Scott and Chris dressed as detectives
Radio 1’s search for Greg James entered its second day.
Someone had brought a Sherlock Holmes hat and pipe into the studio.
Scott and Chris put them on.
The costume did not improve the investigation.
It did make the whole thing look more official on social media.
By Thursday, one name had accumulated particularly strong suspicion:
Chris Ramsey.
Listeners were trying to understand whether the second captor might be Alan Carr.
The harder question was why those two would be working together.
The red scarves had been deliberate misdirection
Radio 1 recapped the evidence.
Greg had been blindfolded with a red scarf.
Photographs showed other people around the BRITs with similar scarves.
The decoded message confirmed the real captors had deliberately placed red scarves elsewhere to distract the investigation.
That meant simply finding somebody photographed with one did not solve anything.
The clue had been useful and misleading at the same time.
A disposable camera dragged Jack Whitehall into it
Greg had heard a sound resembling the winding mechanism of an old disposable camera.
Listeners connected it with photographs of Jack Whitehall holding one.
For a while that looked promising.
Then evidence from the night suggested Jack had been occupied elsewhere.
Radio 1 began ruling people out as aggressively as it had previously pulled them in.
One listener even offered to rule out Tiger Woods because he owned a green Masters jacket but had not attended the BRITs.
Scott thanked them for the extremely limited help.
The dry-cleaning clue pointed towards Alan Carr
The Lizzo trail had included a dry-cleaner reference.
As listeners and presenters pulled the pieces together, Alan Carr became increasingly difficult to ignore.
At the same time, the evidence around Chris Ramsey remained strong.
Scott and Chris were nearly there.
They still needed the final connection.
A listener unscrambled a voice
One of the cleverest developments came from a listener who managed to reverse or decode an electronically disguised voice.
The technology revealed something much closer to the person underneath.
The investigation was no longer relying solely on Scott and Chris noticing celebrity clues.
Listeners were doing technical detective work at home.
The programme repeatedly admitted the audience was solving parts of the mystery faster than the presenters.
All Time Low briefly interrupted the kidnapping
In the middle of all this, All Time Low appeared with the world-exclusive first play of “Sleeping In.”
The juxtaposition was typical Radio 1.
Greg James was apparently being held somewhere unknown.
Scott and Chris still had a new single to play.
The band even became part of the atmosphere around the investigation before the show returned to the clues.
Greg finally opened the door
Eventually the search reached the end.
Greg was allowed out of the room.
He had not understood how high in a building he had been because he had entered blindfolded and in a wheelchair.
The space turned out to be an upmarket suite used for BRITs-related parties.
Then the captors were revealed.
Chris Ramsey and Alan Carr.
It was revenge for Hide & Seek
The pair explained the stunt as payback connected with Radio 1’s previous Hide & Seek adventures involving presenters.
Greg had spent the night isolated while the station investigated people he worked with and celebrities around the BRITs.
Chris Ramsey and Alan Carr had successfully turned the morning after the awards into a two-day Radio 1 mystery.
Scott and Chris celebrated cracking it.
They also knew much of the credit belonged to listeners who had decoded clues, examined photographs and even unscrambled voices from home.
Who’s Got Greg? was over.
The station had its Breakfast presenter back.
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