Whitechapel
Whitechapel is the first borough you liberate and the poorest in London, a district of slums and crime. Rexford Kaylock's Blighters hold it when the Fryes arrive in 1868, and in 1888 it becomes Jack the Ripper's hunting ground.
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Good to know
- Templar overseer: Rexford Kaylock.
- It has one Templar Hunt (Harold Drake), one stronghold (Spitalfields), one bounty (Homer Dalton) and one factory (Radclyffe Mill).
- Notable places: Bishopsgate station, Henry Green's curiosity shop, Spitalfields Market and St. Mary Matfelon.
- Four music boxes here hold discs 18, 22, 26 and 29.
- The borough takes its name from St. Mary Matfelon, the white chapel.
What the borough is like
Begging, theft and prostitution are everywhere, child labour persists despite the law, and the Blighters run the streets. Henry Green's shop is here, which makes Whitechapel your early home base.
Liberating Whitechapel
Gang War: Whitechapel closes Sequence 3. Henry hands the twins their kukris, Kaylock bets his train on the fight, and after the brawl he flees aboard it. Taking him down on the moving carriages wins you the train, its driver Agnes MacBean and the Train Hideout.
Jack the Ripper
The 1888 expansion returns to Whitechapel. Evie frees the women at the Buck's Row brothel, shuts down the Mitre Square fight club and faces Jack's Lieutenants: Whitechapel, all while Jack's murders terrorise the borough.
ProloguePrologue 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.- Autumn of TerrorAutumn 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.
- Sequence 3: A Modern BabylonSequence 3 brings the Frye twins to London and builds their footing in Whitechapel over five memories. You meet Henry Green, Frederick Abberline and Clara O'Dea, then take the borough from Rexford Kaylock's Blighters. It unlocks the A Modern Babylon achievement.
- Somewhere That's GreenSomewhere That's Green is the first London memory: as Jacob you step off the train in Whitechapel, chase a pickpocket, race Evie up a factory roof and meet Henry Green, the Assassin who has been watching over the city. It ends with a carriage chase to shake off Blighters.
- The UnfortunatesThe Unfortunates is the third Jack the Ripper memory: Evie searches Jacob's Whitechapel lodgings, picks up her first fear bombs and spikes, then tracks Jacob's contact Nellie from a brothel to a charity event run by Lady Owers at the Kenway Mansion.
- Abberline, We PresumeAbberline, We Presume introduces Sergeant Frederick Abberline, who meets the twins in a Whitechapel alley wearing a dress and bonnet. To earn police cover you kidnap a criminal named Homer Dalton and deliver him alive to Abberline's carriage.
- To Catch an UrchinTo Catch an Urchin is where the twins meet Clara O'Dea and her network of child spies in Babylon Alley. Her price is a favour: free the children working in a Blighter-run factory warehouse.
- Gang War: WhitechapelGang War: Whitechapel is the showdown for the borough: with Henry's new kukris, you lead the Rooks against Rexford Kaylock's Blighters at the Whitechapel train station, then chase Kaylock along the roof of his moving train. Winning gives the twins their Train Hideout.
- The Mother of All CrimesThe Mother of All Crimes is the eighth Jack the Ripper memory, set on 9 November 1888: Evie examines the scene of Mary Jane Kelly's murder, then follows a message from Jack back to the earlier murder sites in Spitalfields and Mitre Square, searching for clues without killing anyone.
- Sequence 10: A Monster's CreedSequence 10: A Monster's Creed is the story of the Jack the Ripper DLC, set in London in 1888, twenty years after the main game. Evie Frye comes home from India to find Jacob missing and a killer terrorising Whitechapel, and you hunt him over ten memories using new fear tools.
- A Simple Matter of Murder!A Simple Matter of Murder! is the first Dreadful Crimes case: a foreman lies stabbed in a Whitechapel warehouse and a boy is found holding the bloody knife. Henry Raymond and young Artie introduce themselves and challenge you to solve it, and the obvious answer turns out to be wrong.
- Buck's Row BrothelBuck's Row Brothel is the last Brothel Attack in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie frees a Whitechapel brothel where Lady O's thugs force the women to spy on clients and hand over everything they earn.
- Harold DrakeHarold Drake is the Whitechapel Templar hunt: an illegal-goods trader running a black market in the heart of the borough with the Order's blessing. Kill him with a crate of dynamite for full sync.
- Homer DaltonHomer Dalton is the Whitechapel bounty hunt: a fallen society man who collects rent from East End residents who owe him nothing, under Rexford Kaylock's protection. Kidnap him and bring him to Abberline alive.
- Hullo Mr. GatlingHullo Mr. Gatling is the third Train Hideout memory: to make up for his arrest, Nigel has stolen a Gatling gun from a rival gang and is waiting with it at Whitechapel Station. The gang wants it back, and Jacob ends up firing it from the moving train.
- Jack the Ripper ActivitiesJack the Ripper Activities are the 21 side memories in the 1888 DLC, spread across Whitechapel and the City of London. Abberline, Arthur Weaversbrook and Nellie each hand out a set, and together they weaken Jack's hold on London's criminals and brothels.
- Jack's Lieutenants: WhitechapelJack's Lieutenants: Whitechapel is the second lieutenant hit in the Jack the Ripper DLC: former members of Whitechapel's gangs gather to decide whether to join Jack, and Evie strikes before they can.
- Mitre SquareMitre Square is a fight club activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie shuts down a Rook-run club by Mitre Square in Whitechapel that someone has reopened, fighting through its thugs and their leader for Inspector Abberline.
- Shameful AbuseShameful Abuse is the second Walk of Shame activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC: copycat violence near London's train stations has followed the Ripper headlines, and Evie catches one abuser and marches him through a crowd to Nellie.
- SpitalfieldsSpitalfields is the Whitechapel gang stronghold, Rexford Kaylock's Blighter headquarters in a former silk district turned slum. Free and protect the captured Clinkers to fully sync; afterwards it becomes a Rook stronghold.
- The Fiend of Fleet StreetThe Fiend of Fleet Street is the fourth Dreadful Crimes case: Detective Murphy vanished while looking into a string of disappearances around Fleet Street. You follow his last movements through a bakery, a butcher's, a barber's, a flower shop and a leather shop.
- Walk of ShameWalk of Shame is an activity in the Jack the Ripper DLC where Evie stops a man attacking a woman in Whitechapel, kidnaps him and parades him through jeering crowds until she reaches Nellie.
- Bishopsgate stationBishopsgate station is the Whitechapel rail terminus where Jacob and Evie first arrive in London, and later the home station of the Train Hideout once the Rooks take the borough.
- Buck's Row brothelThe Buck's Row brothel is Lady Owers' house in Whitechapel and the last of the three Brothel Attacks in the Jack the Ripper expansion.
- Mitre SquareMitre Square is a key site early in the Jack the Ripper expansion: Jack murders two Assassin initiates posing as Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, and Jacob comes to investigate. Later Evie shuts down a fight club near the square.
- SpitalfieldsSpitalfields is Whitechapel's only Blighter stronghold, Rexford Kaylock's headquarters in the borough. It is the first stronghold most players take, and clearing it also rescues surviving members of the Clinkers gang.
- Spitalfields MarketSpitalfields Market is the main market in Whitechapel's Spitalfields area. In the game it reuses Covent Garden's buildings rather than its real ones.
- St. Mary MatfelonSt. Mary Matfelon is the Whitechapel church that gives the borough its name, built over a 13th-century white chapel. It is a database landmark.
- Secret of London #18Secret of London #18 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Whitechapel. Open it and you take disc #18, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that has Tom disowning gypsies, cutpurses and swaggering bullies.
- Secret of London #22Secret of London #22 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Whitechapel. Open it and you take disc #22, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that regrets scorning Tom, with lost wits and chains as the price.
- Secret of London #26Secret of London #26 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Whitechapel. Open it and you take disc #26, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that breaks its fast in Satan's kitchen, with souls turning on a spit.
- Secret of London #29Secret of London #29 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Whitechapel. Open it and you take disc #29, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that vows no rival will take mad Tom away, weeping all night and fighting the stars.
Related places
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Fleet Street
Fleet Street is a London street running toward Ludgate Circus, home to Temple Church. In Syndicate it is the scene of The Fiend of Fleet Street, a Dreadful Crimes case about a missing police detective.
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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard is the Metropolitan Police headquarters in the Strand. Several Jack the Ripper memories involving Inspector Abberline reference it.
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Deptford
Deptford is a port on the south bank of the Thames, downriver from central London, where Jack the Ripper keeps hostages aboard old prison hulks in 1888. Evie goes there in the memory Prisoners.
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Kenway Mansion
The Kenway Mansion is Edward Kenway's old London home on Queen Anne's Square, now owned by the Templars. Evie and Henry search it for the Shroud of Eden in Playing It by Ear, and Evie returns in 1888 during the Jack the Ripper expansion.