[Of course Moriarty will come looking. That's part of the whole point.
...Granted, the alias works best if his big brother is there. If there is a Mycroft Holmes going about the town. It would also be a reliable, mostly unbiased view of what is going on in the city.
He will have his network. He will make one. But he will need a baseline, and he can hardly go out often himself. Just in the middle of the night. He'll need someone who can walk about in the day, run errands. Which, of course, his brother will protest. But it will be either Mycroft doing the favours or someone else.
Someone who might not be able to curtail the addict.]
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...Granted, the alias works best if his big brother is there. If there is a Mycroft Holmes going about the town. It would also be a reliable, mostly unbiased view of what is going on in the city.
He will have his network. He will make one. But he will need a baseline, and he can hardly go out often himself. Just in the middle of the night. He'll need someone who can walk about in the day, run errands. Which, of course, his brother will protest. But it will be either Mycroft doing the favours or someone else.
Someone who might not be able to curtail the addict.]
It's a useful name.