Black Peter - Part Three

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This murder, I feel it may be unintentional.

Yeah, no one is using the front door.

This is all cloak and dagger stuff, mate.

Look at this part of the wall.

What do you see?

Ah, yeah, it's uh

like a rifle or

no a harpoon.

A harpoon.

So, Black Peter owned the harpoon.

Cold-hearted killers don't come unarmed, Watson.

But we know that Peter was expecting a guest.

A guest he thought highly of.

Do you think someone in the village just snapped and killed him?

Never mind the village, I think someone in the house did.

You think it's time to visit the widow of Peter Orwell Carey?

Peter had very intense bouts of psychosis.

He would.

He'd think he was back there.

And it was.

All this rage would just come out and it would just.

I'd have to hide the kids.

They're much older now.

They don't even visit.

He was an abuser.

He was.

What do you mean back there?

Hmm?

You said back there, Peter would think he's back there.

Where's that?

K2.

The mountain.

I know he's just died, and I.

But I've mourned this man.

Do you understand?

I mourned this man a decade ago.

And all I've done since is fight for my life against this stranger.

Just reminded me we have another piece of evidence that needs attention.

Reminded you of what?

Day, where are you going?

The cabin's down there.

We're not going to the cabin.

Well, where are we going?

To Pooh Corner.

Right, why are we going there?

Because I'm looking for a Japanese man with size eight feet.

Murderous tourist that stalks forests in the south of England at night?

I don't think so, but let's go and find out, shall we?

Right, fine.

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Is that the word I'm looking for?

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Winnie the Pooh honey.

Eight quid a pot, not even Manuka.

What have we got here?

Looks like Winnie has been consuming a blended honey rather than genuine honey.

Winnie the Pooh tea towels.

Winnie the Pooh.

Ugh.

Winnie the Pooh bumper sticker.

Piglet and Tigger on board.

What does that even mean?

Hello there.

Can I help at all?

Ah, no, sorry.

Uh, just, um, no, I'm I'm good.

Just admiring the merch.

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Good to know.

But you strike me as more of a Tigger man, am I right?

Haha, yeah.

Sure.

So many wonderful characters.

Which one's your favourite?

Of the Winnie the Pooh lot.

Hmm.

Well,

yeah, I'm a traditionalist.

I'm Winnie all the way.

Yeah, me too.

Cool.

Us Winnie fans have to stick together, don't we?

Yeah, yeah, right.

Sure.

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Uh, yep.

Have you seen a Japanese man with size eight feet?

Excuse me, excuse me, sir.

He doesn't speak English, Watson.

He'll know, excuse me.

Maybe he knows this.

Let's just get together, mate.

This is

a tea room, and I don't want to cause a scene.

Let go of him, Watson.

Excuse me, excuse me.

what's going on here?

Hmm?

We're just asking a few questions of this gentleman.

Not in Pooh Corner, please.

No, I know, but

it looks like he's being harassed, and that's not the kind of behaviour that we need the Pooh would stand for now, is it?

Sorry, this is important.

Well, the Hundred Acre Wood is important, thank you very much.

And Ion Pigler, can you?

This is regarding a murder.

Ask him why he entered Peter Carey's cabin.

It's Kisan.

Uh-huh.

Okay, uh, he says they are fans of Winnie the Pooh, he and his family.

They were also staying in one of the holiday cabins in a different part of the woods.

Okay, so they um

they had left their bags at the airport, or the bags were lost or something, and he got a text that they had arrived.

So he left at night to go pick them up, and when he came back, he was lost.

So, what?

He climbed through a cabin window.

His wife had the keys,

so because she was asleep and he didn't want to wake her, he climbed in and he was he was wrong.

I mean, he was wrong.

It was the wrong coven, yes.

And then he saw Bokua.

Ah, hi, hi, hi.

So he obviously he saw the body and he panicked.

He says he wanted to get help, but his phone was dead, and that is why he had no GPS, and obviously why he was lost.

Okay, um, so he he went straight back out the window and he was panicked and he couldn't breathe.

Um, oh, he did feel he felt his notebook fall, but he didn't care.

He just wanted to find his family and to see if they were safe.

And then he came back the other night to get it.

Musi, Sakuya, no totorini, mudotiki mastaka.

He did, yes, but he also wanted to see if Peter was still in there to give himself another chance to call the police.

A redo of the discovery.

Because he can't live with himself otherwise.

You know, he wanted to do it for for for Peter, for justice.

Winnie the poo,

winnie the poo.

Tommy, let the curb be your stuff with flesh.

Please, please, yeah, sorry.

Tell you what, though, we have got our steps in, this adventure.

Even if we've hit a bit of a dead end.

Not a bad title, that, actually.

Dead end.

Dead end part one.

Please don't call it that.

So you haven't solved it, then?

No.

Yes.

What?

Yeah, wait, what?

I've solved it.

Have you not?

Have I not?

What do you mean, have I not?

We just harassed a Japanese man in Winnie the Pooh's house.

It's not that it's Winnie the Pooh's house, it's.

Can you tell me why you think you've solved it?

Please, because it doesn't bloody feel like it, mate.

So wait.

Was it Itsuki-san?

The guy from Japan?

Um, no.

It was a man from Sumatra.

Well, living in Sumatra for the past ten years.

He's actually from West Yorkshire.

Right, okay.

Have you had a career change?

Are we a psychic medium agency now?

Do I need to tweak the website?

It's really quite obvious.

Was it obvious when I was accusing a widow of murder, or was it when we made the Asian tourist cry?

The lighter, firstly, but also the phone case was a rather glaring kink in the fabric of this particular problem, was it not?

Uh, what phone case?

Peter's phone case.

We found it on the floor in the cabin.

Correct.

Partly.

What was incorrect about what I just said?

It wasn't Peter's phone case.

What it

what?

What are you talking about?

Peter hadn't owned a phone for years.

He believed the government were monitoring his movements, so why would he have a phone case inscribed with his own initials?

Christmas gift?

Actually, a rather sound assumption, but not one someone would make after seeing the case in question, Mariana.

Ah, okay.

It was heavily used.

Covered in natural greases, the bluing of dyed denim from a pocket, scratches and abrasions here and there.

Was it an officer?

PC?

Like a police-owned phone or something?

No.

That's a sound assumption, too.

Right?

What I just said?

Not really.

Great, thanks.

Peter Carey knew himself as Peter Orwell Carey.

He used the initials P-O-C on his set of keys and the underside of his watch.

Why didn't he use it for the lighter and phone case?

Okay, well, now you're talking sense.

What are you doing?

The crime scene's that way.

Oh, I don't need to see any more.

I spoke too soon, didn't I?

Come along.

Can you take your head out of your phone and look at me, please?

Yes, Watson.

You're not looking where you're going.

I know where I'm going.

Where?

Train station.

Why?

I want to go home.

What?

Sherlock, why are we going home?

Because man-hunts like these are ever so tiresome.

We can just wait until the service.

The service?

Yes.

On Friday.

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Oi,

another email asking us about an episode.

Oh, good lord.

What do I say?

Just ignore them.

I'm ignoring them.

John, they want to know if you are going to actually have an adventure for the podcast this week.

Oh, if I'm going to have an adventure, suddenly I'm the sole owner of the show when we're up Shit Creek, am I?

Let me call him and we can explain.

No, look, if Sherlock is right, which he does have a really annoying habit of being a lot, then it will be wrapped up today.

Where is he?

Getting ready.

For what?

For wherever he's taking me to solve this thing.

You coming?

Uh, no.

Great.

Great.

Thank you for your support.

I'm busy with reports.

I'm actually still holding fire on this episode, to be honest.

I'm starting to go

a bit Black Peter myself.

A guy that is convinced he's going to get killed by the government suddenly does actually get killed and no one knows how.

Hello.

Well, apparently this guy knows how.

Hmm, you look smart.

Thank you.

Watson, show some respect.

Show some respect?

What?

What have I done?

Black tie for the service.

What service?

Funeral service of the late Peter Carey.

Oh.

Black tie for Black Peter.

We want to make the right impression impression on the congregation.

I don't know if.

Ali is a bit sad to say, but I don't know if he'll have much of a congregation, mate.

Just the one, I would imagine.

One?

One.

One guest is funeral.

Well, we'll be there to bump up the numbers, won't we?

Right.

Right, uh, okay.

Back in a sec.

Peter Carey was born in June 1966 to Julia and Arthur Carey.

He was a thrill seeker even from an early age, climbing fences and walls he wasn't supposed to.

In his late teens, he fell in love with mountain climbing.

And it was on the slopes of the Weishorn Mountain that he met a dear friend and companion that would scale over 45 mountains alongside him.

Patrick Cairns, who would like to say a few words, Patrick Cairns.

PC.

Our killer, Watson.

Seriously?

This is unbelievable.

I uh

I know that the last few years were difficult with Peter, but

I probably expected his wife and brothers to attend.

Maybe I uh

yeah

anyway, thank you to you two, gents, for coming.

Peter Carey was

a kind man.

He was selfless, he worried about others.

He was curious and inquisitive.

I would be.

My voice would be horse after just a couple of hours with him.

Not because of the climb, or because we'd smoke a cigar after every one.

He just.

He would just ask so many questions about my life.

My family, my.

Yeah, he was

caring,

interested in people,

and he was very good at making them feel comfortable.

Fourteen years,

fifteen years ago,

Peter and I went on our forty-seventh climb together.

Didn't know it at the time, it was to be our last.

Um,

before leaving our hotel,

we'd landed a couple of days before, and we wanted to adapt to

jet lag and um

I went to leave the hotel and um

I left this coat

behind

and

I know that this

coat

don't look like much but this

This is why Peter is in that box and

it's why all these chairs are empty and

it's all my fault.

It's all my bloody fault.

He offered his insulation jacket a number of times.

Like I say, kind man.

I turned it down and

we continued ascending into what is known as the bottleneck.

A very steep, narrow gully.

Not for the faint-hearted at the best of times, but

this was really the worst of times.

A snowstorm came out of nowhere and just funneled into this thing.

We thought we'd be covered by it, but there was this fierce howling westerly that just

wouldn't let up.

How How we held our spots, I don't.

Yeah.

I don't know.

To put it bluntly, I was dying.

I...

you can't stay in that without the right gear for

any time at all, really.

This court here, it prevents snow and ice from sticking to you.

It's

a good shield when conditions are at their most difficult.

I was freezing to death,

and Peter abseiled us into a crevasse,

into pitch black.

It swallowed all light and noise, and crucially, wind and freezing snow.

But we were stuck.

We were trapped.

He saved me, but I suppose he only got us as far as we could go.

He could have climbed out of that bottleneck, but he decided to at least give it a shot and save my life.

Then, after all that noise and frenzy and chaos,

nothing.

Nothing but total blackness and each other's voices for days and days.

Not that you'd know if a day had even passed.

We um

We helped each other come to terms with

death

with shutting down that instinct to constantly fight and

fear for your life

I remember him saying to me

I have said goodbye

to myself

I remember that so

such a unique Peter thought that

to live with this consciousness all your life you you always think about saying goodbye to others but

never yourself

I don't need to tell you by some miracle we made it out of there, but

Peter, um,

he sacrificed something, I think.

Sacrificed himself, if you can call it that.

His soul, his spirit, I don't know.

Sacrificed that for me.

Because I didn't bring this bloody thing.

Left it on a hotel bed in Pakistan.

Well, Pete, my man,

I'd like you to have it

on your final.

Your final and I fear most treacherous journey.

Because you deserve so much better than the judgment you'll be given.

And the way all these people that abandoned you today judged you.

Stay warm, pal.

Go find yourself.

Go find Peter Carey again in that crack in the middle of the mountain.

Give him a bloody big hug from me,

and we'll have our cigar one day.

Oh, that was tough.

It was

what do you want to do?

Get the truth from Mr.

Cairns, and

the rest is for the authorities.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He is taking a while.

Do you think he's made a run for it?

I don't.

Me neither.

It's peaceful here.

Indeed.

For now, at least, here he comes.

Hi, Chance.

Hi.

Hello.

I'm Patrick.

I knew Peter for a while.

I mean, you heard it all, didn't you?

Of course, yeah, it was

great speech.

Must have been tough.

Definitely tougher than I thought.

Yeah.

I'm John, this is Sherlock.

Well, nice to meet you.

Uh,

how, um

how did how did you know Peter?

Um

we didn't actually, did we, really?

We did not.

Right.

Yeah, sounds uh

sounds about right, though, uh, seeing as everyone who knew him stayed clear, eh?

Brutal, really, but, uh,

I get it, I suppose.

I get it.

Did he attack you that night in the cabin?

Sorry?

You can't escape it, Mr.

Cairns.

Nor, I feel, do you wish to,

deep down

it um

he uh

I knew the second I was there

his

eyes totally dead

and black

he wasn't there anymore he just he just wasn't there and he

he locked me in

and

he just fucking lost it

he just completely fucking lost it

alright, alright.

Patrick, it's okay.

Okay, okay, it's okay.

It's okay.

Yeah, you might want to call Hopkins.

Of course.

And he arranged to meet him and have a cigar together.

They'd not met since 2019.

COVID had kinda interrupted, and Patrick was keen to do their cigar ritual again.

He went went in, he said it took a long time to kind of wear Peter down.

Yeah of course yeah.

Peter struggled socially at the best of times but I think seeing an old friend was difficult and according to the suspect, to Patrick, all was going well.

They were smoking their cigars, reminiscing and Peter completely snapped out of the blue, just launched himself at him.

Jesus.

Yeah, yeah, they had a big old tussle and certainly looks that way from the scene anyway.

And eventually Patrick Patrick broke free from a stranglehold and grabbed the first thing he saw and bang

he admitted he'd never used one before

never thought it would strike him with the power that it did he just he rushed out of there door was locked and he couldn't find the key so just straight out the window yeah and that's that

He was expecting something in the first 24 hours, but with Mrs.

Kerry

otherwise engaged, I suppose,

the body rested there for quite some time, leaving us with, well, you mostly, with some work to do

before he was found.

Wow,

yeah.

This has been a tricky one, not gonna lie.

Yeah, yeah.

Is Sherlock okay?

Yeah, he's just

upstairs.

I'm in the office, he's going over over a few things, I think.

Processing, calibrating, you know, all that sort of thing.

Sure.

Right, well, um, Stanley, uh, thanks so much.

No, no, thank you, guys.

Well done again on the promotion, and uh, yeah, hopefully, speak soon.

Absolutely.

Well, not hopefully, but um,

yeah, yeah, well, you know what I mean.

I know what you mean.

Okay, bye, mate.

Bye.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

There we are.

Case closed.

No way.

Really?

Yep.

Oh my god.

Guys, that is amazing.

Okay, tell me everything.

Oh,

wait a second.

Cher locancon, Marina speaking.

I

pardon,

monsieur, si cell la vu convinced para, Français

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Airs?

I don't know.

Very tired.

Bugger off, you lot.

Get out of my room.