James Brown would have never imagined that a dropped condom box would betray his identity.
Of course, this was also quite a coincidence; if someone else had picked up the box, it would have been useless and they wouldn't have thought to fingerprint it. Even if another police officer had found the box and decided to check the fingerprints, they wouldn't have gone on to extract fingerprints from James Brown.
The main thing was that Helen Wilson had seen him many times and had encountered the Mysterious Figure a few times, enabling her to overlap these two personas and ultimately discover that the Mysterious Figure was actually James Brown.
Although Helen Wilson had suspected that James Brown was the Mysterious Figure, seeing the results truly shocked her deeply. The flamboyant James Brown, the guy who always joked around, turned out to be such a powerful person, which Helen Wilson found hard to reconcile.
