1 00:01:25,119 --> 00:01:26,819 With all due respect, Doctor. 2 00:01:27,089 --> 00:01:29,369 I still can't believe that these sinister goings-on in Whitechapel 3 00:01:29,729 --> 00:01:33,710 are the work of a man in his sixties. I mean, be serious, Dr. Xavier! 4 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:36,169 You must believe me, Inspector! 5 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:39,369 Dr. Nathaniel Essex is responsible for these crimes! 6 00:01:39,809 --> 00:01:41,390 Every person who has seen this butcher 7 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,419 agrees that he's a younger man. 8 00:01:43,809 --> 00:01:47,529 And I can't credit a man of science with these inhuman atrocities! 9 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,000 Essex isn't human, Inspector! Not anymore. 10 00:01:52,619 --> 00:01:55,720 And after tracking him round the world for half my life, 11 00:01:56,220 --> 00:01:58,910 I begin to think he never was! 12 00:02:03,460 --> 00:02:04,390 Whoa! 13 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,129 Hey, move this wagon out of the way! 14 00:02:27,689 --> 00:02:30,529 Now, Doctor, how is it you know this mad doctor, Essex? 15 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:36,409 I first became aware of his obsessions in the year of our lord, 1859, 16 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:40,520 while in the employ of Lord Grey, his patron and father-in-law. 17 00:02:42,369 --> 00:02:45,939 Essex had been fascinated with the theories of Charles Darwin. 18 00:02:46,740 --> 00:02:51,570 In particular, the groundbreaking work assembled in his Origin of Species. 19 00:02:52,279 --> 00:02:53,800 And therefore, I am convinced 20 00:02:54,050 --> 00:02:56,010 that natural selection has been the main, 21 00:02:56,309 --> 00:02:59,179 but not exclusive means of species modification. 22 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:01,270 I open the floor for questions. 23 00:03:02,849 --> 00:03:07,300 Mr. Darwin, while your theory may explain diversity in the lower animals, 24 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,980 how can your "natural selection" account for the human soul? 25 00:03:11,429 --> 00:03:13,770 Were we not created in God's own image? 26 00:03:14,170 --> 00:03:18,920 I have not, as yet, applied my observations to mankind. 27 00:03:20,170 --> 00:03:21,980 Though I may do so at some future point. 28 00:03:22,270 --> 00:03:24,960 But, Mr. Darwin, shouldn't natural selection operate 29 00:03:25,409 --> 00:03:27,719 within any naturally occurring population, 30 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,629 be it animal, vegetable or man himself? 31 00:03:31,219 --> 00:03:33,210 Yes, yes, quite right. 32 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,740 And, given that we have removed ourselves from the mechanisms 33 00:03:37,219 --> 00:03:40,679 of natural selection, isn't mankind overdue 34 00:03:41,189 --> 00:03:43,559 for the next evolutionary step? 35 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,099 No, no, not at all. 36 00:03:46,529 --> 00:03:49,339 Man is still in direct competition with his fellows 37 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,309 and thus subject to natural selection. Yes, you had a question. 38 00:03:55,809 --> 00:03:59,619 - Mr. Darwin, I am Dr. Nathaniel Essex. - Ah. A pleasure, Doctor. 39 00:04:00,249 --> 00:04:02,909 Gentlemen, I wanted to speak to you about my own research. 40 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,390 I have made detailed observations on mutated humans 41 00:04:06,890 --> 00:04:08,320 incorporating some of your theories. 42 00:04:08,550 --> 00:04:10,189 I must caution you, these are dangerous times 43 00:04:10,490 --> 00:04:12,540 for free-thinking men of science. 44 00:04:12,860 --> 00:04:15,960 I shall very much look forward to reading it, when you publish it, sir. 45 00:04:16,430 --> 00:04:19,390 But I have irrefutable evidence to back up my claims. 46 00:04:19,830 --> 00:04:21,120 And I'm sure with your support... 47 00:04:21,370 --> 00:04:24,299 In light of the lukewarm reception my theories received here, sir, 48 00:04:24,739 --> 00:04:27,289 I believe it is I who am in need of your support. 49 00:04:27,669 --> 00:04:31,039 - Thank you, sir. - Be patient, my boy. And discreet. 50 00:04:33,950 --> 00:04:36,760 Oh, Mr. Darwin, may I present Dr. James Xavier, 51 00:04:37,180 --> 00:04:39,049 family physician to Grey Hall. 52 00:04:39,349 --> 00:04:41,190 So, Dr. Xavier, 53 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,890 do you believe me a heretic or merely a madman? 54 00:04:45,390 --> 00:04:47,700 I have the utmost respect for your early work, sir, 55 00:04:48,060 --> 00:04:51,899 but natural selection seems to deny the divine hand in creation. 56 00:04:52,460 --> 00:04:53,859 (CHUCKLES) Heretic it is, then. 57 00:04:57,140 --> 00:04:59,190 Gentlemen, if you'll excuse me. 58 00:05:00,270 --> 00:05:03,870 But I grow weary of this debate. How is Rebecca faring? 59 00:05:04,539 --> 00:05:07,669 If my wife's condition has changed at all, it is for the worse. 60 00:05:08,310 --> 00:05:10,089 Will you be coming by to check on her this evening? 61 00:05:10,380 --> 00:05:11,310 Of course. 62 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,539 Though Essex was qualified to treat his wife's disorder, 63 00:05:14,989 --> 00:05:17,680 it was considered improper then, as now 64 00:05:18,089 --> 00:05:20,520 for a physician to treat members of his own family. 65 00:05:20,890 --> 00:05:23,640 James, can you give me any good news about my daughter? 66 00:05:24,060 --> 00:05:25,349 Not as yet, sir. 67 00:05:25,599 --> 00:05:28,760 But I'm confident my treatments will prove effective in time. 68 00:05:29,270 --> 00:05:31,049 "Treatments"? Why can't you admit 69 00:05:31,339 --> 00:05:33,969 you haven't the slightest idea what's wrong with my wife? 70 00:05:34,370 --> 00:05:36,680 - You insult me, sir! - No, I... 71 00:05:37,609 --> 00:05:40,919 Please forgive me, my friend. My frustration got the better of me. 72 00:05:41,409 --> 00:05:43,159 I understand. 73 00:05:43,450 --> 00:05:46,440 Lack of sleep, I expect. I bid you goodnight. 74 00:05:46,890 --> 00:05:48,969 It is his work that worries me, sir. 75 00:05:49,289 --> 00:05:51,339 I tell you, his ideas verge on blasphemy. 76 00:05:51,659 --> 00:05:54,680 I understand. But he is my son-in-law. 77 00:05:55,260 --> 00:05:58,890 And one of the few things that bring a smile to my daughter's lips. 78 00:06:00,669 --> 00:06:04,149 Though I dared not admit it, Rebecca's illness confounded me. 79 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:07,739 Rebecca, darling, I need another sample of your blood. 80 00:06:08,210 --> 00:06:10,960 Am I your wife, or your guinea pig? 81 00:06:12,109 --> 00:06:14,979 You are the most precious thing in all the world to me. 82 00:06:15,409 --> 00:06:19,099 And that is why I must do everything within my power to make you well. 83 00:06:20,649 --> 00:06:21,940 Essex's laboratory 84 00:06:22,190 --> 00:06:23,830 was located in an asylum for the physically infirm 85 00:06:25,260 --> 00:06:26,779 on the west end of the estate. 86 00:06:27,060 --> 00:06:28,930 As director of the asylum, 87 00:06:29,260 --> 00:06:32,010 Essex took in those poor unfortunates, who 88 00:06:32,460 --> 00:06:36,710 through some accident of birth, could not function in normal society. 89 00:06:37,599 --> 00:06:40,469 Disreputable procurers knew he would pay well. 90 00:06:40,940 --> 00:06:42,279 So they aided him in 91 00:06:42,539 --> 00:06:46,820 seeking out these curiosities in the traveling carnivals and dumb shows, 92 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,200 where they were obliged to earn their keep. 93 00:06:50,620 --> 00:06:53,609 I shall never forget the day I arrived, along with Darwin, 94 00:06:54,049 --> 00:06:57,330 to witness the unveiling of Essex's "great work". 95 00:06:57,859 --> 00:07:01,399 You've caught me in good health and high spirits, Dr. Essex. 96 00:07:01,930 --> 00:07:04,039 We're all most eager to hear of your discoveries. 97 00:07:04,359 --> 00:07:07,549 And so you shall, gentlemen. Please, step this way. 98 00:07:09,130 --> 00:07:12,169 As you know, my interest lies not in the gradual mutations 99 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,070 that occur over millennia, but in the leaps that 100 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,960 manifest themselves in a single generation. 101 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,099 Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the men of tomorrow. 102 00:07:23,719 --> 00:07:24,649 Mr. Fuente. 103 00:07:24,849 --> 00:07:27,399 You will, no doubt, recognize the electroscope, a device for 104 00:07:27,820 --> 00:07:31,219 demonstrating the effect of an electromagnetic charge. 105 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,510 Mr. Flannery, if you please. 106 00:07:46,810 --> 00:07:49,149 Dr. Essex, I am speechless. 107 00:07:49,510 --> 00:07:52,169 I came today expecting some minor breakthrough in biology, 108 00:07:52,609 --> 00:07:55,130 and instead, you insult these learned men 109 00:07:55,510 --> 00:07:57,940 - with parlor tricks and quackery! - But, but... 110 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,219 Now if you'll excuse me, "doctor", I have no time for such foolishness! 111 00:08:01,690 --> 00:08:04,880 No! Wait! I have discovered the mechanisms of heredity! 112 00:08:05,359 --> 00:08:08,169 In time, I shall bring an end to hereditary disorders. 113 00:08:08,589 --> 00:08:09,760 To all disease! 114 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,560 Man shall at last possess complete mastery over his own body! 115 00:08:14,130 --> 00:08:15,680 We shall become more than men! 116 00:08:15,969 --> 00:08:18,339 - We shall be Gods! - Good heavens! 117 00:08:19,070 --> 00:08:20,330 You're quite mad! 118 00:08:20,570 --> 00:08:24,729 Fools! You blind old fools! You require proof? 119 00:08:25,339 --> 00:08:28,500 I'll provide you with proof! In abundance! I shall show you. 120 00:08:28,979 --> 00:08:30,680 I shall show the world! 121 00:08:37,190 --> 00:08:40,440 But I don't see what that's got to do with the butchery here in the East End. 122 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,589 That's only half the tale, Inspector. Please, if you could just... 123 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,239 Well, Doctor, do you still think this is the work of a slighted scientist? 124 00:08:49,830 --> 00:08:51,849 He has altered nature itself. 125 00:08:52,839 --> 00:08:55,420 I believe the creature responsible for this outrage 126 00:08:55,839 --> 00:08:59,499 to be the result of this man's sinister experiments. 127 00:09:00,150 --> 00:09:04,780 Inspector, I implore you to accompany me to Mansell Street! 128 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:08,540 This may be a chance to stop the most diabolical madman 129 00:09:08,989 --> 00:09:10,660 the world has ever known! 130 00:09:14,989 --> 00:09:17,180 I shall finish the tale as we ride. 131 00:09:19,229 --> 00:09:21,690 After his expulsion from the Royal Society, 132 00:09:22,070 --> 00:09:24,619 Essex became even more obsessed with his research. 133 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,670 But still he met with failure after failure. 134 00:09:28,339 --> 00:09:30,680 As time passed, he grew more reclusive. 135 00:09:32,310 --> 00:09:34,239 Eccentric. A fanatic. 136 00:09:34,979 --> 00:09:37,759 Stories of strange goings-on at the Grey Hall Asylum 137 00:09:38,180 --> 00:09:41,960 circulated around Parliament and made their way into the papers. 138 00:09:42,650 --> 00:09:45,749 Essex and Lord Grey became estranged, 139 00:09:46,259 --> 00:09:48,599 while Rebecca's condition worsened. 140 00:09:49,190 --> 00:09:53,469 Even the most advanced techniques of medical science were to no avail. 141 00:09:54,129 --> 00:09:57,999 And though Essex still fought to save Rebecca, his growing fascination with 142 00:09:58,599 --> 00:10:02,060 human mutation became all consuming. 143 00:10:02,639 --> 00:10:06,099 Yes! Yes! I've done it! 144 00:10:08,810 --> 00:10:14,379 Mad, am I, Darwin? Fool! You are a mere spectator to creation, 145 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:19,219 while I, I have become the creator! 146 00:10:42,109 --> 00:10:45,389 Excellent. I feel like a new man! 147 00:10:49,119 --> 00:10:52,580 - What are you doing to us? - Have no fear, my friends. 148 00:10:53,119 --> 00:10:56,780 With these transfusions, you shall become more than men! Much more! 149 00:11:00,030 --> 00:11:02,930 Remarkable! Not even a blister! 150 00:11:05,940 --> 00:11:08,780 I don't understand it. Other than a slight pallor, 151 00:11:09,239 --> 00:11:12,460 your daughter is making quite an amazing recovery, Lord Grey. 152 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,599 What is it, my dear? 153 00:11:15,879 --> 00:11:19,690 He made me promise not to tell you. I suppose it doesn't really matter now. 154 00:11:20,249 --> 00:11:22,180 Nathaniel has been giving me treatments! 155 00:11:22,550 --> 00:11:23,859 He's been what? 156 00:11:24,119 --> 00:11:28,509 - What kind of treatments? - No professional jealousy, James. 157 00:11:29,190 --> 00:11:31,379 You said yourself my recovery was amazing! 158 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:35,800 How dare he! That arrogant, insolent, little jumped-up pipsqueak! 159 00:11:36,430 --> 00:11:40,440 Sir, I think we'd best not disturb Rebecca at this critical stage. 160 00:11:42,369 --> 00:11:45,119 James, you must speak with Essex. Perhaps he'll listen to you! 161 00:11:45,540 --> 00:11:48,150 We must learn what that madman has given to my daughter! 162 00:11:53,989 --> 00:11:57,889 Essex! It's Xavier. Please, I must speak with you. 163 00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:02,349 Very well, James. Do come in. 164 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:12,290 - Dr. Essex, I... - I am no longer a doctor, James. 165 00:12:12,739 --> 00:12:15,400 Tell me, do they speak of me still at the Royal Society? 166 00:12:15,839 --> 00:12:18,940 Indeed. They speak of sinister experiments 167 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,050 - you are rumored to perform. - Sinister. 168 00:12:22,950 --> 00:12:25,560 I'll have to remember that when Queen Victoria knights me. 169 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:27,489 After you. 170 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,320 This is your asylum? 171 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:53,129 Thus out of small beginnings, greater things have been produced. 172 00:12:53,810 --> 00:12:56,739 - Please, sir, no more! - Good lord, man! 173 00:12:57,180 --> 00:12:59,609 Even animals don't deserve such treatment! 174 00:12:59,979 --> 00:13:02,849 And the treatment they'd receive outside these walls would be better? 175 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,660 Release these poor creatures! At once! 176 00:13:07,629 --> 00:13:10,790 They are unfinished, Doctor. 177 00:13:12,830 --> 00:13:14,879 I cannot allow you to do this! 178 00:13:23,139 --> 00:13:25,889 (GRUNTS) You truly have gone mad. 179 00:13:26,339 --> 00:13:28,619 I am not mad! 180 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:49,410 I won't let you stop me, James. 181 00:14:02,780 --> 00:14:04,560 It is over, Nathaniel! 182 00:14:05,749 --> 00:14:08,410 No! My work! My subjects! 183 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,089 - What are you... - Don't go! My children! No! 184 00:14:25,940 --> 00:14:29,099 Demons! Spawn of the Devil himself! 185 00:14:30,780 --> 00:14:34,440 They appeared from the darkness, demons spewing the fires of Hades! 186 00:14:34,979 --> 00:14:36,790 (STAMMERING) I didn't mean to... 187 00:14:37,119 --> 00:14:40,580 Flannery, Vochek! My children! 188 00:14:50,190 --> 00:14:51,619 Get him! 189 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:01,739 I'm frightened, Lord. 190 00:15:02,339 --> 00:15:07,670 Why do you forsake me so? If you truly have mercy, deliver me from this. 191 00:15:08,479 --> 00:15:09,849 (CRYING) Oh! 192 00:15:10,109 --> 00:15:14,180 - Please don't hurt me, sir. - The lord cares for all his creatures. 193 00:15:14,790 --> 00:15:16,690 Why do you believe he has forsaken you? 194 00:15:16,989 --> 00:15:19,509 I only wanted to find work so I could send money back 195 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,440 to my family in Ireland. The famine. We... 196 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,560 I'm not going to hurt you. My name is James Xavier. 197 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,389 - I'm a doctor. - No! No, that's what the other one said! 198 00:15:31,869 --> 00:15:34,680 I'm nothing like that madman! I want to help you. 199 00:15:35,839 --> 00:15:37,330 What's your name? 200 00:15:38,239 --> 00:15:40,229 Flannery, sir. Thomas Flannery. 201 00:15:43,820 --> 00:15:45,660 There's one of them! Demon! 202 00:15:45,950 --> 00:15:50,930 - Stay where you are! Listen to me! - That's Dr. Xavier! Let him speak! 203 00:15:52,719 --> 00:15:55,879 - This man is no demon! - He's a monster! 204 00:15:56,430 --> 00:16:01,060 No! He is different, true! Born with abilities that may frighten us. 205 00:16:01,729 --> 00:16:03,599 But he had no choice in the matter. 206 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:06,680 Any more than we choose the color of our eyes. 207 00:16:07,099 --> 00:16:10,790 The true monsters walk amongst us undetected. 208 00:16:11,339 --> 00:16:14,210 There is your monster. Nathaniel Essex! 209 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,160 - Essex! - That madman at Grey Hall! Butcher! 210 00:16:18,719 --> 00:16:21,680 - Heretic! - No! Stay away from me. 211 00:16:24,519 --> 00:16:25,889 What in blazes! 212 00:16:26,359 --> 00:16:29,320 Fools! Who are you to judge me? 213 00:16:41,269 --> 00:16:43,790 What is going on? The noise! 214 00:16:44,180 --> 00:16:46,259 My dear, we must flee at once to the continent. 215 00:16:46,580 --> 00:16:47,780 What is this all about? 216 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,570 You're hurting me! 217 00:16:51,950 --> 00:16:54,639 What have you done to yourself? The treatments. 218 00:16:56,349 --> 00:16:59,830 - What have you done to me? - Do not fear, my darling. 219 00:17:00,389 --> 00:17:03,610 Together we shall be the Adam and Eve of a new genesis. 220 00:17:09,130 --> 00:17:10,829 Rebecca! Rebecca! 221 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:28,329 The mob's justice was swift. Nothing was spared their vengeance. 222 00:17:29,819 --> 00:17:34,210 Essex was gone, his laboratory and notes destroyed in the fire. 223 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,710 All I could find in the rubble was the madman's journal. 224 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:42,289 Lord Grey spent his remaining years quietly working 225 00:17:42,729 --> 00:17:45,279 on behalf of the mutant humans of London. 226 00:17:45,670 --> 00:17:48,130 Most of whom disappeared into the sewers. 227 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,190 Rebecca never spoke another word. 228 00:17:56,279 --> 00:17:59,789 As for myself, I traveled the world in search of Essex, 229 00:18:00,350 --> 00:18:03,539 chronicling the carnage left by his terrible experiments, 230 00:18:04,019 --> 00:18:06,160 by his unfortunate "new men". 231 00:18:09,059 --> 00:18:13,890 And here my search has ended. I've tracked Essex to the upstairs flat. 232 00:18:14,630 --> 00:18:15,969 Let's go, men! 233 00:18:17,269 --> 00:18:19,579 I got the samples you wanted, Dr. Essex. 234 00:18:19,940 --> 00:18:23,340 Jack, you fool! I told you I wanted this one alive! 235 00:18:23,870 --> 00:18:25,569 I gave you life, Jack. 236 00:18:26,110 --> 00:18:28,860 Do you doubt I could undo my own creation? 237 00:18:29,380 --> 00:18:31,340 Sorry, Dr. Essex. 238 00:18:31,719 --> 00:18:34,940 Essex is no more. From this day forward, 239 00:18:35,420 --> 00:18:38,579 you shall address me as Mr. Sinister! 240 00:18:41,630 --> 00:18:43,739 I do not understand. 241 00:18:51,999 --> 00:18:57,069 A final taunt. I fear now I shan't catch him in my lifetime. 242 00:18:58,239 --> 00:19:03,100 But if I cannot, then I pray that someone else can. 243 00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:28,620 Succumb to the power of Vertigo. 244 00:19:32,539 --> 00:19:34,440 They will give you no further trouble. 245 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,049 Excellent. 246 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,499 Now we take them to the Master! 247 00:19:41,219 --> 00:19:45,259 It is for him to decide whether they live as his slaves, 248 00:19:46,620 --> 00:19:49,640 or perish like the dogs they are.