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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Hints

How can I unlock the corridor doors that connect to other cell areas?

  • 1 of 7: You'll need to get the key to those doors.
  • 2 of 7: It's on a key ring that someone carelessly dropped earlier.
  • 3 of 7: To find it, you'll have to get back upstairs.
  • 4 of 7: Search the examination room for dropped keys.
  • 5 of 7: You'll find a key ring on the floor near one of the doors.
  • 6 of 7: Take it and select it in inventory. You can now unlock the two doors in the main cell area that lead to other cell areas.
  • 7 of 7: WARNING: In the cell area past the maintenance room, watch out that you don't get seen by the male nurses.