He will always regret that he didn't. He could have stopped the game, kept twelve people from being killed, kept John from being grabbed to play a part in all of the chaos. If he'd just called that number. Responded to the interest shown in him.
But Moriarty had known he wouldn't.]
I don't have any proof. [For a moment... he sounds defeated.
Tired.
Not all that different from when he had shown up in the morgue to ask for a favour. Something beyond the scope of any of his less-than-ethical experiments or his less-than-legal casework. When he realised he only had one way to beat Moriarty.] And he is a very good liar.
John would back me up, of course. Lestrade, too. Donovan. You.
But there are... dopplegangers here. People who look so, so very similar to someone but aren't them.
Even if anyone believed me about what James Moriarty is... I have no way to prove that James Milverton is the same man. And not simply someone who looks like the man I know.
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He will always regret that he didn't. He could have stopped the game, kept twelve people from being killed, kept John from being grabbed to play a part in all of the chaos. If he'd just called that number. Responded to the interest shown in him.
But Moriarty had known he wouldn't.]
I don't have any proof. [For a moment... he sounds defeated.
Tired.
Not all that different from when he had shown up in the morgue to ask for a favour. Something beyond the scope of any of his less-than-ethical experiments or his less-than-legal casework. When he realised he only had one way to beat Moriarty.] And he is a very good liar.
John would back me up, of course. Lestrade, too. Donovan. You.
But there are... dopplegangers here. People who look so, so very similar to someone but aren't them.
Even if anyone believed me about what James Moriarty is... I have no way to prove that James Milverton is the same man. And not simply someone who looks like the man I know.