The Blanched Soldier - Part Two

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Speaker 13 Right, done.

Speaker 14 Enough.

Speaker 15 What?

Speaker 16 You are in charge. I told you.

Speaker 13 Yes, and I told you, your new host, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 18 But I can't help be a little...

Speaker 12 distracted.

Speaker 19 By what?

Speaker 12 That gentleman over there. His name tag.

Speaker 12 The end is

Speaker 12 occluded by that good job sticker. But from what I can see,

Speaker 20 it reads.

Speaker 12 James M.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 12 And he has found it increasingly difficult to not stare in our direction.

Speaker 14 Why is it that you wish to speak to Sherlock, James?

Speaker 23 He's actually that one I was gonna speak to.

Speaker 6 John Boy Watson.

Speaker 24 Oh, yeah?

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 25 This is yours, isn't it?

Speaker 21 Uh, yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah, that's a that's a GoPro I held while I was at Crane.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 27 uh it's

Speaker 13 yeah, yeah, don't tell me, don't tell me.

Speaker 15 Um

Speaker 28 Emsworth, Freddie Emsworth.

Speaker 13 Boom!

Speaker 23 Yes, like yes.

Speaker 13 Yeah, no, he's he was cool, actually.

Speaker 13 A bit downbeat, but um... Just pull it up here a sec.

Speaker 7 You know, him and the three American guys we were with were just about the only ones that knew how to handle themselves.

Speaker 7 Marine, Marine, right?

Speaker 13 He's a Royal Marine.

Speaker 29 He's.

Speaker 30 Was.

Speaker 27 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 23 Is he dead?

Speaker 31 Did he die out in Ukraine, though?

Speaker 5 Dunno.

Speaker 7 You're okay.

Speaker 13 Have you spoken to him recently?

Speaker 32 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. James!

Speaker 25 James! Let him go, James!

Speaker 32 I've fucking seen him!

Speaker 23 I've fucking seen him, mate, right? His face at the window, mate. He was fucking at the window, and he...

Speaker 33 Okay, James, James, just breathe.

Speaker 21 It's face, James. It's face!

Speaker 34 James!

Speaker 12 Hello there, and welcome back to the Case of the Blanched Soldier. I am Sherlock Holmes, and this is part 2 of 2.

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Speaker 21 Bye.

Speaker 33 We sit

Speaker 12 like statues, chipped into a hardened pose by the tension of it, the unease, the disconcert.

Speaker 12 We had witnessed Sergeant James M. Dodd lose all sense of himself at the school.

Speaker 12 We had witnessed a a man's mind collapse in on itself, his screams ricocheting off thirty-foot high walls of lacquered plywood.

Speaker 12 And now we find ourselves in his home, in Tooting, a neighbourhood of South London that estate agents have optimistically described as up and coming for the past half a century, sandwiched between its high-achieving cousins, Wandsworth Clapham and Wimbledon.

Speaker 12 The home of Sergeant James M. Dodd is grand and ornate on its its exterior.
But the interior is hollowed out with the trappings of 21st-century design.

Speaker 12 Light greys with blackened accents, dark blues washed and blanched with featureless veneer-like whites. The artworks are all too bold, too dazzling.
They leap off the walls and demand attention.

Speaker 36 Sherlock?

Speaker 9 Yes. That's enough narration for now, I think.

Speaker 12 I'm setting the scene.

Speaker 9 I realise that. But I can hear John coming.

Speaker 14 He's probably got James with him, and you are criticising the guy's home.

Speaker 12 I was observing his home. I wasn't criticising.

Speaker 9 Mm-mm.

Speaker 14 Anything other than, oh, you have a beautiful home, is received as criticism.

Speaker 12 Is it really?

Speaker 32 It is.

Speaker 12 Even honest feedback.

Speaker 5 Hey.

Speaker 9 Hey, how's you doing?

Speaker 24 Yeah, good.

Speaker 13 G well, no, sorry, not not good, but uh

Speaker 13 not screaming anymore, so

Speaker 15 result?

Speaker 27 Sure.

Speaker 14 Where is he?

Speaker 13 Just making teas.

Speaker 38 Oh, he doesn't have to do that.

Speaker 9 We can do that. Why did you make him do that?

Speaker 28 I didn't make him do that.

Speaker 13 He wanted to.

Speaker 12 And what of his friend, the blanched soldier?

Speaker 15 Um.

Speaker 15 Yeah, he hasn't

Speaker 13 opened up much further on that, but he he's he's going to.

Speaker 9 What's blanched?

Speaker 27 Oh, like broccoli.

Speaker 3 Broccoli?

Speaker 9 You know, like the quick boil.

Speaker 12 No, blanched.

Speaker 25 A wash in white.

Speaker 39 You've already used that word.

Speaker 12 Yes, in my narration, but you did interject and thus rendered it unusable.

Speaker 9 Okay, what does it mean, blanched?

Speaker 12 It means whitened, paled, shocked into losing all colour.

Speaker 14 Right, that's what he said the guy's face was, uh, at the window.

Speaker 12 Yes, our supposed missing soldier, Emsworth.

Speaker 13 Shh, he's coming.

Speaker 23 Usually, when I do a tea run, he has a bit more sugar going on, let me tell you.

Speaker 15 What's that for the scaffolders, is it?

Speaker 23 Yeah, nice of them to see the boss taking care of them all from time to time. Here you are.
Thank you, James.

Speaker 12 Thank you.

Speaker 23 It's a lot.

Speaker 23 I think maybe this is just how I'm sort of

Speaker 23 processing it,

Speaker 12 if you know what I mean. This would be a good time for an ad read, for better health.

Speaker 23 Better help and shush. Just feel like...

Speaker 23 I don't know, but

Speaker 12 I haven't talked to anyone about it, you see. You believe Freddy Emsworth to be dead, yet you saw him?

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Do you want to

Speaker 13 start from the beginning? Sure.

Speaker 27 Um

Speaker 23 yeah, so I was a bit of a shit at school and that.

Speaker 13 Stabbing peers, yep.

Speaker 23 Of course.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Got worse for a bit in that sort of area.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Um

Speaker 23 I eventually thought I'd give the army a go. A couple of mates, the the only sort of blokes I'd really connected with, had joined up so I thought I'd

Speaker 21 yeah,

Speaker 27 give it a while.

Speaker 23 And no word of a lie, literally day one, hour one, loved it.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Adored it completely, like

Speaker 23 the energy of it, mixed with the pride of the whole thing, serving England and that. Then you've got the lads, you've got the challenges, the structure.
It's

Speaker 23 it was all I wanted, all I needed.

Speaker 21 And I just Bosh

Speaker 32 took off.

Speaker 23 Best of the best, you know. And the only fella close to matching me was Freddie Emsworth.
He'd had a leave of transfer because he'd trained as a Marine initially. So I'd say to him,

Speaker 23 he was cheating, sort of thing. He knew all the tricks of the trade.
I was going in fresh and still kicking his ass, but

Speaker 26 yeah.

Speaker 23 Cracking bloke was Emmers.

Speaker 27 Just top lad.

Speaker 23 We were joined at the hip, honestly. We couldn't get enough of each other.
Like, the like, in all seriousness, now, the way you make me laugh, man, oh, honest to God.

Speaker 23 There were times I thought I was gonna pass out or throw up or shit myself or something. I was laughing so much.

Speaker 27 God.

Speaker 27 Yeah, um

Speaker 23 I'm just

Speaker 23 thinking how to sum it up.

Speaker 13 Yeah, wouldn't want to be accused of dragging things out. Hey, Sherlock.

Speaker 23 Yeah, this was ten years ago now, of course. And

Speaker 23 yeah, he'd never really mentioned his dad like, but one day he was like, the old man wants me out. Didn't act like it was a definite thing, like it was a punch or something.
And then suddenly, whoosh,

Speaker 23 yeah, he was gone. We kept in touch and that, but we'd think he was struggling with something.

Speaker 30 Couldn't tell you what, mind.

Speaker 23 He,

Speaker 23 like me,

Speaker 23 would do a bit of the old self-medication.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah, I know someone like that.

Speaker 23 The years rattled on. Tough ones and all, yeah.

Speaker 23 And it started to lose its shine a bit. And like Emma's...

Speaker 3 Like anyone, really,

Speaker 23 people start to age out of it. Also, people are so bleeding materialistic these days.
They all swaned off like him to be estate agents and sales reps and all this.

Speaker 23 All this commission stuff posted on Instagram that they get up at 4 a.m. and drink a protein shake.
Who gives a fuck, mate? Honestly, go back to bed and do us all the favour.

Speaker 23 Yeah, no, so I had a look at my old man's business, scaffolding. Always kind of went back to it when I've had these in-between bits in my life.

Speaker 23 He just did a job at a time, my dad, with a couple of old mates. They're half drunk and knackered most of the time.
I said I'd take it over for a bit and just

Speaker 23 expanded and expanded and I was go

Speaker 23 honestly we the whole business just blew up and I was

Speaker 23 a made man you know

Speaker 23 made man

Speaker 23 And I found

Speaker 23 that getting old army mates in various roles and jobs, that was actually a decent way of doing things. Strong lads, polite, punctual, grafters, all this.

Speaker 23 So I thought I'd reach out to Freddie, to Emma's, and I found him on LinkedIn. He was doing something in sales.
Not posted much, really. I thought, lovely stuff.
He's probably sick of it.

Speaker 23 I messaged him, checked in,

Speaker 23 no reply. Tried him a couple of weeks later

Speaker 23 and get a DM back.

Speaker 36 Hmm.

Speaker 14 What did it say?

Speaker 23 Let me load it up here.

Speaker 27 Uh

Speaker 20 yeah,

Speaker 17 here it is.

Speaker 12 Hello, James. Thank you for reaching out to our son Freddy.
He recently volunteered in Ukraine and unfortunately he did not come back.

Speaker 12 We are immensely proud of his contribution in the fight for freedom.

Speaker 13 When was that?

Speaker 23 Last January, now

Speaker 23 eighteen months ago, I'd say.

Speaker 21 Right.

Speaker 32 So,

Speaker 35 um,

Speaker 40 how did you how did you see him?

Speaker 14 You said you saw his face.

Speaker 15 God, uh

Speaker 23 yeah, uh the company got bigger and I set up a subsidiary company that would go for big commercial jobs rather than just your houses in the local areas.

Speaker 23 We'd go for these proper big contracts and eventually

Speaker 23 three weeks ago actually I get a request from Tuxbury Park in Bedfordshire.

Speaker 13 Okay, is is that uh

Speaker 23 w what what is that? It's a manor house with a hotel spa sort of thing. There's tons of them these days.

Speaker 23 But anyway, you get the job through one of these heritage property protection funds sort of thing. So they don't know me from any other scaffolder.

Speaker 23 I take the nice motor up there, not one of the vans, nothing like that. And I get shown the works that need doing by this older fella, Ralph.

Speaker 21 Ralph?

Speaker 23 He's nice enough, shows me the bits and bobs, all facade, repair stuff, so scaffold, bottom to top, all this, yeah. And I go, oh, I'll drop you an email with the quote and what have you.

Speaker 23 He goes, I remember the sentence he said. He went, the resident, the colonel, doesn't get to choose the provider due to their heritage trust.
I'm thinking, what's his name? The Kentucky chicken fella?

Speaker 41 Sanders. Yeah.

Speaker 23 He goes, no.

Speaker 23 Emsworth.

Speaker 27 I go, that's funny, Ralph.

Speaker 23 I used to know a Captain Emsworth. I says to him, I go, his name was Freddie Emsworth.
God rest him.

Speaker 23 I look at him, yeah, and the minute I say it, I think, oh, bollocks, he knows him, he's related to him or something. You can tell.

Speaker 23 He won't meet my eye, he's shifting about, his voice is going, sure enough, it's his uncle. The whole house is Colonel Emsworth's, Freddy's dad.
I never knew he was military, you see.

Speaker 23 I chewed Ralph's ear off about Freddy. My God, did I bang on? I just, I wanted him to know what a proper laugh his nephew was.

Speaker 23 You you don't see that side of a man do you unless you're mates anyway I ping the quote over a couple of days later and I whack off 20% in memory of Emma's we land the job of the trust of course we do the boys go set up I go check up on it last week lovely evening gets quite dark there with those big mature trees blocking out the sunset plus we draped it the scaffold in this big white top and I'm up on the second storey scaffold walking the planks right and I can see inside the windows because like I say it's dark out here I kind of glance because I don't want to be nosy but I thought I catch a glimmer of something at one of them

Speaker 10 or

Speaker 12 someone

Speaker 23 and something inside me is going have another look Doddy have another peek pal That daft voice in my head has got me enough trouble. I don't know why I still listen to him, but I do.

Speaker 23 I double back on myself, head to that same window and just

Speaker 23 bang!

Speaker 23 His face. I swear to you,

Speaker 23 I'm not one of those ghosty people, all that haunting Ouija Beeji board crap. Not me, right? But he is fucking there.
Captain Freddie Emsworth. The late Captain Freddie Emsworth.

Speaker 23 The man's face is there at the window.

Speaker 9 Maybe emotionally you were still processing and your mind conjured the image of his face.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 31 He's back on your mind, you're his family home, you haven't had time to process it, like Mariana says. You were so busy with your business.

Speaker 23 I took a picture.

Speaker 5 Oh.

Speaker 23 There.

Speaker 34 Well, goodness. Oh, my God.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 9 And he just stood there and let you take it?

Speaker 23 It was like he was staring right through me,

Speaker 23 like a zombie.

Speaker 20 His skin.

Speaker 23 I know.

Speaker 23 In the flesh, it was honest, as white as this piece of paper. Whiter, if that's possible.
Drained of any colour you could think of.

Speaker 23 I don't even know if that picture does it justice, you know. It was like

Speaker 23 greased, like everything was oozing. Eyes are weeping, nose is running, he's drooling, he's stick thin.
He is basically a skeleton, and he's he's he's panting. And then

Speaker 15 I am

Speaker 23 I took this video

Speaker 23 Is that you, Emmers?

Speaker 23 Can you say something, mate?

Speaker 23 Can you say anything? Is that you?

Speaker 23 Do you recognise me, mate? Hey, Doddy, in it?

Speaker 23 Is that you, Emmers? You,

Speaker 5 me.

Speaker 5 What?

Speaker 23 What are you saying, pal? It's okay, I'm here.

Speaker 23 What are you saying?

Speaker 5 You.

Speaker 5 Mate.

Speaker 23 Just

Speaker 23 clawing and banging and screaming at the window over and over.

Speaker 23 At the end, there, he throws up on the window, and that just it nearly sends me off the boards and over the edge.

Speaker 23 I fall down on my knees. I scramble down the ladder, and I'm in the car, and I.

Speaker 23 yeah,

Speaker 23 I've got

Speaker 23 I've got nothing else to say

Speaker 23 Sorry

Speaker 36 Thank you for sharing that, James.

Speaker 13 Yeah, yeah, thanks mate. Good

Speaker 31 good work, not easy though.

Speaker 34 Cheers.

Speaker 34 Yes.

Speaker 12 Quite the story.

Speaker 12 Rather strenuous. So much so, I feel we may need a little mini break.

Speaker 26 Sorry, what? Really?

Speaker 12 Yes. And I've just booked us a night at the Tuxbury Park Hotel and Spa.

Speaker 27 Oh, God.

Speaker 18 We should probably go and pack our things.

Speaker 29 What?

Speaker 23 What does that mean?

Speaker 30 It means, Doddy, that the game is a fault.

Speaker 20 Alright.

Speaker 23 And what does that mean?

Speaker 13 It means we're.

Speaker 12 we're gonna figure this out, okay?

Speaker 13 Ah, Even though he'd left the mic behind, amateur, absolute amateur.

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Speaker 9 See, oh, you should have got an automatic.

Speaker 24 Yeah, I prefer manual.

Speaker 13 Besides, they're cheaper.

Speaker 44 Yeah, to buy, but we...

Speaker 9 we rented it. John, it was the same price.

Speaker 13 I just, I like I like to be in control of the gears.

Speaker 39 Yeah, that that would be nice, but uh, you nearly stalled it again.

Speaker 13 It's because of this giant driveway, it's the gravel

Speaker 7 look at this. It's a driveway for God's sake, and it's got this speed limit.

Speaker 13 Three miles an hour. I mean, come on, three, I can't even go three

Speaker 13 warning, slippery surface. It's a gravel driveway at three miles an hour.
Can we go anywhere in this country without having some busybody council or government holding our hand?

Speaker 13 How much do all these signs cost the taxpayer, by the way?

Speaker 39 Uh, you're veering to the right.

Speaker 45 Well,

Speaker 13 I am thirty-six now, it happens, doesn't it? As you get older.

Speaker 42 I mean the car.

Speaker 44 The car is veering.

Speaker 27 Ah, whoops.

Speaker 13 Yep. Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 There we go.

Speaker 15 Well, this is Tuxbury.

Speaker 39 Oh, I love the gardens.

Speaker 9 Like, like the whole landscaping they've done.

Speaker 39 Topieri?

Speaker 44 Topieri, yes.

Speaker 27 Oh, wow.

Speaker 39 That view over that way?

Speaker 13 Ah, I think I see our old grand house further along this driveway. Shall I do a narrate for the listeners so they they know what we're witnessing?

Speaker 12 I think it's best I conserve myself for observations, Watson.

Speaker 13 And who's going to do it, mate? Because I'm driving.

Speaker 41 You can do both.

Speaker 24 Isahaya car.

Speaker 13 And there's deer and rabbits and the bloody

Speaker 15 animals of farthing wood frolicking around.

Speaker 13 I feel like I should concentrate.

Speaker 5 I'll do it.

Speaker 15 I.

Speaker 13 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 15 No, like, yeah, sure, do it.

Speaker 3 Uh-huh.

Speaker 27 Yeah, I heard the tone.

Speaker 9 I can detect tone, you know.

Speaker 39 I'm not stupid.

Speaker 37 Give me Mike the Mike.

Speaker 7 Yeah, there's Mike.

Speaker 12 The rooms he spoke of on the eastern face of the property, you see.

Speaker 27 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 13 Only side with scaffolding, on it.

Speaker 12 Yes, the work in progress cloaked in that white curtain, a drape of tarpaulin, hiding the shame of disrepair, of damage and decay.

Speaker 27 Excuse me?

Speaker 13 Sorry, yeah, Sherlock Mary's gonna narrate, so go for it. In English, please.

Speaker 27 Yeah, I figured. Thanks.

Speaker 9 Hi, listeners, and welcome to Tuxbury in Bedford. It was once known as Tuxbury Old Place.

Speaker 24 Bedfordshire.

Speaker 14 Bedford.

Speaker 13 Bedfordshire.

Speaker 45 Okay, why why does that need correction?

Speaker 13 Well, Bedford is the town, the county town that the county Bedfordshire is named after.

Speaker 9 So?

Speaker 13 So we're we're not in Bedford.

Speaker 45 But but I saw road signs.

Speaker 13 We're not in Bedford, trust me.

Speaker 15 You you would know.

Speaker 9 Why is it not not nice?

Speaker 31 No comments, because people always email when I say stuff like this.

Speaker 8 Okay,

Speaker 5 whatever.

Speaker 44 Welcome to Tuxbury Park, everybody.

Speaker 9 We're now right up to the house.

Speaker 14 Partly a residence now, of course, and partly a hotel and spa since 2015.

Speaker 14 The family estate of the Emsworths was co-managed by a trust that protects these beautiful old homes.

Speaker 13 But... They make them work to earn their keep.

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm, exactly.

Speaker 14 So Tuxbury here is doing so as a hotel and a spa.

Speaker 37 And yeah, it looks

Speaker 45 honestly super nice.

Speaker 44 Like super nice.

Speaker 31 Right.

Speaker 7 Now, I realise that ghost hunting is

Speaker 7 very exciting.

Speaker 31 But if we could keep that info to ourselves and not share it with the hotel or spa staff, that would be great. Thanks.

Speaker 19 There we go.

Speaker 12 You're not going to park like this, are you?

Speaker 11 What's wrong with that?

Speaker 12 The angle, the distance to the bollard, you're 40 centimeters from the car to our right, but 110 from the car on our left. You're under a tree where pigeons are nesting.

Speaker 12 You've not powered down the air conditioning, you've got a seat warmer on as well for some reason.

Speaker 12 You are in sport mode as well.

Speaker 13 Yes, well, observation mode on my Sherlock is clearly set to full, isn't it?

Speaker 2 Come on.

Speaker 12 Booking under homes.

Speaker 40 Okay, that's the pine room, is it? Yes. Um, that's with the three beds, and you're booked for the breakfast as well.
Lovely. Okay, let me get your keycards, and I'll bring you a menu for the spa.

Speaker 40 Okay?

Speaker 31 Okay?

Speaker 31 But what are you thinking?

Speaker 12 I selected the pine room due to its location within the house.

Speaker 9 The map of the hotel says it's way over on the west side, Sherlock.

Speaker 12 Indeed.

Speaker 44 The Emsworths live in the eastern wing.

Speaker 12 They do, yes.

Speaker 13 Okay, you get Mariana's point, right?

Speaker 40 Your key cards are here. I've got three of them.

Speaker 16 Thank you.

Speaker 16 Sherlock, come.

Speaker 12 You wish to have your questions answered?

Speaker 45 I will show you. I think we should maybe ask the reception about the Emsworths.

Speaker 12 There'll be a spa menu in the room.

Speaker 29 Oh, okay, cool.

Speaker 12 Down this way.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah, in a rush.

Speaker 13 Oh, we always nice to go on a relaxing spa weekend.

Speaker 14 Everybody's in robes.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah, it's weird, isn't it?

Speaker 38 Oh, now I want one. They look so cozy.

Speaker 12 Through this way.

Speaker 13 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not as easy with the suitcase, mate.

Speaker 12 And here we have the pine suite.

Speaker 21 Oh, nice.

Speaker 14 Wow, look at this bathtub. Oh my god, it's got like the the um the spouts for bubbles on the side.

Speaker 15 Oh, like a jacuzzi.

Speaker 14 Oh, that is so cool.

Speaker 12 Excuse me.

Speaker 12 I'm answering your concerns.

Speaker 27 Uh you?

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 30 Listen.

Speaker 9 You're trying up tap dancing?

Speaker 19 No.

Speaker 13 What's what's the deal with the floor, mate?

Speaker 19 I don't get what you're on about.

Speaker 12 You want to know why I picked this room. Ground floor is the answer.
It's the only place to stay on the ground floor.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 12 And beneath my feet is?

Speaker 11 Uh the ground?

Speaker 17 The undercroft.

Speaker 15 What the hell is an undercroft?

Speaker 12 Many centuries ago, the servants of this house were expected to move like shadows, present but never seen. Their passage through the home was to be swift, silent, and forgettable.

Speaker 12 That's where the undercroft came in rather handy. A network of narrow stone tunnels beneath the house, linking one wing to another.

Speaker 12 Tuxbury was built by the Tuxburys in 1651, royalists fleeing the parliamentarian fury of London. Routes for escape and concealment were priorities.

Speaker 12 A home threaded with underground tunnels was less a curiosity as it is to us now, and more a necessity.

Speaker 12 But, as Britain performed one of its characteristic reversals, panic followed by national remorse, the danger passed, and the tunnels found a new purpose.

Speaker 31 Servants.

Speaker 12 Servants.

Speaker 18 Laundry, food, parcels all moved through the undercroft.

Speaker 12 From kitchen to parlour, nursery to library, the family was fed and clothed, their needs met, while the machinery that sustained them remained discreet.

Speaker 12 We will serve the masters of the house once more.

Speaker 15 We will?

Speaker 12 We will.

Speaker 25 When?

Speaker 7 Tonight.

Speaker 14 What are we doing tonight?

Speaker 12 Hunting for the ghost of Freddy Emsworth.

Speaker 13 Great.

Speaker 13 Good luck getting an ad read on this one, mate.

Speaker 7 Come on then.

Speaker 34 Oh, wow.

Speaker 42 How is it?

Speaker 35 It's.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it's. it's pretty cozy.

Speaker 39 Wait, what do you mean, cozy?

Speaker 28 Like, uh, it's tight.

Speaker 14 Any rats?

Speaker 32 Um.

Speaker 24 No.

Speaker 13 Could we hurry?

Speaker 32 Okay. Wow.

Speaker 14 Oh, why can't we just have spa treatments?

Speaker 39 Why do we have to do stupid stuff like this?

Speaker 44 We come all the way, all the way out to Bedford to this beautiful place, and now we're crawling around with rats.

Speaker 13 Again, it is Bedfordshire, it's not Bedford.

Speaker 14 I hope a rat eats you.

Speaker 6 Can we keep the petty squabbling to a minimum? The undercroft will open into many different chambers.

Speaker 2 We do not know who else may be listening.

Speaker 31 I don't say stuff like that.

Speaker 19 Why not?

Speaker 27 Because.

Speaker 15 Because why?

Speaker 31 We do not know who else might be listening.

Speaker 19 Well, we don't.

Speaker 41 Enough.

Speaker 12 We continue through this passage, and in 30 yards or so, it will fork.

Speaker 30 Southwards towards the old servants' quarters, eastwards to the current living quarters.

Speaker 31 And what do we do then?

Speaker 21 We infiltrate.

Speaker 2 We observe.

Speaker 9 You know,

Speaker 38 if it really is a ghost,

Speaker 14 you have to use the microphone.

Speaker 19 Why?

Speaker 13 What do ghosts like to podcast, do they?

Speaker 9 No, no, you plant the microphone and you capture exactly what is going on.

Speaker 31 Plant the microphone where? Exactly.

Speaker 41 Left here.

Speaker 31 We go to the room that James said.

Speaker 12 Corner bedroom, east wing, upper floor.

Speaker 32 Correct.

Speaker 9 We get near there and we plant the microphone. Pick up everything that's going on in there, and then we have our evidence.

Speaker 38 We can say here is the actual ghost of Freddy Emsworth.

Speaker 31 Well, Spooky Tunnel has clearly sent you mad.

Speaker 23 I think it's a good idea.

Speaker 13 So what?

Speaker 30 We don't wish to disturb this family, do we?

Speaker 21 Well, no, but...

Speaker 12 Then we shall leave the mic. Come back for it tomorrow and listen to our evidence.

Speaker 25 Right, but... Stop.

Speaker 6 This here.

Speaker 20 This is a chute.

Speaker 7 Like a laundry chute.

Speaker 3 Indeed.

Speaker 24 At the top will be our room.

Speaker 19 Okay.

Speaker 13 I know I'm pretty athletic, but I might struggle to climb that, mate.

Speaker 12 You don't need to, Watson.

Speaker 13 Oh yeah, send Mariana up. Up you go, Merce.

Speaker 27 Get on. Ow!

Speaker 12 None of us need to venture up there, except for this little guy.

Speaker 39 Mike the Mike.

Speaker 12 Mike the Mike. On this pulley system, once we open the doors to the chute.

Speaker 25 One little rusty.

Speaker 21 There we go.

Speaker 30 We place him on this platform here.

Speaker 12 Pull on this until it stops, and that will mean Mike is at the upper level and sat right behind the thin panel that separates our recording device from

Speaker 23 our ghost.

Speaker 3 Right, well,

Speaker 13 I guess we'll see you in a bit, Mike.

Speaker 10 Yeah, bye-bye, Mike.

Speaker 12 Farewell, Mike.

Speaker 31 Oh, and bye, listeners. Good luck with the ghosts.

Speaker 34 Don't freak out. If it's terrifying, please don't email me this.

Speaker 34 You were talking to someone.

Speaker 34 I heard it.

Speaker 34 Why, boy.

Speaker 21 Why?

Speaker 34 Did you understand?

Speaker 34 We lost you.

Speaker 34 My boy.

Speaker 34 My beautiful boy.

Speaker 29 We lost you.

Speaker 7 Did you get the full body one?

Speaker 14 It was just a head massage.

Speaker 19 Oh, nice.

Speaker 39 I don't really like people touching me, so.

Speaker 25 Head massage.

Speaker 31 Any good?

Speaker 14 Oh, it was perfect.

Speaker 38 Ah, perfection. Nice.

Speaker 8 What did you get?

Speaker 3 Full bod.

Speaker 41 Unbelievable.

Speaker 30 I fell asleep.

Speaker 33 Oh my god.

Speaker 9 So did I.

Speaker 13 Amazing.

Speaker 31 Well, not amazing, because I would have liked to stay awake, it was that good.

Speaker 14 Oh, like first class on a plane.

Speaker 37 Exactly.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I wouldn't want to sleep on the flight.

Speaker 31 I just want to stay awake, enjoying myself. But it's it's so good that...

Speaker 41 You fall asleep.

Speaker 38 Mm-hmm. Exactly.

Speaker 14 It's a paradox.

Speaker 31 The comfort paradox.

Speaker 5 Hmm.

Speaker 5 Hmm.

Speaker 39 Oh, that's what this is.

Speaker 45 It's comfort.

Speaker 38 It's...

Speaker 37 Peace. It's knowing that.

Speaker 12 What on earth are you doing? Why are you in dressing gowns?

Speaker 13 We are decompressing in a fine mist with hints of jasmine and lavender.

Speaker 7 What are you doing?

Speaker 12 Well, I said you could have an hour. It's been two hours.

Speaker 14 I thought you were still uploading the audio.

Speaker 13 Well, have you listened? Do we have ourselves a ghost?

Speaker 25 Perhaps.

Speaker 27 Wait, what?

Speaker 27 My beautiful boy. We locked you up.

Speaker 31 Who is that?

Speaker 15 The the man?

Speaker 12 I had a hunch, and I confirmed it this morning.

Speaker 3 Who is it?

Speaker 12 I walk the hallways of Tuxbury at breakfast and I introduce myself to the Colonel.

Speaker 14 Wait, is that him?

Speaker 32 Indeed.

Speaker 12 Colonel Emsworth. Seemingly conversing with the ghost of his deceased son.

Speaker 12 Or so I thought.

Speaker 3 Until.

Speaker 12 Until I entered the room.

Speaker 24 What? The actual room?

Speaker 13 Where he is?

Speaker 24 How?

Speaker 12 Through the undercroft and up the laundry chute, while you two were pampering one another.

Speaker 44 We were being pampered by trained professionals.

Speaker 13 What did you see?

Speaker 13 Sherlock, what did you see? C.

Speaker 12 Never mind C.

Speaker 30 I solved the case.

Speaker 17 Sorry, what?

Speaker 12 I solved it, my dear companions. Case very much closed.

Speaker 14 To wait. Can we listen?

Speaker 12 Listen to what?

Speaker 8 To you.

Speaker 9 Solving the case.

Speaker 6 How did you do that?

Speaker 13 It would be on the SD card, in the mic.

Speaker 28 You.

Speaker 15 You took the mic with you, right?

Speaker 12 It was uploading.

Speaker 13 Yeah, the SD card was, but you still have the mic.

Speaker 12 Yes, I just picked it up now. After the upload was complete.

Speaker 13 Please tell me you took the mic. Please tell me when you solved the case and confronted what on earth is going on in this giant haunted house.
Please, tell me you took the mic.

Speaker 34 Ah.

Speaker 12 Yes, I see the problem.

Speaker 15 Oh, you are the worst podcast host in the world.

Speaker 24 The

Speaker 15 worst.

Speaker 13 The worst. And that is a dreadful list to come top of, mate.

Speaker 9 Dreadful.

Speaker 16 What happened, Sherlock?

Speaker 2 I can mend this. I'm sure of it.

Speaker 12 I just need time.

Speaker 16 He'll need a couple of weeks, I'd say.

Speaker 23 Sorry, sorry.

Speaker 4 Listen, I've fixed a fair amount of shit in the edit, right?

Speaker 15 I've

Speaker 13 polished a turd or two, mate, but you have missed out on the entire case and its conclusion.

Speaker 2 Because you two were at a spa.

Speaker 13 You said you were the host, you were in charge.

Speaker 2 I just need time.

Speaker 13 Time? How much time?

Speaker 28 Two weeks. Two weeks.

Speaker 14 Can you please adjust your robe, John?

Speaker 9 I really don't need this day to get any worse.

Speaker 13 I'm sorry. I'm just struggling with the fact that this guy recorded a podcast without a microphone.

Speaker 23 With the success of your Patreon membership as well, it's fantastic.

Speaker 13 Yeah, and I think winning the Webby

Speaker 13 and reaching over 10 million downloads was

Speaker 23 amazing.

Speaker 13 Yeah, completely, completely. And I'm just hoping that the newfound interest kind of gets some advertisers thinking that we could do some sponsored reads for them to promote their product.

Speaker 25 Okay.

Speaker 15 Are we ready?

Speaker 13 Sorry, I'm doing an interview, Sherlock.

Speaker 12 You're in your pajamas.

Speaker 3 Shush.

Speaker 23 Do you need to be arranged, John?

Speaker 21 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 28 It's okay.

Speaker 12 Yes, we do.

Speaker 24 Bye-bye.

Speaker 12 Sherlock! Why are you doing an interview and why are you in your pajamas?

Speaker 3 Because it's the morning.

Speaker 13 People like our podcast and want to know more about it. Is that okay?

Speaker 16 But I told you to wait two weeks. For

Speaker 12 for what? The Blanched Soldier? Freddie Emsworth. Doddy.

Speaker 25 What now?

Speaker 12 It's been two weeks.

Speaker 13 Oh, for goodness sake.

Speaker 7 Can I get some warning, please?

Speaker 1 I warned you 14 14 days ago.

Speaker 33 That's not the kind of warning I meant.

Speaker 15 Ah, that'll be doddy.

Speaker 5 Ugh, for God's sake.

Speaker 19 Ow!

Speaker 31 Stupid trousers.

Speaker 13 Oh, why, Archie, mate, why do you have to move the socks around the flat? Can't you get a real hobby?

Speaker 18 Here we are.

Speaker 12 This is 221B.

Speaker 15 Love it.

Speaker 23 What a location, by the way.

Speaker 4 Ah, here he is.

Speaker 12 John Watson, you recall, no doubt.

Speaker 23 Hi, John, mate.

Speaker 23 You struggling with that t-shirt? Yeah, no, getting there.

Speaker 13 Take a seat, mate. Be right with you.

Speaker 24 Sure, yeah.

Speaker 23 So, what's this all about, then, gents?

Speaker 12 We paid a visit to Tuxbury House. Ah,

Speaker 23 you really went through with it, did you?

Speaker 12 We did indeed.

Speaker 23 I was just a

Speaker 23 little bubble bath and all that saunering yourself, yeah?

Speaker 12 Those activities were indulged by some members of the team, yes.

Speaker 23 Why not, eh? Put your feet up.

Speaker 12 I didn't get the opportunity, unfortunately. I was busy

Speaker 12 with the Colonel.

Speaker 13 Okay, t-shirt is on.

Speaker 23 You spoke to him.

Speaker 12 For some time, yes.

Speaker 23 You didn't tell him what I saw, did you? You didn't say that. Seem ashamed.

Speaker 24 Well,

Speaker 24 yeah.

Speaker 27 Why?

Speaker 12 Cause shame has hidden Freddy away for too long, Doddy.

Speaker 23 Hidden, Freddy?

Speaker 23 What do you mean?

Speaker 12 I thought it better I I show you and hopefully salvage my friend's little audio show.

Speaker 12 I'll be right back.

Speaker 13 Can I get your tea or anything, Doddy?

Speaker 15 No, no.

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 30 Sorry, no.

Speaker 23 I didn't mean to snap.

Speaker 30 Just nervous.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 23 I don't really know what he's up to here.

Speaker 13 Yeah, he likes to operate that way.

Speaker 7 What, uh.

Speaker 13 what are you afraid you'll see?

Speaker 7 A ghost?

Speaker 15 Someone honor

Speaker 12 Sergeant James M. Dodd.

Speaker 12 This is Colonel Emsworth.

Speaker 23 Hello, sir.

Speaker 17 James.

Speaker 12 This is Dr. John Watson, a lieutenant and M.O.
himself of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers.

Speaker 20 Goodness. Hello there, Watson.

Speaker 3 Sir?

Speaker 18 Well then.

Speaker 12 Well then, indeed.

Speaker 12 I think an apology is needed.

Speaker 12 James, if you'd like to go first.

Speaker 23 Sorry, what?

Speaker 12 An apology. To Colonel Emsworth here.

Speaker 23 Sorry what?

Speaker 23 For looking through the window of your manor?

Speaker 12 No, not that.

Speaker 21 Well, what?

Speaker 23 I don't know what you're trying to make me. I use,

Speaker 30 James.

Speaker 23 I use?

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 12 Persistent dilation of the pupils, even in low lighting.

Speaker 12 Dry lips and nose, bursts of enthusiasm followed by rushes of irritation and instability, jaw twitching and tremors, even when idle and not conversing.

Speaker 12 All that aside, I myself will frequent the usage of self-medication more than enough to recognize it in somebody else,

Speaker 12 even if all the clues were taken away from me.

Speaker 35 Yeah,

Speaker 17 he's a very

Speaker 17 vulnerable and impressionable young man,

Speaker 17 and uh,

Speaker 5 well,

Speaker 17 drugs may have been a uh

Speaker 17 an easy thing for you to handle or even enjoy.

Speaker 3 He is not

Speaker 5 he's vulnerable, okay?

Speaker 5 You should

Speaker 18 never

Speaker 17 never have introduced him to that to those things.

Speaker 17 Good to speak.

Speaker 17 I'm sorry,

Speaker 12 And now your turn, Colonel Emsworth.

Speaker 12 We

Speaker 17 lied to you.

Speaker 17 He returned.

Speaker 17 He returned from Ukraine.

Speaker 17 I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 Frederick, uh, Freddy, for

Speaker 41 whatever reason, was very unwell.

Speaker 17 Probably my doing, let's be honest. Always the farmer.

Speaker 18 Um, he was such a delicate little boy, you know, and I had to I just built this no, I

Speaker 41 forced this

Speaker 17 hardened shell around him and

Speaker 17 this scaffold, to use a term that you're familiar with, Mr. Dodds,

Speaker 17 that perhaps obstructed and blocked out the real boy inside.

Speaker 41 And

Speaker 18 of course, because of all that

Speaker 17 he had a very

Speaker 17 challenging, I suppose they would say these days, mental health prognosis

Speaker 17 and I will swear to any doctor and I swear it now

Speaker 17 nothing fixes a man's mental health more than the presence of other men and structure and the marines later the army was just the tick for my boy

Speaker 21 but

Speaker 17 Like I say,

Speaker 6 he was who he was, and he was misled.

Speaker 17 And he took to

Speaker 17 well, he would get involved with many things.

Speaker 17 Eventually, even

Speaker 18 Even heroin.

Speaker 41 Heroin, excuse me.

Speaker 17 Regularly.

Speaker 21 When I found out, just

Speaker 17 of course, just a few weeks ago, I I just

Speaker 17 I knew I am not gonna live the rest of my life with regrets over how I raised him.

Speaker 30 I did what all proper decent parents should do.

Speaker 18 I picked him up out of that den, that cesspit, and I dragged him home and locked him in a room and let him stick it out until that poison flushed out of him.

Speaker 17 I promised him, promised

Speaker 17 that he could be who he wanted to be. That the Freddian side would be free.

Speaker 17 No more army, no more career referrals from me, always mother.

Speaker 19 It was a fight for freedom

Speaker 17 that only he could face.

Speaker 41 And I tell you, goodness me,

Speaker 17 I've been shot at. Goodness have I been shot at.

Speaker 6 I've been captured.

Speaker 17 I have sent men to

Speaker 17 early graves.

Speaker 17 I've held their

Speaker 17 mothers, wives, girlfriends, while they weep at me and beat me

Speaker 17 to say that

Speaker 17 putting Freddie through that was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Speaker 17 Lock my son in a room and watch him like that, weight, colour, light, all

Speaker 17 vanishing from him. To say it was the hardest thing I've ever done is not something I say lightly.

Speaker 17 But it was.

Speaker 17 I was ashamed.

Speaker 25 All of us, we were full of panic and shame.

Speaker 17 And Mr. Holmes here has allowed us to see the light.

Speaker 17 To let Nicaro return

Speaker 25 to our family.

Speaker 23 Where is he?

Speaker 17 Come on, Freddy, lad.

Speaker 25 Doddy.

Speaker 23 Fuck it out.

Speaker 27 Fuck it out, Maim.

Speaker 27 I'm sorry, mate.

Speaker 21 Oh, God.

Speaker 32 I didn't know.

Speaker 27 Oh, I didn't know.

Speaker 21 I didn't tell you.

Speaker 27 I didn't tell anyone. It was all.

Speaker 27 It was all getting too much, mate. I know, mate.

Speaker 33 I'm just so sorry.

Speaker 32 I know.

Speaker 33 I'm so sorry. Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 23 Shut up. You're sorry, mate.

Speaker 32 God.

Speaker 12 It's good to see you, Freddy.

Speaker 32 You too.

Speaker 29 Oh,

Speaker 21 here he is. Come here, Andrew.

Speaker 32 Right, Watson.

Speaker 27 Legs are working then.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Ears are working too, then, are they?

Speaker 21 Here we go.

Speaker 23 Because I did say, don't, I did say for you to come back off the road, but you didn't listen.

Speaker 21 And look what happened. I was always saying you should listen to me more, weren't I?

Speaker 15 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 13 Sense of humour's come back then, has it? Colour's come back to your face too. The hairline?

Speaker 7 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 23 It was a bit touch and go for a bit, wasn't it?

Speaker 12 You have taken a big step, Freddy.

Speaker 12 And I wish you all the best with the rest of your journey. Thank you.

Speaker 13 Uh, I'm sorry we thought you were a creepy ghost.

Speaker 21 Ah, don't worry, Smite.

Speaker 27 I'll be cold words.

Speaker 12 You'll be pleased to know I have kept my opioids locked away. Should they derail any recovery?

Speaker 17 So you've done what?

Speaker 12 Locked them away.

Speaker 3 Opioids.

Speaker 34 Yes.

Speaker 17 Like heroin, you mean?

Speaker 12 Very, very similar, but a much less turbulent high, I find.

Speaker 13 Right, feel like maybe you sh we should head off. Anyone should just head off.
Let's uh, yeah, let's take you downstairs.

Speaker 28 Um

Speaker 9 and now you hit upload, right?

Speaker 15 Hit upload? No,

Speaker 13 no, he doesn't hit upload. He emails producer Neil, and Neil does the upload.

Speaker 12 Why don't you do it? Do they not trust you?

Speaker 21 No, it's not that.

Speaker 25 They think you're gonna delete all the rest is history episodes or something.

Speaker 13 No, it's this is just the way I do things. Alright, people like me and Rory and Gaz, we don't do the uploads.

Speaker 38 No, no, you are not calling Gary Lineker Gaz.

Speaker 9 People call him Gaz. Yeah, I'm sure.
His close friends and family. That's not you.

Speaker 28 No, don't send it yet. You haven't linked to the file.

Speaker 32 Ah, okay.

Speaker 12 There we go.

Speaker 13 And Dudge, I can't tempt you to change the adventure name.

Speaker 12 The Blanched Soldier.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 22 No, you can't.

Speaker 13 Fine. Fine.
Um,

Speaker 13 yeah, episode description is good. Members' club episodes done.

Speaker 19 Uh, okay.

Speaker 13 So now hit send.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 12 there we go.

Speaker 13 Adventure is officially sent and will be in

Speaker 13 that's weird.

Speaker 21 What is it's just that's actually still uploading.

Speaker 7 It's

Speaker 21 wait.

Speaker 13 Sherlock, this is four hours long.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 24 Why is it four hours long?

Speaker 12 I wanted to contextualise the case.

Speaker 25 Well, by waffling on about it for four hours.

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 27 No?

Speaker 21 Why not?

Speaker 12 People say you drag these things out anyway, so why not appeal to those that want more material?

Speaker 13 Deleting this statement.

Speaker 13 Oh, for God's sake, what's this?

Speaker 12 That's my concerto.

Speaker 13 You put some violin in for 40 44 minutes.

Speaker 12 It was a means to show a loss of innocence and a plunge into darkness.

Speaker 13 Oh, for f- I'm gonna plunge into darkness in a minute. What's this?

Speaker 13 And NordVPN allows its users to be able to do it.

Speaker 28 What the hell is this?

Speaker 12 Oh, it's an ad read.

Speaker 39 Oh, God.

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 13 They gave you an ad read.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 38 Okay, I'm gonna go.

Speaker 24 Bye.

Speaker 21 I'm not believing.

Speaker 21 NordVPN.

Speaker 24 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 12 Thank you for listening to the case of the Blanched Soldier. I can tell you that all remains well with Freddie Emsworth, and...

Speaker 12 well, you can't see this, but I have an image of him working in an office with Doddy, so it would seem he took the job after all. I hope you enjoy the case.
We will see you soon.

Speaker 12 Please, do get in touch.

Speaker 7 Okay.

Speaker 13 Done.

Speaker 11 All good?

Speaker 12 Every single one.

Speaker 22 Mike and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other. When Alyssa got a small water bottle, Mike showed up with a four-liter jug.

Speaker 22 When Mike Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping.

Speaker 22 They called a truce for their holiday and used Expedia Trip Planner to collaborate on all the details of their trip. Once there, Mike still did more laps around the pool.

Speaker 38 Whatever.

Speaker 22 You were made to outdo your holidays. We were made to help organize the competition.
Expedia, made to travel.