The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax - Part Two
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Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Paul Waggott as Dr. John Watson
Harry Attwell as Sherlock Holmes
Marta da Silva as Mariana Ametxazurra
Jasmine Kerr as Lady Frances Carfax
Adam Jarrell as Wilton
Additional voices
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Lukas Weschler
Thomas Mitchells
Thomas-Lee Kidd
Written by Joel Emery
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Previously on Sherlock and Co.
Penny Montgomery, known for her iconic role as Lady Frances Carfax in the long-running detective series The Lady Doth Investigate, has been reported missing.
No, Miss Montgomery was last seen aboard the cruise liner the Montpellier, which is due to dock in the port of Alexandria in northern Egypt at 3 p.m.
today.
How does a woman go missing on a ship?
There's innumerable answers to that question, Watson.
Well, maybe if you have a think and actually come up with something, we could help the investigation.
Search for Penny Montgomery assistant.
And before you ask why, it's because that is how the observations present themselves.
So you might want to ask her why she has recently parted company with Miss Montgomery shortly before her disappearance.
Been going on for a couple of years.
There was suddenly this man in a life.
This guy started to um
what's the word?
Harass?
Harassed?
No, nothing like that.
He started to infringe.
That's it, infringe on my responsibilities with Penny.
Visual description?
Um, short,
stocky, very, like, sun-kissed, sun-worn, kinda, you know what I mean?
He had quite a lot of jewelry on him.
Bracelets, necklace, rings?
Yeah.
Watch.
And a gold tooth.
Earrings.
Earring.
Single.
The other ear was damaged.
Like
cauliflower ear from rugby or boxing?
No, it was kind of torn.
The lobe area was kind of torn off.
I've seen plenty of investigations in my time, believe me.
And you guys seem to really care about how you conduct them.
So, here.
Oh, what's what what is that?
It's a key
to her flat.
Oh, she wants to quit the show and live a normal life.
Yes,
yes, and she just wants some
normal, slobby guy in some little cottage or something.
Maybe in Europe.
Yeah, completely.
What absolute bollocks.
Ornaments, sculptures, artworks, an antique mirror from this wall, two bronze figures that stood just here, porcelain collectibles along that shelf, a gilded candelabra by the window, three rather ugly Louis 16th-style chairs, silk-embroidered cushions from that couch, a large enamelled vase that should have been by that door there, a marble chest set, and a custom perfume decanter set that was on this surface here, I believe.
All gone.
So she
sold it all?
Indeed.
But why?
For that, we must depart for another destination.
We must track her last known movements.
But
that would involve going to Switzerland, Sherlock.
Then we shall go to Switzerland, Watson.
Chop chop.
2 1.
Hello, it's me.
And it's you.
And together we make the perfect podcasting team.
Me, the maker, you, the listener.
Dream team.
Dream team.
The adventure continues.
Trigger warnings in description, but
it's the usual shit, let's be honest.
It
contains swearing.
Enjoy.
You have meetings.
Yes, regarding my spider.
And I don't wish to forego them for the sake of some celebrity scandal.
Sherlock, you just pointed out how bad we are at deducing.
Then you could do with the practice.
Your destination is the Hotel National in Lausanne.
Good luck.
You will need it in abundance.
Yep, thanks.
Keep in touch.
Only if I must.
Bye-bye.
Yeah, bye, mate.
Great.
Any ideas on where we start?
Uh, gate thirty-five, I think.
No, I meant right, yes.
Uh, um,
maybe book us in for a night at the Hotel National.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll do that.
And also, I think it's best for the investigation if I have the window seat on the flight.
Oh, you think that?
I do.
Yeah, yeah, I just want to make sure that, you know, we find her.
And I really feel that the window seat is...
Ow!
Don't voke me.
You.
You deserve it.
Lady Frances,
I'm not so sure about this.
Oh, Wilton, you fret over nothing.
I fret over this giant pitch-black cave, ma'am.
Mystery thrives in the shadows, Wilton.
Yes.
That is my concern, Lady Frances.
The The only thing you should concern yourself with is the truth.
Oh, trat!
Merciful heavens!
What?
What is it, Wilton?
Oh, I've stepped right into this foul-smelling puddle.
My new loafers ruined!
Oh, Wilton.
This guy honestly is an absolute div.
You have orange juice all down your shirt.
It was the turbulence I said this.
Uh-huh.
Do you reckon I could get a refund on the orange juice?
I meant on the flight?
No, John, I don't.
Well, that is enough.
The lady doth investigate for me.
Better be out there anyway.
Oh yeah.
Wow.
Hey, did I say you could use my window?
Do you want to get poked in the ribs again?
You know, I was expecting the Alps, but...
I'll take that.
Lakes and forests.
You'll see the Alps from Lausanne, but they're to the south.
Cool.
And we are right on the lake.
Lake Geneva.
Yeah.
Look.
On the booking here.
Switzerland on one side, France on the other.
Oh, nice.
So nice.
Ah, super romantic.
Ah, yeah.
Yeah, we can finally be romantic with each other.
other.
Yeah, you're pretty irresistible with your orange juice shirt.
Yeah, that's what I was going for.
Sure.
My plan, by the way,
might involve something
a little risque.
Oh, okay.
I got myself some of these bad boys at the airport.
Yeah, so I saw this come up on the business account app.
Why do you have 300 Swiss francs in cash?
Because
I would very much like to speak to the manager.
If you know what I mean.
No, I don't know.
Get a few answers to a few questions.
Is that a is that a wink?
Is it not working?
Um, let me try it with the other eye.
Do you realize?
Actually, let me take a picture.
Do you realize how stupid you look right now?
Listen, if you can't read between lines, that's your problem, okay?
Cash plus questions equals answers.
Oh, you want to bribe the manager of the Hotel Nacional?
Yes.
With money from our business account.
Yeah.
What?
What's that face for?
It's not illegal, it's our money.
Absolutely it's illegal.
What?
They're not
government officials.
They run a hotel.
That is a business account.
Yeah.
You and I could get arrested for not stopping you in the act of bribing the manager.
What offense is that exactly?
There.
You see, you don't even know a commercial organization failing to prevent bribery by an associated person.
That is an offence.
Really?
Since 2010, yes.
Fine.
Fine.
Fine and imprisonment.
No, I'm saying fine.
Like, fine.
I won't do it.
Okay.
Good.
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Yep.
Now we get in there.
Train.
Well, I figured, with Sherlock not joining us, we could afford to be a little more
adventurous.
Cheers.
Hello, everyone.
We are bobbing along on our little ferry across the absolutely stunning, stunning Lake Geneva.
I feel like Captain Corelli's mandolin.
Well,
I don't feel like his mandolin.
I feel like Captain Corelli.
That's a dallion.
Alright,
I feel like
what's her name in the sound of music?
Can you maybe pick something that doesn't involve war?
Well, no, probably not.
Yeah, I thought as much.
You join us, lovely listeners, as we head across Lake Geneva to investigate the disappearance of Lady...
No!
Good lord.
Nearly called her Lady Frances Carfax.
The disappearance of Penny Montgomery.
The water is so clear and still
just...
On our right, you can see France.
showing off the Alps mountains with snow glistening on their sharp peaks, with the beautiful forests and woodlands clambering at their foothills, and Switzerland on the left, and the ancient stone spires and mechano-like wooden piers protruding out from the city of Lausanne that has this incredible front-row seat over this lake.
It's mountains.
It is.
There's nothing more beautiful than this.
Nothing even comes closer.
Actually, this is the most beautiful thing.
That is a a pint of beer.
Yes, it is.
Yeah, yeah.
What is that again?
Uh, matterhorn.
Which is vodka, creme de cacao, cream.
Right, so vodka, cream, and more cream.
And then this little Swiss chocolate garnish.
Can I try a sip?
I told you to get something that wasn't just beer.
All you drink is beer.
I told you to get something different, and you didn't.
So no.
I'm recording all this.
Obviously.
So what?
So the listeners all think you're great, and now you're exposing exposing your true self.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Sure, yeah.
Um,
hi, listeners.
This is my true self.
This is the most expensive whiskey you have.
That's surprising.
Have you ever seen a richer-looking guy in your life?
Oh, yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
Look at how many white stuff he's got buzzing around him.
Oh, God, he's doing the wine-tasting thing.
That's what people do, John.
Yeah, they're not like that.
Okay, let's
maybe not get you annoyed.
Cheers?
Yeah, yeah.
Cheers.
To Lake Geneva and finding Penny.
Cheers to Penny.
Oh, and to Sherlock.
Oh, yeah, that guy.
Cheers.
Nice.
Oh, shit.
Oh, sorry.
That was.
Yeah, that was.
I'm genuinely sorry about that.
That
genuinely sorry.
That was an insult to the people of Switzerland.
And...
oh, the rich guy is daring.
Je compromises perfectment.
Ah, je le fairer, bien sir, mais excuse, monsieur.
Mon no et monsieur mosaire.
Je suis le director des national ya rozanne.
Ah, monsieur mosaire?
Nevous sirción.
Vremont?
Jean Sui Flette.
Can I just uh
proche de Mademoiselle Penny Montgomery?
Ah, we
triste, present.
Oui, toutafait, oui.
This is uh an English-language podcast, so
I cannot divulge information about our guests.
This is Penny, right, Penny Montgomery?
Enjoy your time here.
Enjoy your drinks.
But wait, wait, you remember her being here.
She was here for a sufficient period of time, yes.
How long?
Monsieur, please.
Monsieur Moncer, this is Dr.
John Watson, and I am Mariana Metsatura.
We are investigators from London.
It is a pleasure to meet you and to have you at your hotel, but I cannot reveal further information regarding a guest at this hotel.
But we are investigators.
With the greatest respect, I have rejected many
We're not journalists.
Please, I cannot.
Everybody knows our onward journey.
It is public record.
The police mentioned Baden Baden in Germany, and then the sheep, the Vesal Montpellier.
This is, in the report I read today, the hotel divulges none of this.
You understand?
Was she here with somebody, or was she alone?
Enjoy your drinks.
Monsieur Mosser, my friend enjoyed his beer very much, and he would enjoy answers to our questions even more.
Which is why he wants to tip the waiter of this table 300 Swiss francs.
In the meantime, we would like to be shown to our room.
Madame, merci, monsieur moussaire.
Au revoir.
Just gonna leave that right there.
It's a great beer.
You what?
It was your idea.
And you told me it was illegal.
Hey, if it works and we find her, it will balance out.
Oh, yeah, that's how the law works.
Oh, for once, I would just like him to leave voice notes.
I just get messages from him saying busy, can't message.
Well, leave a bloody voice note.
Yeah, I think he's done like one voice note to me the whole time I've known him.
Um, anyway, you lot.
Sorry, just whinging about Sherlock.
Some extra special shout-outs from a hotel room balcony overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps.
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And also to Dan in Australia, who thinks we should do this as a TV show.
I agree, Dan.
I agree.
Thanks, mate.
Shout out to Marlene in New York, who likes to laugh at me when I try and speak Spanish.
Gracias, Marlene.
Shout out to Betty and their dad, too.
To Jasper in Brazil.
Quick sip of beer here.
Apologies.
Yeah.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Wait, what's your oh my god?
Look, this just came through our door.
What does it say?
Brule aprévoir leu.
Meaning.
Meaning burn after reading?
Well, open it then.
Wait, what's your oh my god?
Oh, uh, yeah, I'll go first.
Um, sure.
Okay, this is like a shout-out, but uh
like a...
You will see what I mean.
Ruffin
in Minnesota has been in touch
and he listened while driving across country from San Jose to Minneapolis where he and his partner Abigail moved back home.
Sure, okay.
They recently bought their first home.
Ruffin goes on to say that Abigail is the most kind, supportive, thoughtful partner anyone could ask for.
Oh.
And he feels lucky to have her by his side every day.
Oh.
And he cannot wait to spend the rest of his life with her.
So,
Abigail,
will you marry Rathin?
I'm silent because I'm giddy, but also because I'm waiting, like, for her reply.
Yeah, I mean, she can't answer.
It's It's a podcast, so.
Yeah, anyway, there you go.
Keep in touch, Rathin and Abigail.
Unless she says no, in which case.
Yeah, don't, don't, don't tell us if that happens.
Cheers.
Cheers.
See?
Told you the trip could be romantic.
You were right.
Right, let me get matches for the letter.
Two, six.
Ta-da!
Matches, courtesy of Hotel National.
Okay.
What is wrong with me?
That marriage proposal has completely thrown me.
Maybe it's the three beers.
Who knows?
Yeah, who knows?
Right, let's read.
Miss Montgomery was booked to stay for three weeks.
Slimey.
Okay.
At the end of the second week, a tall bearded man arrived on our lakefront dining space.
He sat at her table and following a very heated conversation, our staff intervened.
She left shortly after.
We have no contact from her since.
Her room remained unused for the duration of her booking.
That's the end.
A tall, bearded man.
Yes.
What do we think?
I think
we have our kidnapper.
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Gutten Tag.
Hi, hi there.
Um, Spreckenzie English?
Yes, sir.
Of course.
My name is.
He said he speaks English.
Yeah, name is.
Sorry, name is Dr.
John Watson.
I'm inquiring after Penny Montgomery.
Do you have the guest's room number?
I don't.
No, she she left.
She's vacated the room.
Um
I'm actually uh
a doctor.
It it's some very, very important medical information.
Oh.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, really quite urgent.
I don't know if there's much I can do.
If she's no longer in the hotel, sir, I do apologize.
What if do you have a
database of guests?
Yes, yeah.
Can you search her on your system?
See if she left a number or anything at all?
Let me see.
Okay, so she is still booked to stay with us.
She left before
her booking expired.
That's right, yes.
Did she check out with anyone?
I don't have that kind of information.
Of course, yeah.
I have a phone number for her if this is a medical emergency.
Yeah, no, that's not working anyway.
Um, she I
hold on one moment.
My colleague tells me another doctor came to see her.
Came to see her when?
Van Mada doctor here.
Again, after she had already left.
What was his name?
Dr.
Schlesinger.
Did
okay.
Um, do you do you have he left a telephone number to be contacted if she returned?
He did Schlesinger.
Yes, I have the number here.
Oh, fantastic.
Life save literal lifesaver.
Can I send it to the number you're calling on?
Yes, please do.
Anything else on him?
Yeah, anything else you have on him?
Um, you know, like, like, where is he headed?
Just in case I can't get a hold of him.
He provided no identification.
Like yourself, sir, he was concerned over her health.
Yeah, yes, of course.
There's a note on the system for the same inquiry, actually.
Oh, uh, what does that mean?
A note.
It says a man called yesterday asking for the description of Dr.
Schlesinger.
Who called?
What was the name of the person who asked for his description?
I can see the call log.
It says the caller was it was you.
What?
Eh, what?
The caller.
You.
You gave the name Dr.
John Watson.
You then asked for a visual description of Schlesinger.
No, I didn't.
My colleague provided the description, and then you interrupted my colleague.
It wasn't me, like you are interrupting me now.
And you asked about his ear.
His ear?
Is this some sort of amusing prank?
Well, apparently, yes, and I seem to be the target.
I hope I have provided you with some entertainment.
No, look, no, I'm not.
I'm not trying to wind you up.
Okay, thank you for the number.
I appreciate that.
Hello?
Hello?
Oh, great.
Great.
John.
Don't start.
You called them.
I did not call them.
It's just some bloke taking the piss out of us as he drags this poor woman across Europe and then chucks her off a cruise ship from the sounds of it.
Give me your phone.
Calm down.
I'm gonna call this guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, tell him he's impersonating a doctor.
Well, he's impersonating a different doctor than the doctor that he...
Just tell him to fuck off.
Oh, wow.
Hot phone.
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
No, no, you're getting loads of notifications.
Oh, no, that's uh that's Discord and Twitter.
It'll be the fans.
They like to get in touch, chat with me, send abuse.
It's a whole thing.
There's a news link they keep sending.
Um, let me check.
Oh,
oh no.
What?
Look.
My name is Penny Montgomery.
I am
being held.
No.
Against my will.
Please.
Please help me.
There is a 24-round window to save the life of Penny Montgomery.
Oh my god, the holy pirates hold that captive.
She will remain alive until that window closes.
The ransom is five million US dollars.
And that disturbing video has just come to us now with regards to the disappearance.
Oh, I have that app.
I have that.
Can I get you any more drinks?
Yes.
I'll come back.
Okay.
Okay.
I I can message.
Uh, what what shall I say?
Say, um,
we are investigators from London.
Okay, uh, investigators from London.
We are private.
We have substantial financial um
backing.
Yes, John, that's good, that's good.
Okay.
And we want to use this opportunity to uh to to for oh for marketing, right?
Exactly.
To boost our profile, we can pay the ransom in full
sent.
Oh, it's been read.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Oh, typing.
Typing.
What is it?
A phone number.
Note it down.
Are you are you noting it down?
Stop.
Wait.
That's the same one.
Schlesinger.
Same.
Look, see?
Holy shit.
Well, Schlesinger doesn't really sound like the name of a North African pirate.
Is this our bearded man?
Well, he's wearing a balaclava, so
who knows at this point?
We know, John.
We know.
You can see, right?
He found her right here in Lausanne, and she fled.
He almost found her in Baden-Baden, and she fled, but he was right behind her, and then he finally caught up with her on the Montpellier cruise ship.
And he
takes her.
He takes her.
The bearded man.
The bearded man.
I'm calling it.
It's happening.
It's go time.
Oh, crap.
Oh, oh, oh, crap.
Oh, crap.
Oh, crap.
You have the money.
We do.
Yep, we have it.
Proof.
Proof.
Proof.
I know what to do.
Two seconds, please.
Excuse me.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi, Rich Whiskey Man.
Can I help?
Yes, you can.
A big help.
To a woman being held captive.
What?
Not her.
Oh, no.
No, no, no.
Oh, not me, not me.
Um, another girl.
Um, would you please take a screenshot of your bank account for me?
Nope.
I'm not falling for that.
Because you don't have a lot?
I have plenty.
Look, you can black everything you want to out.
All of it.
Just please.
She's giving you a chance to show off your knob.
Just do it.
Show us how loaded you are.
God's sake.
Fine.
Hold.
Just hold on.
Michael, you really don't have to do this.
They don't believe me.
I've worked damn hard for this money, and I won't have people thinking I'm some try-hard waxing out his credit card.
Do give me an airdrop or a Bluetooth.
Okay, you can connect to me here.
Marimo.
Alright.
Or
sent.
There.
See?
Told you.
I bloody told you.
I have a yacht on the lake as well, if you want to see that.
Michael.
Enough, Audrey.
Alright.
I heard you.
Share that if you want.
If it goes viral, I really don't mind.
Sure, yeah, okay.
You got it, John.
Yeah,
um,
hello, just uh, sending you a screenshot of our account now.
Uh, we are currently in Switzerland.
You'll see, you'll see from the like the top bit of the phone, the service provider.
We are
just surveying our um
our vault,
our bank vault.
We have have here.
You need to get to Alexandria.
Alexandria in Egypt.
Yep, we can do that.
You land, you prove to me where you are, and that you are alone.
Then we can meet.
Yes, okay, okay, thank you.
Just you just look after her.
Make sure she has lots of fluids.
Is in the video, she looks.
Hello?
We have to go now.
Yeah.
Maurice, Maurice, I know this is fast, but can it go faster?
You have the money for the fuel!
If that's what it takes!
We're out of bloody hell!
This is our final form of Turkish Airlines Flight 1920 to the Sanborn and Gate 7.
We have to make this flight.
It will get us to assemble in three hours, and it's due.
Okay, okay, just keep running.
I don't need to hear the itinerary.
I believe you.
Wait!
No, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't close it.
Wait for us.
We're passengers.
Passengers.
Oh, God, my legs.
You okay?
Yeah, yeah, just, you know, sprinting between gates and then sitting still for three hours and sprinting again and sitting.
I could do it with like
an ice bath, I think, because the muscles, you know, particularly my calves.
John,
could we maybe call the kidnapper now, you know, and rescue the famous actress?
Yeah, sure.
We uh
What was that?
That was uh
s some port workers,
I think.
Uh-huh.
Oh, see?
That guy there.
And uh, that guy.
Okay.
Let me just ask this bloke if we're at the right gateway.
Excuse me.
Is this the only gateway for the port, the the port of Alexandria?
Yes.
Gateway.
Yeah, but does the okay.
Lovely.
Is this the place?
Apparently.
Okay, make the call.
Now, John, please.
No, we need the proof we're here.
You take a picture of us with the gateway to the Alexandria port behind us.
Uh-huh.
Great.
Selfie mode.
Okay.
Um.
Okay, she...
Oh, no, wait.
do we do we smile?
I
oh, yeah, that's weird.
I feel like we should smile.
Yeah, because if we don't smile, is that like, you know, grizzly face we're coming to get you?
But then, if we do smile, he will think we are not taking it seriously.
Yeah, but what if I come across as too threatening?
I don't think that's something we need to worry about.
I have quite a cold stare without a smile.
Take the damn picture.
Okay, okay, here we go.
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, okay, that'll do.
Um,
right, I'll share this image into oh no, actually, I need to send to you so then you can share into your telegrammer.
Hey.
What?
What, Mariana?
What are you doing?
Shh.
What?
In the picture.
The picture?
The one we just took?
Look.
Can you see?
In the background behind us.
Oh, shit.
Bearded man.
Hello?
John, I don't like this now.
Just...
Wait, this is what we're here for.
No, no.
We're here to rescue a woman not to get beat up and thrown in the water by pirates.
Actual pirates.
It could be police.
You don't know.
Hello?
Hello?
Stop.
He's there.
Oh, my God.
I'm going over.
John.
John.
All right, listen, mate.
I don't recall seeing a gun in that video, and it looks to me like you're all alone now.
Get back.
Yeah, you know what?
I don't think I will.
Get away now, or face the consequences.
The consequences are you rotting in a prison cell, mate.
Who are you?
Huh?
Who are you?
Have that.
I'm Dr.
John Watson.
Ow!
Bastard!
John!
No!
John!
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Please, please,
bring it to me.
No!
Drink!
Run, Mariana!
John!
Run!
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