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.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Whitechapel
Storylines
Part 8 of 10 in Sequence 10: A Monster's Creed
Good to know
- Memory 8 of Sequence 10.
- Full sync: don't kill anyone.
- Abberline warns Evie that his men will arrest her unless she delivers the Ripper soon.
- Rooks and a crowd from a vigilance meeting guard the old crime scenes; frighten them away.
- A raven steals one clue and you have to follow it to its nest.
- The memory falls on the twins' 41st birthday. Next: Family Reunion.
Mary Jane Kelly's room
Evie arrives at the room where Mary Jane Kelly, a young woman of 25, was found murdered that morning. After a tense exchange with the police, inspect the room: a still-warm kettle, a mark on the wall and blood on the door. Swing the door back to its original position to line up a message from Jack telling Evie to follow his trail.
Spitalfields
The trail leads to the site of Annie Chapman's murder near Hanbury Street. Scare off the Rooks, follow the footprints and stains to work out where something was thrown, and chase a raven to recover it. Another of Jack's messages is written across two monuments.
Mitre Square
At Mitre Square, break up the crowd and guards with spikes and fear bombs, then reconstruct how Catherine Eddowes tried to flee. A search of a hay cart turns up the last clues, and Eagle Vision reveals a further message.
The final site
Jack's messages lead Evie to the place where his mother died. A fear bomb lands at her feet and she has to fight off hallucinations of Jack, then realises she has been swinging at civilians.
What the clues revealSpoilerShow
Each site gives up an Assassin's ring: the murdered women were Jacob's initiates. In the hallucination Jack blames Jacob and the Creed for failing to protect his mother, and Evie concludes he is waiting at Lambeth Asylum.
- DeptfordDeptford is a port on the south bank of the Thames, downriver from central London, where Jack the Ripper keeps hostages aboard old prison hulks in 1888. Evie goes there in the memory Prisoners.
- 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.
- SpitalfieldsSpitalfields is Whitechapel's only Blighter stronghold, Rexford Kaylock's headquarters in the borough. It is the first stronghold most players take, and clearing it also rescues surviving members of the Clinkers gang.
- 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.
- Annie ChapmanAnnie Chapman was the second victim of the Whitechapel murders, found on 8 September 1888 near 29 Hanbury Street. The Jack the Ripper expansion covers her through its database and Evie's investigation.
- Annie ChapmanIn Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Jack the Ripper story, the woman known as Annie Chapman is the second of the Ripper's victims. Evie Frye visits her murder scene near Hanbury Street in Spitalfields during The Mother of All Crimes, where Rooks are guarding the spot.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Frederick AbberlineFrederick 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.
- 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.
- Mary Jane KellyMary Jane Kelly was the last of the five Whitechapel murder victims, killed in her room at Miller's Court on 9 November 1888. In the Jack the Ripper expansion, Evie and Abberline examine the scene and find that Jack has left a message for Evie.
Related missions
Image: UbisoftStoryPrologue
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.
- Image: UbisoftStory
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.
- Story
Prisoners
Prisoners 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.
- Story
Autumn of Terror
Autumn 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.