Following two brutal years of torture and confinement in Bedlam's asylum for the insane, Jack Thorne has escaped his captors and has fled to Victorian era Gotham City. Upon his arrival, a new string of "Ripper style" murders commence...ones Jack himself has no earthly knowledge of. Back in his homeland, a rookie British cop is put on the now cold case. The very infamous one stemming from the canonical Whitechapel butcherings of 1888.