Episode Transcript provided by Ariane DeVere/Callie Sullivan
The bright penlight light was the first thing Sherlock saw. John stood over him, shining the light into his eyes. The next thing he sensed was the comforting warmth that had been missing from his Mind Palace. Alice. He blinked himself awake, registering the figures in the room as Mary, who sat in one of the hospital chairs above him, Mycroft who sat in the other chair next to him, John who was checking on him, and Alice, who was on the bed with him, holding his hand.
"And there he is," Mycroft commented with a fake smile. "Thought we'd lost you for a moment. May I just check: this is what you mean by 'controlled usage'?"
"Now is not the time, Mycroft," Alice scolded. "You can scold him once he is cleared by the doctors and the committee,"
"Mrs Emelia Ricoletti," Sherlock said, still bleary. "I need to know where she was buried,"
"You're still going on about the Ricoletti case?" John asked.
"From what? A hundred and twenty years ago?" Mycroft questioned.
"Yes,"
"That could take weeks to find if those records even exist. Even with my resources we-"
"Got it," Mary interrupted, forcing Mycroft to shut his mouth again.
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Alice exited the police car with Sherlock. He had called on Lestrade to help him with the mystery of Emelia Ricoletti. Now the six of them were on their way to where she was buried.
"I don't get it," John said as he held the car door for Mary. "How is this relevant?"
"I need to know I was right," Sherlock replied as he grabbed a set of spades from the boot of the car. "I need to be sure,"
"You mean how Moriarty did it?" Mary asked.
"But none of that really happened. It was all in your head," John corrected.
"My investigation was the fantasy," Sherlock corrected.
"The crime happened exactly as he explained," Alice added, holding a large file folder stuffed with documents. "I had Anthea deliver this when we sent a car for Greg,"
The group walked up to the gravestone where Emelia Ricoletti was supposedly buried.
"I don't know what you think you will find," Mycroft commented.
"I need to try!" Sherlock argued.
EMELIA RICOLETTI
BELOVED SISTER
FAITHFUL BEYOND DEATH
DIED DECEMBER 18 1894
AGED 26
"Going off of Sherlock's theory, Mrs Ricoletti most likely had been buried by her friends considering that her husband died the day after," Alice commented, handing Mary a file for her took look at.
"Emelia Ricoletii was buried here, but what happened to the other one, the corpse they substituted for her after her so-called suicide?" Sherlock asked rapidly.
"Well, what did you do with your supposed dead body?" John mumbled before giving Sherlock his answer. "They'd move it. Of course, they would,"
"But where?"
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