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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Hints

How can I deal with the nurse in the "labor" laboratory?

  • 1 of 17: First of all, don't go striding boldly into the laboratory, or the nurse will hear you and sound an alarm, thereby ending the game badly.
  • 2 of 17: You can explore more of the lab if you crouch-walk along, though you'll still be caught if you get too close to the nurse's area.
  • 3 of 17: Holmes suggests putting the nurse to sleep, so that's the angle to work on.
  • 4 of 17: Since you can't get very close to him without being spotted, you're obviously going to have to "shoot" him from a distance with something that will put him to sleep.
  • 5 of 17: Try to find a way to rig up an apparatus that you can use to deliver a sedative-poisoned dart to the back of the nurse's head.
  • 6 of 17: A blowpipe kind of thing is what you need, so look around for usable pipes.
  • 7 of 17: In order to find some, you'll need access to the cell area's maintenance room.
  • 8 of 17: You'll find the maintenance room and the way to open it while working on freeing Maurizio from his cell.
  • 9 of 17: Near the back left corner of the maintenance room are several crates with small pipe segments setting on top of them.
  • 10 of 17: When you click on any of them, Holmes will insist on measuring them before taking them.
  • 11 of 17: Before you can figure out which pipe segment you need, you'll have to see what you can find to use as a blowdart.
  • 12 of 17: It would be nice if you could find a syringe lying about somewhere.
  • 13 of 17: Now you'll have three syringes and four pipes to choose from.
  • 14 of 17: Before you can put your chosen syringe into your chosen pipe, you'll need to fill the syringe with sedative.
  • 15 of 17: Combine the sedative and your chosen syringe in inventory, then combine the filled syringe with your chosen pipe.
  • 16 of 17: If you chose the 40-pts-diameter syringe and the 42-pts-diameter pipe, you'll then have a nice little blowpipe to use on the nurse.
  • 17 of 17: Select the blowpipe in inventory, then sneak-walk toward the nurse in the lab until Holmes uses the blowpipe on him.