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Previously on Sherlock and Co. A

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girl. A girl is missing. What?

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Their friend has vanished. Are you

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being serious?

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Our friend Harriet, best friend, got

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married. Was gonna get married, I

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mean, to a British guy. How did we first

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find out about them? She sent his Twitter thing,

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remember? The Noble Bachelor.

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Right, the Noble Bachelor.

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What's the Noble Bachelor? Hiya.

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Oh, hi John. Hello mate. Hi

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pal, you alright? This is Robert. Hi

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mate, nice to meet you. I'll

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be in in a sec. Why did you choose Harriet?

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I didn't choose her. I

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fell in love with her. The Noble Bachelor.

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A very popular little enterprise you have.

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Why throw it all away for Harriet?

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Is it because of her family's money? God no.

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Absolutely not. I was walking him

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in the park. It... Oh,

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it is so dark. But I

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could see this... white

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thing... floating in

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the ponds and I...

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Marianna, what is that? That's

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the wedding dress of Harriet

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Doran. Welcome

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to part two of the Noble Bachelor.

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Just before you tuck in, before you gobble the

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episode up, I should say, and

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the ingredients for this episode is a... a

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drizzle of light swearing, a dash

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of violence, and a dollop

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of duck poo.

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Well, a reference

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to duck poo. I

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don't know if that's worthy of a warning.

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But you never know. Best

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be safe.

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It's 6am. And

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that is the sound of a... Oh,

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God. What is it again, mate? It's

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a hydraulic dredge. A hydraulic

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dredge. That

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is currently excavating...

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a duck pond here in Regent's

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Park as the search for...

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well, hopefully not the body that Harry

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adored, but, erm... well,

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I don't know, clues, maybe. It's

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not good. Not

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good.

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It's... nothing. Yeah,

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it is, mate. I don't know

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how someone could do that to her, to be honest. No. The

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round of duck excrement. Look at that. Sherlock

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is, of course, deeply anxious and

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saddened about the possible murder.

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How much longer do you think, mate? It'll be

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about two hours. Right. Yeah,

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just hope you find clues, you know, and

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not her. Yeah, yeah.

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So... I'm

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not full of confidence, though. Neither am

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I. Now Mrs. Hudson has involved the police.

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Yeah, of course she involved the police.

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Why wouldn't she involve the police? A number

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of reasons, but the main one is that they'll

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get in my way. Great, great,

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yes. Can we just try and cooperate

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with the Met, please? Oh.

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Hey, there he is. Hmm. What's

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he doing here? Wait a

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minute. He's not with a TV crew, is he? Oh

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my God. And thus the limelight

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shines down on the noble bachelor. What

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are you doing? Look at that. What

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is it? Book charts on Amazon. Look at second

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and third. Beta is better.

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A guide to being a beta male in the

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21st century by Robert Pritchard, aka

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the noble bachelor. The

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ally to be a male feminist, Robert

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Pritchard, noble bachelor. Death

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sells. Well, he and his publisher

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are going to be bitterly disappointed. Why so? Because

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Harriet Doran is not dead.

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Oh, yeah.

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Robert bugs

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me, doesn't he bug you?

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Yes, I suppose he does. Maybe

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we could... You know,

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you know what? Nudge the police

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in his direction and get

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him questioned. Why? Because

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he bugs you. Just the whole act,

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the whole performance, for nothing. For

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money? Exactly. You know, worse than

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that. He's invented this whole

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character to just make money and shag

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as much as possible, basically. Do

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I detect a hint of jealousy, Watson?

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No, you do not detect a hint of jealousy.

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Yes, more than a hint.

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A deluge. I am not

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jealous of him. I'm

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tired of people like him, you know? People

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that parade around under their halo

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online and then get away with murder, literally.

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And then there's Frank, of course. Dead

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Frank. Yes. Dead Frank.

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I mean, yeah, a bit of organized

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crime.

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He's

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never going to bode well for Harriet, but

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I just don't get why the family would go after her. Yeah,

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does she know something? A little late

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if she does. Two years

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since his death and two years since

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the imprisonment of his father. And

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look at this. What was that? An

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obituary two weeks ago. Hogarth

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Bailey died in prison. 79 years

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of age and that final

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line there was. Father

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of Caitlin, Joseph and the

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late Frank Bailey. Where did you find this?

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Harriet's Instagram post from two years ago. The

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warning for her late partner got me a name. His

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account is still live and public. Are

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you suggesting that we put some kind of

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mafia fight?

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No, no. Okay. The

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time difference did me some favours last night,

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what's here. Knock. Oren

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has report on Frank T Bailey

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Motor Vehicle Accident, New Mexico. Right, what's the

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problem? That is

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the problem.

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Signed by the Federal Medical

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Examiner. Aha! See? Ah,

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right. Right. Right. Yep.

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Haha, yeah. Yeah, you

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don't get it, do you? Nope.

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No you didn't. This is our stop. Just

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how? I

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said I'm hungry, Watson. Explanations will

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follow. We've had a call.

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From who, Mrs. Hudson?

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Miss Fiona Pritchard. A

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mother of the groom. She says that

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after the floor thing, she saw

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Robert and Harriet talking.

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Talking or arguing? I...

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Well, she said talking. That's all I know. Where?

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In the pavilion where the first dance was

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going to be. Well, I mean, he

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was always going to get a bollocking after that, wasn't he? Was

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he? Oh yeah, mate. Yeah,

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your ex-girlfriend going nuts at your wedding. Haha.

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I mean, Harriet would have given him an earful. A deserved earful,

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obviously. Mrs. Pritchard didn't suggest an argument.

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I mean, she could be protecting her son. Poorly

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executed protection if she called us

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and contradicted his account.

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Oh, she said she has shared this information

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with the police.

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Nice for them to feel involved,

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I suppose. Righto, breakfast.

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Wait, just... Did

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he kill her? Sherlock, what did

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I say? Watson. She's not dead.

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Wait, she's not? She's not. And

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I will prove it. After breakfast.

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You being smug? No, I am not. Watson,

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yes you are. This is not smugness.

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This is confidence and relief that

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Harriet is alive. Yeah, but

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when you're the only person in the world that knows she's alive,

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it comes across smug. I'm not the only

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person in the whole world. There's

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another. You

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gonna elaborate on that? I

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can, yes. Good.

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Here you go.

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What's this? It's a protein

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breakfast.

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Mmm, right.

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Accidentally fed the last of our bread to the ducks, sir.

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Two eggs and a sausage it is. You

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know, it's not nice listening

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to other people eat. What do you mean? I

8:36

don't think the listener will appreciate it. Ah, yes,

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good point. It's

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just the social norm is that whoever

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did the cooking doesn't do the washing up. That's all. Noted,

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Watson. I'll let you off once you've delivered

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the goods. Yes, right, of course.

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This. This?

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This is the goods? Indeed. Uh,

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just looks like an old bit of paper. Not

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old, just wet. Found

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in the wedding dress? A note. The

9:05

water has run the words clean off the paper. The

9:08

police can have the dress. This

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is the key. Okay, it doesn't

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feel like much of a key. Look at the back

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of it.

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It's, um...

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It's a receipt. Very

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faint. Uh, a

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receipt for a Bloody Mary. Jesus, 21 quid. What

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is the world coming to?

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I can't read much else, mate. Pretty much. Neither

9:33

can I. But for the impression made

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on the paper. A signature, again,

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hard to make out, but these indentations

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made from the nib of a biro.

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A number. Why

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would a number be written in biro on a receipt?

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A hotel. That's right. A

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Bloody Mary. A morning drink for

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most. Perhaps somebody needs a drink. to

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wet their whistle before the wedding. But

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how do we find this somebody? We

10:05

find the hotel that charges £21 for a Bloody Mary. Thirsty?

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11:21

is a no, as is the Langham,

11:24

the Ned, and, um...

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Er, what was the first one? Claridges.

11:30

Yep, we are just heading

11:32

over Waterloo Bridge now, where we will

11:34

eventually reach the Savoy, I believe. Bugger.

11:36

What, who is it? Mrs. Hudson. Oh,

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don't tell me you've saved Mariana in your phone

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as Mrs. Hudson. No wedding

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photos available from the photographer yet. I thought you'd

11:46

solved it. 94% there.

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Right, of course, yep, 94.

11:51

All I confirmed is that she's

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not dead. Wedding

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photography could have helped close the case.

11:59

Do we think so? Robert is deliberately

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withholding the photos? Or even

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tampering and then sending them on to us? No,

12:07

we don't think that. Why don't we think that? Because

12:10

Robert is not hiding Harriet. He's

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hiding something else.

12:17

What about Instagram

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for photos? Harriet didn't take any. She

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obviously had bigger things going on. Robert's

12:25

Instagram is dedicated to his noble

12:27

bachelor persona. No, but people always

12:29

give their weddings hashtags, don't they? They what?

12:32

Like, erm... I

12:34

don't know. I went to one a few years ago and the groom's

12:36

surname was Woods, so the hashtag

12:38

was... Hashtag the newlywoods. Oh

12:41

no. Went to my mate Adam Boyle's

12:43

wedding. You can guess what that one was, can't you? No,

12:46

and I don't want to. Oh, I know you don't want to,

12:48

but you can guess. The Boyle

12:51

wedding. Yes! Disgusting.

12:54

Yep.

12:56

What's Mr Perfect's surname again? Pritchard.

12:58

Robert Pritchard. Pritchard.

13:00

Pritchard. Yes,

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yep. I've got it. You have all. Hashtag

13:06

getting pritched. God help

13:08

me. Ah

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ha! Ah ha ha! Here we go, see? Pictures

13:14

from the day. Yeah, see

13:16

there's Alison Ivy, there's the whole ceremony there.

13:18

Look. What else? One

13:22

by... looks like his sister

13:24

from the rehearsal. Wait,

13:26

stop.

13:26

Sold it. 100%. What?

13:29

Case closed. Sherlock, just wait a second. Oh

13:32

my god. Just go to the Savoy and celebrate, eh? What?

13:34

Good

13:39

morning. Could we peruse the drinks menu?

13:41

Thank you ever so. Are you gonna actually explain

13:44

this? Or are you just gonna smugly prance around London?

13:46

Watson. Look. Bloody

13:49

Mary. 21 quid. Excuse

13:52

me, sir. I'm on her business trip and I've misplaced

13:54

a receipt from here. Two days ago,

13:56

it was first thing I ordered a

13:59

Bloody Mary. Could you provide me

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a copy? Of course, what time would

14:03

it be? In the morning, no later than 8.30. Me

14:06

have a check on the system for you. Thank you. Come

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on, let's hear it. Harriet fainted

14:11

at her wedding rehearsal, not because of anxiety or

14:13

stress about her marriage to Robert. She fainted

14:16

because of shock. Last night, despite

14:18

nearly two hours of searching, I

14:20

found two francs that died in car

14:23

accidents in New Mexico two years ago. Both

14:25

married, 176, the other 82. Neither

14:29

could be Harriet's rank. I

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could find no others, nothing. Show

14:34

me the pictures on Instagram of the ceremony

14:36

and the rehearsal. Er,

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yeah, here. See a key

14:40

difference between the two. Loads

14:43

of differences. There's hardly any people there in the rehearsal

14:45

for a start. Yes, but there are

14:47

some. Yeah,

14:49

yeah, and those three there.

14:52

That family, this guy

14:54

in the hat. Alice,

14:57

Ivy, a girl there in the corner. Guy in

14:59

the hat.

14:59

Find him in the ceremony

15:02

picture. Er...

15:07

He's...

15:10

He's not there. He's not there because

15:12

he didn't show up. Why didn't

15:14

he show up? Because he's with

15:16

the other person that didn't show up. Harriet.

15:20

Why didn't Harriet and the man in the hat show

15:22

up? Because the man in the hat he received

15:25

you requested, sir. Bang! Mr

15:27

Frank T Bailey, whose

15:29

death was invented. The

15:31

coroner's report was signed by a medical federal

15:33

examiner, not a state coroner.

15:37

More specifically, not the state coroner of New

15:39

Mexico. The invention was by

15:41

US federal agencies following his deposition

15:43

that indicted his own father and his

15:45

criminal organisations. Like

15:48

many former lovers, even one supposedly

15:50

dead, he kept tabs on his beloved

15:52

Harriet via her social media presence

15:55

and when she revealed a hastily arranged

15:57

wedding and feeling safer after

15:59

his father's wee... recent passing, he couldn't

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sit back and let it happen without letting

16:03

her know he was still alive. Upon

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seeing him at the rehearsal, she fainted.

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He helped her up, and in that process passed

16:12

her a note that he had scribbled on the back

16:14

of a receipt like this. Frank

16:16

Bailey is not scattered over the New Mexico landscape

16:18

in a fiery wreckage. Harriet Doran is

16:20

not decaying amongst the duck poo at the

16:22

bottom of some Regent's Park boating pond. She

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is here. With him. In

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room 148 of the Savoy Hotel

16:30

in London. Excuse me.

16:32

Hello there, how can I help?

16:33

Could you leave a message for

16:35

Mr Frank Bailey and Miss Harriet Doran in room 148?

16:38

I can, yes sir. Go ahead. Tell

16:41

them to come to 221B Baker Street in one hour

16:43

to apologise for not making it to the wedding. Lots

16:46

of love. Sherlock Holmes.

16:56

Then you gave a statement?

16:57

Yeah, I gave one. Alice, you did too, right?

16:59

Yeah, I did, yeah.

17:00

How's, um, you

17:02

know, how is their investigation going? I...

17:04

I don't know. I do. Do

17:07

you? Yeah, it's going dreadfully. Really crap.

17:09

Amateur stuff from what I've seen. So they won't find her? No.

17:12

I don't know. I don't know. I

17:14

don't know. I don't know. No.

17:21

Sherlock, could you maybe just get to the point

17:23

for their sake? Why?

17:26

My point will arrive in four minutes.

17:29

Ooh, early. Mr Perfect has

17:31

perfect timing. What? I

17:33

thought we were waiting for,

17:35

you know... Oh, we are. Robert

17:37

is here? Send him in. What? No!

17:40

Do not send him in!

17:41

Hi. Hi Alice. Hi

17:44

V.

17:45

Hi V. He leaves or we leave?

17:47

Nobody is leaving. He should be

17:49

in a cell! Probably just a fine

17:51

and community service, I think, for him. So,

17:54

what? What? Okay, right. If

17:57

everyone can just, um, you know, let's sit back

17:59

down. Can I get anyone a tea? I don't want

18:01

tea! I want my friend, god damn

18:03

it! I'm sick of this shit! Very moody.

18:07

Must be the jet lag. I don't have jet lag! I

18:09

may need my ear defenders if she's

18:11

going to continue, Watson. Just everyone

18:13

settle down. Sherlock here has

18:16

sorted this. Sorted? Sorted

18:19

what? Ha! Here

18:21

we go. What

18:22

is so funny? How about

18:24

I get the police up here? Would that be funny?

18:26

Oh, it would be hilarious. Sherlock?

18:31

It's...

18:32

It's, um...

18:33

Yes, I know who it is. Send them in.

18:36

Yeah. Oh

18:38

my god. Hi.

18:39

Oh

18:45

my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! Where

18:48

were you?

18:48

Harriet! Oh Jesus, Harriet!

18:51

Ivy and Alice.

18:53

You remember Frank? Holy shit. Hey

18:56

Alice. Hey Ivy. What

18:58

is going on? An apology.

18:59

Hopefully. So, uh...

19:08

After

19:10

what Frank went through with his father, I just...

19:13

Harriet didn't know any of this,

19:14

honest.

19:15

What happened? You're...

19:18

You're dead! I...

19:19

So look, after

19:22

what happened with my father, for my

19:24

safety and mostly for Harriet's, it was

19:27

decided what was best was to orchestrate

19:30

the death of Frank Bailey so that everyone I valued

19:33

would be safe. And I guess that I would

19:35

be safe.

19:37

When my dad died in jail and

19:39

I discovered that Harriet was getting married, I don't

19:42

know why I did what I did, but

19:44

I did it.

19:45

And now I'm here.

19:48

And I'm sorry. I'm

19:51

really sorry. We're both sorry.

19:54

I wanted to reach out to you guys, but it's

19:58

just so complicated and...

20:01

And we wanted to be with each other so badly.

20:04

We didn't want you to get hurt, or...

20:06

I don't know, I'm just... I'm so, so

20:08

sorry, because I love you two more than anything.

20:11

It's okay.

20:13

It's okay?

20:15

How can it be okay? It just is. This

20:19

is so, so much better than you

20:21

being dead.

20:30

I notice you haven't apologized

20:33

to the noble bachelor here. Oh my god,

20:35

right.

20:35

Of course,

20:37

Robert. But we know why you haven't,

20:40

don't we, Robert? You

20:43

and Harriet spoke at the wedding. You

20:46

even saw her in her wedding dress. Dreadful

20:48

bad luck that Robert, if you believe in that kind of thing. Watson,

20:50

how are the noble bachelor's back catalogue

20:53

doing? Er... Eh? Well,

20:55

hey, looks like you've got the number one spot now. Yes,

20:58

and I read you were going to start a podcast.

21:01

Quite the fashion, as Watson here will tell you. I'm

21:04

not quite sure what you're getting at. Oh,

21:06

you're absolutely sure what I'm getting at. Harriet

21:09

didn't apologize to you just now because you already

21:11

knew. And you already knew because

21:14

she told you the whole thing on your wedding day.

21:16

A faked death.

21:18

Tremendously valuable. Well

21:20

in personal terms for Frank here. Valuable

21:23

to you in more monetary terms, I

21:25

feel. It's...

21:27

It's not like that. Is it not?

21:29

Am I losing my touch, Mr Prichard? It's

21:32

any wonder why you came to see me with this case at all.

21:35

Was it just to promote your case on my companion's

21:37

terrible podcast? Hey, she wanted it

21:39

to, and so did he. We wanted to disappear.

21:41

We didn't want to... We didn't want police

21:43

and search parties.

21:45

Robert said to put the dress in the pond. He wanted

21:47

it to look the way it

21:48

looked. He wanted to disappear with him. Yeah,

21:50

I didn't want to fake my death. It's the same

21:53

thing. You wanted to exploit this whole situation.

21:55

Oh, don't try and turn this on me. You

21:57

ran away with another man on our bloody wedding day. Yeah,

21:59

I mean I love it.

21:59

and thought was dead.

22:01

So he could fake his death, but no

22:03

no no hurry it can't. I had to fake

22:05

my own death. The FBI wanted me to fake my

22:07

own death, asshole. This

22:09

whole thing is a stupid avoidant. I

22:11

can't believe it, I don't know why you would do this

22:13

to me. I don't know why you would

22:15

do this to me.

22:18

Ah,

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you must be Flora. There, up

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the steps, first door on the right. Play

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nice. Sorry,

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the significance of Flora?

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Was she in on it? No. Then

22:35

why is she in the flat?

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Well, I need Robert to learn his lesson. We

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can't expect to wait around for the police, can

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we? Chop chop.

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That, listeners, was the noble bachelor.

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Not as noble as the name would suggest it would

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seem. But, yeah. Hey,

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nobody died? Yay? Well,

23:00

apart from Frank's dad. But that's, yeah,

23:03

he was a crime lord from the sounds of it. So,

23:06

yeah, anyway, I just want to say thank you

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for all the kind messages and reviews for the show.

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We are completely blown away, and

23:12

to see it bringing so much intrigue

23:15

and enjoyment and fascination,

23:19

it just warms my heart. Sir, Sir Woy. My

23:21

again, my hands.

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My ven'kah was fieder. Hey, hey, hold

23:25

on. Sir, Sir Woy. My again, my hands.

23:28

My ven'kah was fieder. What are you

23:30

doing? What are you doing?

23:32

I'm recording. I'm practising my Cornish.

23:35

Sir, you what? My Cornish. As

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in, the language? Or are you

23:40

making a pasty? The language, Watson.

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Of course. Well, stop it, please. I'm

23:45

recording. Not necessary. Follow

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him on Twitter at Doc J Watson

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MD. And leave him five stars.

23:53

Thank you. Yep, what he said. And,

23:56

Kidge the Riaz. Kidge the...

23:59

What?

24:00

Is that Gornis? What

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does it mean? It means... Fuck!