At Scotland Yard, Basil and Dawson hopped of the carriage and went into the Yard and into the Superintendent's office. The Inspector and the Superintendent was pacing back and forth in his office when Basil and Dawson entered the office. Lawless wore a red jacket and a black bowler hat. He wore spectacles and had a black thin separate moustache. Superintendent Bigelow was a short, chubby mouse with a gray moustache, wore a black bowler hat, a blue waistcoat with a white shirt underneath, a green tie around his neck, and black pants.

Bigelow: Ah, Mr. Basil, and Dr. Dawson. Good to see you two could make it.

Basil: And such perfect timing too. You're calling has just saved me from weeks of boredom, Lawless. Now, what is it that you both wish to speak to me about?

Lawless: It's about a prison break.

Basil: Really? Who escaped?

The inspector walked towards a billboard on the wall, covered with wanted posters. He pointed to a wanted poster of a gentleman rat with tan fur, a surly looking moustache, dressed in grey slacks and a black coat. His name on the bottom was Captain Doran.

Dawson: Who is that?

Bigelow: It's Captain Doran. Once in Her Majesty's Indian Army and the best heavy game shot our Eastern Empire has ever produced, a cheater at playing cards, and also a rat.

Dawson: What did he do?

Basil: As the Superintendent said, he once served in Her Majesty's Army, but whatever the cause, Doran began to go wrong and he was discharged. He came to London and again required an evil name, and made the acquaintance of the late Professor Ratigan. Doran served as Ratigan's second in command and he carries an air gun, which proves to be a dangerous weapon in the hands of the second most dangerous criminal in London.

Dawson: Second? The first being-?

Basil: Ratigan. Before I met you Dawson, I helped Lawless in capturing Doran and putting him behind bars.

Dawson: Well, with a villain like this loose on the streets, no one will be safe. We should find him and arrest him.

Lawless: I agree, Doctor. But he's not the only one who has escaped from prison. Many more criminals have escaped as well. Doran has helped them bust out of jail. How he did it, we don't know. Here is the list of the names of these jail birds.

He handed Basil a list of the names of the criminals. There was the Terrible Three; Percy the Pickpocket, Freddie the Foreigner, and Barney the Bank Robber, Big Tuppy and Russmer, Bill the lizard and his buddies Sam and Ralph, Clarence the Crook, the Flashy Farrell Brothers; Lefty Lichian and Wrongo Wright, Johnny Sohl, Pete Blau, and many more.

Basil: Inspector, this is quite a list. So many dangerous robbers and killers have been freed by Doran.

Bigelow: We have kept this a secret from the public. If word gets out that these villains have been freed, all of Mousedom would be in panic.

Dawson: But what do you suppose Doran could be up to?

Basil: Lawless, would it be possible if we go down to prison and investigate the crime scene?

Lawless: By all means, Basil.

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Moments later, Basil, Dawson, and Lawless arrive at the prison. There is a tiny hole in the side of the wall where mice can enter so no humans would notice it. Constable Clewes escorted Basil, Dawson, and Lawless into the hole in the wall. They passed a guard who was wrapped in bandages on the head and his right arm, and there was another prison guard covering himself with a white sheet, since he was in his underwear. A couple of officers were complaining about a missing mini paddy wagon. Two police mice were standing guard at the entrance to the cell room. There was smoke and ashes at the entrance and inside the jail cell, where all the jail cell's doors were broken open.

Dawson: Oh my goodness! It looked like somebody set off a bomb.

Clewes: We think it might be a bomb because there was an explosion when it happened. Nobody knows how it started. One of the guards had just come in here to check on them when the explosion happened.

Lawless: It smells bad in here. Phew!

Basil: The door cells had been blown open since Doran could not use the key to unlock them. If he had used the key, one of the guards would've overheard the cell doors unlocked and went to investigate, and Doran's escape plan would fail.

Lawless: But the question is how could make that explosion?

Basil spotted a small, thin wire on the floor. It was broken in half while they still remained attached to the center of the room.

Basil: I think I found the answer, Inspector. Did you notice that there is a piece of wire attached to the bottom of the door?

Lawless: I never noticed it.

Basil: Of course, no one would see it. And you said one of the prison guards was seriously injured when he entered this room before the explosion?

Clewes: That's right. You might've seen him on the way in.

Dawson: What have you come up with, Basil?

Basil: Doran came in here disguised as a prison guard and booby-trapped the room.

Lawless: What made you think he came in here disguised as a guard?

Basil: The prison guard outside in his underwear.

Lawless: Eesh. Who would've noticed?

Basil: Doran snuck into the prison, tied up the guard, and took his clothes for the disguise. Doran planted an explosive device by the door. The wire attached to the door would snap when someone walks through it, and then...boom! Then the prisoners and Doran would make their escape by hijacking a paddy wagon.

Clewes: How did-?

Basil: I overheard the other guards complaining about a missing police dog cart. Of course, Doran would need to make his escape route quickly so he hijacked one of the paddy wagons to escape.

Clewes: Amazing!

Dawson: Astounding!

Lawless stood with his mouth agape.

Basil: It's elementary, my dear gentlemen.

Lawless: Well, I still don't understand how these small things you noticed are part of the prison break.

Basil: You should learn to use your eyes and your brain, Lawless. If you ignore these little things that are in front of you, it will get you nowhere to solving the mystery.

Later, as the three mice leave through the hall in the wall, another prison guard rushed into the room, holding an envelope, and panting.

Prison Guard: Excuse me, sirs, but a pigeon asked me to give this letter to Mr. Basil.

Basil: Well, well. Cyril's been busier than ever delivering me notes.

Dawson: What does the letter say, Basil?

Basil: Why Dawson, it's from a client. A young lady.

Dawson: How do you know that? It doesn't say the name.

Basil: Dawson, you know my methods. We must concentrate upon details.

Lawless: Uh, what details?

Basil: In my life, as in my work, I have always found that it pays to keep an ear, as they say, to the ground.

Dawson: Quite so.

Basil: And impressive fact of life, Dawson, terrible in true, is that if you notice nothing, nothing notices you

Dawson: I hadn't noticed.

Lawless: Me neither.

Basil: No precisely.

But from this day forth I recommend that you do

Lawless: Uh, do what?

Basil: Just look around, Lawless.

Lawless: What for?

The three mice steal aboard a horse carriage and go back to Baker Street.

Basil: Many minor miracles surround you

Dawson: Do they really?

Basil: How do you detect what they might be

Dawson: No idea.

Basil: All you have to do is look around you

Lawless: Where?

Basil: Just look around you

Lawless: I'm looking!

Basil: And you'll see

Dawson: Well, I can't see anything. Ah! Yes. Here's a bus.

Basil: But what number bus, Dawson?

Dawson: Oh. It's uh-

Basil: It's a number two. You see?

There is mystery everywhere around you

Dawson: Not seriously.

Basil: Easy to unravel if you try

Lawless: I haven't really thought about it.

Basil: Sometimes the solutions will astound you

Lawless: You don't say.

Basil: Just look around you

Lawless: I'm looking!

Basil: And ask why

Lawless: Why what?

Basil: I mean why do flowers have a million fuse, making the world a perfumed collitiscope

Dawson: I haven't the faintest idea

Basil: They are blue and yellow and a million clues, telling us the world has hope

Dawson: How nice to have a world with hope

Basil: Absolutely, Dawson.

Never let your fears and doubts confound you

Dawson: Of course not.

Basil: Things are better than they might appear

Dawson: Surely they must be.

Basil: Don't forget that miracles surround you

Dawson: I won't.

Basil: Just look around you

Dawson: I will.

Basil: And it's clear

Lawless: What is?

Basil: That on the hole it's good to be here

Lawless: Or wonder.

Dawson: Uh Basil, all these little details that you, uh, we noticed about the letter. Explain them to Lawless here.

Basil: Certainly Dawson. First, the stamp, I recognize the signature on the stamp. Second, I detect a sweet aroma, perfume. Third, she writes in black squid ink. Very rare. Only artists use it.

Lawless: Is that all?

Dawson: No, it means she's an artist, Lawless!

Basil: Exactly!

Basil/Dawson/Lawless: Never let your fears and doubts confound you

Things are better than they might appear

Don't forget that miracles surround you

Just look around you

And it's clear

Lawless: What is?!

Basil: Ugh! You're not even paying attention, are you?

That on the hole it's good to be here

Lawless: Yes, well, whatever case this turns out to be, you just watch yourself, Basil. We don't want you getting into any trouble.

Basil: Don't you worry, Lawless. It will not be Basil of Baker Street who finds himself in trouble.

Basil/Dawson/Lawless: On the hole it's good to be here