Time After Time (1979)

David Warner: Dr. John Leslie Stevenson - aka Jack the Ripper

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Quotes 

• Jack the Ripper : Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur.

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

• [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 : My mother was rather an atrocious woman in her way, but her many failings did not include raising mentally deficient sons.

• Jack the Ripper : It's catching isn't it, violence.

• [H.G. Wells tracks down Jack the Ripper in the future] 

  Jack the Ripper : You are, quite literally, the last person on Earth that I expected to see.

• Jack the Ripper : And at dinner last... century, I thought you'd lost your wits.

• [Wells has confronted Jack in his hotel room in 1979] 

  Jack the Ripper : You finding me is rather fortuitous. For me, that is. Otherwise, I'd be obliged to search for you.

  [beat] 

  Jack the Ripper : Well, are you going to give it to me?

  H.G. Wells : [feigning confusion]  I have no idea what you mean.

  Jack the Ripper : Of course you do. I'm talking about the key. I can't have you following me for eternity, like the Flying Dutchman. Give me the key and we'll be quits.

  H.G. Wells : Key? I don't have it with me.

  Jack the Ripper : Oh, Herbert.

  [sighs] 

  Jack the Ripper : Herbert, I've played countless games of chess with you... and the one thing you cannot do is bluff.

  [Jack removes Wells' glasses from his face; from Wells' POV, everything is blurry] 

  Jack the Ripper : [menacingly]  I want that key!

  [punches Wells]