The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part Three

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Speaker 11 Previously on Sherlock and Co.

Speaker 9 And there he is.

Speaker 12 Sir Charles Baskerville.

Speaker 9 He hasn't been opened up.

Speaker 13 Not yet.

Speaker 9 You're really going to do this.

Speaker 6 What are you expecting to find? A poisoning or something?

Speaker 13 If they say there's nothing suspicious, then what harm am I doing?

Speaker 9 What about his family?

Speaker 13 No wife. No children.

Speaker 15 You know what?

Speaker 6 Jamie, you were looking for something and I think we have

Speaker 6 a semblance of something.

Speaker 11 It's called catacolamine surge.

Speaker 11 Something just

Speaker 13 bang, gripped him.

Speaker 11 It flooded his body with absolute terror, stress, fright, call it whatever you want.

Speaker 6 And then it just

Speaker 6 detonates in here.

Speaker 11 He gives out, too old to take

Speaker 9 whatever horror he witnessed.

Speaker 6 Who's he gonna meet? He's a lonely old man in a manor house.

Speaker 9 He's got no wife, no kids, no family.

Speaker 13 I didn't say there was no family. Henry Baskerville,

Speaker 13 the Canadian nephew,

Speaker 13 heir to Baskerville Hall.

Speaker 18 How do you think I am? Can you...

Speaker 8 I mean...

Speaker 1 You've got no shoes?

Speaker 18 I have a shoe upstairs. This place said some utter crap.
But somebody took my shoe. They actually took my shoe.

Speaker 9 Hey, hey, hey, Northumberland Hotel.

Speaker 6 Right here.

Speaker 11 Yes, I know.

Speaker 13 Oh, sorry.

Speaker 11 I thought you were walking faster.

Speaker 13 I am.

Speaker 16 Sorry. Wait, why?

Speaker 13 Because we're being followed.

Speaker 19 Oh, I knew it.

Speaker 20 What the hell is going on?

Speaker 13 Come this way.

Speaker 18 Okay, okay. Was he killed?

Speaker 8 Henry. Was he?

Speaker 18 Uncle Charles, was he killed?

Speaker 6 It's complicated.

Speaker 18 It's not complicated. Stop saying it's complicated.
He is. He was an he was frail.
He was alone and sick and dying and his and he had heart failure. It literally gave out because he was so old.

Speaker 18 I love him. I'll miss him, but this, this is not some tragic tale of life torn away.
It was, it sure as hell is not complicated.

Speaker 18 Did you just do that?

Speaker 13 Do what?

Speaker 15 Not you, him.

Speaker 13 I did nothing.

Speaker 18 You put a note in my pocket.

Speaker 13 I assure you, I didn't. Well, who did?

Speaker 18 Show me. Get off.

Speaker 13 Show me the note.

Speaker 16 What does it say?

Speaker 13 Keep away

Speaker 20 from the moor.

Speaker 18 I guess it is kind of complicated.

Speaker 2 Keep away from the moor.

Speaker 17 Huh.

Speaker 2 It's all.

Speaker 2 Well, it's all letters cut from newspaper headlines.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Except this last one, the R at the end.

Speaker 15 They drew on.

Speaker 2 And someone slipped this into into his pocket?

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 16 I mean, yeah, that's what Henry said.

Speaker 2 And you guys didn't see anybody?

Speaker 2 Even Sherlock didn't see anybody.

Speaker 2 Arguing?

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And look, it didn't necessarily happen in the shop.

Speaker 9 It could have happened anywhere.

Speaker 2 What shop?

Speaker 11 Shoe shop.

Speaker 22 Did you lose your shoes again? No.

Speaker 6 No, Henry did. He lost the shoe.

Speaker 9 It's a long story.

Speaker 15 Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 What's he like?

Speaker 8 Probably alright.

Speaker 6 We just...

Speaker 2 got off on the wrong foot, really.

Speaker 6 He's inheriting Baskerville Hall, so I think our questions came across to him like...

Speaker 6 Yeah, we were accusing him of involvement somehow.

Speaker 2 Do you think he was involved?

Speaker 14 No.

Speaker 14 Wait, do we? Sherlock?

Speaker 11 We have our clues.

Speaker 13 We must handle them with great care, for they are ever so fragile. Wispy threads that we must weave and braid into a hardened cord.

Speaker 2 Okay, great.

Speaker 2 How many threads do you have?

Speaker 15 Three.

Speaker 13 We have the note, we have the missing shoe, and we have our follower.

Speaker 2 Wait, so someone is following you?

Speaker 9 Wait, the shoe is a clue?

Speaker 20 Sure, look.

Speaker 2 You just had to jump in.

Speaker 14 What?

Speaker 2 I asked my question first, okay?

Speaker 2 For me, you know, he's murdered two young women in London, and now he's, by all accounts, uh, roaming across

Speaker 2 through here at Dartmoor. Um, for me, as a local with a wife, with daughters,

Speaker 25 there's your monster roaming the moor.

Speaker 26 I don't think so.

Speaker 16 Crazy, isn't it?

Speaker 27 The police have released security footage today from Dartmoor's families of those Spanish regarding the escape of convicted killer.

Speaker 9 I actually feel it personally, which is ridiculous.

Speaker 25 No, don't

Speaker 2 let that piece of shit hurt any more people, including you.

Speaker 20 They can't help

Speaker 15 feel for those poor people out there on the moor

Speaker 2 living out there. And this guy is on the loose.
Not like he's a burglar who just committed some tax fraud. He killed people, two beautiful girls.

Speaker 11 You'll get him.

Speaker 2 I hope so.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 2 What are you doing?

Speaker 15 Down up.

Speaker 2 You've just had a power nap.

Speaker 8 Shouldn't you be investigating?

Speaker 9 No, I'm waiting for Sherlock.

Speaker 8 Why?

Speaker 6 What do you mean?

Speaker 2 He's stewing. He's thinking.

Speaker 14 Yeah?

Speaker 14 So am I.

Speaker 2 Thinking about what? Exactly.

Speaker 9 Uh, thinking about having a nap.

Speaker 2 John, get out there and help him with the three threads or whatever he calls them.

Speaker 20 I feel excited about this.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no, I will.

Speaker 15 I just

Speaker 8 what?

Speaker 8 Dunno.

Speaker 9 I don't know.

Speaker 25 Talk to me.

Speaker 25 What?

Speaker 9 My track record without Sherlock's.

Speaker 16 Not great, so can I just

Speaker 6 be there for when he needs me?

Speaker 13 Sir Charles Vaskerville's funeral right away. Witches now.

Speaker 26 Wait, let me get dressed.

Speaker 28 We'll walk along the top hill by Baskinville Hall, and

Speaker 28 we can map out the mine shafts, can't we?

Speaker 28 They're always a danger.

Speaker 22 Just hold on a few secs. My torch is a bit.

Speaker 22 I can't see where I'm going.

Speaker 28 Just follow my torch, mate. Just watch a step.

Speaker 28 Ham?

Speaker 28 Ham!

Speaker 28 I

Speaker 21 I can see something

Speaker 29 in here.

Speaker 15 Not a popular man.

Speaker 13 Yes.

Speaker 13 Perhaps forgotten. In his lonely Gothic manner.

Speaker 30 Henry Baskerville would like to speak on Charles, his uncle.

Speaker 18 My mom was American, my dad, English. One summer we'd go to the States, to New York, and the next summer we'd come to England, to Dartmoor, to see Charles.

Speaker 18 In my teenage years, I gotta be honest, I hated the Dartmoor thing.

Speaker 15 The place was old, cold, creepy, and quiet.

Speaker 18 And I never had any service on my...

Speaker 18 I guess I was a Nokia back then.

Speaker 18 And New York just seemed like this whole world of possibility and excitement and expression and everything that you think it's going to be.

Speaker 18 But before I was that starry-eyed teen itching to get out of Rockwood, Ontario, Dartmoor was like a mythical fantasy world.

Speaker 18 My dad and Uncle Charles would take me on these hikes from tour to tour, pointing out the great bogs and mires that festered with little minions and beasts.

Speaker 18 So he and Charles told me. The forests with their little fairies and the pixies burrowing in the undergrowth.
The pubs and the old stone buildings that housed headless horsemen and wicked witches.

Speaker 18 It was a wonderland.

Speaker 24 Yeah, a total wonderland.

Speaker 18 And it's only when I got older, only a few years ago actually,

Speaker 18 when my father died,

Speaker 18 that I realized what I really loved about the place was that I wasn't in Dartmoor.

Speaker 18 I was in the mind of my father and his kooky older brother, Uncle Charles.

Speaker 18 I was invited into their childhood, their stories, their adventures. I wasn't infatuated with the landscapes and the village greens.
I was six years old. I was infatuated with them,

Speaker 18 these two old guys and their magical kingdom.

Speaker 18 But

Speaker 18 we have a

Speaker 18 chemical reaction in us, an instinct that forms at 13, 14, 15, where we

Speaker 18 reject our parents. As best we can.
A hardwired predisposition to go out in the world, to spread, and

Speaker 18 I put these people,

Speaker 18 like Sir Charles, out of my life

Speaker 18 for too long.

Speaker 18 I asked my father for forgiveness at his funeral, and I ask Charles the same now.

Speaker 18 Charles Baskerville was a man of incredible imagination and generosity.

Speaker 18 He was a charitable man, right to the end.

Speaker 15 He

Speaker 18 felt the Baskerville name needed a

Speaker 18 cleansing to buff up the dulled leather into a proud gleam, a good spit shine,

Speaker 12 he used to say.

Speaker 18 He cleaned it up pretty good.

Speaker 18 To the darkness of Baskerville Hall, he brought the light.

Speaker 18 He brought the light.

Speaker 6 Bleak day for a bleak occasion.

Speaker 10 I look at that coffin.

Speaker 15 We cut that bloke open yesterday.

Speaker 16 Jamie couldn't make eye contact with me in there. Guess he's feeling a bit sheepish about now, too.

Speaker 6 A hangover from his tenacious little scheme yesterday

Speaker 13 Yes

Speaker 9 I See you're doing what I'm doing.

Speaker 20 Oh, yes.

Speaker 13 What's that exactly?

Speaker 15 You know what?

Speaker 13 Looking for our

Speaker 17 stalker. Yep

Speaker 13 Although I'm no longer looking for him.

Speaker 24 I'm looking at him

Speaker 13 There's a man I see just there.

Speaker 18 Where?

Speaker 13 Well I can't point described then leaning against the railings of Parliament Square.

Speaker 9 Bearded guy. John!

Speaker 9 Henry, okay.

Speaker 9 We thought we'd come to the service because.

Speaker 18 Paul Bearer down.

Speaker 20 Can you.

Speaker 17 Oh,

Speaker 9 yeah, yeah.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I can do that. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Sherlock, I've just got to.

Speaker 13 Of course.

Speaker 18 Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 14 No, no, no, an honor. Just here.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Okay, gents. We'll go one, two, three, and then we'll lift.
Okay, go slow rise, please. One, one, two, three,

Speaker 2 lift.

Speaker 2 Left,

Speaker 2 right,

Speaker 2 left,

Speaker 2 right.

Speaker 2 That's it.

Speaker 2 Now we're on the three.

Speaker 2 Down slow. One, two, three.

Speaker 15 Gentlemen, slow. Gentle.

Speaker 18 Bye, Uncle Charles.

Speaker 18 Go find your little brother.

Speaker 18 Tell him Henry says hi.

Speaker 13 Thank you, John.

Speaker 14 No problem, Henry.

Speaker 18 I need a drink.

Speaker 18 You figured out my creepy note yet? Because my train leaves in the morning. Going down there with Jamie.

Speaker 9 To Dartmoor?

Speaker 17 Uh-huh.

Speaker 13 So you prefer not to heed the instruction on the mysterious note.

Speaker 18 Nope.

Speaker 18 I think you should come with me. To Dartmoor.
To Vaskerville Hall.

Speaker 17 Why?

Speaker 18 Cause i think yeah it's yeah i agree something is uh

Speaker 9 not right

Speaker 18 i don't think the police are gonna entertain it unless they are seriously bored so i think you should join you have seen him the bearded man

Speaker 18 yeah

Speaker 18 when where i was getting ready this morning showering and i turned the water off and i heard something in my room it i it it was misty and i looked into the mirror opposite above the sink, and I can see into my room.

Speaker 13 The bearded man.

Speaker 18 The bearded man, exactly. I froze.
I mean, I'm not just creeped out. I'm totally naked.
So

Speaker 18 by the time I've come to my senses, he's ran down the corridor and out. Hotel are going to help with the security footage and everything, but I know what he took anyway, so.

Speaker 13 He took something.

Speaker 18 Yeah, of course. He's not just popping by to watch me shower.

Speaker 15 Is he? Not of course.

Speaker 13 Not of course at all.

Speaker 9 What did he take?

Speaker 18 My Blue Jays cap.

Speaker 13 The hat you wore yesterday.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 18 I said to the hotel guys it won't take very long to track him. There's like maybe 10 Blue Jays fans outside of Toronto.
But got the shoe back, so. What? Shoe showed up.

Speaker 14 When?

Speaker 8 Dunno.

Speaker 18 Just saw them. Both shoes on the ground this morning as I left.

Speaker 9 Cleaned. Yep.

Speaker 18 I mean, one had got cleaned already. They did all that shine stuff.
they just took this stupid shoe.

Speaker 16 Why do you think this guy is taking stuff, Sherlock?

Speaker 13 I haven't

Speaker 13 been able to quite understand that just yet.

Speaker 13 An old shoe, but then returned, then an old hockey cap.

Speaker 20 Baseball. Shush.

Speaker 13 Our three threads remain unconnected, but we have the chance to tie them together. However, I fear one thread may be cut.

Speaker 9 What thread is that?

Speaker 15 Oh, not the note.

Speaker 6 That's our biggest clue.

Speaker 13 These letters. Each one was ripped from the Times newspaper, yesterday's Times newspaper.

Speaker 18 You could figure that out? From those cuttings, really?

Speaker 8 Yes.

Speaker 13 I have had the whole night with it. Observe the type-condensed serif with sharp contrast, not the shallower forms of tabloids or supplementary reads.

Speaker 13 The bracketing of these angled serifs, that's Times Modern, used only in the compact edition, not the broadsheet or weekend editions. If we examine the why here from the word away.

Speaker 2 Evidence tampering, a bit there, mate.

Speaker 13 Yes, but as far as the police are concerned, that would be tampering with evidence in the case of the elderly man dying of natural causes.

Speaker 20 Fair enough.

Speaker 13 See this behind the Y.

Speaker 18 Impressions of what?

Speaker 18 A pen?

Speaker 13 Iro pen, yes.

Speaker 13 It's three letters.

Speaker 24 P-R-O.

Speaker 9 Pro.

Speaker 11 What does that mean?

Speaker 13 It's twelve down from yesterday's Times crossword. Introductory session, eight letters.

Speaker 6 Right, so they did the crossword and then cut out a load of letters and stuck them on a bit of paper for a scary note.

Speaker 9 And why not do the last letter?

Speaker 15 Why write the R?

Speaker 13 They did not do the crossword.

Speaker 9 They didn't?

Speaker 13 They didn't. They took the paper from the tube.
Its previous owner did the crossword.

Speaker 18 How exactly do you...

Speaker 13 Every creasing on the very first letter here. S.

Speaker 13 Not just folded, but folded and compressed with some weight, so likely sat on.

Speaker 13 Blackened prints and rub off here and here, so it was somewhere humid, like an underground train carriage on a rainy day as various coats and umbrellas condensate into the thick air.

Speaker 13 And we know it because of the final letter here in the note, the R.

Speaker 16 Written on rather than cut out and stuck on.

Speaker 13 Yes, because what?

Speaker 18 They couldn't find an R in the headlines.

Speaker 13 I've read the paper, and they definitely could have done. So the R was omitted because they were in a hurry.

Speaker 13 The task of tearing out letters and sticking them to the page was slow and laborious for their sudden rushed need. But

Speaker 9 sorry, how does the drawn-on R show that this was a paper off the tube?

Speaker 9 I believe you from the fold and the smudging humidity thing, but because it's not a biro.

Speaker 21 Aha.

Speaker 13 The tube rider had the biro. Our correspondent here took the paper from the tube once discarded, began their tearing and sticking, and then used a pencil for the final letter.

Speaker 13 The R here is sketched and scribbled on over and over, so no discernible handwriting analysis could be done.

Speaker 6 So they're trying their best to remain elusive.

Speaker 13 Right down to the wearing of gloves to do the act, sadly. And unfortunately, the paper wasn't the only thing they took from the tube journey.
That is where they found their adhesive, too.

Speaker 18 What the hell are you talking about?

Speaker 13 Gum, Mr. Basqueville.
I'm talking about gum.

Speaker 2 Oh, Jesus. What?

Speaker 10 As in chewing gum.

Speaker 15 Indeed.

Speaker 6 They chewed gum and then stuck down each letter with it.

Speaker 13 They did not. They picked up strangers' gum instead.
Oh, for

Speaker 9 why?

Speaker 6 That is disgusting.

Speaker 13 Yes, but it allows for very little in the form of DNA forensics, doesn't it? Rather ingenious, really.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah, ingeniously disgusting.

Speaker 18 So, no trackable clues? Not even, like, I don't know, the paper quality or style?

Speaker 13 A5 notepad. It most likely contained a logo, but that has been ripped off in the bottom corner.

Speaker 11 See?

Speaker 21 Ah, yeah.

Speaker 13 I suspect from a hotel. The pencil would have been provided with it, I imagine.

Speaker 13 But that's all I can do, sadly.

Speaker 13 Imagine

Speaker 13 our first

Speaker 13 broken threat.

Speaker 9 A dead end.

Speaker 13 Then

Speaker 10 we must grab the next.

Speaker 2 Oh! Sherlock, what are you doing? What?

Speaker 7 Look out the window and see for yourself.

Speaker 2 Holy shit, the bearded man.

Speaker 29 Go, go, go.

Speaker 29 Sherlock, he's heading to Westminster Bridge.

Speaker 12 I see that.

Speaker 20 Are you okay?

Speaker 8 Yes, just keep running.

Speaker 2 He's getting into a car. Ah, Balance.
Hey, don't take that guy. Ah, shit.
Southbound. They're going southbound across the bridge.

Speaker 8 Great, why is there no traffic? There's always traffic, but right now, fucking nothing.

Speaker 2 Excuse me, out of the way. This way.
What? That's a McDonald's. Yes, I know.
Ah, sorry.

Speaker 29 I didn't realise you wanted to stop off for a bloody Big Mac.

Speaker 31 Yes, it's Emily's birthday. And she's gone to see Big Ben.

Speaker 31 and now she's getting a happy meal, aren't you, Emily? Say hi to Nanny. Give me your keys to your scooter now.
Ah, Mary! Oh my gosh. Sherlock, you giant idiot.
What the fuck are you doing?

Speaker 31 Keys now.

Speaker 31 Okay, okay, okay. Keys.
Thank you. I'm so sorry, everyone.
I am so sorry. Mate, are you okay? Go on.

Speaker 31 If you're going to take his bike, did you order number 148? Um.

Speaker 29 You did what? I told you is the least we could do for stealing the bike. We're not stealing it, we're borrowing it

Speaker 29 because we are busy. Busy with something much more important than a McCrispy chicken burger.
It's the McSpicy chicken burger, to be accurate. Oh, shut up.

Speaker 29 Where do we think he went? Once we reach the end of Westminster Bridge, we have two options. The A3200 or the A3036.

Speaker 29 Okay, what one do we fancy? The last I saw of the cab, it was in the right of the two lanes. So we think he went right? We can think and we can hope, dear Watson.
Go, go, go! Make the green light.

Speaker 29 Green, red, or bloody purple, we're going through it.

Speaker 17 See you!

Speaker 20 That's a busy road.

Speaker 29 Sorry. Cabs up ahead.
Get in. One of them can be our guy.
Come here, you big beardy bastard. We're looking for license plate AL124BY.

Speaker 29 You're so good at that. Thank you.
I mean, you are good at lots of things. Oh, Watson, you're too kind.
You're bad at lots of stuff, too.

Speaker 29 This is just what we need in our team. You know, I think sometimes I struggle with the courage of my conviction.

Speaker 29 I'm having a lot of self-doubt because I think of myself as just part of you, not really my own person, and I need to rebuild that.

Speaker 29 I don't want to just jettison myself rather than

Speaker 30 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 19 Large and spicy meal. With um

Speaker 12 fries are just everywhere in the bottom of the bag.

Speaker 10 That's

Speaker 13 that's not ketchup, that's blood.

Speaker 19 So go easy on that.

Speaker 2 Thanks.

Speaker 29 Yeah, enjoy.

Speaker 13 Bon appetite.

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Speaker 13 Ow! Well, if you remained still, I'd be able to stitch.

Speaker 9 You can't stitch.

Speaker 6 Is that why you're struggling to stitch it?

Speaker 6 Is it one of your special threads? Is it mate, the one poking out of my neck?

Speaker 13 Firstly, it's not your neck, it's your shoulder. Secondly, as I told you, the first thread has been broken because the note leads us to a dead end.

Speaker 2 What about the security camera from the shoe shop?

Speaker 6 You said.

Speaker 13 They don't monitor it. The city council do, and they won't give me access.

Speaker 2 Well, ask the p- Ow!

Speaker 6 Ask the police.

Speaker 18 I have.

Speaker 2 And?

Speaker 13 They're being uncooperative and blaming bad funding and busy workloads.

Speaker 20 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 Ah, right. Okay, enough.

Speaker 29 So sorry.

Speaker 32 Remind me again.

Speaker 13 You need a TFL customer service agent.

Speaker 15 Nope.

Speaker 13 We have a meeting with a driver. It was arranged by the TFL general manager of taxi and private hire.
Right, of course.

Speaker 6 On the phone, he said he'll be here waiting for us.

Speaker 13 Okay, just a couple of minutes.

Speaker 32 I think I know where they are.

Speaker 6 Great. Thank you.

Speaker 2 Ow, stop prodding it.

Speaker 15 Hello there. Alright.

Speaker 14 Hi, yeah.

Speaker 30 Look, I don't know what you got against me, right? Because the guidance states that for license renewal, as long as the paperwork is complete.

Speaker 13 I have nothing against you. Oh, right.
On the contrary, I'll have a hundred pounds for you if you can answer some questions.

Speaker 15 Really?

Speaker 24 What kind of questions?

Speaker 11 Like your name.

Speaker 13 Let's start with that.

Speaker 30 John Clayton.

Speaker 13 Okay, Mr. Clayton.
Do you recognize us?

Speaker 15 Yep.

Speaker 13 When When was the last time you saw us?

Speaker 30 Uh, you were chasing the cab down Lambeth Palace Road. That fella came off of the roundabout.

Speaker 9 Yeah, yeah, that fella did.

Speaker 11 And it bloody hurt.

Speaker 13 Did that alarm you?

Speaker 17 Well, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 13 And your passenger, was he alarmed?

Speaker 29 He was pretty, um, alarmed.

Speaker 30 Right from when I picked him up, to be honest, yeah.

Speaker 12 Why?

Speaker 2 Don't know.

Speaker 13 Did he tell you to flee from us? I noted you broke the speed limit on a couple of occasions.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he said something about that.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 13 What did he say?

Speaker 30 He said you were thugs.

Speaker 30 You tried robbing him.

Speaker 14 Did you believe him?

Speaker 9 Well, for a bit, yeah.

Speaker 13 Where did you drop him?

Speaker 30 At Stockwell. He said he lived in Stockwell all his life, but

Speaker 22 has a bit suspect, huh?

Speaker 30 Why? Well, he didn't know after places I mentioned, did he?

Speaker 13 You think he was lying? Yeah, I do.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 30 I sent to him,

Speaker 30 I said, I think you're being a bit dodgy. I said it right to him as he got out.

Speaker 13 How did he react to that?

Speaker 30 He said it was because he was a detective.

Speaker 30 He.

Speaker 16 he's a detective?

Speaker 30 Well, that's that's what he said.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Did he say anything else?

Speaker 30 Well, he dropped his name like it was a big shot or something.

Speaker 13 Well, well, that is rather imprudent of our Master Stalker. Could I ask what his name was, Mr.
Clayton?

Speaker 20 Yeah, it's a weird first name.

Speaker 30 It's Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 17 Haha.

Speaker 10 How devious.

Speaker 17 How...

Speaker 17 Um.

Speaker 14 Hmm.

Speaker 14 Sherlock.

Speaker 13 What a clever little trick.

Speaker 22 Everything alright.

Speaker 30 Do you know him or something?

Speaker 12 Sherlock, where are you, mate? Okay.

Speaker 20 What?

Speaker 20 What is it? What?

Speaker 30 What was all that about? No,

Speaker 6 it's nothing you did, John.

Speaker 30 Is he a nasty piece of work, is he? This Sherlock Holmes fella?

Speaker 6 Um, he can be

Speaker 6 when things don't go his way.

Speaker 6 Thanks again, mate.

Speaker 18 Sorry, mate.

Speaker 6 You forget something.

Speaker 30 What? The hundred quid.

Speaker 8 Oh, uh, it's

Speaker 12 great. That's great.

Speaker 6 Yep. Uh, sorry, mate.

Speaker 30 No cash. Well, I do take cards.

Speaker 2 Oh, well.

Speaker 6 Thank goodness for that. Lovely.

Speaker 19 Cheers, fella.

Speaker 33 Big, stupid ass. Ah, bollocks and pits and balls.
Ah, shiting, stupid, bollocking bugger.

Speaker 2 So how was the funeral?

Speaker 9 Yeah, very moving.

Speaker 9 Very, very solemn.

Speaker 25 Did Henry get the

Speaker 2 get the chance to um pay his respects?

Speaker 2 Pay his respects?

Speaker 6 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 19 Yeah, it was it was quite sad, actually.

Speaker 9 It made me think of my uncle, you know, when my dad died at the at the funeral.

Speaker 9 You know what, we'll do this later. Sherlock!

Speaker 13 Yes, my dear Watson.

Speaker 14 We can hear you.

Speaker 13 Hear me doing what?

Speaker 13 Was I playing the violin a smidge too loud? Silly me. How inconsiderate.

Speaker 2 We can hear you swearing.

Speaker 25 Who me?

Speaker 13 I'm a man of class. Hmm, perhaps it was street noise from below.
This country has gone to the hogs. Totally unacceptable.
It's dogs.

Speaker 6 The country has gone to the dogs, and we know it's you, mate.

Speaker 13 Yes, well. It is proven that swearing releases stress, tension, and even emotional pain.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, proper swearing, not that tweed Paddington bear nonsense you're getting up to in there, mate.

Speaker 2 Fuck off.

Speaker 13 I apologize.

Speaker 15 Thank you.

Speaker 2 It just doesn't suit you.

Speaker 13 No, it never has.

Speaker 6 Are you gonna tell us why you're so upset?

Speaker 6 Do you need to lie down on the couch while I charge you 300 quid an hour? Cause I'm happy to do it.

Speaker 13 The third thread is broken.

Speaker 2 Three broken threads.

Speaker 13 Three

Speaker 13 broken threads.

Speaker 2 The note?

Speaker 13 Broken.

Speaker 13 Dead end, afraid end at best.

Speaker 18 What about the shoe?

Speaker 13 A shoe returned. And now a cheap hat.

Speaker 24 Inexplicable.

Speaker 13 A thread so knotted and confusing, I can't untie it.

Speaker 2 And a stalker?

Speaker 13 Lost.

Speaker 13 Slipped through our fingers and weaved into the vast fabric of this city.

Speaker 6 Hey, let's take stock.

Speaker 6 It's been two days. Yeah, two bloody days.
It's not the end of it, is it? This is the beginning.

Speaker 13 This needs to be a quick assignment. We are stretched.

Speaker 13 mariana how many active cases do we have right now i mean nothing urgent we're helping the police with a couple of things but um no plans see we may not have a case but we have an investigation i do at least can we pause that sorry pause what sherlock is once again transfixed by that man the spider I need to speak to Armstrong once more to understand the threat against me.

Speaker 6 You are rising to the bait of deliberate antagonists, Milverton, Armstrong, that are trying to rile you with the spider bloke.

Speaker 2 Oh, we're hunting Spider-Man. Are we the bad guys or...

Speaker 9 A Metchazura, another person trying to wind you up.

Speaker 13 You must understand that I weigh the threat of cases very seriously.

Speaker 2 Sherlock, in all seriousness, you should go to Dartmoor.

Speaker 13 I think it out of the question to leave London, especially as I hunt this individual.

Speaker 9 Sherlock, come on.

Speaker 2 They could do with a... I don't know, like literally the best brain in the country to help them out?

Speaker 13 I'm not the best brain in the country, and quite frankly, I'd half a a mind to consult with such a person this week.

Speaker 6 We have a case, the case of the Baskervilles, right?

Speaker 6 Old man dead, some hellhound stalking the land, a shoe taken and a cap missing, creepy beard guy sneaking into showers.

Speaker 2 I mean come on

Speaker 2 where are you going? We have Stephen Selden on the loose. See?

Speaker 13 Look. I have seen it, Mariana.

Speaker 2 Then fix it.

Speaker 10 Well, all right, let's calm down.

Speaker 13 I have to think.

Speaker 2 Yeah, think about how you can find a witsy racehorse on Dartmoor, but you can't find a killer.

Speaker 9 Mariana will be back later.

Speaker 6 Want me to come?

Speaker 6 No.

Speaker 25 A lot going on everywhere.

Speaker 26 There are no signs of Stephen Seldom.

Speaker 26 I said,

Speaker 23 I can see something, Niall.

Speaker 21 Well, what? What? Bloody what?

Speaker 22 Just point your phone over there.

Speaker 20 Where?

Speaker 20 There!

Speaker 20 By the door.

Speaker 20 I can't see anything, Anne.

Speaker 28 What am I supposed to be looking at?

Speaker 22 Because I.

Speaker 22 Don't

Speaker 22 move.

Speaker 2 Selden.

Speaker 2 no, no, no, tabía estambuscando.

Speaker 17 Mm-hmm, si.

Speaker 2 Well, because

Speaker 2 complicated

Speaker 2 notís very,

Speaker 15 okay, valent.

Speaker 2 Si si, notebook. Lamos habando estácemana.
Con lo que se a

Speaker 2 ya ti cuento, vale?

Speaker 2 Ok.

Speaker 2 Adios, adios, presito.

Speaker 9 Oh man, What did I miss?

Speaker 2 Nothing, unless you speak Spanish.

Speaker 30 I should probably go to bed.

Speaker 6 No sign of Shells.

Speaker 17 Mm-mm.

Speaker 2 Nothing yet.

Speaker 9 Who were you talking to? Hm?

Speaker 2 Oh, a friend from back home.

Speaker 8 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 What's happening in all Hispania?

Speaker 2 Well, they're all asking me what's going on here.

Speaker 8 Really?

Speaker 2 Yeah, the

Speaker 2 the Selden thing.

Speaker 10 Of course, yeah, the Spanish girls.

Speaker 2 Yep, it's like my mom and my friend.

Speaker 2 Well, actually, quite a few friends are saying.

Speaker 8 Alright, alright, I get it.

Speaker 9 You got more than one friend. Ooh.

Speaker 8 Haha, shut up.

Speaker 2 They're saying it's all over the news there.

Speaker 25 Every day.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I bet.

Speaker 13 I mean, we do the same.

Speaker 6 What's the latest, possibly remote?

Speaker 23 No.

Speaker 2 No, no, no. I don't want to read or see any more about it.
I'm just getting madder and madder. I just want...

Speaker 2 To stroke this beautiful boy

Speaker 2 and go to bed.

Speaker 6 You wanna take him down to 221A with you? He's a therapy dog. You know, he only charges £300 an hour, and he's happy to do it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, maybe you can come and cuddle with me, right, Archie boy? If I'm doom-scrolling, you have to bite the phone out of my hand, okay?

Speaker 8 Yeah? Better deal?

Speaker 6 I don't think Archie would bite someone if his life depended on it.

Speaker 14 And my life too, unfortunately.

Speaker 6 You, mate, are a long way from a terrifying demonic hound.

Speaker 14 A long, long way.

Speaker 23 How's Jamie Morton?

Speaker 11 Uh, goes back tomorrow.

Speaker 2 Is he still struggling?

Speaker 16 Yep, he is.

Speaker 6 Those misty moors are making him lose it.

Speaker 6 He is heading back with Henry, though, so.

Speaker 2 Oh, nice, nice. At least he has company.

Speaker 9 Yeah, and that's what Henry would want from us, but

Speaker 2 John? What?

Speaker 2 You have to go.

Speaker 9 Mariana, it...

Speaker 2 You did not mess up. Before you say it, before you even think it,

Speaker 2 you did not mess up.

Speaker 9 Name a case that I've cracked. Name one.
John.

Speaker 6 Lady Frances.

Speaker 9 Was put in charge. Cocked it up.
Someone nearly died. Missing three-quarter, cocked it up, and now Sherlock is still trying to tidy up after it.

Speaker 9 I'm not going down to Dartmoor to bumble around like some idiot.

Speaker 2 What are you going to do in London?

Speaker 6 Whatever he thinks is the best thing to do.

Speaker 13 The best thing to do.

Speaker 29 God, Jesus.

Speaker 9 When did you come in? Pack your things.

Speaker 13 Get the train with Henry and Jamie.

Speaker 9 Uh, yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Want me to look at accommodation?

Speaker 13 Baskerville Hall. Oh.

Speaker 9 All right. Uh, if Henry doesn't mind, what you're doing clothing-wise, is it rain the whole time?

Speaker 13 I won't be coming.

Speaker 13 What? Mariana will.

Speaker 6 Sorry, Sherlock. You're the one that wanted this case.

Speaker 13 My presence in Dartmoor will not be advantageous.

Speaker 6 It will be for case-solving, mate. That is what we do.

Speaker 13 I disagree.

Speaker 2 I'll go pack my stuff.

Speaker 13 You seem eager, Mariana.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I want to help.

Speaker 13 With our events at Baskerville Hall, I hope.

Speaker 15 Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Speaker 23 See you in the morning, John. Well, it hold on.

Speaker 13 Good night, John. Sherlock.
There'll be no violin tonight.

Speaker 13 You'll need your sleep.

Speaker 21 Sherlock.

Speaker 26 You are not luminous, Watson. Lovely, thank you.
But you are a conductor of light.

Speaker 6 A conductor of light.

Speaker 26 But you are a a conductor of light.

Speaker 26 A conductor of light.

Speaker 21 But he won't eat the dry food unless he puts something in it, like peas or pan, or sometimes I just let it miss. Well, his backup symptoms are beginning to make sense.

Speaker 2 But in the evening, he can do the wet food.

Speaker 12 That's right.

Speaker 24 We'll see about that.

Speaker 2 And then, um...

Speaker 29 Oh, emails.

Speaker 2 I'm going to see them anyway, but sometimes people like to think they can book a point.

Speaker 2 So what I do is send them back this warm feet here.

Speaker 9 Morning. Good morning, John.

Speaker 2 Hey, you sleep okay?

Speaker 8 It was

Speaker 15 all right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay, you know what? I'm just gonna email you the instructions, okay?

Speaker 13 Yes, of course.

Speaker 8 John, you ready? I am.

Speaker 9 Yeah,

Speaker 6 do we need to literally fly out the door right this second?

Speaker 2 I booked us on the train with Jamie and Henry, so yeah. Great, cool.

Speaker 15 I'll, um,

Speaker 6 you shout for a cab, I'll just say bye to Arch.

Speaker 8 Okay, sure.

Speaker 15 Where is it?

Speaker 13 Where is what?

Speaker 15 You know what?

Speaker 13 Your gun.

Speaker 15 Our gun.

Speaker 13 You wish to use it.

Speaker 9 I wish I wasn't going by myself.

Speaker 13 You're not going by yourself.

Speaker 15 You're going with Mariana. You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 Where is the gun?

Speaker 13 You feel you need it, do you?

Speaker 6 Oh, with the monsters and the murderers?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I do. Mate.

Speaker 15 It has been taken. What?

Speaker 15 When?

Speaker 13 I can only wish you luck. I wish I felt better in my mind about it.

Speaker 15 About what?

Speaker 15 About sending you.

Speaker 13 It's an ugly business, Watson. An ugly, dangerous business.
And the more I see of it,

Speaker 13 the less I like it.

Speaker 13 I shall be very glad to have you back safe and sound in Baker Street once more.

Speaker 9 Ready?

Speaker 9 Don't

Speaker 9 move.

Speaker 9 God Almighty.

Speaker 9 It's coming for us. It's coming.
It's coming.

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