The Sign of Four - Part Nine

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Speaker 10 Previously on Sherlock and Co.

Speaker 3 Come come on, damn it, this this case.

Speaker 12 Why?

Speaker 11 Is it showing any sign of success?

Speaker 13 Are you talking about the suitcase or the crime case?

Speaker 4 The crime, the crime, the crime case, John.

Speaker 13 At least I thought it did, until I lost an elderly dog in southwest London. What do we bring to the table, honestly?

Speaker 13 We watched a man get poisoned at a restaurant in Amritsar, then we raided a temple full of corpses. Now we've lost a dog.

Speaker 13 We're 10 steps behind. The law enforcement agencies are actually catching people and getting crucial footage.
What are we doing?

Speaker 5 And what about Sherlock?

Speaker 13 He is one more sleepless night away from going completely bonkers.

Speaker 5 Well, if our lovely Sherlock is struggling to sleep, you've always got my book.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Okay,

Speaker 5 let's see.

Speaker 17 Yes, definitely deliberate. It's not like they got into difficulty en route.
How can you tell? The burn patterns, judging by the smell, creosote.

Speaker 17 Any word on Toby?

Speaker 16 What did you find?

Speaker 17 An important stone. Not that one.
We'll explain. Later.

Speaker 10 Listen, so.

Speaker 17 I think we should have dinner tonight.

Speaker 13 You want Mariana up here? Because she's pretty focused on the suitcase thing.

Speaker 17 I'll give her the key. Get Athelny and Jonathan to.

Speaker 13 Give her the key? What?

Speaker 17 And Mary. I think it's time to start your edit, Dr.
Watson. Aurora.
Aurora.

Speaker 17 Fascinating.

Speaker 3 I'm a lonely old man.

Speaker 18 I

Speaker 18 we've got the little un with us here tonight.

Speaker 3 Grandson.

Speaker 18 I uh never had a family really to pull my attention and focus never had a family really got the little un with us here tonight.

Speaker 18 Grandson, never had a family really to pull that belligerent little voice in the back of my mind. That absolute fucking bastard of a man

Speaker 18 fucking bastard of a man

Speaker 17 Sherlock!

Speaker 3 Sherlock! Ah!

Speaker 13 What did you find? Because I found something too.

Speaker 17 When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains,

Speaker 17 no matter how improbable,

Speaker 3 must

Speaker 17 be.

Speaker 19 The truth.

Speaker 13 Could you pour some more wine, please, for the 8,000th time?

Speaker 17 You're nervous.

Speaker 13 I'm just laying the table.

Speaker 17 In a nervous fashion.

Speaker 13 Can you blame me? Wine, please.

Speaker 17 Is it because your girlfriend is here?

Speaker 3 Uh, no comment.

Speaker 17 Is it because we have a potential breakthrough?

Speaker 12 No comment.

Speaker 17 Is it because the chicken is underwhelming?

Speaker 13 No, the chicken is not underwhelm.

Speaker 13 I have to make it underwhelming because you have the culinary palate of a four-year-old.

Speaker 17 That's not true.

Speaker 10 Yes, it is true. It's not.

Speaker 17 When I'm confident, my tastes expand.

Speaker 13 Oh, and you're confident now, are you?

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 17 Can I use the electric carving knife? I like using that.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 17 I'm getting the electric carving knife.

Speaker 13 Please, just pour me some bloody wine.

Speaker 5 Fine.

Speaker 17 You're wearing too much fragrance. Your rash is coming back.

Speaker 13 For God's sake.

Speaker 3 More wine?

Speaker 8 Please.

Speaker 13 I was talking to Mary.

Speaker 21 Oh, you can sloss some of that in here too.

Speaker 13 Please, John Bye.

Speaker 19 Yeah, okay, I'll just go and open another bottle.

Speaker 3 So,

Speaker 10 tell me, Mariana,

Speaker 22 does he record absolutely everything?

Speaker 11 Everything.

Speaker 22 Well, so that's on right now, is it?

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 11 That's why it has Bride of Place in the middle of the table.

Speaker 22 So, So, what if I refuse to be recorded? What then?

Speaker 3 Would you refuse?

Speaker 22 Nah, get my name out there. I want to solve this case and get a promotion.

Speaker 13 And this might be my only proof.

Speaker 24 Excellent.

Speaker 4 And hey, let me tell you, you bloody will solve the case. You bloody will.

Speaker 13 Well, cheers to that. Oh, no, wait.
I can't.

Speaker 22 I haven't got any wine.

Speaker 13 Yes, yes, yes. All right.
Here, fine.

Speaker 22 Oh, in she goes. Lovely stuff.

Speaker 5 Any word from your captured friend?

Speaker 22 Mr. Rakbar.

Speaker 22 Ooh, clock is ticking, Jonathan, let me tell you.

Speaker 24 Is it now?

Speaker 22 Yeah, Interpol can't do a great deal in terms of conviction. We can investigate and arrest, but you gotta find that authority that has the

Speaker 22 the appetite to actually throw a conviction together, you know?

Speaker 24 Of course, yes.

Speaker 21 But I keep saying, and I've been saying to Scotland Yard and that, that bloke is gonna squeal.

Speaker 13 You think he will squeal?

Speaker 3 Oh, he's in a gang.

Speaker 13 He's an old guy.

Speaker 21 He doesn't wanna die behind bars.

Speaker 26 Hell, put him through a trial, and I dare say he'll shit in his pants.

Speaker 3 Right, yes, of course. Of course.

Speaker 27 Oh, this looks great, John.

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah, John, this looks so good.

Speaker 11 I

Speaker 11 mean, I can't believe it's not been some toast.

Speaker 13 I can't believe it's not Penny, to be honest.

Speaker 15 You always do that.

Speaker 27 What?

Speaker 13 You always smirk when I say penny.

Speaker 11 No, I don't.

Speaker 13 You do?

Speaker 11 I, yeah, yeah, I kind of do.

Speaker 3 But why?

Speaker 3 Oh, she's laughing. Sorry.

Speaker 23 What is it?

Speaker 28 Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 I'm sorry.

Speaker 13 What is it?

Speaker 11 In Spain, it means

Speaker 11 penis.

Speaker 3 No. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, God.

Speaker 11 Sorry, dude.

Speaker 21 That's why I laughed.

Speaker 23 Yeah, because you're a 12-year-old boy, apparently.

Speaker 11 Oh, look, he's going red.

Speaker 3 Oh, Willy Talk made him go red.

Speaker 13 Right, there is no Willy Talk, right?

Speaker 23 Willie Talk is banned.

Speaker 21 For our American listeners, Willy means penis.

Speaker 21 Since we're doing penis translations,

Speaker 3 enough.

Speaker 13 Mike is on. Mike is recording.

Speaker 27 Yeah, but this is not getting uploaded. Please, please tell me this isn't getting uploaded.

Speaker 13 Well, I need all the material I can get sometimes.

Speaker 27 Have you started editing?

Speaker 13 I, um,

Speaker 13 yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah,

Speaker 13 bits and pieces.

Speaker 16 Have you?

Speaker 13 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta get cracking with it, early doors.

Speaker 13 Hey, buddy?

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 17 Indeed.

Speaker 25 Do you help with the edit, Sherlock?

Speaker 17 Absolutely not.

Speaker 13 Yeah, and we want to keep it that way, right?

Speaker 13 Okay, Mike going off for horrible chewing and swallowing sounds and cutlery and everything else that people give me bad reviews for.

Speaker 3 So, bye-bye.

Speaker 17 I would have liked to have used the electric carving knife.

Speaker 13 That's not for this kind of dish.

Speaker 19 It's chicken.

Speaker 13 Yeah, but not off the bone.

Speaker 13 Now, Mary, what were you saying before I was interrupted by Edward chicken knife hands?

Speaker 27 What I was saying about that stupid Morse code thing I did with my first ever boyfriend.

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah, that is so sweet.

Speaker 3 See, look, right.

Speaker 27 Let me try it on you, Mariana.

Speaker 3 Oh, I don't know the letters. Oh, what?

Speaker 3 Uh, sure.

Speaker 3 Try me. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 27 Hand, please.

Speaker 15 I hope you're concentrating.

Speaker 17 Always.

Speaker 17 Yes, the chicken was dry, wasn't it?

Speaker 13 I don't believe it.

Speaker 29 I was kidding.

Speaker 3 Very good, very good.

Speaker 3 So,

Speaker 5 not to talk shop, but what do you think, John?

Speaker 24 What do you reckon about it all?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah, we were going to do theories, weren't we?

Speaker 23 What do I reckon?

Speaker 3 Oh, God, blimey.

Speaker 13 I suppose

Speaker 13 I would say that they're high-powered, the sign of four.

Speaker 27 High-powered?

Speaker 3 Yeah, this is classic dog.

Speaker 13 My turn. Thank you.

Speaker 13 Yeah, so I think they've probably got links to...

Speaker 13 Yeah, I reckon they've got a link to a bigger organization or something that they're going to sell into and make billions or something.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I can kind of see that.

Speaker 22 Illuminati-type bollocks, right?

Speaker 13 Yeah, well, no, not exactly, but

Speaker 3 that's...

Speaker 10 You know, our world is a bit shitty like that, isn't it?

Speaker 13 You know, lots of corporations all lead back to the same owning companies. I bet crime is no different.
You know, everything's just leading back to one source.

Speaker 27 Some evil overlord.

Speaker 3 Ooh.

Speaker 13 Yeah, my vote is with evil overlord. And uh, oh,

Speaker 20 here we go. I've got it, I've got it.

Speaker 11 What is this? Drunk?

Speaker 13 Did you say this? Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 23 Dunk, drink, and deduce.

Speaker 3 Wait,

Speaker 13 I reckon they're called something like Aurora, right?

Speaker 13 The big corporate crime syndicate, and that's what Tonga is trying to communicate.

Speaker 11 It is always corporate with you.

Speaker 20 Oh, here comes the finance graduate.

Speaker 13 Coming for my throat.

Speaker 20 Better kick the electric chicken knife out of her reach.

Speaker 11 I am not. I'm not.
Okay, I'm... My theory, my theory.

Speaker 24 Let's hear it.

Speaker 25 Theories give me delicious theories.

Speaker 11 My theory is

Speaker 11 Aurora is some kind of vessel.

Speaker 30 Interesting. Like...

Speaker 11 like a private play

Speaker 11 No, no, like a yacht. And I think the stone is on the Aurora.

Speaker 26 Oh, I like it.

Speaker 22 I like it.

Speaker 25 When do we get to visit the yacht?

Speaker 22 Is it in someplace hot, yeah?

Speaker 27 Don't you work in India?

Speaker 22 Oh, I love the Sun Mary. God, I love it.

Speaker 3 No, hold on.

Speaker 13 Why would a 14-year-old boy from Hounslow have access to a yacht?

Speaker 11 You don't know. He might.

Speaker 13 No, none of us know, basically.

Speaker 4 That's the fun of it. Mr.
Interpol? Mr.

Speaker 21 Interpol at your service.

Speaker 19 Where's that white?

Speaker 17 Let me get my story straight.

Speaker 25 What do you think?

Speaker 5 What is the fate of our diamond and our boy?

Speaker 3 I reckon.

Speaker 3 I reckon, I reckon.

Speaker 25 Oh, right, what do I reckon?

Speaker 3 I think

Speaker 22 it's still in the UK, as we know.

Speaker 21 And it's

Speaker 22 someplace mysterious.

Speaker 26 Some deep, dark legend is being fulfilled. And instead of being bundled into the crown jewels or the town of London or whatever, it's where it belongs.

Speaker 5 Which is...

Speaker 26 imbued deep into ancient Welsh rock.

Speaker 13 Because God's heart is Cymru itself.

Speaker 26 The deep valleys is vessels and it thunders life into the world.

Speaker 3 And that gem is to be drawn out one day by the true king King Athelny the real deal

Speaker 21 for goodness sake in all honesty I don't bloody know I'm kind of with a bit of John and a bit of Mariana I think high crime I don't think it's a bunch of low lives fighting over a stone high crime big connections and yeah I like that Aurora is a it's a thing it's a chip or a company or a building or something and and that's why we'll find a stone I like your optimism.

Speaker 22 That's the actual real deal. Telling you,

Speaker 5 Miss Morsten.

Speaker 27 Clearly, I don't know a bloody thing.

Speaker 27 But I uh

Speaker 27 have felt the presence of these people my whole life. They're obviously obsessed, they're insistent, they're

Speaker 27 I mean, they're sick, right?

Speaker 27 They can't be working for some bounty. It's it seems to be all twisted into birthrights in the past.

Speaker 27 I think it's a dark ancient grudge from these guys, and they won't stop until they've got it.

Speaker 26 So, you're going for the very organic.

Speaker 27 Yeah, no dirty twists, no nefarious businessmen looking to get their hands on it, no, what was it, ancient Welsh folklore.

Speaker 27 I think it is as it seems: old grudges. Who gets what? An heirloom at the end of the day, right, Jonathan?

Speaker 3 Heirlooms!

Speaker 5 Available in all good bookshops and my garage, of course.

Speaker 4 What about you, Master Detective?

Speaker 3 You are rather quiet.

Speaker 13 Oh, he likes to stew.

Speaker 14 Stew on his thoughts.

Speaker 4 Ah, it's always the quiet ones.

Speaker 4 I bet he knows it all in there.

Speaker 24 He's just biding his time.

Speaker 21 It wouldn't surprise me if he had the bloody thing all along, this one.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it's all been a big test.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no. Come on, you must know.
You must!

Speaker 25 Where is it?

Speaker 17 Well, I must confess.

Speaker 17 Unfortunately, Agent Jones,

Speaker 10 I don't have the Surakula.

Speaker 17 Oh, that's a shame.

Speaker 3 Right, I'm off then.

Speaker 20 But I do have another stone.

Speaker 17 What?

Speaker 17 I found one this afternoon.

Speaker 3 When?

Speaker 17 When we were inspecting the vehicle of Mohinda Singh.

Speaker 13 Where is it then, mate?

Speaker 3 Here.

Speaker 3 For goodness.

Speaker 11 Sherlock, that's... Wait, that's like a pebble.

Speaker 3 Bloody gravel. Oh,

Speaker 8 gravel.

Speaker 31 You've got a piece of gravel.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 look.

Speaker 32 Look what I've got.

Speaker 3 Ooh,

Speaker 3 pocket fluff.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 26 The fabled pocket fluff of ancient Babylonia.

Speaker 17 This is 10mm polar white shingle.

Speaker 13 It's good, mate. Yeah.
Yeah? Look? Yeah, it looks like little white basic driveway gravel, Sherlock.

Speaker 17 It's actually not basic driveway gravel. It's quite expensive at 800 pounds a ton.

Speaker 3 Lovely.

Speaker 4 Well, I won't put you in touch with my publisher any time soon.

Speaker 5 If people found my gemstone stories boring, goodness me.

Speaker 4 Sherlock,

Speaker 22 why does this matter?

Speaker 26 No, no, no, I'm not mocking.

Speaker 22 I'm being serious.

Speaker 17 Mohinda's car. In the tread of the tires, I found this piece of 10mm polar white shingle.

Speaker 15 Right, so

Speaker 13 so this gravel is from a place he went in his car.

Speaker 17 This is a place he would visit frequently. I've seen it before, in fact.
We've been to a house very recently with this exact stone shingle.

Speaker 3 Have we?

Speaker 17 We have.

Speaker 3 And you know what?

Speaker 17 It's been one of those days. I don't know whether it's the lack of sleep or perhaps the osmosis of all this information seeping into the relevant faculties.

Speaker 17 This afternoon, I I saw something else I recognised.

Speaker 17 When I finished reading a, quite frankly, deranged book that documents the propriety rights of all the valuable stones of India,

Speaker 17 a book that waffles on a great deal about titles and claims to dominions and their loot, and some utter nonsense about the New World Order's attempt to steal away ancient talismatic stones from prestigious families.

Speaker 3 Sherlock

Speaker 19 sounds like a bad review, Jonathan.

Speaker 33 It's a terrible review, yes.

Speaker 17 A load of self-entitled wank, to be quite honest.

Speaker 17 But what triggered a moment of recognition was when I realised I was honoured with a signed copy. Lucky me.

Speaker 17 Heirlooms by Jonathan Small.

Speaker 3 Look at that.

Speaker 26 How lovely.

Speaker 3 Very kind.

Speaker 3 Yep.

Speaker 17 And if we have a little look here, don't worry, I won't make anyone read the book. Just this signing.

Speaker 17 The S there.

Speaker 17 On small.

Speaker 17 Quite unusual. Around one in a hundred people, I believe, write an S from bottom to top.

Speaker 17 I had seen it somewhere else.

Speaker 17 On this, as a matter of fact.

Speaker 10 The note that killed Mary's poor old father.

Speaker 17 A note that,

Speaker 17 as well as the lethal anthrax, contained traces of codeine, used to treat the most intense agonies, of course.

Speaker 17 Doesn't take long to get addicted, does it, Jonathan?

Speaker 17 I.

Speaker 3 It.

Speaker 3 Look now, I.

Speaker 17 Mariana, you opened your case at long last.

Speaker 11 Yes, because you locked it.

Speaker 17 Could you pass me what I placed inside?

Speaker 3 Is it still wrapped? It is. Here.

Speaker 17 Ah, lovely. Now, I have to confess, I wasn't entirely confident my companion Mariana here wouldn't be questioned at customs, but it seems we got lucky.

Speaker 17 I had to lock the thing, of course, as it's a rather distressing souvenir.

Speaker 20 Sherlock, what?

Speaker 17 That trip to the temple was rather treacherous at times, wasn't it, gang?

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 11 yeah, it was. Yeah.

Speaker 17 Treacherous, but nonetheless, illuminating to our case. I spotted something there by that rather stubborn vine doorway.

Speaker 17 I quickly put it in Watson's backpack in the hope we'd get out of there in one piece.

Speaker 17 But

Speaker 17 not everyone has been able to leave that temple in one piece. Isn't that right, Jonathan?

Speaker 17 Don't. Dr.
Watson, could you tell me and the table what this is?

Speaker 3 Oh, my God.

Speaker 13 Okay, yes, that is a umphibia. A shin bone.

Speaker 17 A shinbone, yes. I found it wedged into a men's walking shoe.

Speaker 21 You look rather pale, Jonathan.

Speaker 17 I hope you haven't had too much to drink. You may get a hangover.
The codeine would come in handy then, I suppose. Or you could always do

Speaker 17 hair of the dog.

Speaker 17 Stand up.

Speaker 4 I have had quite enough of your insults.

Speaker 3 I'll stand, and I'll walk right out of here, young man.

Speaker 17 Stand

Speaker 3 up

Speaker 17 And now Mr. Jonathan Small has stood stood up, I can show another curiosity.
I notice, like many intellectuals, you have a penchant for corduroy. Not to my tastes one bit, I must say.

Speaker 17 The texture alone is absolutely repulsive. However, it has been ever so handy in locating a very dear friend of mine.

Speaker 6 Oh.

Speaker 17 And a friend of Archie's, too, of course.

Speaker 17 Does he smell?

Speaker 32 Archie boy. Ow!

Speaker 23 Archie, over here, this way, mate.

Speaker 17 Corduroy is made up of vertical ridges, or whales, which create little gaps that trap a lot of dust and fur and

Speaker 3 hair.

Speaker 17 Not to mention that fuzzy surface that generates plenty of static charge, which will attract even more hair, of course. Hair, in this instance, of a half-spaniel, half-lurcher.

Speaker 5 Wait a second now.

Speaker 15 Named Toby.

Speaker 17 Ah, Athelny. Fake gun, but real handcuffs, I hope.

Speaker 22 The real deal, Sherlock.

Speaker 17 Thank you for joining us, Mr.

Speaker 10 Small.

Speaker 17 So sorry, I can't locate the Surakula yet. Perhaps we'll pop by your house now and

Speaker 17 Tonga ourselves.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no! Please,

Speaker 26 feel free to take your leg.

Speaker 17 I don't need it anymore.

Speaker 3 Fucking manipulative bastard!

Speaker 3 You goat! It's ours! It's ours, you... You fuck!

Speaker 13 God, yeah, yep, yep.

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Speaker 34 The I Gregson looking for a 1060 in the vicinity of Strawberry Hill.

Speaker 3 We've got a unit fly company 1076.

Speaker 24 Make it quick.

Speaker 3 Gorgeous.

Speaker 3 Whoa, geez, you okay?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 Can you put your seatbelt on, please? Too excited. It's not an excuse.

Speaker 34 No, it bloody isn't. You're right, John.

Speaker 3 Why should I put my seatbelt on if we're going to be out any moment? Because it's against the law, and I'm a police officer.

Speaker 34 And what's more, I'm a police officer that's doing you a pretty bloody big favor in bringing you along to this thing.

Speaker 31 I did crack the case, though.

Speaker 3 We'll see. Or I'll see.
I should probably see Bill.

Speaker 17 Fine.

Speaker 17 You don't have to chew gum. She's not going to kiss you tonight.

Speaker 3 That is not why I have the gum.

Speaker 13 I have the gum because I chased you around every bloody corner shop in Hounslow.

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 28 I don't believe that for a moment, but okay.

Speaker 34 To all station units in the vicinity, this is D.I. Gregson reporting a 10-35.
I want a 10-39 on arrival.

Speaker 3 Oh, no. What? What's a 10-39? 10.40, please.

Speaker 17 Why? Because Mohinda Singh will be in there.

Speaker 13 Can we please explain what a bloody 1039 is?

Speaker 10 Urgent.

Speaker 17 Lights and sirens on arrival.

Speaker 3 Finally, thank you.

Speaker 10 Are you sure, Sherlock?

Speaker 17 I'm not certain. But it isn't worth the risk.

Speaker 34 All units, 1040.

Speaker 34 Set up a perimeter on the north and south exit of Tower Road. Secondary units move to a second perimeter at house number 16.
Nobody goes in or out.

Speaker 24 nearly there.

Speaker 24 Come on, Tonga. Come on, please, please.

Speaker 34 Lights and sirens coming off, heading northbound on Tower Road. Number six, eight,

Speaker 34 fourteen,

Speaker 34 sixteen.

Speaker 34 Sherlock! No, Sherlock! Wait! Sherlock!

Speaker 3 Stop him right now before I do.

Speaker 4 Sherlock!

Speaker 4 Mark!

Speaker 35 Sherlock, please!

Speaker 30 Please stop. This is serious.

Speaker 26 Follow me, Watson.

Speaker 31 I'm not following you, I'm chasing you. Righto! Then chase me!

Speaker 3 Oh, shut up!

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Here.

Speaker 23 Here.

Speaker 3 Get off. What are you doing?

Speaker 31 Get off, for goodness sake! You're being reckless. I'm entering the property.

Speaker 19 Get back to Gregson now.

Speaker 30 No!

Speaker 31 Sherlock, this isn't about you.

Speaker 33 Watson? There is a boy in there. There is a boy in there.

Speaker 26 I know that.

Speaker 13 And if Sing is in there and we get caught doing this, he's dead.

Speaker 20 Tonga will be killed.

Speaker 19 Do you fucking get that?

Speaker 30 I'm asking you to trust me. Sherlock, I always trust you.

Speaker 20 This isn't about trust.

Speaker 17 Then what is it about?

Speaker 3 It's a.

Speaker 13 It's a

Speaker 30 procedure?

Speaker 12 No.

Speaker 5 Then what?

Speaker 5 It's about fear, Watson.

Speaker 17 That's what.

Speaker 33 It is about fear.

Speaker 12 I'm not scared.

Speaker 14 Yes, you are.

Speaker 17 And that's okay.

Speaker 33 That's good. Sherlock.

Speaker 5 Everything that truly matters is terrifying, John.

Speaker 26 You know that.

Speaker 13 Everything. Oh, don't do a big, profound speech.

Speaker 26 I'm not doing a big profound speech.

Speaker 15 You are.

Speaker 3 Fine.

Speaker 33 I won't do a speech.

Speaker 17 But I refuse to believe that you'd be any less afraid if you were sat in the back of Gregson's car peeking through your fingers.

Speaker 31 Would you?

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 no.

Speaker 17 Exactly.

Speaker 30 We know this case.

Speaker 5 We know this boy.

Speaker 17 We know the motivations behind his capturer. We're the best in the business, Watson.

Speaker 13 Policing is not a business. It's a public service.

Speaker 10 For goodness.

Speaker 13 No, I'm just mass privatization of the public sector isn't something to be applauded. Shh.

Speaker 17 Friends are here.

Speaker 3 Sorry, what?

Speaker 10 Friends. Friends? Yes, friends.

Speaker 23 You know, Ross and Rachel are gonna pop out of that bush, are they?

Speaker 17 One moment.

Speaker 3 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 17 Where are you?

Speaker 11 I'm in the back garden of number 14, like you said.

Speaker 13 I said number 16, for goodness sake.

Speaker 3 You said 14.

Speaker 17 16.

Speaker 3 Read the chat.

Speaker 13 Read the WhatsApp chat.

Speaker 28 Listen to me now. I.

Speaker 17 Oh, wait, yes.

Speaker 17 Well, that's obviously a typo.

Speaker 11 I will climb the fence. Hold on.

Speaker 13 See you shortly.

Speaker 3 Am

Speaker 19 I hallucinating?

Speaker 17 I don't think so.

Speaker 14 Ah, here she comes.

Speaker 3 Ah, okay, come on.

Speaker 19 Oh, we did it. How? What is...

Speaker 11 We got in the other police car, remember?

Speaker 15 Who's we?

Speaker 26 Yes.

Speaker 25 Where is he?

Speaker 3 Hey.

Speaker 27 He is right here.

Speaker 13 Archie, what in the f what are you doing?

Speaker 3 He needs to help us. Help us what? Piss on the lawn?

Speaker 17 Archie, boy, that's it.

Speaker 30 What can you smell? What can you smell?

Speaker 13 This is ridiculous. Archie, it is way past your bedtime for a start.

Speaker 19 Second, you've already been out today.

Speaker 32 He has something.

Speaker 13 He does not have anything. He has something.
Yeah, he has excess slobber and a flatulence problem.

Speaker 19 That's what he has.

Speaker 17 Let him off the lead.

Speaker 16 He will guide us.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 15 No, don't.

Speaker 19 This is a dream.

Speaker 13 This has to be a dream.

Speaker 3 Wake up, John. Wake up, mate.

Speaker 22 Here.

Speaker 5 To the back of the garden.

Speaker 3 Go on, Richie.

Speaker 13 Reggie, boy, come do this.

Speaker 19 Wait, where's he taking us?

Speaker 17 To one of our hostages.

Speaker 19 He's leading us.

Speaker 19 What is it, mate? What have you got?

Speaker 12 The garage.

Speaker 13 He's taking us to the garage.

Speaker 13 Archie, I know it's rabbit shit, but please ignore it for now.

Speaker 19 We'll circle back and pick it up. Right? Lovely.

Speaker 13 That's it. Well done.

Speaker 11 Well done, Archie.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 17 To the garage he goes. And

Speaker 5 I think we have found our friend.

Speaker 17 Here. What are you doing with that?

Speaker 35 Big Rock?

Speaker 11 Oh, I thought I'd take it to that rusty old lock.

Speaker 35 I've got unfinished business.

Speaker 10 Be my guest.

Speaker 23 It's working.

Speaker 17 Eyes on the house, Watson.

Speaker 13 Yep, all good, no change.

Speaker 3 Okay, here we go.

Speaker 3 Abode covered on.

Speaker 32 the

Speaker 32 other

Speaker 17 and there he is

Speaker 9 Toby! Hey Toby!

Speaker 17 Hey boy!

Speaker 23 Hey ow ow no no not not balls!

Speaker 3 Always with the balls man, for God's sake!

Speaker 17 Mariana, Archie and Toby are with Gregson.

Speaker 13 Great. Is he angry?

Speaker 17 Apparently he's furious, yes.

Speaker 14 Great.

Speaker 13 Great.

Speaker 17 Is this illegal by the way what we what we're doing um somewhat of a grey area i'd say okey dokey right uh judge would look kindly on us should the outcome be a positive one i mean yeah yeah did you grab the gun i was in a bit of a hurry you didn't grab it i wasn't thinking and just picked up what was around me

Speaker 3 which was

Speaker 17 the chicken knife the electric chicken knife i said i wasn't thinking all right i hate you no you don't Leg up, please, good doctor.

Speaker 15 What is your plan?

Speaker 17 I didn't have one.

Speaker 3 Right, what about now?

Speaker 28 I do have one.

Speaker 10 What changed?

Speaker 21 I'll tell you what didn't change.

Speaker 7 These trousers.

Speaker 3 Not since we got back.

Speaker 15 Gross, mate.

Speaker 17 And in my pocket, the very same hook device I made to get us back into 221B.

Speaker 17 The case against doing laundry has been proven time and time again, Watson. No, no, no, it hasn't.
Time to deploy my device in silence, with focus.

Speaker 17 Detection must be avoided, or we fail at this most crucial juncture.

Speaker 10 Roger that, no pressure.

Speaker 17 There's an enormous amount of pressure.

Speaker 25 I was being sarcastic.

Speaker 17 I detected a hint. I really did.

Speaker 24 Ready?

Speaker 13 Ready?

Speaker 17 Up we go.

Speaker 13 Hook device is descending towards

Speaker 3 handle.

Speaker 23 You are so proud of that bloody hook.

Speaker 17 I am, actually.

Speaker 13 It's just a hook.

Speaker 3 Yes, but it has just the right amount of tension to give me the ability to

Speaker 17 just

Speaker 3 ease the handle upwards

Speaker 17 into an unlocked position.

Speaker 3 Ah,

Speaker 17 there we go.

Speaker 3 Hmm.

Speaker 17 Alarm.

Speaker 3 Sorry, what?

Speaker 33 Alarm.

Speaker 13 Bit more information, please. Mate.

Speaker 17 Um.

Speaker 10 Wait.

Speaker 32 Chewing gum.

Speaker 31 I need the chewing gum.

Speaker 19 In my front left pocket.

Speaker 17 Oh, goodness me. These jeans are tied.

Speaker 19 No, they're not. That's my wallet.
Get off.

Speaker 17 Well, where's the bloody gum?

Speaker 19 Well, it's not where your hand is currently headed, thank you. The bottom of the wallet.

Speaker 17 Ah, got it.

Speaker 19 What are you doing?

Speaker 17 Chewing.

Speaker 23 I thought we didn't do that on the mic.

Speaker 17 Won't be long.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 25 Now, to take the foil from the chewing gum packet.

Speaker 3 Foil.

Speaker 13 Foil and and chewing gum to prevent an alarm that could potentially get a child killed.

Speaker 25 Yes, indeed.

Speaker 13 Can you see why maybe the police are best placed to conduct this raid?

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 17 Sticking the foil

Speaker 17 in place

Speaker 17 of the contact

Speaker 25 sensor plate.

Speaker 3 Securing with the gum. Good lord.

Speaker 30 Oh my god, are you actually being serious? And

Speaker 3 letting go.

Speaker 17 This is mental. Mental or menthol?

Speaker 10 Both, and not funny.

Speaker 10 Idiot.

Speaker 25 There we go.

Speaker 17 Foil is in place all by itself.

Speaker 5 Not bad for an idiot.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 14 Lounge is clear, nothing in the kitchen. We came through that way.

Speaker 17 Downstairs, bathroom and dining room, both empty. No signs of recent usage.

Speaker 14 Up the stairs we go, I suppose.

Speaker 3 suppose.

Speaker 3 Jesus Christ. That sounds like the top floor to me.

Speaker 14 Yeah,

Speaker 14 pretty grand house Jonathan has got here. It's not short on well, antiques and jewels.

Speaker 14 Yep, quite in the chandelier.

Speaker 17 Versailles.

Speaker 3 Hall of mirrors.

Speaker 17 I've seen them before.

Speaker 17 He even has the original rope winch.

Speaker 14 See there.

Speaker 15 Sorry, how the hell has he got one of those?

Speaker 17 I suspect this house is riddled with trinkets, obtained in a less than appropriate manner.

Speaker 14 You can say stolen goods, just say stolen goods.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 14 On the chandelier floor, I can see

Speaker 14 two bedrooms on this level and a bathroom. Again, lights are off, so not totally visible.

Speaker 17 There is a glow coming from the next stairwell.

Speaker 3 They're on the top floor. No!

Speaker 3 What? What is it?

Speaker 3 No!

Speaker 3 Bucker it! One, he's coming! Quick! In here!

Speaker 24 Jonathan, where are you?

Speaker 24 Where's he going?

Speaker 3 Downstairs. He's...

Speaker 15 He's seen the police.

Speaker 14 Should we head up there? That means Tonga is free upstairs.

Speaker 3 Wait, he's...

Speaker 3 What's that?

Speaker 3 What's what? That smell.

Speaker 3 It's...

Speaker 3 Creosote.

Speaker 14 He's gonna burn the place down, Sherlock.

Speaker 3 I know.

Speaker 30 Just wait.

Speaker 3 Watson.

Speaker 3 Let me think.

Speaker 3 Holy shit.

Speaker 17 Lounge.

Speaker 24 Dining room.

Speaker 33 They're both alight.

Speaker 14 We need to save him.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 24 Yes.

Speaker 13 Just stop thinking for a minute, please, Sherlock. We have to go and get him now.

Speaker 5 Get the boy.

Speaker 3 Go.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 19 Oh, come on, Tonga. Come on.

Speaker 19 Come on.

Speaker 12 Come on.

Speaker 3 Tonga. Tonga Bajwa.
Please.

Speaker 3 Who are you?

Speaker 20 My name is Dr.

Speaker 3 John Watson.

Speaker 36 Once of the British Army Royal Northumberland Fusilier Regiment.

Speaker 35 now true crime podcaster based in central London.

Speaker 20 I don't have much experience in criminology, so this is mostly a record of how I met possibly the most brilliant and bizarre person I have ever, and will ever know it.

Speaker 20 What's Mernigan?

Speaker 35 Join me as I document the adventures of Sherlock Hunt.

Speaker 3 Watson.

Speaker 36 Oh, bloody hell.

Speaker 3 Get back, Mohinda.

Speaker 3 Who are you?

Speaker 36 Stop throwing antiques at me.

Speaker 35 Enough!

Speaker 28 You're going to burn in here with us unless you get out of the way.

Speaker 3 If I die, the boy dies with me.

Speaker 3 Well, that's just bloody stupid.

Speaker 7 Move! Watson, stop.

Speaker 35 I will kick you down those stairs, you old twat.

Speaker 34 Where is it?

Speaker 36 Told you. Well, I didn't see the shotgun, did I?

Speaker 17 Mohinda, Jonathan Small is in custody, as is Akbar Dost.

Speaker 17 The The sign of four have been eliminated.

Speaker 3 No!

Speaker 3 No!

Speaker 36 We have to get him out.

Speaker 14 I can hardly see.

Speaker 3 What is Aurora?

Speaker 3 The fire is climbing the stairs.

Speaker 3 It isn't yours.

Speaker 3 What do you know?

Speaker 3 Nothing!

Speaker 28 I know plenty. I know that your lungs are blocked, your eyes are burning,

Speaker 28 and you were a little too liberal with the creosote.

Speaker 3 Then I know I have a gun!

Speaker 28 Yes, yes, very impressive. But I've got a 120-watt electric carving knife with 200-millimeter blade and a comfort grip handle.

Speaker 28 Not so funny when I'm stood next to a winch and you are under its chandelier.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 No!

Speaker 24 Nasty way to go. He deserves it.

Speaker 13 What do we do?

Speaker 20 We can't go downstairs.

Speaker 13 It's a bloody inferno. And this.

Speaker 3 God, this smoke.

Speaker 3 I think.

Speaker 13 Is Tonga conscious?

Speaker 3 Tonga.

Speaker 7 Tonga.

Speaker 3 No, he's gone.

Speaker 3 I haven't got long either, mate.

Speaker 36 You know.

Speaker 3 Back upstairs.

Speaker 24 I was just up there to rescue him.

Speaker 3 I know.

Speaker 7 Go.

Speaker 35 Go, go.

Speaker 35 It's just.

Speaker 24 It's a bedroom and a bathroom, mate.

Speaker 24 It's

Speaker 3 new.

Speaker 3 What?

Speaker 21 The window.

Speaker 17 It's a loft window.

Speaker 30 Take us onto the roof.

Speaker 12 Come on, come on. Can you reach?

Speaker 16 There's a stool.

Speaker 3 I'll get it.

Speaker 7 Hey, John.

Speaker 15 What?

Speaker 25 This is just like how he first came into the case.

Speaker 17 What?

Speaker 28 Remember his bedroom?

Speaker 17 He was escaping out the loft window.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 17 And now, that's his salvation in the house of Jonathan Small.

Speaker 31 Yeah, very good. Can we get a move on, please?

Speaker 3 Absolutely.

Speaker 24 Quick, walk along the terraced rooftops.

Speaker 13 Get a few doors down in case they can't control the fire.

Speaker 3 Brittany over rooftops, this is like far cold, isn't it?

Speaker 3 I won't.

Speaker 36 I've got an unconscious teenage boy over my shoulder.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Tonga.

Speaker 31 Tonga, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 I think we're safe.

Speaker 12 God.

Speaker 13 I need to get him some water.

Speaker 33 She could help.

Speaker 3 Who?

Speaker 32 Look through this roof window.

Speaker 20 Oh, that's uh that's a little girl's bedroom, Sherlock. This sort of thing is frowned upon.

Speaker 3 Oh, hello.

Speaker 3 Hi.

Speaker 15 Sorry, we're on your roof.

Speaker 19 Just um an emergency type thing.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 3 Do you have any water?

Speaker 33 This young boy needs it very urgently.

Speaker 35 Are you Sherlock and John?

Speaker 3 We are, yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah, do you listen to the show?

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 13 This is weird. It is weird.
It is, yeah, but uh n- nice- nice to meet you.

Speaker 29 Sophia.

Speaker 3 Sophia? Can I get a shout-out?

Speaker 3 Yu- uh, yeah.

Speaker 13 Yep, that's fine. Yeah.

Speaker 17 Could we get some water?

Speaker 13 If I get you water, will you give me a shout-out?

Speaker 32 Yes, he'll give you a bloody shout-out.

Speaker 16 Just get the water.

Speaker 3 Okay, huron.

Speaker 3 Here. Great, thank you.

Speaker 3 Right, there you go, mate. There you go.

Speaker 17 He's drinking it.

Speaker 3 He is.

Speaker 9 He's safe.

Speaker 3 He is.

Speaker 13 He's safe now.

Speaker 13 Can I have a shout-out? All right, Sophia, I'll give you the fucking shout-out. God's sake, can I get a second?

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