This one's a funny one...and I don't mean humourous! The Great Game, a convoluted plot, but still less words that the Ancient Mariner.
Murder in Minsk
A boring domestic,
The guilty young man will most certainly hang.
Back in the UK
Sherlock is bored
Bullets fly, smiley's outlined with a bang.
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John takes the gun,
Removes the bullets,
The wall had it coming so Sherlock said
Looking for food
John opens the fridge
Where he finds to his horror a severed head.
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Sherlock dislikes the
Blog John has written
He cannot agree with John's choice of words,
The doctor goes out
To get some air
A short time later - explosion heard.
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Waking up
On Sarah's sofa
TV shows the morning news,
Lead story incident
In Baker Street
John rushes home, no time to lose.
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Mycroft has a
Case for Sherlock
Andrew West, a weapons plan,
Sherlock won't
So Mycroft pleads
With John, 'persuade him if you can'.
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There's a call from
Scotland Yard
Come look at this unusual case
'I'd be lost
Without my blogger'
He says; a smile upon his face.
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The house on Baker
Street contained
A strong box and an envelope
Addressed to Sherlock,
Could this be
A decent case? He can but hope.
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Five pips and
A photograph
Sherlock knows he's seen this room
Pink phone contained
A puzzle piece
A warning of another boom
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Returning home
Their sweet landlady
Talks of unimportant things
They find shoes
In 221C
All at once the pink phone rings
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Hello sexy
Says the voice
It plays up to the young man's forte
Twelve hours to
Solve my puzzle
Or I am going to be so naughty
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Sits in front
Of microscope
Sherlock studies soil from shoes,
Doesn't care for
Crying hostage
She's no source of leads or clues.
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Into the lab
Molly comes smiling
Followed quite closely by new boyfriend Jim
But he is gay
To Sherlock it's plain
A phone number hidden shows Jim fancies him
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Sherlock encourages
John to deduce
Then sarcastically tells him he's got it quite wrong
While talking about
The previous owner
He remembers the young boy to whom they belong
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Back at home
He takes apart
The shoes, the cause of death to find,
For Mycroft's case
His best man's on it
Doctor John Watson's been assigned
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While Mycroft gives
John information
Sherlock finds poison's been infused
In medication
Still on laces
Clostridium Botulinum used
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Hostage safe.
Back at the Yard,
Another call for Sherlock Holmes
Another photo
Abandoned car
Another hostage stands alone.
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An empty car
A blood-stained seat
The wife stands twisting hands with grief
A business card
That Sherlock found
A major clue, it's his belief.
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Janus Cars
A front for crime
Their Mr Ewart is a fraud
Mr Monkford
Wasn't murdered
Left England, went to live abroad.
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In a café
Picture message
Next hostage is defective; blind,
Latest death
Is Connie Prince
Twelve hours to make the case unwind.
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An accident
While gardening
And tetanus was the thing to blame
The cut's too clean
The time too short
And Sherlock must disprove this claim.
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John is sent
To gather data
Visits Connie's home address.
Sherlock calls in
An old favour
From Home Secretary no less.
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A call form John
And Sherlock's off
To call on Connie's brother too
John's convinced
He killed his sister
The younger man says it won't do
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A thick brown file
Given to Lestrade
The houseboys purchase records enclosed
Raoul gave extra
Botox treatments
Clostridium Botulinum overdose
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John is cross
He left the hostage
Waiting, strapped inside a bomb
She tries to talk
About the voice
Before they know it she is gone.
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Eleven dead when
Flats exploded
John and Sherlock watch the news
Discussion of the
Bomber's tactics
Leads to heated exchange of views
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Next clue leads to
London, south bank,
Dead body, a security guard.
Didn't drown but
Facial bruises
Proved that Golem squeezed him hard.
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Off to get
More information
Homeless girl is given cash,
Then outside the
Hickman Gallery
From the cab see Sherlock dash.
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John is sent to
Talk to dead guards
Flatmate, there's not much to learn
Just that he's an
Amateur stargazer
And of a message from Professor Cairns.
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Miss Wenceslas finds
Sherlock standing
Looking at the 'lost' Vermeer
She threatens that
She'll have him sacked,
'No problem' he says 'I don't work here'.
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John meanwhile has
Travelled out to
See the fiancée of young West,
Brother Joe turns
Up, chivvies John,
Who promises he'll do his best.
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Homeless girl
Has information
To Vauxhall Arches they must go,
Golem runs,
Where has he gone?
John has an idea he might know.
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Cairns is dead,
Now at the Hickman
This part of game is nearly over
A child counts down,
An epiphany
The proof, Van Buren's supernova.
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Wenceslas admits
That Moriarty
Was her driving force.
John discovers
Westie's body fell
When points changed tube train's course.
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Plans on memory
Stick were stolen
By fiancée's brother Joe
He killed the man
By accident
And so the body had to go.
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At 221B
Sherlock sits
And shouts insults at the TV,
John's not in
For dinner
Doctor Sarah he is off to see.
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A message to
The bomber
Pool at midnight, just be there
John steps out
In Semtex jacket
Sherlock Holmes just stands and stares
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Moriarty,
Jim from I.T
Molly Hooper's gay boyfriend
He's been having
Fun but now the
Game he says has got to end
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Sherlock's carrying
Army Browning
Laser sights they follow John
Moriarty
Walks right past him
John grabs him, tells Sherlock to run.
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Lasers move
Gameplay changes
Moriarty shakes his head
He will burn the
Heart from Sherlock
He's sure Sherlock won't shoot him dead
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Then just as suddenly
He leaves, and
Sherlock throws the bomb aside
But as they think
That they are safe
Their foe returns with easy stride
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He tells them he
Is changeable
The laser dots they reappear,
Aiming gun
At Semtex jacket
Sherlock's intentions are clear.