The Limehouse Golem Page #2

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Perhaps he just likes to kill.

No.

I'll wager there's

a tale being told.

If we can sink to his circle

of damnation to comprehend it.

If I may say, sir,

seems you've been wasted

down in theft-and-fraud.

Oh, I'll be back there

soon enough,

if the golem strikes again.

That seems to be the plan.

What do you mean?

The yard is setting me up

as a scapegoat.

They'll not risk Roberts,

will they?

I'm expendable.

They get to preserve the

reputation of their golden boy

and the public...

Get blood.

Well, as I said

back in limehouse...

Seems they never have

their fill of that.

"He who spectates."

He doesn't mean us.

He means the public.

The public want blood.

The golem provides it.

Yes!

I'm sure that must be it, sir.

Are you?

I'm not.

Do you feel like a walk

to the library?

Rowley:
Ah! That quotation.

About the gladiatorial ring?

The guilt of the audience

who seek bloodshed?

Well, perhaps

you read it elsewhere.

It's quoted in an old piece by

the essayist Thomas de quincey.

One I imagine might be

of interest to a man

in your line of work.

-Kildare:
What's the piece?

"On murder considered

as one of the fine arts."

A satire about the ratcliffe

highway killings of 1811.

Should we talk with

this de quincey?

He has been dead for 20 years,

flood,

so it might be a bit --

what is it?

Man's voice:
Left to rot.

To kill a whore.

Who last borrowed this book?

This is a reading room,

inspector, not a local library.

So nothing leaves the premises?

Do you keep

an attendance record?

Of course, but there's

no earthly way of knowing

what anyone read

or when they read it!

Who was here

on September the 24th?

There were four men in

the reading room that day. Why?

It's the final entry in a diary

someone has kept

in the pages of this book.

Were you here yourself?

-I'm here every day.

Then I must ask you for

a sample of your handwriting.

I'll need the same

from all the staff.

And those four names, please?

The Dan leno?

And the Karl Marx

and George gissing.

If you're a follower

of philosophy and literature.

What do you know of John cree?

Sir?

If he's the same John cree

I'm thinking of...

I believe he's dead.

Place the diary in my files.

Keep it safe.

Find out all you can about

George gissing,

Karl Marx, and Dan leno.

Where are you going?

To investigate the dead man.

If he was the golem,

London's troubles are over.

Greatorex:

And you describe your husband

as being in a state of despair

in the weeks leading

to his death, yes?

Lizzie:
My husband

had spent several years

writing a play, your honor.

Entitled "misery junction."

It was...Not a success.

I believe he never

recovered from that.

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