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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 4:
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Speaker 5:
[01:48] Okay.
Speaker 4:
[01:49] John, I did it. Do I just hit stop or?
Speaker 6:
[01:59] Mostly on Sherlock & Co.
Speaker 7:
[02:01] Um, Sherlock?
Speaker 8:
[02:02] Yes, John?
Speaker 6:
[02:03] You were supposed to be knighted today by the King of England.
Speaker 8:
[02:09] Ah, yes, I was. You see, I got rather distracted.
Speaker 6:
[02:13] By pancakes?
Speaker 8:
[02:15] No.
Speaker 6:
[02:16] Okay. By what?
Speaker 8:
[02:19] Wait, I have also been assembling these fossils. I'd very much like to reignite my collection, like the boy I once was on the beaches of Devon. We hunt.
Speaker 6:
[02:31] For fossils?
Speaker 9:
[02:32] For crime.
Speaker 8:
[02:34] 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, handheld video, nothing. That is until the 16th, Monday morning. There she is, three miles away. Three days later, next to the Thames at Blackfriar's Bridge.
Speaker 6:
[03:00] How's that even possible?
Speaker 2:
[03:03] Teleportation.
Speaker 10:
[03:04] I mean, you tell me.
Speaker 6:
[03:06] Did you have any injuries or anything?
Speaker 10:
[03:11] This. Here.
Speaker 6:
[03:15] Pretty severe friction and strains on your wrist.
Speaker 7:
[03:18] Handcuffs maybe?
Speaker 8:
[03:19] Even handcuffs have more forgiving mouldings. Table ties, I'd say.
Speaker 9:
[03:24] Shit.
Speaker 6:
[03:26] Erm, I'm sorry, Olivia.
Speaker 9:
[03:28] No!
Speaker 8:
[03:29] No what?
Speaker 6:
[03:29] We're not opening a manhole cover.
Speaker 8:
[03:31] Of course we are.
Speaker 6:
[03:32] Sorry. Why?
Speaker 8:
[03:34] 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 11:
[03:48] Where are your captors?
Speaker 12:
[03:50] They ran!
Speaker 10:
[03:51] Literally like five minutes ago!
Speaker 7:
[03:54] I see you! I see you!
Speaker 3:
[03:55] Oh my god!
Speaker 10:
[03:56] Hi! Hi! Hi!
Speaker 7:
[03:58] It's okay, Sherlock. Cut these ties.
Speaker 10:
[04:00] Are you sleep?
Speaker 8:
[04:01] Something like that.
Speaker 13:
[04:03] Is this real?
Speaker 14:
[04:05] Is this actually happening?
Speaker 7:
[04:06] It's real. It's real.
Speaker 9:
[04:07] You're okay. You're safe.
Speaker 8:
[04:09] These collections, I am only reminded that mine was once such a source of fulfilment. Now, I can't even restart mine.
Speaker 11:
[04:18] Why don't you? Hmm.
Speaker 8:
[04:20] Dedication. Space.
Speaker 6:
[04:22] Well, you don't have to have some vast stash of fossils. You could just get some really decent ones.
Speaker 8:
[04:26] Well, I was looking at some online postings this morning and there was a clear out sale at a house in Paddington.
Speaker 7:
[04:33] Well, let's do it. Holy crap! Is that his house?
Speaker 8:
[04:36] Yes.
Speaker 7:
[04:37] Beauty.
Speaker 8:
[04:38] Indeed.
Speaker 6:
[04:40] Very unique.
Speaker 8:
[04:41] It's a Garrideb.
Speaker 7:
[04:43] A what?
Speaker 8:
[04:44] A Garrideb.
Speaker 1:
[04:45] What does that mean?
Speaker 8:
[04:46] Alexander Garrideb, a rather eccentric Art Deco architect. Not many of his buildings survived the war.
Speaker 6:
[04:57] Kooky doorway. Someone that designs a building like this must be a little bit crazy.
Speaker 13:
[05:01] Don't eat the pigeons. See, someone buying me out.
Speaker 8:
[05:04] Ah, another precious collectible being sold off.
Speaker 13:
[05:07] No choice, huh? No choice for me, for Nathan, right?
Speaker 6:
[05:11] Um, what do you mean, Nathan?
Speaker 7:
[05:13] You're being forced out of the house.
Speaker 13:
[05:14] The government, it's the government, you see, right? You think I'm stupid, and I'm not.
Speaker 6:
[05:19] I don't think you're stupid at all.
Speaker 13:
[05:20] 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 6:
[05:39] So the government came to you and what?
Speaker 13:
[05:43] They made me an offer.
Speaker 6:
[05:44] Ah, a big one?
Speaker 13:
[05:45] Yes, sir.
Speaker 6:
[05:47] Right, well, good for you.
Speaker 13:
[05:48] 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? In fact, bloody get out! Both of you, out of my house! Get out!
Speaker 4:
[06:09] Hi again, everyone. And welcome to Part Two of The Three Garridebs. This, no, no, I won't say it, because I don't want to scare people. So maybe look in the episode description if you're worried about this, as I even am. Um, yeah, there is some usual breaking and entering in this episode. Please, don't do that. Ah, this is Part Two. Okay.
Speaker 10:
[06:49] Bye.
Speaker 6:
[06:53] Poor bloke. You can tell he hasn't left the house. Not at all.
Speaker 7:
[06:58] Complete.
Speaker 6:
[07:00] Like, he was in touch with reality. Had a brief look in his bathroom. There's no psychiatric prescription drugs in there. There absolutely should be. Let me tell you, having an aggressive bounce of psychosis like that, it's dangerous for him. It's dangerous for his friends or neighbours.
Speaker 8:
[07:16] He's right.
Speaker 6:
[07:17] Sorry, what?
Speaker 8:
[07:18] An article for a North London circular mentions the sale of one of the Three Garridebs, this one in Euston.
Speaker 6:
[07:26] Right, so...
Speaker 8:
[07:28] Well, he's very isolated, hears screaming and voices, demands I visit no sooner, demands that I leave. And yet, he is of sound mind when it comes to this.
Speaker 6:
[07:40] The house is being bought up, you mean? Yeah, it's probably just an investor.
Speaker 8:
[07:48] He said it was the government.
Speaker 6:
[07:50] He also said he was friends with a pigeon.
Speaker 8:
[07:52] But why would the government require three Garrideb style houses dotted over London?
Speaker 6:
[07:58] You know what we need?
Speaker 8:
[07:59] What?
Speaker 6:
[08:00] A nerdy former estate agent.
Speaker 8:
[08:03] Good idea.
Speaker 4:
[08:09] Sherlock and Co, Mariana speaking.
Speaker 6:
[08:11] Hi there, I would like to use your services, please.
Speaker 4:
[08:14] Okay. It'll cost you.
Speaker 6:
[08:17] Got a query here.
Speaker 4:
[08:19] Let's hear it.
Speaker 6:
[08:20] We visited a fellow in a house in Paddington, and he claims that his house and a couple of others in London are being purchased forcibly, would you say, Sherlock?
Speaker 8:
[08:32] That's certainly the energy he gave when discussing it.
Speaker 6:
[08:35] Forced purchase from the government, now they're chucking him out.
Speaker 4:
[08:38] OK, that sounds kind of weird.
Speaker 7:
[08:41] Can we prove that?
Speaker 4:
[08:43] Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6:
[08:44] Good.
Speaker 7:
[08:45] How?
Speaker 4:
[08:46] If the houses weren't on the market, and they're not using conventional routes, they have to file a CPO.
Speaker 6:
[08:52] A C3PO?
Speaker 12:
[08:53] CPO.
Speaker 6:
[08:54] I'm joking.
Speaker 4:
[08:55] Compulsory Purchase Order, that will be available on GOVUK, also in local papers and public nuisances.
Speaker 6:
[09:03] Right, OK, he's typing. Anything?
Speaker 8:
[09:06] No, nothing. What about the borough?
Speaker 4:
[09:10] Yeah, if he's confused council with government, sure.
Speaker 8:
[09:13] Nothing in the borough postings either.
Speaker 6:
[09:15] Could it be like high-speed rail or something?
Speaker 4:
[09:18] He would have had at least two years in advance knowledge. The whole neighbourhood would have. Plus, Paddington has high-speed rail.
Speaker 6:
[09:25] True, true. Well, thank you for your services, Sherlock & Co.
Speaker 4:
[09:29] Our pleasure.
Speaker 6:
[09:32] So.
Speaker 8:
[09:34] Not the government after all.
Speaker 13:
[09:35] Nope.
Speaker 6:
[09:39] It makes me really angry, this shit. Right, well, that roofer tried to scan my nano at ten grand.
Speaker 7:
[09:44] Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 8:
[09:45] We're going to get off here.
Speaker 6:
[09:47] No, no, no. Why would we do that?
Speaker 8:
[09:49] Because we're going to have a nice jog down Park Lane.
Speaker 7:
[09:51] I don't want to have a nice jog down Park Lane. Mate.
Speaker 11:
[09:57] Nearly there, Watson.
Speaker 7:
[09:59] Can we please just call a cab or something?
Speaker 11:
[10:03] That won't be necessary.
Speaker 10:
[10:05] Why not?
Speaker 11:
[10:06] Because we are here.
Speaker 7:
[10:11] Thank God.
Speaker 11:
[10:12] No, wait. Down this street.
Speaker 7:
[10:15] Oh, God's sake.
Speaker 11:
[10:19] And we are here. Why are we here?
Speaker 14:
[10:25] We're in Victoria.
Speaker 11:
[10:27] Okay.
Speaker 6:
[10:29] Great.
Speaker 8:
[10:30] And look, the polished maroon brick that affects the same helix pattern, the protruding windows and the famous pointed dormer.
Speaker 11:
[10:38] Yeah.
Speaker 7:
[10:38] It looks just like Nathan's.
Speaker 6:
[10:41] It reminds me of a helter skelter slide or like a funky lighthouse or something.
Speaker 8:
[10:47] Yes, quite. We have our second Garrideb right here in Victoria. And if we take a little peek in the window...
Speaker 7:
[10:59] Oh, must we?
Speaker 11:
[11:01] We have... Nothing.
Speaker 6:
[11:06] Nothing. OK, so...
Speaker 8:
[11:08] So I see a Yale lock. It has seen plenty of usage, albeit fairly new. Resident parking space, again, quite well worn on the road. Probably a rather weighty electric car, judging by the ridges in the tarmac. Windows of this house were cleaned, I'd say, certainly after the weather turned, so a couple of weeks at the most. Yet no furniture. Stuck up post by the front door, and of course, no car.
Speaker 7:
[11:39] What are you doing?
Speaker 8:
[11:40] Hearing. Nosing.
Speaker 6:
[11:42] Through the letterbox?
Speaker 8:
[11:45] Right.
Speaker 6:
[11:47] Looking someone up?
Speaker 8:
[11:48] Of course.
Speaker 6:
[11:50] Doxing?
Speaker 8:
[11:51] In a sense. Ah, here we go.
Speaker 13:
[12:03] Hello?
Speaker 8:
[12:04] Yes, hello, David. Of Bloomfield Estates Limited, on Grant Road, Victoria.
Speaker 13:
[12:09] Yes, that's me. Well, no, well, I've relocated.
Speaker 8:
[12:13] Oh, no longer in Victoria?
Speaker 12:
[12:15] No, we moved near Southwark.
Speaker 8:
[12:17] Can I ask why?
Speaker 7:
[12:19] Had an offer on our property.
Speaker 5:
[12:20] Too good to turn down.
Speaker 8:
[12:22] I see. Who is the new owner?
Speaker 12:
[12:24] I don't really know. Sorry, what is this?
Speaker 6:
[12:32] I didn't mention the government.
Speaker 8:
[12:33] No, he just took the money because it was good enough.
Speaker 6:
[12:37] Is this the bit where you tell me the pigeon man was right again?
Speaker 8:
[12:39] Well, he is Watson. We know the one in Euston was sold. This one is clearly sold despite there being no sign. Must have been a private acquisition. Mariana has shown it is clearly not what Nathan has been told. He is being manipulated for his property. And of course Nathan's home faces the same ardent and somewhat impatient purchase as this one clearly did.
Speaker 15:
[13:04] Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6:
[13:10] The council may not have bought Nathan's house but they do need to get involved. Well, he needs aftercare.
Speaker 7:
[13:14] He is vulnerable.
Speaker 8:
[13:15] Indeed.
Speaker 7:
[13:16] Someone just buys his house, completely fucks with his head, plays to his fears and then kicks him out.
Speaker 8:
[13:22] Well, let's think, Watson. This is a fabled property of the early century modern design, as are its brothers in Paddington and Euston, all in unaffordable areas of London.
Speaker 6:
[13:33] Completely.
Speaker 8:
[13:34] So this house should cost?
Speaker 6:
[13:37] I'd say nine, ten million.
Speaker 8:
[13:40] Nine or ten million. Probably six or seven for Nathan's, eight for Euston. So well in over 20 million pounds in purchases.
Speaker 2:
[13:50] All for what?
Speaker 6:
[13:52] Famous buildings, like you said?
Speaker 8:
[13:53] Three Garridebs, all bought at the same time. None of them listed, all acquired behind closed doors.
Speaker 6:
[14:01] And in a heavy-handed manner. These lot have basically evacuated it immediately. That Euston one was so surprising to residents, it got a bloody article. And Nathan still seems shell-shocked by his one.
Speaker 7:
[14:12] What are you thinking?
Speaker 8:
[14:14] Rather, what would you prefer? Which Garrideb?
Speaker 6:
[14:19] I don't know what you mean. To live in? Er, probably this one.
Speaker 8:
[14:25] No, not to live in. To break into.
Speaker 6:
[14:28] No.
Speaker 8:
[14:28] That wasn't one of the options.
Speaker 6:
[14:30] Yes, it is. It's an option. No. See? Just said it.
Speaker 8:
[14:33] We're already at this one, so I'd say this one.
Speaker 6:
[14:35] Sherlock.
Speaker 8:
[14:36] We can't go into Nathan's. He's already distressed enough.
Speaker 7:
[14:39] No, no, no. We can't go into any of them.
Speaker 6:
[14:41] Any of them.
Speaker 8:
[14:42] Well, not right now.
Speaker 7:
[14:43] Not now. Not tomorrow. Not ever.
Speaker 8:
[14:45] We'll go when it gets dark.
Speaker 7:
[14:47] Absolutely not.
Speaker 8:
[14:48] I think we should head to the pub first. Bit of Dutch courage.
Speaker 7:
[14:54] There you go. Fine sir.
Speaker 8:
[14:56] Thank you, dear fellow.
Speaker 6:
[14:57] That's quite all right, my splendid chap.
Speaker 8:
[14:58] Glad to hear it, old boy.
Speaker 6:
[15:00] Yeah, we could do this all day.
Speaker 8:
[15:01] Cheers. Cheers.
Speaker 6:
[15:07] What's that?
Speaker 1:
[15:08] Hmm?
Speaker 6:
[15:09] On your phone.
Speaker 8:
[15:10] Oh, I'm just doing a little reading on Alexander Garrideb.
Speaker 6:
[15:14] Oh, yeah?
Speaker 8:
[15:15] It would appear in 1933 he ceased designing and building homes.
Speaker 1:
[15:20] Yeah?
Speaker 8:
[15:20] But that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 6:
[15:22] Why not?
Speaker 8:
[15:23] Because on the land registry files for our remaining three Garridebs, they were all greenlit and completed in 1939 and one in 1940.
Speaker 6:
[15:32] So he quits, then pops up these three houses, then what?
Speaker 8:
[15:36] Then he dies of TB in 1944. OK. The houses seem quite unremarkable. They don't seem to have any particular history other than being conventional residential properties. He didn't build them for a prince or a dignitary or even for himself or his kin. But for whatever reason, he came out of retirement abruptly, quickly designed and built these three homes, then quit again and died.
Speaker 6:
[16:06] Look, I mean, his buildings are weird and kooky. He let the man have a little kook in his personal life, you know. He's bound to be a little unorthodox, isn't he?
Speaker 8:
[16:15] Indeed. But its past certainly doesn't make its present any clearer. Shh, I am trying to shush, but you keep saying shush and it's making me slip. So shush.
Speaker 13:
[16:33] All right, fine. What are you going to do when you reach the window?
Speaker 8:
[16:36] You see there, right next to the window, that is the spot of where some ventilation was once ago. Extractor fan, perhaps. It's been sealed with expanding foam. I'm going to pull the foam away, reach into what I assume is the bathroom, and if my arm reaches, I will be able to undo the latch on that window.
Speaker 13:
[16:57] Good luck.
Speaker 14:
[16:58] Thanks.
Speaker 8:
[16:59] Ready?
Speaker 14:
[17:00] One, two, three.
Speaker 13:
[17:03] Set you up.
Speaker 10:
[17:04] Yes, yes.
Speaker 14:
[17:05] I can hold the helix batten brickwork. It sits out a little from the others.
Speaker 13:
[17:11] You got it?
Speaker 11:
[17:11] Ah, yes.
Speaker 14:
[17:13] Got it. Right, now I can balance my way up the helix.
Speaker 6:
[17:20] Almost like steps.
Speaker 14:
[17:21] Very similar, yes. Only with just under an inch for each foot. Somewhat precarious.
Speaker 13:
[17:28] Okay, you're at the window.
Speaker 14:
[17:29] Yes. Now, let me just...
Speaker 13:
[17:35] Yes, the foam is coming away.
Speaker 14:
[17:38] Reaching in.
Speaker 7:
[17:41] Please, please, please tell me you can reach.
Speaker 14:
[17:44] Please, please tell me no one is coming.
Speaker 13:
[17:47] No, nobody.
Speaker 10:
[17:48] Right.
Speaker 14:
[17:50] It's open.
Speaker 13:
[17:51] The window popped open.
Speaker 14:
[17:52] Come on up.
Speaker 13:
[17:53] No. What?
Speaker 7:
[17:55] You go in the window.
Speaker 13:
[17:56] Just let me in the front door.
Speaker 14:
[17:58] For goodness sake.
Speaker 6:
[18:01] Good evening.
Speaker 8:
[18:02] Get in the bloody house.
Speaker 13:
[18:03] Will do. OK.
Speaker 14:
[18:07] Wow.
Speaker 6:
[18:08] Yeah.
Speaker 7:
[18:08] Same layout, isn't it?
Speaker 8:
[18:09] It is indeed. A near identical to Nathan's.
Speaker 6:
[18:13] Growing on me. These houses. Look. Helix brick pattern continues inside.
Speaker 8:
[18:18] Yes.
Speaker 6:
[18:19] Like some sort of helter skelter house.
Speaker 8:
[18:21] You've said that already.
Speaker 10:
[18:22] Sorry. A bit tipsy.
Speaker 6:
[18:25] Right.
Speaker 7:
[18:25] What are we looking for, mate?
Speaker 6:
[18:26] Because that third beer is wearing off and now I'm getting nervous.
Speaker 8:
[18:29] What do these peculiar structures contain, Watson? Why are they so sought after so suddenly?
Speaker 6:
[18:35] It looks like it's been cleaned out of anything particularly valuable, mate. Some old screws here on the floor. Strands of carpet. Great. Circular staircase.
Speaker 13:
[18:43] That will do wonders for the balance.
Speaker 6:
[18:52] Still seems totally empty to me.
Speaker 8:
[18:54] Unlikely, given the unusual activity, but yes, that is the way it seems.
Speaker 6:
[19:05] Looks like a master bedroom.
Speaker 8:
[19:08] Garrideb was from a family of jewelers. Perhaps such valuables may have been stashed in the...
Speaker 13:
[19:14] What's that? Shhh!
Speaker 7:
[19:15] Where's that coming from?
Speaker 8:
[19:17] Downstairs.
Speaker 13:
[19:18] What are you talking about? We were just there. Do you think that's a fox or something?
Speaker 8:
[19:25] No, I do not. I fear we may have ourselves an intruder.
Speaker 6:
[19:33] I think in this instance, we are the intruders, Sherlock.
Speaker 8:
[19:37] Let us take a peek, shall we?
Speaker 10:
[19:39] Shhh!
Speaker 13:
[19:39] Look over the sign, but do not go down there.
Speaker 10:
[19:42] Deal.
Speaker 8:
[19:45] Excellent.
Speaker 6:
[19:46] What?
Speaker 10:
[19:47] Who is it?
Speaker 14:
[19:48] It's a murderer.
Speaker 6:
[19:50] Oh, good. A murderer. That's a relief.
Speaker 8:
[19:53] One by one, we shall clear the infestation, dear Watson. And we start with Killian Evans.
Speaker 13:
[20:03] Oh my, what? He's right there, you genius.
Speaker 8:
[20:07] Come now.
Speaker 13:
[20:08] Guys, you are so good. You are just unbelievable.
Speaker 8:
[20:12] Stop it, you.
Speaker 6:
[20:13] Do you think Moran will show up too?
Speaker 1:
[20:15] No.
Speaker 13:
[20:16] Why?
Speaker 8:
[20:17] Because I don't quite understand it. Killian here has materialized before us.
Speaker 13:
[20:24] Right. Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 14:
[20:27] I'm calling the police.
Speaker 13:
[20:29] You?
Speaker 7:
[20:30] You are calling the police?
Speaker 14:
[20:31] That's right.
Speaker 13:
[20:32] You never do that.
Speaker 8:
[20:34] Do I not?
Speaker 13:
[20:35] No.
Speaker 6:
[20:36] Are you not armed or?
Speaker 8:
[20:37] No, don't seem to be.
Speaker 13:
[20:39] Right. Okay, so which are you going to call the police? They arrest Killian Evans and that's that?
Speaker 8:
[20:44] That would seem to be that.
Speaker 9:
[20:47] Yes.
Speaker 13:
[20:48] Okay, then.
Speaker 14:
[20:50] Metroport and police switchboard. Yes.
Speaker 13:
[20:53] Hello.
Speaker 14:
[20:54] This is Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 8:
[20:55] Alert your specialist crime unit and the CID for Westminster. We have located Killian Evans.
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Speaker 10:
[21:42] Hey, I like your new RAV4.
Speaker 9:
[21:43] Thanks, yours too.
Speaker 12:
[21:45] What does RAV stand for anyway?
Speaker 9:
[21:47] To me, it's the remarkably advanced vehicle.
Speaker 16:
[21:50] Really? To me, it's the runway approved vehicle for its amazing style.
Speaker 9:
[21:54] What about remarkably adaptable vehicle because of its versatile cargo space?
Speaker 12:
[21:57] Or really admired vehicle?
Speaker 9:
[21:59] Oh, or really awesome vehicle.
Speaker 16:
[22:02] It really is the recreational activity vehicle.
Speaker 4:
[22:05] The stylish 2026 Toyota RAV4 Limited. What's your RAV4?
Speaker 5:
[22:12] K-Pop Demon Hunter's Saja Boys 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 16:
[22:20] It's not a battle. So glad the Saja Boys could take breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day.
Speaker 1:
[22:26] It is an honor to share.
Speaker 5:
[22:27] No, it's our honor.
Speaker 1:
[22:29] It is our larger honor.
Speaker 5:
[22:31] No, really, stop. You can really feel the respect in this battle. Pick a meal to pick a side.
Speaker 1:
[22:40] And participate in McDonald's What Supplies Last.
Speaker 8:
[22:46] What can you see?
Speaker 6:
[22:48] Yeah, I can see cars pulling up. No lines, no sirens.
Speaker 14:
[22:51] Good. Very good.
Speaker 13:
[22:53] How's things looking, your end?
Speaker 8:
[22:55] Mr. Evans remains on his phone.
Speaker 6:
[22:57] Okay, looks like they're approaching the front door.
Speaker 8:
[23:00] All of them?
Speaker 13:
[23:01] Yeah, mate.
Speaker 7:
[23:01] All units.
Speaker 6:
[23:02] Full on brigade to sort this fella out.
Speaker 7:
[23:04] Don't blame them.
Speaker 8:
[23:05] Can you see any officers taking the side passage like we did into the rear garden?
Speaker 13:
[23:10] I can't.
Speaker 9:
[23:12] Bugga, come with me.
Speaker 11:
[23:13] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, where are you going?
Speaker 14:
[23:17] To the bathroom that I climbed into. I need to know they have units stationed at the rear exit.
Speaker 9:
[23:22] Oh, God.
Speaker 14:
[23:23] Through here.
Speaker 13:
[23:24] Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 14:
[23:25] Okay, let's have a look.
Speaker 7:
[23:27] Are there officers out there?
Speaker 14:
[23:29] Not that I can see.
Speaker 6:
[23:30] Oh, okay, well, they're probably pretty confident that they've got this all sorted through the front door.
Speaker 13:
[23:36] Wow, what are you doing?
Speaker 14:
[23:37] Checking on our man.
Speaker 7:
[23:38] Just stop looking over the banister, please.
Speaker 13:
[23:40] Do not join in.
Speaker 14:
[23:41] Here they come. There he goes.
Speaker 8:
[23:44] Mugger it.
Speaker 13:
[23:45] He's running.
Speaker 14:
[23:45] Of course he bloody is.
Speaker 8:
[23:47] Why haven't they covered exit ways, for goodness sake?
Speaker 13:
[23:49] Sherlock, wait.
Speaker 14:
[23:50] Get out of the way. This, this is why I don't call the police.
Speaker 13:
[23:53] What are you doing?
Speaker 14:
[23:54] My job. And theirs, apparently.
Speaker 7:
[23:57] Do not jump out the bathroom window. Do not. Oh, God, he jumped out the bathroom window.
Speaker 13:
[24:01] Oh, great.
Speaker 7:
[24:03] Great.
Speaker 11:
[24:04] Get down here, Watson.
Speaker 8:
[24:05] He'll break out the back kitchen door in no time and we'll cut him off.
Speaker 7:
[24:08] You want me to jump out the window?
Speaker 8:
[24:10] Yes.
Speaker 11:
[24:11] I did.
Speaker 7:
[24:12] I know. Oh, fine. I'm gonna do it. For one of these days, mate, someone is gonna get really hurt.
Speaker 11:
[24:25] Ah! Oh, my God.
Speaker 14:
[24:28] I landed on something.
Speaker 7:
[24:29] My elbow.
Speaker 8:
[24:29] You landed on someone. Hello, there, Killian. Feel that? That is the weight of justice bearing down on you.
Speaker 6:
[24:43] No, that's my arse, actually.
Speaker 8:
[24:45] Ah!
Speaker 6:
[24:45] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 7:
[24:45] All right, mate. Fuck off. I don't weigh that much.
Speaker 8:
[24:51] You're tying it too tight.
Speaker 6:
[24:53] I'm not.
Speaker 8:
[24:54] Yes, you are. The tie should rest flush around the neck collar. It shouldn't be digging.
Speaker 7:
[24:59] Look, I'm not tying.
Speaker 6:
[25:00] You're tying too tight. I'm tying it normally. You're itching and moving around and moaning, and it's making the tie tighter.
Speaker 8:
[25:05] Oh, so it's my fault. I clearly have intentions to strangle myself, do I?
Speaker 6:
[25:08] Strangle yourself? Frame me as the culprit.
Speaker 8:
[25:10] Oh, cold hands.
Speaker 6:
[25:12] Warm heart. They're back.
Speaker 8:
[25:16] Yes, I saw them this morning.
Speaker 6:
[25:18] The goldfinch.
Speaker 7:
[25:19] She'll nest in there.
Speaker 6:
[25:20] Watch.
Speaker 8:
[25:21] Spring is here.
Speaker 6:
[25:23] Spring is here, my friend. Watch, she goes into that hole in the brick at 242.
Speaker 8:
[25:27] Camden House.
Speaker 6:
[25:28] Yes, that's 242 Baker Street, opposite.
Speaker 8:
[25:31] Yes, but it is named Camden House.
Speaker 6:
[25:35] They can name it all they want. They ain't selling it, not in this economy.
Speaker 8:
[25:38] It remains empty.
Speaker 6:
[25:40] The empty house. But for our little goldfinch friends, that's exciting, isn't it? The pitter-patter, well, flitter-flutter of tiny wings right across the street. And here comes the rain. Great.
Speaker 16:
[25:56] Hello.
Speaker 4:
[25:57] Oh, look at you two smart, handsome gentlemen.
Speaker 6:
[26:00] Oh, thank you. Thank you. You're looking pretty good yourself. You've changed dress though.
Speaker 4:
[26:06] Changed? Changed my dress?
Speaker 6:
[26:08] Yeah, last time we went to Buckingham Palace.
Speaker 4:
[26:09] For the original nighting ceremony? Yeah, I'm not going to go back a month later wearing the same dress.
Speaker 7:
[26:15] But I'm wearing the same suit.
Speaker 4:
[26:17] Well, that's different. You're a guy. Promise? Yes, of course. I promise. You look great. Oh, and look at my big, handsome knight. Oh, yes.
Speaker 8:
[26:26] Do I look the part?
Speaker 4:
[26:27] Yes, you do, sir.
Speaker 8:
[26:30] The sword is yet to grace my shoulders.
Speaker 4:
[26:32] Yeah, I know, I know, but I'm just preparing. Oh, Gregson says he can't make it, by the way, but he wants to know how you feel. And he wants to know how the heck you convinced them that they should give you a second chance.
Speaker 6:
[26:49] Second chance? He caught another murderer. That's what did it.
Speaker 4:
[26:51] Wasn't it your ass that caught the murderer?
Speaker 6:
[26:54] My arse flying through the air. Yes. Yeah. I think my arse is eligible for an MBE, at the very least.
Speaker 8:
[27:00] I will reply to Gregson. Thank you for the message.
Speaker 4:
[27:03] There's tons. So, so many messages.
Speaker 8:
[27:06] Really?
Speaker 4:
[27:07] Yep. Kitty Winter, she sent a message. Athelney Jones, Grace Dunbar, remember him?
Speaker 8:
[27:13] Of course.
Speaker 5:
[27:13] Thor Bridge.
Speaker 4:
[27:15] I noted them down. So, there was Fiona Oakshot. Oh, and look, she sent a picture of Heather the Goose.
Speaker 7:
[27:22] Hey, oh no. I feel shame just looking at her.
Speaker 6:
[27:28] Sorry again, Heather.
Speaker 7:
[27:30] God, look at those eyes. She hasn't forgotten.
Speaker 4:
[27:32] Amanda Meriwether sent a big congratulations. Hamper thing. Silas Brown, he messaged.
Speaker 6:
[27:38] Oh, and Bobby Nobheads, sorry, no, Robert Norbertson. He sends his regards via Carol, of course. She'll be there today.
Speaker 14:
[27:46] Oh, splendid.
Speaker 8:
[27:48] Now I really do feel honoured.
Speaker 4:
[27:50] Maud Bellamy, Greg Cantalmere. It's just so... Like, I must have cried three times this morning. Just, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 8:
[28:01] We should all be kneeling before the king.
Speaker 4:
[28:04] I know. And I appreciate that, and I know how you feel about this kind of thing, but you deserve this, right?
Speaker 11:
[28:13] Right.
Speaker 6:
[28:14] Hold that mushy moment. I've got an answer phone message.
Speaker 4:
[28:17] Oh, OK, but quick. The cab is outside.
Speaker 6:
[28:19] Yeah, run down. I'll be literally right behind you.
Speaker 5:
[28:28] You have one new message.
Speaker 13:
[28:32] Hello? They've kicked me out of the house. Kicked me right out. They took my key, and I got nothing, and no one, and... I don't know what to do. I've been camping down the end of the garden. Oh, man. And it's raining now. Raining a lot. They ain't been back in there. They're not even using it. They're not even using the house, and I ain't got nowhere to go. You said you'd help, sir. I'm just... I'm trying, aren't I? I'm trying. It's Nathan. Bye-bye, then. Bye-bye. Oh, for fu...
Speaker 7:
[29:32] Why haven't they given this guy some support?
Speaker 6:
[29:48] Just quickly.
Speaker 5:
[29:49] What are you doing?
Speaker 4:
[29:50] Do you want to sit in the front or something?
Speaker 6:
[29:53] No, no, I just quickly need to head over to Paddington.
Speaker 4:
[29:55] What?
Speaker 8:
[29:56] For what reason?
Speaker 7:
[29:57] Because the, the council, sorry, I wound up now.
Speaker 6:
[29:59] The council, they haven't taken Nathan in, they haven't checked on him, and he's camping in his garden in this bloody weather because he can't get back into his house.
Speaker 4:
[30:08] Oh my God.
Speaker 6:
[30:08] I know, I know.
Speaker 7:
[30:09] So I'm gonna go get him somewhere safe.
Speaker 6:
[30:11] It's literally a couple of stops. I'll probably be at Buckingham Palace before you.
Speaker 4:
[30:14] Okay.
Speaker 8:
[30:15] See you there.
Speaker 6:
[30:16] In a bit. John Watson, I'm calling on behalf of an elderly gentleman. He's fairly vulnerable. He's recently been the victim of a scam for someone to take his house.
Speaker 12:
[30:34] Oh God, that's awful.
Speaker 6:
[30:36] Yeah, yeah. And it would seem he's now somewhat spooked to enter his own property.
Speaker 12:
[30:41] Of course.
Speaker 6:
[30:42] So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go pick him up now, and I'd like to get him to a nearby health center, if that's possible.
Speaker 12:
[30:48] Absolutely. I'm gonna message you the Pennington one now, and hopefully I'll be able to arrange for a social and well-being worker to meet you.
Speaker 6:
[30:57] Okay, great. Thank you so much.
Speaker 12:
[31:10] Hello?
Speaker 7:
[31:16] Hello, Nathan?
Speaker 6:
[31:20] Nathan?
Speaker 7:
[31:21] It's me, it's Jon. I'm just here to help.
Speaker 6:
[31:35] This isn't good, um...
Speaker 13:
[31:41] Come on!
Speaker 7:
[31:44] Nathan, can you just let me know you're in there? I can come another time. You said you were in the garden, but I couldn't see you. Hello?
Speaker 6:
[31:55] Sod it.
Speaker 11:
[31:59] Oh, man.
Speaker 7:
[32:01] Nathan! Nathan!
Speaker 6:
[32:06] Everything's fine.
Speaker 7:
[32:07] You're not in trouble, mate. I just have some people that can sort you out, is all.
Speaker 13:
[32:16] What's going on?
Speaker 6:
[32:22] What the hell is that?
Speaker 7:
[32:27] Screaming.
Speaker 10:
[32:28] And...
Speaker 6:
[32:29] voices. He said he was hearing screaming and voices.
Speaker 10:
[32:33] Hello? Hello?
Speaker 7:
[32:38] is anyone up here? Does someone need help?
Speaker 6:
[32:53] No, they're downstairs, definitely downstairs, downstairs, sorry, listeners, I'm not talking to myself, I'm talking to you, but well, actually maybe they're both, this is bloody weird. That is... Undeniable.
Speaker 9:
[33:15] he was right. He was...
Speaker 6:
[33:18] Nathan was hearing these things. He was hearing them because... because they're happening.
Speaker 14:
[33:22] What the hell?
Speaker 6:
[33:23] I've looked in every room.
Speaker 14:
[33:36] It's in the floor.
Speaker 10:
[33:41] Oh!
Speaker 6:
[33:44] Holy crap, that's a dusty rug.
Speaker 10:
[33:46] Oh, God.
Speaker 7:
[33:55] It's okay, it's okay, I'm coming, I'm coming to help.
Speaker 4:
[33:59] Fool them once, shame on me. Fool them twice, shame on them.
Speaker 8:
[34:04] You smuggled in a microphone.
Speaker 4:
[34:06] Oh, I sure did.
Speaker 13:
[34:08] Ah, finally, where the bloody hell have you been?
Speaker 4:
[34:11] Hey, hey.
Speaker 5:
[34:14] Ah, you look great.
Speaker 3:
[34:15] Not as good as you, nor him.
Speaker 13:
[34:17] Oh, come here, knight of the realm. Not yet.
Speaker 12:
[34:23] Turned it up late to his own knight of god above, honestly.
Speaker 8:
[34:26] We're still technically early.
Speaker 6:
[34:27] Technically early, Christ.
Speaker 14:
[34:29] If I were getting knighted, I would have camped out the night before.
Speaker 5:
[34:32] Nadia couldn't make it, mate.
Speaker 6:
[34:34] Sorry.
Speaker 8:
[34:35] But we...
Speaker 13:
[34:37] Where's John?
Speaker 4:
[34:39] Our thoughts exactly.
Speaker 8:
[34:40] It is a mystery and not a particularly intriguing one.
Speaker 4:
[34:44] What were you going to say?
Speaker 14:
[34:46] I can't.
Speaker 5:
[34:47] Not without John here.
Speaker 4:
[34:48] Oh, what? We got to wait?
Speaker 5:
[34:50] Yeah. It's all right. Oh, Carol.
Speaker 16:
[34:53] Carol? Carol.
Speaker 5:
[34:55] Over here.
Speaker 7:
[35:05] Wow, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 6:
[35:09] The staircase has now made way for a tunnel. No water, unlike one from a few weeks ago, so that's an improvement, but still. I do not like the sound of that. No signal on my phone. No idea how far down I am. I must have done like five or six hundred steps. My knees are killing me. A phone light can literally just pick out the sides of this tunnel. Everything ahead is completely black. Oh, wait. Something underfoot now. It looks like a rail, like a train rail. Very rusted, very old, all twisted in places. So things are looking up. I guess I'm not going to get mown down by the next Bakaloo line service. I don't know if I should be happy, the distant screams have stopped, or concerned.
Speaker 17:
[36:14] Oh, you should be very concerned.
Speaker 10:
[36:19] Hello?
Speaker 7:
[36:21] Hi, I just wanted to check if everything was okay.
Speaker 17:
[36:25] Oh, it is for me.
Speaker 6:
[36:28] Sorry, could you come a little closer? I can't see you.
Speaker 17:
[36:30] You wouldn't fucking want to, little man.
Speaker 6:
[36:35] Little man, that seems a bit provocative. I'm just trying to help me, so...
Speaker 17:
[36:40] Everyone is little to me. I've always been a bit on the large side. These tunnels don't make life any easier. But we fucking need them, don't we? Yeah, every time we find a new burrow, there you come, like a clueless ferret, tunnelling into the den of a viper. You took our fleet, and now you find us in the old Garrideb mail rail. Lucky you. Not many people get to see this, you fortunate.
Speaker 6:
[37:26] Can you please just come out of wherever you are, so we can have a normal conversation, and I can help?
Speaker 17:
[37:30] Well, sounds pleasant, but I don't really have time for that.
Speaker 6:
[37:36] Oh yeah? So, what do you have time for?
Speaker 17:
[37:40] Fortunately, my payback will be quite brief.
Speaker 16:
[37:47] Payback?
Speaker 13:
[37:52] Moran.
Speaker 17:
[37:54] And so we meet, John. It's a shame you can't pick me out in the darkness. I would have rather liked being the last man you ever see.
Speaker 7:
[38:05] Hey, just wait a second.
Speaker 17:
[38:07] Muzzle flash might light me up, mind.
Speaker 9:
[38:09] Moran! Every act of change begins with a neighbor. When neighbors connect through the Feeding America Network, small actions ripple into lasting impact. Feeding America, led by neighbors. Give now to Anne Hunger at feedingamerica.org.