspect for a new letter, and Arthur Weaversbrook asks Evie to make sure he is not the real killer.
- Jack's Lieutenants: City of LondonJack's Lieutenants: City of London is an assassination activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC: four of Jack's gang bosses meet at Cannon Street station, and Evie infiltrates the station to kill them all for Arthur Weaversbrook.
- Jack's Lieutenants: WhitechapelJack's Lieutenants: Whitechapel is the second lieutenant hit in the Jack the Ripper DLC: former members of Whitechapel's gangs gather to decide whether to join Jack, and Evie strikes before they can.
- John PizerJohn Pizer is the first Carriage of Justice activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie drives this real-life suspect, nicknamed 'Leather Apron', to Scotland Yard so Abberline can question him, while people try to stop the carriage.
- Robert Donston StephensonRobert Donston Stephenson is the last Carriage of Justice activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie delivers a writer who blamed the murders on black magic, and who had admitted himself to the London Hospital, to Scotland Yard for questioning.
- Saucy JackSaucy Jack is the second Ripper Letters activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC, named after the real 'Saucy Jacky' postcard. Evie runs down its supposed author for Arthur Weaversbrook and finds a man with a political motive.
- Seweryn KlosowskiSeweryn Klosowski is the second Carriage of Justice activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie escorts a Polish barber living in Whitechapel, later known as a poisoner, to Scotland Yard while a mob convinced he is the Ripper chases them.
Related characters
- Supporting
Arthur Weaversbrook
Arthur Weaversbrook is the Fleet Street newspaper owner whose papers made Jack the Ripper famous. In the 1888 expansion he becomes Evie's main contact for side work: the Ripper letters, the lieutenant hits and the Rooks' smuggling cargo.
- Supporting
Frederick Abberline
Frederick Abberline is the Metropolitan Police officer who works with the Frye twins in 1868 and leads the Whitechapel murder inquiry in the Jack the Ripper expansion. In the main game he gives you Bounty Hunts, sending you after Blighter leaders to bring back alive.
- Minor
Catherine Eddowes
The woman known as Catherine Eddowes is the fourth Ripper victim in the Jack the Ripper story of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Evie Frye examines her murder scene in The Mother of All Crimes.
- Minor
Catherine Eddowes
Catherine "Kate" Eddowes was the fourth victim of the Whitechapel murders, found in Mitre Square on 30 September 1888. Her killing is part of the double murder that starts the Jack the Ripper expansion.