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I hope they will end this series with a tv movie.
And that it will be a prequel where we will actually see the actions of "Jack The Ripper" himself.
Maybe they can even work out the whole Royal Family/Freemason conspiracy.
Tbh, I would not be keen on that. I very much enjoy the occasional hints at the Ripper murders and the fallout on the lives of those investigating, and I love that scene in 'Your Father. My Friend' where they piece together the movements of the Ripper victims in an attempt to find Mathilda. since the fact that they remember all the details so vividly years later shows how much they lived and breathed every aspect of their investigations at the time. But where would you go with the actual Ripper murders without either repeating what has already been said in this show (and shown in a dozen others) or run contrary to it?
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
Well, ofcourse the murders take place but over the course of the movie, Inspector Frederick Abberline uncovers several clues that eventually lead him to this reveal/explanation:
Prince Albert Victor was born of Lord Edward Victor and Lady Alexandra Louise. Soon in life Victor began to feel distant from his royal family and his royal blood. He wanted to study art and become a scribe/scolar so his parents send him to study under Walter Sickert, a painter who was known all across the east side of london, but was most famous in Whitechapel. It was there that Victor began to fall under the unfluence of the nightlife in the district, especially the women. One in perticular, a woman called Anna Crook, managed to caught his eye. They began spending time together and in time they fell in love and married in secret. Crook even bore him a secret and unroyal child. Unfortunatly, Victor's parents found out about this and he was banished to a large estate on the english countryside where he was given lands and titles, that way being forced to stay true to his royal family and conduct his duties. What he didn't know is that his love Anna Crook was taken to Asylum to be lobotomized in a way that gave her such memory loss in a way that people would never believe one more word that came out of her mouth. The doctor who did this lobotomy was Sir William Gull, Edward and Alexandra's private physician. The baby was given to Anna's nursemaid, a woman called Mary Jane Kelly, who was Anna's best friend. Once she found out what happened to her friend and her husband she fled to the east end, ending up in Whitechapel where she became a prostitute to blend in to the enviorment. She became friends with Martha Tabram, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes and at some point they had a secret meeting where they planned to blackmail the royal family and maybe even buckingham palace itself in order to gain enough money for them to have normal lives and get away from the stench that was Whitechapel. This triggered the royal house into action and Edward, along with his wife Alexandra, send Sir William Gull back to Whitechapel to dispose of these women the way he saw fit. That's when the murders began with Martha Tabram being the first. Royal coach driver John Netley would drive William Gull around Whitechapel to get from one crimescene to the other. And ofcourse Gull saved Mary Jane Kelly for last. Edward and Alexandra even hired Walter Sickert to write the "From Hell Letter" and the "Juwes Note" which was later washed off by Sir Charles Warren, commissioner to Scotland Yard and a loyal servant along with Gull, to throw the london police force off his trail. However, at the last murder site Inspector Frederick Abberline discovers that the child was still alive and with Mary Jane Kelly's boyfriend Joe Barnett, who was aware of the women's plot and helped them pass the child from one woman to the other so it wouldn't be discovered.
In the big finale, Inspector Abberline confronts Edward and Alexandra at their mansion with the truth when Sir William Gull returns wearing his Jack The Ripper outfit, having returned earlier to Whitechapel to look for the child and dispose of it. While demanding to know where the child is, Abberline reveals to Edward and Alexandra that the baby is save with Joe Barnett and that they are somwhere where they will never be found.
Lord Edward orders Sir Gull to silence Abberline while he and Lady Alexandra make their escape in the coach with John Netley to places unknown. Abberline gets into a huge swordfight with Gull while the mansion burns down because of some candles being knocked over. In the end Abberline manages to subdue Gull and kill him. After escaping the mansion his colleagues ask where Lord Edward and Lady Alexandra are. Abberline explains that they probably flee the country and that even if they did find them, they won't be able to prosecute them. When asked if Abberline found Jack the Ripper as well, he lies and says he didn't, thus covering up the whole baby affair so no one will ever know about it.
Later on, Sir Charles Warren is fired from the police force for obscuring evidence while Walter Sickert is revealed to have hanged himself in his house.
Abberline visits Mary Jane Kelly's grave and puts some flowers on her tombstone, after which he takes a "vacation" and travels to Ireland on a boat and goes to a small farm on the countryside where Joe Barnett and the child are living relatively happy now.
And that's why the police "didn't manage to find and capture" Jack The Ripper.
Something like this.
You mean they ought to stick 'From Hell' to the end of the series?
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
Yeah, maybe.
But even so, i hope we will get more seasons of Ripper Street.
Do you want a season 6 & 7 as well ??.
Because i do !!.
I even took the liberty to write an e-mail to the creator of the show with a couple of ideas for future seasons.