[He pauses. He probably needs to face this sooner or later]

The gang work was part of something bigger. Not exactly a sideline. More... a means to an end. There was a group of people in London- the Templar Order- running the city into the ground. Forcing children to work in their factories all hours of the day, selling toxic potions as medicine, trading weapons, influencing Parliament for their own gain.

My job was to kill them.

[He gives a one-shouldered shrug] We thought Jack was part of one of their operations. I never did get to the bottom of it.