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 White-

chapel 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 membranes"

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