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HOT DRAMA 2026
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00:04Citrus!
00:06Citrus!
00:08Citrus!
00:08Please!
00:57My boy, I've heard you had a spot of bother.
01:00Father.
01:07You're almost getting as handsome as me.
01:11Who told you?
01:12Oh, Crow.
01:13Why, don't be cross.
01:14Be thankful.
01:19There she is.
01:21Silas.
01:22My love.
01:27Now, let me look at you.
01:31Yes, you look well.
01:32I feel better.
01:34I feel stronger.
01:36Dr. Maltby has changed my medication.
01:38And I feel less foggy.
01:40That's wonderful news.
01:41Wonderful news.
01:42Although it does rather appear I'm playing catch-up.
01:45They just let you out.
01:47Not exactly.
01:48How not exactly?
01:52He waltzed in, broke down a wall, and waltzed me straight back out again.
01:58Broke down a wall.
02:00They've been recording her.
02:02At the asylum.
02:03Listening to every word she's been saying.
02:06Effectively spying on her.
02:07I really had-
02:07What's up, recording?
02:08Spying?
02:09Who are you?
02:10Who's he?
02:11Sorry, Father.
02:11This is-
02:12James Moriarty.
02:14This is Sherlock's friend.
02:16It's an honour to meet you, sir.
02:18Yes.
02:20What on earth were you thinking?
02:21They'll come back for her.
02:23As a matter of fact, they already have.
02:25And we drove them away.
02:26At gunpoint.
02:27Gunpoint.
02:30Sherlock, my dear boy, perhaps we might adjourn to the study, and you can do me the kindness
02:36of explaining to me what the hell's been going on.
02:38Not now.
02:39Mother, I do feel it's rather important-
02:41It can wait.
02:41First, I want to do something I haven't been able to do for a very long time.
02:47I want to sit down and have dinner with my family.
02:53Your mother's right.
02:58Family first.
03:00Mrs. Crowe.
03:01Mr. Holmes, welcome back, sir.
03:04Now, what's in the pantry?
03:06A little leftover roast.
03:08I wasn't anticipating visitors.
03:10Never mind, never mind.
03:12We shall make do.
03:15Now then.
03:18Shepherd's pie it is.
03:20You two, get peeling.
03:22Chop, chop.
03:23This looks delicious, sir.
03:24Silas, please.
03:27Silas it is.
03:29Oh, and Sherlock was telling me that you're a scientist.
03:32Yes, a modest one.
03:37Tuck in, tuck in.
03:38Darling, where are you going?
03:38Just a moment.
03:40I'm so sorry.
03:41Don't box yourself.
03:42Please.
03:44Here we are.
03:45Sorry.
03:47Now, I brought this back, and...
03:53I want you to have it.
03:55Really?
03:56I finished traveling.
03:57I doubt that very much.
03:58I'm staying here to look after you.
04:00I don't need looking after her.
04:02I don't need looking after her.
04:02So she can stay.
04:03Of course she can stay.
04:04Look at her.
04:04She's radiant.
04:05She has a new lease of life.
04:06This place is clearly working its magic.
04:11I am here.
04:12Oh, sorry.
04:13Sorry.
04:14Please, can we eat?
04:16Do you mind?
04:17Of course.
04:20That is the weapon that will tame the frontier, by my words.
04:23I mean, who's to say that there isn't an undiscovered miracle?
04:26A genus, perhaps, with the natural resources to fight tuberculosis or cancer, even.
04:32I mean, we think we know all of nature's laws, but we've barely scratched the surface.
04:36Well, then, a toast to the great minds like yourself who endeavor to scratch beneath the surface.
04:42Here.
04:44Sherlock was an explorer before he could even walk.
04:47Desperate to follow in his father's footsteps.
04:49One day it would be Africa, the next Newfoundland.
04:52Barely made it past the end of the drive.
04:54Once he proudly announced he was leaving home.
04:56He was gone.
04:58All of two hours.
05:00We found him in the coal shed since then we...
05:13Darling?
05:15Dear boy, is everything all right?
05:22Sorry.
05:25Where's Mycroft?
05:27He's in Oxford.
05:28He should be with us.
05:29He should be here.
05:33You're quite right.
05:35I'll wire for him, first thing, tomorrow.
05:46And now, James, you are about to witness a time-honored Holmes family tradition,
05:53Mrs. Crow!
05:54No!
05:55Yeah!
05:56He almost gets me back.
06:01He did.
06:05Sherlock!
06:06I am Mr. Wiss.
06:09That's my boy.
06:13So this Professor Malick, the man with, uh...
06:17With the bird's claw.
06:18Bird's claw, that's it.
06:19He's the one who's been recording her.
06:22Yes.
06:23And Jaggers, the poor, wretched soul who...
06:25I haven't quite managed to figure out his involvement yet.
06:29It must have been a horrible sight.
06:31We're going to find out why they were doing this to your mother, Sherlock.
06:34Why they were recording her.
06:36We're going to solve this.
06:38Together.
06:39And then, we're going to make this home again.
06:42A new staff.
06:44What'd you say?
06:46I say I'd like that very much.
06:48Ha!
06:48Settled.
06:52Oh, you couldn't fetch another bottle, could you?
06:54Of course.
06:55And when I'm back,
06:57I'd love to hear about Vienna.
06:59Absolutely, my boy.
07:45Sherlock?
07:49Coming.
08:01Ah, there he is.
08:04I thought you got lost.
08:08Oh, yes.
08:12Good lad.
08:13Good lad.
08:15Sit.
08:17Now, I've been considering a teaching post.
08:21At Oxford, just to be closer to home.
08:26My dear boy.
08:28It looks like you've taken a turn.
08:31I expect you're tired.
08:33I am.
08:37I'm so sorry, Father.
08:38I would love to hear about Vienna some other time.
08:41I've had a rather long day.
08:42I think I will say goodnight.
08:43Absolutely.
08:44Another time, of course.
08:50Night-night, my boy.
08:53Goodnight.
09:05This sun-powered steam engine of yours, this would have never worked.
09:09I'll forgive you.
09:10I suppose you were only a child.
09:12You would have needed a solar cell, demonstrated by Edmund Becker in 1839.
09:36I found it in Jagger's study.
09:39Underneath his body, on the floor.
09:41And my father's coat is missing the very same button.
09:49I see.
09:53I'm sure there's an innocent explanation from all of it.
09:58I'm sure there is.
09:59Maybe the explanation's in here.
10:01I was flicking through these.
10:03The diaries of Mr. Lawson Jaggers, I swear.
10:06I hate to speak ill of the dead, but he was a desperately dull man.
10:09He kept a record of everything he bought.
10:11In the space of a single week, he bought himself a new coat, hat, shirt, tie, and cane.
10:17Perhaps he got bored of being boring.
10:20And then the following week, he had appointments with the Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Turnbull, Mrs. Morgan.
10:27And he mentioned your father.
10:33What do you want?
10:36I'm sorry?
10:43My mind is...
10:48I'm shattered, James.
10:50Do forgive me.
10:51I'm turning it.
11:07I'm sorry.
11:08I'm sorry.
11:11I'm sorry.
11:14I'm sorry.
11:21This is your fault.
12:12This is your fault.
12:23Sherlock, my dear boy.
12:25How did you sleep?
12:28Rather fitfully, if I'm honest with you, Father.
12:32I'm sorry to hear that.
12:33Have you seen James?
12:34Hmm.
12:35Left first thing.
12:37Asked Crowell for a horse.
12:38Really?
12:39Hmm.
12:40You know where he was going?
12:42Not a clue.
12:45Well, I'm off to the asylum.
12:47Give that bastard director a piece of my mind.
12:51Perhaps I'll come with you.
12:53Yes.
12:54Wonderful idea.
12:56No, on second thoughts, stay here with your mother.
13:00She needs you.
13:16Hello, sir.
13:17I was wondering, would Mrs. Turner be at home?
13:19And you would be?
13:20Oh, if I could be anyone at all, I'd be James Moriarty.
13:23So isn't it lucky for me that I am?
13:25So perhaps you might have noticed me.
13:26Mrs. Turner is not at home.
13:28I told you not to tell people their novels.
13:30Tell them I'm otherwise occupied.
13:33She is otherwise occupied.
13:34Well, when Mrs. Turner is finished being otherwise occupied,
13:38you might tell her that I come on the business of Lawson Jagger's Esquire.
13:42Well, what I would have...
13:45I was wondering why I hadn't heard from him a plate.
13:47Yes.
13:48Well, for that, we send our apologies.
13:52For he himself is otherwise occupied.
13:55Are you his new clerk?
13:56Indeed I am, Mrs. Turner.
13:58Far more dashing than the last one, if I may say.
14:01You may say, Mrs. Turner.
14:04Well, let the man in, Nobles.
14:08Yes.
14:11Let the man in.
14:13Nobles.
14:25Good morning.
14:26Morning.
14:28And where have you been?
14:30Seeking answers.
14:33You smell of perfume.
14:34Well, you wouldn't believe what I had to do to get them.
14:37The Married Woman's Property Act.
14:39Yes.
14:40It's not exactly thrilling, I know.
14:42And this is why Lawson Jagger's Esquire visited Mrs. Turner?
14:45Yes.
14:46Indeed it was.
14:47Because this act allows married women to own their own property for the very first time.
14:52Revolutionary.
14:52So Jagger's was out chasing the work.
14:53Hence the new glad rag.
14:54Exactly, because now he could offer these wealthy married women the chance to regain
14:59financial independence from their husbands as newly provided by this act.
15:03Absorbing as this is, I struggle to see the connection between this and my father.
15:08Then you're not going to like what I have to say next.
15:10Then I suggest you don't say it.
15:13I'm going to say it.
15:14You're going to say it.
15:17Your mother was a woman of wealth before she met your father.
15:19I now see where you're going with this and I'm going to save us both the time.
15:23You're on the wrong track, my friend.
15:24You are getting agitated.
15:25I'm not getting agitated.
15:26You are getting this wrong.
15:27Humor me.
15:28What do we know for certain?
15:30We know that your mother met with Jagger's and we know that they discussed business.
15:33Now, let us just say that your father finds out about this meeting and now he needs to
15:37know what your mother is planning with Jagger's because he needs to protect his financial
15:40interests.
15:41Contracture?
15:41So he pays the asylum director to have them recorded.
15:44But now these recordings are discovered and Jagger's has become a liability.
15:48So he needs to be silenced.
15:50And so my father has...
16:04And so my father has Lawson Jagger's killed.
16:09Well, it would explain the button.
16:10Ripped off in the struggle.
16:11That is really your theory.
16:13When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, Sherlock, that
16:17must be the truth.
16:18But you are overlooking one rather obvious fact.
16:20Please illuminate things for me.
16:21My father is an eminent scientist who has been awarded grants from some of the finest universities
16:26in the world.
16:29The idea he needs my mother's money is plainly ridiculous.
16:31How do you know that?
16:32Because I know my own father.
16:34Do you?
16:35This man who has been mostly absent from your life for the last 12 years?
16:38You had his reasons, James.
16:40He lost his daughter for Christ's sake and I a sister.
16:43I do not wish to make light of your pain, Sherlock.
16:45No, but you do wish to turn this into a game, just like everything else.
16:49If you really want to solve this beyond any reasonable doubt, I suggest we take a look
16:53at your father's financial records.
16:56I really thought you were going to help me.
16:59I am helping you, Sherlock, as you seem incapable of helping yourself for your father's concern.
17:05I am trying to help you by showing you the truth, no matter how distressing it is.
17:13I know why you're doing this.
17:16I pray you, enlighten me.
17:18You are doing this because you have no family of your own, so you seek to destroy mine.
17:22You know nothing about my family, and you're losing your mind, but I'll forgive you because
17:27that clearly runs in your blood.
17:40Now the man decides to draw a real punch.
17:43Get out of my house.
17:44Gladly.
18:01Your mother needs to rest.
18:28You failed her.
18:32Sherlock!
18:42Ah, Sherlock, there you are.
18:43Do you know, I just bumped into James, storming off down the drive.
18:46Yes, he can be difficult sometimes.
18:49Well, listen, I brought you here because I have news.
18:51It turns out you weren't the only one Professor Mallick was recording, all part of some supposedly
18:56scientific research which that dreadful director of the asylum was paid handsomely for.
19:01Mallick made human guinea pigs of you all.
19:05How does Jaggers fit into the equation?
19:07Mallick's lawyer provided legal cover for the whole infernal project.
19:10When he found out, they were discovered that he was facing scandal and ruin.
19:14Well, the rest you saw.
19:17I've wired the police.
19:19You'll need to make a statement.
19:20Of course, anything I can do to help.
19:22The one positive to come from this wretched business is that we have your mother home.
19:29That's all that matters now.
19:31Did you ever think to bring her home sooner?
19:33Excuse me?
19:34I just, I just wondered if it was within your power.
19:41I, I followed medical advice, Sherlock.
19:49I believe the director at the asylum was keeping your mother there because I was told it was
19:56best for her.
19:57You don't think I don't blame myself for not realizing what was happening?
20:01Oh, Silas, you couldn't possibly have known what was going on in there.
20:07I'm so sorry.
20:11Thank you, my love.
20:13I do want that director punished for everything he did to me.
20:18I will see him ruined.
20:34I do want that director.
20:40Bye.
20:44Bye.
20:54Bye.
20:55Bye.
20:57Bye.
21:00See you.
21:05No, no, no, no.
21:57No, no, no.
22:25Whatever the truth may be, I need to know.
22:28Is that your idea of an apology?
22:31Well?
22:32Well, it doesn't sound like an apology.
22:34Well, I apologize.
22:35Is that all?
22:36I sincerely apologize?
22:38Still think you can do better.
22:39I, Sherlock Holmes, sincerely apologize to you, James Moriarty.
22:43Oh, well done.
22:45I rather enjoyed all that.
22:47I do have a thought as to how we might gain access to my father's financial record.
22:55I do have a thought as to how we might gain attention to my father's financial record.
23:14I do have a thought as to how I do that.
23:35Oh, yes, there it is.
23:46What are you doing in my study?
23:53The Kaiseri Hind.
23:55Oh, the swallowtail.
23:57Yes, the monograph he wrote on butterflies.
24:00I was telling James about it.
24:01He's rather interested.
24:02Oh.
24:04You'd like to read it?
24:05Mm-hmm.
24:06Sorry, I should have asked.
24:08Well, you should have, yes, but nothing would give me greater pleasure.
24:14That's somewhere here.
24:17Now, I'd be very interested to know what he thinks.
24:21Right, young fellow.
24:24Bound for great things.
24:27I can always tell.
24:30Now, your mother and I are making elderflower cordial.
24:33Be good to keep our spirits up.
24:35Care to join us?
24:39Sure.
24:41Why not?
24:52Sherlock.
24:54Are you getting something?
25:00Oh, Cordelia, could we have a helper?
25:03Thank you so much.
25:05I'm trying to support it.
25:07I'm trying to support it.
25:10What's the name for?
25:13I'm trying to support.
25:15I'm trying to support it.
25:17Oh, .
25:18Chin, chin.
25:28Chase it down with her.
25:31The white flowers have a heady fragrance.
25:39Deliciously sweet.
25:41The young leaves, by contrast, smell rancid.
25:45It's one of the few seedlings that rabbins have no interest in nibbling.
25:54Did you wire Mycroft?
25:56Hmm?
26:00Father, did you wire Mycroft?
26:02I just assumed that you would have a new wire at the police.
26:04I was just wondering.
26:05Yeah, I have been rather preoccupied, but...
26:09You're right, I'll do it right away.
26:13Where's my wallet?
26:14My love, it's in your study.
26:20Shall be long.
26:22Would you like some more Elderflower first?
26:24Uh, no, thank you.
26:25You sure?
26:28Leave aside.
26:36Can I imagine it's a strength in you, being back here?
26:42Yes.
26:44Yes, uh, yes I have.
26:46It has been rather difficult.
26:49Memories in every corner.
26:53The happy and...
26:57And the unwelcome.
27:03Sherlock.
27:10It wasn't my idea to send your mother away after your sister.
27:16It was her idea.
27:17She thought it would help her recover.
27:26I appreciate you being understanding.
27:36Ah!
27:37James.
27:39Well, it's good to see you back.
27:42I couldn't stay away.
27:44Devil makes work for idle hands.
27:46Wise words.
27:50Right.
27:52What have you found?
27:56Just tell me, James.
27:59All right.
27:59Yes.
28:00Your father had several business interests.
28:02In fact, he's doing quite, quite well.
28:09You didn't know this?
28:10A scientist.
28:13That's all he ever told us.
28:15Well, here is the thing, Sherlock.
28:18There was a time when he was not doing quite so well.
28:27Four of his companies declared bankrupt in the space of a single year, 1858.
28:31And then, the following year, he had quite a drastic improvement in his fortunes.
28:361859.
28:38The year my sister died.
28:40There's no evidence to prove the fact that these two events are linked.
28:48This is the deed to this house.
28:50It was put into a trust by your grandfather for you, and for my craft.
28:56It was administered by your mother until 12 years ago, when your father took power of attorney over her.
29:04He took control of this entire estate.
29:06Because my mother was committed to the asylum.
29:12Declared insane and driven mad with grief.
29:17Sorry, Sherlock.
29:24Either my father took advantage of circumstance,
29:26or what happened that day wasn't an accident.
29:38Never.
29:38Never.
29:48Never.
29:50Never.
30:02Mother.
30:05yes I need to talk to you about that day I play this scene over in my head over
30:24and over and over you know what I wonder more than anything else in this world I
30:30wonder what would have happened if I played with her if she'd still be
30:44I've been punishing myself for years thinking somehow it would be enough but
30:52it's never enough Sherlock it wasn't your fault my love
31:05what happened next I wasn't watching she went to talk to your father
31:19what's he saying
31:28where's she going
31:32what did father say to Beatrice to make her go what did he say to her
31:38mother what did father say to Beatrice
31:42I don't know darling you'd have to ask him
31:54maybe you were right maybe this wasn't an accident
31:59my father said something to Beatrice to make her go into the woods but he stayed by the
32:03river the entire time so someone else was involved well then Sherlock who found the
32:07body the groundskeeper where does he live in the village
32:21is there anyone at all you're on private land sorry to the story will we're looking for Nathan
32:29Burford will that be my dad yes might we have a warrant with him please well you'd have a job
32:36what is that you have to dig him up first
32:41forgive me my name is Sherlock Holmes
32:46well haven't you grown up
32:49you don't remember me
32:52I do apologize
32:53me and your sister used to play squeak piggy squeak
32:57you'd be the farmer
32:59me and Bea would be the piggies you really don't remember that
33:02I don't well I don't blame you I used to tease you something rotten we used to dress him up
33:08in bees clothes
33:09is that so I am learning so much about you Sherlock yeah your father throws tea parties
33:16mrs crow will make us all fresh macaroons
33:19your family were always really good to us I'm sure your father was loyal in return
33:23the horses would have been his ruin if it hadn't been for your father
33:26what makes you say that he forgave him his whole debt all of it
33:32he cleared your father's entire debt
33:35it's the one day the cloud lifted from my mother's face
33:38when did this happen
33:39the year you lot left a couple of months after your poor sister passed
33:47your father paid off the groundskeeper it's not proof I need proof it doesn't prove it wasn't an accident
33:52I appreciate this isn't easy for all of the evidence don't be blinded by emotion
33:56your words James it's not conclusive all right
34:01what do you need Sherlock
34:05what will convince you
34:10I'm afraid there's nothing more I can do Mr. Marlison
34:12thank you doctor
34:18Dr. Malby our family doctor
34:22he would have seen the body
34:24come
34:28doctor
34:29oh Sherlock
34:30oh how's your mother doing
34:32she's improving
34:33could I have a word
34:37yes well it was um
34:40it was a horrible business
34:43did you notice anything on my sister's body
34:46forgive me for this doctor
34:48but did you find any evidence to suggest that there may have been some foul play
34:52that what happened wasn't an accident
34:54right
34:55um
34:57I can't tell you I'm afraid
34:59I do appreciate it's difficult to recall
35:01no it's not quite that
35:02I can't tell you because I wasn't there
35:05I was never called to the house
35:07you were our family doctor
35:08well quite
35:09I was more than ready to assist but
35:11well word never came
35:13I believe the doctor was uh
35:14duly summoned for
35:16from outside the village
35:18Oxford I think
35:19I know all the way
35:20yes I did think it strange at the time but um
35:24well it wasn't my um
35:25wasn't my call to make
35:34come on
36:02I still hear her voice
36:06do you enjoy it
36:13enjoy what my boy
36:15when the butterflies stop beating their wings
36:17when they die
36:19do you enjoy it
36:26it's simply necessary
36:28it's safe
36:28and so
36:54it's very
36:55it is
37:07Can I wake you?
37:09No.
37:10I was just reading.
37:15I have to ask you something. I'm afraid it's rather morbid.
37:19Go on.
37:28That night, did you see her?
37:34Beatrice.
37:34Yeah.
37:35Yes, of course, darling.
37:38Nathan pulled her up in the river.
37:48Again.
37:53Again.
38:11I wasn't supporting you. He was stopping you from getting too close.
38:15Darling, are you all right? What are you talking about?
38:21After he brought her inside, did you see her?
38:24Your father brought her into the house, and yes, I just, I saw her. I saw her lying on her
38:32bed in her bedroom.
38:43No. She was covered by a sheet.
38:47It may be all right.
38:47Before she was taken away, before she was put in her coffin, did you ever see her body?
38:53Why are you asking me these dreadful things?
38:55I'm so sorry, Mother. I need to know. Did you see her body?
38:57I was in a terrible state, and your father had given me something to help me sleep, so I can't
39:06remember.
39:07Knock, knock.
39:10Oh, Sherlock, your mother's had a long day.
39:16She needs to rest.
39:19Time for your medication, my love.
39:22I'll do it, Father.
39:25Well, I think it's best if I...
39:27I'd actually quite like to, Father.
39:35I know when I'm not wanted.
39:48Don't keep your mother up talking.
39:53I know when I'm not wanted.
40:00What is it, darling?
40:04Nothing.
40:05Never mind.
40:06Never mind.
40:28Are you sure you want to do this?
40:47Sorry.
40:48I'll wake you.
40:50I'm just going to clear this away.
40:55Did you take your medication?
40:57I don't think Sherlock gave it to me.
40:59I sort of nodded off, darling.
41:00Oh, yeah.
41:03Silas.
41:04Yes, my love?
41:06What did you say to her?
41:08Who?
41:11Beatrice.
41:13Before she ran towards the trees, what was the last thing you said?
41:21Dad, please.
41:22Sherlock won't play with me.
41:24It's all right, my love.
41:37I don't really remember.
41:42I suppose I blanked it all out.
41:51Why?
41:53Sherlock asked me.
41:58Sherlock.
42:12Sherlock.
42:12Sherlock.
42:13Oh, yeah.
42:16Oh, yeah.
42:18Oh, yeah.
42:19On the other side.
42:20Whoa!
42:20Oh, yeah, yeah.
42:20Oh, yeah.
42:21Oh, że.
42:21Sherlock!
43:14That's not my sister.
43:16They're just a bunch of bones, Sherlock.
43:18How could you know that?
43:19My sister had a broken arm.
43:21That arm's not broken.
43:24That's not my sister.
43:27God's not broken.
43:30I'll be in a car.
43:49Transcription by CastingWords
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