 Sophia explains that Jackman is a descendant of Doctor Jekyll, (who died a virgin), through Mr Hyde, and by chance a perfect natural genetic duplicate, "a perfect throwback, a chance in a million".Klein and Utterson had discovered this and had him under surveillance for almost his entire life, from when he was six-months-old.In order to trigger his transformation into Hyde, they created a clone of Alice, the maid whom Jekyll had loved.