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How do they know for sure that they got the right person?
I mean, how common could a name like James Watt be? /s
Yeah, he should have stuck to inventing steam engines, not identities.
The smart thing would have been to use his own name on all the IDs he made, turn it into an inadvertant "no, he's Spartacus" situation.