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00:00 [music]
00:02 [music]
00:04 (men laughing)
00:06 - [Man] All right, girls, hurry on now and keep walking.
00:10 - Good night, love. God bless.
00:12 (gentle music)
00:15 (dramatic music)
00:18 (dramatic music)
00:20 (dramatic music)
00:23 (dramatic music)
00:26 (dramatic music)
00:55 - Here, where do you think you're going?
00:57 - Oh, Hobbit, you did give me a start.
01:00 - You know the rule about unaccompanied women
01:02 being out in the streets after nine.
01:04 - I was only going to me rooms.
01:05 - Yes? Where's that?
01:07 - Right down there.
01:09 - All right, Hobbit.
01:10 - Is he about tonight?
01:12 - Is who about?
01:13 - You know who, or else what are you doing out
01:16 in this damp?
01:17 Im, the murderer.
01:18 - Look, Hobbit.
01:20 - The same as butchered all those girls.
01:22 - Either you buzz off, or I'm gonna walk you down
01:25 to the police station.
01:26 - Wow.
01:27 (gentle music)
01:29 - All's well around here, George.
01:42 (gentle music)
01:44 (gentle music)
01:47 (gentle music)
01:50 (gentle music)
01:52 (gentle music)
01:55 (gentle music)
01:58 (gentle music)
02:00 (gentle music)
02:03 (gentle music)
02:13 (gentle music)
02:28 (gentle music)
02:31 (dramatic music)
02:49 (woman screams)
02:56 (dramatic music)
02:59 - What do I look like?
03:05 Who can I be?
03:07 All the blinking coppers is out after me.
03:09 They think I'm here.
03:10 They think I'm there.
03:12 But when they come to call on me, I'll vanish in the air.
03:14 Oh, what do I look like?
03:16 Who can I be?
03:17 Well, here's a bit of something you can say of me.
03:21 I ain't a butcher.
03:24 I ain't a kid.
03:25 And I ain't a foreign skipper.
03:29 I'm just your own dear loving friend.
03:32 Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.
03:40 - A surgeon's scalpel.
03:48 An instrument of mercy in the hands of a skilled physician.
03:53 A lethal weapon in the hands of a madman.
03:56 A murderer such as the subject of our story for tonight.
04:00 Now, no one knows who this man was.
04:02 No one ever saw his face.
04:04 His identity has always been
04:06 one of the world's great mysteries.
04:08 He killed only women, and only a certain kind of women.
04:13 And his murders were often accompanied
04:15 by stranger forbidding rights.
04:19 For months on end, he terrorized London,
04:22 defying whole divisions of police.
04:24 And it was they who nicknamed him Jack the Ripper.
04:28 Well, he disappeared from the scene
04:30 as suddenly as he had come.
04:32 But similar murders followed at intervals in other countries.
04:36 There are many who believe that Jack the Ripper
04:40 still walks the earth,
04:42 still continues his diabolical activities.
04:45 That's a chilling thought,
04:50 especially when it's accompanied by highly convincing proof
04:53 that it may be true.
04:55 Let us discover the facts for ourselves
04:58 in the company of such distinguished players as
05:02 Mr. John Williams,
05:05 Mr. Donald Woods,
05:08 Mr. Edmund Ryan,
05:12 and Miss Nancy Valentine.
05:16 I suggest that you viewers draw just a little closer together.
05:22 The Ripper always struck down solitary victims, you know.
05:26 It would be a pity if a member of our audience became dismembered.
05:31 (MUSIC)
05:36 If you remember, gentlemen,
05:58 I sent you a telegram after the July killing.
06:02 Watch for another murder in exactly 24 days.
06:07 We've been getting all kinds of phony tips,
06:09 crank letters, phone calls, all sorts of things.
06:13 But that third murder did occur, didn't it?
06:16 Exactly when I said.
06:18 In the same district, in the same way.
06:24 And I've flown in from Washington to tell you
06:26 that there will be another murder
06:28 three nights from now.
06:30 What is he, a crystal gazer?
06:34 I told you, Sir Guy's in the British Embassy.
06:37 Medical liaison, Captain Jaco.
06:39 M.D., fellow in the Royal College of Physicians,
06:41 and ex-pathologist to Scotland Yard.
06:44 Well, that's quite a record, but it doesn't mean
06:45 you can see what's going to happen night after tomorrow.
06:47 Sir Guy says there'll be six murders all told
06:50 unless we stop them.
06:57 What we have here is a psycho, a schizo.
06:59 Isn't that right, Johnny?
07:00 It's possible, Pete.
07:01 Dr. Carmody is consulting psychiatrist
07:04 with the police department.
07:05 Now, why don't you talk this over with him?
07:07 Captain Jago feels that the murderer is a psychopath
07:10 whose aberrations are paranoid.
07:12 That perhaps he's trying to imitate Jack the Ripper.
07:15 I don't agree. It is Jack the Ripper.
07:18 These murders have been repeated at certain intervals
07:21 ever since they first began.
07:22 Now, I have a chart here which shows--
07:24 A chart. They always have a chart.
07:26 All right, Pete. Let's see what it is, shall we?
07:29 Now, these murders reoccur every three years and eight months,
07:32 as rhythmic as the tides.
07:35 For the past 70 years, they've left a trail of blood
07:37 all around the world,
07:39 and the record of it is here with places and dates.
07:42 Now, they began in London in 1888,
07:46 and the next group of six murders
07:48 occurred in Jersey City, 1891, '92,
07:52 then Shanghai, then Vladivostok at the turn of the century,
07:55 and so on and so on.
07:56 Now, here are news reports, police photographs.
08:00 I've worked on these cases for 30 years,
08:02 been over the actual ground, talked with officials.
08:05 Now, none of these Ripper murders
08:07 received the notoriety of those in London.
08:09 Many went almost unnoticed, but they did occur.
08:13 The pattern is there, the trail of unsolved crimes.
08:16 Now, here is the projection of the present series of murders.
08:21 Look for yourself, sir. What does it show?
08:23 Just what you said.
08:24 Another killing coming up.
08:26 But it can't be Jack the Ripper.
08:28 If he's still alive, he'd be 90 or more.
08:30 He is alive, and he's in the city.
08:33 Sir Guy, a man that age is a very frail creature.
08:37 When a woman, anyone, is struggling for life,
08:40 she becomes strong, desperately strong.
08:43 A man the Ripper's age couldn't possibly handle him.
08:46 Suppose he hasn't got any older.
08:50 What was that?
08:51 I said, suppose Jack the Ripper hasn't got any older.
08:55 But everybody gets older.
08:57 Police, doctors, maniacs, everybody.
09:00 Not everybody, Captain Jacob.
09:03 Well, with all respect, Sir Guy,
09:05 you must admit that by the natural process of living--
09:08 What about the unnatural processes of living,
09:12 and these most unnatural murders?
09:14 I've studied everything about them,
09:16 especially their dates and the pattern made by those dates.
09:20 I've studied their rhythm, the solar and lunar rhythm,
09:23 the sidereal aspect, even the astrological significance.
09:27 Now, suppose Jack the Ripper didn't murder
09:30 for murder's sake alone.
09:33 Suppose he wanted to make a sacrifice.
09:36 What kind of sacrifice?
09:39 Well, it is said that if the blood sacrifice is
09:41 made at the proper time, with the proper ceremonies,
09:45 when the moon and the stars are right,
09:47 the gods grant a boon, a boon of eternal youth.
09:52 You seriously suggest that Jack the Ripper is still young?
10:00 You'll see for yourself if we catch him.
10:02 I just don't believe it.
10:04 We'll go into that another time.
10:07 Now, I'll leave this material here with you,
10:09 if you don't mind.
10:12 You can find me at my hotel.
10:16 But the important thing is, have I persuaded you
10:19 to take special precautions three nights from now
10:22 and prevent another murder?
10:25 I hope so, gentlemen.
10:26 Lunar rhythms, blood sacrifices, boons of youth.
10:37 This cookie is really crumbling.
10:39 You know, if you really made an effort,
10:41 I think you could get the other foot in your mouth.
10:43 What do you mean by that?
10:44 I think he means you might be more tactful, Pete.
10:47 Tactful?
10:48 I have got three unsolved killings on the blotter.
10:51 I'm supposed to be charming to every flaco who comes in here
10:54 with a cloudy crystal ball?
10:55 That flaco, as you call him, happens to be one of the world's
10:58 foremost doctors.
10:59 Oh, gee.
11:00 And the mayor says we've got to humor him.
11:01 Ah-ha, now it comes, the mayor.
11:04 And all along, I thought that you were under Sir Starchy's
11:07 spell.
11:08 It is possible, Pete, that you've been talking when you
11:11 should have been listening.
11:12 Yeah, all mouth and no ears at all.
11:14 No, I mean it.
11:15 We have three murders here and not a single clue.
11:17 And in comes a man, not just any crackpot, mind you,
11:20 with a theory.
11:21 Unnatural processes, eternal--
11:23 are you kidding?
11:25 Not at all.
11:25 He predicted the latest killing, gave you
11:27 the date and the district.
11:28 He did that?
11:29 And now he says he can tell you when the next murder
11:31 will take place.
11:32 Bourgeois.
11:33 Have you got any better theories, Captain Jago?
11:37 Well, since you don't, obviously,
11:39 you will extend Sir Guy every courtesy and cooperation.
11:42 You know, he may win you a promotion in spite of yourself.
11:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]
11:51 [MUSIC PLAYING]
12:20 Shouldn't Jago be back by now?
12:23 He's getting reports from his men.
12:25 He has quite a few of them staked out.
12:27 I think this is him coming now.
12:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]
12:36 Give me the phone.
12:49 [MUSIC PLAYING]
12:51 Come in 14, this is 12.
12:54 Anything over there?
12:55 Yeah.
13:00 Well, keep your eyes open.
13:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]
13:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]
13:19 Give me the mic, Joe.
13:34 Yeah, Charlie?
13:41 Jago.
13:41 Back already?
13:42 Yeah, I'm back.
13:43 Everything OK there?
13:44 Yeah, we got the whole area blanketed.
13:46 Walkie-talkies at every stake out.
13:48 You've got an awful lot of ground to cover.
13:50 Yeah.
13:52 But we're checking every alley and dead end
13:54 five times an hour.
13:56 Can you close in fast enough?
13:58 Mm.
13:59 Well, if we get an alarm, we can surround
14:01 any spot within 30 seconds.
14:03 Let's hope he shows.
14:05 Well, if he does, we're ready.
14:08 I'll talk to you later.
14:09 Do that.
14:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]
14:15 [MUSIC PLAYING]
14:18 So we are going by your chart, sir guy, waiting for the Ripper.
14:22 But that doesn't mean I buy it.
14:24 90 years old and still looks like a young man.
14:26 Well, evidently, you've never heard of the Count de Saint-Germain.
14:29 The Count who?
14:30 Saint-Germain.
14:31 It's a matter of record that for 150 years,
14:34 he remained unchanged.
14:35 He was attached to the French court.
14:36 Voltaire called him the man who never
14:38 dies and who knows everything.
14:40 He'd never tell how old he was or where he came from.
14:42 Are you trying to tell me that this Count and the Ripper
14:45 are the same?
14:46 No, no, no.
14:47 He was a fabulous character.
14:49 No one ever saw him eat.
14:51 Are you kidding?
14:52 It's a mystery how he prolonged his life, but he did.
14:55 Well, modern medical science are working
14:57 toward the same end today.
14:59 But I believe Jack the Ripper has achieved his own dark
15:03 and dreadful way of doing it.
15:05 What do you mean by that?
15:06 Well, I think somehow he thrives on the very lives he takes.
15:12 Most of his murders are like satanic rites.
15:15 Blood sacrifices, you mean?
15:18 No, it goes deeper than that.
15:20 Well, if he's in the city, a cook like this
15:23 wouldn't be hard to spot.
15:24 Sir Guy thinks he may be associating with the avant-garde,
15:29 painters and musicians.
15:31 Well, John, is he?
15:34 What do you mean?
15:34 Well, he means most of them end up in my studio.
15:37 Your studio?
15:39 A vestige of my misspent youth.
15:41 You may not believe this, Sir Guy,
15:43 but before I went into medicine, I studied sculpture.
15:47 And I still have some of my bohemian blood.
15:50 Artsy, crafty, hocus pocus.
15:52 It's a lot of hogwash.
15:54 Superstition, like the way people used to believe that
15:56 a murdered man's eyes would open if the person who killed
16:00 him passed by.
16:02 His wounds start bleeding again.
16:05 Believe me, those things don't happen.
16:07 I know.
16:08 I've tried them.
16:10 I'll tell you something else.
16:11 I don't believe anybody's going to get knocked off tonight.
16:15 The Ripper will come.
16:17 He has to.
16:19 Oh, we'll see.
16:21 I'm just going to check around again.
16:23 [MUSIC PLAYING]
16:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]
16:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
16:32 You live around here?
16:58 Yeah, just up the block.
17:00 We have orders to see all you girls safely off the streets.
17:04 Why?
17:05 We don't want you getting hurt, that's all.
17:07 You really think this guy's around here?
17:10 Who knows?
17:11 Come on, let's go.
17:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]
17:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]
17:17 This your place?
17:31 Yeah, down there.
17:33 You wait here while I check it out.
17:34 [MUSIC PLAYING]
17:37 [MUSIC PLAYING]
17:40 All right, come on.
17:46 Let me hear you, Bolter.
17:55 Thanks.
17:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:32 [PHONE RINGING]
18:50 [PHONE RINGING]
18:56 Hello?
18:57 Yeah.
18:58 Who's this?
18:59 Oh, it's you.
19:07 Yeah, I sure remember you.
19:10 I guess I could.
19:13 Where's the party?
19:16 Yeah, I know where it is.
19:18 I guess 20 minutes, half an hour, I don't know.
19:21 What's the number?
19:23 57.
19:25 Yeah, I got it.
19:26 57 and just walk in.
19:29 OK.
19:30 OK, honey, see you in a little while.
19:34 [MUSIC PLAYING]
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20:10 Believe you me, I never saw anything like what I saw
20:13 in that room in all my born days.
20:17 Shouldn't get my name right.
20:18 Maggie Rademich.
20:19 I used to be a headliner in burlesque.
20:21 Miss Baboom of 1938.
20:39 Dr. Fisher, in the three previous cases here,
20:42 did you follow a pattern?
20:44 Were the mutilations the same?
20:46 Not in the first killing.
20:47 All the others were exactly like this.
20:49 It's part of his ritual.
20:50 He's always done it.
20:51 Right back to 1888.
20:55 All right, let the photographer have it a couple of minutes.
20:59 We found the body an hour ago.
21:01 Anything to work on?
21:02 Not a clue, nothing.
21:03 He was here.
21:05 He's gone.
21:06 Nobody heard him?
21:07 Nobody saw him.
21:08 But the guy was right again, wasn't he?
21:11 And I'll give you another date, Captain Jago.
21:14 The night of the 22nd.
21:16 I can't worry about that.
21:17 I've got enough here.
21:19 When I think I had this whole section staked out, covered,
21:23 and the papers, they'll go big for this one.
21:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
21:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
21:32 Now, soon after Jack the Ripper disappeared from London,
21:53 an artist said to be an American vanished from his lodgings
21:57 and left some bloodstained clothing behind.
22:00 Later on in Dusseldorf, after similar murders,
22:03 the police learned of a man who spent all his time
22:06 studying in art galleries.
22:08 In Cleveland, a man who had vanished
22:10 was said to be an art dealer.
22:12 And in Bordeaux, France, they discovered an artist who
22:16 always destroyed his pictures, which was what
22:18 the man in London had done.
22:23 Now, none of these men were traced.
22:27 But I believe it was the same person each time.
22:30 So Guy, tell them what makes you think the Ripper might be
22:33 hiding among the artists here.
22:35 Art is limitless.
22:37 It would give him an interest in living.
22:41 Also, he'd be less conspicuous among unconventional people.
22:45 I still don't see how a man can be 90 years old
22:48 and look young.
22:49 Where is that chart you told us about?
22:51 Well, the police have it at the moment.
22:53 But you know, there's a strange rhythm to the Ripper's murders,
22:58 just as there are cyclical rhythms
22:59 which control other things.
23:01 There are rhythms which control the sunspots.
23:04 Every 17 years, a particular type of locust swarms and flies.
23:09 Every 14th year, the price of nutmeg peaks, then drops again.
23:15 But in the Ripper's murders, it's always
23:19 126 days between his first and second murder,
23:23 but only half that, 63 days between the second
23:27 and the last, the sixth.
23:29 Isn't it weird?
23:31 I've heard of these rhythms.
23:32 What causes them?
23:34 Ah, that's one of the mysteries of the universe.
23:39 Well, what do you want us to do?
23:40 Sir Guy just wanted to tell us why he's here.
23:43 Maybe we can help him.
23:44 And when do you expect the Ripper to rip again?
23:45 Sir Guy says Saturday night.
23:47 Oh, but that's Les Besson's party night.
23:49 That's right.
23:50 You'll find almost all the local painters there.
23:52 It's kind of a trade show, artists only.
23:54 But we'll get you in.
23:55 I was doing a picture for it now.
23:57 That's right.
23:58 And if anybody's interested, I'm ready for you to look at it right now.
24:01 Hmm.
24:02 Yeah?
24:05 There you are. What do you think?
24:15 I don't see why you had to paint me with all those dead flowers, Hymie.
24:19 You-- you just spoiled a good picture.
24:23 If that's the way he sees you, Arlene, you can't argue with it.
24:26 Oh, he's dropped a little spats of oil on it.
24:35 It's still wet.
24:37 It looks like dew.
24:38 But it's not.
24:39 When I was painting it, I wanted to paint fresh, beautiful flowers, Arlene.
24:43 But that's the way it came out.
24:45 And that's not dew, Rowena.
24:47 Those are teardrops.
24:48 Sagai has been talking about cycles and rhythms and murder
24:52 and things we can't account for.
24:55 Well, like I said, I'm with him.
24:58 All the time I was putting Arlene's face on that canvas,
25:03 that song was going through my head.
25:06 "I'm your own dear, loving friend."
25:10 I had a feeling with it.
25:12 What feeling, Hymie?
25:14 Come on, tell us.
25:16 If you want to know,
25:19 I feel like I'm standing looking down at wreaths and dead flowers.
25:25 And my heart is weeping inside.
25:28 And don't anybody ask who's below those flowers and wreaths.
25:31 Hymie, you--
25:38 you get the silliest, the most lunatic ideas.
25:42 He's such a sensitive boy.
25:44 Just look at his work.
25:46 He's been reading about that girl.
25:48 You know, they're burying her tomorrow.
25:50 Isn't that right, Hymie?
25:52 I don't know.
25:54 But the feeling stays with me.
25:57 You have a morbid imagination, Hymie,
25:59 associating Arlene with that dead girl.
26:02 Say, I have a wonderful idea.
26:04 Why don't we all go down to the cemetery?
26:06 I just love funerals.
26:08 [music]
26:30 Look at the crumbs.
26:31 Any one of them could be the Ripper, or whatever he is.
26:35 We may as well have a look around.
26:37 You never know.
26:38 When this is over, you watch this gate.
26:42 I'll take the one down there.
26:44 [music]
27:14 [screaming]
27:21 She's looking at us!
27:24 She's looking straight at us!
27:27 [music]
27:40 [music]
27:51 More gravy for the papers.
27:53 Look at this from New York.
27:54 Here she is right after the casket broke.
27:55 The whole front page.
27:56 And get this headline.
27:58 Four murders, and the last corpse opens its eyes.
28:02 Here's another.
28:03 Dead four days, but who is she looking at?
28:06 I've never known a four-day-old cadaver
28:08 open its eyes, a view.
28:10 Never.
28:11 All nature's against it.
28:13 Now, I'd like to see what you think of this.
28:15 You have four murder spots here.
28:18 When there are six, and you join them together
28:21 in the right way, they'll form a sign.
28:24 I have one here from the Black Mass.
28:27 He formed it in Calcutta.
28:29 And another he formed in Milan, the medieval sign
28:33 for Beelzebub.
28:34 But why does he do it?
28:37 An invocation to the dark gods, perhaps.
28:41 But if I could guess the sign he's making now,
28:44 I could say approximately where the next murder will occur.
28:47 Maybe you can figure it out.
28:49 I intend to try.
28:52 But it could be any one of a thousand.
28:54 All this jazz about the Ripper living off the lives he takes.
28:56 It doesn't make sense.
28:58 If you told me it was his son or something, I might buy it.
29:02 It might even be a psycho imitating the Ripper.
29:05 But that is all it is.
29:06 Leave it right there, Pete.
29:08 Look at all the time we wasted on that crummy idea
29:11 about the dead girl looking at them.
29:13 Are you finished?
29:14 No.
29:15 I don't think we should just stake out that arty party.
29:18 I think we should do more than that.
29:20 What gave you the idea we weren't?
29:22 We're going to move into that whole area with extra lighting.
29:25 Flood lamps, field lights, keep the streets lit up.
29:28 You think that'll stop them?
29:29 No.
29:31 It'll give us a better chance to see them.
29:33 How about all those people you were discussing?
29:34 Will they be at the party?
29:36 Everybody will be there.
29:37 Including Jack the Ripper?
29:42 I believe he will.
29:43 Ah, Sir Guy.
30:03 Have some punch.
30:04 [whistling]
30:07 Now if only Lester would get here, we can get started.
30:25 Lester!
30:26 Lester!
30:31 What color, what feeling.
30:34 What a pity you'd have no talent.
30:35 Oh, that's a nice hat, Chloe.
30:41 I like it better every time I see it.
30:43 It's positively egregious.
30:49 It gives me a feeling, a certain something.
30:53 Nausea.
30:58 Ah, you do have taste, Rowena.
31:03 Bad taste, but taste.
31:06 Ah, have you picked out the Ripper yet?
31:09 No, not yet, Mr. Best.
31:11 Let me tell you how to catch him.
31:13 Everybody here knows Sir Guy.
31:14 He's the man that's looking for Jack the Ripper.
31:18 He thinks he's here among us.
31:20 Tell you what we're going to do.
31:21 We're going to put Sir Guy in the middle of the room
31:23 and turn out all the lights.
31:24 Then when you feel him at your throat,
31:26 all you've got to do is grab him.
31:28 That's a very good idea, Mr. Best.
31:31 But there's just one little thing wrong with it.
31:33 The Ripper is only interested in women.
31:37 Excuse me.
31:39 Ah.
31:40 Well, now to the business at hand.
31:42 I have to slip away soon on account of my little girl.
31:50 It's her, Heimie, painted in the picture.
31:53 You can see she has hair like mine, only--
31:55 well, only it's finer and it's much lighter.
31:59 Yes, she looks charming.
32:00 A natural platinum blonde.
32:03 I'm proud of her.
32:06 She stays with her grandmother most of the time.
32:08 Oh, she's been sick lately.
32:10 Been in the children's hospital four days.
32:14 You know, she won't even go to sleep at night until I
32:16 go and say goodnight to her.
32:20 I'm only waiting to see who gets the ribbons
32:21 and then I'm going to leave.
32:24 Oh, I-- I wanted to see me looking pretty.
32:31 You're more than pretty.
32:32 You're beautiful.
32:34 Well, I know I'm supposed to be, but I've never been
32:38 told that by anyone like you.
32:41 That's something after all the English beauties you must know.
32:44 For all Mr. Carpenter, he's counting the ballots now.
32:51 And as soon as he gets them counted,
32:52 he'll bring them here.
32:53 Yes, here are the winners.
32:54 Oh, thank you, Mr. Carmody.
32:56 It's the gold ribbon.
33:04 He's going to get that one first.
33:07 The best picture in the room.
33:10 Oh.
33:11 Right here.
33:12 [LAUGHTER]
33:13 I'm his cousin.
33:14 I'm his cousin.
33:16 I'm his picture.
33:17 I mean, one.
33:19 I won.
33:20 Yeah, I won.
33:22 Who cares about dead flowers now?
33:24 I won.
33:25 Oh.
33:26 I'm going to slip away now, but I'm going to come
33:28 back and congratulate him.
33:29 Bye.
33:30 [APPLAUSE]
33:32 Hi, Edith.
33:33 Hi, Edith.
33:34 How did it go?
33:35 Oh, wonderful.
33:36 Where's Aline?
33:37 Where's Aline?
33:39 She's gone to the children's hospital.
33:40 She said she'd be right back.
33:42 We'll tell her later.
33:43 I won, old girl.
33:44 I won.
33:45 [CHEERING]
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33:50 [FIRE CRACKLING]
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34:00 [ENGINE REVVING]
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35:24 All the while--
35:28 all the while, I had that feeling there'd be dead flowers.
35:31 Me looking down on them.
35:33 And here I am.
35:36 Been coming here every day.
35:38 Gets me.
35:43 Did I know something was going to happen?
35:46 Like it was fated?
35:49 Or did I give somebody the idea?
35:50 You see what I mean?
35:56 Was it really just a crazy thought I had,
35:58 but the Ripper heard me talking about it
36:00 and made it come real?
36:01 And I always believed he was hiding
36:03 among the sort of people you and John know.
36:05 It had to be someone who knew she always
36:07 went to the hospital that way.
36:09 Yeah.
36:10 It's funny.
36:14 I picked these out and sent them for the kid.
36:17 She hasn't been told yet.
36:19 Her grandmother's got her now.
36:22 I used to think about marrying Arlene.
36:26 You know, we got along real fine.
36:28 And-- let's go, huh?
36:36 Hey, listen, wait a minute.
36:42 You think I ought to talk to the police about it?
36:44 I don't think it would help, Jaime.
36:47 Everybody knew about the painting
36:48 and about the child being in the hospital.
36:51 Yeah, I suppose so.
36:53 It was just an idea.
36:56 I get the shivers when I think about that Ripper
36:58 being around all the time, and nobody knows him.
37:03 He's five down and one to go now, isn't that right?
37:06 Does your chart say when he'll do the next?
37:10 Nine days after that happened.
37:13 And a week has gone already.
37:15 Yeah.
37:17 [MUSIC PLAYING]
37:21 You all know what that is, of course.
37:33 Crux Capitata.
37:34 Also called the Christian cross, the sign of signs.
37:37 No single emblem is more exalted.
37:40 Now, I said that the Ripper was making
37:42 a sign on your map here.
37:44 This is where Arlene was murdered.
37:48 Now, I found a sign which fits these five spots.
37:52 And I think it indicates where he
37:53 will attempt his last killing.
37:56 It's a sign used in the irreligious black mass,
37:59 the broken cross.
38:02 See where this falls?
38:04 The East Street and Bow Lane.
38:06 I worked out the exact spot.
38:08 It's the North Corner.
38:09 The North Corner.
38:10 Well, you know the place.
38:12 A lot of arty people used to go there.
38:14 Yeah, it's changed hands.
38:16 They've got strippers in there now.
38:17 I've seen that sign before.
38:19 Our vice squad raids some very peculiar places.
38:23 They don't just use the broken cross in the black mass.
38:26 They break a crucifix.
38:27 Yes, I know.
38:28 Now, sir, Guy has been right about the date.
38:31 I think he's hit the place this time too.
38:33 Yes, but that may be the wrong sign.
38:36 Now, this one-- this one fits all five places.
38:41 It sets the six over here.
38:45 This is the devil's eye.
38:48 Of course, these signs are a debased form of art.
38:51 Here, try the others.
38:52 I think you'll find they all turn out differently.
38:55 Well, anyway, we're going to have
38:56 to cover the whole area again.
38:57 Can't just concentrate on the 30th Street and Bow Lane.
39:00 But I'll use men out of uniform around there.
39:02 The trouble is, we still don't know what he looks like.
39:06 We don't really know who we're looking for.
39:09 He could even be a woman.
39:11 [music playing]
39:15 [music playing]
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39:49 [music playing]
39:52 Tell me, what goes on in a place like this?
40:01 It's not what goes on.
40:02 It's what comes off.
40:04 No, I mean, what does one do?
40:07 First of all, you check that umbrella and that hat.
40:11 Then you sit at a table and order a drink.
40:14 Then you watch some attractive young lady's disrobe.
40:17 What?
40:18 You mean, in the all together?
40:21 Yes, in the all together.
40:24 Well, let's not delay a moment, old man.
40:26 [music playing]
40:34 [music playing]
40:37 Ladies and gentlemen, Max "Family" Hill.
41:01 Now give him a hand.
41:03 [applause]
41:06 [music playing]
41:09 [applause]
41:12 Cigarette, John?
41:34 No, thank you.
41:36 But I believe we'll get him, lad.
41:38 She's exactly the sort of woman who attracts the Ripper.
41:41 [music playing]
41:44 [applause]
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42:00 [music playing]
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43:18 [applause]
43:21 That four men in the audience, several in the rooming house,
43:42 and the place above, he may show there.
43:46 More men outside.
43:48 But it's as you said, you could look at him and still not know him.
43:51 That's what we're up against.
43:52 He'll have to do something, won't he, before we know he's even here?
43:56 That's what we were waiting for when we staked out the other places.
44:00 Perhaps one of us should go backstage, make sure this girl is all right.
44:04 Yes, good idea.
44:05 I'll do it, Cigarette.
44:06 You do?
44:07 [music playing]
44:11 [chatter]
44:15 [music playing]
44:18 [knocking]
44:43 [music playing]
44:46 Well, what do you want?
44:53 Are you all right?
44:55 Well, of course I'm all right.
44:57 Why shouldn't I be?
44:58 I just wanted to make sure, that's all.
45:01 Well, now you've made sure.
45:04 Yes.
45:05 Thank you.
45:06 [music playing]
45:10 [music playing]
45:13 She all right?
45:25 Oh, yes.
45:26 I saw one of Captain Jago's men back there.
45:29 So Guy, what will you do if the Ripper does get away with it again?
45:34 No, I shan't give up.
45:36 I still don't understand why he goes on.
45:39 What's his purpose?
45:40 He goes on because he can't stop.
45:42 If he stops, then he dies.
45:45 He's a figure of evil.
45:48 A vampire who fattens not on blood, but on life itself.
45:52 Ghoul nourished by death.
45:55 30 years I've been after him, and it may end tonight in this place.
46:00 If it doesn't, I'll probably turn everything I have over to Interpol
46:04 and the authorities of whatever country he appears in.
46:07 Perhaps I should have done that long ago.
46:10 They're a pretty practical bunch.
46:12 I'm afraid you'll have a hard time convincing them.
46:15 If I convinced Captain Jago, I can convince anybody.
46:20 You know, it's very close in here.
46:23 Oh, it's awful.
46:24 I suppose it's what they call atmosphere, isn't it?
46:26 Yes.
46:28 Now look, why don't we go outside and get a breath of fresh air?
46:31 No, thanks, Mr. Italia. Come on.
46:34 That's better.
46:56 So be it.
46:59 [footsteps]
47:01 [sighs]
47:19 We've missed him, don't you think?
47:21 Well, the knight's still young.
47:23 He wouldn't be fool enough to show himself the places crawling with police.
47:27 But does he know that?
47:29 I'm sure he does.
47:32 He'll get away all right.
47:34 Tonight, perhaps. But now we know how he operates.
47:38 It's only a matter of time.
47:41 Have you got a match? I left my lighter on the table there.
47:45 That's a knife.
47:54 I know.
47:57 You're not John!
47:59 Not John.
48:15 Jack.
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