Image: UbisoftNo screenshot of Prologue yet. This one shows Jacob Frye (Ubisoft).
Prologue
Prologue 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.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Whitechapel
Storylines
Part 1 of 10 in Sequence 10: A Monster's Creed
Found in
- Mitre SquareMitre Square is a key site early in the Jack the Ripper expansion: Jack murders two Assassin initiates posing as Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, and Jacob comes to investigate. Later Evie shuts down a fight club near the square.
- WhitechapelWhitechapel is the first borough you liberate and the poorest in London, a district of slums and crime. Rexford Kaylock's Blighters hold it when the Fryes arrive in 1868, and in 1888 it becomes Jack the Ripper's hunting ground.
Good to know
- Memory 1 of Sequence 10: A Monster's Creed.
- Source of the memory: Jack the Ripper, not a Frye.
- Jacob confronts newspaper owner Arthur Weaversbrook about printing the Ripper's letters.
- Nellie leads Jacob to the scene at Mitre Square, where two women have been killed.
- Jack uses Eagle Vision to follow Jacob's trail and frightens bystanders by killing police officers.
- The next memory is Autumn of Terror.
- Jack taunts Jacob all through the chase, calling himself Jacob's shadow.
Opening
A narrator sets the scene: two decades of peace, then the Autumn of Terror in 1888. Jacob tells Weaversbrook that publishing the letters is turning an unknown killer into a legend. Nellie then runs up with news that the Ripper has struck again.
Mitre Square
Nellie recognises the two women as friends she called Katey and Lizzie. Jacob gives her money and tells her to get away, then uses Eagle Vision on the scene before the Ripper calls out to him.
The hunt
Control switches to Jack. Follow Jacob through the streets, kill the constables who get in the way to spread fear, and catch up with him in a cemetery for a first fight. Jacob escapes by carriage, so track his scent with Eagle Vision back to his lodgings.
What happens to JacobSpoilerShow
Jack ambushes Jacob at home, pins him before he can reach a pistol and knocks him out. Their exchange makes clear the two know each other well, and that the Ripper's identity would ruin the Assassins if revealed.
Real history
Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were both killed on 30 September 1888, the date of this memory. Stride was found in Dutfield's Yard about an hour before Eddowes was found in Mitre Square.
- Arthur WeaversbrookArthur 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.
- Catherine EddowesThe 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.
- Catherine EddowesCatherine "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.
- Elizabeth StrideElizabeth "Long Liz" Stride was the third victim of the Whitechapel murders, found in Dutfield's Yard on 30 September 1888. Her death opens the Jack the Ripper expansion's prologue, on the same night as Catherine Eddowes'.
- Elizabeth StrideThe woman known as Elizabeth Stride is the third Ripper victim in Assassin's Creed Syndicate's 1888 story. Evie Frye examines her murder scene while following Jack's trail in The Mother of All Crimes.
- Jack the RipperJack 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.
Jacob FryeJacob Frye is one of the two playable Assassins in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the brawler of the Frye twins. In 1868 he founds the Rooks gang, fights the Blighters for every borough and goes after Crawford Starrick's inner circle one Templar at a time, from Rupert Ferris in Croydon to the Earl of Cardigan in Parliament.- NellieNellie is a Whitechapel working woman and friend of Jacob Frye who becomes Evie's ally in the Jack the Ripper expansion. She gives the brothel-focused side work: freeing Lady O's houses, finding kidnapped women and shaming abusive clients.
Related missions
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The Unfortunates
The 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.
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The Mother of All Crimes
The 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.
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Letters of Intent
Letters 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.
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The Lady Talks
The 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.