Buddy Waters

Nia Liston faring better than the previous non-punching episode at least. I'm fairly weary of wannabe rivals but they managed to keep it within the range of cute instead.

Mary Morstan's Motives Now that Moriarty is officially 'convalescing in the waters at Arima' they're cleaning out his flat, but in the bedroom find a scale model filled with Kyoto landmarks (like Big Ben) in all the wrong places. On the moon above, a word none of them have ever seen...London.

Watson meets Stanford, who tells him Moriarty's ghost is appearing at seances across the city, insisting he's now in London; this, Watson's stories have been taken as a sign he's joined the spiritualist movement. At Lichborough's trial, she insists this world is but a shadow of the real London.

Mary Morstan's Motives Now that Moriarty is officially 'convalescing in the waters at Arima' they're cleaning out his flat, but in the bedroom find a scale model filled with Kyoto landmarks (like Big Ben) in all the wrong places. On the moon above, a word none of them have ever seen...London.

Fascinated by this notion, Watson conceives of a world where all the cases his Holmes failed to solve were real; he writes several stories set in this fictitious city of London, and they're published in the Strand only because Irene Adler refuses to let any more of Mary's stories appear there.

3. Rachel Musgrave's Disappearance Holmes has retired to a hut in a bamboo grove at the Musgrave estate (a short carriage ride from Arashiyama.) Watson and Moriarty join him, and are shocked to find Mary and Irene there...as well as the medium, Lichborough. The case Holmes never solved...

Holmes warns Irene that if she accepts these events as fact she can no longer call herself a detective (he no longer does.) How can you believe your deductions when you know that magic is real? But she and Mary were there the day Rachel went missing; what they've seen cannot be dismissed.

3. Rachel Musgrave's Disappearance Holmes has retired to a hut in a bamboo grove at the Musgrave estate (a short carriage ride from Arashiyama.) Watson and Moriarty join him, and are shocked to find Mary and Irene there...as well as the medium, Lichborough. The case Holmes never solved...

After a chapter pretending this wasn't a mystery novel and then one quietly adding one this time things go full blown supernatural with the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter containing the text of the Musgrave Ritual and a locked chamber in the old wing filled with unearthly sights.