James Watson, Will Zimmerman and others in “Revelations (Part 1)”

Most men's failures haunt them for a lifetime; mine have haunted me for two.

What failure?

The Ripper Case; it confounded me like no other.

You came close, James. You don't know how close.

Night after night, I poured my insights out to you, never knowing that the target of my manhunt was the man who dissected my suppositions.

I was in the grip of something I couldn't control. I think you know that.

The fact remains, you gave the lie to all my bravado. You shattered my belief that I could see beyond what a mere mortal could.