The Three Gables - Part Three

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Speaker 5 Langdale, this could be serious.

Speaker 10 Oh, without doubt. A gossip is serious business, detective.

Speaker 1 Why can't you tell us?

Speaker 5 He's too good.

Speaker 5 Who is the master detective here?

Speaker 5 I wouldn't want to spoil his Christmas and give the whole thing away now, would I? It's about information. Isn't it always? Barney was wrong.

Speaker 5 It wasn't a hit job.

Speaker 11 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 5 Something needs to be destroyed. Something at the three gables.

Speaker 12 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 5 The key is the East Wing.

Speaker 5 Everything.

Speaker 13 Everything. Every item in the property.
Nothing owned by the Hospital Trust, obviously, but in the East Wing, there's belongings, personal effects, and the like of the Maybellies.

Speaker 13 Happens all the time.

Speaker 5 Goodness. Can't she just enter and remove the belongings?

Speaker 13 The buyer buyer will flat out will not allow it.

Speaker 13 I tried taking it out of the contract, actually, but they won't have it. The legal agreement that they've drawn up prohibits anybody from removing anything at all from the property.

Speaker 5 Come, down this hallway, we'll eventually reach the...

Speaker 15 Where are we?

Speaker 5 Third floor entrance to the Elm Ward.

Speaker 5 Lovely.

Speaker 1 You know, the staff won't let us just walk in.

Speaker 5 If they wish to chaperoon, that is fine. I just need a good look at the rooms in that east wing.

Speaker 1 Holy shit, the lights have gone.

Speaker 1 The hallway lights, Sherlock.

Speaker 5 Yes, I know. It.

Speaker 5 They should be motion sensor.

Speaker 5 I don't understand.

Speaker 16 Let's just go back. Wait.

Speaker 17 Shh. What is that?

Speaker 17 What is that? I...

Speaker 16 Can't see.

Speaker 5 In the darkness.

Speaker 17 Shit!

Speaker 1 Someone is coming down the hallway, Sherlock. What do we do?

Speaker 3 Sherlock, what do we do?

Speaker 16 I knew it.

Speaker 1 John, is that you?

Speaker 6 I can't.

Speaker 1 I can't see you.

Speaker 6 What the hell do you think you're doing?

Speaker 5 Watson, this is serious. This?

Speaker 15 This is not the event space.

Speaker 19 This is a children's hospital. There's eight signs that say staff only.

Speaker 5 Yes, I observed them. Thank you, Doctor.

Speaker 19 Oh, and what did you deduce, detective?

Speaker 1 John, please, just.

Speaker 6 Look.

Speaker 1 We're about to go into the children's hospital.

Speaker 8 You what?

Speaker 5 Where's the light switch?

Speaker 20 The children's hospitals. Why are you a tree?

Speaker 1 To cheer up the children.

Speaker 21 What the hell are you?

Speaker 5 I'm an elf.

Speaker 19 I knew this would happen.

Speaker 1 You knew I'd dress as a Christmas tree to get into a children's ward.

Speaker 22 No, a case.

Speaker 23 I knew you two would try and work a case.

Speaker 5 Cases must be solved, Watson.

Speaker 1 You can come along if you want. Oh, right.

Speaker 2 Yeah, sure. Oh, hey, look, kids.

Speaker 23 It's the Christmas tree and her elf friend.

Speaker 20 And there's their smart casual mate with with a gin and tonic.

Speaker 5 We have a Santa costume.

Speaker 25 When we were gone astray.

Speaker 17 Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.

Speaker 18 Oh, tidings of comfort joy.

Speaker 17 Oh, we're so good.

Speaker 17 Oh, lovely.

Speaker 10 Look at your face. I love it.

Speaker 22 Yes, they are presents.

Speaker 1 See? If you take them into Ashward, Liz. Yeah, okay.
They'll be awake.

Speaker 19 It'll be lovely.

Speaker 20 Older kids, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you won't get much on this ward at this time.

Speaker 5 Ashward, remind me. Last time we did this.

Speaker 1 East Wing, through the double doors, down the hallway, alright?

Speaker 5 East Wing, excellent.

Speaker 1 But they're individual rooms. You might have your work cut out.

Speaker 15 Oh,

Speaker 27 Great.

Speaker 24 Oh, come, let us adore him.

Speaker 28 Oh, come, let us adore him.

Speaker 28 Oh, come, let us adore him.

Speaker 28 Christ

Speaker 28 the Lord.

Speaker 17 Anything?

Speaker 5 Nothing taking my attention.

Speaker 1 Next room.

Speaker 5 Merry Christmas. Bye-bye.

Speaker 17 I'm a tree.

Speaker 11 Away

Speaker 16 in a range,

Speaker 16 no crib for a bed. The

Speaker 18 little

Speaker 6 Jesus said

Speaker 24 thou sick.

Speaker 28 Well,

Speaker 28 nope.

Speaker 11 O little

Speaker 11 town of Eli

Speaker 16 How still be seen lie

Speaker 16 Above lighted bed in dreams to sleep the silent stars

Speaker 23 Next, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 24 Sleep in heavenly peace.

Speaker 6 Wow.

Speaker 1 This one actually fell asleep. Good.

Speaker 25 Because this room.

Speaker 5 This room is different to the others.

Speaker 29 Sorry, what?

Speaker 25 It's footprint. Look at it.

Speaker 5 Our other rooms, equilateral, with right angles, functional commercial spaces.

Speaker 8 But this uneven.

Speaker 5 Yes, and plenty of plasterboard.

Speaker 5 That means most repaired.

Speaker 5 Therefore, most damaged. And thus, the heart of the blaze from all those years ago.
Look at that boxing around the coving along the ceiling.

Speaker 11 Uh-huh.

Speaker 19 Sorry, what is going on?

Speaker 1 A man called Benny Mayberly died mysteriously in Rome a few years ago. He was dating a young woman called Georgia Klein.

Speaker 1 Uh, she now works for her mother.

Speaker 19 Isadora Klein. Yes, no, I've seen the documentary, unfortunately.

Speaker 15 You have?

Speaker 19 Yeah, yeah, it was crap. But I've watched nearly everything on Netflix, to be honest.

Speaker 29 I think I think we should try out Apple.

Speaker 5 Did you glean anything?

Speaker 31 No, I did not glean anything.

Speaker 17 Nothing?

Speaker 23 Apart from the fact that she's a self-important fashion mogul wanker.

Speaker 19 Oh, sorry.

Speaker 32 Ah, go back to sleep.

Speaker 33 Sleep in heavenly peace.

Speaker 1 John, after Benny's death, she tried to get this place burned down.

Speaker 8 Ah, yeah, the fire.

Speaker 1 Now she's trying to purchase the freehold.

Speaker 5 Throwing everything at the purchase, even though it's protected by the local authority because of its current leaseholder, the Hospital Trust.

Speaker 5 And Marie Maybely's poor health.

Speaker 1 And right, get this. When I posted that we were coming to the Three Gables, somebody tried to to attack Sherlock.
Then the cab driver tried to take us elsewhere.

Speaker 6 Then, uh, uh, a prawn.

Speaker 25 A prawn?

Speaker 15 Right, and uh, what what did the prawn do?

Speaker 19 Did it mug you? Call your names. Do you need me to go and speak to the prawn's parents?

Speaker 1 It was expired.

Speaker 6 Or contaminated?

Speaker 1 Or whatever. Look, something is in this building still from when Marie Maberly lived here, John.
And the client wanted they want it bad.

Speaker 19 It's really difficult to take you seriously when you're dressed as a tree.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay, Santa.

Speaker 5 Langdale said it was information. She's not buying a freehold.
She's buying a scandal.

Speaker 6 What are you doing?

Speaker 5 This was once a members' club. Then it was a townhouse.
Blueprints of both are still visible. The garish lobby from its first form.
Then this tight room.

Speaker 5 Living quarters bricked off from one another to conserve heat. Think about the rooms we've been in.
They all had steel beams inserted to create new walls for its new purpose as a hospital.

Speaker 5 This room does not.

Speaker 1 You just said it was all plaster.

Speaker 19 The shape.

Speaker 5 I come back to the shape.

Speaker 19 This here,

Speaker 5 this wall.

Speaker 17 That's.

Speaker 5 Yes, that's a chimney breast under there.

Speaker 5 This room would have held a log fire.

Speaker 9 But there's boxed in pipes.

Speaker 24 So.

Speaker 34 possibly bathroom.

Speaker 5 We need a room with no sign of pipework.

Speaker 15 But

Speaker 5 it will feed off this chimney cavity.

Speaker 6 What do you mean? Come.

Speaker 32 It's quite hard to walk, Santa.

Speaker 19 Mate, there's a big podgy belly for a start.

Speaker 1 I'm a tree. Imagine how I feel.

Speaker 35 Yeah, I sympathize with you. At least he's a bloody elf.

Speaker 15 I've never known him to be so light-footed.

Speaker 8 It'll be down here.

Speaker 15 Sherlock, just.

Speaker 17 Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

Speaker 1 These stupid feet.

Speaker 5 Stupid itchy beard. This room.
It's a staff only. Well, if it was that important, they'd lock it.

Speaker 2 Come, come.

Speaker 23 Go, go. I said I didn't want any cases.

Speaker 12 Fine.

Speaker 1 Stay out here.

Speaker 24 Oh, I want to come.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 8 Here we have it.

Speaker 10 Uh, storage room.

Speaker 5 No pipes. Original ceiling height.
And I'd say...

Speaker 5 Floorboards, too.

Speaker 23 What's the deal with the pipes? Why do you care so much?

Speaker 8 What room wouldn't need them, Watson?

Speaker 34 Uh, lounge, sitting-room type thing?

Speaker 5 Back then, the upper classes liked them tight, like snugs. This room is too tall to contain the heat.
Why would it be tall?

Speaker 17 Too, uh

Speaker 30 to hold something.

Speaker 5 Like what?

Speaker 6 Uh, books?

Speaker 30 Shelving for books?

Speaker 5 A study.

Speaker 6 Ah, of course.

Speaker 23 Right, why do we care about a study?

Speaker 32 Exactly.

Speaker 5 Scandals, impropriety, and shame often live on the page, and the actions of our perpetrators are very

Speaker 5 offline. Wouldn't you agree?

Speaker 36 I guess.

Speaker 5 Important documents in studies. Where would one place them? And more significantly for us and for the Kleins, where would they still be intact and secure?

Speaker 17 A safe.

Speaker 5 A safe indeed.

Speaker 7 Oh, that's great work, mate. Thank you.

Speaker 23 But I don't see a safe in here.

Speaker 5 No, you wouldn't, because it's under here.

Speaker 5 The soft, spongy spots on this floorboard denote that it is rotting, and the screws galvanic corrosion. Something, I'd say a thick exposed metal in the area, is rusting.

Speaker 5 But for now, the floorboards are weakened, and therefore, it comes up rather easy and reveals a safe.

Speaker 11 Oh.

Speaker 5 What?

Speaker 5 There's no.

Speaker 5 Um.

Speaker 5 Ah, let me get my phone light.

Speaker 9 Yes,

Speaker 5 there's no

Speaker 5 safe.

Speaker 1 Uh, this board here is kind of weak, too. Let me let me try and.

Speaker 6 Uh, oh, uh, John, hold my back.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I'll do that.

Speaker 23 You two keep ripping up floorboards in a children's hospital.

Speaker 35 Well, you know, we boxed up the fireplace in this room, just behind those storage boxes.

Speaker 32 Quite nice, really.

Speaker 35 I suppose don't really need to box it up in here.

Speaker 21 No need for the old health and safety because it's not housing any youngsters.

Speaker 34 In this storage room.

Speaker 35 Yeah, let me take a look at this thing.

Speaker 23 Maybe someone left some scandalous documents in the fireplace years ago.

Speaker 21 No, of course not. Of course they didn't.
This whole thing is bloody stupid.

Speaker 1 Hey, hey, hey, the ones going to the fireplace are loose too. Lift!

Speaker 8 Yeah, and it. Hey, that floor ball!

Speaker 8 Oh!

Speaker 8 Fuck!

Speaker 8 Oh!

Speaker 31 Fuckerty fuck! I fell down the chimney! Oh my god, John! Are you okay? You wankers!

Speaker 27 You absolute wankers!

Speaker 23 Ah, God, I'm so sorry. John, climb back up the chimney.

Speaker 5 It should be narrow.

Speaker 20 I'll piss off.

Speaker 23 I hate you, and I hate this Christmas.

Speaker 20 Jingle bells. Jingle bells.
Jingle.

Speaker 27 Fucking pissing arsing bells.

Speaker 10 But of a Christmas? I.

Speaker 24 It. Um.

Speaker 33 Ho, ho, ho.

Speaker 20 Hawking. Oh, that's a lot of

Speaker 5 soot.

Speaker 10 You're early.

Speaker 8 I'm what?

Speaker 5 Sorry?

Speaker 10 It's not Christmas yet.

Speaker 20 Ah, ye-

Speaker 20 yes.

Speaker 20 Uh, so.

Speaker 20 Just doing a little

Speaker 20 um wreck-y.

Speaker 20 You know, to sort of, uh, yeah, get my bearings and just report back to the elves. And, uh, yeah, yeah, this this room looks easy enough.

Speaker 20 I'll sign this one off.

Speaker 21 Tick.

Speaker 20 Anyway,

Speaker 20 better shoot off. Don't want my sleigh to get a parking fine.

Speaker 20 Don't think I'm you less compliant.

Speaker 6 Ho ho ho ho ho.

Speaker 31 Get down here and pull me up.

Speaker 34 Just wedge your feet and climb upwards.

Speaker 10 Is that your sack?

Speaker 21 I oh, no, this is

Speaker 20 my um

Speaker 20 handbag.

Speaker 30 Oh.

Speaker 27 Will you come back on Christmas?

Speaker 20 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 10 With what I wished for? In the letter.

Speaker 33 Oh, yes, of course.

Speaker 20 That

Speaker 20 thing, yes.

Speaker 10 Do you remember what it was?

Speaker 8 I um

Speaker 20 quite a lot on my plate this time of year. It um oh, come on, Nick, think now.

Speaker 8 Um,

Speaker 10 it was the switch.

Speaker 33 The switch, of course.

Speaker 8 Ho ho ho!

Speaker 33 Right, see ya.

Speaker 10 And both jackets.

Speaker 10 The one with sequins and the denim one.

Speaker 17 Of course, yep.

Speaker 10 The guitar, the drone.

Speaker 20 Guitar, drone, yep, sure.

Speaker 10 And the really cool beanie with the wig.

Speaker 20 The beanie with the wig?

Speaker 10 This wig is a donated one. And it's so itchy.
And it leaves blotchy bits on my head. Look.

Speaker 10 Right.

Speaker 33 Right.

Speaker 8 Oh, yes.

Speaker 7 The elves

Speaker 20 are making your wig right now.

Speaker 17 Yes.

Speaker 10 Thank you.

Speaker 20 Thank you for being so brave.

Speaker 20 It's

Speaker 7 just the inspiration I need

Speaker 20 to deliver everything this year.

Speaker 10 You better go.

Speaker 20 Yes, yeah, merry.

Speaker 5 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 38 Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1 But what do we do with it?

Speaker 30 Oh, excuse me. Sorry.

Speaker 5 We expose her.

Speaker 24 Yeah, but ow, sorry.

Speaker 24 Yeah, but can I just how, Sherlock?

Speaker 5 We'll go to the press.

Speaker 1 They're just gonna reach out to her for a response, and then she'll get her super lawyers to shut it down.

Speaker 5 What makes you so sure?

Speaker 1 Because this is how these people operate.

Speaker 21 Exactly, right?

Speaker 23 There's a part in the documentary, and here on my phone.

Speaker 24 Is it about here? She is there.

Speaker 5 and we can get on with things right away.

Speaker 37 Well we've had plenty of karaoke from some of our favourites Rory and Alistair. Fantastic.

Speaker 37 But I've just spotted certain podcasters trying to get out before they get called up.

Speaker 37 You know I'm talking about you not Sherlock and go. I see you.

Speaker 37 Christmas karaoke, come on, get up here for a good cause.

Speaker 1 This is like my worst nightmare.

Speaker 21 Oh, just stay perfectly still. Maybe they'll focus on something else.

Speaker 5 Go on, guys. Go sing.

Speaker 15 Shut up, Richard.

Speaker 37 Come on up to the stage, all three of you. Come on, come and pick your song.

Speaker 25 Oh, God.

Speaker 5 Yes, I would usually recoil myself, but

Speaker 5 this will be rather helpful.

Speaker 9 Sherlock, no, wait, no, wait, Sherlock.

Speaker 21 Look, we can't do the carol singing act up here, mate.

Speaker 34 They want the big ones. You know, they want Mariah Carey.

Speaker 21 They want Slade and Wizard. I mean, I could maybe, maybe do the Pogues if Mariana did the Kirsty McCottons.
Sherlock! Sherlock!

Speaker 1 Please, Sherlock, please get off the stage.

Speaker 5 Come on.

Speaker 28 Oh, boy.

Speaker 37 Here they are, everyone. Sherlock and go.

Speaker 29 Give him a round of applause.

Speaker 5 Hello.

Speaker 13 Uh, hi, hi.

Speaker 27 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 34 Hi, hi, yeah.

Speaker 31 Right, show of hands.

Speaker 35 Who wants the Pogues and who wants E17?

Speaker 21 Because I'm a little torn

Speaker 5 Good evening, everyone. I apologise that we have missed a lot of the party, the dinner, and I believe the majority of the karaoke, but we've been working a case.

Speaker 5 And if you don't mind, I'd very much like to wrap it up.

Speaker 40 Oh,

Speaker 24 okay.

Speaker 37 Well, um, if you have to go, uh, Sherlock Holmes, everyone!

Speaker 5 No, no, don't worry. After a little revelation from my doctor friend here just moments ago, I believe I can wrap it up.

Speaker 3 Right now.

Speaker 1 You can?

Speaker 5 I can.

Speaker 9 Okay, everyone.

Speaker 5 A little festive fun.

Speaker 5 Can you see what this is?

Speaker 12 It's a safe!

Speaker 5 It is a safe indeed. It belonged to a Benny Mayberly, whose mother, Marie Maberly, owns the freehold on this building.
Her family lived in this property when it was a residence.

Speaker 5 Sadly, Marie is now in a home, and I'm fairly confident given given her degenerating mental faculties, she wouldn't be all that helpful in opening up this safe.

Speaker 5 Now, it would be fair to ask the question, why?

Speaker 5 Why would we want to open this safe?

Speaker 41 Well,

Speaker 5 six years ago, Marie Mabelie's son and the owner of this safe, Benny, died in an apparent suicide in Rome. He fell.
in front of a moving subway train.

Speaker 5 He was there with his girlfriend, Georgia. Georgia Klein, daughter of Isadora Klein.

Speaker 5 Hands up, who knows who? Oh, okay, right.

Speaker 41 The whole room.

Speaker 5 I notice one hand down.

Speaker 5 We'll come to you at the end.

Speaker 5 Don't look their way. Look at me, please.
Thank you.

Speaker 5 Shortly after Benny's death, a young criminal by the name of Barney Stockdale was tasked with burning this place to the ground. The results of his blaze were inconclusive and he was arrested.

Speaker 5 Believing her belongings to be destroyed and with mental and physical decline on the way, Marie Mayberly donated the property with a 400-year lease to the Three Gables Hospital Trust.

Speaker 5 Yes, a good act and a good thing we are doing here tonight. And we can give the hospital their best financial gift yet, if we can get this safe open.

Speaker 5 So, who would like to play?

Speaker 5 Well, let's get to it. Marie Mayberly was in part correct.
All her belongings were destroyed. But her son's, on the other hand, not quite.

Speaker 5 His safe remained wedged where he had left it, in the nook of a chimney cavity. You see, Barney Stopdale was a bad arsonist and an even worse gossip.

Speaker 5 Knowing that his fire had been cut short, he spoke of nothing else while behind bars. Word spread, and his client was once again left flailing in desperation to destroy

Speaker 5 whatever this safe possesses.

Speaker 5 And sadly, ladies and gentlemen, I have to say they are very close.

Speaker 5 Very close indeed.

Speaker 5 A signing of a legal agreement away, in fact, of getting this safe in their own hands.

Speaker 5 But Christmas has interrupted them, like it does so many professional commitments. It has hit a festive hiatus, and now we find ourselves with the opportunity to make our big donation.

Speaker 5 So, how do we open Benny Maybely's safe?

Speaker 5 The dial here, I'm afraid, it's six digits, not four. But don't worry, I'll make sure I prod us along nicely.

Speaker 37 What do we think? What?

Speaker 34 What? What about a birthday?

Speaker 5 Benny Mably's birthday. He was born on the 18th of March.

Speaker 5 1803.

Speaker 5 He was 25 when he died in 2018. So born in 9393.

Speaker 5 Ooh, nothing I'm afraid. The girl's birthday, yeah.
I can tell you, I've tried it, and that's a no as well. No birthdays.

Speaker 5 I thought for a moment it could be addresses. I researched hastily upstairs for the grand London homes of the Mayberlys.
14 Avenue Road in St. John's Wood.
21 Ashburton Place in Mayfair.

Speaker 5 And of course, here, the Three Gables, which building number for postal reasons is 73. So 14, 21, 73.
His addresses through his life.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 5 So, no birthdays, no house numbers. Quite tricky indeed.

Speaker 5 I would like all the millennials to put their hands up.

Speaker 5 Let me see some millennials. Ah, yes, there you all are.

Speaker 16 Look.

Speaker 5 Cash poor, tired. The ones with young children, anyway.
And now I see some hair is going and metabolisms are slowing down. That's life, I'm afraid.

Speaker 5 Millennials have an intimate relationship with technology, particularly one aspect of it, advancement, change.

Speaker 5 Most of them in this room could tell you their best friend's phone number from 20 years ago because they had to type it out on a landline.

Speaker 5 They could tell you what computer viruses were like, how AOL would greet them, and nearly all of them, much to their dismay, could sing you the hamster dance song.

Speaker 5 Please don't.

Speaker 5 These things mattered then. They don't now.
But that's not how our brains work. Yes, they're brilliant thinking machines and factories of concepts, but they have their flaws.

Speaker 5 For Marie Mably, her brain leaks memories and thoughts by the day.

Speaker 5 For us, we wish more than anything that some recollections, memories of embarrassment, of pain, would leak out much the same and wash away for good.

Speaker 5 But things stay.

Speaker 5 Things that matter, things that don't.

Speaker 5 I recall when I first typed on a computer keyboard. Every word I heard in conversation, I would type it out in my head.
Musical notes, I would see the violin strings in my head.

Speaker 5 These cognitive compulsions eventually become useless and annoying.

Speaker 5 Much like the knowledge of how to type on a T9 numerical keyboard. To even do it without looking.

Speaker 5 Mariana, your phone, please. The dumb phone.

Speaker 22 Uh, there.

Speaker 5 Yes, thank you. To convey a message of text on these clicky little buttons on a 3x4 grid, T9.

Speaker 5 Text 9. Texting on 9 keys.
Words become numbers, held in muscle memory. Benny's name, I forgot to note, is not B-E-N-N-Y,

Speaker 5 but B-E-N-N-I-E.

Speaker 5 Six letters.

Speaker 40 Two,

Speaker 5 Three, six, six, four.

Speaker 6 Three.

Speaker 6 Correct.

Speaker 5 The man with the foggy glasses and greying hair has it.

Speaker 5 No letters on number one, of course. So B equals two, E equals three,

Speaker 5 N equals six, N equals six, I equals four,

Speaker 5 E equals three.

Speaker 5 Ladies and gentlemen, our safe is unlocked.

Speaker 5 And what do we have inside?

Speaker 19 Stay where you are!

Speaker 23 Who are you talking to, mate?

Speaker 5 Our big fan, apparently.

Speaker 6 What?

Speaker 2 Who?

Speaker 5 A woman that greeted us with nauseating enthusiasm as we entered this evening. A fan of the show.
I'm sure you all have them with your own particular productions. But this fan didn't seem quite right.

Speaker 5 No makeup. Fine, I suppose, in isolation, but not in further context.
Tattoos covered, thick glasses with a price sticker hastily ripped off, hair tucked away under a hat.

Speaker 5 Yet the nails, the jewellery, the shoes all of exceptional value.

Speaker 5 The very essence of glamour.

Speaker 5 Quite the clash.

Speaker 5 We have a woman worth nearly 300 million in our midst, everyone.

Speaker 5 Masquerading as an over-eager podcast fan, all to try and remain in control.

Speaker 5 Because that's how you built your empire, is it not, Isadora?

Speaker 5 Control, intensive observation, perfectionism. You couldn't stand the idea of me not being deterred tonight.
You had to ensure it yourself. To micromanage.

Speaker 5 Well, I don't blame you. Steve Dixie, a dodgy cab driver, Barney Stockdale, and, of course, a prawn.

Speaker 5 They did rather let you down.

Speaker 5 Back to our safe.

Speaker 5 Inside, we have.

Speaker 6 No! No!

Speaker 5 It's an open mic. If you could wait your turn.
Don't do it! Don't worry, he won't sing, will you, John?

Speaker 29 What a dumb, you bastard!

Speaker 5 I usually don't encourage this sort of thing, but if as many people as possible could record Isadora Klein's reaction on their phones, it will very much come in handy for the police. Please! Please!

Speaker 5 A letter right here from the office of Isadora Klein

Speaker 5 to Master Neighborly.

Speaker 25 It's false! It is fake!

Speaker 5 My daughter's adoration,

Speaker 5 but my boy Prince,

Speaker 5 my lover. No!

Speaker 11 Stop!

Speaker 5 Whenever you read this letter, I want you to feel my presence in your heart. Feel my eyes burning into yours.
Feel my hands gripping your...

Speaker 5 I'll skip that bit.

Speaker 5 Ooh, and that bit.

Speaker 34 Throbbing. Nope.

Speaker 28 This is none of your business.

Speaker 5 There's pictures as well. I'll keep those in this little envelope.

Speaker 28 So we were in love, so what?

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 5 Seems rather cruel of me, doesn't it? Well, it did until I read more about the night of Benny's demise and the background of your disgusting daughter.

Speaker 5 Why is it, Isadora, that when Benny, while stood next to his girlfriend at a platform, somehow ended up under a train and subsequently died?

Speaker 5 Why is it you did not attend his funeral? Your boy prince, your lover?

Speaker 5 Fine, you don't have to attend as a bit on the side, but not even to support your daughter.

Speaker 41 Shut up!

Speaker 5 In fact, you weren't pictured with your daughter for months after. Quite the fallout.
At a time when we need our loved ones most.

Speaker 5 Why the fallout? Could it be that witnesses from that night in Rome were correct? That there was a quarrel? A quarrel as a young girl discovered her boyfriend's lover was her own mother?

Speaker 5 Your legal prowess is quite something, Isadora. It's why I ask everyone document this as thoroughly as possible.
You know how to get your way in the courts.

Speaker 5 She wasn't arrested for an eco-protest, was she, Isadora? Your daughter assaulted an apparent friend of hers and left her with 17 stitches across her face. Leave her alone!

Speaker 5 From the sounds of her, I absolutely will, Miss Klein, but I don't think the police will.

Speaker 12 No, no, no!

Speaker 5 Not to spoil the reveal, but she'll be down for murder and you'll get accessory possibly and obstruction of justice definitely. You might see some time for that arson as well.

Speaker 2 It's rather cold out, Isadora.

Speaker 5 You may want to grab a...

Speaker 8 She's gone.

Speaker 41 Quiet now. Shh!

Speaker 35 Please, your podcasters, right?

Speaker 21 No one to shut up. Thank you.

Speaker 5 Thank you kindly. Our final donation of this evening.
We have a hard drive labeled, Should Anything Happen to Me.

Speaker 5 Seems that Benny was aware of the Klein rage.

Speaker 5 This, everyone, is what is known as a cold storage drive. for a rather healthy amount of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency that Benny would like to see given to a deserving cause.

Speaker 5 And I can't think of one more deserving than this wonderful place. Thank you for listening.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night.

Speaker 32 Cheers, you two.

Speaker 5 Cheers. Cheers.

Speaker 1 To those brave kids.

Speaker 5 Absolutely.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 7 And to Benny and Marie Maybelly.

Speaker 24 Good people.

Speaker 1 Cheers to that.

Speaker 5 And to Mary Morstan.

Speaker 5 Bravery and goodness.

Speaker 5 Personified.

Speaker 1 To Mary Morstan.

Speaker 1 To Mary.

Speaker 32 Well done, guys.

Speaker 6 Really,

Speaker 24 really well done.

Speaker 30 Thank you.

Speaker 5 You found the safe.

Speaker 23 Yeah, yeah, by accident, but

Speaker 24 thanks. Yeah, I will take that.

Speaker 5 Quite the donation.

Speaker 24 How many um bitcoins or whatever was on the drive?

Speaker 5 Around 1500. Ooh, nice.

Speaker 15 Oh, cool, cool.

Speaker 24 What's a bitcoin worth?

Speaker 34 Like a hundred quid or something?

Speaker 32 Let me google it.

Speaker 34 How

Speaker 24 much

Speaker 24 is a

Speaker 29 bit coin?

Speaker 29 Huh.

Speaker 5 Watson, you've gone rather pale.

Speaker 1 He said to a deserving cause, you can't be mad.

Speaker 2 I'm a deserving cause, too.

Speaker 24 Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.

Speaker 5 You look like you're going to be sick.

Speaker 21 Wait, that's £150 million at current value.

Speaker 20 I just gave that away, did I?

Speaker 5 Benny Maybely did, really.

Speaker 32 God's sake, I'm not even going to get a plaque, am I?

Speaker 2 Stop laughing.

Speaker 30 Sorry, I can't help it.

Speaker 2 It's not funny.

Speaker 6 Stop.

Speaker 1 Merry Christmas, you guys.

Speaker 15 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 5 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 Ooh, I'm gonna get a picture of us.

Speaker 17 Where is it where?

Speaker 30 Hey.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 2 What is that in your bag?

Speaker 1 Oh, it.

Speaker 16 Uh, you.

Speaker 1 Now, listen. Sherlock, Sherlock said I should bring the mic.
Sherlock,

Speaker 31 you hate bringing the mic.

Speaker 5 Yes, but I said it was for you.

Speaker 23 Oh, for me?

Speaker 21 For the guy who said he didn't want an adventurer out.

Speaker 1 He was looking after the future you. Who would look after you?

Speaker 2 What are you looking after him for?

Speaker 5 I feel like I'm getting a lot of the blame here.

Speaker 1 Well, you did say.

Speaker 24 Hold on, wait.

Speaker 21 What? Richard Osmond has come.

Speaker 20 Where?

Speaker 18 Oh, crap. Go, go, go, go, go.

Speaker 20 Jingle bells, jingle bells.

Speaker 20 You can get in touch.

Speaker 5 Doc JWatson MD on Twitter and Blue Sky, and Sherlock and Co. Pod, all one word, on Instagram and TikTok.
We'd love to hear from you.

Speaker 15 That was so good, Sherlock. Was it?

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm. Perfect.

Speaker 17 Perfect.

Speaker 24 Uh, what?

Speaker 22 You said it was gonna be crap.

Speaker 6 Uh, what?

Speaker 21 You said you'd do the intro, you'd try your best, but it wouldn't be as good as my ones.

Speaker 5 Is everything okay, John?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 Why are you too good at this? This this is my thing.

Speaker 1 But you said you're not doing this adventure.

Speaker 23 I'm not, but we'd love to hear from you.

Speaker 2 What was all that about?

Speaker 24 We would.

Speaker 20 Oh, piss off.

Speaker 5 Shall we do that again?

Speaker 1 Nah, we nailed it. It was perfect.