Sherry pulled a lever from backstage, and it opened a trap door below Shirley and Warren's feet. Then they fell below the stage, and Sherry ran off. Shirley then climbed out of the trap door and helped Warren out. Shirley said, "You're going down, Sherry." Sherry said, "Is that so? Well, what do you say we find out who's the better detective now, Shirley?" Shirley said, "Bring it on." Shirley and Sherry ran up to each other, and the audience watched them as they fought. Shirley jumped over Sherry's head, bounced off her hands, and jumped back onto her feet. Sherry ran up to Shirley and tried punching her, but Shirley grabbed her wrist and threw her across the stage. Sherry fell to the ground, but she got up on her hands and jumped back up on her feet. Sherry then ran off and climbed halfway up a ladder. Shirley chased after her, but when she got into position, Sherry jumped off the ladder and tried to land on Shirley, but Shirley moved out of the way, and Sherry hurt herself.
Shirley then pulled the stage curtain down and threw it at Sherry. Once she did, the curtains tied around Sherry, and Shirley held onto the other side. Shirley said, "Glory days are over, Sherry. And so are you." Sherry then brought out a knife from her pocket and used it to cut herself free. Sherry said, "Guess again." Sherry lifted her foot, banged it on the board Shirley was standing on, and launched her high up to the top of the stage. Sherry waited for Shirley to come down, but she never did. Sherry then went looking for Shirley, and Shirley jumped onto Sherry when she got into the correct position. Shirley then tied Sherry up to a chair. Sherry said, "Shirley, let me go now, or I'll...." "Shirley looked at Sherry and said, "Or you'll do what? Have me arrested?" Shirley then spun Sherry's chair and said, "I don't think so." The audience then clapped for Shirley since she was the victor of their fight.
Warren accompanied the police, theater owner, and news reporters to where Shirley had Sherry tied up. Warren said, "Once you helped me out of the trap door, I went backstage and called the police." Shirley said, "Good thing to do, Warren. Sherry here knew she couldn't be a good detective. Sherry set the whole thing up. Check it out." Shirley showed the police the flyer for Sherry's detective agency, which she had put back together. One of the police officers read the brochure and said, "Sherry's Holmes Detective Agency Gone Out of Business." Shirley then described the mystery to them.
Shirley said, "Sherry set up that Mouse Trap replica to make the sandbag fall on the magic show. She hired Lilly to get picked out of the audience purposely. She also hired Mike and Joyce to act as her prime suspects. By tripping Mike and questioning him, Sherry made herself look like a good detective and made Warren look guilty. Since getting me to back out of the case didn't work, she tried to make me grateful by saving me from her attacks with those giant chess pieces and that tower of blocks I jumped off since she collapsed it with a boomerang. We couldn't find her in the game shop database because Sherry snuck into the game shop after dark and erased her name from the computer history to cover her tracks. She also sent me that detective coat with the tuna and catnip in the lining. And if I investigated the box, Sherry put a part of Warren's cape that she ripped off before his show in the box to frame him. Sherry was also the one who abducted herself. She also knew I'd be looking for her, so she sent Lilly, Mike, and Joyce to destroy me before I could find her. But the one clue that put it all together was what Warren told me. When he told me he wanted another chance in his magic act, I thought Sherry felt the same about her detective agency. So, I compared the handwriting on one of the threats to the handwriting on Sherry's notepad." Shirley showed the police one of Sherry's threats and her notepad and compared them again. Shirley said, "Look closely, and you'll see that the handwriting on the threat is identical to the penmanship on Sherry's notepad when she wrote down her suspects and clues. So that confirmed my theory."
The police chief said, "Good work, Shirley, you've done it again." The police then handcuffed Sherry. Sherry said, "You're taking me to jail? But I did this to protect people." Shirley said, "Tell it to someone who cares, like the judge or your jail guard. Because you didn't do this to protect anyone, you did this to save your career." Sherry said, "And I would have, too. If it wasn't for you pesky girl detective." The police then took Sherry to jail, and Shirley and Warren watched them walk out with her.
The following day, Warren did another magic show, and everyone who watched him in the theater clapped for him, including Shirley, when they saw all the tricks he could do without anything going wrong since Sherry was in jail and couldn't sabotage any of his tricks. After the show, Shirley looked at the newspaper's front page with Warren, and they read it. Shirley said, "'Shirley Holmes Puts Away Fake Detective.' I'll stay in The Big Apple until another case comes along. After all, this is the place where dreams come true." Warren and Shirley shook hands and said their goodbyes. Warren said, "OK, we'll call you if we need you again." Shirley said, "Looking forward to it." Shirley got in her car and drove to The Plaza Hotel. Once she did, she checked in, and the receptionist was happy to have an actual famous detective staying with them. Shirley finally got to go on her vacation and kept her phone on in case a mystery came.
The End