The Veiled Lodger - Part Two

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Speaker 3 Previously on Sherlock and Co., just met Mark Merillon. Oh, yeah, from 208? Yeah, yeah, he's insane.
Is he? Totally deranged, Marianne. Do you know him? I know Mark, yeah.

Speaker 3 Him and his wife are so great. His lodger, though.
Oof, the old lady? Haha.

Speaker 3 She's super mean. His lodger.
His lodger.

Speaker 3 His lodger. The scene of the snow flurry last night, coupled with the haunting cries of murder.
I feel it may have stirred up a somewhat emotive response.

Speaker 10 Hey, I don't blame you, to be honest. It's a real, um,

Speaker 10 it's blood-curdling sometimes, innit? I know I said all that stuff,

Speaker 10 but I really do feel for her. She hasn't had it easy in her life.

Speaker 11 This is... Eugenia, the lodger.

Speaker 10 She's a bit guarded.

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm. Go on.

Speaker 11 She's kind of shy.

Speaker 3 Indeed.

Speaker 10 And she wears a veil over these massive scars on her face. She's got an eye missing and doesn't really have a nose.
Cheekbones all caved in, half a mouth left.

Speaker 10 Whole face completely hollowed out from something nasty.

Speaker 3 And she remains veiled at all times.

Speaker 10 Yeah, I've seen her face by accident when I thought she was out, but yeah, veiled.

Speaker 3 Always. Yeah, Mariana said the same when she's seen her about.

Speaker 10 Yeah, she goes to Regent's Park every day with her zoo membership. Walks round bang on 10am back at 2.

Speaker 3 Daily visits to London Zoo in Regent. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 11 Like clockwork.

Speaker 3 I think our next case will have to be local. Mm-hmm.
Yep. Very, very local.

Speaker 3 What are you getting at? Ready? For what? You're gonna chat to Mobo the lion about his dad? We're going to discover who murdered Eugenia's husband. It was a lion, Sherlock.
Could be.

Speaker 3 Wait, wait, where the hell are you going? You know

Speaker 3 that the game is afoot.

Speaker 3 Gentle folks, how are thee? Would thou lend one's ear? Stop. That's terrible.
Don't know why I'm talking like that.

Speaker 3 If this is an outtake, then, yep. If somehow this isn't, welcome to the Veiled Lodger Part 2.

Speaker 3 The final part, of course.

Speaker 3 What was I going to say?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, this episode is.

Speaker 3 It has...

Speaker 3 I don't know, a complexity to it, I suppose. So have a read of the episode description if you want trigger warnings.
And we'll see you at the end.

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Shout out to Theo and Starr in Kent. To Caitlin from Ireland.

Speaker 3 Hey, how about this then? A lion is in a cage. Mr.
Ronda opens it to feed him. Something happens.
Something happens.

Speaker 3 I suggest you return to your shout-outs. Something happens, right? And the lion goes for it.
For the back of him? Yeah, because he's turned his back, hasn't he? He's legging it. Why?

Speaker 3 Because it's a bloody lion, and that is why Eugenia is shouting coward when she gets put in the ambulance.

Speaker 3 So her husband is lying dead on the floor, and she's shouting coward as she's being put into an ambulance, is she? Yeah, she doesn't know he's dead.

Speaker 3 Yes, she does, according to Edmunds' notes. Alright, well, you know, maybe she's just had her face torn out, maybe she doesn't know what she's saying or what's going on.

Speaker 3 And that is exactly why we're paying her a little visit. A fascinating little tale, Watson.
You said it yourself. I hope we are on the same page a bit.
We're not even on the same book, mate.

Speaker 3 We'll see about that.

Speaker 3 She won't be back from Regent's Park for another half an hour, mate. Remember, she's like clockwork.
Well, then, we can get a head start in her bedroom, can't we?

Speaker 3 Oh!

Speaker 3 Hiya, lads. Hello.
Again. We were wondering if we could look through Eugenia Ronda's belongings.
Oh, God.

Speaker 10 I don't know if I can just send you up there.

Speaker 3 It's it's her room. Mr.
Merrillow, your lodger, as you said yourself, is deathly ill. She wastes away.
A sharp decline, you declared to us. How will it look?

Speaker 3 How will it reflect on the family that was housing her when this poor, fragile woman breathes her last breath in this very house? What damage would it do to you to walk in on her lifeless body?

Speaker 3 What damage would it do to your wife? Your children? What will you tell them? That you just wanted to leave her alone, let her manage her own affairs, observe her gradual expiry with distant apathy.

Speaker 3 All right, all right.

Speaker 10 She's...

Speaker 3 Bloody hell. Um, right.

Speaker 3 Come with me.

Speaker 10 She'll be back in 20 minutes or so.

Speaker 3 Excellent. So we've got 20 minutes.
No, you do not have 20.

Speaker 10 You have five minutes maximum.

Speaker 3 But she's not back until... I'm not taking any risks.

Speaker 10 There's tribunals for stuff like this.

Speaker 3 Is there? I should think so. But it's your house.
Five minutes.

Speaker 3 She's not in.

Speaker 10 I'm just being polite.

Speaker 3 To nobody. Sherlock.

Speaker 10 Mrs. Ronda.

Speaker 10 Eugenia love.

Speaker 3 I think the coast is clear, Mr. Merrillow.
Yeah, it's alright, Mark. We're pretty confident she's still in Regent's Park.
Yeah, um...

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 10 Here we go.

Speaker 3 Goodness. Okay,

Speaker 3 this is cramped and uh

Speaker 3 rather stuffy. Can we open the window? Wait, we can't go.
We can't go changing stuff.

Speaker 3 Why did you let her live like this, Mark?

Speaker 3 I didn't know. I just...

Speaker 3 God, I didn't know. I just thought.

Speaker 3 Good lord, above. It's alright.

Speaker 3 I didn't mean it like that. You know, she's been keeping to herself, you didn't know, it

Speaker 3 don't worry, we'll figure it out. Well, I mean, he'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 What do you think, mate? She's uh

Speaker 3 I mean, she's kinda made this into a bit of a den, hasn't she? I mean

Speaker 3 you can see where she's closed herself in with the furniture as she sleeps.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 From keeping beasts in cages, the woman seems

Speaker 3 by some retribution of fate, to have become herself a beast in a cage.

Speaker 3 Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 10 Hey, this. What? These are some...
some biscuits my kids made at school for harvest festival we gave them to her these are from september yes other foods here

Speaker 3 pastries topperwares of uneaten meals hey there they bloody are. She took these? The Tupperwares.

Speaker 10 She didn't take them, no. We were trying to give her meals and that, to eat something, you know, when we noticed how thin she was getting.

Speaker 3 Oh, bloody hell.

Speaker 10 Poor Eugenia.

Speaker 10 This is just...

Speaker 3 I feel awful. It's okay, it's alright.
It's not all right.

Speaker 10 This is exactly what I mean.

Speaker 3 Mean?

Speaker 3 What do you mean? I'm up.

Speaker 10 I've got a lodger to help with the bills on this place. I'm up first thing.
We're getting the kids out to school.

Speaker 10 We're working, forking out fortunes for after school clubs and child minders and i come home

Speaker 10 exhausted can hardly give my kids a moment and all this time eugenia she

Speaker 10 she needed us and she's rotting away in my own bloody house

Speaker 3 i'll take a look at her when she comes back all right give her a check up yeah

Speaker 10 Make sure she

Speaker 10 she eats something, all right?

Speaker 10 I'm gonna run at the shop and get some bits.

Speaker 3 Mark, hold on, mate. I can't.

Speaker 10 This is not right.

Speaker 3 Mark! I've got to help. Mark!

Speaker 3 Right, okay, mate. Look, I'm not sure if this is any of our business, you know? I mean, sorry, I know you got stuck into it and everything.

Speaker 3 Please.

Speaker 3 Close her drawer. Sherlock, let me see her first, and we can ask her rather than invade her room.
It's interesting, is it not, Watson? I think it's sad. To be honest, I think it's.

Speaker 3 sad.

Speaker 3 I just don't think it's that interesting. Sorry.
Her husband died. Yet the picture she keeps in her bedside drawer is that of

Speaker 3 Leonardo Boras.

Speaker 3 Maybe she has other pictures with her. I wonder if they are as worn and as handled as this one.
Yep, fair question. But

Speaker 3 Bloke is absolutely ripped, to be fair. Let's not go through her browsing history, history, mate.
Come on, let's wait downstairs. Sergeant Edmonds spoke of the circus employees.

Speaker 3 Leonardo Boras was one of them.

Speaker 3 Are we on the same page yet, Watson? Well, we may be on the same chapter. Push, but can we please put the metaphorical book down and just whoops? Everything must be left in place, Watson.
Yes, I know.

Speaker 3 I was just opening the door to get you out and this fell down.

Speaker 3 What is it? Uh the thingy, the walking stick that Mark said she doesn't use. Let me see.
There. Happy? I said, let me see.
Yeah, look with your eyes, not with your hands. Watson.

Speaker 3 Oh, I'm putting it back, and we are leaving, but how?

Speaker 3 Bollocks. What is it? Cut myself on the bloody stick.
God's sake, can we go, please? Why is the handle of a walking stick sharp? Dunno, it hasn't got a grip on it, maybe? You're straining.

Speaker 12 Is it heavy? Yeah, very.

Speaker 3 A heavy, sharp walking stick. Yeah.
Hey. Look, Watson.
Put it down. Look at the shape of it.
Right, yeah. Maybe it's not a walking stick, then.
It certainly is not.

Speaker 3 What do you think it is? This is some makeshift tool. How so?

Speaker 12 Look at it. The crude wrapping.

Speaker 3 The sloppy adhesive on the shaft. What are all these spikes? Yes.

Speaker 3 On the handle, we have four steel nails protruding out of the top of the stick. Then another nail.

Speaker 3 Not on the head of it, but two inches down the shaft. So heavy, too.
There's a lot of weight built into that spiky handle. Heavy enough to smash in a skull, Watson.

Speaker 3 What?

Speaker 3 Let's recall the events. Mr.
Ronda opens the cage. We only think that.
But what do we know? Uh, he. So from behind, he was attacked.
Yes. And the lion clawed at the back of his head.
What do we know?

Speaker 3 He was attacked. Yes.

Speaker 3 From behind. And, Watson?

Speaker 3 By the claw of a lion?

Speaker 3 Or

Speaker 3 perhaps something very similar. Deliberately similar in its structure came crashing onto the back of his head.
No.

Speaker 3 Observe. These four nails.
They replicate the dense keratin of a lion's claw, extending out that reach from the base of this weighted head to emulate the planter ball of the animal's paw.

Speaker 3 Then we have this. The fifth nail.
Two inches down to imitate the dew claw, similar to the human thumb. It grows higher on the leg rather than on the foot, like the others.
Common in most mammals.

Speaker 3 This is an ingenious device.

Speaker 3 Can I just

Speaker 3 check something? Yes, Watson. Are you suggesting that a lion was framed for the murder of Mr.
Ronda? And now, Watson, in this fascinating tale, we are finally on the same page.

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Speaker 3 Hello, everyone. Yeah, so

Speaker 3 I don't usually do this,

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 3 we're about to hear from someone who

Speaker 3 an individual, Eugenia, actually,

Speaker 3 who has severe facial trauma.

Speaker 3 Essentially,

Speaker 3 no nose or nasal cavity, very damaged larynx. Her jaw and muscle tissue around there is

Speaker 3 disfigured to say the very

Speaker 3 least. So, if you are having trouble understanding her, transcripts are available at sherlock and co.co.uk forward slash transcript.

Speaker 3 Okay, right.

Speaker 3 Back to the adventure.

Speaker 3 There's someone coming up the stairs.

Speaker 3 Could be Mark. Could be

Speaker 3 his wife. Maybe sh just stay perfectly still.

Speaker 3 You should be careful.

Speaker 3 Hiding in an elderly woman's room.

Speaker 3 And why is that, Eugenia?

Speaker 3 My heart is awake.

Speaker 3 The slightest startle put me in the ground.

Speaker 3 God be willing.

Speaker 3 God be willing.

Speaker 3 So you do wish to die, Sherlock?

Speaker 3 Perhaps not wish.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 But I will it.

Speaker 3 I will it to wash over me like the soft morning sun,

Speaker 3 soaring the morning frost.

Speaker 3 Do you believe in the afterlife, Eugenia?

Speaker 3 I hope for my sake

Speaker 3 that it is a fabrication.

Speaker 3 Why?

Speaker 3 Because your husband would be there waiting for you.

Speaker 3 Impressive

Speaker 3 Mr. Holmes.

Speaker 3 How do you know my name?

Speaker 3 You are the detective.

Speaker 3 I am.

Speaker 3 An old lady

Speaker 3 always

Speaker 3 take to gossip and eavesdropping. But you're not an old lady, are you, Eugenia?

Speaker 3 You merely adopt the persona.

Speaker 3 Why would that be?

Speaker 3 How could a woman, willing death like sunrise, be so committed to self-preservation?

Speaker 3 Eugenia, could I examine you for a moment? You cannot!

Speaker 3 Why do animals, even the most violent, the most dominant, why do they allow us to possess them, to allow us mastery over them?

Speaker 3 Can you think why, Eugenia?

Speaker 3 Seems quite the sacrifice.

Speaker 3 It is a withdrawal from the ferocious reality of their existence, to remove themselves from the battle of nature, to shelter in the monotony of humanity.

Speaker 3 And to do so they disguise their true selves and conceal their traits that may be seen as undesirable. Am I a house gut to you, Mr.
Holmes? Like this, you are.

Speaker 3 This role you have played,

Speaker 3 that of the elderly reserved woman.

Speaker 3 It allows you to withdraw, does it not?

Speaker 3 Eugenia, please, I'm a doctor. Yeah, can I just take a quick look? You cannot look! No one can look at me!

Speaker 3 Please.

Speaker 3 I want to be left alone.

Speaker 3 To die?

Speaker 3 To join Mr. Ronda, who you put in the ground.
You

Speaker 3 found our club. Yes.

Speaker 3 Fashioned into a lion's paw.

Speaker 3 Rather clever.

Speaker 3 Well, I am a rather clever person.

Speaker 3 You clearly have moments, yes.

Speaker 3 Just moments? Yes.

Speaker 3 Opting to waste away in a box room in Baker Street certainly isn't one. You're

Speaker 3 wrong about me.

Speaker 3 How so?

Speaker 3 When judgment comes,

Speaker 3 the only life I will be guilty of taking

Speaker 3 is my own.

Speaker 3 Through starvation.

Speaker 3 Sahara King stalked in a cage.

Speaker 3 Why should I be spared the pain? Sahara King mauled your face, Eugenia. He killed you.

Speaker 3 He was protecting his master, my husband,

Speaker 3 master of many things.

Speaker 3 Let me tell you:

Speaker 3 the brutality of that lion

Speaker 3 is nothing on that demon,

Speaker 3 that

Speaker 3 bastard.

Speaker 3 Why did you kill your husband?

Speaker 3 I am a poor circus girl gentleman

Speaker 3 brought up

Speaker 3 on the sawdust undoing the springs

Speaker 3 through the hoop

Speaker 3 before I was ten

Speaker 3 Before I even had time to become a woman

Speaker 3 mr. Ronda loved me

Speaker 3 if such lust as his can be called love.

Speaker 3 In an

Speaker 3 evil moment, I became

Speaker 3 his wife.

Speaker 3 From that

Speaker 3 day,

Speaker 3 I was in hell.

Speaker 3 And he, the devil, who tormented me

Speaker 3 There was no one in the show who did not know of this treatment.

Speaker 3 He deserted me for others.

Speaker 3 He tied me down

Speaker 3 and lashed me with his riding whip when I complained.

Speaker 3 So much else is lost in the fog of terror

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 trauma

Speaker 3 they

Speaker 3 all pitied me

Speaker 3 and they all

Speaker 3 loathed him

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 3 what could they do?

Speaker 3 They feared him one and all

Speaker 3 for he was

Speaker 3 terrible at

Speaker 3 all times and

Speaker 3 murderous when he was drunk.

Speaker 3 Again

Speaker 3 and again he was had for assault and

Speaker 3 cruelty to the beasts.

Speaker 3 But we had

Speaker 3 plenty of money and the fines were nothing to him.

Speaker 3 You didn't kill him. What?

Speaker 3 You are as soft

Speaker 3 as my club, Mr. Holmes.

Speaker 3 What do you mean? He he he was abusing her. She's she she snapped.

Speaker 12 You snapped, right, Eugenia?

Speaker 3 The split across the skull of Mr. Ronda was eight inches.
It would have taken a force of

Speaker 3 certainly not of a circus girl jumping through hoops.

Speaker 3 But a strong man. The bodybuilder.
The picture in the drawer. Leonardo.

Speaker 3 Leonardo.

Speaker 3 I cannot understand

Speaker 3 him,

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 3 I cannot unlove him either.

Speaker 3 He

Speaker 3 pitied me, yes,

Speaker 10 but he

Speaker 3 helped me

Speaker 3 till at last our intimacy turned to love.

Speaker 3 Deep,

Speaker 3 deep, passionate

Speaker 3 love.

Speaker 3 Such love as I had dreamed of, but never hoped to feel.

Speaker 3 My husband suspected it, but

Speaker 3 I think that he was a coward, as well as a bully, and that Leonardo was

Speaker 3 the one man that he was afraid of. He took revenge in his own

Speaker 3 way by

Speaker 3 torturing me more than ever.

Speaker 3 My husband was not fit to live.

Speaker 3 We planned that he should

Speaker 3 die.

Speaker 3 I have.

Speaker 3 I don't have the strength for the emotions. I

Speaker 3 just come sit down, take some deep breaths.

Speaker 3 I have to get it out.

Speaker 3 Hold on. We can just take some deaths.
I have to.

Speaker 3 Speak, Eugenia.

Speaker 3 We made a club.

Speaker 3 In the

Speaker 3 ombre leaden head, he fastened

Speaker 3 five long steel nails pointing outwards with just such a spread as the lion's paw.

Speaker 3 This was to give my husband his

Speaker 3 death blow

Speaker 3 and yet to leave

Speaker 3 the evidence that it was the lion which we would lose who had done the deed.

Speaker 3 It was a pitch dark night when my husband and I went down

Speaker 3 as was our custom

Speaker 3 to feed Zahara King.

Speaker 3 We carried with us the raw meats in a pail.

Speaker 3 Leonardo was waiting at the corner of the big

Speaker 3 ban, which we should have to pass

Speaker 3 before we reached the cage.

Speaker 3 He was supposed to.

Speaker 3 He

Speaker 3 planned the attack to take place there,

Speaker 3 but Leonardo was too slow.

Speaker 3 And we were past him before he could strike.

Speaker 3 He followed us on tiptoe.

Speaker 3 And I...

Speaker 3 Yes, I...

Speaker 3 I heard the crash and the club smashed my husband's skull.

Speaker 3 Fear and

Speaker 3 tension just

Speaker 3 it was exercised for me in this one sound the air

Speaker 3 shifting beside me as it moved through the sky and on to his head

Speaker 3 that

Speaker 3 sound

Speaker 3 my heart leapt with joy at it

Speaker 3 we had to allow to to allow reason for the lion to reach my husband in the first place. So I

Speaker 3 sprang forwards and I undid the cats which held the door of the cage.

Speaker 3 And then the terrible thing happened.

Speaker 3 You may have heard how quick these creatures are to send blood

Speaker 3 and how it excites them.

Speaker 3 Some strange

Speaker 3 instinct had told the creature in one instant that a human being had been saline.

Speaker 3 Or having studied

Speaker 3 a sun,

Speaker 3 I now know that the Hara King

Speaker 3 acted in response to his master's destruction

Speaker 3 as I slipped the bars, it bounded out and was on me in an instant.

Speaker 3 Leonardo

Speaker 3 could

Speaker 3 have saved me.

Speaker 3 If he had rushed forward and struck the beast with the club, he might have caught it.

Speaker 3 but he lost his nerve

Speaker 3 i i heard him shout in terror but then i saw him turn and run

Speaker 3 at the same instant the teeth of the lion

Speaker 3 met in my face

Speaker 3 its hot

Speaker 3 filthy breath had already poisoned me

Speaker 3 and i was hardly conscious conscious of pain.

Speaker 3 With the palms of my hands, I tried to push the great

Speaker 3 steaming blood-stained jaws away from me,

Speaker 3 and I screamed for help.

Speaker 3 That

Speaker 3 was my

Speaker 3 last

Speaker 3 memory, Mr. Holmes,

Speaker 3 for many a weary month

Speaker 3 When I came to myself

Speaker 3 and saw

Speaker 3 myself

Speaker 3 in the mirror

Speaker 3 I cursed that

Speaker 3 lion not because he had torn away my beauty

Speaker 3 but because

Speaker 3 he had not turned away

Speaker 3 my life

Speaker 3 I had

Speaker 3 but one desire, Mr. Holmes.

Speaker 3 It was

Speaker 3 that I should cover myself

Speaker 3 so that my poor face should be seen by none

Speaker 3 and that I should dwell where none whom I had ever known should find

Speaker 3 me.

Speaker 3 That was all that was left to me

Speaker 3 do.

Speaker 3 And that is what I

Speaker 3 have done.

Speaker 3 A poor wounded beast that has crawled into its hole to die.

Speaker 3 That

Speaker 3 is the end of Eugenia, Rhonda.

Speaker 3 What are you doing?

Speaker 3 I'm holding your hand.

Speaker 3 Would you like me to find him

Speaker 3 to deliver some morsel of justice?

Speaker 3 No, no. But Leonardo killed somebody, Eugenia.

Speaker 3 Justice has been delivered.

Speaker 3 But I had my part in this.

Speaker 3 He was a strong man.

Speaker 3 Not a strong mind.

Speaker 3 He didn't construct the Lion Paw Club.

Speaker 3 He didn't devise the plan

Speaker 3 I did.

Speaker 3 He was

Speaker 3 muscle in essence and muscle in application.

Speaker 3 I loved him, but I used him too.

Speaker 3 And I paid the price for it.

Speaker 3 And you've never heard anything of him, like I said,

Speaker 3 justice

Speaker 3 was deliberate. How so?

Speaker 3 I saw

Speaker 3 his name in an article very recently.

Speaker 3 I make

Speaker 3 promises to myself not to research,

Speaker 3 to look up, but I yearn for him.

Speaker 3 Not in vengeance. I don't think

Speaker 3 there is still love.

Speaker 3 There

Speaker 3 quite love

Speaker 3 He drowned this summer in the channel.

Speaker 3 He was easily swayed this

Speaker 3 time

Speaker 3 into the grips of some human trafficking gangs.

Speaker 3 He perished with a number of desperate migrants that seeked his help.

Speaker 3 I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 Why did you keep

Speaker 3 the club?

Speaker 3 I think

Speaker 3 it brought me solace, knowing one day I could share this.

Speaker 3 I don't think anyone would have believed me without my five-clawed club

Speaker 3 die as the woman mauled by a lion

Speaker 3 or die as the woman that killed an evil man

Speaker 3 stupid really

Speaker 3 no I

Speaker 3 I think it makes sense could you

Speaker 3 leave me now please

Speaker 3 I'd really like to just um I know you would

Speaker 3 and I'd prefer you didn't

Speaker 3 thank you

Speaker 3 An honor to hear your story, Eugenia.

Speaker 3 An honor to share it with you.

Speaker 3 I wish for you to hear something from me. Do you?

Speaker 3 This man here doesn't have the scars on the surface,

Speaker 3 but his soul is veiled and will be so for the foreseeable.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I am

Speaker 3 Dr. Watson may look put together, but he is broken inside.

Speaker 3 And it may be some time until he heals.

Speaker 3 The weight of loss split him into fractures, you understand.

Speaker 3 Your life is not your own, Eugenia.

Speaker 3 Keep your hands off it. I'm right, Eugenia.

Speaker 3 We're gonna have a family dinner tonight, love. All right.

Speaker 3 What use

Speaker 3 is my life

Speaker 3 to anyone?

Speaker 3 How can you tell?

Speaker 3 The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

Speaker 3 You don't have to reveal your face.

Speaker 3 Eugenia.

Speaker 3 I wonder if you would bear it.

Speaker 10 Eugenia?

Speaker 3 I just thought you could.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 3 Hello, Mark.

Speaker 3 Hi.

Speaker 10 Is everything okay?

Speaker 8 Sherlock Canco, Mariana speaking.

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Trains are running again, from the looks of it.
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 Okay, great.

Speaker 8 Sure. Just visit us anytime and we can discuss.

Speaker 3 Okay, bye-bye.

Speaker 3 Oh, oh, uh, hey, guys, have I...

Speaker 8 have I received a parcel today?

Speaker 3 Uh

Speaker 3 dinner? Hmm, not sure.

Speaker 2 Great, thanks.

Speaker 8 I'll go check myself.

Speaker 3 Yeah, mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 Should probably get back to work now the roads are clear and all that. Hmm.

Speaker 3 Any uh potential clients that have tickled your fancy? A few emails, yes. Cool.
Well, yeah, pick your favorite one and we'll head out. Yes, good idea.

Speaker 3 Hey, did Mark come by? Neighbor Mark? Yeah. May have done.
He posted this. What is it?

Speaker 3 A pa-pa-pa-pa-ma- biscuit.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 8 Uh l looks homemade. What?

Speaker 3 Just one.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 The others must have been eaten up.

Speaker 3 Yummy.

Speaker 3 Find me a new case, Watson.

Speaker 3 Does this make sense to you? Yeah.

Speaker 3 It does, actually.

Speaker 3 Are you gonna tell me? No.

Speaker 3 John. John!

Speaker 3 The adventure of the biscuit that I never got to actually eat.

Speaker 3 My least favorite adventure. Joking,

Speaker 3 obviously. I hope you all enjoyed that adventure.
Sadly, yes, I missed out on that biscuit at the end, but I do have a substantial amount of leftover chocolate.

Speaker 3 I've got...

Speaker 3 There's

Speaker 3 what the these are all the horrible ones.

Speaker 12 Strawberry, mint creep. Oh,

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Speaker 3 Tu mereces distrutar tusaboritos por menos.

Speaker 3 Ja sell a na Big Mac, McNuggets, or a sausage, egg and cheese, McFriddles, pie tuento jocamun meal, and a horra.

Speaker 3 Oof, nava comodarte un gustaso por tam poco. The extra-value meals is

Speaker 3 regressed.

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