After hitchhiking across the American southwest, the simulacrum copy of Ash Williams has found employment as a B-Movie actor in Hollywood. Ash finds out he is going to play a cop in a film about Jack The Ripper, but he only has one scene and one line of dialogue. As the cameras start to roll on set, the Assistant Production Coordinator is found dead in a storage room. As the crew waits for police to finish their investigation, Ash meets the writer of this film, Brun, who is obsessed about Jack The Ripper. He tells Ash that he thinks that it could have been the ghost of William Gull, one of the many people accused of being The Ripper. Ash decides to follow the director of this Ripper film, and spots a man with a handlebar mustache and top hat running away from a large crowd of people. Ash c