From Hell 2001

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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, also known as Prince Eddy, embarks on a clandestine romance with Annie Crook, a shopgirl from London’s East End. Unbeknownst to Annie, Prince Eddy visits her under an assumed identity, and their union results in the birth of a child. However, Queen Victoria discovers the marriage and orders Prince Albert Victor to be separated from his wife, Annie, who is subsequently institutionalized. The monarch then instructs her royal physician, Sir William Gull, to subtly impair Annie’s mental faculties by damaging or disrupting her thyroid gland.

Meanwhile, the prince’s daughter is placed with Annie’s parents through the mediation of Walter Sickert, an artist and friend of Prince Eddy’s who had accompanied him on his visits to the East End. Annie’s father mistakenly believes the child is the result of a incestuous relationship between himself and his daughter. Sickert reluctantly hands over the child to Annie’s family.

The scandalous situation remains unresolved until Annie’s friends, a group of prostitutes including Mary Kelly, Polly Nichols, Anne Chapman, and Liz Stride, who are aware of the illegitimate child’s royal connections, attempt to blackmail Sickert. Upon learning of this plot, Queen Victoria orders Gull to silence the women. The police are given prior knowledge of Gull’s intentions and are instructed not to intervene until his plan is complete.

As a high-ranking Freemason, Gull enlists the aid of a carriage driver, John Netley, to commit the murders in Whitechapel. Justifying the killings as a Masonic warning against an apparent Illuminati threat to the throne, Gull believes the murders are part of a mystical ritual to ensure male dominance over women. While targeting Mary Kelly, he also kills Catherine Eddowes, who was using Kelly’s name as an alias. As the killing spree continues, Gull becomes increasingly unhinged and has a prophetic vision while murdering a woman he believes to be Kelly.

Gull takes Netley on a tour of London landmarks, expounding on their hidden mystical significance. Later, Gull forces Netley to write the infamous From Hell letter. Following this, several individuals claim responsibility for the murders in letters sent to the police, and the nickname “Jack the Ripper” becomes a household name.

As Inspector Frederick Abberline delves deeper into the gruesome Ripper murders, he finds himself stumped, his investigative prowess no match for the cunning killer. It is then that Robert James Lees, a charismatic spiritual advisor to Queen Victoria, intervenes with an uncanny insight, pinpointing Gull as the perpetrator. Abberline and Lees converge on Gull, who promptly confesses to the atrocities, but their discovery is swiftly suppressed by Scotland Yard’s top brass. The authorities insist that Gull was operating alone, driven by madness rather than any larger design. Undeterred, Abberline discovers a sinister motive behind the murders: Gull’s quest to expose the royal scandal surrounding the Duke of Clarence’s bastard child. Incensed by the official cover-up, Abberline resigns from the Metropolitan Police and contemplates abandoning England to join the Pinkertons.

Meanwhile, Gull is brought before a secret Masonic council, which pronounces him insane and sentences him to a sham funeral. He is subsequently imprisoned under an alias, “Thomas Mason.” The Freemasons then frame Montague Druitt, a boarding school teacher, for the crimes, ultimately killing him and staging his death as a suicide. Years later, Gull’s spirit embarks on an otherworldly journey, witnessing the carnage of the London Monster and inspiring or instigating numerous serial killers throughout history, including Peter Sutcliffe and Ian Brady. His spirit also visits Netley, whose demise is directly linked to Gull’s machinations. Furthermore, Gull’s mystical experiences seem to have inspired both Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and William Blake’s haunting painting The Ghost of a Flea. In his final moment of consciousness before transcending mortality, Gull’s spirit visits an Irish woman, who possesses four children named after the Ripper’s Whitechapel victims. The woman, seemingly attuned to Gull’s ethereal presence, rebukes him, commanding him to depart “back to Hell.”