in a flashback triggered by genetic memory, hyde has a vision of a meeting between jekyll and robert louis stevenson, the author of "strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde". stevenson agrees to write a fictional version of jekyll's case but reveals that he knows the truth: there is no potion. instead, jekyll was transformed into hyde by his love for alice, a maid within his household. flashbacks into tom's own life show his hyde first appeared during a seaside holiday with claire, after the pair were accosted by hooligans.