Letters of Intent
Letters of Intent is the fifth Jack the Ripper memory, dated 3 November 1888: Evie gets a lead from Abberline, rescues newspaper owner Arthur Weaversbrook from Rooks near St Paul's, and then frees his kidnapped son from Jack's men at the docks.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Frederick Abberline
Storylines
Part 5 of 10 in Sequence 10: A Monster's Creed
Found in
- Scotland YardScotland Yard is the Metropolitan Police headquarters in the Strand. Several Jack the Ripper memories involving Inspector Abberline reference it.
- St. Paul's CathedralSt. Paul's Cathedral sits on Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, and has a viewpoint. Evie finds the key to the Shroud of Eden in a secret room in its dome and fights Lucy Thorne for it.
Good to know
- Memory 5 of Sequence 10.
- Full sync: don't let the lookout raise the alarm.
- Evie must avoid angering or harming police to keep them on her side.
- Abberline lets Evie slip out of his office window to avoid being seen.
- Weaversbrook owns the paper that printed the Ripper's letters.
- Next memory: Prisoners.
- Weaversbrook says the police went through hundreds of letters before choosing the one they printed.
At Scotland Yard
Abberline shows Evie a headline about the killings at Owers Manor and warns that witnesses described her. She recognises the publisher's name from the photograph at the manor, and he points her to Weaversbrook's home near St Paul's.
Saving Weaversbrook
Rooks are leaning on Weaversbrook for refusing to keep printing the letters. Beat them, then catch up with him when he bolts. He explains the police chose one letter to print in the hope someone would know the handwriting, and that a threatening follow-up forced him to keep publishing.
The docks
Ride with Weaversbrook to the docks where his son was last seen. A lookout named Billy watches the area, so keep him from raising the alarm. Interrogate one of Jack's lieutenants by frightening him, then find and free the son.
What you learn
The lieutenant reveals that Jack keeps prisoners on old hulk ships and in a private prison run by Warder Billingsworth at the Deptford garrison. The son confirms he was meant to join other hostages there.
Who Weaversbrook is
Arthur Weaversbrook runs Weaversbrook Publishing, the Fleet Street business his father started, and was one of the first to sell penny papers in London. Lurid coverage of the Ripper has made his papers the most widely read in the city, and his son is a journalist too.
- Arthur WeaversbrookArthur Weaversbrook is the Fleet Street newspaper owner whose papers made Jack the Ripper famous. In the 1888 expansion he becomes Evie's main contact for side work: the Ripper letters, the lieutenant hits and the Rooks' smuggling cargo.
- Frederick AbberlineFrederick Abberline is the Metropolitan Police officer who works with the Frye twins in 1868 and leads the Whitechapel murder inquiry in the Jack the Ripper expansion. In the main game he gives you Bounty Hunts, sending you after Blighter leaders to bring back alive.
- Jack the RipperJack the Ripper is the serial killer at the centre of the Jack the Ripper expansion, set in Whitechapel in 1888. Evie Frye returns from India to hunt him, and you also play as Jack himself in several story segments, using his fear-based kit against civilians and police.
- John BillingsworthJohn Billingsworth is the chief warder of Jack the Ripper's private prison on the hulks at Deptford, and Evie's target in the Prisoners memory. He oversees the hostages Jack uses to extort their families and runs the executions.
Related missions
- Story
The Lady Talks
The Lady Talks is the fourth Jack the Ripper memory, dated 2 November 1888: Evie infiltrates Owers Manor northwest of London to assassinate Lady Olwyn Owers, Jack's lieutenant. The guards are expecting her, so stealth and fear matter here.
- Story
Autumn of Terror
Autumn of Terror is the second Jack the Ripper memory: Evie Frye arrives at Scotland Yard in October 1888, learns from Inspector Abberline that Jacob is missing, and rides with him to Whitechapel to investigate the first murder scene.
- Story
Prisoners
Prisoners is the sixth Jack the Ripper memory, dated 9 November 1888: Evie goes downriver to Deptford to free Jack's hostages from prison hulks and an old garrison, and to kill Chief Warder John Billingsworth, the hangman running the place.
Image: UbisoftStoryPrologue
Prologue is the first memory of the Jack the Ripper DLC, dated 30 September 1888. You play as Jack the Ripper himself, chasing Jacob Frye through Whitechapel after Jacob reaches a double murder scene at Mitre Square.