The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part One

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Speaker 10 I used to check for monsters under my bed

Speaker 14 up until I was about genuinely 13 years old.

Speaker 16 don't know why just that

Speaker 14 phantom presence under there lurking

Speaker 10 listening

Speaker 17 I got older uh and and wiser and it went away the way it went with the

Speaker 18 the more magical things I think the stories and the myths

Speaker 17 but

Speaker 14 I'm

Speaker 19 sad to report I have relapsed and

Speaker 20 that

Speaker 17 presence

Speaker 10 that I thought I had left behind has

Speaker 10 come back.

Speaker 4 It's um

Speaker 14 hi everyone

Speaker 19 It's that podcast again that one that

Speaker 10 lifts you up, that can bring,

Speaker 11 I don't know, a little break from life or the the world every week, that little light that glows a little bit every Tuesday.

Speaker 17 Well, yeah, welcome to that podcast for the next

Speaker 17 ten weeks.

Speaker 11 That's right, ten weeks.

Speaker 22 This is ten parts.

Speaker 14 That little light might be a little dark,

Speaker 10 sometimes scary dark,

Speaker 11 and you will be there with me

Speaker 14 alone in the dark.

Speaker 23 Like the last

Speaker 17 the last big one we did together.

Speaker 10 I won't be doing these intros, I'll just let it run through.

Speaker 17 Yeah, sign up to get the first volume of five parts right away

Speaker 10 and see you at the end of it all.

Speaker 19 Archie, we don't chew the mic for God's sake, man.

Speaker 26 Look at that.

Speaker 6 Hmm, that's a lot of slobber.

Speaker 11 Archie, mate, sort your life out.

Speaker 27 Hmm, I think it rather harsh to blame Archie.

Speaker 28 Sorry for chewing the mic?

Speaker 29 I didn't chew it, did I?

Speaker 31 Yes, but you did want a bulldog in the first place.

Speaker 32 You were responsible for training him.

Speaker 25 Sherlock, I and an ex-girlfriend wanted one five and a half years ago.

Speaker 15 He knows better than that, don't you?

Speaker 17 Hmm?

Speaker 11 Don't look at your scrotum, look at me.

Speaker 34 Your self-esteem wanes once more, dear Watson.

Speaker 35 It dulls as the melancholy winds of autumn chill off the dense summer air.

Speaker 11 No, it does not dull as the melancholy winds of autumn chill off the dense summer air, but there's nothing wrong with my self-esteem.

Speaker 22 Wait, what does that have to do with this slobbering knobhead?

Speaker 35 Once again, your deep-rooted frustration against your own position.

Speaker 37 There was a time when you first acquired your beloved bulldog, a time of military pride and a doctorship of noted prominence.

Speaker 27 Right, stop.

Speaker 37 And had he chewed a vital tool of your profession back then?

Speaker 31 Perhaps medical supplies, uniform, medals.

Speaker 16 Just.

Speaker 32 But now he choose a microphone.

Speaker 16 The microphone of a podcaster.

Speaker 19 Yes, all right.

Speaker 34 John Watson, the podcaster.

Speaker 11 There's nothing wrong with being a podcaster.

Speaker 37 Goodness. Not even Archie was convinced by that retort.
I suggest you gather yourself before our client arrives.

Speaker 40 You must have clarity.

Speaker 17 I do have clarity.

Speaker 29 I always have clarity.

Speaker 41 Like many things, Watson, envy is a fog.

Speaker 31 It hangs like a cloud over a landscape that we must observe keenly. Many pitfalls lie ahead.

Speaker 40 I do not wish to tread unwisely.

Speaker 18 Do you?

Speaker 15 Oh, yeah, ask a leading question, then shut the door, mate.

Speaker 7 Very helpful.

Speaker 6 What was that?

Speaker 11 I said the game is afoot.

Speaker 17 Indeed.

Speaker 42 My name is Dr.

Speaker 12 John Watson.

Speaker 42 Once of the British Army Northumberland Fusilier Regiment, now a true crime podcaster based in central London.

Speaker 42 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.

Speaker 28 Join me as I document the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 7 Look at it, Watson. Marvel at my concoction.

Speaker 6 I shall be remedied to full health in an instant.

Speaker 31 My fatigue and strain shall be vanquished in a blitz of vitamin and nutrition.

Speaker 29 Better be blitzing out your arse with all those cheer signs, mate.

Speaker 43 Please just buy a smoothie from the shop.

Speaker 17 Oh, yes, hi.

Speaker 15 Which got put through again from the last person.

Speaker 11 Our internet is down.

Speaker 22 Well, well, it's on and off.

Speaker 17 Hmm.

Speaker 25 Yeah, no, I've done that.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 42 Done both those things.

Speaker 29 Wait, could you please turn the blender off?

Speaker 31 Hmm, the turnips are rather stubborn. Shh.

Speaker 31 Shush.

Speaker 12 Right, can you just check if you have a problem in the area?

Speaker 11 Maybe if there's been an engineer that's been dispatched.

Speaker 8 Hello?

Speaker 25 God's sake, they've transferred me again.

Speaker 44 Come, the smoothie is complete.

Speaker 32 And now I must work with this enchanting elixir, fueling my every thought and notion.

Speaker 40 What? Stop what you're doing.

Speaker 17 Come.

Speaker 45 Feel free to take a glass for yourself.

Speaker 15 Stop what I'm doing. I'm sorting the internet out.

Speaker 31 I wish for us to focus on this accidental souvenir of Dr.

Speaker 6 Mortimer, which was left in our office by mistake.

Speaker 4 Mariana spoke with him.

Speaker 17 Go and ask her about it.

Speaker 31 But I'd rather work through you.

Speaker 12 Work through me.

Speaker 4 Can't you see I'm in the middle of something?

Speaker 31 The internet is fine.

Speaker 34 It just can't handle the demands of the games console at the moment.

Speaker 8 I have had a long day.

Speaker 4 I would like to shoot some people online and laugh at them.

Speaker 15 Is that unreasonable?

Speaker 36 It makes you laugh.

Speaker 40 Killing these people.

Speaker 25 Why?

Speaker 15 Ah, don't give me moral lectures, mate. Not when you pull spiders apart.

Speaker 6 I don't pull them apart.

Speaker 25 Oh, right.

Speaker 15 What was it in the kitchen earlier than a spider physiotherapy session? Yes, hello.

Speaker 11 Hi. Yeah, my internet's very slow and very patchy.

Speaker 15 And yes, I have done all the things with the router that you're going to ask me if I've done. Can I please just get an engineer or just confirmation that there's a problem in the area?

Speaker 25 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 15 I'll only hold if I'm going to- Oh, for fu.

Speaker 33 What do you see, Watson?

Speaker 15 Uh, it's like a flashing red light, then it goes green for a bit.

Speaker 36 Not the router.

Speaker 5 What do you see?

Speaker 22 A red mist descending over my eyes.

Speaker 36 Can you recreate the man?

Speaker 17 What now?

Speaker 40 From his walking stick.

Speaker 23 Mate.

Speaker 40 Can you, John?

Speaker 46 I'm not doing this.

Speaker 33 You refuse to observe?

Speaker 15 No, I refuse to do your little game that you're way better at. It's like me asking you to do the washing up, but oh, they've...

Speaker 21 Oh my god, they've actually hung up.

Speaker 24 Oh, and great.

Speaker 4 Just smelled that awful smoothie.

Speaker 17 Oh, come, sit.

Speaker 46 Here, I'm sat.

Speaker 15 It's a very nice walking stick, but Dr.

Speaker 11 Mortimer is imminent.

Speaker 15 I'm sure we can figure him out then.

Speaker 6 Our somewhat more sinister doctor from our most recent case, he tells me I am examined from afar.

Speaker 32 A buyer for my blood.

Speaker 15 Yeah, lots of weirdos out there, mate.

Speaker 25 Don't worry about it.

Speaker 43 Probably just a fan of the podcast.

Speaker 19 You never know.

Speaker 32 Hmm, that strikes me as somewhat unlikely.

Speaker 17 Have you met our fans?

Speaker 45 But expelled blood, like this stick, are disconnected parts of us, are they not?

Speaker 17 Uh,

Speaker 17 yeah.

Speaker 26 No,

Speaker 26 no, no.

Speaker 3 I would like you to try

Speaker 6 to examine.

Speaker 11 Yeah, well, I'm not a genius, so I don't see the point.

Speaker 41 You underrate your own abilities.

Speaker 22 Yeah, I do. For good reason.

Speaker 28 Now, can you please shed some light on this situation so I can listen semi-intently and then go for a wee?

Speaker 24 Light.

Speaker 24 Yes.

Speaker 17 Rather like genius.

Speaker 40 What? It shines, does it not?

Speaker 40 Out in the darkness.

Speaker 6 A beacon to some, a

Speaker 45 paining glare to others.

Speaker 11 It certainly stings from time to time.

Speaker 29 Yep.

Speaker 11 I know I'm just seen as the,

Speaker 21 you know, assistant.

Speaker 49 It shouldn't sting.

Speaker 25 You wouldn't understand.

Speaker 32 I understand more than you know.

Speaker 16 Great.

Speaker 11 You understand everything, apparently.

Speaker 15 So much so, I can't even do a routine case as the lead detective at my own agency.

Speaker 33 You are not luminous, Watson.

Speaker 15 Lovely, thank you.

Speaker 3 But you are a conductor of light.

Speaker 21 A conductor of light?

Speaker 3 Our router here.

Speaker 36 Slowed.

Speaker 37 Laggy.

Speaker 17 Weak.

Speaker 8 Why?

Speaker 15 Because they won't send out a bloody engineer and I was duped by a very favourable monthly cost.

Speaker 30 It's because of light.

Speaker 6 The fiber optic cables that come through into this property.

Speaker 7 Feeding that router.

Speaker 40 They merely conduct the light into its path.

Speaker 36 They feed it, John.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 33 Dr. Mortimer's walking stick.

Speaker 25 Right.

Speaker 25 Okay, fine.

Speaker 14 Let's give it here.

Speaker 4 Let's have a looky look.

Speaker 15 Okay, walking stick.

Speaker 29 Wood.

Speaker 14 very polished, uh smooth on on the handle.

Speaker 29 The the top here, little

Speaker 17 metal sort of plaque says Dr.

Speaker 15 Jamie Mortimer, MRCS, CCH.

Speaker 10 Indeed.

Speaker 15 Meaning he's a surgeon called Jamie.

Speaker 13 MRCS is Royal College of Surgeons. Correct.

Speaker 40 Very good.

Speaker 15 And CCH

Speaker 17 is

Speaker 17 I don't know. That could be

Speaker 15 maybe a club maybe yeah this was probably given to him by the club he's got to be old he's got a walking stick

Speaker 11 what kind of clubs do old people attend

Speaker 25 golf there's a G in that CCH CCH hockey hurling not gonna be doing them if he's elderly okay so maybe not a sport

Speaker 10 uses a walking stick after all um

Speaker 15 CC could mean

Speaker 4 Conservative club conservative Club

Speaker 25 Henley?

Speaker 17 Hmm? Hungerford. They're kind of

Speaker 4 conservative-y type places, right?

Speaker 19 Very good indeed.

Speaker 8 Really?

Speaker 39 Really?

Speaker 17 Am I right?

Speaker 33 I didn't ask you to be right.

Speaker 11 Because you're the genius.

Speaker 36 And you possess the ability to stimulate it.

Speaker 6 And for that, I am forever in your debt.

Speaker 19 Thank you, mate.

Speaker 11 I appreciate that.

Speaker 37 You're in debt for that, of course, but also the washing up, the laundry, the cooking.

Speaker 11 Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 17 Dealing with nearly all people, cleaning the bathroom.

Speaker 47 Okay, thank you.

Speaker 6 The observations you made are interesting, though elementary.

Speaker 29 Really?

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 6 I'm afraid your only significant ones were erroneous. Oh.

Speaker 35 The CCH, I would venture, is Charing Cross Hospital.

Speaker 8 Ah, yeah, shit.

Speaker 6 Yep. This is certainly a gift, so I would imagine a leaving present.

Speaker 11 Probably retirement gift?

Speaker 16 No.

Speaker 29 Why not?

Speaker 6 Because he's not old enough.

Speaker 11 Well, he uses a walking stick.

Speaker 44 As have you, upon occasion.

Speaker 26 Yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 15 Oh, your smoothie is starting to separate all the slushy bits that go into the bottom.

Speaker 41 So, Mortimer, Royal College of Surgeons, Charing Cross Hospital.

Speaker 30 Why would a walking stick be such a gift?

Speaker 18 Perhaps an ironic one, do we think?

Speaker 6 The famous gallows humour of the medical profession.

Speaker 17 Well, could be. I just.

Speaker 3 You just what?

Speaker 11 I just don't think you're gonna get that much from a walking stick.

Speaker 40 Jamie Mortimer is a young doctor.

Speaker 31 He works in a rural location.

Speaker 35 A Moorland, I'd say.

Speaker 3 A Morland that he walks regularly.

Speaker 40 He's potentially of mixed heritage.

Speaker 32 The handle here has traces of Permade.

Speaker 33 Certainly heavier than most products.

Speaker 36 Closer to a Shea or Castor oil.

Speaker 40 I would say he rested his head against this stick on his journey to this very office.

Speaker 34 A hair even transferred in the pinch between handle and embossed nameplate.

Speaker 37 An afro-textured hair, so that confirms initial observation regarding heritage.

Speaker 36 Yes, this handle tells us many things about Jamie.

Speaker 36 He's leaning on this stick far more than an elderly gentleman, like you denoted, would do.

Speaker 40 Observe the frule, worn, not evenly, but on the inner edge, ground into an ellipse.

Speaker 41 Meaning, meaning the stick is planted close to the midline as a stabilizer, not thrust wide as one does to ease, say, arthritic pain.

Speaker 40 Then examine the wooden mold of the handle.

Speaker 41 Not the wear of a light fingertip, no, but a deep gloss left by the heel of the palm, day after day, bearing true weight. This is no ornament or proprioceptive stabilizer.

Speaker 16 We can confirm that down here.

Speaker 32 Thirty centimeters down from the tip, a neat scuff band rubbed smooth against the shaft's varnish.

Speaker 49 You see?

Speaker 49 I.

Speaker 22 Yeah, I see that.

Speaker 40 Unlikely a trouser hem. Too consistent for accident.

Speaker 18 It's the trace, Watson, of a synthetic shin.

Speaker 41 bruising the stick each time he sits, rises, or even crosses his legs, like so.

Speaker 17 Ding!

Speaker 2 Ow!

Speaker 16 Ding! Ow!

Speaker 6 And ding!

Speaker 17 And ow! Ow, indeed!

Speaker 33 Flesh would bruise before it wore wood so evenly.

Speaker 32 Note the shaft, an inch shorter than a man of five foot eleven would require if his limbs were natural and equal.

Speaker 31 The cut compensates for a right leg that stands a fraction lower than its fellow left chum, as prosthetics are wont to do.

Speaker 15 He's an amputee.

Speaker 41 There are our ingredients, Watson.

Speaker 31 Now, chop them up, plop them in a blender, and mush them into a delicious slurpable gloop of deduction juice.

Speaker 39 Bottoms up.

Speaker 16 Oh, goodness me.

Speaker 7 That's grotesque.

Speaker 23 You are a clever, clever man.

Speaker 10 In some ways, not so much in others.

Speaker 15 But, question mate,

Speaker 11 if he's that dependent on the stick, why did he leave it at our flat?

Speaker 39 Yes.

Speaker 7 Dr.

Speaker 45 Jamie Mortimer is a man of perseverance, refusing to be defined by what is missing below his left knee. The stick is not a vital instrument for errands to London.

Speaker 40 His prosthetic leg will be modern.

Speaker 37 It will no doubt have balance features, a custom-moulded socket, shock pylons.

Speaker 40 No, this stick here is a companion for the Moors, John. That is where Mortimer tests himself.

Speaker 31 That is where he searches for his soul in challenging rambles of self-examination.

Speaker 40 It was was brought along to London because of habit. It was abandoned because of absent-mindedness, because of distraction and fixation on something else.
Something troubling this young man.

Speaker 45 Something haunting him.

Speaker 22 Ah, the internet's back.

Speaker 34 Darkness lifts.

Speaker 17 The light returns.

Speaker 34 And my final observation grows ever so dimly.

Speaker 43 Yes.

Speaker 49 The pocked indents of granite smattered on the base of Mortimer's stick

Speaker 17 from

Speaker 17 a granite-ridden moorland, Dr.

Speaker 49 Watson.

Speaker 18 Does the ancient expanse of Dartmoor call us once more?

Speaker 21 Let's

Speaker 15 go see.

Speaker 24 No, my colleagues, they follow down that unique.

Speaker 17 Yeah,

Speaker 45 now that I have microstitch for that on the map.

Speaker 20 Maybe I'm a little too attached to the stick.

Speaker 23 Here they are. Dr.

Speaker 19 Mortimer, I presume.

Speaker 9 Yes. Hi.

Speaker 19 John. Dr.

Speaker 11 John Watson. And this is.

Speaker 20 Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 17 That's right.

Speaker 32 Good to meet you, Dr. Mortimer.

Speaker 20 Call me Jamie, please.

Speaker 27 I like to be proper.

Speaker 20 Jamie would be proper. I'm afraid the doctor title is a little

Speaker 20 outdated. Huh?

Speaker 37 Really? Struck off.

Speaker 30 Goodness. Correct.

Speaker 31 I apologize. I didn't.

Speaker 40 I, um...

Speaker 17 I thought I caught everything.

Speaker 20 Caught everything?

Speaker 17 He, uh,

Speaker 21 our resident detective here predicted everything about you before your arrival.

Speaker 22 Except that.

Speaker 50 You know, you could have just asked me, right?

Speaker 31 Where's the fun in that exactly?

Speaker 51 How do you mean predicted?

Speaker 11 He surmised pretty much exactly what I'm seeing now.

Speaker 46 Prosthetic limb, young doctor.

Speaker 20 Jamaican background.

Speaker 11 I mean, he didn't give me the exact country, that's true.

Speaker 20 What else?

Speaker 17 Dartmoor.

Speaker 51 Goodness me.

Speaker 20 What a curious talon.

Speaker 37 Not quite.

Speaker 45 It is not my talent that is the curiosity, but rather...

Speaker 3 my curiosity that is the talent.

Speaker 45 Please, take a seat, Jamie.

Speaker 20 That's very kind, but I just can't get my stick.

Speaker 20 The morning exercise doesn't let up.

Speaker 40 Ah, yes, that determined ramble across the moors.

Speaker 17 Now, this...

Speaker 20 This is bloody clever.

Speaker 32 I could perform a few more tricks, if you'd care to take a seat.

Speaker 20 Honestly, I just can to get my stick. Without this thing, I'd tumble over just about every outcrop and sink into every mire.

Speaker 34 Quite the tenacity.

Speaker 20 A little too tenacious for the GMC.

Speaker 20 Mariana, thank you so much.

Speaker 50 Oh, no, no, no problem. Sorry, I didn't see it when you left it before.

Speaker 20 I hope I was helpful.

Speaker 20 And the

Speaker 20 Dr. Armstrong case was...

Speaker 23 yeah.

Speaker 20 I've seen the news that the football has recovered, so.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 20 Raito? oh

Speaker 20 that's the West Country, I suppose.

Speaker 3 You loathe him, hmm?

Speaker 31 Dr. Leslie Armstrong.

Speaker 20 That's

Speaker 52 not true.

Speaker 33 True and truth are loaded terms, but it is at least accurate, is it not?

Speaker 45 How exactly?

Speaker 32 You broke eye contact mentioning his name.

Speaker 33 You grasped your stick with one hand, you rubbed your right temple with the other.

Speaker 36 His very mention brings irritation, does it not? Mr.

Speaker 18 Mortimer.

Speaker 19 Sherlock.

Speaker 30 He's the reason.

Speaker 33 Mm-hmm. You are a brave whistleblower, Jamie.
The establishment protects its wizened elders a little too vigorously from its tenacious juniors.

Speaker 20 Cutting a long, long story, very short.

Speaker 20 Yes.

Speaker 20 I would say you've got the measure of it yet again, Mr. Holmes.

Speaker 20 Very impressive.

Speaker 41 I hope it impresses you enough to stay and share your story.

Speaker 50 I think Jamie mentioned a train, Sherlock.

Speaker 50 So maybe we could set up a Zoom call.

Speaker 32 What train would that be?

Speaker 20 Paddington. To Tottness.

Speaker 34 What time?

Speaker 20 Um.

Speaker 20 The train.

Speaker 34 You have to imminently catch a train and you're not sure of its departure time.

Speaker 33 What does it say on the ticket?

Speaker 20 No, I know.

Speaker 20 I bought an open return. That's why.

Speaker 20 Um, let's.

Speaker 50 I think Jamie wants to go. That's my deduction.

Speaker 39 So we'll set up a call.

Speaker 45 We will not be setting up any kind of call.

Speaker 11 Well, we can always just reach out.

Speaker 32 Tell me, Jamie,

Speaker 3 what do you do for work?

Speaker 20 In between things, right now.

Speaker 50 Okay, if we're putting him through this, can I at least offer him some tea?

Speaker 11 We've also got the posh biscuits, Mariana from Lestrade.

Speaker 50 Yes, yes, we do.

Speaker 50 There are these little shortbread things with the chocolate.

Speaker 17 And the caramel ones as well.

Speaker 6 Irresistible, surely, Jamie.

Speaker 27 Tea, shortbread, caramel.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 20 a captive audience for that tale.

Speaker 41 That tale that wakes you in the night and keeps you away from the moor

Speaker 36 and has you subconsciously discarding your walking companion as if to shut out the darkness entirely.

Speaker 24 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay.

Speaker 28 Okay, Jamie, sorry, that's me.

Speaker 44 That's my dog.

Speaker 11 I left the upstairs door open.

Speaker 50 Yeah, he kind of lives between the two floors.

Speaker 19 See, he's just a chubby little bulldog.

Speaker 44 He's, uh, you okay with dogs? Um, yeah.

Speaker 45 Yeah, I am. Sorry, yeah.

Speaker 16 There we go.

Speaker 22 Gonna give you a sniff.

Speaker 15 Might get a lick if you're lucky. There you go.
You'll get a fart if you're unlucky. Nope, fart free.

Speaker 26 Right. Uh, yeah.

Speaker 8 Kettle. Yep.

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Speaker 5 He's been cruel.

Speaker 12 He's not being cruel.

Speaker 15 He's just...

Speaker 22 He's tired.

Speaker 16 You know, he's grouchy. And...

Speaker 11 Yeah, maybe he's rushing things.

Speaker 50 If Sherlock is tired and grouchy, why isn't he doing the usual thing after a case? And...

Speaker 50 Sleeping for two days straight.

Speaker 42 Because...

Speaker 15 I don't know. He said he could smell a case or something.

Speaker 50 Smell a case.

Speaker 11 He's just...

Speaker 28 He's restless.

Speaker 42 Why?

Speaker 50 He said he's euphoric after cases. He said that that's the only thing that brings him true happiness.

Speaker 23 What about Anne-Penne Pastor?

Speaker 50 He said resolutions to problems are the only calm in the storms of his mind.

Speaker 13 Wow, you really pay attention to what he says, don't you?

Speaker 50 I just don't get why he's restless.

Speaker 29 Something about blood.

Speaker 10 It's this blood thing.

Speaker 50 The Armstrong situation.

Speaker 29 Someone wants to buy a sample of Sherlock's blood.

Speaker 42 Why?

Speaker 30 It's a cup of tea, not a souffle.

Speaker 50 What does that mean?

Speaker 40 You are taking a long time.

Speaker 15 You've never made a souffle in your life, have you?

Speaker 40 And neither have you.

Speaker 31 Can we please hurry?

Speaker 46 You're the one in the way. I'm trying to carry the tray.

Speaker 22 Righty, righty, right.

Speaker 15 A round of cuppers with some nice biscuits to boot.

Speaker 21 Probably a bit too posh for a dunk, but I won't judge.

Speaker 29 There you go, Jamie.

Speaker 20 Thank you.

Speaker 20 I feel like you're all looking at me.

Speaker 50 No, no, not at all. Why, why do you feel like that, Jamie?

Speaker 20 Because you're all looking at me.

Speaker 25 Oh, no, no, no. I was looking

Speaker 7 out the window at that lamppost.

Speaker 50 It's uh, yeah, it's a it's a good aunt, that one

Speaker 3 our clients find it rather therapeutic, Jamie, to talk.

Speaker 20 Do they now?

Speaker 37 I can assure you, they do.

Speaker 20 Yeah, well, um,

Speaker 20 this isn't really a um

Speaker 20 internal crisis as such, it's more

Speaker 20 out there in the wild, as it were.

Speaker 17 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 20 So just

Speaker 20 quick back story. I uh

Speaker 20 when I was seventeen I got in a car accident in Wolverhampton, where I'm from,

Speaker 20 and

Speaker 20 I died,

Speaker 24 yeah.

Speaker 24 Right.

Speaker 50 Our first ghost client.

Speaker 20 Yeah, for eleven minutes I was dead.

Speaker 20 I remember just

Speaker 20 darkness,

Speaker 20 complete just swallowed pitch blackness, and then these little

Speaker 20 glowing blobs of light, and they were sort of

Speaker 20 guiding me through it, like the little lights on a plane through the aisle, the safe passage.

Speaker 20 And I could hear my grandfather's voice, and I kept walking towards him, thinking, okay.

Speaker 20 Guess I'm dead, but I'm gonna go see Gramp, you know, maybe I'll dunno, meet Elvis or something. And he just said, my granddad, not Elvis, he went,

Speaker 20 not yet, Jimmy boy. And then bang, bright light, hospital, tubes, beeps of monitors, and bangs of the bed, and doors flying open, and voices just this constant shouting over each other.
And

Speaker 20 then Dr. Siddiqui,

Speaker 20 the man that

Speaker 20 saved my life,

Speaker 20 it took my leg, of course, but

Speaker 20 saved my life and he

Speaker 17 yeah

Speaker 24 yeah.

Speaker 20 And the other thing he did, I suppose, was

Speaker 51 give me meaning, give me a purpose.

Speaker 20 I just

Speaker 20 I just wanted to be a surgeon from the moment I was discharged. I did med school, graduated from Royal College of Surgeons, um

Speaker 20 yeah, then a

Speaker 20 normal, shitty, semi-shitty, I should say, life of a young CT1, CT2 surgeon.

Speaker 20 Quite shortbread.

Speaker 19 Oh, you see?

Speaker 50 Worth it now?

Speaker 41 Totally worth it.

Speaker 20 So then,

Speaker 20 of course, I called out Dr. Leslie Armstrong around four years ago.
Malpractice, blatant malpractice.

Speaker 2 I got

Speaker 20 agitated, as I apparently do.

Speaker 20 And I suppose I,

Speaker 20 yeah, when things didn't get sorted, I transitioned from blowing the whistle to out and out, shouting and screaming.

Speaker 20 The medical counsel didn't really.

Speaker 20 It wasn't the message that they took offence to, it was the method of delivery, I suppose.

Speaker 20 I may have

Speaker 20 tested the protections afforded to your average whistleblower.

Speaker 45 Stealing of files.

Speaker 20 And the rest.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I see.

Speaker 20 He got a slap on the wrist. I got the knockout blow.
Struck off.

Speaker 20 I left London. No chance I'm affording rent or anything like that anymore.
And

Speaker 20 I saw on Reddit, I think it was, maybe it was Facebook, I don't know, these

Speaker 20 struck off doctors, retired doctors doctors, and all this. They had these, they had private patients.

Speaker 20 They weren't like practicing within the NHS or even prescribing drugs or nothing like that, nothing dodgy, but they were

Speaker 20 kind of servicing these sort of

Speaker 6 well-off clients, I guess you'd call them.

Speaker 21 You do realize you're addressing a detective who's not actually a detective that services sort of well-off clients.

Speaker 20 So, you understand,

Speaker 20 and

Speaker 2 I thought,

Speaker 20 yeah, I might go and do that and

Speaker 20 one of them had turned down a client in Devon

Speaker 20 on the yeah, I think it was the Reddit so

Speaker 20 sounds stupid really. I just looked up pictures of Devon and I thought

Speaker 20 yeah, looks lovely.

Speaker 50 Yeah,

Speaker 50 makes sense to me.

Speaker 15 Did you do that with Tottenham, Mariana?

Speaker 50 Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what I did.

Speaker 17 Yeah,

Speaker 20 and I took it. Took the job.

Speaker 33 Who is your client?

Speaker 2 Was

Speaker 16 he

Speaker 16 client?

Speaker 50 Who was he?

Speaker 20 Sir Charles Baskerville.

Speaker 11 Take all the time you need, and all the biscuits.

Speaker 4 I've actually got another pack.

Speaker 10 I was just hiding because I didn't want them all to go.

Speaker 51 I don't know how well you all know, Dartmoor.

Speaker 20 I mean,

Speaker 20 I didn't not long ago. But you um

Speaker 20 go into the west country

Speaker 20 you go past Exeter and these two main roads split off the A30 goes north west the A38 goes southwest and they're both just forking around the mass that is Dartmoor

Speaker 20 and that's the last time you see a main road

Speaker 20 you get into that moorland and it's all little paths and old roads bending, veering, teetering over hills and stooping down valleys,

Speaker 20 ponies and sheep and cows, they'll just wander into the roads. It's

Speaker 20 on some days, it's stunning.

Speaker 20 It really is stunning.

Speaker 20 On others,

Speaker 20 many others,

Speaker 51 it's haunting

Speaker 7 so bleak and harsh

Speaker 20 and lonely

Speaker 20 and quiet.

Speaker 20 It's the quiet that can um

Speaker 20 unsettle you most sometimes.

Speaker 20 Funny that

Speaker 20 meant to be a luxury in this day and age. Silence.

Speaker 20 Silent retreats. Noise-cancelling thingies, but

Speaker 20 no.

Speaker 20 I don't think we uh

Speaker 20 like the quiet anymore.

Speaker 20 Humanity.

Speaker 20 I think we're afraid of it.

Speaker 20 I think it makes us think a little too hard.

Speaker 20 In one of those bleak, harsh, lonely spots, a few miles south of Princetown,

Speaker 20 is Baskerville Hall.

Speaker 20 Big, bloody, raw iron gates, climbing weeds and trees writhing around it, these

Speaker 20 weather-bitten old pillars,

Speaker 20 then the emblem,

Speaker 20 the crest in the middle,

Speaker 20 the big boar's head of the Baskervilles.

Speaker 20 I am

Speaker 20 I was made executor of his will

Speaker 20 and I have these

Speaker 20 documents left to me with other bits and pieces

Speaker 20 by Sir Charles.

Speaker 20 I had asked him about

Speaker 20 family history. I meant regarding any potential conditions in old age.

Speaker 20 He misunderstood and I got the full back story.

Speaker 20 And from that point on, I think I probably feigned my interest a little too convincingly.

Speaker 43 This is a family record, Dawd.

Speaker 10 Oh, I s I see this is

Speaker 13 writings on the Baskerville lineage.

Speaker 17 Right.

Speaker 10 This house was first occupied in the 42nd year of the 18th century.

Speaker 17 Play me alright, that's one way of putting it.

Speaker 13 This manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, a most wild, profane and godless man. It so happened Hugo came to love, if indeed so dark a passion can be known under so bright a name.

Speaker 14 A young maiden, however, feared his evil name.

Speaker 11 In his customary mist of wine and wickedness, he stole the girl from her home, placing her in his upper chamber.

Speaker 10 Yet before the evening was out, she climbed the ivy of the south wall, fled across the bracken and brush to her father's farm.

Speaker 13 Hugo returned to find the cage empty.

Speaker 11 and the bird escaped whereat Hugo ran from the house, saddled his mare, and unkennelled the pack.

Speaker 21 Giving the hounds a kerchief of the maids, he swung them to the line and so off,

Speaker 14 full cry in the moonlight over the moor.

Speaker 10 Jesus.

Speaker 10 That's

Speaker 52 horrible.

Speaker 7 Keep reading.

Speaker 21 A local shepherd noted the impossible sight that met his eyes that night.

Speaker 12 I saw first that of the maid, the shepherd recounts, then the hounds.

Speaker 14 Hugo Baskerville passed me thence on his black mare, and there behind him, running mute upon his track, such

Speaker 12 a hound of hell that God forbid should ever be at my heels.

Speaker 19 It's a um

Speaker 19 separate paper, yeah?

Speaker 20 It's an account of

Speaker 20 what was discovered that night by the locals of Princetown.

Speaker 20 Kind of hard to read. Old English spellings, and yeah.

Speaker 11 Bowman and here his two sons with Dermond the stablehand

Speaker 14 did upon the 11th of October 1743 in the clearing of Hatchett's Wood betwixt the stone pillars of Taverstock Bridleway

Speaker 13 spy a dreadful sight.

Speaker 11 There was the mare,

Speaker 14 black and overturned, all soakened in blood,

Speaker 14 and round about her lay eight bull and terrier dogs, torn and marred, each uttering the whimpered breath of death.

Speaker 12 There also was found the body of Hugo Baskerville,

Speaker 14 ripped open and

Speaker 17 spilten,

Speaker 14 and at his throat a foul thing in shape like unto a hound, yet larger than any hound mortal eye had ever beheld.

Speaker 10 The company fled in fear when the flaming eyes and dripping jaws were turned

Speaker 23 upon them.

Speaker 23 I

Speaker 17 don't

Speaker 13 really know what to say.

Speaker 20 The locals say more than enough,

Speaker 20 believe me.

Speaker 16 How so?

Speaker 20 At first I ignored it.

Speaker 20 What they said.

Speaker 50 Which was what, Jamie?

Speaker 20 I can't believe I'm bloody saying this.

Speaker 2 That

Speaker 28 every

Speaker 20 Baskerville, every male head of household Baskerville

Speaker 20 had a bloody and mysterious death.

Speaker 17 Out on the moor?

Speaker 20 Yeah, they, um,

Speaker 20 it's it's

Speaker 20 they said it's a curse, all this.

Speaker 2 Do you believe it?

Speaker 50 What what makes you believe it?

Speaker 39 Because they're f

Speaker 20 because they're right.

Speaker 48 Like, every single Baskerville man from 1743 to now died out there.

Speaker 9 It's in the records.

Speaker 48 In the night,

Speaker 48 in the darkness, like ripped open, drowning on their own blood as something.

Speaker 40 What happened to to Sir Charles, Jamie?

Speaker 20 Sorry, just...

Speaker 20 Just give me a sec.

Speaker 20 Just give me a sec.

Speaker 11 Evenings are getting darker now.

Speaker 50 You said your hotel is...

Speaker 20 It's literally the other side of Regent's Park. So, not that gate, the one after it.
Cool, cool, cool, cool.

Speaker 12 We will gladly walk you there, won't we, Arch?

Speaker 34 Great.

Speaker 31 I'm sorry, Jamie, to have hurried my instincts upon you.

Speaker 20 Don't be daft.

Speaker 20 Need to get it out, don't I?

Speaker 20 Whole thing's driving me, uh.

Speaker 20 I mean, mad.

Speaker 2 It's actually

Speaker 20 driving me mad, isn't it?

Speaker 20 I think a therapist would probably call it misplaced

Speaker 20 grief. I don't know.

Speaker 20 At losing the thing I worked so hard for.

Speaker 50 You said you can hear it.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 20 I don't know if that's...

Speaker 20 Am I

Speaker 20 just manifesting something or

Speaker 20 is actually out there outside my cottage or

Speaker 20 prowling off in the mire somewhere? I can

Speaker 5 always hear these howls and screams.

Speaker 50 Screams of what?

Speaker 17 I don't

Speaker 17 know.

Speaker 20 I think um

Speaker 8 yeah,

Speaker 8 uh

Speaker 20 a fresh start might be required.

Speaker 20 Just what the doctor ordered, eh?

Speaker 33 Did you really come to London just to warn us of Dr.

Speaker 34 Armstrong, Jamie?

Speaker 30 Because I feel that to be somewhat excessive than just the imparting of knowledge.

Speaker 20 Good observation. Again.

Speaker 20 Just over a month ago Sir Charles Baskerville's health was declining pretty sharply. He was 88.

Speaker 20 I had become over the sort of days and weeks before that a kind of secondary doctor really.

Speaker 20 Outside of schooling I'm a specialised surgeon so

Speaker 20 he was being seen by registered professionals and I was

Speaker 20 I suppose I became a bit of a sort of of carer I don't live far he paid well so

Speaker 20 on the 17th he told me he wanted a check-up for a clean bill of health before he headed to London the next day actually no um no that was it a friend nearby Stapleton had called me and said

Speaker 20 this idiot thinks he's fit enough to go to London do something

Speaker 20 So I spoke to Sir Charles and I just said, you know, your heart is very weak, you're showing signs of kidney failure, you've got all these markers, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 20 Not quite sure he accepted it, but yeah.

Speaker 44 I told him what he needed to hear.

Speaker 20 And a few hours and a nightmare or two later, I bush, just bolt upright in bed. Someone's pounding on the door.
Mortimer, Mortimer.

Speaker 9 I answer it.

Speaker 20 It's a resident of the Baskerville Hall estate.

Speaker 8 Who?

Speaker 20 The underkeeper, Frank Barrymore. He and his wife live in the hall too.
She tends to the gardens.

Speaker 34 And he works for the local gamekeeper?

Speaker 20 Correct. He says to me, they're very rigid and no nonsense, the Barrymores.

Speaker 20 He says,

Speaker 20 Sir Charles is dead.

Speaker 20 We head up to the house and we stop just after the gates in the tree line drive or gravel.

Speaker 20 Still a good 200 yards from the house itself.

Speaker 20 and there he is

Speaker 20 so Charles was on the ground

Speaker 20 face down

Speaker 20 arms out fingers dug well

Speaker 5 clawed into the ground

Speaker 20 so tight could barely wrench him out

Speaker 20 Took a second to identify him. His face was there

Speaker 20 so

Speaker 20 contorted and

Speaker 20 twisted into such a horrified expression.

Speaker 20 Barrymore and I, we

Speaker 8 just stood there.

Speaker 5 What was he doing up there?

Speaker 20 In front of the house?

Speaker 20 At his age?

Speaker 17 At that time?

Speaker 20 Well-timed story.

Speaker 11 Right, well, hotel really is just the other side of the park.

Speaker 20 I've got plenty more details on it, Ola. Just

Speaker 20 a night away from Dartmoor means a proper night's sleep, so.

Speaker 50 No, go to sleep, okay? We can.

Speaker 50 We'll revisit this, okay?

Speaker 20 Sure.

Speaker 2 Sure.

Speaker 35 No blood? No?

Speaker 37 No injuries?

Speaker 20 No.

Speaker 45 Then what do you have for me, Jamie?

Speaker 20 I have this, Sherlock.

Speaker 2 I have this.

Speaker 20 slip type.

Speaker 29 Night, Jamie.

Speaker 50 It's a photo of

Speaker 8 gravel.

Speaker 50 Is that where they found the body? Can I see, Sherlock?

Speaker 17 Footprints. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 19 That's a

Speaker 43 start.

Speaker 29 Big, small, footprints of a man, a woman.

Speaker 16 What have we got here?

Speaker 30 Of a beast.

Speaker 50 What is it? What do you see?

Speaker 14 The hound of the Baskervilles.

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