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& Co. Previously

0:18

on Sherlock & Co. He's a

0:20

delicate old man, okay, he's got a serious condition that

0:22

is aggravated by stress, he doesn't need you to... Oh,

0:25

but he does need me, Watson, before

0:27

he drives himself further into paranoia

0:29

over the supposed intruder. I

0:33

mean recovery for goodness sake. Then let's kick things

0:35

off. Who are these

0:37

people that are out to get you, Mr. Blessington?

0:39

I don't know anything about that. So,

0:43

no bloody advice after all

0:45

then. My advice to you, sir, is

0:48

to speak the truth. Surely

0:50

the question we must ask ourselves is who,

0:53

who the hell is dashing into that house at night

0:55

trying to get to Avery Blessington? I

0:57

think I fancy a sleepover,

0:59

Watson. Oh no. Oh yes.

1:02

Not in the scary clinic. Sherlock, please,

1:04

wait, Sherlock. There

1:07

is a figure climbing

1:09

the stairs. Almost

1:13

floating. Ah, no, no. I

1:16

could almost make out the ghostly face, but

1:18

then it just... Sherlock!

1:22

The door. They closed the door.

1:26

They locked. They locked us in. Hi,

1:29

officer. What can you tell us? Scotland

1:31

Yard don't want me to tell you. Listen,

1:34

officer, we are working this case. They don't

1:36

want me to tell you. They

1:38

want me to show you. Just

1:41

here. What? Look

1:43

up. Holy. No.

1:45

No. No, no.

1:49

Mr. Blessington hanged

1:51

himself. No.

1:59

No. Firstly, thanks

2:01

for listening everybody. Yeah,

2:05

I'll catch up with you at the end. But

2:08

for now, here is the third and final

2:10

part of the resident patient. Right,

2:15

you hold his legs for me, Mike. OK, got

2:18

him. Can I just get support

2:20

in case he swings out that way? Yeah, if

2:22

we just... Yep, that's it.

2:24

That's it. You good? Bring him to me.

2:26

OK, I'm cutting. If it's

2:28

tricky, we can lift further and unbuckle,

2:31

all right? I... I

2:33

don't understand. First he hid the

2:35

truth. And

2:38

now we cannot even draw it out at

2:40

him. Sherlock, I think we need to discuss

2:42

the... whatever

2:44

it is about this clinic that is

2:46

causing... Caused, I mean, this man, severe

2:49

emotional and mental torment, all right? So,

2:51

ghosts. Whatever, mate. Ghosts is doctor. Bloody

2:53

manipulation. I don't know, this man has

2:55

taken his own life. He has been

2:58

driven to it by this institute, the

3:00

clinic. I don't believe that, I'm afraid.

3:02

I wish you were afraid, to be

3:05

honest. But instead, you're just doing these... I

3:08

don't know, methodical little drip, drip, drip, finding all the

3:10

tangible evidence. Like, that's the only thing that counts as

3:12

an answer to all of this. Oh, look at him,

3:14

Sherlock, look at him. You

3:16

don't know what's going on inside there. Until

3:19

it's too late. I fear... you

3:23

may be right. Right, OK,

3:25

that's good, that's good, we can... It's

3:27

not about the outside. Mm-hm.

3:30

I spent too much time investigating

3:32

the locks, the security, the alarms,

3:34

points of entry. It

3:37

came from inside Watson. I

3:40

never took the time to look

3:42

inside. Right, no, that's not

3:44

why men... Sherlock, Sherlock. Currently

4:08

still in Avery Blessington's room following

4:11

his suicide. Don't say it. His

4:14

apparent suicide. Yeah,

4:17

it's pretty grim. Avery

4:19

is currently out in the hallway in a

4:21

body bag and Sherlock is essentially surveying just

4:23

about everything he possibly can in

4:26

the room to decipher. What are you doing?

4:29

What the hell are you doing? I'm

4:31

licking his bedsheets. Are you a

4:33

cat? Oh, cool. Wow. Can

4:36

we please not lick dry bodily fluids off

4:38

old men's bedsheets? I didn't think I needed

4:40

to ask that. Bitter?

4:43

Very, very bitter. Oh, what?

4:45

Because you won't listen to my theory. I'm not bitter, mate. All

4:48

right? Well, maybe I'm a

4:50

bit bitter. I didn't mean you. I

4:52

mean the taste of that residue. Very

4:56

bitter. So medication.

4:59

Pass me that pot of Levitaracitam. Uh,

5:02

word. Oh, here. Oh. Huh.

5:06

What? It's empty. Yes. And

5:10

I think he ingested the whole lot. He

5:13

choked it up here on his sheet.

5:16

But it's got a splatter. Like

5:18

there was a pressure on his mouth. He

5:21

clutched the bed rails here too, look. Oh,

5:23

yeah. And for a man

5:26

whose bed was made for him every day

5:28

by staff, the mattress protector has been torn

5:30

free from the mattress. Hi,

5:32

gents. I was just wondering. No, go away. Percy,

5:35

if you could just give us some time. No,

5:37

look now. Is it possible that...

5:39

Crime scene. Bye now.

5:41

Sorry. You're not even police.

5:43

I don't think this is okay. I need to

5:45

be able to concentrate and I can't. God... Wait.

5:49

What? The bolts. The bolts?

5:52

On the door? The locks, you mean? Yes.

5:55

What about them? Yeah, you're right. It

5:58

has to be suicide. Doesn't it

6:00

is how did someone get in if the

6:02

bolts were locked they had entered his room

6:04

before when he was out? When

6:07

he was having his his hydrotherapy.

6:09

Yes, that's right. That's

6:11

when Blesington first noticed it wait

6:15

wait Magnets

6:18

Magnets they came up the stairs

6:20

and opened his door with magnets.

6:23

It's not even remotely possible Come what

6:26

feel the bolt the bar itself

6:28

slides across? Feel

6:30

it Yes, this

6:33

the barrel moves along the back plate

6:36

here and locks into position See

6:39

yeah, I see that mate. I have seen

6:41

a lock before now feel the back plate.

6:43

Yeah Oh What

6:46

do you feel? It's? Is

6:49

that is that plastic

6:51

plastic mechanism plastic back plate?

6:54

metal barrel a magnet

6:58

On the other side of the door would pull the barrel

7:00

from one side to the other Correct

7:03

if the back plate was metal it wouldn't

7:05

work correct, but then the

7:08

Yale lock how how would

7:10

that? You you

7:12

mentioned magnets yesterday. Yeah, just a

7:14

crappy one. Why why

7:17

did you want one because it? I

7:20

don't know something must have ignited the thought

7:22

Watson. I well I was Well

7:25

first I thought of doing Sherlock and co fridge

7:27

magnets because oh Thing

7:30

the mic what about it? It got something stuck

7:32

to it when I was in the lobby Then

7:34

again with the tourist fridge magnet wanker. What did

7:37

tell me? Nothing

7:41

just just like a metal Don't

7:43

know it's a bit of metal. I was sat in the lobby downstairs and

7:45

it was stuck to the mic and Yeah,

7:48

yeah, see let me see it Wow

7:51

strong Strong

7:53

magnet neodymium It's

7:56

a rare earth magnet, and if you've placed

7:58

another even just a small one the

8:00

other side of that Yale lock you could easily

8:02

pry it apart its mechanism. The

8:05

belt. What did they do

8:07

with the belt? What belt? The belt that

8:10

was round his neck that he was dangling on

8:12

the end of. Oh it's in

8:14

a bag over here. Let me

8:16

see. Just

8:19

so you know if you're saying this is a

8:21

crime scene nice technique. Well

8:23

now. What is it? Percy?

8:26

Percy in here now. Yes?

8:29

Everything okay? From what I saw Avery

8:32

Blessington was rather slim. How big

8:34

would you say he was? How

8:36

big? His weight. How much

8:39

did he weigh? Um probably

8:41

eleven stone. Yeah. One hundred and

8:43

fifty pounds or so. Not much.

8:46

Then why does he have a

8:48

triple XL belt in his room?

8:51

Designed for men with a minimum of

8:53

forty five inch waists. I

8:59

don't know. Oh

9:01

wow that magnet really stuck. Oh

9:04

come on you. Yes

9:08

hi sorry I'm gonna have to call you back.

9:10

Bit of an emergency thanks. You're

9:16

suggesting it was a

9:18

nurse. Possibly. Or a patient.

9:21

Do you have any late night cleaning staff? We

9:23

do yes. What are their

9:25

hours? Eight until ten p.m. No

9:28

this would have taken place after midnight.

9:31

Cleaners could have lingered around maybe. They

9:33

made their move later. Just because I'm

9:35

getting to the end of my tether

9:38

with this whole thing to be honest.

9:40

I'm a bloody doctor not a detective

9:42

and the police feel it's a suicide.

9:44

They're wrong. It's a belt. He took

9:46

someone else's belt. They are wrong and

9:48

I am right. Well quite frankly they're

9:51

the law enforcement professionals and

9:53

I'm a doctor specialising in

9:55

neurology. I can tell you

9:57

categorically that Avery was suffering

10:00

from severe paranoia and delusions. I

10:02

have no surprise at all that

10:04

what happened happened. I

10:07

just have a great deal of

10:09

personal pain. Staff

10:12

members. Who are they? Look,

10:16

only two members of staff were on

10:18

the night shift last night. Names? There

10:21

would have been Milo. What

10:23

does he do? He's an assistant

10:25

practitioner. But in a

10:27

night shift like that, he'd be down

10:29

in the office, ready to help out

10:32

with any issues should they crop up.

10:34

What's his character? His character? For goodness

10:36

sake, he's a healthcare worker, dealing with

10:38

the elderly and vulnerable throughout the night.

10:41

What do you think his character is? Percy. What?

10:43

Can we take it down a notch? We're not

10:45

doing this for a laugh, we're trying to help.

10:48

Guys, with all due

10:50

respect, I wanted help with a potential

10:52

security issue. Not a

10:54

suicide. The second night shift worker?

10:57

A Rajesh. Clinical technician.

11:00

He'd do half the night shift, would be

11:02

a bit more hands-on than Milo, and would

11:04

mostly involve prep for the morning. Drugs

11:07

and reports as such. But

11:09

ultimately, he's there for

11:11

critical care. Patients that have

11:13

very recently had a seizure or an episode.

11:16

And have either of these two

11:19

men mentioned entering Avery Blessington's room?

11:21

No. What about the

11:23

Lithuanian girl? The Lithuanian girl?

11:25

Yeah, she does night shifts. Why was she

11:27

on shift the night before, but not on shift

11:30

last night? On shift the night before? I

11:33

don't follow. When I got chased into that room, she

11:36

had the night shift. Did she do one night on,

11:38

one night off or something? Sorry, the

11:40

Lithuanian night shift girl. I have absolutely

11:42

no idea what you're talking about. Watson.

11:44

No, I'm not. I'm serious. You know,

11:46

there was a girl, I

11:49

spoke to her. I remarked on her accent

11:51

because I'd been to that part of the world. She

11:53

said she was from Lithuania, and she just carried on

11:55

about her work. What time was this? Well, you'd left.

11:57

It was after midnight. I'm sorry.

11:59

This is nonsense. We

12:01

don't have a Lithuanian woman on our

12:03

staff, Dr Watson. So what do you

12:05

mean? We just don't. Look,

12:09

I think everybody needs to

12:11

just go home, have some

12:13

rest and recharge. Where

12:16

did she go? What? You

12:18

said she went back to work. Where? She

12:21

went down that corridor outside this office. And

12:23

remained on the ground floor. Er,

12:26

yeah, there's no stairs down there, right? Just

12:30

room one. And who is in room one?

12:33

Ah, right. Okay, this

12:35

makes sense. No, she's not Lithuanian.

12:38

She's Russian. Alina. Alina

12:40

Antonov. She's here with her father, although

12:42

I did ask her to bloody leave at 10pm. So

12:45

she's obviously lingered around because he'd only just been

12:47

admitted. Ah,

12:51

that clears that up then. Sorry, I don't

12:53

get how that clears things up. That's the woman you

12:55

were talking about. Yeah, but Percy, she said she was

12:57

Lithuanian. Well, you

12:59

know, not the easiest time to

13:02

be a Russian, is it? Yeah,

13:05

fair enough. You said her father had been

13:07

admitted that day. Mm-hmm, yeah.

13:10

So two days ago? Yeah,

13:12

well, kind of, yes. Technically admitted two days ago,

13:14

yeah. Why technically?

13:16

Well, she came with her

13:19

father on Monday. He's not in the

13:21

best state. He had a freezing moment

13:23

right in front of me, actually, in

13:25

the office. She saw it, her dad,

13:27

like that. Oof. Yeah,

13:29

tough. Well, no,

13:31

she wasn't. She was in the toilet, actually, at that

13:33

point. I'm going to need

13:35

you to be extremely clear with me,

13:37

Dr. Trevelyan. Do you

13:40

understand? Look. Do you understand?

13:43

Yes, fine, yes. Tell

13:45

me exactly what happened with Mr. Antonov

13:47

and his daughter on Monday. Monday,

13:50

as in, the day that your

13:53

Mr. Blessington complained of an intrusion

13:55

into his room. Oh,

13:58

yeah? Right,

14:02

so, yes, Mr

14:04

Antonov came in with Alina, his

14:06

daughter. She did most of the

14:08

talking. It was a fairly typical

14:10

case. Symptoms

14:13

spiraling, failed

14:15

by mainstream healthcare, found the

14:17

typical course of prescribed drugs

14:19

very problematic and wanted our

14:22

treatment, essentially. They

14:25

came in, told me

14:28

all that sort of thing and wanted to be

14:30

admitted, not for a long time, just a week,

14:33

maybe ten days maximum, just to

14:35

get things under control. She

14:38

popped to the loo and I asked

14:40

Mr Antonov a few more questions but

14:44

his English was a lot rougher.

14:48

He kind of mumbled out a

14:50

few things and, like I

14:52

say, succumbed to

14:57

an episode of catalepsis. How

14:59

long was she gone? Well, actually, now

15:02

that I think of it, quite

15:04

a while. Yeah. Then why

15:07

were they not admitted on Monday? Why

15:09

two days later? Well, so, Mr

15:11

Antonov was resting in my office by the

15:14

time she was back. I

15:16

went to call a pharmacist who would be able

15:18

to supplement Mr Antonov's current drug plan and that's

15:21

when Avery went absolutely fuming

15:25

about his room, someone being in

15:28

his room. He just got back

15:30

from the hydrotherapy. Correct. So

15:32

I calmed him down, got him back

15:34

into his room and settled, sort of,

15:36

anyway, and then returned

15:38

to my office and they

15:40

were gone. They were gone?

15:42

Yeah. Came back

15:44

day before yesterday. Then you

15:47

bumped into her that night. You,

15:49

up, now. What? Now.

15:52

Where are we going? To room one, immediately.

15:54

Sherlock, listen, open the door or

15:57

I'll break it down. Just hold

15:59

it. out

18:00

every single case. Indeed. Okay.

18:04

Three, two, one, go.

18:07

Go what? Let's read. I'll

18:10

take this half, you take that half. Oh,

18:12

all right. Um, it's... I

18:15

feel like we may be up all night, mate.

18:17

Yes, possibly. You can make

18:20

a tea if you'd like. Yeah, I, um,

18:22

I probably will. Mmm. Oh,

18:25

God help me. 1994,

18:35

a high street bank in

18:37

Wimbledon. Culprit. This

18:39

guy. Ooh, lovely. A mugshot.

18:43

Mmm, no. Next. Ooh,

18:46

January 1st. 2000, probably thought

18:48

some sort of millennium bug would wipe

18:50

out basic locking mechanisms. No,

18:53

not gonna be that guy either. What makes you

18:55

so sure? Because according to this, he

18:57

ended up underneath a London bus. Ah. It...

19:01

What? Hold on. What

19:04

is it? I... This

19:06

is weird. Er, not who I expected

19:08

to find. Why? I

19:10

haven't found our suspect, the Russian girl or the

19:12

Russian guy. Who have you found? I've

19:14

found... our victim. Look.

19:18

Avery Blessington. Well, apparently, that is

19:20

not his name. According to when

19:23

he was arrested in 2009, Greg Sutton. The

19:26

Worthington Bank Gang. Yeah, that's

19:28

exactly... How did you know

19:30

that? Wait. The other

19:33

members, where are they? Er, here.

19:37

These two were arrested for the sale. Oh, wow. Michael

19:40

Biddle. Matches our picture

19:43

of Mr Antonov. The large wasted

19:45

Mr Antonov, indeed. And

19:48

this very young girl pictured here

19:51

is Louisa Heywood. That's her. That's

19:54

the Lithuanian or the Russian, whatever she is. She

19:56

is an ex-convict from Buckinghamshire who has

19:59

spent the last... Mariana,

22:00

I don't have time for this. He's calling all

22:02

the time. Just give him some quotes about the

22:04

stupid crime with a dead guy in the road

22:06

and he'll leave us alone. You

22:08

won't. You'll want some juicy gossip. Then

22:10

give him some made-up juicy crap for

22:13

all I care. That's all he'll print

22:15

anyway. Just a load of lies and

22:17

scandal. Hey, hi,

22:19

Mr. Journalist. Mark, whatever. I need you to do something for me. What

22:21

on earth are you doing? To

22:24

print a story that Mr. Avery

22:26

Blessington is alive. He is alive

22:29

and recovering at a private clinic

22:31

on Baker Street. 221 Baker Street.

22:34

Oh, that's good. That's

22:37

really, really good. That's

22:41

bad. That's really, really bad. Just, I want you to

22:43

be recording on your phone, right? And I'm telling you,

22:45

they will come to the door, they will make up

22:48

some absolute nonsense. Wait, did you take down the Sherlock

22:50

and co-sign outside? I did. It now

22:52

says Dr. John Watson. Oh,

22:56

yes, that's perfect. Oh, God. They

22:59

will make up some stuff about being delivery people

23:01

or, I don't know,

23:03

technicians or pharmacists or anything. No,

23:05

wait, wait. Ask them if

23:08

they are... Oh, what could they be? What could they be? Yes,

23:13

ask them if they're technicians for

23:16

his ventilator. And no matter what they

23:18

do, just convince them that you're convinced

23:20

that they're ventilator technicians. Convince

23:22

them that they've convinced me. Exactly.

23:26

Okay. And when are they going

23:28

to arrive? Literally any moment

23:30

from now, the article is live.

23:32

Okay, that's fine. Fine.

23:35

Oh, and record it on your phone for the pod... Yes.

23:41

Hi. Hi. Is

23:43

this Dr. Watson's clinic? It

23:45

is, yes. Oh,

23:48

are you the technicians for his

23:50

ventilator? Yes, yes. We won't

23:52

be long. We know what the fault is and

23:54

we have a replacement if it's a persistent issue.

23:57

Oh, my God, that's great. Dr. Watson will be

23:59

with you. If

24:01

we could just pop through. Oh of course of

24:03

course. He's on the second floor so

24:05

up those steps, give

24:09

the door a knock and nurse

24:11

Holmes will let you in. Oh perfect,

24:13

thank you. No no, thank you. Who

24:21

is it? A technician for Mr.

24:23

Blessington's ventilator. Oh thank goodness. Thank

24:26

you so much for coming at such short

24:28

notice. It's no problem. So where

24:30

is he? Oh he's just through here.

24:33

Is Avery your only

24:36

client? He is right now yes and

24:39

we're dedicating all the time we have to

24:41

his wellbeing. This is Dr Watson here. Hello

24:44

there. Hi. Hi. We're

24:47

here to look at the ventilator. Ah wonderful.

24:49

Yes it's the strangest thing. We have Mr.

24:51

Blessington hooked up to one that's been working

24:53

fine but now he's struggling.

24:56

He's breathing noises, he's making. It's a

24:58

sort of... No

25:02

it's not that is it? It's more sort of... What

25:06

the fuck? Get off it! That's

25:08

the sound. Get off him

25:10

you... Alright Louise that's it now. That

25:13

intravascular pressure can be a real

25:15

pain in the neck eh Michael

25:17

Biddle. No I can't. I'll

25:20

put you down Michael. If

25:22

you could just slip those cuffs on there. Don't

25:25

worry. Nothing kinky. Nothing

25:27

you haven't seen before. Just

25:30

another cell for

25:32

yet another stint. No

25:34

you bastard! You bastard!

25:37

Oh but this time it's

25:39

for murder. So it may

25:41

be a rather lengthy one. You're wrong!

25:43

Put it down! Actually yes. You'll

25:46

be getting murder. Michael

25:48

here could always assist the police.

25:51

Tell them of Louise's little excursion

25:53

into Avery Blessington's room. But then

25:57

again the murder weapon was your

25:59

belt.