[Voiceover intro] If by chance you happened to be in the Windy City between May 25 and May 29 of this year, you would have had good reason to be terrified. During this time Chicago was stalked by a horror so frightening, so fascinating, that it ranks with the great unsolved mysteries of all time. It's been the fictional subject of films, plays, even an opera. Now, here, are the true facts.
“The Ripper” · Season 1, Episode 1
In this episode: Carl Kolchak (4), Tony Vincenzo (1)
[Voiceover] Jane Plumm is fat. She talks a lot about water retention, big boned, but I have to believe the six or eight meals a day with snacks in-between to keep up her strength has a lot to do with it. And Plumm is a reporter however. We have mutual respect, mutual trust.
JPJane Plumm
I don't trust you, Kolchak. You'd double-cross your own fairy godmother for a story.
Why Jane, how can you say a thing like that? Now, you know me better than that.
CWCapt. Warren
You still here? You must like it.
This is a wild goose chase if you try to shoot that guy.
CWCapt. Warren
We did it once. We can do it again.
You did it once, and he smashed down a steel door. How'd he do that?
CWCapt. Warren
He had an accomplice on the outside.
He had an accomplice on the outside? [turns to Vincenzo who's talking on a payphone] What's happening?
Will you shut up a minute! [talks into the phone] Not you.
[turns back to Warren] I talked to one of the guys on the TAC squad. It's that fence- the electric fence. That's what stopped him. [turns to Vincenzo] What did you find out? What?
1908.
1908! Think. In 1908, in New York City, they caught a Ripper.
CWCapt. Warren
I don't have time for this.
No. You gotta... You better make time for it. Because that's one thing he's got plenty of. And if you don't stop him now, he's gonna go on forever.
CWCapt. Warren
You're an absurd man, Kolchak.
Listen, it's electricity! Don't you understand? That's the only thing he was scared of in New York City in 1908! Do you know why?
[Warren walks into his office and slams the door in Kolchak's face]
I want to see that prisoner.
CWCapt. Warren
Kolchak, he's in Maximum Security. You know what Maximum Security means? Nobody goes in, nobody goes out.
PPoliceman
[bursts into the room] That prisoner - he just broke out of Maximum Security!
Ah hah!
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