Abbey Grange - Part Three

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Speaker 7 Previously on Sherlock and Co.

Speaker 9 So we have a robbery.

Speaker 10 We do.

Speaker 11 And Eustace, I would say being the larger of the two women, bore the brunt of their attack upon entry through the window.

Speaker 7 Yeah, quite an attack.

Speaker 11 Multiple strikes.

Speaker 9 Dozens and dozens.

Speaker 12 I think I need to elevate this and stop messing around.

Speaker 9 We are not messing around.

Speaker 13 Guys, what?

Speaker 9 John!

Speaker 5 What?

Speaker 9 She died.

Speaker 12 Eustace died.

Speaker 11 What's Sherlock saying about the case?

Speaker 9 Uh, I think he's just trying to work out how these

Speaker 9 little shits got into the room right now.

Speaker 14 Little shits.

Speaker 9 Yeah, sorry, so some, uh,

Speaker 9 some gang-related incidents throughout the area right now, and they have been lingering around Abbey Grange.

Speaker 11 That's there, be careful.

Speaker 9 It looks like they forced entry, took out on one old woman, tied up the other, and nicked all the

Speaker 8 valuables.

Speaker 6 And Sherlock, did he say this?

Speaker 9 Did he say what?

Speaker 17 Did he say that the gun did this?

Speaker 9 I don't think so, but they definitely did it.

Speaker 11 They didn't do it.

Speaker 9 What are you talking about?

Speaker 11 I'm talking about the crime. Margaret, recall the events for me one last time.

Speaker 18 Can you stop interrupting my mother, please? I don't know if you've noticed, but she's been through a lot.

Speaker 11 Yes, through an enormous amount. Some youths from the local park scaled the walls, burst in through her window, tied her to the chair, and beat her fellow resident to death.
Is that what happened?

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 11 That's the sequence of events, is it Margaret? Margaret.

Speaker 11 They are busy tracking down the killer, Mrs. Brackenstall.

Speaker 9 Good.

Speaker 11 They went looking in Randall Park.

Speaker 11 A rather unnecessary field trip, I'd say.

Speaker 18 Sorry, this is.

Speaker 18 How exactly is that unnecessary? Because, Mr.

Speaker 11 Crocker, the killer is not in Randall Park.

Speaker 11 The killer

Speaker 11 is in this room.

Speaker 8 Hi, all.

Speaker 9 Welcome to the final part of the adventure of Abbey Grange.

Speaker 9 Sorry again that I withheld this case for so long.

Speaker 9 I hope, well, I think I did the right thing.

Speaker 9 I hope you can forgive me for keeping it from you, and I hope that the themes and content in this particular adventure aren't too hard-hitting.

Speaker 9 Trigger warnings can be found in the episode description. I'll see you at the end.

Speaker 14 And a local claimed that they saw you outside Abbey Grange residential home around the time of the murder. Now.
Outside? Outside, correct. Well,

Speaker 14 that local for me, then, bruv. Right, okay.
Well, look,

Speaker 14 it is reasonable to assume. Reasonable.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. If this was reasonable, we'd be chatting on Road.
On my turf, helping man out. Not in here, because you patterned it like that.

Speaker 14 You slap me in the room, then want to hear a man talk. Nah.

Speaker 14 That's not reasonable. None of this shit ain't nowhere near reasonable, big man.
What we're looking for in this situation, okay,

Speaker 14 is cooperation. You ain't...
No, no, no, no. We absolutely are.
I can assure you. I've been cooperating since this afternoon, bro.
It only cooperating to you when you hear what you want to hear.

Speaker 14 Well, if we're not cooperating, then what are are we doing? We be stereotyping, man. One of us, aka fucking you in the big boy shit with the pads and the gear be stereotyping.
How so? Please.

Speaker 14 No, I'm serious. I'm serious, I'd like to know.
Please, shut your mouth with that. You're wasting tape on this recorder, you know.
Bear ass gaslighting shit. So that's it, then, is it? That's it.

Speaker 14 I can't do my job

Speaker 14 because people

Speaker 14 might feel hard done by, they might feel judged or stereotyped. Is that what we're saying?

Speaker 14 We'll put it this way, an elderly woman got her face smashed in, mate. I know it, bro.
Disgusting. But God forbid I'm stereotyped.
God forbid I take up someone's afternoon.

Speaker 14 Okay, he wanted to hang out in the park with his friends, but now he's got to go and help in a murder inquiry. Poor guy, what a poor little fellow.
I lose 50 afternoons a year with this shit.

Speaker 14 Have you heard yourself?

Speaker 14 Sort your priorities out. Look into my eyes.

Speaker 14 Look. Yeah, I'm looking.
And listen to the words that come out of my mouth. Not a single one of us went into that place.
Not a single one.

Speaker 14 And if I found out one of my boys, if the man them thought they were gonna pop through the window and do that kind of shit, you'd be dealing with another murder.

Speaker 14 And I'd happily, gladly, bro, gladly take full responsibility.

Speaker 14 While she was crying and screaming, a white guy, big build, bruv, stocky bell gym, crossfit looking, bro,

Speaker 14 bald head. He's filling this car with shit.
He's crazed. Proper.
A muscly,

Speaker 14 bald

Speaker 14 white guy.

Speaker 14 Well, now who's stereotyping? You wanted the truth. You got it.

Speaker 14 Now, what are you gonna do about that information, bruv?

Speaker 15 If I was in the Navy. Sorry, what?

Speaker 11 If I was in the Navy,

Speaker 10 what car would I drive?

Speaker 11 Clearly decorated. Many years of service.

Speaker 9 Can we return to the old woman and her son who we've just accused of being murderers?

Speaker 11 I enjoy theatre as much as the next man Watson, but in order to discard the convenient truth and expose the inconvenient one, we need evidence.

Speaker 9 Right, and we're just gonna walk through the car park until we find it.

Speaker 9 Here, look.

Speaker 15 What?

Speaker 10 That

Speaker 11 is clearly the car of a man that was in the Navy.

Speaker 9 How on earth are we coming to that conclusion? Well kept.

Speaker 11 Old, reliable, sensible purchase.

Speaker 11 Reasonable mileage. Some discolouration on the brake discs.
That would mean lengthy times without use.

Speaker 11 Can you see here? When I put in its MOT details,

Speaker 11 that garage.

Speaker 11 Yes.

Speaker 11 Two and a half miles from a naval college. You must do some teaching, too.
Judging by what I can see through the driver's side window, we've got no jewellery.

Speaker 11 But in fairness, whether stolen or purchased, you wouldn't leave that in a vehicle.

Speaker 9 Uh, you also wouldn't rob your mum, mate, if we're trying to psychoanalyse here.

Speaker 11 Let's hope that the boot offers the other significant piece of evidence.

Speaker 7 Which is what?

Speaker 11 Well, I can show you.

Speaker 11 Locked, of course.

Speaker 11 So I may have to, um...

Speaker 11 Let me just grab Mike the mic a second.

Speaker 5 Sure, why do you need to? Ah!

Speaker 11 Sorry, listeners, but thank you.

Speaker 9 What is wrong with you? I'm just eager to find the truth, Watson.

Speaker 11 That's all. Is that a crime?

Speaker 8 Well,

Speaker 5 yeah, apparently. Ah.

Speaker 15 Well.

Speaker 9 Consider me guilty.

Speaker 8 God. What is that?

Speaker 11 Evidence.

Speaker 9 Sorry, excuse me.

Speaker 13 Um, do you know how much longer?

Speaker 9 It's uh oddish way. Oddie's way.
Oh, great. Thank you.

Speaker 5 Thank you.

Speaker 11 Kent policing is in dire need of recruitment.

Speaker 12 I think nearly all public services are in dire need of recruitment, mate.

Speaker 11 And the operating software they're using is no longer supported.

Speaker 7 Can you not touch the computers of police officers, please?

Speaker 9 Thank you.

Speaker 18 Look, before you start...

Speaker 9 Ah, Stanley. How you doing, mate?

Speaker 11 Good, John. Uh, well, um, no, not good, actually.
What's wrong, PCSO Hopkins? Did your senior colleagues fail to charge our little Randall Park friends?

Speaker 12 They, um.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 12 That seems to be the case.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Evidence somewhat insubstantial, I would imagine. Yes, um, something like that.
Well, I am rather tired, and all this standing around gloating isn't helping. So, let's crack on, shall we?

Speaker 7 Crack on with what exactly? The arrest.

Speaker 5 Come, come.

Speaker 18 Wait, what?

Speaker 11 You just left? No.

Speaker 11 Well, yes, actually, but it was on official investigatory business.

Speaker 5 Right, uh,

Speaker 9 how so? You broke into Margaret's son's car.

Speaker 10 You did what?

Speaker 11 I just needed to grab something. What

Speaker 12 exactly did you need to grab?

Speaker 11 A standard-issue NHS adjustable walking metal stick with a base diameter of 30mm and a shaft diameter of 19mm, of course. Of course.

Speaker 16 And sorry, what if our killer gets away?

Speaker 11 They're not allowed to. Can only be discharged by a medical professional.

Speaker 5 What? What on earth?

Speaker 8 Hello, everyone. Good evening.

Speaker 13 Hello. Hi, uh, hi, Reg.
Hi, Francis.

Speaker 6 Who are you?

Speaker 18 Sake, I feel so used.

Speaker 13 Hi, Bill.

Speaker 15 Graham. Dave.

Speaker 13 John.

Speaker 9 Put him down, Gillian. You don't know where he's been.

Speaker 8 Hello there.

Speaker 11 Could we get an evening dosage of galantamine for Mrs. Brackenstall, please?

Speaker 5 In her room? Thank you.

Speaker 17 Sorry, well, well, hang on. She's already had it.

Speaker 11 I assure you, she hasn't.

Speaker 13 Right away, please.

Speaker 17 She's not in her room.

Speaker 8 She will be.

Speaker 11 I'd like to do this in private. They're over there.

Speaker 9 Indeed, they are.

Speaker 11 Come, come. Sherlock, please.

Speaker 9 She is a delicate, sweet old woman.

Speaker 16 Fuck off and leave me alone.

Speaker 15 Pigs. What the.

Speaker 16 We didn't do anything. And you want answers from me, do you?

Speaker 17 Well, you can piss off. Margaret, that's enough.

Speaker 5 Margaret, it's.

Speaker 13 I'm Dr. Watson.

Speaker 9 There, this is Sherlock Holmes. We spoke.

Speaker 15 Oh. Do you remember?

Speaker 9 You were tied up.

Speaker 9 Little tart?

Speaker 16 Speak properly, fool.

Speaker 11 Margaret.

Speaker 11 Lovely Margaret.

Speaker 11 I was wondering if we could discuss the crime that took place in your room yesterday.

Speaker 16 I didn't see you yesterday.

Speaker 11 I assure you, you did.

Speaker 16 I didn't. I was working in Manchester.
Not that it's any of your business. Who do you think you are? A pair of wet shits.
This is my house. My house, Eustace.

Speaker 5 My house, you bitch. Whoa, whoa, Margaret, Margaret, bitch.

Speaker 17 Margaret, that's enough.

Speaker 13 Mum, mum, please.

Speaker 5 Who are you?

Speaker 5 Get your hands on, Margaret. Mum, it eats okay.

Speaker 9 No, I think it's time for another film.

Speaker 9 What do we think?

Speaker 9 Oh, look at this.

Speaker 15 Love in the Orient.

Speaker 13 Does that sound good? Eulock?

Speaker 13 Oh, lovely jubbly. Alright, Sherlock, take them upstairs.

Speaker 15 Will do.

Speaker 11 You're right, John.

Speaker 6 You beat tense.

Speaker 8 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 Not concerned that white guy's gonna do the accent again.

Speaker 11 He's from China, that one.

Speaker 15 No, don't think he is.

Speaker 9 Oh, God, that's a karate kick.

Speaker 11 Very violent, isn't it?

Speaker 13 Yep.

Speaker 11 Yep. They can be over there.

Speaker 16 In that part of the world.

Speaker 8 Right, I'm gonna... I should

Speaker 11 check on Sherlock.

Speaker 11 How is she?

Speaker 13 Sleeping.

Speaker 18 Please leave.

Speaker 11 You know I can't do that.

Speaker 11 Jack, we just want the truth.

Speaker 9 Cause something horrific happened here.

Speaker 9 Jack.

Speaker 18 You don't understand who we're dealing with here.

Speaker 15 Who, Margaret?

Speaker 18 No, not me, mum

Speaker 18 Eustace Yates.

Speaker 18 I first met her when I was, oh gosh,

Speaker 18 I don't know, eight years old.

Speaker 18 My dad had just died.

Speaker 11 Oh, sorry.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 18 Long, long time ago now.

Speaker 18 Obviously.

Speaker 18 He had the jewelry place.

Speaker 18 A few of them actually. And we were, well, living luxury, I suppose.

Speaker 18 First to get a snazz.

Speaker 18 First of all, my mates to go on holiday abroad. Nice clothes.
Got sent to a private school nearby.

Speaker 18 But then,

Speaker 19 yeah.

Speaker 18 Cancer

Speaker 18 for dad

Speaker 11 he um

Speaker 11 well

Speaker 18 he passed and we

Speaker 18 well, we moved down here.

Speaker 18 She wanted to be back in Kent where she's from.

Speaker 18 And when he died, mum was obviously struggling. So she reached out to a few local WI type women just for, you know, emotional support, really.

Speaker 18 Don't know what an eight-year-old boy can do for a woman that's just lost her husband, so

Speaker 18 yeah.

Speaker 18 She met Eustace and

Speaker 18 like that they sent me away for schooling.

Speaker 18 Just saw them on school holidays. Sometimes not even then.

Speaker 18 Every time I saw mum, she was

Speaker 18 that bit poorer, that bit sadder. Bruises, scratches, limps.

Speaker 18 But it's me, mum, you know.

Speaker 18 You've met her.

Speaker 18 Not the one you've just dealt with.

Speaker 18 The one before.

Speaker 18 Just

Speaker 18 look, she's delicate.

Speaker 18 She's always been.

Speaker 18 She's so

Speaker 18 sweet.

Speaker 18 Exactly.

Speaker 18 And Eustace saw.

Speaker 18 I obviously didn't understand it, even remotely at the time, because I was so young.

Speaker 18 But she saw someone to exploit, to torment, to, you know,

Speaker 18 she was like a parasite. the worst kind,

Speaker 18 a cancer.

Speaker 18 My dad got it in his lungs, and mum got it in the form of Eustace.

Speaker 18 She just

Speaker 18 destroyed her,

Speaker 6 but

Speaker 18 she never knew it, you know.

Speaker 18 She was brainwashed by that fucking evil cow,

Speaker 11 honestly.

Speaker 18 You know,

Speaker 18 I think even as a young lad I knew something was wrong.

Speaker 18 I just wanted to get even further away.

Speaker 18 I joined the Navy and

Speaker 18 after some

Speaker 18 ill-advised behaviour, put it that way,

Speaker 18 they had me meet with a counsellor type person.

Speaker 18 And yeah,

Speaker 18 I met my now wife.

Speaker 18 She was a

Speaker 18 well, she is a psychologist, and she just bang spotted it right away.

Speaker 18 My mum and Eustace.

Speaker 18 That thing that I'd been trying to understand from such a young age. The bullying, the manipulation, the dependency.

Speaker 18 My dude, it took her a few months to break it to me.

Speaker 18 The little boy inside me just couldn't accept that mum was unhappy, I suppose.

Speaker 18 And yeah, we took action. Still got all the evidence at home, if you want to see it.
A brutal, sustained coercion and grooming of my mum for, well,

Speaker 18 over a decade.

Speaker 18 And we got her. Eustace got banged up.

Speaker 18 She got four and a half years, I think. Didn't hear from her again.
The missus and I had got married, we'd had our kids, we had mum living with us for a while. Bliss, yeah.

Speaker 18 But it lasted.

Speaker 18 Then things deteriorated. I remember her asking me one day in the garden.

Speaker 18 Her garden, really, after all the work she'd done to it.

Speaker 18 She just said,

Speaker 18 Where am I again, love?

Speaker 8 Yardley's.

Speaker 18 That that was the garden centre.

Speaker 18 She thought we were at the garden centre.

Speaker 18 And I

Speaker 18 my heart just

Speaker 18 sank.

Speaker 18 Got worse from there.

Speaker 18 Well, that's what it does though, doesn't it?

Speaker 18 It got

Speaker 18 well it just got so difficult.

Speaker 18 The sweetness just

Speaker 18 left, as you saw

Speaker 18 and then

Speaker 18 well eventually

Speaker 18 we got her in Abbey Grange.

Speaker 8 And how

Speaker 11 did you find your paths crossing with Eustace Yeats after all that time?

Speaker 18 Yeah, so

Speaker 18 a couple of months ago actually, I'm talking to us and all I ever heard was about them not

Speaker 18 that gang. It's all they talk about in here.

Speaker 18 It's like there's some enemy at the gates.

Speaker 18 They love it.

Speaker 8 But

Speaker 18 this one day she's not banging on about them.

Speaker 18 She says an old friend has moved into Abbey Grange and I'm thrilled for her, honestly. It felt so

Speaker 18 well I I just felt bad for putting her in here. I mean, it's only temporary at the end of the day because

Speaker 18 well, her needs are going to get more and more complex, so she'll be moved on again.

Speaker 18 But I just want her to enjoy it, you know, while she can.

Speaker 18 And I go, that's great. She says she's going to be sharing a room with her.
She's been looking after her, caring for her, and it... Well, it just sounds

Speaker 18 sounded perfect.

Speaker 18 Until I visit.

Speaker 18 And...

Speaker 18 After watching her in the courtroom 20 years ago,

Speaker 18 I'm now staring at her.

Speaker 18 Staring at this fucking monster co-living in a room with my mum.

Speaker 18 Eustace Yates.

Speaker 18 God almighty.

Speaker 18 I lose it, man. Just snap.
Gone. Head gone.
The place banned me. I just said, she's gone, she's out.
What's more, I'm gonna get the place shut down. I can see the fucking bruises on her.

Speaker 18 I can see it, man, in her eyes.

Speaker 18 I managed to finally get everything in order. Local authority speaks to this place and, well, I

Speaker 18 I can I can visit again and and all this s safeguarding bollocks.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 18 And and

Speaker 18 and that was yesterday, yeah?

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 18 God.

Speaker 11 Everything all right?

Speaker 8 How's it going? Shhh. Shh.

Speaker 6 Hold on, Stanley.

Speaker 5 I'm so sorry, Mom.

Speaker 5 Please, go.

Speaker 18 Please don't wake her. Can we just

Speaker 18 can we just do this down at the station or

Speaker 6 or or anything?

Speaker 7 Did you kill Eustace?

Speaker 7 Oh, God.

Speaker 9 Stanley, please, mate, just hold on.

Speaker 8 Jack?

Speaker 9 Did you kill Eustace Yates? Did you beat her to death in this room?

Speaker 8 I...

Speaker 8 I.

Speaker 18 She was.

Speaker 8 So, what happened?

Speaker 11 Don't.

Speaker 15 What?

Speaker 11 Don't, Jack.

Speaker 18 She's a very.

Speaker 18 She's a psycho, you see.

Speaker 9 Don't lie.

Speaker 6 I'm not.

Speaker 18 Please.

Speaker 11 Please. What you were doing is noble, but will not help your charge.
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Speaker 7 He didn't kill Eustace.

Speaker 5 Then.

Speaker 7 Who did?

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Speaker 11 She changed, didn't she, Jack?

Speaker 11 Angry.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Identity is something we begin to build the second we enter this world.

Speaker 11 For many it becomes firm, unshakable, fixed deep into the foundations of who we are.

Speaker 11 For others it wobbles, cracks, decays, and can even crumble entirely. For her whole life, your mother built herself to be the Margaret Brackenstall that she wanted to be.

Speaker 11 Sweet, kind, considerate, conflict averse, polite, affectionate.

Speaker 11 These traits give you love, they give you family and friends, and when managed carefully, they can give you a fuller life than those more cynical, sceptical, and isolated types could ever imagine.

Speaker 11 That was her construct,

Speaker 11 and it served her well.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 dementia is a wrecking ball.

Speaker 11 For a long time, I didn't quite understand the need to become someone I'm not, on such a regular basis, to converse, to share feelings, to be curious about the livelihood to others, to matter to people and have them matter to me.

Speaker 11 But I realized if I was to knock it all down, what would I be left with?

Speaker 11 I would be left with many things, but nothing that makes life

Speaker 11 life.

Speaker 11 When you came in the room, Jack,

Speaker 11 what did you see?

Speaker 18 Eustace was

Speaker 19 on the floor. Just

Speaker 19 coated.

Speaker 18 Coated in the blood.

Speaker 18 Her face was.

Speaker 18 I only recognized her clothes, to be honest.

Speaker 11 You're a man of action. A commander in the Navy.
You faked a robbery, tied your mother up with a rather impressive knot, I must say. It's wrong.

Speaker 18 It's so wrong.

Speaker 7 You were protecting her.

Speaker 4 They're just kids, man.

Speaker 11 I tried.

Speaker 18 I blamed it on some poor kids who already get enough shit Jack just and then the weapon the walking stick

Speaker 11 Eustace used a walking stick of course Yes, and Jack here took the blood-spattered walking stick of Eustace away along with the jewellery to his car a man of your frame your size would not have required so many blows against the skull of an elderly woman Your mother, on the other hand,

Speaker 11 even when full of rage, having missed her morning medication, required multiple dozens.

Speaker 11 You made sure her untethered mood was remedied with the pill left on the side. You poured her a glass of water and made her swallow her dosage.

Speaker 18 Don't please just stop.

Speaker 11 Um, Sherlock, I was just um Jack. This here is PCSO Stanley Hopkins of Kent Police.
He may try to arrest you, but I feel it is my responsibility to advise you on the law as I am so familiar with it.

Speaker 11 He is not authorised to do so. Do you understand? Sherlock.
Not authorized to arrest you, but

Speaker 11 his reluctance to make said arrest is not only down to his lack of authority, nor his almost non-existent experience.

Speaker 11 He, like me, is stricken by the problem we find ourselves in. The inconvenient truth that it is not a bunch of rowdy hoodlums, to use the word bounded around downstairs.

Speaker 11 It was not the enemy we all craved it to be, but the hero, the friend, the ally, a beautiful, elderly woman who has had an extremely difficult life, and now who faces her hardest challenge yet in the form of mental decline.

Speaker 11 Eustace has faced the bloody consequences of being her torturer, her captor, and her abuser all these years.

Speaker 11 Margaret's condition, it would seem, has taken so much,

Speaker 11 but it has returned her in that momentary fit of rage, a final taste of freedom.

Speaker 11 Morality is something I speculate on because I often struggle to understand it.

Speaker 11 To my colleague, however, my companion, it is purely natural, woven into his very fibre.

Speaker 11 I will let him make this judgment.

Speaker 8 Sherlock.

Speaker 11 PCSO Hopkins, come.

Speaker 11 Let Watson deliberate.

Speaker 8 Oh,

Speaker 16 I must have dozed off, love.

Speaker 18 It's okay, Mum.

Speaker 6 Don't worry.

Speaker 16 Hello, John. Everything all right?

Speaker 8 Yeah,

Speaker 8 all good.

Speaker 6 I do just as you say,

Speaker 16 why must I just give you your way?

Speaker 6 Why do I die?

Speaker 2 Why don't I try to forget?

Speaker 2 It must have been that one thing was before me.

Speaker 9 We are gathered here today

Speaker 18 because,

Speaker 9 well, my rental bike got a flat tire, but we are gathered here today, two months late, I might add.

Speaker 8 Get on with it.

Speaker 9 Gathered here today

Speaker 15 on the

Speaker 9 something of July, I think, 2025.

Speaker 15 Good lord.

Speaker 15 To celebrate and honour the life of Margaret Brackenstall.

Speaker 9 A spirit that showed me the true power of personality.

Speaker 9 What it takes to hold it all together when inside there is such turmoil.

Speaker 9 She didn't do that for herself. She did it for her family.

Speaker 9 For her friends, for

Speaker 10 for all whom... whom?

Speaker 8 Whom, yes. All whom she met.

Speaker 9 Not a single day in her life was easy or straightforward, but she never complained. Never wanted to bring anyone else down.

Speaker 7 Always wanted to be the sunshine,

Speaker 9 never the rain.

Speaker 7 Such was your charm, Margaret.

Speaker 9 I call just about every contact I have to get you a psychiatric assessment and no prison time.

Speaker 9 No trial, even, just

Speaker 8 to live out your life.

Speaker 9 Your son,

Speaker 9 you don't know this, but I can tell you now, he actually did do some prison time, but he was allowed to visit

Speaker 9 until they quite rightly shut the place down for

Speaker 15 well, negligence, obviously, but

Speaker 9 your most impressive feat, Margaret.

Speaker 9 You got me to shelve an episode.

Speaker 8 Hey, hey,

Speaker 8 hey, Archie boy!

Speaker 15 For 18 whole months.

Speaker 15 Just because I didn't want you getting in any more trouble

Speaker 9 or you to be ashamed.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I sat on the adventure of Abby Grange.

Speaker 17 How did it go?

Speaker 2 Did you catch the killer?

Speaker 15 Um,

Speaker 9 yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, we got him.

Speaker 22 So what happened?

Speaker 8 Oh,

Speaker 9 you will have to listen.

Speaker 5 Right, right.

Speaker 2 Hey, so, Christmas decorations.

Speaker 13 Uh, I'm listening.

Speaker 9 I hope I did the right thing.

Speaker 9 And that you didn't feel any shame in your final days.

Speaker 9 Not that your mates in there could give it a listen. Half of them couldn't even hear me when I was sat right next to them.

Speaker 9 You know, I do think about those lot every now and again, wondering if they're still with us.

Speaker 11 Are you quite finished?

Speaker 9 Sorry, there seems to be a pretty abusive heckler at this funeral, Margaret.

Speaker 9 I'm also sorry because

Speaker 9 it has gotten properly late here now, and I'm just

Speaker 9 standing in a graveyard, and that's a bit spooky.

Speaker 15 But

Speaker 9 yeah, you

Speaker 9 may not have been case number five,

Speaker 9 which, yes, would have been great exposure, but

Speaker 9 I hope you don't mind being case number 31.

Speaker 11 32.

Speaker 9 32.

Speaker 9 You're a lucky number, how about that?

Speaker 8 Take care.

Speaker 15 Hope wherever you are, you're

Speaker 10 finally free.

Speaker 8 Goodbye, Margaret.

Speaker 11 Goodbye, Margaret.

Speaker 9 Hey, you found a bike?

Speaker 5 Indeed.

Speaker 9 Is it a rental?

Speaker 11 Yes, different branding in Kent. Ah.

Speaker 5 Okay, right.

Speaker 9 Well, where are we off to?

Speaker 11 Home, Watson.

Speaker 9 Let's go home.

Speaker 11 Let's.

Speaker 8 Hey, that's my fucking bike.

Speaker 8 Go now. You took their bike.

Speaker 13 Shut up.

Speaker 11 Hey, everyone.

Speaker 9 Well, I finally got to share it with you.

Speaker 9 That was the adventure of Abby Grange from way back in 2023.

Speaker 9 And yeah, to be honest, I would rattle off some interesting things that happened in that year, but I can't honestly remember any.

Speaker 9 I'll tell you what happened in 2024. I launched the Patreon.

Speaker 15 And I am...

Speaker 15 Well, all of us, Sherlock, Mariana, Archie, we're all so...

Speaker 9 Graham too. We're all so proud of it.

Speaker 9 It's got vast mountains of content that you will love, and it is going to get so much more exciting, exclusive stuff.

Speaker 9 I'm off into the Discord now to see what everyone thinks of the adventure and what they think of me snogging a pensioner.

Speaker 9 Cheers.