Sherlock & Co. - The Priory School - Part Two

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

HUNTING THE CHILDCATCHER - Stefan Heidegger had clearly convinced Saltire to leave his dorm in the middle of the night. He had snatched him off into the darkness of the Lake District. We were a day behind but we were catching up fast. Part 2 of 3 This episode contains swearing, horror, sexual references, drug references, drug abuse, distress, references to violence, references to child abuse. Listener discretion is advised. For merchandise and transcripts go to: www.sherlockandco.co.ukFor ad-free, early access to adventures in full go to www.patreon.com/sherlockandco To get in touch via email: [e-mail] Follow me @DocJWatsonMD on twitter and BlueSky, or sherlockandcopod on TikTok, instagram and YouTube.  This podcast is property of Goalhanger Podcasts. Copyright 2025.SHERLOCK AND CO. Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Paul Waggott as Dr. John Watson Harry Attwell as Sherlock Holmes Marta da Silva as Mariana Ametxazurra Luke Jasztal as Tom Huxtable Jake Burlow as Jim Wilder Thomas Mitchells as Benjamin Duke Adam Jarrell as Reuben Hayes Additional voices Darcey Ferguson Joel EmeryAdam Jarrell Jake Burlow Written by Joel Emery Directed by Adam Jarrell Editing and Sound Design by Holy Smokes AudioProduced by Neil Fearn and Jon Gill Executive Producer Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Come join the Patreon. It's a huge community now with loads of extra cool stuff. patreon.com forward slash Sherlock and co. Previously on Sherlock and Co. We're saying that you can kind of help us get out of it, right? Because you can pick out the clients that would be able to cover a larger invoice. I'm Tom Huxtable. I am the executive head teacher at Moorhill. Its standards of education and discipline

secured it the most upmarket client base you can imagine. And it's even become a bit of a sort after spot for the offspring of tech billionaires. One in particular, Benjamin Duke. But we enrolled just his fourth boy a couple of years ago. Saltire Duke. He went to bed at 10pm. He's not been seen since.

You think he was taken? Not the behaviour of someone that was dragged out into the night, rather someone that hopped out this window willingly. I'd like to go in there. That's Heidegger's room. Stefan! Stefan! Open the door, mate! He watched and he waited. Perhaps he lured him out. Lured him out into the darkness and took him. I told you, didn't I?

In the last part, I said distressing themes, and you were probably like, ah, no, it won't be, just ignore him. Now look, child abduction. Hope you're proud of yourselves. Yeah, part two now. Bye. The team on the ground were able to establish contact with a gentleman who recited by the lake. He did boat hires, him and his giant dog called Robbie. Robbie the dog. This thing is enormous.

And that single initial interaction in hindsight was where we got a foothold on the case. Incredible. It's... that's how these things work. It's these tiny fortuitous moments that you've got to be wise enough and sharp enough to whittle into something of value. You make your own luck? You make your own luck. Currently traversing the sheep nibbled grass of Mackelton, I believe, the, um, the nearest sort of, uh, village, parish, what have you,

to, to, to Moor Hill, with Archie, of course. He is, um, he's scuttling about somewhere. So... Ah... Wow. I'm, uh, I'm stopping every now and again, uh feet hurt, but of course also to admire, well, everything really, absolutely everything. Drop dead gorgeous. An absolute babe, oink, even, of a place.

It's not sort of attractive in a cutesy kind of chocolate boxy kind of way that you'd expect. Sorry, just a lake. I cannot ignore some prime skimming stones here. Blame my dad. His legacy. I realise I'm also meant to be looking for a German man and a missing boy, but, erm... Oh, look at that one go! Six! It's a sixer!

What was I saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Lake District. It's not a sort of village green cottage next to a babbling brook type situation. It's... I don't know situation it's erm... I don't know it's... it's melancholic very raw

there's these big gullies and sharp hillsides and these vast slabs of water just come up out of nowhere it's like God was going through a little emo phase or a gothy sort of streak when he fiddled about making this place. Nothing God like about that son. Oh bloody hell, sorry. Oh hello, you made me jump there.

Archie, got a friend here for you mate. Alright, what have you got? Bulldog. There. There he is. What's this fella? If you said horse I wouldn't be surprised. Big lad.

This is Robbie. He's a deer hound. Right, right, wow. Hello Robbie mate. Absolute unit aren't you? Oh you've been hunting for something we say. Yes you have, stalking these lands. There's bigger hounds that stalk them all into this country lad.

Beasts that would make even Robbie issue it to his little bones. Beasts, yeah, I'm sort of rural myself. I've always been fascinated by the stories. Aye, telling yourself a few stories then, weren't you lad? Oh yeah, no, sorry, I make a podcast. stories then weren't you lad? Oh yeah, no, sorry, I make a podcast. I was just talking to the listeners of it, describing the beauty of the place. No beauty here son. If only you knew the darkness

and the demons that live within it. I mean, come on. You've been at that school I bet, haven't you? Sniffing around for that boy. You have no idea what they do to them up there. Sorry, what? Evil incarnate. A temple to wickedness. Demented sickness is rife in in all those elites. Should see them all hang. Oh, okay Arch, if you just let me pick him up. Tell me what you think that is. What?

That. That? Erm, it's a lake. It's a reservoir. Oh, okay, I'm not from here. No one is. Anymore. Sorry, just to ask about the school.

Bloody outsiders. Nothing but stocked trout. Stocked trout? Stocked trout. In a hilt tarn. Not native. Flashier. Hungrier. And gone the moment the water warms. They eat the young, lad. Think about it.

Well, yeah, no, I can imagine. I'm actually here for an investigation is taking place. You're not here for the apparent beauty, you know. Eh? You see that along the foot of where? Er, er, the flower, yeah, it's lovely, beautiful. I was just saying... Roaded Endron! Of course they look nice don't they? But the estate owners brought them in generations ago

an ornamental plant the grandfather helped stick them in the soil for about two penneth if he'd known I tell you No good They spread I tell you they bloody spread No good? The spread, I tell you the bloody spread Those roots muscling to the soil

Choking out the native species It smothers the land You think they're co-existing? They're not They're replacing Do you understand? Sorry, two seconds, sorry Sorry, sorry

Hello? Where are you? I'm just walking to... Sorry, excuse me, where am I? You would have been in Mardale. But you're not anymore. Right, Mardale. Excuse me. Sorry, hello? Right, well, he's gone.

Who was that? A cheery local. We'll be back in twenty minutes. Honey's, I'm hu- Oh, God, sorry. Forgot how crap this was. Hey, Archie boy. Breakfast?

For me or the dog? You. Oh, man. Yes. You are the best. Yeah, I would love some. You got it. Fire up it.

Outside. Good idea. Oh, you want a coffee too? I can bring you a coffee. Um, wow. Okay, outside. Good idea. Oh, you want a coffee too? I can bring you a coffee. Wow, okay, yeah, sure. Morning John. Hey, morning mate. You okay?

Splendid. Fire pit is ready, Marianna. I've saved you extra sausages, dear Watson. Oh, you guys. And you get the extra egg too. Oh, now you're talking. Hell yeah. Or should I say shell yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Why are we being so nice to me?

Hello mate. Sorry, is this where I pump out the toilet waste? That's the one, yeah. Great. Your shits are full up, is it? Er, yeah, it didn't get pumped out from the last guest, so... Dirty sods! Yeah, yep! Lovely morning for it, mate! Oh, yeah! Yeah, great, great for sploshing shit and piss into a bin, mate, yeah.

You know, you might just have a plonk! The trick is lots of fibre, I find. The big flauters struggle getting through the flush pipe. Enjoyed your olive air? Yeah, yeah, loving it. You want another sausage in here John? I'm actually, I'll pass on that, thank you. John? I'm actually... I'll pass on that, thank you. Notice you didn't come and help on the dump pump Archie, thanks mate. Coffee, here. Thank you. How was your morning stroll? Good, good, yeah. Well I didn't see any signs

of Zaltair or Stefan Heidegger, so bad in that respect, but a beautiful walk. Um, yeah, met a local village... I hesitate to say village idiot, but village weirdo? Can I say weirdo? In what respect? Oh, just dodgy bloke, rambling about the sculpido conspiracy or something. Weird? We don't think that's right, Sherlock. We do not. Rambling about the school pedo conspiracy or something? Weird. We don't think that's right, Sherlock. We do not. It's...

He's... He was a bit... crazed, so... Yeah, dunno. Changing the subject from clogged toilets and child abuse, how's the research? Increasingly illuminating. Our disappearing German, Stefan Heidegger, his motorbike remains parked. No cameras on any of the grounds nor from businesses

and farms in the local area have picked them up. Herr Heidegger had been working at the school since just September and close friends of our missing saltire couldn't provide a connection between the two, between him and Stefan. No animosity nor the reverse. As in? As in they had no reason to believe he'd kidnap him. And no bad blood. Weird.

But Mariana found this. Instagram post... Oh, Stefan Heidegger, good work. Mm, yes. Read the caption. The rich getting richer. Ooh, hello. Hi.

It's a picture of helicopters coming to land at the start of the new term, bringing in the students. Oh, Stefan, mate. Damning from a motive point of view, of course. But to breach the school's photo policy and social media policy on your first day is quite the indication. The plot thickens. Hmm.

Speaking of thick, blind me, what is this mighty tome? Ah, my homework. Where'd you get that? I asked Huxtable if I could read it. It belonged to Saltaire. Dukedom, the empire of Benjamin Duke. He gave this to his son. Oh yeah.

Well, he charged him for it. And he signed it too, see? This book is the key to understanding it all. How is it? Oh, just... The life story of a badass billionaire type. Sure. Sure. Is Saltire mentioned? Mmm, yeah. He talks about most of the kids. Some more than others.

The ones who still speak to him, probably. Mmm-hmm. Well, you're a way faster reader than I am, Yeah, he talks about most of the kids, some more than others. The ones who still speak to him, probably. Well, you're a way faster reader than I am, so this is in the right hands. Breakfast is served. Lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely. Right, quick coffee, cheers, and clink, everybody. Cheers.

Cheers. Cheers and clink everybody! Cheers! Life is a lesson. School never ends right and watching the way a detective works, the way a detective observes everything from interactions to facial features, similarities, what's right in front of us, what's in our periphery, they're able to take in all of it and process it and it's only when they run that through every filter they have do they start to build the caves? Only them. Everybody else they rush.

They jump to conclusions. They self-fulfill with emotion, ego, ideology, whatever. Not this guy. I found one! Did you actually? Right here. Yeah, you're right. That's a footprint.

He climbed. He didn't jump. How'd you know? Footprint is facing the wall, so he climbed down backwards, then pivoted. And you can follow the very faint outline here, and then here, and finally here. Where I would say, it meets another shoe designed for trekking. Deep grooves, a claw-like pattern. Claw-like. Hey, wait, wait, wait.

Terrain Beast, that's the claw pattern on the bottom. That's the same as me. Ah, yes. Good work, John. Ha ha, shoes are coming in handy, people. He's a couple of sizes larger than you, it would seem. Yeah, all right. The hasty summary would be that Stefan, in his terrain-beast walking shoes, greeted Master Saltire Duke.

It would seem they headed, although I am speculating somewhat as these prints fade, particularly in that grass there that caught the sunlight, eastwards. Down the hill. To Mardale. Mackelton. Yeah, no, that's next along, but the crazy dogman I spoke to this morning, he said I was in Mardale. Well, then your friend is wrong.

I mean, he could be right. He's local. It wasn't all creepy stuff. He chewed my ear off about trout and flowers. Hey, incoming? Oh, she's emerged from her book. Huxtable, coming this way. Do we share our information?

Why wouldn't we? I mean, after what your friend said about the school this morning. He's not my friend. Holmes! Watson, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, They asked him for this. For what, sorry? For the pool. The boss, Benjamin Duke, had it built. Specifically requesting the... er... the dark tiles. Yeah, it's... it is dark. Black.

Like a lake. Scary stuff. I think I remember him saying it would make some men. Cruel, really. You're a doctor, right? Yes, yeah, yeah, ex-army. Seen your fair share of dark waters then, hey? More than enough, thanks. Yeah. No comparison to what Benjamin Duke is going through now, of course. Saltire? He's tough. Clever boy. He knows what he's doing. Otherwise, he wouldn't be at the very, very best school, right? Right, yeah.

Benjamin was here once, too. Oh, wow. Graduated in...98, I believe. Following in his father's footsteps hmm where's our detective he was catching up with Huxtable on a few matters what is it you do for Benjamin Duke I'm his fixer in the UK fixer right cool well what does what does that entail? How long you got? Well, I could be the same for the detective to be.

Any tips? Yeah, booze. Oh, steady. Hi, mate. Forgive me, Mr Wilder. Jim Wilder, hi. Mariana. I'm here on behalf of Benjamin. So, yeah. Yeah, this is... rough.

Very much so. Is he okay? He's... just positive mental attitude right now. He's manifesting his son's return. You can't convince him out of it. Of course. Yeah, I get that. So, where do we stand? Chief suspect is a Stefan Heidegger,

teacher of German here at the school. A line of sight on Saltaer's room, a grudging attitude towards the student's background, and he is missing. Right. What are the students saying? Anything? Not anything, right?

Not quite. Anything? Not anything, right? Not quite. Um, he... he jumped onto a call, I think, with a lawyer, um, last week. And you overheard it? Well, yeah, he was in the library, so of course I... but I wasn't eavesdropping of anything. What exactly took place during the call? He had just turned 16. They kept saying he had just turned 16. So the lawyer was instructing him

about a prelim disbursement. What is a prelim disbursement? Preliminary. It's a payout. Of? Funds and then stock in his name. It's mentioned in his book too. of... just the kids he had with Camille his late wife I see

I see I see I see. I understand. She was very special. Again, according to the book. Were there any other students present? Don't think so. They may have overheard and wanted to act. It's important you tell us. There was no one else. No teachers, no Herr Heidegger. No. I see. Thank you, you've been very helpful. Oh, here we go, look.

Notable alumni, 1998. D. Marcel, inventor of, Christ, I don't even know what that is. Sir G. Harcourt, rower, probably. B. Duke, entrepreneur. That's a big year for your notables this one. What, 98? Yeah, you've got them guys. Then you Usman, surgeon. J Moriarty, academic. P Wallace, media. HH Marl, novelist. I mean, for a school that churns out 12 kids a year, how outrageous, ratio. You can see why people chuck bunny at this place.

Hey, what's up? A very slight flutter of thought gathers, gathers and rests so delicately on this dim bulb that starts to glow inside me. Ah. So you have an idea? Indeed. Okay that's good. That's good. Would that thought like to flutter out of your garb and into our ears or? No it still nests. It mustn't be disturbed. Of course. Yep. Mariana the book. Hmm? How far have you read? Over...halfway. Good. Good.

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the journey with us. Just search the rest of this football, daily brightness, wherever you get your podcast. Don't forget to subscribe and also follow us on Instagram and TikTok. What? Gallons and gallons of it. It was a brutal scene, I'm told. And it, you know, it's funny because you think about these guys, I don't know if this is just a uniquely male thing, but I think we all fantasize about killing these particular types. Child abusers. Yeah, there's this innate urge in us to fight them like an enemy. I mean, they are an enemy. That's the victims, right?

Of course. But to see to be confronted with their demise in such a violent and brutal way it's not it's not that same visceral emotive reaction. This is standing over a slain monster. There is no remorse. There is a sense of victory amidst the blood and gore. There is victory. How did they find him? By observing.

By observing. What about the roads? They could have just driven out of here and no one would know. Stefan didn't own a car. None have been reported stolen. And his motorbike is still locked up. This could be part of a wider conspiracy. Like a group of men took that boy... So you expect a van, or a car perhaps, leaving this valley at around the time he went missing? Yeah, exactly.

Well, I can tell you with total confidence there was not one. How do you know that? There is a single track road that comes out from Moor Hill onto the B-road we came in on by Mackelton. Yeah, exactly. You see it there? Uh-huh. Now, that building, well, collection of buildings, a farm, Thornley

Farm right at the junction of the B Road and the track has a security camera. It picks up that very junction. And nothing? Nothing. Not a car until 4 45 a.m. according to the Thornleys. Well I I say car, tractor. Right, so they're here in the wild on foot. Indeed, but unfortunately, they have a nearly two day head start, but we did at least gather our clues. I think if we carry on, so parallel to this dry stone wall, then it's that sheep field but at the top...

Oh okay so that's like a ridge. Yeah exactly and we can maybe see down into the valley a bit more. There might be a more logical route that they took. How are the shoes? Um... Yep. Yep. Yeah. Ha ha. Yeah. Yeah. Ha. They hurt like hell, don't they? I mean, yes. Yeah. They do. But, like I say, it's like, uh... You know, it's a necessary pain.

Like vaccinations or algebra. You know, it gets you to a better place. I mean, it's, uh... I'm not sure algebra gets you anywhere, to be honest, but... Yeah, all worth it. Sure. I can see you laughing. And you! I am merely smirking at the beauty of our surroundings.

Yeah, smirking and giggling. Stop making me laugh! I'm gonna roll back down this hill. I think I've got a blister as well. Ha ha ha! Okay, go on. Off you go. Down the hill, please. No, no, no! Ah! Stop it! I'm trying to catch you. Please! This way, Arch. Come on.

Oh, man. I feel cruel now. Why? Laughing. When something serious is at stake. True, but it's fuel, isn't it? At the end of the day. Fuel?

Yeah, having a laugh and pissing about. Speaking of... Yeah? How was the toilet pump this morning? Oh, you know... It was almost as painful as these bloody shoes. Oh, hey. What?

Come up here, look. Oh. Oh. Wow. Quite beautiful. Yeah, that's the water where I was this morning. Yeah, it's big. Yeah, a reservoir, the guy said. Hors water.

Absolutely vast, isn't it? Yes. Carved out by just about every geological phenomenon you could imagine over the past 500 million years. Once, of course, this whole area submerged at the bottom of an ocean. Hundreds of millions of years later, a range of violent, irritable volcanoes. So much so that that there, the reservoir in that hollowed out valley, was formed by a volcanic blast and eventual hardening glacial flow. Now, of course, forming a perfect bowl to hold all that water for us. So much turmoil. So much power. And now so still. So quiet.

We should keep walking. We should. It's unlikely our fugitives travelled further up this fell. Yeah. Let's head down to the water's edge. Gate's open. We should probably shut that sheep field and all. Okay, come on. Just careful, John. this gets kind of steep.

Roger that. Eish. Ooh, okay. Right, painful shoes actually coming in handy now. Sherlock? What? The claw. Goodness. Claw? What claw? The claw shape in the pattern of the bottom of my shoe. I swear I didn't step there and there's already one here. See? In that mud. Oh my god. They came here. Do you see any more?

Yeah. I think so. Look. They're headed down the hill. Follow them. Okay, come on. Come on. Do you still see them? It's... it's faint. Can you see them, Sherlock? I thought I saw some more, another footprint, but it's all trampled down the... The sheep tracks?

Yeah. Someone was covering their path. Someone took a load of sheep out with them? No. This is not an intentional drove. Drove? A path made by the long narrow march of sheep out with them? No, this is not an intentional drove. Drove? A path made by the long narrow march of sheep. This route to the water has been spattered by dozens of cloven hooves. Your immediate concerns of the gate being open and the sheep finding

their way through was valid, John. And now our data has been compromised. Deliberately. deliberately. Okay, they could have gone anywhere from here. You see anything Sherlock? I'm looking. Yeah, have a drink Archie mate. Half of Manchester is apparently, so it's clean. Why would they come to the water? a drink aren't you mate? Half of Manchester is apparently, so it's clean. Why would they come to the water? I don't know. This is where we need large-scale support. What do you mean? I mean if Sherlock says this was a deliberate act to conceal, that a likely adult male took a child and is now hiding that... We've known that for ages.

Yes, I know. But before it was all, he left his dorm. He climbed down on purpose. He meant to escape. Now it just doesn't feel right. This doesn't feel like a boyish adventure into the wilderness. What? What is it? Nothing. What? What is it? Nothing. What? I just feel like I can see something in the water. Like a body? No, not... something down in the deep part.

I don't see what you mean. Am I going crazy? Is that a church? A church in the water? It's the spire. I can see the stained glass window. Please, please, look. I don't see... The wind has disturbed it. Do you want to sit down? Are you okay? Yeah, no, I'm... I'm alright.

Arch, come on, wait! That's someone's boat! Archie, come on! Sherlock? Anything? Nothing. What are you doing? Skimming stones. Okay. Why? My dad used to do it and it would... Honestly, they'd go on forever.

Ooh, I've got five then. I've got six this morning. Good for you. It's quite therapeutic. I almost feel like I'm connecting with him sometimes you know like not in the throwing of the stone I mean yeah your memory cut it all bleeds into one eventually I distinctly remember him teaching me which stones to go for which was a good one and now whenever I search for the right stone to skim, I hear him. So clear. It's weird.

Not that one, John. One that's flatter. One that's a bit rounder, a bit more symmetrical. Not that one. Go for that one right there. Closest thing to spend your time with him is shitting hell! What? What? Sherlock! Oh, my God. What? Is that you? What happened? What? Blood. Sherlock look. It's all over this stone I picked up and look it's...

Yeah, there's more down here. Good lord. Follow it. Follow the blood. It's leading to the upturned boat by the water. Go! Go! Okay Archie, I take it back. You can sniff the boat now. Come on, come on. Turn it over. I am. What's under there Joan? What's under the boat?

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