Adam Worth

: This article page is about the character in Sanctuary. For real-world person, see Wikipedia:Adam Worth.
Mister Adam Worth is a highly intelligent and dangerous scientist who was a classmate of Helen Magnus and the Five back in their University of Oxford days. He also became the basis for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and was one of the few humans who are aware of the location of Hollow Earth.
== Biography ==
;In Oxford with the Five
Adam Worth studied at the University of Oxford at the same time that the Five were studying and came together. Like the Five, Worth was a genius ahead of his time, but his experiments were more dangerous and twisted, as noted by Nigel Griffin. One such experiment involved forced cell regeneration that resulted in a test mouse growing a second head and dying painfully.
Worth attempted to join the Five during the early source blood experiments, having spied on them for several weeks. While he was unaware of the true nature of their experiments, he said that they could use a person like him on their team but was refused. While the Five did acknowledge that he had the potential, they felt the group was large enough and they (Helen Magnus in particular) were concerned by his abhorrent behavior and experiments.
Helen Magnus later discovered that his experiments were verging on biochemical warfare when she caught him writing an equation for a deadly poison. Brushing it off as a simple equation, he pleaded with Magnus to join. She refused again, stating that they were on different scientific paths.
;Loss and madness
Adam Worth would approach Helen Magnus and James Watson some years after their time in Oxford to ask for their help with his daughter, Imogene Worth, who was suffering from a terrible disease. The pair eventually discovered that the girl was suffering from leukemia and that there was little that could be done. Worth pleaded with Magnus to use her "blood experiments," but Magnus refused; the source blood had never been used on a child before, making the effects unknown.
Nevertheless, Watson and Magnus worked tirelessly to save Worth's daughter but the disease won out in the end and she died in her father's arms in the night. The trauma of this triggered a psychotic break in Worth. A secondary Hyde personality developed within him, born from his rage over his daughter's death and his perception that Magnus murdered his daughter.
For the next decade, the two personalities amassed a small empire through the combination of their intelligence and ruthlessness. The government eventually became aware of his activities when he stole a large quantity of cyanide and they came to believe that he would use it as a weapon.
The government were forced to enlist the aid of to hunt down and kill Worth. Magnus shot him after tracking him to a cliff at an undisclosed location, where he fell over the edge. Eventually it was revealed that John Druitt saved Worth in order to force him to reveal the location of his safe houses - Druitt wanted to utilize them for when he went on the run himself and once he had their locations disposed of Worth in the canyon.
Druitt failed to realize that Worth drifted along the waterway onto the site of a civilization of Abnormals that even Magnus was unaware of, who used their highly advanced technology to revive him.
=== Season 3 ===
	:In early 2010, Adam Worth sent two of his abnormal allies after Will Zimmerman to obtain information on the holographic map. Through the technology that they were using, Helen Magnus discovered the city herself.
	:Having survived into the present day using the technology of his new abnormal allies, Adam Worth trapped Helen Magnus inside a time dilation field to recover the information she had on the city. While inside the field, he used a device that allowed him to travel through time and space in a form of teleportation. After a long brutal fight Magnus was able to destroy the power-source for the field, thus she and the team were able to escape.
	:Adam Worth was then imprisoned in the Old City Sanctuary's medical ward where he was treated for injuries sustained during the fight. He stalled for time by telling his back-story until it was revealed that complications with his teleportation technology were killing himself and Helen Magnus. Left with no other choice, he played his final card, revealing that the cure to their condition was in the underground city.
	:Adam Worth explained that certain keystones would provide the location of the underground city's entrance - when combined with the holographic map that Helen Magnus had been studying. After tracking the keystone to an abnormal collector of radioactive items (because real keystones produce 2.2 rads of gamma radiation), Magnus successfully tracked the location of the entrance to a temple in the Tibet mountains. Tesla informed them that only one member of the remaining three members of the Five could safely enter the city by using a device of his invention that cloaked their vampiric blood traits (he could only produce one viable device).
	:Despite Helen Magnus specifically stating that Adam Worth should not go anywhere near the city of Praxis, John Druitt and Nikola Tesla decided that his services were required to rescue Magnus and her team. Using the device previously used on Will Zimmerman, they discovered an unshielded location in the city's underground network that Druitt could teleport into. Druitt then forced Tesla to stay behind while he and Worth teleported into the city to rescue the search party. However, once they were so deep into the caverns that Druitt could not teleport out, Worth set his abnormal allies onto Druitt and captured him.
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== Adam Worth (A.I.) ==
: For article page, see Adam Worth (A.I.).
== Notes ==
* Trivia: Adam Worth is based on the character, or rather characters, of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
* Speculation: He could be based on the web series version of John Druitt, namely an insane teleporting time traveler.
* Historical Fact: Adam Worth was also a real life historical figure. He was a criminal, and it has been widely speculated that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used Worth as the prototype for Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Professor Moriarty.
=== Mental condition ===
Adam Worth suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder and, according to Will Zimmerman's observations, he is a textbook sufferer of the mental condition. It is implied that he showed signs of the condition at the University of Oxford in the form of mood swings, short temper and according to James Watson burning down a lab, an incident he claimed was an accident.
His condition escalated when his daughter Imogene Worth died of leukemia. Prior to this, he had tried desperately to cure her on his own, but was unable. He then sought out Helen Magnus and Watson at the London Sanctuary to ask for their aid. Both went to the hospital to see if they could be of service but quickly discovered that the girl was a severe case beyond their help. Telling them there was little that could be done, Worth tried to inquire about the "blood experiments," but Magnus refused saying it was too dangerous to perform on a child. The pair did everything they could, but ultimately the illness claimed the child.
After that Adam Worth's psyche fractured into two distinct personalities, the originally benign intellectual Adam and a violent darker Worth personality born from his rage over the loss of his daughter. The dark personality would eventually come to dominate after bullying Adam into submission under the pretense of protecting him. This dark personality came to despise Magnus, who it viewed as having murdered Imogene and attempting to murder him when she had shot him to stop him from waging war on London with deadly poison.
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== References ==
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Sanctuary#Adam_Worth
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