Man`s voice- It is me. John, your brother.
(She opens the door for him and enters with him to the drawing room)

Maggy -What brought you to this town?

John - To visit you (He looks around and sees the drinks and looks to his sister putting the make up on her face) are you expecting somebody?

Maggy - You know, none can live without a little bit of socializing. Is it not strange that you never indicated that you were coming to visit me, dropping a line, or making a telephone call, using the back door, so tell me frankly why are here, are you on the run?

John- How did you guess?

Maggy – I didn’t guess, I know .What is it this time?

John- (Shakes his shoulders and doesn’t answer)

Maggy- Whatever it is, you are not going to get away with it, they will soon find out because you have a record in the police.

John- It seems they have got already some indication about my involvement in some sort of wicked thing, because they made a visit to the house, when I wasn’t there of course, for I was already on some sort of alert, your mother warned me not come near the house asking me to get out of the capital. That means to come here, and hide in your place. Of course there was not enough time to notify you of my coming. Your mother said you are making a good progress in your showbiz career, sending her enough money to live a comfortable life.

Maggy - Never mind what mother said, tell me frankly why do you think you will be safer here? They will soon be after you.

John - Since you become a showbiz girl and chose an artistic name for yourself Maggy Steve, it is very difficult for them to make the connection between you and me.

Maggy - Don’t under estimate the police ways and means to establish the connection. It is not easy to outwit them.

John - Does that mean you are refusing to put me up for a few nights?

Maggy- That means you should turn yourself in, it is better, and safer, and less troublesome for you and less risky for all of us, because running from the police might end in a fight that would cost you, your life, while giving up and submitting yourself to them can only end in a few weeks imprisonment as it happened in previous times, with those good lawyers, mother always hires for you.
difficult

John- Sorry to tell you how very different and difficult the matter is this time.

Maggy - Is it more serious crime than the previous ones, which usually consist of drinking and getting yourself involved in the street gangs fights.

John- It is not more serious crime at all; it is more serious charge, that is true, but a crime, far from it I don’t consider it a crime at all; it is some sort of a social duty to clean the society from such filthy creatures.
(The front door bell rings, he whispers) please don’t answer, don’t open the door, and don’t let anybody in.

Maggy- I am not obliged to open to anybody, but, at the end of the day, shutting my house with leave me with no income, showbiz as you should know, depends heavily on this social mixing, so whatever time you need to spend hiding in my place should be very brief. What sort of a charge is it? And why it is more serious one, since it doesn’t consist of any crime?

John - I don’t know what to say, it was some sort of a revelation that came over me just as I was going to seek help from the priest on how to follow the right path and depart from my violent behavior, which made of me a regular visitor to prison, I returned to the house to plan my first attack on one of those filthy dirty women spreading vice on earth and bringing the wrath of god on people, and took it upon myself to clean the country from them all.

Maggy (Collapses on the sofa, looking in fear and surprise to her brother) don’t tell me you are the roaming murderer who is killing these poor girls in the back streets at night. (The door bell rings)

John - Don`t answer please, let him ring. Are you calling those human insects, poor girls? You’d better call them poisonous spiders, disgusting worms or any other description than girls. Thy are disgrace to the human race.

Maggy - I can hardly believe, that my handsome loving brother, with his baby face, is really Jack the ripper.

John- Why? Don’t you think your brother have the courage and stamina and the moral and ethical power to do it. This time is not Jack the ripper but John the ripper, I will wipe out the old one and do better and more successful job than he did, his work would look childish compared with mine, I am only in the first step in a long road.

Maggy-Long road filled with murdered emulated bodies of young women, you, John doing this, why, what evil spirit enters your body and soul and makes you commit four ugly crimes?

John - Don’t let the press poison your mind by repeating what they say about the evil spirit, on the contrary it is providence, divine power and hand by which I strike at the evil and the ungodly. The press reported four victims, but I am only responsible for three, another person did the fourth, which means, other people are joining the fight, and this is only the beginning. It is a revolution led by me. (The telephone rings) Don’t answer. Pretend that you are not at home tonight .In the coming few days, you will see tens of these human female insects being slain every day till the country is cleansed from them.

Maggy- I don’t know how you can’t see the ugliness of your crimes, the wrath of god you are bringing upon yourself, and before that the guillotine awaiting your neck.

John- It is a divine assignment entrusted upon me, which can only be rewarded by the heavenly rewards that are reserved for prophets and messengers from god, as for the guillotine, the old Jack the ripper had less advanced ways and means by which he could commit his crimes and hide himself and ran from the police, yet they were unable to catch him.

Maggy- Don’t delude yourself, they caught him all right, but they found out that he was a member of the royal family, with the mighty and powerful Queen Victoria as the head of that family. In order to save her family the shame and embarrassment, she ordered the man to be taken to a mental asylum and the file of those crimes to be closed without mentioning the criminal`s name.

John- This is not a true story but a false one created by police to cover their failure.

Maggy- As your sister who feels sorry for you, I advise you to turn yourself in, and confess to the authorities, that you are a victim of some psychological fits and they should protect you from yourself by putting you in a mental hospital.

John- I did what I did and what I continue to do while possessing my full mental powers; proud of the mission I am entrusted with. Even in the very unlikely situation of catching me, I will never pretend that I am a mentally unsound person, even if it will grant my release.

Maggy- I must tell you frankly I cannot keep you in my house and risk being arrested as your accomplice.

John- You are risking nothing, you will behave as a good sister and not only provide me with secure hide-out but also with the great deal of money this business needs, my method is to lure them by money, you know how sinister, mean and greedy these human worms are, they wont go with me one step before they take their price and hide it in some secret pocket even when I need to take my money back after killing them I can`t find it.

Maggy - If you hate them and despise them as such why do you have to rape them before murdering them?

John -Yes, I rape them as a means of violating them and showing my indignation with them

Maggy - I thank that is an obvious way to show you, how mentally sick you are, you desire them and in the same time you want to kill them, how very savage and brutal. Please leave my house.

John - What proof do you need to convince that there is no risk involved whatsoever? Do you want to see me challenging them, and telling them when my next victim will take place? Bring me the phone.

Maggy- Leave my phone alone, I don’t want to get involved with your ugly devilish crimes.
(She holds the phone, and he snatches it from her forcibly)

John-(He dials a number) Hello, the homeland news agency, it is John the ripper, I will strike again tomorrow. It is not a hoax, it is real, you will see.
(He puts the receiver) that is just to show you that they don’t frighten me, I am the one who keeps them frightened all the way long.

Maggy- Is it not crazy what you have just done? wont they trace the number, and find out where you are?
Please leave my house before they come after you.

John - It is not the first time I contact you, so don’t panic. I have a code number I use before dialing, prevents the telephone number from going out.
(The phone rings)

Maggy- That proves how stupid you are, thinking they cannot break your code, answer them and confess to your crimes to get the benefit of the criminal who gives himself up.
(He puts his hand out to pick the receiver then holds it back, stays for a while not deciding on what to do, till the answer machine opens)

Female voice- Hello Maggy, where are you, I send three customers to your house, and finding you are not their to open the door, that is not a good behavior from a good time girl, (Maggy tries to stop the answer – machine but John doesn’t allow here, the voice continues) the three customers are old friends, who are fond of you, ready to pay some extra money on top of the usual price for one hour sex, one of them is Samson the one you were having a crush on him and you even offered him to stay and live with you for free. If you can afford to lose money I cannot, so please don’t do that again. I kept the three musketeers waiting for you in my place, so ring me as soon as you are back home and I will send them one after the other, they are ready to wait, just ring, in not time they will be there, since my place is only a minute away from yours, Pamela. (They both stand up facing each other, he makes advances towards her with his hands ready to strangle her, she quickly opens the door of a room and shuts the door behind her)

John - Unbelievable, impossible, my own sister, little Maggy, non other than her, is one of this human insects smearing the land and air of our country with their filth, is it real what I heard, or a piece of hellish devilish whispering by a hellish devilish creature, and you, scum of the earth, you, curse of the family, tell me it is not true, before I make my hand dirty of your blood.

Maggy - (From behind the door) No I will not give you the satisfaction of denying what you heard. Yes, it is true, your own sister is the prostitute who gives good and pleasurable time to her customers, who in their turn give her good money that kept your mother going and providing for your food and lodging and even the price of your crimes, hiring good lawyers to get you out of prison. So what will you do now?

John- I will kill you of course. It is a shame I can only kill you once, because you deserve more than one hundred deaths, once for your being an insect like the other prostitutes, and ninety nine times because of the curse and disgrace you brought upon the family.

Maggy - If the family is going to be cursed, it is not because of the presence of a prostitute in the family but because of the mass murderer it produced.

John- How could a family with a saintly-like father and mother produces such scum as you are?

Maggy- But I am not surprised how this saintly family produces a monster like yourself, our mother used to warn your late father against taking you to his money lending shop, to protect you from seeing the never-ending scenes of crying men and women when losing their valuable things to your father, he used to send you to deliver the message to these people when the repayment time is over, so you were brought up in this way , creature with no feeling, no sensitivity to human`s pain. God forgive you dad.

John- Open the door please.

Maggy- Why? To kill me one hundred times, you’d better leave the house now before I shout from the widow asking the people in the street to bring the police and come to catch you.

John- Open and you will have a deal.

Maggy- How can I trust a mass murderer like yourself? I would rather see you go, with no deals.
John- it is for your benefit.

Maggy - Whatever you say I am not going to believe you, but go ahead, what is it?

John- It is about Samson, the one you were having a crush on him.

Maggy- What about him?

John- He is waiting for you at Pamela’s place, you will ask him to come and I will force him to marry you, that will settle the matter.

Maggy- And will take me out of the human insects race as far as you are concerned, and you expect I will be taken in by this trick?

(Telephone rings; John allows it to go on, in order to hear the caller speak to the answer-machine)

Female voice- Hello Maggy, It is your mother looking for your brother John. He is a little bit ill, but tell him not to worry, he can come home immediately as a doctor is here waiting for him to treat his hallucination, thinking he is Jack the ripper, poor child, doctor even brought his friend lieutenant Smith from the police station, to prove to him the police is not after him, they have even arrested the real Jack the ripper. Ring me as quickly as you are back home.
(Maggy comes out of the room)

Maggy- you really frightened me, you little twit (She advances, pretending to hit him)

John- please don’t hit me, I won’t do it again, please do not hurt me (He runs from her in fear , she catches him from his ear while he starts sobbing)

Maggy - Just do what mother asks you to do, ok, it is only a little hallucination, but don’t get out of it just yet, I need you to stay in the role of Jack the ripper for a few minutes, till I get my hands on my beloved Samson, I am really crazy about him. Stop crying and act like a man in front of him . It wont take long , we`ll make it very short (She picks the phone and dials a number) Hello Pamela, send me my dear Samson quickly, I hope he is still there. Ask him to fly for I miss him so much indeed.

(Puts down the receiver)
Now what will we do? We must improvise a little plan. Perhaps you take the key and stay somewhere outside, near the apartment and once you see Samson enters you come after him pretending you are angry at me and him, wanting to kill us, and nothing can save us but marriage by which the honour of the family is saved.

John- I believe now that you are Jack the murderer not me.

Maggy- Don’t forget to take the big knife from the kitchen with you.

(John gets out of the house taking the knife with him, the door bell rings, Maggy goes to open it , enters a middle aged man)

Maggy- Hello my love Samson, how come you stay away from me all this time, knowing how mad I am about you. Have you come to accept my offer and stay permanently with me?

Samson - I think we have settled this matter once and for all, and since my business abroad, cannot tie me up to home and family, I can only pay you the occasional visit.

Maggy- I don’t think the occasional visit is enough for me, and it wont make my brother Jack the ripper happy.

Samson- Is Jack the ripper your brother? I must run for my life before he kills me and you .
(He stands to go while the door opens and John enters holding the knife)

Maggy - I think it is now too late to run, this place is his hide out, and we are caught up in a very nasty situation, you should protect me from his anger (She comes closer to Samson and holds him tightly)
What is this man doing between your arms? ??John
The honour of the family has been slain and I will slay both of you for that.

Maggy - Please listen to me brother before you commit the ugly crime, this man is my fiancée and we are planning to get married

John- Are you trying to fool me? I will start by killing your lover, to break your heart before breaking your neck.

Samson- What Maggy said is correct, we are planning to be married.

John - I will believe it when I see it.

(A full wedding party starts with music and the flowers and the guests while the curtain goes down)
Curtain