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Chapter 2: The search for Mr Hyde
After his troubling convo with Enfield, Utterson goes home to study a will he made for his close friend Dr J, it states that in the event of the death of Dr J all his possessions should go to Mr Hyde.
Utterson seeks answers with Dr Landon who has never heard of Hyde and hasn’t seen Jekyll for 10 years due to a dispute
Utterson has nightmares of a faceless figure controlling Jekyll.
Utterson begins to spend all his time watching the neglected building door and eventually sees Hyde and approached homes
Utterson worries that Hyde will kill Jekyll to fulfill the wil
Utterson goes to warm Jekyll about Hyde
Utterson has known all along that the building is a lab attached to Jekylls house.
Utterson is told by butler Poole that Jekyll is out.
He discovers that Hyde has a key to the lab and the servants have orders to obey Hyde
Chapter 3: Dr Jekyll was quite at ease
Two weeks later, after a dinner party at Jekylls house, Utterson stays late to talk about the will.
Jekyll makes a joke of it, comparing Utterson’s worries to Dr Lanyon’s ‘hidebound’ attitude to medical science
Although Jekyll trusts Utterson, he refused to reveal the details of his strange relationship with Hyde. He asks Utterson as his lawyer to promise that he will carry out the willZ
Chapter 4: The Carew Murder case
Nearly a year later, the chapter opens with a maid witnessing a small evil man, Hyde, encountering a polite elderly gentleman. When the gentleman offers Hyde a greeting, he suddenly beats him to death with a stick.
A letter addressed to Utterson is found on the dead body. When the police summon him, he recognises the murder weapon as the broken half of a walking cane he gave to Jekyll a few years earlier.
Utterson leads to police to Hyde’s address and accompanies the police to a house located in a poor evil looking part of town. Hyde’s evil looking landlady opens the door and explains Hyde is not home.
The police inspector assumes Hyde will go and withdraw money from his bank account however in the weeks that follow there was no sign of him.
Chapter 5: Incident of the letter
Utterson visits Jekyll to find him looking ‘deathly sick’. He asks if he’s hiding Hyde but Jekyll claims their relationship has ended.
He shows Utterson a letter from Hyde that suggests he will never be seen or heard of again.
Utterson asks if Hyde played a part in creating Jekylls will.
On his way out, Utterson asks Poole the butler to describe the man who delivered the letter but Poole says no letters were delivered
Utterson asks his trusted clerk and handwriting expert Mr Guest to study Hydes letter with Jekyll’s writing. He finds a resemblance between the two
Utterson believes Jekyll forged the letter as Hyde to cover his escape
Chapter 6: Remarkable incident of Dr Lanyon
Hyde still cannot be found by police. With no signs of him Jekyll becomes more sociable, happier, and very charitable
Utterson believes the removal of Hyde’s evil influence has had a positive effect on Jekyll
After two months of this, Jekyll appears depressed and will not see Utterson. Mr Utterson visits Dr Lanyon to discuss their friends sudden behaviour change but finds Lanyon pale and sickly.
Lanyon says that he has had a shock and expects to die soon and refuses to discuss Jekyll.
Utterson writes to Jekyll and receives a reply suggesting that Jekyll had fallen into a disturbed state and talks of being under a dark influence.
A few weeks later Lanyon dies. He leaves a letter for Utterson not to be opened until the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll which Utterson puts in his safe.
Utterson visits Jekyll less and less often as the butler says he is living in isolation
Chapter 7: Incident at the Window
Utterson and Enfield are taking their regular Sunday stroll as they did at the beginning of the story.
Enfield mentions that in the previous weeks he has learnt that the rundown lab is connected to Jekylls house.
They look through the windows of Jekylls house and see him by the window looking like a prisoner.
They call him out but he refuses saying he feels ‘very low’
They engage in convo until Jekyll’s face suddenly freezes in an expression of ‘abject, terror and despair’
The change is so sudden and horrid that it ‘froze the blood of the two gentleman below’
Chapter 8: The Last Night
Jekyll’s butler Poole visits Utterson one night. He believes there has been foul play regarding Jekyll. They head to Jekyll’s. As the night is dark and and windy Utterson has an unpleasant feeling.
They go to the lab but the door is locked and the voice inside does not sound like Jekyll.
Poole convinced Jekyll that it is Hyde.
He says the voice has been for days crying out for a chemical
Armed with a fireplace poker and an axe the two demand entry.
Inside they find Hyde’s body twitching on the floor. Utterson believes he has poisoned himself.
The men search the building but don’t find Jekyll
On the table is a will dated that day which leaves everything to Utterson and also a package containing Jekyll’s confession and letter asking Utterson to read Dr Lanyon’s letter.
Chapter 9: Dr Lanyon’s narrative
This chapter is the letter word for word which tells of Lanyon receiving a letter from Jekyll asking him to go to his home and break into the cabinet of Jekyll’s lab with Poole’s help.
He’s instructed to collect a drawer containing chemicals test tube and a notebook and give it to a man who will arrive at midnight
At midnight the man appeared and was small and evil looking. Lanyon did not recognise him as Hyde
Hyde drank the chemicals in front of Lanyon and transformed into Jekyll
Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case
Jekyll tells the story of how he turned into Hyde. It all began with scientific curiosity of the good and evil of human nature and him trying to destroy his darker self.
At first he required a potion but soon he automatically began transforming into Hyde.
Hyde was a way for Jekyll to let out his darker side without damaging his reputation as Jekyll.
