he is thenapoleon of crime, watson. he is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city…. he sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
I missed it from the BBC-version, really. Or something like this. For example, he could have been called the Gargamel of...