The Missing Three-Quarter - Part Three

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Yeah he just bollocked me for ordering a drink before him. Cloaked. Well, who did? What's he got to hide eh? I don't know. It could be anything. It's not really my business. He'll be a buyer no doubt. A buyer of? The blood. Yeah just as the pub was closing up he'd skulk out of the place, he'd dash into his car and he'd be off. Do you know where he went? I don't want to know of all due respect lad. Why? Harvesting human blood and lurking around in the night. Dracula we used to call him. Dracula. Please. Please I'm just. Sherlock. Where are you going? I'm going into that clinic and I'm taking Godfrey de Souza Rebeiro out of it. Welcome back to Watson and Co. Watson fans. This is the final part of the missing three quarter. This contains distressing themes you can find more in the episode description but for now I give you part three. See you at the end. We stood in the pitch black of Broad Street outside the blood archive. Just weighing up my next move. I'm thinking that I ring the intercom say that I'm a delivery driver. Get myself somewhat in the building and then kind of improv from there I suppose. Okay here we go. Don't do that. Jesus Christ. Move away from Button. Sherlock. Watson. I know I'm on to something. Yes unfortunately you are. Really? You want to try getting into this place? Yes. How? Follow its warm breath Dr. Watson. It's breath. Indeed. Oh okay we're running. We're running. Hey where are we going? That noise on Broad Street. That hum. Right. Yes. A constant low compressor hum and you saw the plume from the clinic rooftop while you were in your room at the inn. Yeah I did. Yeah. Climate control within the building. Waste heat coming out. A constant air exchange within the clinic. Yeah yeah yeah how does this help? Exactly. What are you doing? Climbing. Climbing. On to the roof. I'm just sure you want to do that. Would you like to do the Dutchess case? I could read you the Latin note. Fair enough. There. Oh god you got any tissues? And it's still a bit bloody. Climbing a ladder didn't help. Come this way. Yeah yeah okay no tissues then I assume. You see here this grill cover. Oof. Off that goes. For the vent. And you can feel the air. Yep warm. But listen. What the pump? Reverberation. Uh huh. The pump. The ducting. It sits within a void of the building. I would a building like this have a void space. You've really changed your tune with this case haven't you? Look at you. I asked a question. Um void space. Uh because it's old and knackered. Good but we can be more specific. What have you pulled up on your phone here for goodness sake? I have spent the afternoon. Yeah stalking me. Well yes but also finding all manner of ways in which you may be wrong. During my research I looked on the Cambridge City Council planning records. Armstrong wasn't permitted a new air conditioning system due to the building's age and listed status. But what was approved was. Uh adaptation to existing shaft for duct work routine. Okay. I mean I like the sound of it but what are we talking about here? A good old fashioned coal shoot Dr Watson. Okay that's the second time you've Dr Watson me. All this. Jesus Sherlock. Is retrofitted into a good old fashioned coal shoot. Yeah. Yeah you make it sound nice but it's still just a pitch black hole I have to crawl through. Your case Dr Watson. That's your last one. Okay. Okay. Down we go. Do you ever watch caving videos? Caving? Yeah. Not particularly no. Right well I do. For what purpose? To feel scared I think. How curious. Yeah but I think it's nice to feel scared when you know you're actually safe do you know what I mean? Not really. Because I will watch them and I'll think well at least just in my bed in Baker Street are not descending through a pitch black tunnel that only just fits me. But now I actually am descending through a pitch black tunnel that only just fits me. Shhh. What? Feel here. Those are bonding timbers. Right. And you can see the modern repairs in the brickwork are using steel wall ties. Okay all I see is pitch black and all I feel is a brick tunnel. This is the bottom of the chute John and these bonding timbers separate the cavity to the main internal structure of the property. Right so we call Rupia good lord. We have the access point to our climate unit and light. Light. Shhh. Take my hand. What have we got? It's very um, very white, very clinical. Yes. We don't have long. We don't. Cameras, see and those sensors there. Oh shit are they alarmed? Are they going to go off? It's just armed. See the red pulse. It means authorised persons unlike ourselves are in the building such as cleaning staff. I hope. We are right now in the heart of the blood clinic currently in a very plain, very sterile corridor. There's a few unassuming looking doorways behind us I would say as a doorway to the stairwell. Correct. And ahead of us we have a doorway to an atrium. It would appear. Come through. The archive rooms. Jesus which, which ones do we go for? The one that arouses me. Again with the arouses? Hold on is that a magnifying glass? Indeed. A rather useful ornament at your little inn. Are we going to put it back in my little inn? Yes we intend to. I'm just using it for this. Can we not? Take. What is in ours? Can't hear you. Concentrating. You're staring at a security code keypad through a magnifying glass. What for? For many things. Like? Signs of usage, wear and tear, erosion, discolouration, smudges, smears, spatters, splodges. Splodges. Are you quite finished? Almost. 6-8-1-2 are our digits in question. Ah you need the order. Oh I know it. I actually think I know it. You do? Well clinic was founded in 68 so that will be last. Then it was most likely 1st of February. No one's opening anything 2nd of January so 1-2-6-8. No. Why? When these units get installed the engineer will use the date of installation as the initial code. Sometimes they do 1-2-3-4 but they've since realised that their clients don't take it upon themselves to personalise their pin. So to be safe they use the date the system goes live. Which in this instance is 6th of August 2012. 6-8-1-2. And there we have it. Right. Still confident we'll find your footballing friend in here? I don't know. I'm not so sure anymore. Wow. There is... It's just endless containers of blood. Yes but it is indexed and we are close. I should have brought my coat. Here look. What? Lucas Godofrito Victor de Suza Libero. Godfrey. But just a few vials nothing more sinister. Yeah nothing more sinister than having someone's blood in a building with thousands of people. Blood given willingly. His patient. His practice. Which is all good and well until someone becomes a missing person. Sherlock. What? What is it? He knows we're here. What? Dr Armstrong. Why? Why? Why Sherlock? What's wrong? You look like you're going to pass out. Call it a rush of blood to the head. What the hell are you doing? I'm just going to get you out of here. There's blood to the head. What the hell are you doing? This man is more calculating and malicious than I feared. Sherlock, can we not take what is in ours? But this is ours, Dr Watson. What? Sherlock, who's? Whose blood is that in that vial? It is the blood of Mr Sherlock Holmes. Oh my god. And next to it, Gwendolyn Lestrade, Mariana Ametsuzura, Dr John Watson. What? What the fuck? That's impossible. He's put us together. Next to Godfrey because he knew we'd come. He knew we'd come to this place. I told you this was a serious case for a serious company. They're all here. Goodness. Even mycroft. What? I by no means approve of your profession, Mr Holmes. Jesus. The machinery, as it were, is amply sufficient for the purpose, of course. But the calling, it doesn't sit well with me. The pry to rake to delve. In that, Doctor, you will find yourself in agreeance with every criminal in the country. Where is Godfrey, Dr Armstrong? No, we're here on behalf of his family and friends. Nothing more. We don't want to get the police here if we don't have to. Perhaps it's not your intentions that are boiling my blood. It is the incidental, the debris of your self-conceit. What would that consist of, Dr Armstrong? Waste, Mr Holmes. Wasting the time of men who are busier and more important than yourself. With all due respect, Dr Armstrong. Respect is not due, Dr Watson. What's with the quotation mark? It is excreted under the pressure of being caught. And now I must absorb it like a spleen. You see, gentlemen, I'm somewhat of a workaholic. The marks between hobby and career are rather muddled. Blood runs through me in every sense. I see it everywhere. We all know how fixations can distort our realities, don't we? I don't doubt that, Dr Armstrong, but my companion and I do what we do for more noble reasons than our own conceit. I assure you. This lab, this clinic, Mr Holmes, is the vessel. And you, you are nothing but a toxin. Do you understand me? Toxins have no noble cause. They have no higher calling or purpose. They are by definition a contamination, a precursor to infection. And I, I am the antibody. You've been detected for some time, Holmes. How? I asked a question, Doctor. What an honour it is to see doubt and fear in the eyes of the great detective. I think we should. Yes, I think you should. Well, I don't. That's rather a nasty cut, Dr Watson. Yeah, yeah. Well, I better go get it seen too. Come on, mate. You know the best way to defeat tetanus, don't you? Antibiotics, yeah, thanks, Doctor. As cure, but as prevention, it's gamma. Gamma globulin in the plasma. A passive immunity. Not to destroy the infected protein, of course, but to disarm it. It binds to the molecule, encases it. A dominant neutralisation. Like the spider's silk around the fly, Mr Holmes. How did you get these bloods? You'd best be off. Sherlock, come on, let's go. Thank you, gentlemen, for the inoculation against my somewhat vulnerable security measures. Doctor Armstrong. I appreciate this new material understanding of potential exposures. Sherlock, come on. How did you get this? How, Doctor Armstrong? Good luck with the hunt for our Brazilian friend. You search for Godfrey, yet he searches for God. That's where you'll find him. And I look forward to seeing you there. Cheerio. Safety information is provided on posters in every carriage. I think the best thing to do is probably compare notes with the met. That way we can kind of... I mean, we'll open up their understanding of the case and vice versa. We might get a few bits from them. Sherlock. I said if we combine our findings... I heard what you said. Right, you heard it. Did you consider responding to it? No. Why? Because I don't wish to. Great. Lovely. I'll just half an hour of sulky silence to go then. Excellent. Looking forward to it. He's... Armstrong was a few steps ahead of me. And maybe I didn't realise that. And yeah, probably did the usual thing and got too carried away. He got psyched. He's just... I thought we had him. I thought we were going to get something. And I tell you what, when he said things like he did about us as toxins, he went down in my estimations when he did that. And he's got to go to face questions. He's got to go to the met and get something. And I tell you what, I'd love it if we beat him. Love it. Could I perhaps savor the rest of this journey in a reflective silence? I'm sorry, OK? Is that what you want to hear? I'm sorry. He seems like an obvious target, doesn't he? Creepy doctor speaking in riddles and analogies, but... After... Yeah, after seeing all that blood stored, just the volume and status of the individuals, it's a bit like... Yeah, why would he just abduct a footballer? The grand scheme of things. Godfrey's obviously a massive talent, but he's not a world leader. He's not a tech baron, you know? He's a kid from a favela who can kick a ball around with the best of him. Saw him live once, actually. Godfrey. And the flesh. Went to a Pompey game with Lucas. Fratten Park, bloody hell. That's not for the faint hearted, let me tell you. Home fans show their arses to you on the way in through the fence. It's like a... Like a guard of honour, just ass cheeks as far as the eye can see. Guard of dishonour, really. Best bit about Fratten Park, though, is you are right up close to the pitch, and I think it was just before half-time. Godfrey's goal, mate. Unreal. Unreal. You can probably see me, actually. Where are we? Ah, yeah, here we go. Godfrey goal, the Pompey, 2022. Here. Ball comes into him, gets out his feet, bang. Ho-ho-ho. What a strike! Oh, there is me. Oh, that's great. Look, look, watch. Stop. No, look, stop. No, you stop. Stop sulking and just have some... A brief moment, and not just total misery. Please, thank you. Stop the clip. Give me that. Hey. What's he doing? What? There. What do you think he's doing? Are you losing your mind? No, I'm losing my confidence, and I would like it reinforced, so would you indulge me, please? He's praying. Praying? Yeah. He prays often. Yeah, mate. You would, too, if you'd had his career path. Searching for God. Searching for God? When was the last time he played? What? The last time he played a game. Um, well, last week. Did he score? He did. Yeah. Show me. Uh, yeah, here we go. Look, of course he scored, because he was on my fantasy bench. What? Doesn't matter. Here we go. Shifting that deep line on the pitch. That's a quick one. I think he's offside. Right back to playing him on. Questions asked him yesterday. Questions answered today. Decent finish. The beauty of response from the Brazilian is what is a split move. What are we looking for, exactly? What's gone? What? The prayer. He was always gutted. Yeah. Yeah. He's questioning his faith in God. But why? It can only mean one thing. What? What can it mean? Loss, John. Loss. He is grieving. He is angry. You're trying to diagnose him. You're trying to diagnose him. You're trying to diagnose him. You're trying to diagnose him. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. He's angry. ones at home. No reports of friends or colleagues so it must be... Oh goodness. Note the private medical centre. You followed me there too. Did you disguise yourself as the newborn baby or something? We have to go. What is it? Stop the train. Right that's not how trains work. I would have thought you would know that. We must stop the train. Sherlock. Don't tell him that. Yes I must thank you. No Sherlock. Right, Brexit. I said be clear and concise. You're not being clear or concise. And you're not going fast enough. I'm going 55 in a 30. That's plenty Sherlock. Left, left, left. All bloody right. You're shouting in my ear. Tom, not a big deal but your real windscreen wipers on it. It's a bit annoying. Can you just flick that... Shut up. Okay never mind. Left again. Can you let me know with my closer to the bloody turn please? Yeah and Sherlock it would help if you told Tom where we're actually going to rescue Godfrey. We're not rescuing him. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Can you just elaborate? He ran Watson. He wasn't taken. He ran. From what? From something yes. Shame, guilt, remorse but to a someone. To whom? To whom? Shut up. Right. Oh don't actually shut up. No right. I mean right. Gregson. Bloody hell. Jesus. The note. It was addressed to Armstrong but the address wasn't addressing him. It wasn't a dress for him to address. Do you understand? God help me. What? The address in the note. Godfrey was sending Armstrong to a location. I know. I went there and so did you apparently. Are you taking us there now? Absolutely I am. Even though we've already done this. But before we didn't know what we were looking for did we? And now we do. Now we do. Left. I really can't give you access for long. No I understand. And if you do need longer you'll have to speak to the administration team. Yes that's fine. What state is our patient in exactly? Not a particularly cooperative one. I see. But you have come at the right time. Why is that? Visiting hours. Well as part of an investigation we don't require visiting hours to conduct it. I'm not talking about speaking to a patient. Then what are you talking about? Speaking to the visitor. What? The patient's private physician will be along shortly. Really? Yes. I'm sure he will. Who is she? Godfrey. A friend. Did you harm her? I have harmed everybody. I've harmed everybody. She is more than a friend. Would that be right Godfrey? That would be the truth. That I have run so far from yes. An affair? Yes. And now look at her. And what has happened to this poor woman that has caused you to question your fate? She's going to die because of me. She was going to die. That is no longer the case. Dr Armstrong. Are you a doctor at this hospital? I'm her doctor and his too. Elena here has septicemia following a miscarriage. Upon seeing her at Godfrey's request I was able to arrange an immediate surgical evacuation after her drug course had failed to regulate her bloodstream. Contaminated tissue was removed. She continued to decline until I performed a rapid high volume plasma exchange. That's insane. She's alive isn't she Dr Watson? Plasma carries the toxins. It had to be rooted out. Two cannulas in each arm, into a centrifuge, threads to the left, pale yellows to the right, and fresh donor plasma flowing in like new tide meeting stagnant waters. Her fever broke within hours. Toxicology was normal. Antibiotics, amelior formality at this point. Have you been hiding this man? I have no interest in this tittle-tattle. I serve my clients and I tend to my private research. I hid myself. I stay at nearby with a friend. I take it we're using the word friend a little more accurately this time. Yes. Somebody who I trust. Somebody I knew would give my secret. I was going to return. I just, I thought, I thought she was dying and I couldn't. I couldn't. It was too much. It was too much. I understand. We'll, um, we'll let you guys have some time. Thank you. Thank you. Well I'm so used to one, Mad Genius, taking a gamble. I wasn't expecting another one to do the same. High volume plasma exchange. God almighty. Quite the brain, that man. Mm-hmm. And perhaps just about a semblance of a heart too. Apparently so. Did I see you take his number? You did. Why? I wish to learn from him. Uh, I'm a doctor. Yeah, you could learn from me. It's not medical knowledge I'm after John. It's something else. Our blood. Indeed. I should have known this thing would have a sad ending. Yeah, why do seemingly successful, healthy people go missing? Well, it's never for any good reason, is it? It's about to get a whole lot trickier for him with all this coming up. And it will. Oh, God, definitely. I think the press got closer to solving this one than the actual police. Hey, tell me Gregson. Gregster. What are you talking about? Just the situation, the lay of the land sort of thing. Good work as always. We had tracked down the address. We were just sorting paperwork, official channels and all that. No, yeah, of course. Absolutely. Going by the book is always a little longer, but can lead to more rounded outcomes. So, yep. Yep. I mean, we, yeah, yeah, I could have persevered with the address too. I just, I assumed that Armstrong just worked here and Godfrey was just putting his address. Of course. But hey, you two, you did a bang up job. All we can do now is hope that Elena gets the care she needs. Amen to that. Sherlock. I'm saying well done. This is where you say thank you. Right. Yes. Well, I believe the credit must go to Watson. This is his case. Come on now. It was his love for football that led him to the answers. I'll come off it. I carried it out from the back. You slotted it home. John here tackled the oncoming case and took the ball of intrigue and was able to kick it into the sort of goal of conclusion. The net of closure rippling. Yeah, you don't need to do that. Thank goodness. But thanks mate. No, you nailed it. I only got us so far and Dr Armstrong over there. He had enough. Looks that way. He must tend to his hobby, it would seem. Yep. Off he goes. So yeah. Well done, Shels. Well done. I'm sorry I took you away from the Dutch's case, but you saved the day. Thank you, John. Oh, and Gregson. Wow. Brilliant work. Truly remarkable. Send my best to your team at the Met because that was... Yeah, teamwork. Hey guys, you know, I mean, it's a team game. That's what I always say. Stop laughing. I'm not laughing. If you can wipe that smirk off your face, I'll give you a lift on. I'll drive my best. Thanks for the lift, mate. Much appreciated. No problem. Yes, you've been ever so helpful. Right, you're smirking. I'm not. Out, out you get. Tom, wait. Sherlock, stop laughing. Hey, hey, I saw the news. Did you get my messages? I did. Yeah, all 36 of them. Man, that is so sad. About that Elena girl and their baby. Yeah, I know. Really bloody sad. Awful. Is she okay? You know, all things considered. Yeah. Yeah, physiologically seemed to have very promising markers. How she feels emotionally right now, I can only imagine. So, yeah. And Godfrey? Yeah, a bit broken. He's got to find a way to mend, hasn't he? And I bet he does it against England in a major tournament. Just watch. What is this? This. Oh, oh no, he left that behind. Oh, bummer. Who did? Well, when you texted, the last text I actually got from you. Thank you. When you texted about the search for the doctor, a guy called saying he knew about him and that he'd come by. So we chatted about Armstrong, but I sent you the details already. Yeah, I read that. Yeah, it was like I said. Stuff you already figured out. Yeah, the blood archive and stuff. Exactly. But I can just call him and tell him to come get this. Yeah, if it's a walking stick, he's gonna need it. Oh, I can't actually remember his name. It's engraved here on his stick. Dr. J Mortimer of Charing Cross Hospital. J. Me Mortimer. That's right. Yes, yes, I'll go with him. Oh, hi, Dr. Mortimer. It's Mariana Mitchell. Righty, righty, matey, mate. Let me just pack a few bits and pieces and no, we can get cracking on your duchess case. No. What? You've been banging on about it the whole bloody time. I would rather like to see what else Dr. Mortimer has to tell us. Why? Because I feel it. Feel it? Like a case? Indeed. Okay, he is gonna come by. Cool. Cool. Guess we'll hang around for that then. Splendid. What is it about the walking stick, mate? A few things. Big things? No, no. Is it that straightforward that you can just sense a case? Elementary, my dear Watson. What the hell does that mean?