User blog comment:Ghost127/Jack the Ripper an intended target in Assassin's Creed Victory/@comment-62.199.62.26-20150102125955/@comment-1888015-20150108210055

As Ghost mentioned, Jack the Ripper could feature in a side mission, but given how enthused people were for Charlotte Corday and how everyone at first throught Elise to be her, only for Corday to be a murderer that you end up sentencing to jail, it may be that Ubisoft are paying the infamous killer some cameo of sorts, but veering clear of involving him for anything other than a head-nod.

If at all Jack was part of a longer story segment or activity's plot, I'd foresee him as being an Assassin whose personality rubs you up the wrong way and gets worse as you progress, or like how one person mentioned him being an Assassin who turns on you, maybe due to a fault of yours in a planned assassination (emphasized if it's you and Jack together) that results in a target being alerted and missing the chance to eliminate them.

For the slim chance of Jack the Ripper being a good guy who has bouts of Sage-induced murder frenzies, I could imagine him killing those women as a way of him believing the women would become the vessel for Juno, similar to how John in AC4 did that to the research analyst, but the only problem with that is that it confirms the gender of the research analyst after Ubisoft have attempted to make it gender neutral, and would require them to make up another lore-integral character's profile and reasons for what they're doing now etc. (unless this person is Bishop and that'd be fucking cool really.)

But at the end of the day, I'd rather not be chasing around Jack the Ripper as his tag-along counselling buddy, trying to figure out why the "shimmers" in his head makes him carve up a slapper, if it means he's going to be a rehash of François Thomas-Germain. I'd have thought the big baddy of the game was a little more refined than him.