Ripper (The Outer Limits)

"Ripper"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 11
Directed by	Mario Azzopardi
Written by	Chris Ruppenthal
Original air date	7 May 1999
Guest appearance(s)
Cary Elwes Clare Sims Eliza Murbach Robert Saunders France Nuyen Frances Fisher David Warner Deni DeLory Marnie Alton Colin Skinner Scott Elam Mary Ann Skoll Candice Connelly Brian Linds Danielle Ayotte
Episode chronology

"Ripper" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 7 May 1999, during the fifth season.

Plot

The story is set in London in 1888. After Dr. Jack York's misdiagnosis ends up costing a patient's life, he has descended into absinthe addiction, and spends his evenings at a brothel. Although tempted, he ignores the women and only reads his book. On his way home one evening, he hears two women inside a warehouse. When he enters he witnesses a being of blue light "ripping" out of the woman's chest, and entering the other woman.

Soon Jack discovers an alien creature that lives inside women and kills them: after a time it leaves its host body by bursting out of the chest and enters another human host which it has selected.

Jack follows this creature, trying to unveil the truth. His only lead is a green substance that the infected women cough up. But in the meantime the bodies are discovered and police are searching for a mass murderer they dubbed "The Ripper", a reference to Jack The Ripper. The creature uses this to its advantage, planting further evidence that Jack is the ripper.

In the end Jack is discovered killing the alien, while still inside the body of a woman. He is sentenced to a mental institute. His fiance Ellen visits him to tell him that she is leaving for America. Directly after the Inspector visits Jack to tell him that he is retiring and is going to follow Ellen to America. The Inspector calls America "the land of opportunity" and coughs up the same green substance as the infected women.

He leaves Jack alone in the asylum with the message "...Don't worry, she'll hardly feel a thing..."

Cast & Crew

Cary Elwes as Dr. Jack York
Clare Sims as Lady Ellen
Eliza Murbach as Lady Sophie
Robert Saunders as Appleby
France Nuyen as Madame Li Yu
Frances Fisher as Lady Julia
David Warner as Inspector Harold Langford. Warner played the Ripper in Time After Time
Deni DeLory as Annie Chapman
Marnie Alton as Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Stride
Colin Skinner as Worthington
Scott Elam as Lord Reston
Mary Ann Skoll as Mary Jane Kelly
Candice Connelly as Woman in Cream Dress
Brian Linds as Reporter
Danielle Ayotte as Newsboy

External links

"Ripper" at TV.com
"Ripper" at the Internet Movie Database

The Outer Limits episodes

1963 series
(episodes)

Season 1	"The Galaxy Being" "The Hundred Days of the Dragon" "The Architects of Fear" "The Man with the Power" "The Sixth Finger" "The Man Who Was Never Born" "O.B.I.T." "The Human Factor" "Corpus Earthling" "Nightmare" "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" "The Borderland" "Tourist Attraction" "The Zanti Misfits" "The Mice" "Controlled Experiment" "Don't Open Till Doomsday" "ZZZZZ" "The Invisibles" "The Bellero Shield" "The Children of Spider County" "Specimen: Unknown" "Second Chance" "Moonstone" "The Mutant" "The Guests" "Fun and Games" "The Special One" "A Feasibility Study" "Production and Decay of Strange Particles" "The Chameleon" "The Forms of Things Unknown"

Season 2	"Soldier" "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" "Behold, Eck!" "Expanding Human" "Demon with a Glass Hand" "Cry of Silence" "The Invisible Enemy" "Wolf 359" "I, Robot" "The Inheritors" "Keeper of the Purple Twilight" "The Duplicate Man" "Counterweight" "The Brain of Colonel Barham" "The Premonition" "The Probe"

1995 series
(episodes)

Season 1	"The Sandkings" "Corner of the Eye" "Under the Bed" "Dark Matters" "The Conversion" "Quality of Mercy" "The New Breed" "The Voyage Home" "Caught in the Act" "The Message" "I, Robot" "If These Walls Could Talk" "Birthright" "The Voice of Reason"

Season 2	"Stitch in Time" "Resurrection" "Unnatural Selection" "I Hear You Calling" "Mind Over Matter" "Beyond the Veil" "First Anniversary" "Straight and Narrow" "Trial by Fire" "Worlds Apart" "The Refuge" "Inconstant Moon" "From Within" "The Heist" "Afterlife" "The Deprogrammers" "Paradise" "The Light Brigade" "Falling Star" "Out of Body" "Vanishing Act" "The Sentence"

Season 3	"Bits of Love" "Second Thoughts" "Re-Generation" "Last Supper" "Stream of Consciousness" "Dark Rain" "The Camp" "Heart's Desire" "Tempests" "Awakening" "New Lease" "Double Helix" "Dead Man's Switch" "Music of the Spheres" "The Revelations of Becka Paulson" "Bodies of Evidence" "Feasibility Study" "A Special Edition"

Season 4	"Criminal Nature" "The Hunt" "Hearts and Minds" "In Another Life" "In the Zone" "Relativity Theory" "Josh" "Rite of Passage" "Glyphic" "Identity Crisis" "The Vaccine" "Fear Itself" "The Joining" "To Tell the Truth" "Mary 25" "Final Exam" "Lithia" "Monster" "Sarcophagus" "Nightmare" "Promised Land" "Balance of Nature" "The Origin of Species" "Phobos Rising" "Black Box" "In Our Own Image"

Season 5	"Alien Radio" "Donor" "Small Friends" "The Grell" "The Other Side" "Joyride" "The Human Operators" "Blank Slate" "What Will The Neighbors Think" "The Shroud" "Ripper" "Tribunal" "Summit" "Descent" "The Haven" "Deja Vu" "The Inheritors" "Essence of Life" "Stranded" "Fathers and Sons" "Star Crossed" "Better Luck Next Time"

Season 6	"Judgment Day" "The Gun" "Skin Deep" "Manifest Destiny" "Breaking Point" "The Beholder" "Seeds of Destruction" "Simon Says" "Stasis" "Down to Earth" "Glitch" "Decompression" "Abaddon" "The Grid" "Gettysburg" "Nest" "Final Appeal"

Season 7	"Family Values" "Patient Zero" "A New Life" "The Surrogate" "The Vessel" "Mona Lisa" "Replica" "Think Like a Dinosaur" "Worlds Within" "In the Blood" "Flower Child" "Abduction" "Lion's Den" "The Tipping Point" "The Human Factor" "Human Trials"

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story The Whitechapel Horrors Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography Dust and Shadow The Ripper Legacy

Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World"

Other	A Feast Unknown Anno Dracula Blood and Fog I, Ripper Matrix A Night in the Lonesome October Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed Time After Time Phantom Blood Night of the Ripper Darkside Lifeblood Lost The Witches of Chiswick Broken Dracula the Un-dead

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–2011) Whitechapel (2009–2013) Ripper Street (2012–present)

Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008)

Video games

Jack the Ripper (1987)
Ripper (1996)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
Shadow Man (1999)
MediEvil 2 (2000)
Jack the Ripper (2003)
Mystery in London: On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (2007)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
The Ripper (canceled)
Jack the Ripper (2015)

Other

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Ripper (The Outer Limits)

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