The Sign of Four - Part Three

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Speaker 5 Previously on Sherlock Co.,

Speaker 5 loppiared creature.

Speaker 6 Half spaniel, half lurcher, I think.

Speaker 8 Toby!

Speaker 7 Hello, Doby.

Speaker 3 Oh, oh.

Speaker 10 Ah, he's a specialist, search dog, Retired.

Speaker 11 Hey, Mary.

Speaker 12 Are you familiar with this diamond?

Speaker 8 Are you working for him? Did he hire you or something? Mary, did who hire us? Sholto.

Speaker 9 Sholto.

Speaker 14 Do you still have the diamonds?

Speaker 8 I sold some at first, but

Speaker 8 they just kept coming. And I...
I contacted an expert, diamond expert.

Speaker 3 Hello, good to meet you all.

Speaker 15 Hello, Jonathan Small.

Speaker 15 From what we gather, we understand that Sholto seized the Morstans of some importance.

Speaker 10 I believe it is a fragment of God's heart, yet.

Speaker 8 But this is what I don't get. Why is it fragmented? And why is Sholto sending them to me, too? Do we think he killed the boy?

Speaker 17 I have to say that's what popped up in my mind.

Speaker 9 Then why is there a missing boy and why did he possess an exceptionally rare diamond? I don't know.

Speaker 9 And why did the boy have a picture of the descendant of Captain Arthur Morstan, who lived and worked in the homeland of that very diamond?

Speaker 12 Don't know.

Speaker 9 And why did the Sholto individual harass Mary upon her father's death at the funeral and express a wish to steal her away to the family?

Speaker 12 Don't know, Sherlock.

Speaker 18 Okay,

Speaker 9 would you like to know?

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 17 We are in the storage unit of the late Captain Morstan.

Speaker 19 There we go.

Speaker 3 What? What is it? What's inside? A note. What does it say?

Speaker 9 The sign of four.

Speaker 3 Morning.

Speaker 20 What the hell happened to you, Tom? Dutch, you alright? Uh, yeah, I just walked in.

Speaker 9 We're cracking the case. That's what happened to us.

Speaker 21 Well, Inspector Forrester told me you were performing lewd sex acts in West London.

Speaker 18 I was not performing lewd sex acts in West London, and can people stop telling me I was?

Speaker 3 Hmm.

Speaker 21 What were you doing then?

Speaker 5 We infiltrated an old storage unit owned by Captain Morstan.

Speaker 14 Oh, but my pajamas ripped at the back.

Speaker 20 Look.

Speaker 13 Jesus, John.

Speaker 15 What?

Speaker 3 It's the morning. So?

Speaker 25 It's just my bum cheeks.

Speaker 3 I

Speaker 8 what

Speaker 21 was in the storage unit?

Speaker 26 Well, so it's out.

Speaker 21 Would you just sit your bare ass down on my couch?

Speaker 8 He pees a lot, doesn't he?

Speaker 14 Yeah, I suppose he does.

Speaker 27 I think that's a boy dog thing, though, isn't it?

Speaker 17 Mark your territory sort of thing.

Speaker 8 He's got his work cut out in central London.

Speaker 14 Oh, God, yeah. It's very difficult these days for a young dog to get on the territory ladder in London.

Speaker 3 Yes, I just...

Speaker 10 Sorry, you go.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 28 Honestly, you. You.

Speaker 14 Go speak words.

Speaker 8 Okay, speaking words.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I just wanted to say...

Speaker 8 Because I didn't say it before. I mean, I text it, but I didn't say it.

Speaker 8 Sorry.

Speaker 8 about not turning up at the criterion back then.

Speaker 29 Oh, come on now.

Speaker 8 I'm serious. It's not like you could have planned it.

Speaker 22 There was an emergency.

Speaker 8 No, I know. I just.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but

Speaker 8 I just

Speaker 8 feel bad.

Speaker 7 I feel.

Speaker 3 I don't know. Yeah, no, I.

Speaker 27 I understand.

Speaker 27 I was at a funny chapter in my life.

Speaker 14 I don't really think I knew it at the time, but.

Speaker 23 Yeah, I was just looking for something, anything.

Speaker 8 Past tense.

Speaker 8 yeah past tense so you found it

Speaker 28 I

Speaker 3 did find it.

Speaker 8 Yeah, what's it like

Speaker 18 It's good

Speaker 14 Yeah, yeah, it's it's good. It doesn't do laundry and it plays the violin all night, but

Speaker 3 But yeah, seriously though, it's

Speaker 5 I finally feel

Speaker 8 like you.

Speaker 14 I feel like me, yeah.

Speaker 3 God.

Speaker 8 Ten cc's of that, please, doctor.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, it it

Speaker 3 it'll come.

Speaker 10 Of course it will. You're uh

Speaker 18 you know you're seeking it out, so then it comes along by accident.

Speaker 14 Or in my case, on a treadmill covered in blood.

Speaker 8 Would that make sense if I listened to the show?

Speaker 14 That would make sense if you had listened to the show.

Speaker 8 Yes. Must get around to doing that.

Speaker 18 Yeah, yeah. Hey, Archie boy!

Speaker 8 I just want to stop wanting

Speaker 8 so much.

Speaker 8 You know.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Just keep doing stupid, stupid stupid stuff because I'm just... I'm in a rut and I'm just trying to claw my way out, grabbing at anything.
Jobs, ideas, side hustles, men, women. Jeez, honestly.

Speaker 8 And then it...

Speaker 8 It doesn't work or my stupid 21st century brain just gets bored of it and throws it in the bin and moves on to something else and just

Speaker 3 ugh.

Speaker 8 This is like

Speaker 8 the opposite. of me as well.
That's what really sucks and it's the opposite of him too, to be honest.

Speaker 3 Who, your dad? Yeah.

Speaker 29 I thought you guys moved around a lot when you were younger.

Speaker 8 I mean, he did. But all in the name of work.

Speaker 8 I used to be like that

Speaker 8 routine.

Speaker 17 Army routine.

Speaker 7 Oof, yeah, very hard to replicate.

Speaker 8 Really bloody hard.

Speaker 8 I threw myself into a brief tattoo phase, too. Look.

Speaker 11 Oh, wolves.

Speaker 8 Lots of wolves. I like a wolf.
I do like a wolf.

Speaker 8 I think when you messaged, I sort sort of

Speaker 8 I guess I felt a lot of stuff.

Speaker 7 Oh, steady.

Speaker 8 Oh, steady now, Mary.

Speaker 8 Yeah, no,

Speaker 8 I think I thought

Speaker 8 that I was going to talk about

Speaker 8 painful stuff for your podcast.

Speaker 26 Of course, of course, because you thought I was going to do the interview for veterans.

Speaker 8 Right, exactly. Well, this was before you turned into Miss Marple.
Mr. Marple, even.

Speaker 7 Dr. Marple.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 8 And anyway,

Speaker 8 I think I got excited because I saw the message and I was like, oh, okay.

Speaker 8 This will fix me. And now I'm just...

Speaker 8 This whole India stuff has taken over and

Speaker 8 I don't know.

Speaker 8 I'm back to feeling so small again.

Speaker 10 I mean, we can completely talk about it if you want.

Speaker 14 It's not often you get a guy that's been blown up to listen to your war story.

Speaker 8 Well, hardly a war story.

Speaker 19 Oh, come off it.

Speaker 8 No, I'm serious.

Speaker 27 Mary, why are you minimizing it?

Speaker 8 Because it

Speaker 8 wasn't a battle, was it? It wasn't big explosions and cursing or whatever.

Speaker 26 No, it wasn't.

Speaker 12 It was work.

Speaker 7 Come on. Oh, man.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 8 But if I turn into some blubbering mess and people start to stare, this is your fault.

Speaker 14 I'll take my chances.

Speaker 3 It. Uh.

Speaker 3 Well, yeah.

Speaker 8 Uh, so.

Speaker 8 So, total new B-nurse, sent out to Afghanistan.

Speaker 29 In the deep end.

Speaker 7 Yep.

Speaker 8 And four hours in a convoy, stopped for the night in Bahran, then another four hours the next day, and we'll be in Canada.

Speaker 8 Yeah, and packed my stuff, jumped in the truck with Sergeant Bancroft, Private Aziz, Private Harrison, and a few others who I didn't really know.

Speaker 8 But I got to know them on the journey, as you would, right? I mean, four hours per stint.

Speaker 8 Yeah, came into Bakeran. We're looking for what we've been told is a compound that already has some military presence already.
And I'm looking at the truck in front bouncing into these,

Speaker 8 I guess you'd call them potholes. And just as he's turning to head back down towards the town, his tyre sinks into this hole.
And immediately I just see this whoosh.

Speaker 8 Like this.

Speaker 8 You know what it was like? It was like a champagne cork.

Speaker 3 Or...

Speaker 8 Or like a geyser.

Speaker 3 Like, whoosh.

Speaker 8 I swear to God, the front end of that truck ahead of us just takes off flips into the air and I just see this tower of flames just shooting up out of the ground

Speaker 8 Yep

Speaker 8 And then it was like

Speaker 8 snap I just remember

Speaker 8 starting to finally feel the cold I

Speaker 8 The heat had gone and I had woken up no longer in the truck but in total darkness

Speaker 3 Cave.

Speaker 8 I

Speaker 8 was in a cave.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 I would be in that cave for another five and a half days.

Speaker 15 You okay? Yeah.

Speaker 8 I wasn't alone. I was with Sidon Bancroft.

Speaker 8 She was great. She was like action woman, you know?

Speaker 8 Slap us around and kick us, starve us, take our clothes off us, and she realized like after day two you can absolutely kick and punch back to these dickheads.

Speaker 8 You can really get a get a good few hits into

Speaker 8 and she did.

Speaker 3 She did.

Speaker 8 She she fought them

Speaker 8 every day I guess.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 There was something about the way they treated her because I guess the way she looked. Short hair, well-built, tattoos, ripped, right? The way they treated her versus the way they treated me.

Speaker 8 So cruel to her. So evil.
They kept saying they were waiting for Abdullah to meet me. Abdullah Khan.

Speaker 8 I don't know what they thought he was, some warlord or whatever. Maybe he wanted to parade us around as some trophy.

Speaker 8 Then,

Speaker 8 lo and behold,

Speaker 8 woke up one night, or morning really, it must have been 4 a.m. or something.
There's a firefight going on outside and I can hear some bullets pinging around the cave walls.

Speaker 8 I can hear flashbangs going off and thank the Lord, I can hear Americans shouting.

Speaker 8 All the while, more bullets and shrapnel shooting around the cave as they eat closer and louder. And eventually, after all this noise, all this mess,

Speaker 8 it goes quiet.

Speaker 8 I whisper out to Bancroft, and as I say her name and reach out to her, I can just see the early light of dawn bounce off her eyes. And I smiled.

Speaker 8 I remember smiling. I could feel my lips crack because it had been so long since they'd made that shape.
They'd been almost set in stone. And

Speaker 8 yeah, she

Speaker 8 didn't smile back

Speaker 8 and she didn't blink.

Speaker 8 She just

Speaker 8 felt for her pulse and I caught a little flutter

Speaker 8 of something there.

Speaker 8 Very weak. And I quickly just

Speaker 3 kissed her.

Speaker 8 It just felt like the right thing to do. I kissed her.

Speaker 3 Held her hand.

Speaker 8 And stroked it for a bit.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 3 yeah.

Speaker 3 And then

Speaker 3 she

Speaker 8 died.

Speaker 3 Okay. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 8 How many staring right now?

Speaker 3 Uh, about 200 people staring at the moment, but that'll get bored soon. Shut up.

Speaker 8 I'm just going to blow my nose because. Yeah, sure.

Speaker 14 Sad not.

Speaker 8 Sad's not coming through.

Speaker 3 Don't feel helpless.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 8 What do you mean?

Speaker 5 Sometimes people go and they shouldn't, and you might feel that it should have been you, but it's

Speaker 17 just a natural rummaging around that your brain is doing just to try and make sense of it.

Speaker 7 You don't have to do that.

Speaker 8 I don't.

Speaker 8 No.

Speaker 3 Oh, great.

Speaker 8 I wish you could tell my brain that.

Speaker 25 Well, Mary's brain, if you're listening.

Speaker 3 It isn't.

Speaker 27 You leave Mary alone.

Speaker 12 She's brave.

Speaker 3 She's driven and powerful.

Speaker 28 And she was just...

Speaker 17 Wrong place and wrong time.

Speaker 8 Thanks, John.

Speaker 3 Okay, pleasure.

Speaker 8 What were you gonna say? Oh.

Speaker 18 That, um,

Speaker 11 that feels like ages ago.

Speaker 20 Uh, yeah, I...

Speaker 14 I think I was just gonna...

Speaker 14 Oh, it was just boring case stuff.

Speaker 17 What was it?

Speaker 20 No, it it it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 26 It actually does matter now, I've realised it.

Speaker 27 Okay.

Speaker 14 Right, yeah. So, um, the note, the sign of four note that we found in your dad's lock up?

Speaker 8 Sure.

Speaker 19 I have it just

Speaker 23 here. I I j I just wanted to double check.
That's not your dad's handwriting, is it?

Speaker 8 No, it's not.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 8 And that was in his storage.

Speaker 14 Yeah, it was in a lockbox.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 8 I I couldn't get it open and it felt empty, so I I left it.

Speaker 14 Well it was empty but for the d whoa hey, hello Toby.

Speaker 28 God you are eager to know.

Speaker 8 Hey, who's this?

Speaker 14 This ugly bastard is Toby.

Speaker 8 Hey, oh, he likes you.

Speaker 26 Actually, he seems to be into this note.

Speaker 18 Hey, hey, down, Toby. Down, mate.

Speaker 19 Toby. Jesus Christ.

Speaker 7 Toby, down, Toby.

Speaker 18 It's alright, don't worry. Toby, here.

Speaker 7 It's not drugs, I promise.

Speaker 18 Better know he what he wants this.

Speaker 8 He wants everything.

Speaker 12 Sorry, guys. Oh, no worries.
Bye. No worries.

Speaker 3 Bye.

Speaker 20 Bye, as you were.

Speaker 7 Hold on. Phone call.
Christ. We'll get around to that therapy any minute.
Yeah, sure.

Speaker 14 I just want to. Hold, please.

Speaker 14 Sup, dude.

Speaker 6 Yes. Hello.
I've confirmed that it cannot be Captain Morstan's handwriting. You can stop hanging around with Mary now.

Speaker 26 Ah, yeah, no, I just confirmed that with her.

Speaker 6 Understood. So it's likely that it's not a note, but a message.

Speaker 27 A message from the Sign of Four.

Speaker 6 Indeed. I may wish to take another look at it, to examine that handwriting a little closer.
Maybe see if I can unearth a sample of Shoaltomes. Perhaps Jonathan Small can be of assistance in this area.

Speaker 24 Well, you're lucky I still have it, to be be honest.

Speaker 14 Your amazing creature nearly swallowed it.

Speaker 6 What are you talking about?

Speaker 5 Toby.

Speaker 18 Just came over frantically sniffing it in Regent's Park, and now I look like I'm using it to snort coke.

Speaker 6 He sniffed it frantically?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Call Stamford, get us a lab, and meet me at St. Bart's.

Speaker 14 Um, sorry, Mary, I've I've got to, um

Speaker 3 I've uh what are you doing later?

Speaker 23 Oh, uh I was probably gonna pop on the Discord briefly, chat to some listeners, or Or head out to the criterion.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 8 I mean, this is the most confident I've ever been, so feel free to shoot me down and destroy that, no worries. Yeah, no.

Speaker 7 I'm...

Speaker 28 No, I'm not going to shoot you down.

Speaker 16 You're bottom of the FPL, by the way.

Speaker 3 No, I'm not. You are?

Speaker 14 Pete is.

Speaker 16 No, he doesn't count.

Speaker 3 Why not?

Speaker 9 Because he's married with three kids.

Speaker 5 So?

Speaker 14 So he's tuned out, ain't he?

Speaker 16 He's way too busy to to know what's going on with football.

Speaker 18 Yeah, that's why he's bottom.

Speaker 14 I'm not bottom.

Speaker 16 Yeah, you are, mate.

Speaker 3 Alright, where are you then?

Speaker 6 On top, obviously.

Speaker 22 Why is a highly regarded surgeon top of a fantasy football league?

Speaker 26 You should be busy saving lives. I don't save lives, do I, John? I save egos, let's be honest.

Speaker 9 If we could just turn the volume down a touch.

Speaker 14 Yep, sure. Yep.

Speaker 7 How's Nadia?

Speaker 23 Yeah, she's good. Yeah.

Speaker 16 Going strong?

Speaker 11 Good for you.

Speaker 3 Thanks, mate.

Speaker 16 Gonna meet her parents next week, so.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 4 Yep.

Speaker 9 Could we please...

Speaker 3 Alright, sorry, remember what we're looking at again.

Speaker 16 A note from John's girlfriend.

Speaker 19 She's not my girlfriend.

Speaker 9 It is a note connected to John's girlfriend, but we don't know who from.

Speaker 19 She's not my girlfriend.

Speaker 9 But we would very much like to discover who it is from, but also why our friend Toby was so interested in it.

Speaker 14 Who's Toby?

Speaker 9 Hairy fellow from the park.

Speaker 16 I thought you were doing CCEA on it.

Speaker 3 I already have. Alright.

Speaker 9 Just awaiting results. In the meantime, I'm doing some paper chromatography that is proving rather illuminating.

Speaker 3 How so?

Speaker 9 Well, I can see benzyl alcohol and dye from the Biro ink, of course.

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 9 Then a smattering of other results. I'd say some calcium, some sodium, potassium, then some metabolites.

Speaker 9 So that would be some sweat on the page.

Speaker 29 From Arthur Morstan?

Speaker 9 From the author of the note, I'd say. The sweat is pushed down, almost forming a grease print in a crescent shape to the right of the writing, so a right-handed person.
Arthur Morstan was left-handed.

Speaker 9 And I'd say that, along with the handwriting analysis, gives us reason to believe he didn't write the note. I can also tell you our author is possibly in a great deal of pain.

Speaker 3 Why?

Speaker 9 Our sweat expels a number of things from our bodies, the minerals I mentioned, potassium, sodium, and so on, but also metabolites, urea, ammonia, and the like.

Speaker 9 It does, however, also deal with the unmetabolized, particularly in the form of prescription drugs. Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 3 What have you got?

Speaker 9 Codeine.

Speaker 19 Nice.

Speaker 9 Good spot.

Speaker 26 Maybe that's why Toby was all over it. It's an opioid, right?

Speaker 9 I've checked. No service dogs are trained to sniff codeine unless case-dependent, and he never worked on any.
He was sniffing for something else.

Speaker 14 So, basically, narcotics, explosives, harmful substances?

Speaker 9 Correct.

Speaker 3 Well, here we go.

Speaker 16 Send an envelope and everything right.

Speaker 16 Who wants to guess?

Speaker 25 Stamo. Come on, Johnny.
Fun. Right.

Speaker 16 What do we think was on the note?

Speaker 14 This isn't a bill in a restaurant. We're not guessing.

Speaker 9 Bacillus anthracis.

Speaker 16 Right. He's gone with whatever that is.
What about you?

Speaker 5 Fine, if he's playing.

Speaker 29 Uh, I'm gonna go cocaine.

Speaker 16 Okey-doky. We asked which chemical has been found on the note.
You said cocaine. Our survey said,

Speaker 3 Oh, what?

Speaker 16 Uh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, you said, uh, what was it again?

Speaker 9 Bacillus anthracis.

Speaker 25 Our survey said, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, top answer.

Speaker 15 Really?

Speaker 16 Yeah, bang on, mate. There it is.
Look, you've won a Ford escort.

Speaker 9 Congrats. I've done what?

Speaker 16 Don't worry about it. It's your lab results.

Speaker 7 Good God. Oh, well done, mate.

Speaker 3 Good work. Absolutely nailed it, Sherlock.
What what is it?

Speaker 24 Bacchulus, what's it?

Speaker 9 Anthrax.

Speaker 3 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 19 What are you bringing in here? Shall we evacuate? Do we need to evacuate the building?

Speaker 16 Never mind the building, I'm halfway to evacuating my arse.

Speaker 9 Those spores have long expired. Captain Morstan did the right thing by storing them away in that box and then in a locked container for ten years.

Speaker 3 Oh, God.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 So.

Speaker 14 So somebody poisoned him?

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 3 That's mad.

Speaker 3 Poor bloke. And what does.

Speaker 16 What does the four mean?

Speaker 9 The The sign of four.

Speaker 7 We don't know.

Speaker 9 It feels to me like we're dealing with a group. A group that felt the need to eliminate Captain Morstan ten years ago.
And I dare say it ties into the God's Heart Diamond and its kindred stones.

Speaker 16 No, no, no, the four marks on the lockbox.

Speaker 3 Hey, what?

Speaker 16 The four marks.

Speaker 3 Of course.

Speaker 3 It's not a scratch.

Speaker 9 It's a mark.

Speaker 3 One, two,

Speaker 12 three,

Speaker 3 four.

Speaker 12 It's their symbol.

Speaker 5 The sign of four.

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Speaker 24 Sorry, apologies.

Speaker 10 Looks like Piccadilly Circus around here.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 14 Hi, listeners.

Speaker 3 Hello.

Speaker 29 Just got a big pang of something.

Speaker 27 Pang of the old...

Speaker 18 old crisis, the old menti health.

Speaker 26 Just um

Speaker 26 dunno.

Speaker 27 It's it's 7.04pm and I am stood outside the criterion.

Speaker 25 That's why that Piccadilly Circus joke was funny, because it's yeah, um Christ, yeah, got a bit of the bit of the jitters or something.

Speaker 10 I don't know, I don't think it's Mary, it's uh

Speaker 14 door to a world I don't want to open.

Speaker 18 Um nothing against the criterion.

Speaker 24 I hear it's very nice.

Speaker 14 But um

Speaker 11 yeah, no,

Speaker 26 I wasn't in a great place when I was here before.

Speaker 3 I'm

Speaker 14 I I I don't think Mary is in a great place right now, and I feel

Speaker 25 uh I d I don't know.

Speaker 26 Um oh no, poor John, a sexy lady who's easy to talk to and fun to hang out with, who wants his attention.

Speaker 10 Oh no, it's not that straightforward.

Speaker 18 Okay? Because I I'm

Speaker 25 not

Speaker 23 I can't be her crutch because I I mean I've got two crutches myself.

Speaker 25 You know, one called Sherlock Holmes holmes and the other called mariana

Speaker 14 something it's um oh okay it's just a casual get-together john you know john boy just we chat over a drink little drinky poo never hurt anyone yeah it definitely did but you know okay right um

Speaker 24 going in going on a date i think um

Speaker 19 here we go

Speaker 25 Well, we are back, listeners.

Speaker 24 We're back where we first met.

Speaker 22 Haven't we come a long way?

Speaker 14 Oh, god, she's got the table. I was at lovely.

Speaker 25 Okay, let's do this.

Speaker 24 You're going in the front right pocket of my coat.

Speaker 14 Well, I say coat, it's more of a jacket. Is it a jacket?

Speaker 10 You know what?

Speaker 14 I'd say it's a shacket, sort of a shirt jacket sort of thing.

Speaker 3 Right, you're going in. Um, bye.

Speaker 14 Good luck. Sorry.
I don't know why I'm sorry, but um, bye.

Speaker 7 Oh, have you been waiting long?

Speaker 3 No, like five minutes.

Speaker 8 Phone scrolling time.

Speaker 20 Well, now you know how it feels.

Speaker 3 Bye.

Speaker 7 Joking.

Speaker 3 Joking.

Speaker 3 Okay,

Speaker 8 so I listened to episode one.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 8 And you want to know what I learned?

Speaker 3 Sure.

Speaker 8 That you would want this.

Speaker 14 A bottle of the pills now.

Speaker 25 There you go. Well, thanking you.

Speaker 14 So, what did you think of

Speaker 27 episode one?

Speaker 8 Loved it. Really, really cool, John.

Speaker 3 Bravo. Cheers.
Cheers.

Speaker 8 It's funny, because it made me feel...

Speaker 8 I don't know, it's weird. I know I haven't heard it before, but it felt like revisiting something.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I know. That's why I don't listen to it.

Speaker 8 You weren't happy? Nope. But you're like a Mariana, eh?

Speaker 3 And Archie.

Speaker 8 And Archie, of course.

Speaker 27 The team?

Speaker 8 A great team.

Speaker 9 Oh,

Speaker 9 the best.

Speaker 8 So do you take the mic everywhere with you then?

Speaker 8 It's on you now, isn't it?

Speaker 19 It's what? Sorry?

Speaker 3 Hey, look.

Speaker 8 Oh my god, you can't even keep a straight face.

Speaker 27 It doesn't mean it's going to be cut together and uploaded.

Speaker 8 You just keep it on in case something happens.

Speaker 3 Exactly.

Speaker 8 Like a whole Superman getting changed in the phone box type thing.

Speaker 20 You couldn't even say that without laughing.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, I couldn't.

Speaker 3 I could be super.

Speaker 3 Told, yeah.

Speaker 10 That is a good local kebab shop.

Speaker 3 Incredible, right?

Speaker 8 The sheer size of it.

Speaker 3 Huge.

Speaker 3 Huge.

Speaker 14 So huge, I'm now glad you tricked me into getting the tube up here.

Speaker 8 Up here?

Speaker 8 Yeah, alright, Mr. Central London.
Yeah.

Speaker 14 Yeah, I did sound like a wanky Londoner then, didn't I?

Speaker 24 So it's funny how the place rubs off on you.

Speaker 8 Yeah, weird, eh?

Speaker 3 What do you think you'll do?

Speaker 8 As in, keep living in London?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 8 Got some strong urgings, some feelings pulling me back home.

Speaker 3 Home being

Speaker 8 home being New Zealand. We all live upside down with our sheep friends.

Speaker 3 Of course.

Speaker 8 So, yeah, constantly being pulled back home.

Speaker 20 But then something here always

Speaker 3 crops up.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 18 Nearly tripped on the bike stand, didn't I?

Speaker 8 You did, that's true, but you really style it out.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I thought I did too.

Speaker 10 Got distracted.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Me too for a second there.

Speaker 8 Uh, this is my house.

Speaker 3 Ah, okay.

Speaker 8 Well, I say my house. Belongs to a landlord that charges me a grand a month to live in a bedroom, but apart from that, it's mine.

Speaker 17 Very nice.

Speaker 25 Well, Mary, we...

Speaker 14 we finally did it.

Speaker 8 Finally.

Speaker 8 I'm really sorry it took this long, John.

Speaker 7 No, hey, it was.

Speaker 17 It was worth the wait.

Speaker 8 It was.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, I'll uh.

Speaker 7 I'll give you a call or.

Speaker 8 Sure. Um, thank you for

Speaker 27 That's okay.

Speaker 29 Thank you.

Speaker 6 For what?

Speaker 3 For being

Speaker 3 so.

Speaker 17 What? You okay?

Speaker 3 Uh.

Speaker 27 Sorry,

Speaker 27 I mean, I didn't technically kiss you.

Speaker 12 I was just positioning because I didn't know what to do.

Speaker 8 No, no, it's not that. It's not.

Speaker 7 Pretend it didn't happen. Quick, just

Speaker 8 what?

Speaker 8 There, on. There's a letter from him.

Speaker 3 Oh my god.

Speaker 21 So, basically, you were making out with her.

Speaker 18 And that's not what I said.

Speaker 9 You were making sexual advances on a client.

Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 12 Continue. Sherlock.

Speaker 21 Good point, Sherlock. Would you just.

Speaker 25 Archie, don't look at me like that.

Speaker 18 Can we get to the actual serious thing here?

Speaker 32 Sholto is back. He's corresponding again.

Speaker 21 So we have more diamonds? No.

Speaker 14 What do we have then?

Speaker 28 He sent her an airline ticket to India.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 28 The Sri Gururam Dasji International Airport in Amritsar.

Speaker 21 You memorized that?

Speaker 26 Yes.

Speaker 21 Very impressive.

Speaker 3 Thanks.

Speaker 9 Why did you memorize it?

Speaker 14 Because I think it's important that you both know where I'm going.

Speaker 22 What? She can't go by herself.

Speaker 13 Well, then she shouldn't go, John.

Speaker 21 It's a case. So?

Speaker 18 So, if somebody doesn't go and track down this Sholto guy and figure out what is going on.

Speaker 21 So now there's a pretty girl around, you run towards murderers, is that right?

Speaker 27 We don't know he's a murderer.

Speaker 21 Oh, sorry. I meant suspected murderer, who's also a creepy stalker that harasses women at funerals of their parents.

Speaker 25 All reasons why I'm going with her.

Speaker 21 You are not going by yourself. I'll be with Mary.
No, I'm going with you.

Speaker 23 Mary, I'm going to protect Mary.

Speaker 7 Yeah, yeah, and I'm going to protect you.

Speaker 14 Then, I'm going to protect Marianne.

Speaker 21 I don't need to.

Speaker 13 Hey.

Speaker 11 What?

Speaker 21 You said my name.

Speaker 25 No, I didn't. Yes, you did.

Speaker 9 Did not?

Speaker 13 You did?

Speaker 3 Yes. Well, it just sort of came out.

Speaker 21 He said my name, John.

Speaker 20 He did it.

Speaker 14 He finally did it.

Speaker 9 Let me go back to teasing Watson, please.

Speaker 15 He loves me.

Speaker 21 I finally broke him down.

Speaker 25 Did it, Archie? Called her Mariana.

Speaker 14 Who wants Wiggins to come stay?

Speaker 12 Who's going to be a good boy to Wiggins? Yes, you are.

Speaker 10 Yes, you are.

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