Webisode Based.
No Ownership. No Profit.
As always, beware bad language in this story.
In this case, also beware some mature, sexually suggestive and thoroughly violent β and disturbing β themes and moments, as one might expect in any story involving a Jack the Ripper who actually enjoyed his psycho-sexual killing spree. I saw Montague John Druitt, Jack the Ripper, as absolutely relishing his murderous activities in the webisodes.
There are things I've always wondered about the Sanctuary webisodes, things that, for me, simply cry for an explanation, particularly in the sequence of scenes where Druitt is holding Ashley captive, namely:
` A marionette or cloth dolly is lying on the grated stairs in the first sequence of scenes with Ashley and Druitt. Alexei is playing with the same marionette or cloth dolly in the next sequence of scenes, but it's significance β and origin βis never explained.
` A set of packing cases behind the old office chair in which Ashley, bound, is seated. In the first sequence of scenes, they're closed. In the second, they're open, with excelsior or straw packing material scattered about. Yet, we're never shown what is, or was, in them.
` What did Druitt do with Ashley while he was retrieving Alexei and leaving the old subway map as a clue for her mother? Surely, he didn't leave her there at the subway station, tied up in the chair. Webisode Ashley would have been gone, literally like a shot, with more than a moment's opportunity in which to make her escape.
` Why does Ashley seem as if she's been forced to make some sort of unwelcome admission, at the very least, in the second set of scenes in the abandoned subway station, and what was she forced to admit? Per the dialogue, she hasn't had to give up her denial of Druitt's claim of paternity, so what produced the change in her attitude from straight out defiance to a sort of chastened, wistfully-sullen caution when dealing with Druitt?
` What is it about this kidnaping in particular, that traumatized Ashley right into post-traumatic stress and debilitating flashbacks in the second Webisode (installments 5 through 8)? The dialogue here leads one to conclude that Webisode Ashley has been kidnaped before, so what is it about this kidnaping that is so very much harder for her to deal with?
` What happened to the pendant Ashley is so visibly wearing, with which Druitt uses his knife to toy during the first set of subway station scenes? It's just as visibly gone in the second sequence.
This story is the result of me producing my own explanations.
And, the way I see it, if I'm going to create those explanations for myself, I might as well entertain myself, too, in the doing.
