Midnight Pals: The Tale of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Midnight Society
Theo Linger for Professor Moriarty
Supporting role (31 lines). Sherlock Holmes's arch-nemesis, a supervillain, and the "Napoleon of Crime", though it's unclear what actual crimes he does. He has deduced from apparent plot holes in the world around him that he's living in a series of crime novels, and staged the episode's murder case as part of a ruse to summon the Author into his own world. Feel free to play up the melodramatic villain-iness.
- english
- male adult
- english (posh)
- villain
Why, the world we live in! It's all a simulation, of course. Not a "computer", whatever that is. A novel. Or more likely a long series of short stories. Don't tell me you haven't noticed the clues, Holmes. Little changes in reality from day to day? Minor details, names, dates, places, constantly shifting. The Author can't keep them in his memory. Dr Watson, when you were wounded out of military service, were you shot in the leg or the shoulder? You see! Rifts in our reality. As though we're drifting in and out of slightly different universes. That’s not a bullet hole, it’s a plot hole! The Author can't keep track.
(HAVING TRICKED ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE INTO ADMITTING HE'S THE AUTHOR) Don't worry, I've always known. That I was different. Better. And now I know why. Because the world as we know it is just the pages of a long-running book series. "The Adventures of Professor James Moriarty"!
(MANIPULATING WATSON) You know, if I were looking for someone to blame for the death of Mrs Watson, I'd be looking a little closer to home. Five years ago, Holmes apparently died, and you married. An elegant, if bittersweet, conclusion to your adventures together. Three years pass. Sherlock Holmes, who, let us not forget, knows all about weapons, poisons, the right kind of snake to slip down a bell-pull, really one of the world's foremost experts on ingenious murder techniques... shows up again in London, demanding the return of his, ah... sidekick. (PAUSE) You *know* he could.
(Also, I apologize for the poor recording quality--some quality was lost while transferring the audio file from my phone to my computer. If cast, I could book a session to record with the equipment at my local library.)