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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 3925841" data-attributes="member: 13855">Suddenly, the best food in London...Sweeney Todd plot spoilers: He is a wrongfully imprisoned barber named Benjamin Barker who returns under the name Sweeney Todd to London after fifteen years in Australia to find that the judge responsible for his imprisonment has raped and murdered his young wife, adopted his daughter, possibly with unspeakable intentions. He swears revenge, but when his plans face obstacles, he begins to slash the throats of his customers. Mrs. Lovett, the innkeeper with the worst food in London is his accomplice and bakes the corpses of his victims into meat pies. The tension comes from her desire to be his lover and her neglecting to mention that his wife was not killed, and is in fact the mad beggarwoman. He is also assisted by an unwitting servant lad named Tobias Ragg, who later aids in unmasking his crimes. In most versions of the story, Sweeney either helps or hinders (sometimes both) the love affair of a young woman, Johanna, his daughter (unbeknownst to him, but knownst to us) and a sailor named Mark Ingesterie.</blockquote>