SCENE 4: LESTRADE'S OFFICE-LATER
LESTRADE AND MATT ARE FLIPPING THROUGH A FILE
SHERLOCK and JOHN enter.
SHERLOCK: (in a good mood)
Well, Matt, what do you have?
MATT:
Something probably worth your interest.
He hands over his file.
MATT: (continuing)
I did some digging into the history of that building. Just three years back, it was bought by a Mister William Harrison, fresh from America. It was the first thing he did after getting his citizenship.
JOHN:
Really? Harrison?
MATT: (nodding)
Yep. From your tone, I'd say you found him, and he isn't exactly who you would peg for buying one of the city's oldest buildings.
JOHN: (laughing)
No, not exactly.
SHERLOCK: (murmuring to himself)
Why would he buy it?
MATT:
Beats me, bud. The guy who managed the sale actually asked him what he was planning for the building. Harrison answered-
SHERLOCK: (reading from file)
"It'll be the warehouse for my experiments, so the gods can forgive me for them."
MATT:
Yeah. And if that wasn't weird enough, he went on to pull the whole place up to code. Spent who knows how much making so it could pass inspection. He turned in plans for it for the inspection, and he detailed several upper-floor rooms. There's a possibility it's where's he's been living.
JOHN:
Actually, he's probably been living in his office at the university.
LESTRADE:
So he goes to all this work to isolate himself, but why?
JOHN:
The girl.
LESTRADE:
Sorry, girl? I missed the memo.
JOHN:
When we talked to him, Sherlock deduced he was driven to near insanity by the death of a lover, and he replied he had loved her, but she wasn't his girlfriend. He also said something about how he caused her death.
LESTRADE:
So, this guy thinks he killed her?
JOHN:
Yeah, and he really believes it, too! From what I can tell, it's what's been driving him.
LESTRADE raises an eyebrow.
JOHN: (continuing)
He probably wants to keep something like it from happening again in his new life.
LESTRADE:
So, back to the explosion itself, do you have any idea what could have caused it, Matt?
MATT:
I'm still leaning toward nuclear incident, but we're already getting weird results from the lab.
SHERLOCK:
Such as?
MATT:
Such as the ash we found-it has traces of crystalline caffeine in it.
LESTRADE:
Crystalline caffeine?
MATT:
Yeah, and that's not all. We've also found traces of highly pure copper, iron, and hydrogen.
JOHN:
Particle accelerator.
LESTRADE:
Sorry?
JOHN:
I read something a while back. CERN uses powerful electromagnets to control beams of charged particles, usually formed by using light elements like hydrogen and helium.
SHERLOCK:
Was that around when you spent so much time at the library to avoid me?
JOHN looks at him.
JOHN:
It was your fault that liver ended up in the pickle jar!
SHERLOCK:
Please. I didn't put it in there.
JOHN:
No, but-
LESTRADE: (interrupting)
Now is not the time! We'll have to go talk to Harrison again tomorrow, and you two can kindly do it yourselves!
He shoves them out of the office, and he closes his eyes as he counts backwards from thirty as a commotion involving SHERLOCK and an officer takes place just outside the door.
MATT:
How do you stand him?
LESTRADE:
I concentrate on something else. And drink. That has always helped.
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