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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[00:30] So you're saying with Hilton Honors I can use points for a free night's day anywhere?

Speaker 1:
[00:35] Anywhere.

Speaker 2:
[00:36] What about fancy places like the Canopy in Paris?

Speaker 3:
[00:38] Yeah, Hilton Honors, baby.

Speaker 2:
[00:40] Or relaxing sanctuaries like the Conrad and Tulum?

Speaker 1:
[00:43] Hilton Honors, baby.

Speaker 2:
[00:45] What about the five-star Waldorf Astoria in the Maldives?

Speaker 3:
[00:49] Are you gonna do this for all 9,000 properties?

Speaker 4:
[00:52] When you want points that can take you anywhere, anytime, it matters where you stay. Hilton, for the stay. Book your spring break now.

Speaker 5:
[01:00] K-pop demon hunters Saja Boyz Breakfast Meal and Huntrix Meal have just dropped at McDonald's. They're calling this a battle for the fans. What do you say to that, Rumi?

Speaker 6:
[01:09] It's not a battle. So glad the Saja Boyz could take breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day.

Speaker 7:
[01:14] It is an honor to share.

Speaker 5:
[01:16] No, it's our honor.

Speaker 4:
[01:18] It is our larger honor.

Speaker 3:
[01:20] No, really, stop.

Speaker 5:
[01:22] You can really feel the respect in this battle. Pick a meal to pick a side. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba.

Speaker 8:
[01:28] A participant in McDonald's wants supplies last.

Speaker 7:
[01:32] Audio books, ad-free early access adventures, mailbag episodes, case file episodes, AMAs, behind the scenes micro-adventures authored by Watson himself, a Discord channel with nearly 2000 chatty little members, merchandise discounts, exclusive events, and yes, done.

Speaker 9:
[01:45] Yeah, this is the most important bit, mate.

Speaker 7:
[01:47] Oh, patreon.com/sherlock and Co.

Speaker 9:
[01:52] Thanks.

Speaker 10:
[02:00] Okay, um, hi, guys, and welcome to the adventure of The Three Garridebs. I'm Mariana. As you know, I had to kind of, I had to kind of cut this episode together and everything, so I hope it's okay. And I did all the, right, things that Jon usually does. Where the heck did I call it, Three Garridebs? We've already got three students and three gables. Damn it. Anyway, yeah, that's annoying. What else am I supposed to? Oh, this is part one of three, and it contains violence, and some references to abuse. There are other, further even, warnings in the episode description. So, yeah. Okay. Bye.

Speaker 11:
[03:16] Sir, this is Buckingham Palace.

Speaker 9:
[03:18] Yes, I'm aware of that. I was just told that the microphone would be allowed for the ceremony.

Speaker 11:
[03:23] No devices.

Speaker 9:
[03:25] But I was told. I deliberately reached out beforehand, right?

Speaker 11:
[03:29] No, no, no. No devices.

Speaker 10:
[03:31] It's okay, John. Don't worry.

Speaker 12:
[03:33] But this is...

Speaker 9:
[03:34] this is Seminole. He's getting bloody knighted. Sir, please.

Speaker 11:
[03:38] Please hand over the microphone, or we cannot allow entry into the knighting ceremony.

Speaker 13:
[03:46] Okay.

Speaker 9:
[03:47] Fine.

Speaker 13:
[03:47] Fine.

Speaker 9:
[03:50] I'm really sorry, listeners. We will see you on the other side. With Sir Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 10:
[03:58] Exciting.

Speaker 9:
[04:07] My name is Dr. John Watson, once of the British Army Northumberland Fusilier Regiment, now a true crime podcaster based in Central London. 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. Join me as I document the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. They should do, like, tiered seating in here, because I can't really see the front at all. Thing is, athletes get so many bloody knighthoods these days, which is fine, you know, I'm all for it, good for them, you know, but they're all so bloody tall, and obviously down the front, so, you know, I can't even see past their heads.

Speaker 13:
[05:15] Hey.

Speaker 9:
[05:15] I'm not complaining. You know, they're entitled to it, they worked hard.

Speaker 13:
[05:19] Hey.

Speaker 9:
[05:19] What?

Speaker 10:
[05:20] Look what I snuck in.

Speaker 9:
[05:22] Oh, spare Mike, Mike Jr. Boy, am I glad to see you.

Speaker 13:
[05:25] Shh.

Speaker 9:
[05:26] Oh, shit, sorry.

Speaker 11:
[05:28] Ha ha ha.

Speaker 14:
[05:29] Yes, Mariana.

Speaker 10:
[05:30] I knew they'd go back on their word of allowing access, so if they want to put some kind of imposition on us, then I will put one on them.

Speaker 14:
[05:41] Ha.

Speaker 13:
[05:41] Ha ha.

Speaker 12:
[05:42] Yeah, nobody expects the Spanish imposition.

Speaker 10:
[05:46] What?

Speaker 12:
[05:46] It doesn't matter.

Speaker 13:
[05:47] Here we go.

Speaker 10:
[05:50] Uh, wh-why are you standing there?

Speaker 12:
[05:51] Oh, so I thought we'd stand for music like at a wedding.

Speaker 15:
[05:55] For services to business, charity, and society, Mr. Walton Glynne Herschel.

Speaker 9:
[06:05] Hello.

Speaker 10:
[06:06] Again? We don't need commentary.

Speaker 12:
[06:11] King is tall, isn't he? Or is that just because, you know, people go and kneel in front of him so he just looks taller?

Speaker 10:
[06:17] I don't know, John.

Speaker 9:
[06:19] Do you reckon anyone's ever used that sword?

Speaker 12:
[06:21] Like, you know, properly used it, used it, in anger?

Speaker 13:
[06:25] No.

Speaker 9:
[06:28] Does he keep it here or bring it with him from Windsor Castle, do you reckon? And when he leaves the house, it's like keys, wallet, phone, sword.

Speaker 13:
[06:35] Ha-ha!

Speaker 9:
[06:36] I mustn't forget that.

Speaker 10:
[06:37] Good God. I am going to take his sword and stab you with it if you don't stop talking.

Speaker 12:
[06:41] Sorry, I'm nervous.

Speaker 10:
[06:42] Why are you nervous?

Speaker 9:
[06:44] I'm just nervous for my friend.

Speaker 10:
[06:45] This is not an occasion to be nervous about. This is about celebrating him, honouring him.

Speaker 13:
[06:52] No, yeah, I know.

Speaker 9:
[06:54] I know.

Speaker 15:
[06:54] Arise Sir Walton Glynne Herschaw. For services to law enforcement and victims of crime.

Speaker 14:
[07:09] Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.

Speaker 12:
[07:10] Here we go, here we go, here we go.

Speaker 15:
[07:11] Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 13:
[07:13] Yes, Sherlock.

Speaker 14:
[07:15] Yes.

Speaker 10:
[07:17] Oh, I'm guessing people don't clap at this bit.

Speaker 9:
[07:20] We do, mate.

Speaker 10:
[07:21] We do. Where is he? Can you see him?

Speaker 9:
[07:32] No, not yet.

Speaker 15:
[07:34] Mr Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 13:
[07:40] What the...?

Speaker 15:
[07:41] Mr Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 10:
[07:46] Oh, God.

Speaker 12:
[07:47] Oh, where is he?

Speaker 7:
[07:52] Ah, afternoon, Jon. Take a look at these fluffy little fellows.

Speaker 9:
[07:58] Pancakes.

Speaker 12:
[07:59] Yes.

Speaker 7:
[08:00] Aren't they just the most scrumptious-looking delectables you've ever seen?

Speaker 13:
[08:05] Um, Sherlock?

Speaker 7:
[08:06] Yes, Jon?

Speaker 9:
[08:07] You were supposed to be knighted today by the King of England.

Speaker 7:
[08:13] Ah, yes, I was. You see, I got rather distracted.

Speaker 9:
[08:17] By pancakes?

Speaker 14:
[08:18] No.

Speaker 13:
[08:19] Okay.

Speaker 14:
[08:21] By what?

Speaker 7:
[08:23] Such a curious little chain of events yesterday that I spent all night investigating and all morning here ruminating.

Speaker 9:
[08:31] Sorry, um, it...

Speaker 14:
[08:34] Wait.

Speaker 7:
[08:34] I have also been assembling these fossils. I'd very much like to reignite my collection. Look at that trilobite, Jon. Devonian, no less.

Speaker 9:
[08:43] Yep, lovely part of the world. Good cider. Sherlock, look.

Speaker 7:
[08:46] Four hundred million years old. Pancake?

Speaker 9:
[08:51] No, thank you. Can I just... I know you think I come across as a bit of a square when it comes to country and tradition. But this was a knighthood, Sherlock.

Speaker 7:
[09:00] People refuse knighthoods, Jon. More common than you'd think. Can we throw this out?

Speaker 9:
[09:05] No, we can't. That's a smart lamp. I just bought it.

Speaker 7:
[09:09] Seems rather stupid to me. Smart lamp, tell me the time. See, nothing.

Speaker 9:
[09:14] Smart lamp, light on. See? Its job is to light.

Speaker 7:
[09:19] Rather restrictive.

Speaker 9:
[09:20] Sherlock, yes, you are right. People reject knighthoods. They do. But you didn't. You accepted. You said you'd attend and then you didn't. You made pancakes instead.

Speaker 7:
[09:32] And assembled my fossils.

Speaker 12:
[09:34] Yes, that too.

Speaker 7:
[09:35] Like I said, the pancakes were incidental to the rumination period that was required.

Speaker 9:
[09:40] Forget about the bloody pancakes, Sherlock.

Speaker 12:
[09:43] What?

Speaker 9:
[09:45] This country wanted to celebrate you with its highest honour. It wanted to thank you for all those crimes solved, those people saved from being endangered, and those that were endangered for the justice you delivered to them. And you just, you didn't even show up.

Speaker 7:
[10:01] This is an occasion for an apology.

Speaker 9:
[10:02] Of course not. I don't, like... I'm not having a go. I'm just confused. And maybe that's why I'm sounding annoyed. I just, I don't, I don't understand. Sorry, I don't understand.

Speaker 7:
[10:13] You know what I like to do when I don't understand something.

Speaker 9:
[10:16] Please don't say make pancakes.

Speaker 7:
[10:18] Okay, fine. What would you like me to say?

Speaker 12:
[10:20] Oh, for God's sake.

Speaker 7:
[10:21] Are you not curious about my curiosity?

Speaker 9:
[10:24] No.

Speaker 7:
[10:25] Suspicious about my suspicion?

Speaker 9:
[10:26] Nope.

Speaker 7:
[10:27] Bewildered by my bewilderment?

Speaker 9:
[10:29] I'm ignoring you.

Speaker 7:
[10:30] Fine. Then I shall have to speak with this beguiling fellow. Hello there, Mr. Holmes. Would you like a pancake?

Speaker 9:
[10:36] What's he doing out?

Speaker 7:
[10:37] My wax figure. Where else would he be?

Speaker 9:
[10:40] In your room, where we agreed he'd be.

Speaker 7:
[10:43] I sensed he was getting rather bored.

Speaker 9:
[10:45] Yeah, I know the feeling. I've just sat through a nighthood ceremony for four hours. They should be nighting me for services to bladder control. Any news on Moran?

Speaker 7:
[10:55] We have decided to not discuss Mr. Moran or Mr. Napoleon.

Speaker 9:
[10:58] Who's we?

Speaker 7:
[10:59] Me and my waxy colleague.

Speaker 13:
[11:01] Of course, yes.

Speaker 9:
[11:02] How would your waxy colleague like a nighthood, or does he have trouble bending at the knees?

Speaker 7:
[11:06] Our villains must be starved of resources, of nutrients, dear Watson, and they soon one day will encrust into the form like that of a fossil, nothing but an imprint of dust, of how they once affected their environment so. But no more, no more. We bury them deep, deep down.

Speaker 9:
[11:29] Yes. I mean, I agree there.

Speaker 2:
[11:34] Oh, wow.

Speaker 9:
[11:35] Oh, they are fluffy.

Speaker 7:
[11:36] So, I have decided to indulge in what we enjoy, rather than darken our minds musing on the destructive despots that wish us to go stale with such fixation.

Speaker 9:
[11:45] Right, it's just our company. We solve crimes.

Speaker 7:
[11:51] Oh, there's crime, Watson. I have no doubt about that. And of course, its tendrils feed into the elusive moran.

Speaker 9:
[11:59] Okay, good.

Speaker 7:
[12:00] To quote our little listening friends, I'm in my crime-solving era. Locked in. I'm so back.

Speaker 9:
[12:08] Ah ha, they don't like it when you do that.

Speaker 7:
[12:10] Okay, fine. But let me just say, you're giving John Watson vibes, and I'm so here for it.

Speaker 9:
[12:15] Please stop. You sound as old as a Devonian fossil.

Speaker 7:
[12:18] Go off, King.

Speaker 9:
[12:20] You don't even know what that means.

Speaker 7:
[12:21] What does it mean, then?

Speaker 9:
[12:23] I don't know. Well, all I know is it's ironic, considering your actions this morning were more fuck-off, King, than go-off, King. Ah, speaking of people younger and cooler than us, email Lily Lestrade.

Speaker 7:
[12:35] Yes, yes, yes. I know. Ignore her.

Speaker 9:
[12:37] What do you mean, you know? We just received the email.

Speaker 7:
[12:39] The email says that Moran has been spotted on a dockyard camera alongside a man that served 23 years for murder.

Speaker 9:
[12:46] Killian Evans?

Speaker 7:
[12:48] Killian Evans, indeed.

Speaker 9:
[12:51] How did you know that?

Speaker 7:
[12:52] Wiggins, of course. How do you not know that? He is your dog sitter. Do you only converse on such business? Rather transactionary of you, John. Very telling.

Speaker 14:
[13:03] Well, do you j-

Speaker 9:
[13:04] How does he know?

Speaker 7:
[13:05] He knows many things. Evans began the very first irregular network once upon a time. It was only people like Wiggins that took it out of his cruel hands, turned the organisation into a force for more noble means, and not something in service of dark and twisted ventures in the murky depths of this city.

Speaker 9:
[13:25] What do we do?

Speaker 7:
[13:27] Like the boy I once was on the beaches of Devon, we hunt.

Speaker 9:
[13:32] For fossils?

Speaker 7:
[13:34] For crime. At the very least, it will keep our minds fresh. Come, I wish to show you what I've been working on. Let's cook, bestie.

Speaker 12:
[13:44] Oh, God.

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Speaker 7:
[15:26] Welcome to Baker Street Underground Station, Jon.

Speaker 9:
[15:30] Thanks. I use it nearly every day, but okay.

Speaker 7:
[15:33] Opened on the 10th of January 1863, it is one of the first underground stations in the whole world, in fact, serving that first ever line, of course.

Speaker 9:
[15:43] The Metropolitan Line?

Speaker 7:
[15:44] Well done. Well, 100 points. Now, let us locate that line on this map here. Come. Oh, goodness. What? Your hands are freezing.

Speaker 9:
[15:53] Yeah, well, you know what they say.

Speaker 7:
[15:55] What do they say?

Speaker 9:
[15:56] Cold hands, warm heart.

Speaker 7:
[15:58] Has this been presented in a thesis of some kind?

Speaker 12:
[16:00] Well, Carroll says it.

Speaker 7:
[16:02] I see. Look here.

Speaker 9:
[16:04] Don't need to look at a tube map.

Speaker 7:
[16:06] Actually, you do, for this is the shiny hook that shall entangle deep into your gills, like it did mine, and pull you out of the blue salty comforts and into the sloppy bucket of this captivating case.

Speaker 9:
[16:17] Delightful language, as always. OK, fine. Yes, big tube map on the wall of the station, looking at it.

Speaker 7:
[16:23] We are here. Baker Street. Let's imagine we were stood at street level and we wish to get from the volunteer to here.

Speaker 9:
[16:33] To Sloan Square.

Speaker 7:
[16:35] Yes.

Speaker 9:
[16:36] Easy.

Speaker 7:
[16:37] OK, now we introduce the criteria of the challenge. Let's say we wanted to get from the volunteer in the middle of a weekday to Sloan Square. Totally unseen.

Speaker 9:
[16:49] Unseen.

Speaker 7:
[16:50] Unseen. By camera, by witness, even without a single digital package collected.

Speaker 9:
[16:58] It's not possible. That's like three miles across London.

Speaker 7:
[17:02] Except I can demonstrate that it is. Now we've arrived in Camden, specifically just outside of Mornington Crescent Station. You are going to meet a new friend of mine.

Speaker 9:
[17:16] Not made out of wax, is he?

Speaker 7:
[17:17] No, she isn't. Just this door here.

Speaker 17:
[17:30] Hi, Sherlock.

Speaker 7:
[17:32] Olivia, hello.

Speaker 17:
[17:33] Have you solved it?

Speaker 7:
[17:35] Very, very nearly. And in more good news, I have managed to recruit my colleague onto the case. Ta-da!

Speaker 9:
[17:41] Hi, I'm John.

Speaker 17:
[17:43] Olivia.

Speaker 7:
[17:44] Could we come in?

Speaker 17:
[17:48] So basically, what happened was, I was going to work.

Speaker 9:
[17:52] What do you do, Olivia?

Speaker 17:
[17:54] Oh, waitressing in town. It was a Friday. I was going in to do a shift from 3 till 11 p.m. I left my flat here at, like, maybe 2.35, something like that.

Speaker 7:
[18:06] 2.36. Says your smart doorbell footage. Continue.

Speaker 17:
[18:10] Yeah. Walked over to the station.

Speaker 9:
[18:12] That's Mornington Crescent Tube, yeah?

Speaker 17:
[18:14] Yeah. I was going to go down there, but I see an old friend from school, Naomi. She says she's moved sort of near me. She seems a bit stressed. She's had a maniac of a boyfriend for years now, and I asked her if she's all right, and she's 100% like not okay. And on something, I think. Anyway, she eventually just says, I'm really sorry, Livs. Can I just get your help? My TV is literally out in the alleyway, and I need someone to help me lift it up the stairs to my new flat. And I was like, course, that sounds like a nightmare. I'm expecting this TV to have been nicked by the time we get there. I go out with her across the road. We walk a bit down Phoenix Road.

Speaker 7:
[18:56] Here, we have that on camera. See, look at my phone.

Speaker 9:
[19:00] Sorry, what's this?

Speaker 7:
[19:02] This is the footage of what Olivia is describing to us.

Speaker 17:
[19:05] Yeah, that's me and Naomi. See we walk down the road. This is her right turn.

Speaker 9:
[19:11] This one here?

Speaker 17:
[19:12] Yeah, that alley.

Speaker 9:
[19:14] Okay, there you go. Right, where are you now?

Speaker 17:
[19:19] We don't know.

Speaker 9:
[19:21] You don't know?

Speaker 17:
[19:23] I don't remember anything. I kind of, like if I think really hard, I can kind of see the alley. I think. Maybe I'm making it up. Not sure, but I don't remember a thing.

Speaker 13:
[19:38] Jesus.

Speaker 9:
[19:40] Okay, when do you surface from the alleyway?

Speaker 7:
[19:44] She doesn't.

Speaker 9:
[19:46] What?

Speaker 7:
[19:46] Olivia never comes out of that alley, John.

Speaker 9:
[19:50] Sherlock, I know you're the clever one, but she is literally right there in front of us.

Speaker 7:
[19:54] This is the traffic monitoring camera of the Blackfriars underpass at Blackfriars Bridge, around three miles away.

Speaker 9:
[20:02] Okay.

Speaker 7:
[20:03] Watch.

Speaker 9:
[20:06] Shit. That's you.

Speaker 17:
[20:09] That's me.

Speaker 7:
[20:10] Olivia here went into an alleyway near Camden Town on Friday the 13th and didn't reappear in any footage on any mobile data mast, on any witness account, anecdotal account, phone call, hand-held video, nothing. That is until the 16th, Monday morning. There she is, three miles away. Three days later, next to the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge.

Speaker 9:
[20:37] How's that even possible?

Speaker 17:
[20:39] Teleportation? I mean, you tell me.

Speaker 9:
[20:42] Did you have any injuries or anything?

Speaker 17:
[20:48] This. Here.

Speaker 9:
[20:51] Pretty severe friction and strains on your wrist.

Speaker 12:
[20:54] Handcuffs, maybe?

Speaker 7:
[20:55] Even handcuffs have more forgiving moldings. Cable ties, I'd say.

Speaker 1:
[21:01] Shit.

Speaker 9:
[21:02] I'm sorry, Olivia. You don't have to answer. And I can cut it from my documentation if you want, but are there any signs of sexual abuse that you know of?

Speaker 17:
[21:17] No, no. It's fine. And no.

Speaker 9:
[21:21] No?

Speaker 13:
[21:22] Okay.

Speaker 9:
[21:23] Okay, can I just check you've been medically cleared in all those areas?

Speaker 17:
[21:26] Yeah.

Speaker 9:
[21:27] And you've been offered well-being support from professional mental health services, yeah?

Speaker 17:
[21:32] I have, yeah.

Speaker 9:
[21:33] Good. Good. Again, I'm really sorry. We'll do everything we can. You've got the best man on the job, eh?

Speaker 17:
[21:45] Yeah, he says he's very, very nearly solved it. You do much better than the police.

Speaker 7:
[21:50] Yes, I often do.

Speaker 9:
[21:53] So what is it then? Oh, we are leaving me in the dark now, are we?

Speaker 7:
[22:00] Oh, where we are going, there'll be plenty of that.

Speaker 9:
[22:03] Of what? Leaving me in the dark?

Speaker 7:
[22:05] Dark Watson. Lots and lots of that.

Speaker 9:
[22:08] God's sake, so we're, what, going in a dark house?

Speaker 7:
[22:13] Not quite, no. You'd be better delving into your memory than the machinery rooms of your critical thinking.

Speaker 9:
[22:19] Oh, yeah, would I know.

Speaker 7:
[22:21] We have spoken, have we not, of London's subterranean rivers.

Speaker 13:
[22:26] Oh, God.

Speaker 7:
[22:27] Exactly. And which one runs north to south? Through Camden, where we currently reside, and plops out into the Thames at Blackfriars.

Speaker 12:
[22:36] The fleet.

Speaker 7:
[22:37] The river fleet. Here is our alleyway, where Naomi lives. Righto. Yes. Would you look at that? No cameras, rather tight, narrow alleyways, isn't it? And look, we can't go to Naomi's after all.

Speaker 9:
[22:55] Why not?

Speaker 7:
[22:56] Do you see a door anywhere?

Speaker 9:
[22:57] No.

Speaker 7:
[22:58] But doors are everywhere, are they not, Watson? For those with the eyes to see them.

Speaker 9:
[23:04] And do you have the eyes to see them?

Speaker 7:
[23:06] In this case, I certainly do. Out the way!

Speaker 13:
[23:10] What?

Speaker 7:
[23:11] Get out the way.

Speaker 9:
[23:12] I'm not in the way, I'm just stood next to you.

Speaker 7:
[23:15] Yes, and you're in the way. Of what?

Speaker 9:
[23:17] A brick wall? Oh, sorry, was she kidnapped by wizards?

Speaker 7:
[23:20] I don't understand what you're saying, so I'm just going to push you.

Speaker 9:
[23:22] You're what?

Speaker 12:
[23:23] Ow! There we go, thank you.

Speaker 9:
[23:25] No!

Speaker 7:
[23:25] No what?

Speaker 9:
[23:26] We're not opening a manhole cover.

Speaker 7:
[23:28] Of course we are.

Speaker 9:
[23:29] Sorry, why?

Speaker 7:
[23:31] To enter one of the many subterranean passageways of London, this one being a riverway that we believe is being utilised for illegal and sinister means, this one being human trafficking.

Speaker 9:
[23:41] Oh my god, how did you even think of this?

Speaker 7:
[23:44] The mind works in curious ways, John, its thoughts and workings often so silent, it finds other ways to draw you to its findings, like a pebble being thrown to a closed window. The pebble in this instance manifested inside me as an urge, an urge to examine my old fossils that I had collected as a boy, and then it came to me. Deposition, compression, lithification, uplift.

Speaker 9:
[24:11] They're underground, subterranean artefacts, amazing. What about the pancakes, what were they for?

Speaker 7:
[24:18] Oh, I just felt like having pancakes.

Speaker 9:
[24:21] Oh.

Speaker 14:
[24:21] There we go.

Speaker 15:
[24:24] Don't worry, I've got it.

Speaker 7:
[24:27] Really, don't rush.

Speaker 9:
[24:29] Did you get tutoring for sarcasm, or have you just been paying more attention?

Speaker 7:
[24:32] Don't you worry your pretty little head about me. Just lifting a hundred kilogram cast iron manhole cover to aid missing persons and victims of human trafficking.

Speaker 9:
[24:41] Fine, fine.

Speaker 14:
[24:49] Oh, there we go.

Speaker 7:
[24:51] Oh, look at this lovely ladder.

Speaker 9:
[24:54] Yeah, isn't it charming?

Speaker 7:
[24:56] I like the ornamental castings.

Speaker 9:
[24:57] Just get down the stupid ladder.

Speaker 7:
[24:59] Come, come. How exciting. Uh-huh. Oh, stay with me, Jon. We'll widen as we head further south.

Speaker 14:
[25:14] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 12:
[25:15] You know what I always say about caving, mate?

Speaker 7:
[25:17] Oh, yes. What's that?

Speaker 12:
[25:19] The best thing about caving is that you don't have to do it. You can just sit at home, have a cup of tea, watch TV or something.

Speaker 7:
[25:28] I suppose.

Speaker 12:
[25:29] Yet here I am, mate.

Speaker 7:
[25:31] Yes, here you are.

Speaker 15:
[25:33] Ah, and here.

Speaker 13:
[25:42] Ha, ha, ha, wow, okay.

Speaker 7:
[25:48] Say hello to the River Fleet.

Speaker 9:
[25:50] Hello, River Fleet.

Speaker 7:
[25:54] And if we trot on down this way, we should, I hope, find...

Speaker 9:
[26:00] Find what?

Speaker 7:
[26:01] Some criminals.

Speaker 13:
[26:04] Wonderful.

Speaker 9:
[26:06] You think Mr. Evans could be down here? Isn't that why we're here?

Speaker 7:
[26:10] We are here for victims, John. That is all we know.

Speaker 9:
[26:15] I really hope so.

Speaker 14:
[26:17] Shush now.

Speaker 9:
[26:20] How far away do you think they are?

Speaker 7:
[26:22] Hard to say, but we are at least covered by the sound of the river for now. Come, tread carefully and quietly. I only see two of them.

Speaker 14:
[26:36] Yeah, me too.

Speaker 12:
[26:39] Lucky for us.

Speaker 7:
[26:40] They seem unarmed.

Speaker 11:
[26:42] That's the way.

Speaker 12:
[26:45] I'll get the one on the left.

Speaker 7:
[26:46] Roger that.

Speaker 12:
[26:47] You get the one on the right.

Speaker 7:
[26:49] Yes, thank you. I had made that deduction.

Speaker 12:
[26:51] I'm just making sure.

Speaker 7:
[26:53] A little closer.

Speaker 12:
[26:55] And three, two, one, go! You want to drown, mate? You want to drown?

Speaker 13:
[27:05] No, no, no, no, no!

Speaker 12:
[27:06] And stay still and don't move!

Speaker 14:
[27:09] Get off me!

Speaker 13:
[27:12] Sherlock!

Speaker 12:
[27:13] Sherlock, what are you doing?

Speaker 7:
[27:14] Oh, I just knocked my one out.

Speaker 14:
[27:17] I...

Speaker 12:
[27:18] Okay, erm...

Speaker 7:
[27:20] Do you want me to knock your one out?

Speaker 13:
[27:24] Yeah, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 9:
[27:25] Sorry, stop struggling, I said.

Speaker 12:
[27:26] Do you want to be knocked out?

Speaker 13:
[27:27] What?

Speaker 12:
[27:29] Would you rather be knocked out or subdued like what we're currently doing?

Speaker 13:
[27:34] Are the outcomes the same? Yes. Yes. Oh... I'd rather not be knocked out, to be honest.

Speaker 7:
[27:44] Right, well, it's a good job I can see these in your back pocket, isn't it?

Speaker 13:
[27:48] It's... No, that's... That's cable ties.

Speaker 7:
[27:52] Or what?

Speaker 13:
[27:54] Cable? Ha! He's good.

Speaker 7:
[27:56] Oh, really? What do you do?

Speaker 13:
[27:58] Oh, electrician, subterranean... Technician.

Speaker 7:
[28:06] What colour is life? What colour is neutral? And what colour is earth? Are you deaf? Or colour blind? Or both? Tie him up, Watson.

Speaker 9:
[28:18] With pleasure. Not pleasure in a weird, kinky way. It's more like...

Speaker 12:
[28:33] Hey, hey, stop.

Speaker 7:
[28:35] What is it?

Speaker 9:
[28:37] I think it's a backpack.

Speaker 14:
[28:39] Open it.

Speaker 12:
[28:41] Holy crap. Oh, there must be 20 of them in here.

Speaker 7:
[28:46] Or they're victims, perhaps.

Speaker 12:
[28:48] Right, so they take them and what?

Speaker 7:
[28:51] Ensure that despite there being no signal down here, they are not used under any circumstances.

Speaker 13:
[28:57] Wait, wait, shh. Oh, my God.

Speaker 15:
[29:02] Go.

Speaker 9:
[29:05] This way.

Speaker 13:
[29:07] Hello.

Speaker 9:
[29:09] Are you OK? Are you alone?

Speaker 7:
[29:14] Where are your captors?

Speaker 10:
[29:16] They ran literally like five minutes ago.

Speaker 9:
[29:20] I see you. I see you.

Speaker 3:
[29:21] Oh, my God.

Speaker 14:
[29:22] Hi.

Speaker 15:
[29:23] Hi.

Speaker 14:
[29:23] Hi.

Speaker 9:
[29:23] It's OK, Sherlock, cut these ties.

Speaker 15:
[29:26] Are you asleep?

Speaker 7:
[29:27] Something like that.

Speaker 14:
[29:29] Is this real?

Speaker 13:
[29:30] Is this actually happening?

Speaker 9:
[29:32] It's real.

Speaker 10:
[29:32] It's real.

Speaker 9:
[29:32] It's real.

Speaker 13:
[29:33] You're OK. You're safe.

Speaker 10:
[29:35] Hi. Again. So that's the first part that's sort of needed. And then we have to kind of skip two weeks forward, which is now. OK. So, yeah.

Speaker 9:
[29:53] Big dinosaur.

Speaker 7:
[29:55] You are aware it's not real.

Speaker 9:
[29:57] Yeah, but its bones are real, aren't they? Yeah, this is the Natural History Museum, mate. They can't have plastic dinosaur skeletons.

Speaker 7:
[30:03] Except that it is a plastic dinosaur skeleton.

Speaker 6:
[30:07] Oh.

Speaker 9:
[30:08] Oh, well, that's a let down.

Speaker 7:
[30:09] Yes. Well, it's nice to appreciate the scale of what these beasts once were.

Speaker 14:
[30:15] Hmm.

Speaker 7:
[30:17] I'd like to leave now.

Speaker 14:
[30:19] Why?

Speaker 7:
[30:20] These collections. I am only reminded that mine was once such a source of fulfilment. But now, I can't even restart mine.

Speaker 1:
[30:29] Why don't you?

Speaker 14:
[30:30] Hmm.

Speaker 7:
[30:31] Dedication. Space.

Speaker 9:
[30:33] Well, you don't have to have some vast stash of fossils. You could just get some really decent ones. I mean, I don't know, do they have a rarity scale like Pokemon cards or football stickers?

Speaker 7:
[30:43] Of course they do.

Speaker 9:
[30:44] There you go. Then get the best of the best. The shinies. Life's too short. I think these guys will be the first to tell you that. One minute you roam in the earth, next your jawbones in a glass case being locked out by tourists.

Speaker 7:
[30:56] Well, I was looking at some online postings this morning and there was a clear out sale at a house in Paddington.

Speaker 9:
[31:02] Well, let's do it.

Speaker 7:
[31:04] You're sure?

Speaker 9:
[31:05] Yeah, let's bloody do it, mate. Fossil hunting time.

Speaker 7:
[31:07] Well, it's just a straightforward in-person purchase.

Speaker 9:
[31:12] Straightforward in-person purchasing time. I was more of a cactus kind of kid.

Speaker 13:
[31:19] A cactus kid.

Speaker 9:
[31:20] Yeah, never really did the fossil thing, but I'd always get a cactus if there was a bit of pocket money spent.

Speaker 7:
[31:25] What species?

Speaker 9:
[31:26] Spiky ones. I never liked the fluffy ones.

Speaker 7:
[31:29] Get lost.

Speaker 9:
[31:29] Give me a proper spiky bastard.

Speaker 7:
[31:31] Oh, goodness.

Speaker 9:
[31:32] Holy crap. Is that his house?

Speaker 7:
[31:34] Yes.

Speaker 9:
[31:35] Beauty.

Speaker 7:
[31:36] Indeed.

Speaker 9:
[31:38] Very unique.

Speaker 7:
[31:39] It's a Garrideb.

Speaker 9:
[31:40] A what?

Speaker 7:
[31:41] A Garrideb.

Speaker 9:
[31:43] What does that mean?

Speaker 7:
[31:44] Alexander Garrideb, a rather eccentric art deco architect. Not many of his buildings survived a war.

Speaker 9:
[31:55] Kooky doorway. Someone that designs a building like this must be a little bit cranky.

Speaker 14:
[31:58] Don't eat the pigeons. See?

Speaker 13:
[32:01] Don't do it.

Speaker 9:
[32:02] Sorry. I wasn't going to eat any pigeons.

Speaker 14:
[32:05] Good. Because they're friends of mine.

Speaker 12:
[32:08] Yeah?

Speaker 9:
[32:09] No, of course.

Speaker 7:
[32:10] Hello there. I'm Sherlock. I messaged about your collection.

Speaker 14:
[32:15] Best coming. Come on in. Okay. Here we go.

Speaker 7:
[32:20] You've amassed quite the compilation of species, Nathan.

Speaker 14:
[32:23] What's that supposed to mean?

Speaker 7:
[32:25] It means I admire your work. Well done, sir.

Speaker 14:
[32:28] Yeah. Yeah. I've been doing it all my life. All my life I've been doing it.

Speaker 9:
[32:33] Great stuff.

Speaker 7:
[32:34] And why do you wish to part with them now?

Speaker 14:
[32:36] Because someone's buying the house, ain't they? Someone buying me out.

Speaker 7:
[32:41] Another precious collectible being sold off.

Speaker 14:
[32:44] No choice, huh? No choice for me, for Nathan, right? Don't touch the rug.

Speaker 7:
[32:49] I'm not touching the rug.

Speaker 14:
[32:50] Your shoes are.

Speaker 7:
[32:51] I'm stood on it.

Speaker 14:
[32:52] Well, well, well, why?

Speaker 7:
[32:54] Because it's a rug.

Speaker 9:
[32:56] Let's just move you over there, Shelz. There we go. Rug is untouched now, so... What do you mean, Nathan? You're being forced out of the house.

Speaker 14:
[33:06] The government. It's the government, you see, right? But you think I'm stupid and I'm not.

Speaker 9:
[33:11] I don't think you're stupid at all.

Speaker 14:
[33:12] They need the house, right? Because there's spies. And the spies will be able to access the top secret telecommunications lies that run through my property. And they will use that to spy on people, yeah? You understand that?

Speaker 9:
[33:31] So the government came to you and what?

Speaker 14:
[33:35] They made me an offer.

Speaker 9:
[33:36] Oh, a big one?

Speaker 14:
[33:37] Yes, sir.

Speaker 9:
[33:38] Right, well, good for you.

Speaker 14:
[33:40] Not really, though. I got nowhere else to go like there. I never not left this house since I was little, right? I don't know anywhere else, huh?

Speaker 9:
[33:50] Do you stay inside all day, Nathan?

Speaker 14:
[33:53] I do, like, yeah.

Speaker 9:
[33:55] Can I check these windows?

Speaker 14:
[33:57] Don't open them!

Speaker 9:
[33:58] You might need the ventilation.

Speaker 14:
[33:59] Don't open the windows.

Speaker 9:
[34:02] Okay, sure, sure, no problem.

Speaker 7:
[34:06] I said to Jon here, it is a garrideb, is it not?

Speaker 14:
[34:09] Yep. One of the last. One of the last.

Speaker 7:
[34:14] Do you know how many remain?

Speaker 14:
[34:15] Yeah, there's one in there, two of us. One down in Victoria, one in Euston.

Speaker 7:
[34:22] Three garridebs. And have your buyers...

Speaker 14:
[34:26] The government, yeah?

Speaker 7:
[34:27] Yes. Have they shown interest in the other two properties?

Speaker 13:
[34:30] Probably.

Speaker 14:
[34:32] They ain't stupid. But truth be told, right? Truth be told, come here. Oh, yeah. Come closer. Closer.

Speaker 9:
[34:42] Okay.

Speaker 14:
[34:44] They don't know what they're getting themselves into.

Speaker 9:
[34:47] They don't?

Speaker 14:
[34:50] Oh, no. Oh, no, my friend.

Speaker 9:
[34:53] With the house?

Speaker 14:
[34:54] That's right. It has become...

Speaker 12:
[34:59] possessed.

Speaker 14:
[35:02] Tormented. You see? Right. I hear it at night. At night. I hear the voices. I hear the screams.

Speaker 9:
[35:18] Okay, that... that's okay. Um, you sure there's nothing I can do to help in any way?

Speaker 14:
[35:24] You can't have it!

Speaker 7:
[35:25] Is it not for sale?

Speaker 14:
[35:26] Don't touch it! Get back! In fact, bloody get out! Both of you! Out of my house!

Speaker 15:
[35:32] Get out!

Speaker 9:
[35:35] Well, that didn't go to plan.

Speaker 7:
[35:38] No, it did not. A tormented, possessed house.

Speaker 9:
[35:45] Intrigued?

Speaker 7:
[35:46] Indeed.

Speaker 9:
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