Black Peter - Part Three

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THE SOUL OF THE MOUNTAIN - It was fairly typical of my companion to reach a conclusion so easily and swiftly while for us it remained a blur on the horizon. Sherlock and Mariana - who apparently speaks every tongue known to man - spoke with the Japanese intruder... but it was in a quiet chapel where I would finally catch up with Sherlock and the truth would come within my grasp.

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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
Rhys Tees as Stanley Hopkins
Harry Frost as Patrick Cairns
Akie Kotabe as Itsuki

Additional Voices:
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Adam Jarrell

Written by Joel Emery

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Speaker 13 This murder, I feel it may be unintentional.

Speaker 12 Yeah, no one is using the front door. This is all cloak and dagger stuff, mate.

Speaker 13 Look at this part of the wall.

Speaker 13 What do you see?

Speaker 3 Ah, yeah, it's uh

Speaker 3 like a rifle or

Speaker 14 no a harpoon.

Speaker 3 A harpoon.

Speaker 12 So, Black Peter owned the harpoon.

Speaker 13 Cold-hearted killers don't come unarmed, Watson. But we know that Peter was expecting a guest.

Speaker 7 A guest he thought highly of.

Speaker 16 Do you think someone in the village just snapped and killed him?

Speaker 12 Never mind the village, I think someone in the house did.

Speaker 13 You think it's time to visit the widow of Peter Orwell Carey?

Speaker 17 Peter had very intense bouts of psychosis.

Speaker 1 He would.

Speaker 17 He'd think he was back there.

Speaker 17 And it was.

Speaker 17 All this rage would just come out and it would just.

Speaker 3 I'd have to hide the kids.

Speaker 17 They're much older now. They don't even visit.

Speaker 13 He was an abuser.

Speaker 17 He was.

Speaker 12 What do you mean back there?

Speaker 3 Hmm?

Speaker 12 You said back there, Peter would think he's back there.

Speaker 13 Where's that?

Speaker 17 K2.

Speaker 12 The mountain.

Speaker 17 I know he's just died, and I.

Speaker 3 But I've mourned this man.

Speaker 17 Do you understand?

Speaker 17 I mourned this man a decade ago. And all I've done since is fight for my life against this stranger.

Speaker 13 Just reminded me we have another piece of evidence that needs attention.

Speaker 12 Reminded you of what? Day, where are you going? The cabin's down there.

Speaker 14 We're not going to the cabin.

Speaker 3 Well, where are we going?

Speaker 4 To Pooh Corner. Right, why are we going there?

Speaker 13 Because I'm looking for a Japanese man with size eight feet.

Speaker 12 Murderous tourist that stalks forests in the south of England at night?

Speaker 13 I don't think so, but let's go and find out, shall we?

Speaker 12 Right, fine. Let's all listen to Mariana show off yet more languages.

Speaker 4 Very impressive.

Speaker 12 Can she name Swindon's full squad?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 12 So, see, we all have our talents. Stick your head in that episode description if you want to know any details regarding potential

Speaker 3 harmful. Is that the word I'm looking for? Harmful?

Speaker 12 Whatever. Harmful content info is all down there.
I will catch you at the end. Good luck out there.
Bye now.

Speaker 3 Winnie the Pooh honey.

Speaker 3 Eight quid a pot, not even Manuka. What have we got here?

Speaker 12 Looks like Winnie has been consuming a blended honey rather than genuine honey.

Speaker 12 Winnie the Pooh tea towels.

Speaker 3 Winnie the Pooh. Ugh.

Speaker 12 Winnie the Pooh bumper sticker.

Speaker 4 Piglet and Tigger on board.

Speaker 3 What does that even mean?

Speaker 18 Hello there. Can I help at all?

Speaker 19 Ah, no, sorry.

Speaker 12 Uh, just, um, no, I'm I'm good. Just admiring the merch.

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Speaker 3 Um, yep.

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Speaker 19 Oh, great.

Speaker 3 Good to know.

Speaker 9 But you strike me as more of a Tigger man, am I right?

Speaker 3 Haha, yeah.

Speaker 9 Sure. So many wonderful characters.

Speaker 13 Which one's your favourite?

Speaker 12 Of the Winnie the Pooh lot.

Speaker 3 Hmm.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 20 yeah, I'm a traditionalist.

Speaker 4 I'm Winnie all the way.

Speaker 18 Yeah, me too.

Speaker 9 Cool. Us Winnie fans have to stick together, don't we?

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, right. Sure.

Speaker 9 Right, well, I'm going to bounce off like Tigger himself.

Speaker 18 If you do need anything at all, do let me know.

Speaker 3 Uh, I yeah, actually, I do have a request.

Speaker 14 Uh, yep.

Speaker 4 Have you seen a Japanese man with size eight feet?

Speaker 2 Excuse me, excuse me, sir.

Speaker 8 He doesn't speak English, Watson.

Speaker 2 He'll know, excuse me.

Speaker 12 Maybe he knows this.

Speaker 11 Let's just get together, mate. This is

Speaker 2 a tea room, and I don't want to cause a scene.

Speaker 13 Let go of him, Watson.

Speaker 8 Excuse me, excuse me.

Speaker 18 what's going on here?

Speaker 3 Hmm?

Speaker 12 We're just asking a few questions of this gentleman.

Speaker 14 Not in Pooh Corner, please.

Speaker 8 No, I know, but

Speaker 9 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?

Speaker 1 Sorry, this is important.

Speaker 18 Well, the Hundred Acre Wood is important, thank you very much.

Speaker 18 And Ion Pigler, can you?

Speaker 1 This is regarding a murder.

Speaker 13 Ask him why he entered Peter Carey's cabin.

Speaker 16 It's Kisan.

Speaker 3 Uh-huh.

Speaker 16 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.

Speaker 16 Okay, so they um

Speaker 16 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.

Speaker 5 So, what?

Speaker 12 He climbed through a cabin window.

Speaker 16 His wife had the keys,

Speaker 16 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.

Speaker 16 And then he saw Bokua.

Speaker 3 Ah, hi, hi, hi.

Speaker 16 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.

Speaker 16 Okay, um, so he he went straight back out the window and he was panicked and he couldn't breathe.

Speaker 16 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.

Speaker 12 And then he came back the other night to get it.

Speaker 16 Musi, Sakuya, no totorini, mudotiki mastaka.

Speaker 16 He did, yes, but he also wanted to see if Peter was still in there to give himself another chance to call the police.

Speaker 16 A redo of the discovery.

Speaker 16 Because he can't live with himself otherwise. You know, he wanted to do it for for for Peter, for justice.

Speaker 3 Winnie the poo,

Speaker 3 winnie the poo.

Speaker 3 Tommy, let the curb be your stuff with flesh. Please, please, yeah, sorry.

Speaker 12 Tell you what, though, we have got our steps in, this adventure.

Speaker 12 Even if we've hit a bit of a dead end.

Speaker 3 Not a bad title, that, actually. Dead end.

Speaker 12 Dead end part one.

Speaker 13 Please don't call it that.

Speaker 16 So you haven't solved it, then?

Speaker 8 No. Yes.

Speaker 3 What? Yeah, wait, what?

Speaker 2 I've solved it.

Speaker 13 Have you not?

Speaker 3 Have I not?

Speaker 12 What do you mean, have I not? We just harassed a Japanese man in Winnie the Pooh's house.

Speaker 13 It's not that it's Winnie the Pooh's house, it's.

Speaker 12 Can you tell me why you think you've solved it? Please, because it doesn't bloody feel like it, mate. So wait.

Speaker 16 Was it Itsuki-san? The guy from Japan?

Speaker 18 Um, no.

Speaker 13 It was a man from Sumatra. Well, living in Sumatra for the past ten years.
He's actually from West Yorkshire.

Speaker 4 Right, okay. Have you had a career change?

Speaker 12 Are we a psychic medium agency now? Do I need to tweak the website?

Speaker 1 It's really quite obvious.

Speaker 12 Was it obvious when I was accusing a widow of murder, or was it when we made the Asian tourist cry?

Speaker 13 The lighter, firstly, but also the phone case was a rather glaring kink in the fabric of this particular problem, was it not?

Speaker 16 Uh, what phone case?

Speaker 12 Peter's phone case. We found it on the floor in the cabin.

Speaker 2 Correct.

Speaker 3 Partly.

Speaker 12 What was incorrect about what I just said?

Speaker 13 It wasn't Peter's phone case.

Speaker 3 What it

Speaker 3 what?

Speaker 4 What are you talking about?

Speaker 13 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?

Speaker 16 Christmas gift?

Speaker 13 Actually, a rather sound assumption, but not one someone would make after seeing the case in question, Mariana.

Speaker 3 Ah, okay.

Speaker 13 It was heavily used. Covered in natural greases, the bluing of dyed denim from a pocket, scratches and abrasions here and there.

Speaker 2 Was it an officer?

Speaker 12 PC? Like a police-owned phone or something?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 12 That's a sound assumption, too.

Speaker 23 Right? What I just said?

Speaker 3 Not really.

Speaker 20 Great, thanks.

Speaker 13 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?

Speaker 12 Okay, well, now you're talking sense.

Speaker 12 What are you doing? The crime scene's that way.

Speaker 13 Oh, I don't need to see any more.

Speaker 14 I spoke too soon, didn't I?

Speaker 3 Come along.

Speaker 12 Can you take your head out of your phone and look at me, please? Yes, Watson. You're not looking where you're going.

Speaker 1 I know where I'm going.

Speaker 3 Where?

Speaker 13 Train station.

Speaker 4 Why?

Speaker 13 I want to go home.

Speaker 22 What?

Speaker 16 Sherlock, why are we going home?

Speaker 13 Because man-hunts like these are ever so tiresome. We can just wait until the service.

Speaker 5 The service? Yes.

Speaker 13 On Friday.

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Speaker 12 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?

Speaker 16 Let me call him and we can explain.

Speaker 12 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.

Speaker 16 Where is he?

Speaker 3 Getting ready. For what? For wherever he's taking me to solve this thing.

Speaker 12 You coming?

Speaker 16 Uh, no.

Speaker 3 Great. Great.

Speaker 4 Thank you for your support.

Speaker 16 I'm busy with reports.

Speaker 12 I'm actually still holding fire on this episode, to be honest. I'm starting to go

Speaker 12 a bit Black Peter myself.

Speaker 12 A guy that is convinced he's going to get killed by the government suddenly does actually get killed and no one knows how.

Speaker 3 Hello.

Speaker 12 Well, apparently this guy knows how.

Speaker 16 Hmm, you look smart. Thank you.

Speaker 13 Watson, show some respect.

Speaker 12 Show some respect?

Speaker 3 What? What have I done?

Speaker 14 Black tie for the service.

Speaker 3 What service?

Speaker 13 Funeral service of the late Peter Carey.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 5 Black tie for Black Peter.

Speaker 13 We want to make the right impression impression on the congregation.

Speaker 3 I don't know if.

Speaker 12 Ali is a bit sad to say, but I don't know if he'll have much of a congregation, mate.

Speaker 5 Just the one, I would imagine.

Speaker 4 One?

Speaker 13 One.

Speaker 20 One guest is funeral.

Speaker 3 Well, we'll be there to bump up the numbers, won't we? Right.

Speaker 3 Right, uh, okay.

Speaker 12 Back in a sec.

Speaker 14 Peter Carey was born in June 1966 to Julia and Arthur Carey.

Speaker 3 He was a thrill seeker even from an early age, climbing fences and walls he wasn't supposed to.

Speaker 14 In his late teens, he fell in love with mountain climbing.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 Patrick Cairns, who would like to say a few words, Patrick Cairns.

Speaker 14 PC.

Speaker 3 Our killer, Watson.

Speaker 8 Seriously?

Speaker 3 This is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 I uh

Speaker 23 I know that the last few years were difficult with Peter, but

Speaker 23 I probably expected his wife and brothers to attend. Maybe I uh

Speaker 3 yeah

Speaker 23 anyway, thank you to you two, gents, for coming.

Speaker 23 Peter Carey was

Speaker 3 a kind man.

Speaker 23 He was selfless, he worried about others. He was curious and inquisitive.

Speaker 23 I would be.

Speaker 23 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.

Speaker 23 He would just ask so many questions about my life.

Speaker 23 My family, my.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he was

Speaker 3 caring,

Speaker 23 interested in people,

Speaker 23 and he was very good at making them feel comfortable.

Speaker 23 Fourteen years,

Speaker 23 fifteen years ago,

Speaker 23 Peter and I went on our forty-seventh climb together. Didn't know it at the time, it was to be our last.
Um,

Speaker 23 before leaving our hotel,

Speaker 23 we'd landed a couple of days before, and we wanted to adapt to

Speaker 3 jet lag and um

Speaker 23 I went to leave the hotel and um

Speaker 23 I left this coat

Speaker 23 behind

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 4 I know that this

Speaker 3 coat

Speaker 3 don't look like much but this

Speaker 3 This is why Peter is in that box and

Speaker 3 it's why all these chairs are empty and

Speaker 18 it's all my fault.

Speaker 3 It's all my bloody fault.

Speaker 23 He offered his insulation jacket a number of times.

Speaker 4 Like I say, kind man.

Speaker 3 I turned it down and

Speaker 23 we continued ascending into what is known as the bottleneck.

Speaker 3 A very steep, narrow gully.

Speaker 23 Not for the faint-hearted at the best of times, but

Speaker 23 this was really the worst of times.

Speaker 23 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

Speaker 3 wouldn't let up.

Speaker 23 How How we held our spots, I don't.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 23 To put it bluntly, I was dying.

Speaker 3 I...

Speaker 23 you can't stay in that without the right gear for

Speaker 23 any time at all, really.

Speaker 23 This court here, it prevents snow and ice from sticking to you. It's

Speaker 23 a good shield when conditions are at their most difficult.

Speaker 23 I was freezing to death,

Speaker 23 and Peter abseiled us into a crevasse,

Speaker 23 into pitch black.

Speaker 23 It swallowed all light and noise, and crucially, wind and freezing snow. But we were stuck.

Speaker 23 We were trapped.

Speaker 23 He saved me, but I suppose he only got us as far as we could go.

Speaker 23 He could have climbed out of that bottleneck, but he decided to at least give it a shot and save my life.

Speaker 23 Then, after all that noise and frenzy and chaos,

Speaker 23 nothing.

Speaker 23 Nothing but total blackness and each other's voices for days and days.

Speaker 23 Not that you'd know if a day had even passed.

Speaker 3 We um

Speaker 23 We helped each other come to terms with

Speaker 3 death

Speaker 23 with shutting down that instinct to constantly fight and

Speaker 23 fear for your life

Speaker 23 I remember him saying to me

Speaker 23 I have said goodbye

Speaker 23 to myself

Speaker 23 I remember that so

Speaker 23 such a unique Peter thought that

Speaker 23 to live with this consciousness all your life you you always think about saying goodbye to others but

Speaker 23 never yourself

Speaker 23 I don't need to tell you by some miracle we made it out of there, but

Speaker 23 Peter, um,

Speaker 23 he sacrificed something, I think.

Speaker 23 Sacrificed himself, if you can call it that. His soul, his spirit, I don't know.

Speaker 23 Sacrificed that for me.

Speaker 23 Because I didn't bring this bloody thing.

Speaker 23 Left it on a hotel bed in Pakistan.

Speaker 4 Well, Pete, my man,

Speaker 23 I'd like you to have it

Speaker 3 on your final.

Speaker 23 Your final and I fear most treacherous journey.

Speaker 23 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.

Speaker 3 Stay warm, pal.

Speaker 23 Go find yourself.

Speaker 23 Go find Peter Carey again in that crack in the middle of the mountain.

Speaker 23 Give him a bloody big hug from me,

Speaker 4 and we'll have our cigar one day.

Speaker 4 Oh, that was tough.

Speaker 13 It was

Speaker 14 what do you want to do?

Speaker 13 Get the truth from Mr. Cairns, and

Speaker 5 the rest is for the authorities.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 12 He is taking a while. Do you think he's made a run for it?

Speaker 3 I don't.

Speaker 20 Me neither.

Speaker 3 It's peaceful here.

Speaker 3 Indeed.

Speaker 12 For now, at least, here he comes.

Speaker 23 Hi, Chance.

Speaker 3 Hi. Hello.

Speaker 23 I'm Patrick. I knew Peter for a while.

Speaker 8 I mean, you heard it all, didn't you?

Speaker 3 Of course, yeah, it was

Speaker 12 great speech. Must have been tough.

Speaker 11 Definitely tougher than I thought.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 20 I'm John, this is Sherlock.

Speaker 23 Well, nice to meet you. Uh,

Speaker 3 how, um

Speaker 23 how did how did you know Peter?

Speaker 3 Um

Speaker 12 we didn't actually, did we, really?

Speaker 13 We did not.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 23 Yeah, sounds uh

Speaker 23 sounds about right, though, uh, seeing as everyone who knew him stayed clear, eh?

Speaker 3 Brutal, really, but, uh,

Speaker 24 I get it, I suppose.

Speaker 7 I get it.

Speaker 13 Did he attack you that night in the cabin?

Speaker 3 Sorry?

Speaker 13 You can't escape it, Mr. Cairns.

Speaker 5 Nor, I feel, do you wish to,

Speaker 5 deep down

Speaker 8 it um

Speaker 8 he uh

Speaker 23 I knew the second I was there

Speaker 3 his

Speaker 3 eyes totally dead

Speaker 3 and black

Speaker 8 he wasn't there anymore he just he just wasn't there and he

Speaker 3 he locked me in

Speaker 8 and

Speaker 3 he just fucking lost it

Speaker 8 he just completely fucking lost it

Speaker 3 alright, alright.

Speaker 8 Patrick, it's okay.

Speaker 20 Okay, okay, it's okay.

Speaker 20 It's okay. Yeah, you might want to call Hopkins.

Speaker 8 Of course.

Speaker 26 And he arranged to meet him and have a cigar together. They'd not met since 2019.

Speaker 26 COVID had kinda interrupted, and Patrick was keen to do their cigar ritual again.

Speaker 26 He went went in, he said it took a long time to kind of wear Peter down.

Speaker 4 Yeah of course yeah.

Speaker 26 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.

Speaker 26 They were smoking their cigars, reminiscing and Peter completely snapped out of the blue, just launched himself at him.

Speaker 12 Jesus.

Speaker 26 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

Speaker 26 he admitted he'd never used one before

Speaker 26 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

Speaker 26 He was expecting something in the first 24 hours, but with Mrs. Kerry

Speaker 26 otherwise engaged, I suppose,

Speaker 26 the body rested there for quite some time, leaving us with, well, you mostly, with some work to do

Speaker 26 before he was found.

Speaker 3 Wow,

Speaker 3 yeah.

Speaker 12 This has been a tricky one, not gonna lie.

Speaker 26 Yeah, yeah. Is Sherlock okay?

Speaker 12 Yeah, he's just

Speaker 12 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.

Speaker 3 No, no, thank you, guys.

Speaker 12 Well done again on the promotion, and uh, yeah, hopefully, speak soon.

Speaker 3 Absolutely. Well, not hopefully, but um,

Speaker 12 yeah, yeah, well, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 I know what you mean.

Speaker 12 Okay, bye, mate. Bye.

Speaker 3 Bye-bye. Bye.

Speaker 3 There we are.

Speaker 20 Case closed.

Speaker 3 No way. Really? Yep.

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Okay, tell me everything. Oh,

Speaker 16 wait a second.

Speaker 16 Cher locancon, Marina speaking.

Speaker 16 I

Speaker 3 pardon,

Speaker 16 monsieur, si cell la vu convinced para, Français

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