Hannah and Maya worked together to "die" from food poisoning. While I was talking to Gus and Holden in the kitchen, Hannah and Maya went to the dining room to eat some pretzels and play a logic game. Then we started to hear some choking and saw that Maya and Hannah had gone into the living room, had fallen on the couch, and were expiring! I quickly covered them with blankets and then hurried Holden and Gus back to the phone in the kitchen.
We finally started a "call" to 911. Then we went back to the living room to wait for the ambulance, and Holden lifted a corner of a blanket and we discovered pillows where the two girls had been. We raced to the front door, which was open, and ran outside. Holden went one way and Gus went the other. But we found nothing!
After Maya and Hannah returned we sat down to review the points of the case about the Missing Olivia, and Holden asked to run outside for a second to check on a detail that had just occurred to him. We started reviewing the case when Hecate (aka Grandma) started to scream in her room.
Lisa was terrified for her. We rushed to her room and she said she just saw a man hit Holden over his head, cut his through, toss him into the trunk of his car, and drive off. She was in a panic. We ran outside to look and didn't see Holden anywhere, or any car. We were stunned. We went back inside to "call" the cops. Later, Holden came out of hiding.
Gus was feeling ill, so he didn't act out his fake death right away. Later he called for his mother to pick him up. He went outside to wait for her, having collect his decoder dial and lock and Sherlockian magnifying glass. While outside he disappeared. We thought that he too had been kidnapped, but then Jamie showed up for her interrogation (more about that later), and she saw Gus around the cars, and he was discovered. Apparently he failed for some reason to finish his disappearance by reentering the house quietly at the front door and hiding up stairs. But we all bought the sick act!
For each of these faked deaths, we learned that an accomplice helps, that surprise is important, and that hiding near the place one is last scene can make it all the harder to find you. Maya and Hannah's accomplice was me: I covered their bodies before calling 911 and left the room which gave them time to fake one get away and go for another (hiding). However, we all would know they were really alive. Holden's accomplice was Grandma, who turned in an astonishing act that terrified her own daughter! And Gus's accomplice was Lisa, who helped him devise the plan. The surprise element for Maya and Hannah was that we were supposed to do the fake deaths later on. For Holden, it was Grandma's cry out of nowhere. And for Gus it was his acting like he wasn't playing when he was. Each of the Sherlockians hide nearby, but only Holden pulled off a total missing body. If you cannot make one's body disappear, then one has to look really, really dead, and your accomplice will probably be a medical person.
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