THE RIPPER AND THE WHONIVERSE, Part 7

The final entry in this series

examines the third volume of

Ripper's Curse, and provides

an epilogue.

PART THREE The Doctor and

Rory travel to modern-day

Whitechapel to question a

 Ripper walk tour guide. They

want to know "how many

Ripper murders are canon?"

and are stunned by his reply

- twelve!

The Ripperologist begins to
list the victims: Nichols [1],
Chapman [2], Stride [3], Eddowes [4], Kelly [5], then Mary Warner and

Amelia Marple! He informs them that the bodies of Marple and Warner

were found in a yard off Hanbury Street [2] the night after Kelly's

death and "Unlike the others, these two  were murdered elsewhere."

Meanwhile in 1888, Amy is being held captive in a cellar with Mary.
The TARDIS returns to Spitalfields, and the Doctor tells Abberline of

the night's impending double event. Although officially off the case,

Warren's doppelganger arrives and the Doctor persuades him to

reveal his true self to the inspector. 'Clouseau' is then put in charge 

of the manhunt, and the Doctor finds a tracking device (similar to

the one used to locate the Krafayis in Vincent and the Doctor).

As night approaches, Amy assaults her captor's "tympanic mem-

branes" by making as "much unbearable" noise as she can, with a

metal bar. Amy helps the paralysed Mary from the cellar. The new

 chief of police reaches the Ripper's lair just as the two women

escape. The 'Warren' reptile and Mac'atyde now battle for survival.

The Ju'wes cannot reason with his enemy, and so forces the Re'nar

back into his base. Both are then consumed as the alien time portal 

explodes - the 'Ripper' is dead!

Abberline will continue the investigation for now, but with no further
killings, the newspapers cannot scare the populace and "the Ripper

will be forgotten."
As the travellers depart, the Doctor says that the crimes will "never

be forgotten because [they] can never be explained."

As a neat coda to both this blog and to the programme's links to

Saucy Jack, we finally get a definitive on-screen reference in

A Good Man Goes to War (2011). Here in 'London, 1888 AD' the

scene is set for a resurrected Silurian warrior to actually find and

execute this legendary killer. On her return home to Paternoster

Row, Madame Vastra asks her maid, Jenny to inform Inspector

Abberline of Scotland Yard that Jack the Ripper is dead!

Finally, both the Ripper and Abberline appeared in The Wax

Princess, part of the Jago & Litefoot audio series (2014).

KEY Canonical Murders:

[1] Mary Ann Nichols - Buck's Row, Friday August 31st 1888

[2] Annie Chapman - Hanbury St. Saturday September 8th

[3] Elizabeth Stride - Berner St. Sunday September 30th

[4] Catherine Eddowes - Mitre Square, also September 30th

[5] Mary Jane Kelly - Miller's Court, Friday November 9th