The Mother of All Crimes

The Mother of All Crimes was a virtual representation of one of Evie Frye's genetic memories, relived by a Helix initiate through the Helix Navigator.

Description

Having returned from Deptford's prison hulks, Evie convened with Inspector Frederick Abberline and the Metropolitan Police Service at Mary Jane Kelly's murder scene.

Dialogue

Evie stood in Mary Kelly's blood-spattered apartment room and saw Kelly's body was covered by an equally-bloody sheet.

• Evie: Monster, you damn monster!

A policeman entered the room and saw her at the bed.

• Officer: OY! You're not allowed in here!

He moved to bludgeon her with his truncheon but Evie blocked his strike and restrained the officer grabbing his jacket collar just as Inspector Abberline and another officer arrived.

• Abberline: Evie! Get a hold of yourself! Go go... Out.

He released the man from Evie's grasp and the two police left.

• Evie: Who is she? Tell me quickly.

Abberline grabbed Evie's arm and dragged her back to the doorway.

• Abberline: Tell you? By what right?! I am an officer of the law, I'm not a member of your secret organization.

Frustrated, Evie removed his hand and grabbed his coat collar with her Assassin Gauntlet.

• Evie: Listen to me... Jacob knows—

Abberline warning Evie

He removed her hand from his coat and pointed at her.

• Abberline: No, you listen to me. I cannot cover for you much longer. All the evidence points to your brother, your 'Order', you... You need to deliver the Ripper's head on a spike soon, or I'm afraid there will be nothing to stop my men from arresting you in his stead.
• Evie: You'll have his head, even if it costs me mine.

Abberline stepped out and let Evie inspect the crime scene.

• Abberline: A young 'Unfortunate', by far the youngest at 25... Miss Kelly was found dead here at 10:45 this morning. Her throat had been cut and her whole head and body mutilated in a fashion which defines the word hideous.

He waved off an approaching policeman. Evie saw a kettle on a chest along the wall across from the foot of the bed.

• Evie: The kettle is still warm...

She inspected Kelly's covered corpse.

• Evie: He removed her organs, her heart... her dignity! You want me to see you as she did... Imagine the terror she felt? Do you hurt women just to prove you're a man, Jack?

Mary Jane Kelly

This is horrific... revolting. There are no words to describe the savagery displayed here.

Using Eagle Vision, she saw part of a message written in a triangle shape on the wall. She moved back to the door and saw blood past the threshold.

• Evie: That is a lot of blood.

Blood spatter

The bloodstain has a straight edge on one side, suggesting that an object blocked the spatter...

She looked at the opened door flush against the wall.

• Evie I can't make sense of these markings from this position.

Door

There's blood on the door, and a strange symbol that resembles the one above the body. The police must have moved the door when they arrived on the scene.

Evie aligned the thrown door with the blood splatter and saw that the door marks aligned with those above Kelly's bed to complete a message.

• Evie: What's this? ...Jack must have left these markings for me.

Message

My gift to you, Miss Frye, and more to come unless you do as Jack says: Follow the trail of blood through the looking glass.

• Evie: Jack wants me to return to the scene of his first crimes. I will do as you say, Jack, until I find you and send you to your own special hell...

Abberline entered, having surmised Evie had finished her inspection.

• Abberline: What did you discover?
• Evie: A message for me. The monster is going to lead me right to him, Inspector. I must return to the locations of the Ripper's first crimes...
• Abberline: Don't let your fury blind you, Miss Frye. I would not lose you, too...
• Evie: If I do die, Inspector, I will take the Ripper with me.

Evie left to investigate the murder scenes of Jack's other victims.

• Evie: Annie Chapman was murdered near a cemetery in Whitechapel.

Evie scaring the rooks

Evie arrived at Chapman's murder scene near Hanbury Street in Spitalfields and found Rooks guarding it.

• Evie: I am going to have to scare off this lot, if I want to investigate in peace.

Evie scared off the Rooks and investigated the area. She saw dried blood pool on the ground.

• Evie: Someone fought here...

Old blood traces

The Ripper's first strike did not killer her outright; it was a deep wound that bled profusely.

She followed footprints to a blood-stained wooden fence directly across.

• Evie: This is where Jack ripped the life from Miss Chapman's breast, the second victim of his hideous crimes. He cut off her ring finger...so where is the ring?

More blood spatter

The Ripper wounded her again here. She lost a lot of blood, but the injuries were still not fatal. Jack let her flee, only to hunt her down, again and again, prolonging her agony!

She followed more footprints along the fence until she saw more blood and the footprints set in a different position.

• Evie: Where does it lead?

Evie's reconstruction of Chapman throwing something

Footsteps

The footsteps suggest that she turned around here, and given the amount of blood lost, she paused for a moment before fleeing again... Did she stop to face Jack? Or to find someplace to hide a clue?

She continued following the tracks to a brick wall covered in dried blood.

Blood spatter

A third, powerful strike, which still did not slay her instantly... Jack must have relished her terror, as she watched her life slip away...

• Evie: Damn it...yet another one.

She walked a few paces away to where Chapman's body had lain.

Body

She fell here, exhausted, terrified, and alone... There was no merciful final blow. Jack must have watched as her life drained away in a pool of blood.

• Evie: Her Assassin ring must be here somewhere...

A crow taking off with the ring

Returning to where Chapman had briefly turned around, Evie calculated the trajectory of the thrown ring and found it in a patch of grass. Before she could recover it, a raven picked it up before flying off upon seeing Evie approach it. Evie chased after the bird until it dropped the ring in its nest nearby.

• Evie: Jack wanted to be sure I'd find these rings...

Bird Nest

Found it! The raven has left the ring in its nest.

Jack's message

Evie found another of Jack's messages in the shape of an ⟨X⟩ written across two cenotaphs.

Message

What kind of creed cannot protect its own?

• Evie: This message was intended first for my brother... Catherine Eddowes was murdered in a small square close to the train tracks.

Evie left the scene to investigate Eddowes' murder scene at Mitre Square.

• Evie: I must find the location where Jack murdered his other victim.

Arriving at the site of Eddowes' murder, she found civilians holding a meeting.

• Woman: Months ago, the president of our vigilance committee received half of poor Miss Eddowes' kidney, and the Ripper still runs free! Who will catch him? What are the police doing to protect the poor residents of Whitechapel from this assassin? What has the government done? Let us demand the closure of all wicked houses of sin and impurity in our city. We shall petition our most gracious majesty, Queen Victoria. But what if our petition falls on deaf ears? Who will avenge the blood of these unfortunate victims? I saw we must take the law into our own hands! Who is with me?

Using spikes and fear bombs, Evie scared off the assembly and Rooks guarding it, then began her investigation starting at a large bloodstain on a wall near some stacked crates, where Elizabeth Stride was murdered.

Evie's reconstruction of Stride's death

• Evie: You monster. You murdered every Assassin my brother turned against you and your insane creed.

Extensive dried bloodstains

The amount of blood lost suggests that Jack cut Lizzie Stride's throat here, killing her instantly. Kate Eddowes had time to flee...

She saw more blood behind her on some smaller crates steps away.

• Evie: Where does it lead?

Direction of blood spatter

She jumped over these crates—with Jack on her heels... Her wounds were not so deep as to prevent escape, yet.

She followed the tracks until they lead to a brick ledge with hand and boot prints arranged for a person to have been crouching on all fours.

Evie reconstructing Eddowes' flight

• Evie: I should follow these traces.

Handprints

She leaped over that wall in a desperate attempt to flee the Ripper.

She saw dried blood on one of two pillars that framed a small flight of stairs.

• Evie: Blood splatters

Odd blood spatter patterns

This spatter is too small to have come from the victim's wounds. The droplets nearest the haystack are barely visible, suggesting that a blood-covered object may have rolled or bounced here from another location.

She saw more blood beside the adjacent haycart.

• Evie: More blood splatter

Blood spatter direction

Small droplets of blood, but not from the fight. The spatter may come from a small blood-covered object, thrown from this position...

• Evie: Her Assassin ring must be here somewhere...

Evie's calculated trajectory

Returning to where Eddowes had perched on the wall, Evie calculated the trajectory of her thrown ring and determined it would be in the haycart. She dug around the cart's edges, thinking that the ring was still near the surface of the hay.

Haystack

No use poking around the edges, this is going to require a closer look...

Evie jumped in and searched through the hay. Eventually, she found not just Eddowes' ring but also the one that belonged to Stride.

Assassin's rings

Found there! They're here.

• Evie: Two Assassin's rings... Jack murdered two women here, two of Jacob's initiates.

Exiting the cart, she uncovered part of another message from Jack but its contents remained unclear. She looked at the opposite side of the wall that Eddowes had jumped over and saw more blood.

• Evie: That is a lot of blood.

Extensive bloodstains

Eddowes was backed to the wall here, bleeding profusely. Jack's cut was deep, perhaps to the abdomen.

She saw a bloody handprint on the steps to her left.

• Evie: Signs of a struggle...

Handprints

Bloodstains and handprints suggest that Miss Eddowes was fleeing on her hands and knees...

She walked up the short flight to the bloodstained staircase landing.

• Evie: This is where Miss Eddowes breathed her last...humiliated and degraded by Jack—he wanted to punish my brother.

Extensive bloodstains

Jack ended Miss Eddowes' agony here, throwing her [sic] the ground to perform his macabre, ritual mutilations.

She dropped from the wall's edge and inspected where Eddowes' body was found on the ground below.

Catherine Eddowes

She was found here on her back with her throat slit and one ear cut off, her intestines had been drawn out and displayed by some fiendish design.

Another message from Jack

Using Eagle Vision again, Evie found another message from Jack in the shape of a large square written across the walls where he had killed Stride and Eddowes.

Message

How many more must die before you see the truth? P.S. Your brother didn't listen so I gave him a double lesson. Your Creed failed them, as it failed my mother.

• Evie: Jack lived around here with his mother as a boy... that's where he's leading me. For Jack, only his mother's death counts as murder...

Evie arrived where Jack's mother was murdered.

• Evie: What is this place? The ripper didn't murder anyone here.

Evie affected by a fear bomb

Upon approaching the former location of Jack's mother's body, Evie heard a fear bomb bounce towards her. It exploded beside her and induced hallucinations.

• Evie: What?
• Jack: I was born here, survived the madhouse and learned from the best, until he betrayed me. Come test your Creed against mine.
• Mother: Go to Jacob! Run, Jack!
• Evie: The murder of Jack's mother marks the day that the 'Ripper' was born...and he blames my brother—blames the Creed for failing them. What's happening to me?

The hallucinations intensified and Evie had to fight off illusionary clones of Jack.

• Jack: I should thank you, Evie... Jacob inspired my acts by his treachery, but it is your meddling that inspired today's masterpiece!
• Evie: He is inside my head...
• Jack: Where was Jacob when Starrick's men gutted my mother? Where was he when they dragged me to the madhouse?
• Evie: Am I losing my mind?
• Jack: What kind of creed cannot protect its own? ...a dead Creed, that's what.
• Evie: Face me you monster!
  Control yourself, Evie.
• Jack: Jacob freed me from the madhouse, riddled by guilt... He saw something in me and made me 'Assassin'...but I grew—grew to see his weakness and knew what I had to do. The world will know my terror!
  Your brother squealed the loudest...
  Your brother cried a lot...
  With the Fryes gone, no one can stop me.
  Jacob begged like those pathetic initiates he sent to the slaughter.

Evie with the frightened civilians

Evie thwarted off the hallucinations and came to her senses, realizing she was attacking civilians.

• Civilian: No! Please, please...
• Evie: The madhouse...Lambeth Asylum...Jack lures me through the looking glass.

Outcome

With no doubt in her mind, Evie came to the conclusion that Jack the Ripper was waiting at Lambeth Asylum.

Trivia

• This memory takes places on Jacob and Evie's 41st birthday; potentially, this is why Jack the Ripper refers to Mary Kelly as his "gift" to Evie.

Gallery

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  Evie examining Kelly's murder scene
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  Evie defending herself against the police
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  Evie promising Jack's head
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  Evie examining the first evidence of the attack on Chapman
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  Analysis of the scene of Chapman's murder
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  Jack's Murdered Mother