When Pei Donglai dressed as John Watson

"The girl's bedroom is on the left side of the house. The suspect broke in through the window around 09:30 last night, abducted her, and tied the balloon to her bed. The child's mother is a painter. Last night Went to a friend's gallery and the kid's dad went to the corner grocery store last night around 45:[-] to buy a bottle of wine..."

While explaining the time of the incident to Sherlock, Lestrade suddenly found that the other party stopped when he passed the vine-wrapped arch in the garden: "What's the matter, Sherlock?"

"It was broken here not long ago." In fact, Lestrade never deceived Sherlock, who said half-spoken and left half, to answer his question on the spot, but in fact Sherlock seemed to be in a good mood today, so he said briskly. told him the answer. "The child probably grabbed the vine and tried to escape."

John leaned over: "It seems that he is still a little fighter."

"Yes," said Sherlock, "if a little girl could win a grown man, then yes, and things would be fine."

After entering the victim's house, the first thing he saw was a colorful oil painting, but he was quickly distracted by the noisy environment inside.

But it was not Mariana's father and mother crying in grief when their child disappeared, because they were sitting on the sofa at this time, although their expressions were sad, they were barely calm.Apparently they already had better ideas than calling the police, such as the beautiful and well-dressed female reporter sitting on the folding chair in front of them, and the cameraman adjusting the camera lens behind the female reporter.

Lestrade's explanation also confirmed this point: "Marianna's parents wanted to use the media to plead with the prisoner to return the child to them."

"The countdown is ready to start: ten, nine, eight, seven, six..." The cameraman began to count, because this news was going to be broadcast live.

Whether it was Sherlock or John, they couldn't help frowning when they saw this scene.

Sherlock is because he has studied the case committed by this prisoner before, and John is because of his experience in investigating cases in Dali Temple and his medical knowledge as Doctor Watson.

Sherlock wanted to step forward to stop it, but it was obviously too late, so John took a coin out of his pocket, used his fine observation skills to find the wire connecting the camera, and then flew the coin out, allowing the camera to temporarily use it. no more.

"Oh my god, what's going on here?" The photographer started yelling as he watched the camera suddenly go dark, and the female reporter quickly stood up and asked what happened in a low voice.

"What's wrong?" The Castro couple also stood up from the sofa, wondering if they could continue filming.

Sherlock stopped them from coming forward: "It seems that God still cares about you, and doesn't intend to let an innocent child die because of your stupidity."

John took advantage of the chaos to retrieve the coin with his fingerprints on it.

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Castro was already nervous about her daughter's safety, and immediately became unhappy when she heard Sherlock's words. She felt that this was cursing her child.

"Daniel Peters, Keira Jackson, and Billy Crawford were the second, third, and fifth victims of the balloon murderer, and only these three bodies were found." Xia Locke spoke in his low voice about his analysis of the past cases committed by the balloon murderer:

"I checked the information that Inspector Lestrade gave me before I came here. It said that the medical examiner estimated that he held Daniel for a full day before brutally killing Daniel, and Keira for half a day, and Billy for nearly half a day. The reason for the difference is that the relationship between the length of time the balloon killer detains the victim and the exposure of the victim's parents in front of the media is very delicate. But in general, the more interviews the victim's parents received The more, the shorter the child's survival time."

Sherlock looked at the Castro couple: "So, will you continue to be interviewed by the media?"

Mrs. Castro gasped, but she had to be strong for her Mariana.She looked at Inspector Lestrade, and tried her best to suppress the trembling in her voice: "Is what he said true? Mr. Inspector."

"Yes." Lestrade didn't notice this part of the information, but he believed in Sherlock's observation ability, so he nodded firmly: "What he said is true."

"I don't understand," Mr. Castro said. "What does that have to do with whether we do interviews?"

"Because the balloon killer gets satisfaction from the public's grief for the victim's family, once you satisfy him, he will get bored and the game will end." Sherlock said: "Conversely, if his requirements are not satisfied all the time, then the game will end." We may have two more days to solve the case. And you, if you want your daughter to return safely, it is very simple, and that is to do as I say."

The female reporter and photographer were moved out of the house of the Castro couple. Although Sherlock was dissatisfied, he still did not give in to the environment and collected more clues with a group of policemen in the house.

He opened the refrigerator, intending to start investigating the whereabouts of the Castro couple yesterday.

Of course, this does not mean that Sherlock thinks that one of the couple is the balloon killer, but last night, Mrs. Castro went to a friend's gallery, while Mr. Back and forth to buy a bottle of red wine in a nearby grocery store.

Therefore, Sherlock wants to find a breakthrough from Mr. Castro, because he may have seen the balloon murderer, but he just didn't recognize it.

And in fact, Sherlock did.

He took the only red wine in the refrigerator, and found the clue he was looking for, and then Sherlock walked out of the kitchen.

Ironically, when Sherlock came out of the kitchen, he heard a female police officer comforting the sad man: "Mr. Castro, you can't blame yourself for this."

And Sherlock took the next sentence from the female police officer: "Actually, he can."

This made all the policemen in the living room, as well as the Castro couple, look at him.

"What do you mean?" Although Mr. Castro felt uncomfortable because of Mariana's accident, because of this, his temper became irritable, and it happened that he needed to quarrel with someone, or even fight. To vent out the feeling of depression in my heart, so, Sherlock's words are like poking a hornet's nest.

"Of course, I'm not talking about your daughter's kidnapping, because the balloon killers would have found a way to take her anyway. But you can and should blame yourself, because you're hindering our case," Sherlock said.

"But I've told you all I know." Mr. Castro was a little overwhelmed by Sherlock's aggressiveness.

"If what you've said to tell us everything includes a huge lie." Sherlock held the wine up in front of his face so that everyone could see it. "Last night, when your daughter was kidnapped, you said you went to buy wine, where is that wine?"

"That's... that's it." Mr. Castro hesitated for a while, then pointed to the red wine in Sherlock's hand.

"That's why I said you were lying." Sherlock said, exposing the bottom of the bottle for everyone to see: "The grocery store puts the price tag on the bottle cap, which saves time at the checkout, but this bottle The wine label is on the bottom of the bottle, so, you're lying."

"Obviously, at some other time, you probably bought this bottle of Proshank in the freezer from a depot in Atlanta. The bottle was already in your freezer, so for the time you actually left home The reason is well concealed." Sherlock put the red wine on the table, and then said solemnly: "Tell us her name, Mr. Castro, hurry up."

"Whose name?" Lestrade was confused, but wondered if it was the prisoner's name?Or did Mr. Castro know the prisoner?But Sherlock was talking about her, not him... But all the signs of the previous investigation showed that the prisoner was indeed a man.

Is there a party?

"It's the name of his mistress." It was John who answered Lestrade. Obviously, he was used to hiding himself in the dark when Sherlock was investigating, because even though it was only a few days together, the It was enough for John to know that Sherlock didn't want someone to interrupt him when he was uttering his analysis, so John did it well.

Just like what he did when he accompanied Di Renjie on the case, he only told Sherlock when he found clues, or when someone asked a stupid question, just like Inspector Lestrade did now Like the same, he will tell the other party the answer before Sherlock utters his sarcasm, so that he or she will not be stabbed by Sherlock's vicious words to the fragile young heart.

And Sherlock gave John a appreciative look for that.

But John is not honored!

But Mr. Castro broke Sherlock's eye contact with John, and he let out a huff, as if he thought it was an absurd statement.

"Deniation won't have much effect, because your lemon squeezer has already shown you." Sherlock likes this kind of step by step debunking the secrets that others are desperately hiding, because Sherlock is no more than a mortal if he is smart. , He likes this kind of high-profile feeling that seems to be superior to others and sees through all sentient beings.