005 \\ Sherlock Holmes \\ [Video]

[could_be_dangerous]

[The contrast between Sherlock's usual appearance and his current one is sharp. He looks exhausted, the sort of utterly worn out that hides beneath a burning mania. He's disheveled, what little colour had once been in his face now utterly gone, and his eyes are glossy and feverishly bright. Not good, but who is right now?]

I've two words for the lot of you.

[If it weren't for the fact that his camera is strapped to his wrist, this would be where Sherlock grins and spreads his arms, invokes all the drama appropriate for the current situation. Under the circumstances he must settle for a grin that's manic but far from happy, the huff of a laugh, the sound all strained arrogance and guiltily repressed relief.]

Aerosol. Dispersal.

[He bites his lower lip, oh, oh, got it, must be.]

Saying it for years but nobody believes me: nothing new under the sun.

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[could_be_dangerous]

I can see you don't.

[Sherlock adopts a sympathetic pout.]

Basic reasoning is hard.

[redripoff]

[The eye-rolling on this end is probably audible.] Well forgive me. I guess I'm just too basic to reason out how your being smug is doing anyone good. Of course it's gas, what else would it be?

[Because if he thought of it, everyone else probably thought of it, right? ...Right?]

[could_be_dangerous]

Could be in the water. Might've gotten into our food supply. Might inject us while we're sleeping. Maybe it's magic! Maybe you're also right, maybe it isn't helpful to point out what nobody's bloody figured out yet. My mistake.

[redripoff]

Of course, we've figured it out, we've--

[Big breath, you're coming at this wrong.] Sorry. Look, I mean ask: beyond letting people know-- [Because apparently that needs to happen.] --what would you suggest be done?

[could_be_dangerous]

Mmm, well, thought the first step ought to be to try to keep you lot from slaughtering each other out of panic. That done...

[Yeah, he's got nothing.]

Breathing through a damp cloth might filter some of it out, if it is aerosol. Otherwise we wait and try to sort out what's real and what isn't.

[redripoff]

That's about as far as I got, too. I'm guessing this is the first time they've used anything like this?