The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part Eight
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SHERLOCK AND CO. Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Speaker 8 Stephen Selden has been found guilty of the murder of Valeria Yanez and Carla Rosas. Wicked, reckless, cruel individual, a demon among us.
Speaker 8 He is deserving of every second in the darkened chambers of Dartmoor prison.
Speaker 17 I actually feel it personally, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 10 No, John, don't
Speaker 10 let that piece of shit hurt any more people, including me.
Speaker 2 I can't help
Speaker 2 feel for those poor people out there on the moor.
Speaker 10 Living out there, and this guy is on the loose.
Speaker 10 Not like he's a burglar who just committed some tax fraud he killed people two beautiful girls oh i feel so so crap i'm gonna go back to bed i think henry henry are you out here open
Speaker 14 ah older than you are boy
Speaker 19 rosemary i know you've been crying get out of my house
Speaker 2 henry you
Speaker 19 who's that hello
Speaker 2 i can hear you
Speaker 2 you're the
Speaker 2 man on the moor yeah he you're so yeah frank chucked me out of the house.
Speaker 22
Pointed a gun at my face. No wonder his wife has been crying all night.
And the light. They keep switching that light on and off and on and off.
Speaker 23 They're sending messages.
Speaker 22 There's messages to someone on the moor.
Speaker 13
Take this. Your necklace.
Take it. You'll understand when you see it.
Speaker 11 This. I need a car.
Speaker 24 That you mister State.
Speaker 2 Oh my god.
Speaker 20 It's everywhere.
Speaker 22
I've stood in a puddle of it. It's all over the rocks.
Did someone fall on these?
Speaker 2 No.
Speaker 2 What is that?
Speaker 20 A severed arm.
Speaker 13 Jesus.
Speaker 2 Who's Hum?
Speaker 2 Shut up.
Speaker 2 Clambered down these rocks.
Speaker 22 Half mutilated.
Speaker 8 Blood pouring out of them in a torrent.
Speaker 25 Their body breached, torn at, dismembered.
Speaker 26 Until finally...
Speaker 24 Defeated.
Speaker 13 And.
Speaker 8 No.
Speaker 2 Who is that? No.
Speaker 2
No, no, no. No, no, no.
Henry, Henry, Henry. Move away, Watson! No! We don't know!
Speaker 20 The face is half consistent.
Speaker 2 This is Jackets!
Speaker 12 Oh, sorry!
Speaker 19 I'm so sorry, Henry.
Speaker 2 John!
Speaker 22 I let him go and he died, Sherlock.
Speaker 2 I let him go and he died.
Speaker 2 John.
Speaker 2 Come here, John.
Speaker 2 Gwen, it's me.
Speaker 2 I haven't driven a vehicle for some time, so you'll have to forgive my my waving concentration.
Speaker 25 I'm afraid I may require your services down on Dartmoor.
Speaker 25 A body has been found.
Speaker 25 I have what remains
Speaker 13 of the remains
Speaker 27 in this car.
Speaker 9 Along with my Dr. Watson,
Speaker 2 who is in dire need of of a rest,
Speaker 2 would be good to see you.
Speaker 2 No,
Speaker 2 no, what?
Speaker 11 I'm not going in there.
Speaker 25 The Barrymores have a right to know the news.
Speaker 11 They have a right to nothing. John.
Speaker 13 Sherlock.
Speaker 11 They took Sir Charles's rooms.
Speaker 23
They're communicating with someone or something right where Henry was killed. He literally held me at gunpoint.
Oh, and by the way, his beard looks familiar, doesn't it, mate? Hmm?
Speaker 13 No?
Speaker 23 Nothing?
Speaker 23 Not suspecting the man that trains dogs to kill for a living. No?
Speaker 23 The great detective, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 25 The investigation is a work in progress.
Speaker 11 Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 Not quite unbelievable, but it would require some evidence.
Speaker 25 Them.
Speaker 23 You.
Speaker 13 What?
Speaker 23 Hey, Britain's biggest brain. How about you actually use it?
Speaker 25 How exactly am I not using my brain?
Speaker 23 You sent me down here. I told you to come.
Speaker 8 Technically, I did come, just not with you.
Speaker 23
Oh, right, yeah. You sent me with Mariana.
Where is she, by the way?
Speaker 26 Mariana.
Speaker 13 I'm angry.
Speaker 25 The stages of grief are well documented.
Speaker 22 Not with the death of Henry.
Speaker 13 I'm fucking heartbroken about that.
Speaker 23 Mate, I'm angry with you, at you.
Speaker 13 Why?
Speaker 23 What do you mean? Why? You abandoned me.
Speaker 25 Again, I was here. Yeah.
Speaker 23 Yeah, and funnily enough, when I started to put clues together, started to actually get a foothold on the investigation, to find some firm footing after floundering around in this bog of a case.
Speaker 23 And then, oh, look, you show up.
Speaker 26 I found you crying in the rain.
Speaker 13 Oh, shut.
Speaker 23
Just go in. Do what you need to do.
Take the spare mic.
Speaker 11 I don't have it.
Speaker 23
Yes, you do. I know you do.
Well, you're incorrect. Well, I'm correct, actually, because it wasn't in the drawer, and you obviously had this little excursion planned from the start.
Speaker 4 I don't have the spare microphone.
Speaker 25 I will take that one if it matters that much to you.
Speaker 23
No, no, do you know what? Don't bother. This one isn't going out.
The case of the mutilated Canadian, I feel, might not get that many plaudits, mate. Sure, you'd agree.
In you go. Bye-bye.
Speaker 11 And what will you do?
Speaker 23 I'm gonna drive to the station and go home.
Speaker 7 With a corpse in the back seat.
Speaker 23 Maybe I will. Then I'm taking the keys.
Speaker 23
Fine. Fine.
Then I'm waiting here until you come back and you're driving me.
Speaker 26 Fine.
Speaker 26 Um,
Speaker 13 Henry,
Speaker 13 it's me, mate.
Speaker 11 I hope you're comfortable
Speaker 28 back there.
Speaker 11 I had to put your seat belt on because the little sensor things and it.
Speaker 29 Yeah.
Speaker 11 I just wanna say
Speaker 11 it was really nice
Speaker 11 getting to know you.
Speaker 23 I I think you're a
Speaker 25 I think you were a really cool guy.
Speaker 23 I hope that
Speaker 28 no,
Speaker 28 I mean, well, yeah, I
Speaker 11 hope that you could at least find
Speaker 28 I don't know, some comfort in the final seconds.
Speaker 11 Maybe the thing let you be.
Speaker 11 Maybe we scared it off and you had some time to reflect
Speaker 13 to be at peace.
Speaker 26 I don't know, maybe you went quickly.
Speaker 28 I hope so.
Speaker 28 You go be with your dad
Speaker 13 and your uncle, mate.
Speaker 13 I'm so
Speaker 11 so sorry I let you down.
Speaker 11 Following your heart is a
Speaker 11 dangerous, bloody thing.
Speaker 11 It's a dangerous thing.
Speaker 11 I'll reach out to friends and colleagues for you back in Canada.
Speaker 11 I don't imagine you'll fancy being buried here
Speaker 13 in the plot.
Speaker 13 Bloody Baskervilles.
Speaker 11 Well, they saved the best till last.
Speaker 11 The last of the Baskervilles, end of the line.
Speaker 13 End of the line.
Speaker 28 I should probably tell Jamie and Mariana, because I don't think Sherlock will do a very good job.
Speaker 11 It's not really his strong suit.
Speaker 13 What the fuck?
Speaker 30 Sherlock!
Speaker 30 Sherlock! Sherlock!
Speaker 13 Jesus Christ, what are you okay?
Speaker 23 I'm alright.
Speaker 31 Someone's been shot, Sherlock.
Speaker 1 It's Mariana.
Speaker 22 St.
Speaker 2 John's Regent's Park Hotel.
Speaker 19 Chop, chop.
Speaker 22 Do you fancy a cup of tea before
Speaker 10 we? And he's gone. Yep.
Speaker 23 See ya.
Speaker 2 Bye.
Speaker 10
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Speaker 2 Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 Come on, Mike, for God's sake.
Speaker 13 Until next time, listeners. Bye.
Speaker 2 Morning.
Speaker 8 Good morning, John.
Speaker 13 Hey, did you sleep okay?
Speaker 12 It was.
Speaker 2 Alright, yeah.
Speaker 10 Okay, you know what? I'm just gonna email you the instructors, I think.
Speaker 2 Yes, of course.
Speaker 12 John, you ready?
Speaker 2 I am. Yeah.
Speaker 22 Do we need to literally fly out the door right this second?
Speaker 10 I booked us on the train with Jamie and Henry, so...
Speaker 13 Yeah. Great, cool.
Speaker 2 I'll, um...
Speaker 22 You shout for a cab. I'll just say bye to Arch.
Speaker 13 Okay.
Speaker 16 Where is it?
Speaker 4 Where is what?
Speaker 2 No, what?
Speaker 9 You're gone.
Speaker 2 Oh, well.
Speaker 13 Hey, taxi!
Speaker 26 The R Mills, Tavis Bock Police Station, Devon and Cornwall Police.
Speaker 16 Hello, Inspector. I'm getting in touch to request a favour.
Speaker 2 I'm not in the business.
Speaker 16 Branching Favours, Willy-Nilly. Then it's an instruction mate.
Speaker 7 Did you sleep okay? I mean...
Speaker 10 Oh, I'm so aky and tired.
Speaker 5 I just passed out.
Speaker 6 And what about Mariana?
Speaker 23 She's a bit under the weather, actually, but she is with us.
Speaker 16 Sorry, who is this?
Speaker 16 D.I. Tom Gregson, Scotland Yard.
Speaker 16 So sorry about that. I um that was a that's a communication hiccup we have here in the system.
Speaker 16 We have one of our third-party agents coming in today.
Speaker 16 She's assisted us on a number of occasions these past couple of years.
Speaker 16 I want you to share everything you have on Stephen Selden with her.
Speaker 16 Understood, understood. And um,
Speaker 16 what's her name?
Speaker 10 My name is Mariana Metyathura.
Speaker 32 Of course, I'll take you through to New Inspector Mills this way.
Speaker 6 Ah, Mr. Patras Ori.
Speaker 10 Ametchathura. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 26
I've actually, I've just gone back from Maorca, and I think your country is fantastic. Beautiful.
I love the pubs. Um, take a seat.
Speaker 13 Um,
Speaker 13 look,
Speaker 26 thanks for popping by. Um, I understand you are looking into the disappearance of Stephen Selden.
Speaker 10 A prison break, a convicted felon on the run, a fugitive.
Speaker 28 Yes, uh, yeah, all of the above.
Speaker 26 Tick, tick, tick, eh?
Speaker 10 A little more unusual than a disappearance, Inspector.
Speaker 26 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, you're right.
Speaker 26 So I have...
Speaker 26 Well, what I've done is I have all the reports here
Speaker 26 filed by my officers.
Speaker 10 Where do you suggest I start?
Speaker 26 Well,
Speaker 26 these ones here are day of...
Speaker 10 Day of prison break.
Speaker 26 That's right. So this is mostly prison staff after they've elevated the situation to us.
Speaker 33 So these are written reports here.
Speaker 26 And these numbers here are the recorded conversations.
Speaker 10 Okay, recorded conversations?
Speaker 13 Audio-visual.
Speaker 26 So, some recorded on tape, as it were.
Speaker 26 What we used to call tape, we don't call tape anymore.
Speaker 26 And then some on body cam,
Speaker 26 some straightforward video.
Speaker 11 So,
Speaker 26 yeah.
Speaker 13 Right.
Speaker 10 And um what do you have in terms of LKL or PSA?
Speaker 10 Last known location and priority search area?
Speaker 3 No, yes.
Speaker 26 Yeah, no, I knew that, I knew that, I knew that one.
Speaker 7 Um, a few locations.
Speaker 26 Uh, yeah, we believe uh the Moors,
Speaker 26 mostly. Yep.
Speaker 10 The Moors.
Speaker 11 Correct.
Speaker 10 You think he's still on actual Dartmoor?
Speaker 26 We do.
Speaker 34 How?
Speaker 26 Our way of looking at it is we would have located the gentleman, the
Speaker 26 killer, if he'd returned to civilization, as it were.
Speaker 10 Yeah, we passed a police checkpoint on the way in.
Speaker 26 Exactly.
Speaker 33 That's what they're there for.
Speaker 26 Wait him out.
Speaker 13 Starve him out.
Speaker 26 Have you entered the uh starving Steven sweepsteak in the office?
Speaker 10 Unless he's finding food.
Speaker 11 Finding food.
Speaker 26 Before long, he'll become food. Out there, Miss Amadchikam Fanderboyor.
Speaker 13 Stop.
Speaker 10
Stop trying that. Mariana is fine.
Mariana, yeah.
Speaker 13 Right.
Speaker 26 Yes, anyway, this, these, and these
Speaker 26 are reports filed
Speaker 13 here.
Speaker 26 Dealing, yeah, mostly with local people, basically.
Speaker 10 Witnesses.
Speaker 26 We don't have what you would call a verified witness as such, but we have claims of sightings and what have you.
Speaker 13 Okay,
Speaker 10 why is this the first thing I'm hearing of sightings?
Speaker 26 Well, uh, our local population have quite the imagination, um, so yes, so I've noticed, but surely these should have been made public.
Speaker 13 What
Speaker 26 all hundred and twenty of them.
Speaker 13 Oh,
Speaker 26 Exactly.
Speaker 16 And on duty at the time in this wing
Speaker 16 is yourself?
Speaker 13 I think it.
Speaker 16
Uh yep, okay, so it was myself. That's P.O.
Myers.
Speaker 16
There was P.O. Lee and P.O.
Colville.
Speaker 16
Talk me through what happened, P.O. Myers.
You inspected his cell? No, not quite. Some of the inmates had initially told us that...
So, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry to cut you off, but confirming now.
Speaker 16
They had come forward of their own volition and told you. Yes, they had, yeah.
That Stephen Selden had escaped. That's correct.
Right. Okay.
Speaker 16 And you then elevated that to the police?
Speaker 16
We would elevate to our OSG, first and foremost. Your OSG.
So that's an operational support grade and they, well, Nigel,
Speaker 16 would determine the best action. So you did that?
Speaker 13 Well not no. Not at that point, no.
Speaker 16 Why not?
Speaker 16 Because we didn't believe them.
Speaker 16 God.
Speaker 13 You didn't believe the inmates. That's correct.
Speaker 16 Why didn't you believe them? Well,
Speaker 16 because they
Speaker 16 they're not to be
Speaker 13 trusted on most things.
Speaker 13 Okay,
Speaker 16 um, what sorry, why would they joke about this?
Speaker 16 I
Speaker 16 don't know. When did you elevate that evening
Speaker 16 because he was absent from his cell? That is correct, yeah.
Speaker 15 And this is where Selden moves from the cafeteria here on this shot to the laundry facilities, which you can see on this camera.
Speaker 15 In the laundry facilities, he had a temporary pass, which we believe he stole.
Speaker 15 He goes through the laundry room into a well, not so much a closet, but a
Speaker 15 I suppose a janitorial room, storage room.
Speaker 15 It has a window, yes.
Speaker 16 And you can see
Speaker 16 there.
Speaker 15 Well, no, well, it is locked.
Speaker 13 But he
Speaker 15 just there,
Speaker 15 that's where he breaks the lock,
Speaker 15 and
Speaker 15 he's out.
Speaker 15 And then we switch to the external
Speaker 15 and he goes into the wheelie bin.
Speaker 15 Correct.
Speaker 35 He remains in there for, we believe, a day.
Speaker 26 And he doesn't come out at all, no?
Speaker 15 Not while the bins are in the compound. Yeah.
Speaker 15 But once the bins are
Speaker 15 taken out,
Speaker 15 he's then out of the reach of our cameras.
Speaker 15 I'll speak to the council.
Speaker 16 Hopefully he got tipped into a lorry and crushed.
Speaker 13 Eh? That's doubtful.
Speaker 26 I know.
Speaker 11 That's That's obviously when he escapes off-site.
Speaker 11 But before collection.
Speaker 11 Bastard.
Speaker 11 Alright.
Speaker 10 Thank you so much. That's no problem at all.
Speaker 2 Everything alright, Miss.
Speaker 28 Mariana.
Speaker 10 Yes, uh, lots of work. I'm gonna go speak to these people.
Speaker 11 Following up those leads, are ya?
Speaker 28 Yeah.
Speaker 29 Yeah.
Speaker 10 Uh, hopefully, something will come to light.
Speaker 26 We'll catch up tomorrow.
Speaker 33 Compare notes.
Speaker 13 Mhm, sure.
Speaker 13 Good luck.
Speaker 26 You'll need it.
Speaker 8 Uh, just drop them in in the shed.
Speaker 10 Oh, no, no, no, I'm not delivering anything. Um, are you Liam Thompson?
Speaker 13 I am, yeah.
Speaker 10 I'm investigating the Stephen Selden case.
Speaker 13 Oh shit, wait, uh, no, wait, let me record, let me record.
Speaker 10 What? Record?
Speaker 24 You're a YouTuber, true crime. Two sets.
Speaker 10 Did you actually see anything out there, Liam?
Speaker 24 Well, the video title says I did, but I didn't technically. It's just you get way more views if you say you spotted the.
Speaker 32 yes, hello.
Speaker 13 Hi, I'm looking for uh Frederick.
Speaker 32 Fred is in the pub.
Speaker 32 Surprise, surprise.
Speaker 35 Okey-dokey.
Speaker 32
Look, you this is important, my love. Whatever he says is not true.
He's an alcoholic.
Speaker 13 Right.
Speaker 32 And he's a wanker.
Speaker 10 Right.
Speaker 10 I then
Speaker 13 this
Speaker 13 man,
Speaker 9 this
Speaker 12 evil
Speaker 36 demon,
Speaker 36 came walking towards me on the moor
Speaker 36 late at night. Oh my goodness, he was grotesque.
Speaker 36 He was
Speaker 2 he wanted me dead.
Speaker 10 Did you get a look at his face?
Speaker 5 I did.
Speaker 13 Oh, wow, okay.
Speaker 36 And I can tell you who it was.
Speaker 10
Stephen Selden. His name is Stephen Selden.
No.
Speaker 36 It was Sir Keir Starmer.
Speaker 10 The Prime Minister.
Speaker 10 That's the fella.
Speaker 8 No, he was tall. He were very tall, actually.
Speaker 12 Right.
Speaker 26 Long stride.
Speaker 4 Um, he were hairy, proper hairy.
Speaker 10
Hairy, oh, okay. Um, like, not shaved for a while.
Uh, so this was recent?
Speaker 8 Yeah.
Speaker 10 And you said, uh, in the police hotline, you said he had big feet.
Speaker 7 Did I?
Speaker 10 Yeah.
Speaker 10 Um, spotted by Jackford
Speaker 10 wandering Bigfoot in forest.
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Speaker 23 Bigfoot.
Speaker 23 Yeah.
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Speaker 10 Ugh, people are, um,
Speaker 13 yeah,
Speaker 10 they're interesting. Um, I'm really putting my two years of detective work to good use.
Speaker 13 Mm-hmm. I hope.
Speaker 10 I mean, I hope.
Speaker 13 Oh, God, I hope.
Speaker 10 Um, I've been to 11. No, twelve?
Speaker 13 Twelve houses so far?
Speaker 10
Oh, boy. And now, number 13 on my list of credible witnesses.
Oh, please be a lucky 13. Um, Miss.
Speaker 11 Miss Laura Lyons.
Speaker 10 She says that on the night of the 19th of September, she saw Stephen Selden.
Speaker 10 Well, she saw something in the night.
Speaker 10 A disturbance at Cleft Tour.
Speaker 10 So, kind of nearby, which is a little creepy. But
Speaker 10 that was a while back, right when he first escaped. I'm just
Speaker 10 going to try and get more information.
Speaker 13 Hello. Hi.
Speaker 10
My name is Mariana Mechatura. I'm a private investigator from Spain.
Oh.
Speaker 10 May I come in and talk to you about it?
Speaker 39 Stephen Seldom.
Speaker 10 Yes, exactly that.
Speaker 32 Of course, come in.
Speaker 32 I did tell them. I mentioned it to the police.
Speaker 10 Yes, I know.
Speaker 32 Then why haven't they come round here to ask me the questions?
Speaker 10 I'm going to share what you say with them so we can all have answers that way.
Speaker 18 Course.
Speaker 32 He's a monster. Stephen is.
Speaker 10 Did you know him before the
Speaker 29 quiet?
Speaker 29 Yeah.
Speaker 32 Standoffish at times, but I remember him just going off in town once.
Speaker 29 And who?
Speaker 29 Nobody.
Speaker 10 Nobody?
Speaker 24 Yeah, nobody there.
Speaker 32 Nobody around him, just shouting, screaming, trying to punch some.
Speaker 32 I don't know, someone or something that wasn't there.
Speaker 13 Uh-huh.
Speaker 32 What he did to those girls,
Speaker 32 they were asleep in a hotel room.
Speaker 10 I know.
Speaker 32 What's the.
Speaker 32 What's the reaction in Spain?
Speaker 10 Um.
Speaker 10 Pain?
Speaker 18 Outrage?
Speaker 10 Things that are to be expected when such
Speaker 10 horrors occur.
Speaker 32 So sorry.
Speaker 10 It's okay.
Speaker 10 We have monsters, too. I've lived here a long time, so I'm.
Speaker 10 I'm not judging.
Speaker 24 Yeah.
Speaker 10 I love the British, even if sometimes you don't love yourselves.
Speaker 10 I also love your biscuits.
Speaker 32 Mine or Britain's?
Speaker 13 Both.
Speaker 32 Where are you staying while you're here?
Speaker 10 Um, I'm in a house
Speaker 10 nearby that's um
Speaker 10 well, that's another thing you guys do well.
Speaker 24 What's that?
Speaker 10 Country houses, manors.
Speaker 32 Yeah, yeah, my partner lives in one actually.
Speaker 10
Oh, no way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you're a Lady of the Manor, huh?
Speaker 18 Very soon.
Speaker 23 Oh,
Speaker 10
that's a diamond ring. Wow.
Okay, so soon to be Lady of the Manor.
Speaker 10 Is there a title?
Speaker 32 No, no, no, no.
Speaker 29 Oh.
Speaker 29 Yeah, but it is.
Speaker 32 I'm very lucky.
Speaker 10 Good for you. Um.
Speaker 32 Sorry, more boring questions. No, not at all.
Speaker 10 So, um, on the night of the 19th, you said you saw a disturbance at uh 11 p.m.
Speaker 29 Around 11, yeah.
Speaker 32 Just before, I think.
Speaker 18 And what did you see?
Speaker 32 I was walking the Tavstock Bridalway.
Speaker 29 At eleven?
Speaker 10 Eleven at night?
Speaker 29 I was.
Speaker 13 For work?
Speaker 18 I, well.
Speaker 10 You don't. You don't have to say.
Speaker 29 It's okay.
Speaker 32 Again, no, it was. Um, I was in my car on my way back from work and I let my dog out to walk.
Speaker 18 Where's your dog now?
Speaker 18 Hmm?
Speaker 10 Your dog? The first dog I know not to come to the door to sniff me.
Speaker 18 Yeah, no, he would have, he would have, but um, he's at the vet.
Speaker 10 The vet, of course.
Speaker 13 Oh.
Speaker 10 Is he okay?
Speaker 18 Yeah, just a precaution.
Speaker 32 Sure.
Speaker 13 Hmm.
Speaker 32 So, um, on the bridal way, it goes around. I don't know if you know Basketball Hall.
Speaker 10 I'm familiar with it.
Speaker 32 So I was near. not that near, but yeah.
Speaker 32 Had my torch and I suddenly...
Speaker 32 So basically the land kind of raises up outside the front gates of the hall to Cleft Tour.
Speaker 29 Yes it does.
Speaker 32 I could see a light up there.
Speaker 10 On the tour? Yeah.
Speaker 32 So I switched mine off.
Speaker 29 Right.
Speaker 18 And it I
Speaker 32 swear it starts coming towards me.
Speaker 32 And at first I freeze. I'm just wondering if I should just jump the Basketville wall and go tell Charles or
Speaker 18 just for protection, hide there, you know.
Speaker 13 Yeah.
Speaker 32 Because I can't make it to the front gate. By the time I let it around that way,
Speaker 32 they would have caught me.
Speaker 10 This light, this light coming toward you.
Speaker 11 Yeah.
Speaker 32 So I'm in darkness and it eventually, before you know it, it's probably 30, 40 feet away.
Speaker 29 Wow.
Speaker 29 And I just ran.
Speaker 32 And I ran and ran and ran.
Speaker 10 And do you think that would have been Selden?
Speaker 32 It's the night he would have got out, right?
Speaker 13 Mm-hmm.
Speaker 32 No one's out on the moors at that time.
Speaker 10 You were?
Speaker 29 Yeah.
Speaker 10 You just came home after that?
Speaker 32 I did.
Speaker 10
Thank you again, Laura. This was...
Well, hopefully this will be one piece in a puzzle that I can put together.
Speaker 17 Cool, yeah.
Speaker 10 And actually, um, can I take your number?
Speaker 13 You've got signal, have you?
Speaker 10 Well, I guess I could go into Tavistock again if
Speaker 10 Who
Speaker 10 Who is that?
Speaker 32 That's me. When I was nine or ten, I think.
Speaker 10 No, that.
Speaker 13 There.
Speaker 32 That's Rosemary Barrymore. She was my childminder.
Speaker 10
Wow. Uh, no, yes.
Um,
Speaker 10 I've met her.
Speaker 32 Oh, to ask about her son.
Speaker 10 What?
Speaker 32
Did you quiz her about her son? Surprised you're in One Piece. Local journalist from Exeter tried the same thing.
She gave him a black eye.
Speaker 10 Sorry, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 13 Who
Speaker 10 is her son?
Speaker 35 Are you serious?
Speaker 10 Going for a picnic? Gee!
Speaker 10 We knock in this house. You're very jumpy.
Speaker 10 Your husband made it sound like you had such a
Speaker 10 hardy nature.
Speaker 2 Did he now?
Speaker 34 Yes.
Speaker 10 He told me that you hadn't cried for 30 years.
Speaker 23 Yeah, well,
Speaker 17 I don't need to go blubbering and whining to get my way.
Speaker 18 Good for you.
Speaker 1 Just how I was raised, love.
Speaker 13 You popping out.
Speaker 10 Oh, is that the Selden family way?
Speaker 13 What
Speaker 1 did you just just say?
Speaker 10 Does it run in the family? I'm just curious about how you formed such a good, hard-working, honest character. Look at you, working late.
Speaker 10 What is it exactly that you're doing?
Speaker 17 Is that any of your business at all?
Speaker 7 Yes.
Speaker 17 How have you come to that conclusion then?
Speaker 10 Because I'm a private investigator.
Speaker 12 No, you're not.
Speaker 10 And you are not a cook, apparently. Yet I see a lot of meals coming and going out of this kitchen.
Speaker 10 And going where exactly, Rosemary?
Speaker 17 I think it's time you got buggered off.
Speaker 10 Where is he?
Speaker 17 Frank is on a shoot.
Speaker 10 You know who I mean.
Speaker 28 I don't.
Speaker 10 Where is Stephen Selden? Where is your son?
Speaker 11 Don't you dare.
Speaker 10 Tell me.
Speaker 19 You don't know. You...
Speaker 13 What?
Speaker 10
He's. I know what he is.
You don't, Rosemary.
Speaker 22 You're still here by the time I'm back.
Speaker 13 Rosemary.
Speaker 23 I'll get Frank to turf you out personally.
Speaker 10 Rosemary.
Speaker 10 Mariana.
Speaker 2 Oh, God. Mariana.
Speaker 2 You sure you checked the right room, right? There's 99 others. I did.
Speaker 23 Mariana, we're heading out.
Speaker 22 Dinner at a posh manor house.
Speaker 23 The uh friendly neighborhood entomologist.
Speaker 19 He's a fan of the show.
Speaker 19 Yeah, I'm gonna go me out.
Speaker 24 They've gone. It'll be cold tonight.
Speaker 28 Hmm.
Speaker 24 How long can this go on for?
Speaker 13 I'm...
Speaker 24 I can't sleep. I can't eat.
Speaker 9 Oh, it's already gone on far too long.
Speaker 13 Then Then what in God's name do we do, Frank?
Speaker 9 Oh, let life take its course.
Speaker 11 How can you say that?
Speaker 9 Well, not through experience, the wisdom.
Speaker 7 Exactly.
Speaker 22 No experience. You don't know.
Speaker 11 You've never known.
Speaker 24 It was just the house. Are you sure? They've left.
Speaker 10 Yeah, but that little Spanish one hasn't gone with them.
Speaker 13 Oh, God Almighty.
Speaker 9 You probably scared her off, my love.
Speaker 17 She's angry, Frank.
Speaker 17 She's so bloody angry.
Speaker 8 Let her be angry.
Speaker 9 Let her see where that gets her, hey?
Speaker 13 Hi, listeners.
Speaker 10 It's um...
Speaker 13 late.
Speaker 10 And it's so...
Speaker 34 so cold.
Speaker 10 I'm uh going to um maybe...
Speaker 10 not maybe not tonight, but tomorrow. I'm going to take my chances with the Barrymorse.
Speaker 13 People...
Speaker 34 people like that...
Speaker 10 they only react to force.
Speaker 10 And...
Speaker 13 Whatever I do...
Speaker 10 or don't do...
Speaker 13 I just...
Speaker 13 I don't know.
Speaker 10 I want you guys...
Speaker 10 And you, John. And you, Sherlock.
Speaker 13 Oh, and you, Archie boy,
Speaker 10 to know
Speaker 13 I did the right thing.
Speaker 10 Maybe not in the right way, but I did the right thing.
Speaker 10 And I'm in my um
Speaker 10 so my last piece of evidence.
Speaker 10 I've uh taken a video on my phone too, so it's uh
Speaker 29 yeah
Speaker 31 proof
Speaker 10 the Barrymores are sending light signals out onto the moor. I'm looking at them right now.
Speaker 10 I think I know what the signals mean.
Speaker 13 And I think I know who they're for.
Speaker 13 I have seen
Speaker 10 and I have observed, Mr.
Speaker 13 Holmes.
Speaker 13 I hope you're very proud.
Speaker 10 I remember what you said to me in the retired colour man.
Speaker 26 Follow the thought.
Speaker 26 Don't run away from it.
Speaker 37 It's natural to be scared when you know what you'll find at the end of it.
Speaker 10 My word is not evidence.
Speaker 9 Theirs is.
Speaker 10 Which is why
Speaker 34 tomorrow matters.
Speaker 34 Oh, do be quiet.
Speaker 1 Yeah, right back out you rosemary. I know it's you.
Speaker 19 I know it's you crying all night.
Speaker 2 How about you let me get some sleep?
Speaker 2 Rosemary.
Speaker 11 Where is the gun?
Speaker 8 You feel you need it, do you?
Speaker 22 Oh, with the monsters and the murderers?
Speaker 1 Yeah, I do.
Speaker 23 Mate.
Speaker 2 It has been taken.
Speaker 1 He's not responding. Hey?
Speaker 22 To the light.
Speaker 13 He's not responding.
Speaker 9 Rosemary.
Speaker 13 What's happened to him, Frank?
Speaker 9 I suspect the authorities have caught up with him after all this time.
Speaker 24 He needs me. He needs this to end.
Speaker 10 I can help with that.
Speaker 13 Oh, bloody cow! What are you doing here?
Speaker 10
Reach for your gun, Mr. Barrymore, and I will shoot you.
Do you understand?
Speaker 2 You think you can just come in here?
Speaker 10
Mr. Barrymore, I asked you a question.
Do you understand?
Speaker 10
You answer my questions truthfully. You comply, and you do not reach for that gun.
If you do, I shoot you.
Speaker 9 Those are my terms.
Speaker 13 Frank!
Speaker 9 You talk the talk, don't you, eh?
Speaker 2 All that legal jargon. But you shoot me, you're done for.
Speaker 2 I thought you were the clever one, eh?
Speaker 10
I'm not the clever one, I'm the boring one. I read reports, type up spreadsheets, and fill out forms.
Yeah,
Speaker 2 and I handle guns, love.
Speaker 11 And you want to play my game, do you? On my turf?
Speaker 10 We are not playing your game, we are playing mine.
Speaker 2 Don't look like it.
Speaker 39 I don't care what it looks like to you.
Speaker 10
I care what it will look like to the British courts. When you've been perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those courtroom chairs are uncomfortable.
Speaker 10 Even more uncomfortable for you, Mr.
Speaker 10 Barrymore, since you were shot in the dick and bald, an act of proportionate force recognized in UK law by a Spanish girl who, yeah, reads reports, types up spreadsheets, and fills out forms.
Speaker 39 Where is he?
Speaker 10 I don't know. Yes, you do.
Speaker 2 He's not responding.
Speaker 10 To what?
Speaker 10 Your light signal?
Speaker 2 Mm-hmm.
Speaker 10 Tell him to come to the house.
Speaker 34 No.
Speaker 10 Tell him to come to the house, Rosemary.
Speaker 13 Now.
Speaker 12 Okay!
Speaker 13 Okay.
Speaker 10 He'll understand this light signal.
Speaker 7 I think so.
Speaker 10 You've been feeding him.
Speaker 11 We have. We? Fucking we? Frank.
Speaker 2 I haven't done a damn thing.
Speaker 10 What, like go to the police?
Speaker 2
I was protecting my wife, not that freak. Frank! His father hung himself 20 years back.
That should have been our first clue. So ashamed of what he'd raised.
Speaker 2 An ardorous little animal. When he was born, he didn't...
Speaker 12 The cord was too tight around his neck and he didn't get the oxygen.
Speaker 11 Do me a favor.
Speaker 13 He infected his brain, Frank.
Speaker 2 He hasn't got a bloody brain or an art.
Speaker 9 He's a wicked little...
Speaker 2
It's a demon among us. That's what the judge says.
They don't understand. You don't understand.
Speaker 9 I don't need to have no children to understand.
Speaker 2 The love you have for that creature you called a son,
Speaker 2
it's eating you alive, darling. It's eating you alive.
Frank. I mate over a dozen bitches a year.
They carry them, they birth them, then I sell them.
Speaker 9 Do you think they go crying into the night?
Speaker 2
Do you think they sob themselves to sleep? No, no, they just get on with it. I'm not a dog, Frank.
If you had half the sense those dogs have,
Speaker 11 then you would have grabbed that cord 30 years back and you'd have snapped his neck with it before he could draw oxygen.
Speaker 13
You. Oh, you bastard.
You bastard. Don't try it, woman.
Speaker 11 Don't try it.
Speaker 10 Jesus Christ. The law extends to protecting others, too, Frank.
Speaker 39 Sit down.
Speaker 10 Sit down.
Speaker 21 Asshole.
Speaker 7 He's coming.
Speaker 2 He's coming. I can hear him.
Speaker 13 Call him.
Speaker 13 What?
Speaker 10 Call him in here. Now.
Speaker 13 Sherlock! Sherlock
Speaker 13 Jesus Christ, what you are you okay?
Speaker 23 I'm all right.
Speaker 31 Someone's been shot, Sherlock.
Speaker 1 It's Mariana.
Speaker 13 No,
Speaker 13 Stephen,
Speaker 13 Stephen, love,
Speaker 6 up here.
Speaker 13 That's who is that? Rosemary Barrymore.
Speaker 13 Come.
Speaker 13 What is what is going on?
Speaker 13 This way.
Speaker 26 Be vigilant, Watson.
Speaker 11 Yeah, I will, mate.
Speaker 24 Damon?
Speaker 29 That room at the end? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing?
Speaker 13 I'm going into the room.
Speaker 11 With the gunman?
Speaker 13 Gun woman? What?
Speaker 2 I know the sound of my own pistol, Watson.
Speaker 11 Sorry. Sorry, what? You said it was taken?
Speaker 2 Yes. But.
Speaker 13 Sorry, who took it?
Speaker 8 I'll show you.
Speaker 33 Knock, knock.
Speaker 26 Good evening. What?
Speaker 10 What the hell is going on?
Speaker 23 My thoughts exactly, Mariana.
Speaker 4 Where is my gun?
Speaker 7 Where is your cold?
Speaker 39 Where is Archie?
Speaker 23 Don't even tr- wait, yeah, no, where is Archie?
Speaker 25
Wiggins. Oh, God's sake.
I'll take that. Thank you.
Speaker 26 Good work, Mariana.
Speaker 2 Case almost closed.
Speaker 11 Where is he?
Speaker 25
The killer, Stephen Selden. He has your nose and your eyes, Miss Barrymore.
I hope that's all you share in common.
Speaker 10 He's coming
Speaker 2 to the house.
Speaker 26 The knight
Speaker 25 will have a morsel of salvation, at least.
Speaker 10 What does that mean?
Speaker 10 Seriously, what does that mean?
Speaker 13 Mariana, um,
Speaker 28 I ha have some bad news, but I think we should talk about it in private.
Speaker 10 What, John?
Speaker 10 What is it?
Speaker 13 I'll
Speaker 11 can we go talk?
Speaker 28 Where's Henry?
Speaker 2 You're lying.
Speaker 25 I haven't said a word.
Speaker 1 Your eyes said it.
Speaker 1 They're still saying it.
Speaker 2 You're.
Speaker 11 Whose blood is that?
Speaker 13 No. Mariana.
Speaker 10 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 28 I know.
Speaker 28 I'm so sorry.
Speaker 13 No, he's not.
Speaker 13 He's not.
Speaker 10 He's not.
Speaker 13 Did.
Speaker 13 Did Zilda do this?
Speaker 13 Did Zild do that to him?
Speaker 13 John! I'm asking you a question! It...
Speaker 13 Um.
Speaker 10 We think.
Speaker 25 Well, it... It was the hound.
Speaker 25 It was the hound of the Baskervilles.
Speaker 13 You can't...
Speaker 10 You can't believe that.
Speaker 18 You.
Speaker 13 You, of all people.
Speaker 11 I saw the remains, Mariana. It can be nothing else.
Speaker 26 When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Speaker 26 The fugitive arrives.
Speaker 37 Our blood and temper run high, but we must show reason.
Speaker 11 Show constraint.
Speaker 14 Give me the gun, Sherlock.
Speaker 11 I can't do that, Mariana.
Speaker 13 Sherlock, don't give it to her. Shut up.
Speaker 11 I'm taking this.
Speaker 13 Boy, off that rifle. Shut up.
Speaker 23 Not in the mood.
Speaker 2 Restraint.
Speaker 9 Restraint.
Speaker 11 Shall we, Watson?
Speaker 19 We shall, Holmes.
Speaker 11 We shall.
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