The Priory School - Part Two

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Speaker 11 Previously on Sherlock and Yeah, we're saying that you can kind of help us get out of it, right?

Speaker 13 Because you can pick out the clients that will be able to cover a, you know, a larger invoice.

Speaker 15 I'm Tom Huxtable. I am the executive head teacher at Moorhill.
Its standards of education and discipline secured it the most upmarket client base you can imagine.

Speaker 15 And it's even become a bit of a sought-after spot for the offspring of tech billionaires. One in particular, Benjamin Duke.
But we enrolled just his fourth boy a couple of years ago, Soltire Duke.

Speaker 16 He went to bed at 10 p.m.

Speaker 15 He's not been seen since.

Speaker 10 You think he was taken?

Speaker 7 Not the behavior of someone that was dragged out into the night, rather, someone that hopped out this window willingly. I'd like to go in there.

Speaker 15 That's Heidegger's room.

Speaker 18 Stefan!

Speaker 19 Stefan!

Speaker 18 Open the door, mate!

Speaker 7 He watched and he waited.

Speaker 20 Perhaps he lured him out.

Speaker 9 Lured him out into the darkness and took him.

Speaker 13 I told you, didn't I?

Speaker 10 In the last part, I said distressing themes.

Speaker 12 And you were probably like, ah, no, it won't be.

Speaker 13 Just ignore him.

Speaker 22 Now look, child abduction.

Speaker 21 Hope you're proud of yourselves.

Speaker 13 Yeah, part two now.

Speaker 3 Bye.

Speaker 2 The team on the ground were able to establish contact with a gentleman who resided by the lake. He did boat hires, him and his giant dog,

Speaker 2 called Robbie.

Speaker 7 Robbie the dog.

Speaker 15 This thing is enormous.

Speaker 2 And that single initial interaction in hindsight was

Speaker 2 where we got a foothold on the case. Incredible.

Speaker 2 That's how these things work. It's these tiny fortuitous moments that you've got to be wise enough and sharp enough to whittle into something of value.
You make your own luck.

Speaker 2 You make your own luck.

Speaker 24 Currently

Speaker 13 traversing the sheep-nibbled grass of

Speaker 13 Mackleton, I believe, the

Speaker 17 nearest sort of village, parish, what have you,

Speaker 27 to Moorhill with Archie, of course.

Speaker 17 He is um he's scuttling about somewhere.

Speaker 17 Wow

Speaker 28 I'm uh I'm stopping every now and again uh because my feet hurt, but but of course also

Speaker 13 to admire uh Well, everything really, absolutely everything. It's it's drop dead gorgeous.

Speaker 11 An absolute babe or unk, even of a place.

Speaker 10 It's not sort of

Speaker 24 attractive in a cutesy kind of chocolate boxy kind of way that you'd expect.

Speaker 17 Sorry, just at a lake.

Speaker 10 I cannot ignore some prime skimming stones here.

Speaker 29 Blame my dad.

Speaker 13 His legacy.

Speaker 13 I realize I'm also, you know, meant to be looking for a German man and a missing boy, but

Speaker 11 look at that one go.

Speaker 16 Six.

Speaker 27 It's a sixer.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 17 what was that saying?

Speaker 21 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the lake district.

Speaker 29 It's not a sort of village green cottage next to a babbling brook type situation.

Speaker 10 It's

Speaker 6 I don't know, it's

Speaker 31 melancholic, very raw.

Speaker 22 There's these big gullies and sharp hillsides and these vast

Speaker 17 slabs of water just come up out of nowhere.

Speaker 13 It's like God was going through a little emo phase or, you know, a gothy sort of streak when he fiddled about making this place.

Speaker 12 Nothing godlike about that, son.

Speaker 19 Oh, bloody hell.

Speaker 19 Oh, sorry.

Speaker 3 Oh, hello.

Speaker 23 You made me jump there.

Speaker 27 Archie, got a friend here for you, mate.

Speaker 32 All right.

Speaker 3 What do you got? Bulldog.

Speaker 1 Here he is.

Speaker 1 What's this fella?

Speaker 21 If you said horse, I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 17 He's a big lad. This is Robbie.

Speaker 33 He's a deer-hound.

Speaker 3 Right? Right, wow. Uh, hello, Robbie, mate.

Speaker 24 Absolute unit, aren't you?

Speaker 13 Oh, you've been hunting for something, sir.

Speaker 10 Yes, you have stalking these lands.

Speaker 33 There's bigger hounds that stalk the more lands of this country, lad.

Speaker 33 Beasts that would make even Robbie ish were to his little bones.

Speaker 25 Beasts, yeah, yeah, no.

Speaker 24 I'm, you know, I'm sort of rural myself.

Speaker 17 I've always,

Speaker 17 you know, been fascinated by the uh the stories.

Speaker 3 Aye.

Speaker 33 Telling Killing yourself a few stories then, weren't you, lad?

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah, no, sorry.

Speaker 27 Uh, I make a podcast.

Speaker 21 Um, it's I was

Speaker 17 just talking to the listeners of it, you know, describing the beauty of the place.

Speaker 33 No beauty here, son.

Speaker 33 If only you knew the darkness and the demons that live within it.

Speaker 36 Yeah, I mean, oh, come on.

Speaker 33 You've been at that school, I bet, haven't you?

Speaker 33 Sniffing around for that boy.

Speaker 32 Hey.

Speaker 33 You have no idea what they do to them up there.

Speaker 25 Sorry, wait.

Speaker 31 What?

Speaker 33 Evil incarnate.

Speaker 33 A temple to wickedness. A demented sickness is rife in all those elites.

Speaker 12 Should see them all hanged.

Speaker 23 Oh, okay, Arch. If you just let me pick him up.

Speaker 33 Tell me what you think that is.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 20 That

Speaker 13 it's a lake.

Speaker 33 It's a reservoir.

Speaker 32 Oh okay, I'm not from here no one is anymore Sorry just to ask about the schools

Speaker 33 nothing but stock trout stocked trout stock trout in a hill town

Speaker 33 Not native flashier hungrier and gone the moment the water warms

Speaker 33 They eat the young what

Speaker 36 think about it Well yeah, no I

Speaker 16 can imagine I'm actually here for uh there's an investigation um is taking place.

Speaker 33 You're not here for the apparent beauty, you're not, eh?

Speaker 33 You see that along the foothill there?

Speaker 12 Uh uh the flower, yeah, it's it's lovely, beautiful.

Speaker 3 Um, I was just saying rhododendron.

Speaker 33 Of course they look nice, don't they?

Speaker 33 But the estate owners brought them in generations ago. An ornamental plant.

Speaker 33 The grandfather helped stick off them in the soil for about two pennies.

Speaker 33 If know him,

Speaker 33 I'd tell you.

Speaker 21 No good.

Speaker 17 They spread.

Speaker 33 I'll tell you, they bloody spread. Those roots muscle into the soil, choking out the native species.
It smothers the land. You think they're coexisting?

Speaker 32 They're not.

Speaker 33 They're replacing.

Speaker 7 Do you understand?

Speaker 16 Sorry, two seconds. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Speaker 12 Hello, where are you?

Speaker 16 I'm just uh walking to to

Speaker 28 um sorry, excuse me, where am I?

Speaker 22 You would have been in Mardale.

Speaker 12 Uh Mardale. But you're not anymore.

Speaker 3 R Mardale.

Speaker 12 Hey, excuse me.

Speaker 28 Sorry, hello.

Speaker 28 Right, well, he's gone.

Speaker 12 Who was that?

Speaker 13 A cheery local.

Speaker 29 I will be back in twenty minutes.

Speaker 12 Honeys, I'm hurt.

Speaker 24 Oh, God, sorry, forgot how crap this was.

Speaker 9 Hey, Archie boy.

Speaker 11 Breakfast?

Speaker 36 For me or the dog? You?

Speaker 12 Oh, man, yes. Oh,

Speaker 11 you are the best.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I would love some. You got it.

Speaker 9 Fire pit. Outside.

Speaker 3 Good idea.

Speaker 9 Oh, you want coffee too? I can bring you a coffee.

Speaker 30 Um, wow.

Speaker 3 Okay, yeah. Uh, sure.

Speaker 7 Morning, John.

Speaker 22 Hey, morning, mate.

Speaker 28 You okay?

Speaker 7 Splendid. Fire pit is ready, Mariana.
I've saved you extra sausages, dear Watson.

Speaker 12 Oh, you guys.

Speaker 9 And you get the extra egg top.

Speaker 21 Oh, now you're talking.

Speaker 3 Hell yeah.

Speaker 11 Or should I say, shell yeah.

Speaker 7 How ingenious, but also amusing.

Speaker 1 You okay?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, why why uh

Speaker 10 why are we being so nice to me?

Speaker 3 Hello, mate.

Speaker 10 Sorry, is this where I pump out the toilet waste?

Speaker 11 Great.

Speaker 38 it?

Speaker 12 Uh yeah, it didn't get pumped out from the last guest, so.

Speaker 38 Dirty shots.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yep.

Speaker 18 But we're warning for it, mine.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Great, great for sploshing shit and piss into a bin, mate, yeah.

Speaker 38 You know, you might just have a clonk. The trick is lots of fibre, I find.
The big floaters struggle getting through the flush pipe. Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 18 Enjoyed your hole there.

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 27 Yeah, yeah, loving it.

Speaker 9 You want another sausage in here, John?

Speaker 34 I'm actually.

Speaker 30 I'll pass on that.

Speaker 25 Thank you.

Speaker 13 Notice you didn't come and help on the dump pump, Archie.

Speaker 10 Thanks, mate.

Speaker 7 Coffee.

Speaker 22 Here.

Speaker 10 Thank you.

Speaker 7 How was your morning stroll?

Speaker 13 Good.

Speaker 23 Good, yeah.

Speaker 10 Yeah, well, I didn't see any signs of Soltire or or Stefan Heidegger, so bad in that respect, but a beautiful walk.

Speaker 34 Um

Speaker 36 yeah, met a local village

Speaker 17 I hesitate to say village idiot, but village weirdo, can I say weirdo?

Speaker 7 In what respect?

Speaker 19 Oh, just

Speaker 25 dodgy bloke rambling about the schoolpedo conspiracy or something.

Speaker 39 Weird.

Speaker 9 We don't think that, right, Sherlock?

Speaker 7 We do not.

Speaker 13 It's he's.

Speaker 25 he was a bit crazed, so.

Speaker 14 Yeah, dunno.

Speaker 13 Changing the subject from clogged toilets and child abuse, how's the research?

Speaker 7 Increasingly illuminating. Our disappearing German, Stefan Heidegger, his motorbike remains parked.

Speaker 7 No cameras on any of the grounds, nor from businesses and farms in the local area, have picked them up.

Speaker 7 Herr Heidegger had been working at the school since just September, and close friends of our missing Soltire couldn't provide a connection between the two, between him and Stefan.

Speaker 7 No animosity, nor the reverse.

Speaker 22 As in,

Speaker 9 they had no reason to believe he'd kidnap him.

Speaker 7 But Mariana found this.

Speaker 34 Oh, Stefan Heidegger, good work.

Speaker 7 Yes. Read the caption.

Speaker 25 The rich getting richer.

Speaker 3 Oof, hello. Hi.

Speaker 9 It's a picture of helicopters coming to land at the start of the new term.

Speaker 9 Bringing in the students.

Speaker 34 Oh, Stefan mate.

Speaker 7 Damning from a motive point of view, of course. But to breach the school's photo policy and social media policy on your first day is quite the indication.

Speaker 30 The plot thickens.

Speaker 10 Speaking of thick, blind me, what is this mighty tone?

Speaker 1 Oh, my homework.

Speaker 9 Where'd you get that? I asked Huxtable if I could read it. It belonged to Saltire.

Speaker 25 Dukedom, the Empire of Benjamin Duke.

Speaker 13 He gave this to his son. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 40 Probably charged him for it.

Speaker 9 And he signed it too, see?

Speaker 25 This book is the key to understanding it all.

Speaker 24 How is it?

Speaker 9 Oh, just the life story of a badass billionaire type.

Speaker 31 Sure, sure.

Speaker 10 Is Saltire mentioned?

Speaker 9 Hmm, yeah. He talks about most of the kids.
Some more than others.

Speaker 24 Yeah, the ones who still speak to him, probably. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 10 Well, you're a way faster reader than I am, so this is in the right hands.

Speaker 9 And breakfast is served.

Speaker 27 Ah, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely.

Speaker 10 Right, quick coffee, cheers and clink, everybody.

Speaker 7 Cheers, cheers,

Speaker 12 life

Speaker 13 is

Speaker 6 a lesson.

Speaker 2 School never ends right, and watching the way a detective works, the way a detective observes everything from interactions to facial features, similarities, what's right in front of us, what's in our periphery, they're able to take in all of it and process it.

Speaker 2 And it's only when they run that through every filter they have

Speaker 7 do they start to build the case.

Speaker 2 Only then.

Speaker 14 everybody else they rush

Speaker 2 they jump to conclusions they self-fulfill with emotion ego ideology whatever not this guy

Speaker 2 not this guy

Speaker 12 I found one!

Speaker 10 Did you actually

Speaker 15 right

Speaker 7 here

Speaker 7 yeah you're right that's a footprint he climbed he didn't jump how'd you know footprint is facing the wall so we climb down backwards then pivot it and you can follow the very faint outline here and then here

Speaker 7 and finally here where i would say it meets another shoe designed for trekking deep grooves a claw-like pattern

Speaker 31 claw-like

Speaker 11 Hey, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 10 Terrain Beast. That's the claw pattern on the bottom.
That's the same as me.

Speaker 12 Ah, yes.

Speaker 7 Good work, John.

Speaker 23 Haha, shoes are coming in handy, people.

Speaker 7 He's a couple of sizes larger than you, it would seem.

Speaker 13 Yeah, all right.

Speaker 7 The hasty summary would be that Stefan, in his terrain beast walking shoes, greeted Master Saltire Duke.

Speaker 7 It would seem they headed, although I am speculating somewhat as these prints fade, particularly in that grass there that caught the sunlight, eastwards.

Speaker 3 Down the hill to Mardale.

Speaker 7 Mackleton.

Speaker 13 Yeah, no, that's next along, but the crazy dog man I spoke to this morning, he said I was in Mardale.

Speaker 7 Well, then, your friend is wrong.

Speaker 13 I mean, he could be right. He's local.

Speaker 34 It wasn't all creepy stuff.

Speaker 24 He chewed my ear off about trout and flowers.

Speaker 9 Hey, incoming?

Speaker 10 Oh, she's emerged from her book.

Speaker 9 Huxtable, coming this way. Do we share our information?

Speaker 34 Why wouldn't we?

Speaker 9 I mean, after what your friend said about the school this morning, she's not my friend.

Speaker 26 Holmes, Watson, I'm

Speaker 5 They asked him for this.

Speaker 30 For what, sorry?

Speaker 2 For the pool.

Speaker 40 The boss, Benjamin Duke, had it built. Specifically requesting the

Speaker 40 dark tiles.

Speaker 36 Yeah, it's

Speaker 13 it is dark.

Speaker 40 Black,

Speaker 3 like a lake.

Speaker 10 Scary stuff.

Speaker 40 I think I remember him saying it would make some men.

Speaker 1 Cruel, really.

Speaker 6 You're a doctor, right?

Speaker 24 Yes, yeah, yeah, ex-army.

Speaker 40 Seen your fair share of dark waters, then, hey?

Speaker 22 More than enough, thanks.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 25 No comparison to what Benjamin Duke is going through now, of course.

Speaker 4 Saltyre?

Speaker 40 He's tough.

Speaker 7 Clever boy.

Speaker 40 He knows what he's doing.

Speaker 6 Otherwise, he wouldn't be at the very, very best school, right?

Speaker 30 Right, yeah.

Speaker 40 Benjamin was here once, too.

Speaker 3 Oh, wow.

Speaker 40 Graduated in 98, I believe.

Speaker 22 Following in his father's footsteps.

Speaker 6 Hmm.

Speaker 7 Where's our detective?

Speaker 29 He was

Speaker 10 catching up with Huxtable on a few matters.

Speaker 34 What is it you do for Benjamin Duke?

Speaker 40 I'm his fixer in the UK.

Speaker 22 Fixer?

Speaker 30 Right, cool. Cool.

Speaker 20 What does that entail?

Speaker 4 How long you got?

Speaker 24 Well, I could be the same for the detective to build.

Speaker 27 Any tips?

Speaker 1 Yeah, booze.

Speaker 13 Oh, steady. Hi, mate.

Speaker 7 Forgive me, Mr. Wilder.
Jim Wilder.

Speaker 9 Hi. Mariana.

Speaker 4 I'm here on behalf of Benjamin.

Speaker 7 So, uh.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, this is Rath.

Speaker 40 Very much so.

Speaker 9 Is he okay?

Speaker 11 He's

Speaker 40 just a positive mental attitude right now.

Speaker 40 He's manifesting his son's return. You can't convince him out of it.

Speaker 9 Of course.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I get that.

Speaker 16 So,

Speaker 40 where do we stand?

Speaker 7 Chief suspect is a Stefan Heidegger, teacher of German here at the school. A line of sight on Solty's room, a grudging attitude towards the student's background, and he is missing.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 40 What do the students say?

Speaker 5 Anything?

Speaker 22 Not anything, right?

Speaker 7 Not quite.

Speaker 20 Um, he

Speaker 37 jumped onto a call, I think, with a lawyer

Speaker 37 last week.

Speaker 7 And you overheard it?

Speaker 37 Well,

Speaker 37 yeah, he was in the library, so, of course, but I wasn't eavesdropping or anything.

Speaker 9 What exactly took place during the call?

Speaker 37 He had just turned 16. They kept saying he had just turned 16.
So the lawyer was instructing him about a

Speaker 37 prelim disbursement.

Speaker 13 What is a prelim disbursement?

Speaker 9 Preliminary. It's a payout.

Speaker 14 Of

Speaker 9 funds and then stock in his name. It's mentioned in his book, too.
He does it with all his kids. Prelims before the age of 25.

Speaker 9 Then big money, big jobs.

Speaker 40 Just the kids he had with Camille.

Speaker 2 his

Speaker 4 late wife.

Speaker 7 I see.

Speaker 9 I understand.

Speaker 9 She was very special.

Speaker 9 Again, according to the book.

Speaker 7 Were there any other students present?

Speaker 7 Don't think so. They may have overheard and wanted to act.
It's important you tell us.

Speaker 37 There was no one else.

Speaker 7 No teachers. No Herr Heidegger.

Speaker 29 No.

Speaker 7 I see.

Speaker 7 Thank you. You've been very helpful.

Speaker 3 Oh, here we go. Look.

Speaker 28 Notable alumni, 1998.

Speaker 10 D. Marcel, inventor of...

Speaker 22 Christ, I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 34 Sir G.

Speaker 3 Harcourt, rower, probably.

Speaker 34 B.

Speaker 13 Duke, entrepreneur.

Speaker 25 That's a big year for your notables, this one.

Speaker 9 What? 98?

Speaker 13 Yeah, you've got them guys. Then U.

Speaker 28 Usman, surgeon.

Speaker 34 J.

Speaker 13 Moriarty, academic.

Speaker 13 P. Wallace, media.
H.H. Marle, novelist.
I mean, for a school that churns out twelve kids a year, outrageous ratio.

Speaker 22 You can see why people chuck money at this place.

Speaker 9 Hey, what's up?

Speaker 7 A very slight

Speaker 7 flutter of thought gathers. Gathers and rests so delicately on this dim bulb that starts to glow inside me.

Speaker 30 Ah.

Speaker 17 So you have an idea?

Speaker 7 Indeed.

Speaker 21 Okay, that's good.

Speaker 7 That's good. W Would that thought like to

Speaker 13 flutter out of your garb and into our ears?

Speaker 1 Or?

Speaker 7 No, it still nests. It mustn't be disturbed.

Speaker 30 Of course, yep.

Speaker 7 Mariana, the book. Hmm? How far have you read?

Speaker 41 Over halfway.

Speaker 31 Good.

Speaker 31 Good.

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Speaker 42 Blood?

Speaker 2 Gallons and gallons of it.

Speaker 2 It was a brutal scene, I'm told.

Speaker 2 And it, you know, it's funny because you think about these guys.

Speaker 2 I don't know if this is just a uniquely male thing,

Speaker 2 but I think we all fantasize about killing these particular types.

Speaker 7 Child abusers.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we...

Speaker 15 There's this

Speaker 2 innate urge in us to fight them like an enemy. I mean, they are an enemy.
Ask the victims, right?

Speaker 7 Of course.

Speaker 2 But to see... to be confronted with their demise in such a violent and

Speaker 1 brutal way.

Speaker 2 It's not...

Speaker 2 It's not that same visceral emote of reaction. This is standing over a slain monster.

Speaker 2 There is no remorse. There is a sense of victory amidst the blood and gore.

Speaker 31 There is victory.

Speaker 2 How did they find him? By observing.

Speaker 2 By observing.

Speaker 9 What about the ropes? They could have just driven out of here and no one would know.

Speaker 7 Stefan didn't own a car. None have been reported stolen.

Speaker 35 And

Speaker 7 his motorbike is still locked up.

Speaker 9 This could be part of a wider conspiracy. Like a group of men took that building.

Speaker 7 So you expect a van, or a car perhaps, leaving this valley at around the time he went missing.

Speaker 9 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 Well, I can tell you with total confidence, there was not one.

Speaker 9 How do you know that?

Speaker 7 There is a single track road that comes out from Moorhill onto the B-road we came in on by Mackleton.

Speaker 9 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 23 You see it there?

Speaker 1 Uh-huh.

Speaker 7 Now, that building, well, collection of buildings.

Speaker 39 A farm.

Speaker 7 Thornley Farm. Right at the junction of the B-road, and the track has a security camera.
It picks up that very junction.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 nothing?

Speaker 15 Nothing.

Speaker 7 Not a car until 4:45am, according to the Thornleys.

Speaker 7 Well, I say car.

Speaker 16 Tractor.

Speaker 9 Right, so they're here.

Speaker 8 In the wild, on foot.

Speaker 7 Indeed. But unfortunately, they have a nearly two-day head start.
But we did at least gather our clues.

Speaker 12 I think if we carry on, so um

Speaker 13 parallel to this dry stone wall, then it's it's that sheep feel. But

Speaker 19 at the top,

Speaker 7 oh, okay, so that's like a ridge.

Speaker 19 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 17 And we can maybe see down into the valley a bit more. There might be a more logical route that they took.

Speaker 9 How are the shoes?

Speaker 34 Um

Speaker 11 yeah, yeah,

Speaker 9 yeah,

Speaker 30 yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 They hurt like hell, don't they?

Speaker 10 I mean, yes, yeah, they do, but like I say, it's it's it's like uh

Speaker 10 you know, it's a necessary pain, like like vaccinations or algebra.

Speaker 17 You know, it gets you to a better place.

Speaker 16 I mean, it's uh, I'm not sure algebra gets you anywhere, to be honest, but yeah, all worth it.

Speaker 18 Sure,

Speaker 13 I can see you laughing.

Speaker 34 And you,

Speaker 7 I am merely smirking at the beauty of our surroundings.

Speaker 10 Yeah, smirking and giggling.

Speaker 9 Stop making me laugh. I'm gonna roll back down this hill.

Speaker 17 I think I've got a blister as well.

Speaker 3 Okay, go on.

Speaker 12 Off you go. Damn it.

Speaker 1 Stop it.

Speaker 7 Try to catch you. Please.

Speaker 13 This way, Arch. Come on.

Speaker 13 Oh man.

Speaker 9 I feel cruel now.

Speaker 30 Why?

Speaker 39 Nothing.

Speaker 9 When something serious is at stake.

Speaker 25 True, but it's fuel, isn't it?

Speaker 25 At the end of the day.

Speaker 11 Fuel.

Speaker 37 Yeah, having a laugh and pissing about.

Speaker 7 Speaking of. Yeah.

Speaker 7 How was the toilet pump this morning?

Speaker 12 Oh, you know.

Speaker 13 It was almost as painful as these bloody shoes.

Speaker 31 Oh, hey

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 3 Come up here, look.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 39 wow,

Speaker 7 quite beautiful.

Speaker 10 Yeah, that's um that's the water where I was this morning.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it's big.

Speaker 25 Yeah, a reservoir, the guy said.

Speaker 7 Hoarse water

Speaker 25 Absolutely vast, isn't it?

Speaker 31 Yes.

Speaker 7 Carved out by

Speaker 7 just about every geological phenomenon you can imagine over the past 500 million years. Once, of course, this whole area submerged at the bottom of an ocean.

Speaker 7 Hundreds of millions of years later, a range of violent, irritable volcanoes.

Speaker 7 So much so that that there, the reservoir in that hollowed-out valley, was formed by a volcanic blast and eventual hardening glacial flow.

Speaker 7 Now, of course, forming a perfect bowl to hold all that water for us. So much turmoil, so much power, and now so skill.

Speaker 7 So quiet.

Speaker 25 We should keep walking. We should.

Speaker 7 It's unlikely our fugitives traveled further up this fell.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Let's head down to the water's edge.

Speaker 17 The gates open. Although we should probably shut that, that, sheep field and all.

Speaker 18 Okay, come on.

Speaker 9 Just careful, John. This gets kind of steep.

Speaker 22 Roger, that. Ace.

Speaker 34 Ooh, okay. Right.

Speaker 13 Painful shoes actually coming in handy now.

Speaker 23 Sherlock.

Speaker 7 What?

Speaker 34 The claw.

Speaker 34 Goodness.

Speaker 10 Claw? What claw? The claw shape in the pattern of the bottom of my shoe.

Speaker 13 I swear I didn't step there, and there's already one here. See, in that mud.

Speaker 9 Oh my god, they came here. Do you see any more?

Speaker 30 Yeah, I think so. Look.

Speaker 7 They're headed down the hill.

Speaker 13 Follow them. Okay, come on, come on.

Speaker 9 Do you still see them?

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 13 it's faint.

Speaker 25 Can you see them, Sherlock?

Speaker 10 I thought I saw some more, um, another footprint, but it's all trampled down the um

Speaker 7 the sheep tracks. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Someone was covering their path.

Speaker 9 Someone took a load of sheep out with them.

Speaker 7 No, this is not an intentional drove.

Speaker 31 Drove.

Speaker 7 A path made by the long, narrow march of sheep. This route to the water has been spattered by dozens of cloven hooves.

Speaker 7 Your immediate concerns of the gate being open and the sheep finding their way through was valid, John. And now our data has been compromised deliberately.

Speaker 9 Okay, they could have gone anywhere from here.

Speaker 13 You see anything, Sherlock?

Speaker 10 I'm looking.

Speaker 10 Yeah, have a drink, Archie. Mate, half a Manchester is apparently, so it's clean.

Speaker 9 Where would they come to the water?

Speaker 31 I don't know.

Speaker 9 This is where we need large-scale support.

Speaker 10 What do you mean?

Speaker 9 I mean, if Sherlock says this was a deliberate act to conceal, that a likely adult male took a child and is now hiding them.

Speaker 3 He's known that for ages.

Speaker 9 Yes, I know. But before it was all, he left his dorm.
He climbed down on purpose. He meant to escape.
Now, it

Speaker 9 just doesn't feel right. This doesn't feel like a boyish adventure into the wilderness.
What?

Speaker 7 What is it?

Speaker 34 Nothing.

Speaker 13 What? Well, I just...

Speaker 10 I feel like I can see something in the water.

Speaker 9 Like a body?

Speaker 30 No, not.

Speaker 22 It's something down in the deep part.

Speaker 36 I

Speaker 9 don't

Speaker 9 see what you mean.

Speaker 10 Am I going crazy? Is that

Speaker 24 like a church?

Speaker 9 A church in the water?

Speaker 13 It's the spire. I can see the stained glass window.
Please, please, look.

Speaker 18 I don't see...

Speaker 22 No, the wind has disturbed it.

Speaker 9 Do you you want to sit down? You okay?

Speaker 13 Yeah, no, I'm

Speaker 3 I'm alright.

Speaker 13 Arch, come on away. That's someone's boat.

Speaker 10 Archie, come on.

Speaker 7 Sherlock, anything?

Speaker 7 Nothing.

Speaker 39 What are you doing?

Speaker 25 Skimming stones.

Speaker 39 Okay.

Speaker 9 Why?

Speaker 25 My dad used to do it, and it would.

Speaker 10 Honestly, they'd go on forever.

Speaker 10 Ooh, I've got five then.

Speaker 16 I've got six this morning.

Speaker 1 Good for you.

Speaker 1 Sir.

Speaker 16 He's quite therapeutic.

Speaker 25 Almost feel like I'm connecting with him sometimes, you know?

Speaker 22 Like, not in the throwing of the stone, I mean, but

Speaker 25 yeah, your memory cutable bleeds into one eventually, but I distinctly remember him teaching me which stones to go for, which was a good one.

Speaker 17 And now, whenever I search for the right stone to skim, I hear him.

Speaker 10 So clear, it's weird. Not that one, John.

Speaker 25 One that's flatter, one that's a bit rounder, a bit more symmetrical.

Speaker 17 Not that one. Go for that one right there.

Speaker 25 The closest thing to spending time with him is...

Speaker 30 Shitting hell!

Speaker 18 What?

Speaker 19 What? Sherlock!

Speaker 9 Oh my god. What?

Speaker 9 Is that you?

Speaker 1 What happened?

Speaker 30 What?

Speaker 16 Blood. Sherlock, look.
It's all over this stone I picked up.

Speaker 13 And look, it's...

Speaker 9 Yeah, uh, there's more down here.

Speaker 31 Follow it.

Speaker 7 Follow the blood.

Speaker 13 It's leading to the upturned boat by the water.

Speaker 18 Go.

Speaker 11 Go!

Speaker 13 Okay, Archie, I take it back. You can sniff the boat now.
Come on. Come on.

Speaker 13 Turn it over. I am.

Speaker 9 What's under there, Don't? What's under the boat?

Speaker 31 Holy shit.

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