video | locked, unhackable.
He was a student of science once, as eager as the rest of us to see what secrets were hidden in our own genetic structures. You realize the field was very young back then. It was 1886, only twenty years since Mendel published that study on plant hybridization, and Lamarck's theory of species transmutation was so radical, no-one took it seriously until Darwin was bold enough to tackle the issue. Even then, he was seen as a radical. They -- we were all radicals. But back then, if you so dared to push known science beyond it's accepted limitations, you were automatically a radical. Especially when you pushed the limits in the way we did. Teratology wasn't exactly one of the courses offered at Oxford, but those of us with an interest in it would meet and study it on our own, which led to experimentation with untainted sanguine vampiris blood and the serum we derived from it.
[ realizing he's gone off on a slight scientific tangent, he gets himself back on topic: johnny. ]
Like I said, we all experienced different results. DNA is a wonderful thing, my dear, and it holds many secrets. The Ripper's secret, his abnormality that was given life when exposed to the serum, made those murders possible after he went mad. Scotland Yard never could figure out how he was so easily able to get from one site to the next, with some speculating it was multiple killers and not just one. But, it was. And the reason he was able to get from Point A to Point B so effortlessly was thanks to his abnormality. His power.
He was a teleporter.
[ this is, perhaps, the most civilly he's ever spoken in regards to montague john druitt in well over a century. and it's to a curious teenage girl. go figure. ]