The Missing Three-Quarter - Part Two

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Speaker 12 Uh, John, I did it.

Speaker 9 Uh, do I do I just hit stop or

Speaker 13 Previously on Sherlock and Co.

Speaker 15 Godfrey is a special challenge. Not just on these native shores, not just in England, but now on the world stage.

Speaker 18 The Brazilian was spotted at a training session here just yesterday. Footage here of him leaving in his car, and that is the last moment he was seen.

Speaker 20 So?

Speaker 21 What?

Speaker 22 Fancy it?

Speaker 23 No.

Speaker 24 Why not?

Speaker 25 Because it offers very little in the the form of intrigue.

Speaker 26 How?

Speaker 27 It's a missing elite level footballer.

Speaker 28 Did you not listen to my tale?

Speaker 29 The country manor, surrounded in Mystique? The Duchess?

Speaker 25 Count von Unsoom Grafenstein?

Speaker 30 John, there you are.

Speaker 31 Oh, Gary.

Speaker 30 Um,

Speaker 32 Gary Lineker.

Speaker 19 What's the situation?

Speaker 27 Sorry, I didn't know you were so involved with the tech, to be honest.

Speaker 13 It's really impressive that you're so hands-on with your company.

Speaker 19 I meant with Godfrey. What's the situation with Godfrey?

Speaker 13 You know, crime is a

Speaker 27 she's a complicated old

Speaker 33 gal.

Speaker 27 I'm just I'm in between meetings is all Mariana.

Speaker 34 Right, okay.

Speaker 18 Is that at the Duchess Manor House or here?

Speaker 27 No, so I'm it's for the um the Godfrey situation.

Speaker 18 I knew it. Goalhanger told you to do it and you gamed.

Speaker 37 A few years ago, Godfrey meets this doctor, Armstrong.

Speaker 5 Leslie Armstrong.

Speaker 2 He's a specialist for elite athletes.

Speaker 25 Armstrong is in his head, right?

Speaker 38 And I see Godfrey.

Speaker 21 And

Speaker 28 well, I tell you, John, mate, he's.

Speaker 39 I swear I saw holes in his arms.

Speaker 30 Like

Speaker 19 from injection. Exactly.

Speaker 23 He's hardly looking at me in the eye.

Speaker 7 Anyway, he goes into the shower, and I just think, well, if the club aren't gonna do it, I'm doing it.

Speaker 19 What did you do?

Speaker 1 I took it.

Speaker 29 The container of his tailor-made medication.

Speaker 38 I took it to get it tested.

Speaker 21 So, what were they?

Speaker 30 Chris, what were the drugs?

Speaker 40 I don't know. Because he found out.

Speaker 21 Who?

Speaker 21 Dr. Armstrong?

Speaker 40 Yeah, he sent me this.

Speaker 6 Oh, Christopher, naughty, naughty.

Speaker 6 Take what is mine again.

Speaker 6 I'll come for your blood.

Speaker 19 Greetings, weary listener. Intrigue has pulled you into part two of the missing three-quarter.

Speaker 13 Major trigger warning here, there's yet more solo investigation from me, so get used to this voice and maybe check the episode description if you're concerned that other things may crop up.

Speaker 7 Bye-bye.

Speaker 32 Looking sharp.

Speaker 21 Look at that drill over there, Bliney.

Speaker 40 Yeah, I can't really chat long, is the only thing.

Speaker 13 God, of course, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 24 Sporting director for a top-top club.

Speaker 35 You must be a busy man.

Speaker 40 Certainly feeling it right now, yeah.

Speaker 13 I just wanted to, um, I'm working on the case of Godfrey.

Speaker 41 Yeah, and his disappearance.

Speaker 40 Is that in conjunction with the police?

Speaker 42 Well, it's sort of parallel, I'd say.

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 35 So, I've chatted with Clara, his wife, also spoken with Chris Staunton about James Associates.

Speaker 38 Yeah, and I'm just trying to get a wider picture of two things, really.

Speaker 13 Firstly, his kind of

Speaker 13 his last few weeks.

Speaker 13 And secondly, his relationship with his private medical specialist, Dr.

Speaker 41 Leslie Armstrong.

Speaker 40 Listen, I'm gutted for him, I'm gutted for his family, and I'm obviously rooting for his return, but

Speaker 14 he fucking dropped off.

Speaker 40 There's no question about it.

Speaker 21 Yeah. Football players,

Speaker 40 the modern player, right, can sometimes think that

Speaker 40 we have a responsibility to keep them fit.

Speaker 40 Maybe that's why he swanned off with this doctor, for additional help. Maybe he felt like

Speaker 40 we were letting him down. I don't know.
But the fact of the matter is... The football player has a contractual obligation to keep themselves fit, right?

Speaker 40 I mean, he's had the whole summer, no tournaments, nothing like that. He came, he came for half the tour, down to our good nature as a club, right? Could have said no to that request, could have...

Speaker 40 could have told him to pack his fucking bags and get to Singapore, but we didn't, did we? We've played four games.

Speaker 14 Four games.

Speaker 40 And he's knackered.

Speaker 8 Well, he scored against United last week, though.

Speaker 40 Everyone's scoring against United, mate. And did you see his reaction?

Speaker 23 I don't remember it, no.

Speaker 40 Just...

Speaker 40 Just dead behind the eyes. Not with the lads, not in the moment, just...

Speaker 40 just hobbling about like a zombie, even when he scored.

Speaker 16 And it's,

Speaker 40 as I say, I don't want this to come across, you know, fucking nasty, right? But

Speaker 40 I'm way more in the business side of football than I am the technical side. You've got to respect the investment that's been made into you as a player.

Speaker 7 And look, hand on heart, I wish him all the best in the world.

Speaker 40 Like, if I could click my fingers, you know,

Speaker 40 this didn't exactly come out of thin air.

Speaker 21 Right.

Speaker 20 Right. Only Clara.

Speaker 22 She said that there might be some.

Speaker 13 Possibly emotional distress.

Speaker 40 Look, I'm just giving you our picture of it. From where we're looking at it.

Speaker 21 Right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 35 And Dr. Armstrong.
Blokes are clear.

Speaker 21 Oh.

Speaker 21 Okay.

Speaker 40 If you're asking me, would I be surprised if he's got anything to do with this? No, I would not.

Speaker 20 Right, well, yeah, okay, that's helpful.

Speaker 40 He's based in Cambridge, involved in the university there.

Speaker 40 And you'd know it after spending five minutes with him. Runs a clinic called the Blood Archive.

Speaker 40 If you want to smash down his door with a few officers and see what you find, I wouldn't blame you.

Speaker 33 Okay, yeah,

Speaker 8 we can definitely consider that.

Speaker 35 Well, thanks for everything, Gavin.

Speaker 22 And like I say, I'm a fan of your work.

Speaker 35 Team looks great.

Speaker 11 Did the police get anywhere with that address we gave him there?

Speaker 38 The address?

Speaker 40 Yeah, from the note the CCA found.

Speaker 42 CCA?

Speaker 40 Oh, club comms administrator. Basically a post and deliveries guy, but you know, this place.

Speaker 42 Right. Um.

Speaker 34 No, I don't recall a note as such.

Speaker 42 This one.

Speaker 15 Here.

Speaker 31 You've got a picture.

Speaker 33 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 38 Well, I haven't seen it, so that would be really helpful.

Speaker 40 Yeah, well, you have now.

Speaker 30 Stand by us, for God's sakes.

Speaker 19 111, Edgeley Road, Chelsea.

Speaker 43 That was from Godfrey.

Speaker 40 It's his writing, yeah.

Speaker 40 It was attached to his bloods that go to Cambridge for that wanker.

Speaker 20 Did Armstrong see it?

Speaker 40 Oh, yeah, we can't go taking things off the packages. So this got sent out.
The CCA guy took the picture because.

Speaker 40 Well, look, we do a little bit of spying on the players ourselves, especially when they're pissing it up the wall like God is.

Speaker 40 And yeah, didn't add up at the time.

Speaker 40 Doesn't really add up now, does it?

Speaker 21 Heads up.

Speaker 33 Oh, Christ alive.

Speaker 32 Oh, god damn it. You're right, mate.

Speaker 2 I did say heads up. Sorry.

Speaker 36 Yeah, no, no, no, no worries.

Speaker 31 It's no problem.

Speaker 20 I'm not crying.

Speaker 32 It's just the ball hit my nose and it's made my eyes water.

Speaker 26 Sure, mate.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Oh, man, I just need a minute.

Speaker 21 My companion tracked you.

Speaker 44 What makes you think I can't find who wants my blood? I detect as well as you do.

Speaker 44 Long before a fever breaks or a rash blooms, the blood already knows Mr. Holmes.

Speaker 44 A skilled hematologist can read the subtlest shifts, a slight leukocytosis, a change in the ratio of neutrophils to lymphocytes, the whisper of a protein in the serum that wasn't there the day before.

Speaker 44 I see those patterns in people before they feel the first ache.

Speaker 6 In the same way, I see the infection of your investigation.

Speaker 21 Hello.

Speaker 41 So is anybody there?

Speaker 18 Your companion thought he was undetected,

Speaker 18 but I watched the first antibodies form in his mind.

Speaker 18 Slow and clumsy, perpetually road medical setup, outmatched by the very pathogen he chased.

Speaker 7 Oh, hello.

Speaker 45 Um,

Speaker 26 I'm Dr.

Speaker 35 John Watson.

Speaker 38 Uh, I'm here to see Lucas Gorofredo Victor de Souza Ribeiro, uh, otherwise known as Godfrey.

Speaker 18 I'm afraid we can't help you there.

Speaker 21 Okay,

Speaker 32 can I ask why not?

Speaker 18 Because it's unlikely that we have the individual you mentioned here as a patient.

Speaker 23 It's unlikely, it is, yes.

Speaker 18 Is there anything else I can help you with?

Speaker 21 Well, yeah.

Speaker 22 Actually, you can help me understand why an extortionate private medical centre is involved in the disappearance of a young man.

Speaker 18 You're more than welcome to drop us an email, but this is not something I can help you with, I'm afraid.

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, because I'm not throwing tons of cash at you like your patients, I bet.

Speaker 18 No, I can't help you because the individual you mentioned is not a patient of ours.

Speaker 38 Yeah, yeah, likely story.

Speaker 36 And why exactly should I believe that? You think I was born yesterday?

Speaker 18 Because this is a private maternity hospital.

Speaker 9 Excuse me, sorry.

Speaker 46 Oh, sorry.

Speaker 31 Let me get the door.

Speaker 13 Congratulations.

Speaker 9 Thank you.

Speaker 9 She was born yesterday.

Speaker 42 Uh, yeah.

Speaker 19 Do you know which station is best to get to Cambridge?

Speaker 33 Oh no.

Speaker 11 Right.

Speaker 23 Hey there.

Speaker 14 Hi.

Speaker 9 So I'm just planning your trip for this Duchess case.

Speaker 8 Of course, yeah, can't wait.

Speaker 18 But I need your passport number, because Sherlock says it may take you to Germany or something. So I'm booking flights for the Tuesday.

Speaker 31 Right.

Speaker 33 Um

Speaker 33 yeah, I can

Speaker 21 get that, no problem.

Speaker 6 Oh, okay.

Speaker 18 Are you upstairs?

Speaker 21 No.

Speaker 33 Um

Speaker 18 are you on your way back?

Speaker 21 Well, I am.

Speaker 13 Yes, but just

Speaker 13 it's a it's a bit of a long way around.

Speaker 21 I'm...

Speaker 45 Yeah, I'll eventually be in Baker Street, but just gotta get the microphone cover?

Speaker 7 The wind sock thing, yeah, yep, yep.

Speaker 18 You still can't find one?

Speaker 24 No, no, they're flying off the shelves.

Speaker 13 You know, I mean, everyone has a podcast these days, you know what it's like.

Speaker 6 Cambridge.

Speaker 16 What?

Speaker 21 You will be calling.

Speaker 18 Are you did I just hear Cambridge?

Speaker 33 John, are you going to Cambridge?

Speaker 45 No, no, you didn't.

Speaker 35 I think you must be getting tired. Your English is getting a bit sloppy.

Speaker 13 John, Cambridge.

Speaker 47 Ali asked Mary. John, John.

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Speaker 16 Probably going to regret that.

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Speaker 20 I feel like,

Speaker 38 well, I feel like a fugitive.

Speaker 30 I mean, I suppose I am sort of in hiding slash on the run from the law.

Speaker 41 He is a detective after all.

Speaker 35 But hey you're complicit too, listeners.

Speaker 19 You know some would say I've dragged you into this adventure against your will but

Speaker 35 I don't see it that way.

Speaker 45 I think we all know that you'd rather be with me looking for a creepy doctor in Cambridge rather than hunting down von Borkenstein's Duchess or whatever he was on about.

Speaker 47 Anyway, yeah, welcome to Cambridge the Guo.

Speaker 32 Yep, and just like Oxford, full of murderous cyclists.

Speaker 13 Big, big brainy murderous cyclists, of course.

Speaker 35 I mean, this is where Isaac Newton pissed about with an apple and made us learn about it for 300 years, so thanks, Isaac.

Speaker 35 It's also the learning

Speaker 13 place

Speaker 35 of bearded monkey man himself, Charles Darwin.

Speaker 42 So, you know, you're a Sylvia Plath, you've got Stephen Hawking, you've got...

Speaker 33 Well, you've got your loads. Loads of them.

Speaker 13 But one particular individual of the star-studded Cambridge alumni is very important to us, my fellow companions, and that is Dr.

Speaker 41 Leslie Armstrong.

Speaker 30 I am currently walking down,

Speaker 33 where am I?

Speaker 38 Brooklyn's Avenue, alongside some very nice botanical gardens, marvelling at the clever people sat about on park benches and stuff, nursing my inferiority compliments.

Speaker 8 And not just because of the well-educated, but also

Speaker 41 because I am currently being lead detective of Sherlock and Co., and that is not a role I fill very often, if at all.

Speaker 24 Excuse me, sir, can I borrow you to talk about the value of friendship? Oh, sorry, mate. I'm I'm heading to something qu quite urgent.

Speaker 13 Sorry, sorry.

Speaker 23 Um right, at the end of Botanical Gardens, I go up this main road and then go right on Broad Street and I will see the Blood Archive, which is the clinic of our doctor, our evil doctor.

Speaker 35 It's the good doctor versus the evil doctor today, ladies and gents. Me, a barely qualified army surgeon with an average record.

Speaker 46 Him, a specialist to prestigious athletes and global elites.

Speaker 19 But terrible bedside manner.

Speaker 27 It would seem Dr. Armstrong, the hematologist, is pretty good at what he does.

Speaker 35 I mean, he is the leading expert on

Speaker 38 quite simply blood.

Speaker 23 And it is my hope, lovely listeners, that no blood has been or will be spilt in the case of the missing three-quarter.

Speaker 20 Yeah, I'll probably think of a better title.

Speaker 35 But yeah, a bigger, creepier fish to fry for now. There's no time to delay and dither.
This is a time of action.

Speaker 13 I'll have a pint of Guinness, please, mate.

Speaker 50 Pint of Guinness, yep. Lovely.

Speaker 18 His disappearance has sparked concern for fans all across the world.

Speaker 21 We caught up with him. Yeah,

Speaker 21 awful.

Speaker 22 Awful. He'll turn up though, I'm sure.

Speaker 50 He scored against my lot just last week, and now he's poof gone.

Speaker 7 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 50 You uh want another drink, sir?

Speaker 38 Same again.

Speaker 5 He pushed in front. All right,

Speaker 50 my mistake. My mistake.
I'll sort this fella out and then I'm all.

Speaker 33 Sorry about that.

Speaker 32 I didn't see it.

Speaker 25 Cause you weren't looking.

Speaker 21 Alright.

Speaker 30 Been here long?

Speaker 21 No, no, not in the pub.

Speaker 13 Obviously, that's 300 years or so, judging by the old bean.

Speaker 50 You've been here most of that, right, Liz?

Speaker 39 Ah, bugger off of you.

Speaker 11 Can't a woman enjoy a good bottle of plonk in peace?

Speaker 35 This you local, Liz?

Speaker 41 Yeah, I suppose.

Speaker 2 Not much else drawing me in here.

Speaker 11 Certainly not the witty bar staff.

Speaker 50 Pint of Guinness, there we go.

Speaker 7 Marvellous.

Speaker 35 Cheers, Liz.

Speaker 12 Cheers, then.

Speaker 35 You've got a good spot.

Speaker 11 Same spot every day.

Speaker 21 Yeah, right by the window.

Speaker 30 Watching the world go by, are you?

Speaker 50 Better than looking at my phone.

Speaker 24 See much action in that place there.

Speaker 11 What place would that be then?

Speaker 8 The um

Speaker 30 the the clinic.

Speaker 32 What uh

Speaker 32 what is it?

Speaker 32 They're not your patient, there's buyer.

Speaker 44 So they do not require your safeguarded confidence, Dr. Armstrong.
Perhaps not. Then I must have their name, and I must know why they require my blood.

Speaker 44 I wouldn't be here long if I provided those answers, now would I?

Speaker 44 You fear them. Oh,

Speaker 44 very much so.

Speaker 44 We all have reputations, don't we, Holmes? Some grow wild and treacherous. Others are carefully pruned, topirized into their desired form.

Speaker 11 I wouldn't go asking questions about the bloodman.

Speaker 21 What?

Speaker 18 But leave them untended.

Speaker 11 All the iron you need is in that Guinness,

Speaker 7 not over there.

Speaker 20 I'm not looking for blood work or anything.

Speaker 18 And imaginations will enrich the soil like rotting waste.

Speaker 32 Want a drop of claret?

Speaker 11 I recommend the Bordeaux.

Speaker 14 Cheers.

Speaker 18 And then

Speaker 18 a monstrous formation

Speaker 18 will grow in its stead.

Speaker 30 No, no, I've um

Speaker 21 well, I'm I'm a doctor.

Speaker 30 Um

Speaker 23 I did uh I was an army doctor and you know his his pioneering work was very important when I was studying and

Speaker 11 well enhancing my knowledge on how to treat what pioneering work is that then, eh?

Speaker 11 A blood collector

Speaker 30 What do you know, Liz?

Speaker 11 I've seen his clients. I've I've seen him walking every day like zombies, draining their life force so we can store it all up.

Speaker 26 And for what, eh?

Speaker 20 Okay, Dr.

Speaker 19 Armstrong does work in hematology, so he is always going to be involved.

Speaker 16 Look at that fella at the bar.

Speaker 21 Yeah, he just bollocked me for ordering a drink before him.

Speaker 11 Cloaked?

Speaker 11 Hooded.

Speaker 11 What's he got to hide, eh?

Speaker 14 I don't know.

Speaker 21 It could be anything.

Speaker 30 It's not really my business.

Speaker 11 He'll be a buyer, no doubt.

Speaker 23 Buyer of the blood,

Speaker 8 is it that lucrative?

Speaker 11 Is the blood of great athletes and thinkers and supermodels and world leaders lucrative?

Speaker 11 What do you think?

Speaker 11 Not to you or I, little fella,

Speaker 11 but to those who know what to do with it,

Speaker 34 right?

Speaker 11 Well, I'll tell you what, if I take your number, next time you see him, my husband and I used to drink him most nights, and it's the only time you'd see him.

Speaker 38 The only time you'd see Dr. Armstrong?

Speaker 11 Yeah, just as the pub was closing up, he'd skulk out of the place, he'd dash into his car, and he'd be off.

Speaker 30 Do you

Speaker 23 know where he went?

Speaker 11 I don't want to know with all due respect, Led.

Speaker 21 Why?

Speaker 11 Harvesting human blood and lurking around in the night.

Speaker 11 Dracula, we used to call him

Speaker 11 Dracula.

Speaker 7 Ah, bingo. Perfect.

Speaker 50 Still a functioning inn, as you can see. Got the bed on suite.

Speaker 39 Great.

Speaker 50 And little kettle there. You want an ironing board or anything like that?

Speaker 19 Just pop downstairs.

Speaker 48 Amazing. Thank you so much.

Speaker 45 There is room at the inn.

Speaker 33 Of course.

Speaker 50 It looks out onto Broad Street, as you requested.

Speaker 19 But it can get a bit loud early morning, what with bing collections, deliveries, and such.

Speaker 35 Yeah, no problem at all.

Speaker 19 Got a very loud flatmate at home, so all good.

Speaker 50 If you don't come back down to the bar, you have a good night, yeah?

Speaker 33 Great.

Speaker 30 Yeah, thanks.

Speaker 42 Thanks, mate.

Speaker 30 I'll um, you know, pay up and check out in the morning.

Speaker 7 Alright, no night. Cheers, mate.

Speaker 49 Have a good one.

Speaker 49 Well,

Speaker 13 in case you hadn't noticed, listeners, I missed the last train.

Speaker 23 So

Speaker 8 yeah.

Speaker 41 It is a night at the Checkers Pub.

Speaker 21 The inn, I should say, the Checkers Inn on Broad Street in Cambridge.

Speaker 21 Not all

Speaker 35 bad, though, as I do have a great view of the Blood Archive.

Speaker 30 A grand old building staring back at me across the street. tall and narrow, dark stone with ornate mouldings depicting angels and cherubs and stuff like that.

Speaker 24 It's hints of lights on inside, I think.

Speaker 35 Air escaping from its vents on the roof.

Speaker 13 So if I do catch a glimpse of our elusive

Speaker 21 um

Speaker 21 huh

Speaker 21 that

Speaker 8 hooded guy from the

Speaker 30 from the bar is just

Speaker 19 he stood out in the street.

Speaker 20 I think he's just

Speaker 30 looking at the clinic.

Speaker 19 It's hard to tell.

Speaker 21 It's quite dark, but

Speaker 19 yeah, he's just

Speaker 19 transfixed, it would seem.

Speaker 19 Quite a tall guy with.

Speaker 2 Oh shit!

Speaker 35 Oh shit! He looked up and saw me.

Speaker 7 Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks. Just.

Speaker 19 Just hiding for a sec on the bed.

Speaker 7 Under the window.

Speaker 32 Like a big brave boy, obviously.

Speaker 19 Just gonna

Speaker 19 peek and see if the coast

Speaker 33 is clear.

Speaker 38 Which...

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 42 He's

Speaker 19 he's gone.

Speaker 19 It's uh

Speaker 19 just an empty street now.

Speaker 19 Right.

Speaker 8 Well, anyway, it's a long night ahead. Staking out

Speaker 19 Dracula himself, apparently.

Speaker 35 Locking in, folks.

Speaker 8 Some people get drowsy after a few drinks.

Speaker 19 Not me.

Speaker 21 Not me. No, no.

Speaker 19 It charges me. I can go the whole night through.
Just.

Speaker 16 Please, I'm just

Speaker 16 I'm looking for somebody

Speaker 12 I can help

Speaker 16 who are you looking for? A doctor

Speaker 16 so am I we

Speaker 12 can work together if you just doctor with a deaf wish

Speaker 12 And a stupid little podcast.

Speaker 39 Selfish attitude.

Speaker 37 And he's short and he has silly hair and he has no respect for his detective agency.

Speaker 43 Sherlock?

Speaker 25 And he thinks it's okay to just saunter off to Cambridge to take up a case all by himself.

Speaker 43 Get off me!

Speaker 39 And casually ignore

Speaker 25 any potential adventure involving a duchess.

Speaker 43 Will you shut up about this bloody duchess?

Speaker 38 Will you shut up about this bloody footballer?

Speaker 39 Get off! No,

Speaker 4 you get off!

Speaker 16 You are sat on top of me, Sherlock!

Speaker 15 Because I am preventing you from doing something utterly stupid.

Speaker 39 Yeah, well, what about this?

Speaker 12 No, no tickling.

Speaker 39 You leave me no chance.

Speaker 43 No, no, not the ribs. So, you know he's a baddie.

Speaker 37 You know he is.

Speaker 29 Oh, you're living in a fantasy, you fool.

Speaker 37 You said it yourself. Confronting him will be stupid, so you're afraid of him?

Speaker 31 His

Speaker 12 is none

Speaker 16 of our

Speaker 14 business.

Speaker 16 Stop it, tickling. No!

Speaker 47 Oh, great. I'm bleeding.
Thanks, mate.

Speaker 29 Take it up with the landlord.

Speaker 24 Yeah, I will.

Speaker 48 I'll tell him that you've got a rusty screw on your windowsill, mate, and my colleague and best friend stalked me for a day and a half, disguised himself, snuck into my room, and pushed me onto it.

Speaker 35 I don't think that level of detail will do you any favours.

Speaker 4 I get it.

Speaker 51 Okay?

Speaker 51 I get. I knew.
I knew from the get-go that I was...

Speaker 48 I was being selfish.

Speaker 45 I was hiding from you and Mariana, alright?

Speaker 47 I know I'm in the wrong. You don't have to berate me.

Speaker 25 Oh, don't I?

Speaker 47 But also, you don't have to cloak yourself up, play weird old men in bars, and then break in here just to make a point.

Speaker 43 Wait,

Speaker 36 were you the charity worker that tried to stop me on the street as well?

Speaker 48 You are such a bell end.

Speaker 19 A charity worker that wished to discuss the importance of friendship?

Speaker 29 Rather fitting, don't you think?

Speaker 13 God's sake, is all this really necessary?

Speaker 28 And how else would a point be made? Hm?

Speaker 39 Oh, lots of ways.

Speaker 24 Like what?

Speaker 12 A phone call?

Speaker 47 Well, yeah, but I was sleeping.

Speaker 25 Yes, at an inn, in Cambridge, staking out a blood bank.

Speaker 47 You know I'm on to something.

Speaker 45 You know it, and you're just being stubborn.

Speaker 35 Don't be ridiculous.

Speaker 45 He was on a strict programme from Doctor Armstrong, Sherlock, against everybody's advice, right?

Speaker 27 He's not just a doctor to these people.

Speaker 47 He's their mentor. He's manipulating them through medicine.

Speaker 29 It is not illegal for a doctor to care for their patients.

Speaker 48 Oh, Sherlock, what kind of care?

Speaker 31 Exactly. He's missing.

Speaker 36 Yes, perhaps because he's involved in blood doping and artificially enhancing his performance.

Speaker 24 Come on. Such a practice is forbidden, is it not?

Speaker 6 Hmm?

Speaker 41 Mr. Football Expert?

Speaker 48 That's Doctor.

Speaker 35 Football Expert to you.

Speaker 38 Where are you going?

Speaker 47 I'm going into that clinic and I'm taking Godfrey D'Souza-Ribeiro out of it.

Speaker 43 With or without your help.

Speaker 43 But with my phone! Where is it?

Speaker 38 Here.

Speaker 43 Thank you.

Speaker 43 What was the code for the front door?

Speaker 29 1617.

Speaker 4 Thanks.

Speaker 47 Goodbye. Don't need your help anyway, mate.

Speaker 38 You just required it for the code, mate.

Speaker 43 And I don't require it anymore, mate.

Speaker 32 Ah, bollocks have broken the door.

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Speaker 17 Your sausage McMuffin with egg didn't change.

Speaker 15 Your receipt did.

Speaker 17 The sausage McMuffin with egg extra value meal includes a hash brown and a small coffee for just $5.

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