Jack the Ripper Doesn't Exist

Scene 8

ALICE: Good! Go then! You’ve stirred up enough trouble. These men’ll be screamin’ up and down the halls tonight. If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to get them calmed down before Lights Out.

KELLY: He can’t leave now!

ABBERLINE: Watch me.

KELLY: You’d love it if the Ripper came back, just one more time. Maybe then you’ll be forgiven.

Abberline steps toward Kelly.

ALICE: Get away from him!

ABBERLINE: I have nothing to be forgiven for! Do you hear me? I did my job! I turned over each and every stone!

KELLY: You had me in your hand! You let me go!

ABBERLINE: You didn’t kill those women!

ALICE: Mr. Abberline! If you don’t calm down, I’ll get the guards!

ABBERLINE: Tell them there is going to be a mess to clean up.

Alice runs out

KELLY: You don’t remember me at all?

ABBERLINE: What am I supposed to remember you from?

KELLY: You was there the day I killed my wife.

ABBERLINE: I was in the Whitechapel for 29 years, do you want to know how many corpses I saw?

KELLY: You had me all alone in the back of the carriage. You said was gonna take me back to the jail and bash in my skull. Said Sarah’s mother would probably pay if I disappeared.

ABBERLINE: Is that what this is about? You called me down here to get even for a slight I don’t remember?

KELLY: You said you’d make sure I never hurt anyone again.

ABBERLINE: I should have done it.

KELLY: Why didn’t you?

ABBERLINE: Even in the East End, there are one or two people that still believe in the law.

Continued Friday