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Chapter 1: What unexpected event disrupts the holiday in Mykonos?
Go to patreon.com forward slash Sherlock and Co. For bonus material, early access to episodes, ad-free listening, and much more. That's patreon.com forward slash Sherlock and Co. Okay. Uh, John, I did it. Uh, do I just hit stop, or...?
Previously on Sherlock and Co. Thanks, guys. Hmm? I really... Like, I know I probably would have never planned something like this. To rest. It's not even about rest. I just need to run a quick errand. Who's that?
An errand? In Mykonos.
Yes. I mean, I can come if you want. Good. I may need an extra pair of hands. Here, if you could step aboard... What, a Poseidon? Yes, please. Okey-dokey.
If you'd like to just rest yourself, just in here. In the speedboat? Yes. Someone will take us back, I'm sure. You don't want me to come in? No problem at all. Two ticks. Shut... God.
Oh, hello there, darling. Ever so sorry. No problem. Nice yacht. Isn't it just... You should see the inside. I'd love to. Ah, no time. My friend and I... Come on, you. Oh, hi. You alright? I'll take the wheel if that's alright with you, John. Uh, how do you... Oh, I just do.
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Chapter 2: How does Sherlock Holmes involve Mycroft in their plans?
I just do.
And... Whoa! Whoa! Wait! Wait!
Your hand... Holy... Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, damn shame. Seemed a fine chap. I rather like the eyebrows. They have a car. Marvellous. Ever so sorry, John. Jesus! Right-o, John-boy. Methinks a couple of the island's finest agronies. They call us, do they not? Like sirens beckoning us to the rocks. But it is not us who shall be on the rocks, but them. Hey there, man. John? No?
The Diogenes is this way. I don't care. Whoever you are, just leave me alone, OK? John, this is... What? The actual... Ah, John! You must try a cornice mask. Cornelian cherry.
That cherry's out of my face!
Oh...
Yeah, oh. Time for you to leave. Marianna, call the Greek police. The Greek police? Yes, call them. I'm sure you speak Greek, so just do it.
Call the police on Sherlock's brother? Yes, call the... What?
John, this is my brother, Mycroft.
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Chapter 3: What mystery surrounds the Greek interpreter, Giorgios Melas?
Which is what, exactly? That your work means as much to you as mine does to me. And I can prove it to you. How so? By presenting you with one right here in Mykonos. You cannot solve it yourself. I cannot. Mr. Melas, a Greek interpreter. Ancient Greek, really. He stumbled across something rather remarkable.
What exactly did he stumble across?
He'll tell you himself. Mycroft? I'll bring him by tomorrow. And before you know it, as Mum would say... The game is afoot. The game is afoot.
Hello? Mary, is that you? Mariana, is that you leaving? Um, si. Sherlock. I was just popping out. For what? For some fresh Greek air. Is that a euphemism? For what, exactly? For smoking. For, you know, for opioid-related hijinks. Yes, that's exactly what it is.
I'm feeding my addiction. Won't be long.
Sherlock, Sherlock! hello listeners John Watson here currently looking down on our friend Sherlock Holmes in more ways than one I am sat on the hillside roughly where our hotel is I followed him out he was unaware of it thank you very much and I watched him walk along the beach in pitch black get into a rowing boat and get over to a yacht out there not the Poseidon We're in a different bay.
But it would seem that there is some sort of drug boat out there. If that's a thing. Don't know. Could be. Well, evidently it is. And I'm going to sit here all night if I have to and I will pounce on him when he comes back up this hillside. This is a new low. A new low.
Now, why he thinks that hanging out with me and Mariana for an extended period of time is that painful, that it must be remedy, is beyond me. Maybe it's the brother, you know. Maybe Mycroft got him into this and, yeah, this has stimulated a need for it.
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Chapter 4: What clues lead to the search for the missing woman?
There's a light on in the yacht, but otherwise nothing going on. Could do some shout-outs, couldn't I? I suppose. Got a pretty sizeable backlog of those, let me tell you. Serves me right for getting shot. Right, shout-out to Basler in Brunei. Shout-out to Faith and Bluebell in lovely Cornwall. Good luck with the GCSEs, Faith, and for the A-levels, Bluebell. Let us know how you get on, yeah?
Happy 50th birthday to Jim Thompson. Sorry I'm a bit late there, Jim. Happy birthday, mate. Have a good one. Oliver hasn't asked for a shout-out, but Oliver is one of the brilliant Wikipedia folks that keeps the show's Wikipedia all alive and well. So thanks, Oliver. And any others that listen.
And, oh yes, my mum has asked that I shout out Elizabeth from France, who sent a lovely email when I was... Yeah, under the weather, as Carol put it the other day. I mean, that's one way of saying... Oh, hold on. Hold on a second, there's another... A person who's just gone along the beach and is now rowing. Looks like he's heading to the yacht that Sherlock is in.
Kind of older looking guy, short, black hair, shirt and tie. I think a bit formal for a bit of the old smack, but there you go. It takes all sorts, I suppose. Well, he's climbed aboard and gone inside. And once again, Spymaster John Watson has gone unnoticed in the darkness. I have not only gazumped his smartly dressed dealer, I've totally fooled Sherlock Holmes as well. The Sherlock Holmes.
Hello?
If you're going to sit up there playing Spymaster, you may as well come aboard. For goodness sake.
Yep, yep. Oh, God. Bit annoying, that. Shitting hell, that's knackering, that. There wasn't enough boat on the bay. I had to strip off. God, I can't breathe. Had to swim one-handed because of the mic. I got seaweed wrapped around my leg at one point, and I thought it was a shark. I just kind of thrashed around in there for a bit. Oh, God. Then, yeah. Yeah, gathered myself.
But, yeah, here we are on the yacht.
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Chapter 5: How does the ancient Greek inscription play a role in the case?
On the yacht.
So I better just... Dr. John Watson. Darling underwear.
Yeah, I had to get undressed to swim out.
You're very excited, I see.
No, no, that's just the cold has made it kind of shrivel and now it's protruding.
For the World Cup.
Huh? The pants. Ah, yeah. Yeah, three lions on a shirt. England.
Yeah, well, three lions on my underwear. White underwear. You're a braver man than I. Come through.
I was just wondering, Mycroft, could I maybe get a dressing gown? Or even just a hello. Hi there. Hello. I, uh... You could have dressed. I did dress.
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Chapter 6: What challenges do the characters face in their investigation?
Then, if we extrapolate in the opposite direction, those most modest, most humble must have small heads. So, there you have it, John. The biggest brain in the smallest possible head. Thank you, Mycroft.
Rather long-winded, I thought. What we all... doing on a yacht at midnight in Mykonos, gents? Because if this is what I think it is, then I would rather Sherlock withdrew from this aspect of life. Oh, goodness. I am, quite frankly, disappointed. Mycroft, that you, a man of exceptional health and fitness, would allow him to tear his body apart like this. It's part of the job.
I'm sure you of all people would agree. No, it isn't, and I don't. I fear it is, John. I fear that my friend is being taken advantage of by his own brother. He does this willingly. Oh, does he? Yes. Is this true, Sherlock?
It's true.
For God's sake, when were you going to tell me? tell us when um come on let me see it see what i want to watch i want to watch this unfold let's see you feed his addiction then come on right um mr mellas yeah mr mellas you're gonna whip it out are you hmm and stick it in him do it mate do it sorry Come on, let's see it. Show him a good time, Mr. Melas. And guess what?
I'll be the one who wakes up next to him in the morning, yeah? When he's full of guilt and shame. I'll have to deal with it.
Firstly, it's Melas, not Melas. And secondly, John, I don't think you know what this is.
Oh, I know exactly what this is. Yeah, blokes. Meeting up on a yacht at midnight. I know what he is as well. Who? Sherlock? Yeah, I know exactly what he is. And what is that exactly? You're addicted to it, mate. You're an addict. I am addicted to crime. Is that a crime? What?
You.
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Chapter 7: How does the setting of Mykonos influence the story?
What do you mean, me? You, mate. You! John, I had asked Sherlock if he would partake in a sneaky little case while you were enjoying some much-needed R&R. Er... Case. Yes, a case.
Feeding your... Addiction. To... Cases. Problems. Detective. Right, yes. Sorry, yeah, that makes more sense than the drug thing. You don't have to be part of it. Well, I, you know... What? Just haven't done one in a while. I basically missed out on the last one, so... Yorgo, let's take these gents on deck.
I'd rather like some sea air.
As you can tell by my name, not necessarily my accent, I am of Greek descent. Even from when I was very little, I was always captivated by the, well, by Mother Greece. You know, Hellas. I studied Greek mythology relentlessly, so, and I took advanced classes in the ancient Greek languages, spanning Mycenaean Greek through to Archaic and Homer, then my doctorate, and I
along with Sophie Kretidis, became the... well, um... The leading experts in the world for ancient Greek.
Good for you. Georgios? When addressing a person of Greece, one would say Yorgo. Sans S. But if referring to him when not in his presence, it would be Yorgos. Hmm? Sherlock, stop smirking. It's Melas. And Yorgo... More whiskey?
Thank you, thank you. Um... Yes, so I don't know if you've heard of Sophie, but that may help. I have. Great. I haven't. Sorry. Don't be, don't be. She and I are both based out of London. She is... was... I don't quite know how to put it, but Sophie's the professor of Greek epigraphy and ancient history at University College London. I was the curator of Greek antiquities for a while at V&A.
Now I'm an independent epigrapher and provenance consultant.
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Chapter 8: What shocking revelation occurs at the end of the episode?
You said you don't know how to put it with Sophie. What do you mean? Well, so Sophie sent me a message about six weeks ago and called me into the college. I had got a bit overexcited. I I assumed it was for a short-term contract position. Those places have a lot of money, you know, so I was rather keen. And actually, I immediately realised that her excitement had somewhat trumped mine.
So I ask her what's going on, and she says she had had a meeting that day with a man, Harold Latimer.
Right, that's who you were searching for, right, Mycroft? I was on a different job entirely with the Mikau situation. But it doesn't hurt to ask, to help my friend here. Nothing? Nothing.
So what happened to Harold Latimer? The question, rather, Dr. Watson, is, um... Is what happened to Sophie Kratidis? Okay. She talked about that meeting she'd had with Harold. He came to her out of nowhere. He had hit a dead end. I'm sure you've noticed the digs around here at the moment. Yeah, we've seen a couple of archaeologist types, yeah.
It's a lift of restrictions from the Greek government. Things are popping up all over the place. Harold had much earlier inherited a diary of a British traveller from the late 19th century, Charles Hardy.
Hardy had mentioned in his diary that the locals of the islands of the Aegean spoke of a theft by the British, of a, well, a rather ubiquitous and ordinary inscription stone, fragmentary one at that, mid-third century BCE, attributed to Philon of Naxos. Latimer dives into research to track it down, and lo and behold, he doesn't have to go particularly far.
It's in the vast storage rooms of the British Museum, covered away, collecting dust. Not on display or anything? No. Why does he want it? Just because Hardy put it in his diary? Hardy said the locals spoke of it like a... like a treasure map. A treasure map? Yes. So Latmer asked the British Museum about it. They turned down his offers to buy it, but they allowed him to view it. He did so. And?
And it was very plain. An ordinary script from an ordinary Greek of the time. Nothing remarkable at all. A census of goats and olive trees. He asked to buy it again and they declined. He still wants the boring stone with nothing on it. Just take a picture, surely. Well, he got his way. He tells my friend Sophie in this meeting that he eventually secured the fragment. How, exactly?
I do not wish to know, but he was backed by a significant AI startup. US-based. He didn't want just a photo of the tablet. He wanted the whole thing. They ran an RTI and a multispectral imaging scan on it. They fed the results into their AI and it read something. Something that was scratched off and overwritten nearly 2,000 years ago. The AI read it, yes, but it cannot understand it.
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