It wasn't just a death price, John, that lasts for a week or two at the maximum. This lasted years, both at home and here.

[Although he logically knows that this was likely one of Norfinbury's peculiarities and he'd just had the misfortune to be under a death price during it, years trapped behind Moriarty's eyes and witnessing the decline in his own mind is almost impossible to shake off.]

You need to find Mycroft and Mary, the three of you can take care of one another well enough, and ignore anything that I might say in the future.