"A consulting criminal." The Lawyer asked Sherlock, "Yes." "Your words. Can you expand on that answer?" she asked "Ivy Moriarty is for hire." "A tradesman?" "Yes." Ivy smiled slightly and chewed her gum "But, not the sort who'd fix your heating." "No, the sort to plant a bomb or stage an assassination, But I'm sure she'd make a pretty decent job of your boiler." Everybody chuckled including Ivy, "Would you describe her as…" "Leading." Sherlock cut her off, "What?" "You can't do that. You're leading the witness. He'll object and the judge will uphold. " "Mr. Holmes." The judge said "Ask me how I would describe him." Sherlock said to the lawyer "What opinion have I formed of him." "Mr. Holmes, we're fine without your help." "How would you describe this woman, her character." The lawyer amended "First mistake, Ivy Moriarty isn't a woman at all, she's a spider, a spider at the center of a web, criminal web with a thousand threads, and she knows precisely how each and every one of them dances." Ivy smiled and nodded ever so slightly at Sherlock. "And how long-" the Lawyer asked Sherlock, who cut her off and said "No, no, don't- don't do that. That's really not a good question." "Mr. Holmes!" the judge yelled at Sherlock "How long have I known her? Not really your best line of inquiry. We met once, not counting when she pretended to be John's dumb sister, 5 minutes in total. I pulled a gun, she tried to blow me up, I felt we had a special something." Everybody chuckled, Ivy included, and all the reporters wrote headlines in their heads. "Miss Sorrel, are you seriously claiming this man is an expert after knowing the accused for just 5 minutes." "Two minutes would have made me an expert, 5 was ample." "Mr. Holmes, that's a matter for the jury!" the Judge exclaimed "Oh, really?" John put his head in his hands "One librarian, two teachers, two high- pressure jobs, probably the city. Foreman's a medical secretary, trained abroad, judging by her shorthand," "Mr. Holmes!" the judge yelled, Ivy was grinning by now, "Seven are married and two are having an affair, with each other, it would seem. Oh they've just had tea and biscuits, would you like to know who ate the wafer?" "Mr. Holmes! You've been called here to answer Miss Sorrel's questions, not to give us a display of your intellectual poweress! Keep your answers brief and to the point. Anything else will be treated as contempt! Do you think you could survive for just a few minutes Without Showing Off?!" Sherlock looked at Ivy, who raised her eyebrows, she was challenging. Sherlock opened his mouth.
Sherlock was led to a cell, next to Ivy's who turned towards him and gave him a half smirk and winked.
"What did I say?" John asked Sherlock as he bailed him out "I said don't get clever." "I can't just turn it on and off like a tap… Well?" "Well what?" John asked "You were there for the whole thing, up in the gallery start to finish." "Like you said it would be, sat on his backside, never even stirred." "Moriarty's not mounting any defense." Was all Sherlock said.
"Bank of England, tower of London, Pentonville. Three of the most secure places in the country. And six weeks ago Iv- Moriarty breaks in. No one knows how or why. All we know is-""She ended up in custody." Sherlock finished and looked at John, "don't do that." John said "Do what?" Sherlock asked "The look." "The look?" Sherlock asked, confused now "You're doing the look again." "I can't see it, can I?" Sherlock challenged, John looked pointedly at the mirror "That's my face." "Yes, and it's doing a thing. You're doing your 'We both know what's going on here' face." John said looking at Sherlock "Well we do." Sherlock protested "No, I don't, which is why I find the face so annoying." An annoyed John, "If Moriarty wanted the jewels, she'd have them. If she wanted those prisoners freed, they'd be out on the streets. The only reason she's still in a prison cell right now is because she chose to be there. Somehow this is part of her scheme." Sherlock said while pacing and wondering what Ivy had in store for him.
"Mr. Crayhill, can we have your first witness?" the Judge asked Ivy's attorney, the lawyer stood up and said "Your honor, we're not calling any witnesses." Whispers started to run through the crowd "I don't follow." The Judge said; confused "You've entered a plea of not guilty." John looked nervously down at Ivy, "Nevertheless, my client is offering no evidence. The defense rests." Ivy looked at the Judge with an innocent expression and she looked back at John and made a "Uh-oh" face, "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," the Judge started, while Sherlock said the exact same at Baker Street "Ivy Moriarty stands accused of several counts of attempted burglary, crimes which, if she is found guilty might elicit a very long custodial sentence." The thought of how Ivy will "burn" him if she wasn't in prison didn't make Sherlock want her not to be convicted less, "And yet her legal team has chosen to offer no evidence whatsoever to support their plea. I find myself in the unusual position of recommending a verdict wholeheartedly, you must find her guilty." Sherlock and the Judge continued, "Guilty, you must find her guilty."
Five minutes later John and everyone else walked back into the courtroom to hear the jury's, obvious, verdict, "Have you reached a verdict on which you all agree?" a man asked the jury, a woman stood up and opened her mouth.