HG Wells follows Jack the Ripper in a time machine and sparks a romance...

Karson 2022-10-15 20:33:54

Departure time: November 5, 1893 10:15 Arrival time: November 5, 1979 Travel

through for 2 years / minute 43 minutes 10:30-11:10

HG Wells in order to track his friends (actually also Jack the Ripper), took a time machine to the 1980s, in which the fragments of the time tunnel were very exciting, experienced major changes in history, leaders took office, and finally came to the HG Wells Pavilion at the British Museum (here, he designed the The time machine was discovered and exhibited by contemporaries, and although people don't know what it was used for, it was thought to be the prototype of the novel of the same name.)

He was amazed by everything in San Francisco and had to sleep on the streets, but eventually found a fugitive Jack the Ripper in . He tried to persuade him to go back, because it didn't belong to them. Jack the Ripper played the news on TV for him, saying that this place was too suitable for him. He never believed in a perfect and harmonious society. It was far from the utopian in Wells' heart. The society is very different, and it should be Wells who is not suitable.

While chasing Jack the Ripper, Wells was told he had died in a car accident. Then met Amy, a lovely bank clerk, and the two started dating. At this time, the camera switched to the news bulletin board on the side of the road: "The prostitute was brutally murdered". Meanwhile, the murderer encounters Amy while exchanging foreign currency and threatens to kill her if Wells doesn't give him the keys.

Wells confided the real situation and his true identity to Amy. In order to prove it, Wells took Amy and set the time machine to four days later, but what he saw was the news that he had been killed. Wells thought they could actually stop the murderer before he committed the crime, because they would know what happened next.

Jack the Ripper hijacked Amy and wanted to extort the Wells key back (so that Wells could not track it down), Jack the Ripper wanted to take Amy with him after he got the key, but Wells pulled out the "evaporative balancer" key on the machine , so that he will travel through the long river of time and never reach the station.

Amy begs Wells to take her back to the Victorian era, and Wells says he will destroy this dangerous time machine forever when he returns there. The subtitles at the end say that Amy and Wells eventually become husband and wife...

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  • [John demonstrates to H.G. that 1979 isn't a social utopia]

    Jack the Ripper: The future isn't what you thought. It's what I am!

  • Jack the Ripper: We don't belong here? On the contrary, Herbert. I belong here completely and utterly. I'm home.