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John won't approve the treacherous voice in his head whispered as he slid the cloned card key into the reader. What John didn't know wouldn't cause him an moral scruples, the information he was here to retrieve didn't have any bearing on the current case and as he wasn't going to mention this bit of breaking and entering John would live in blissful ignorance.
It's the principle of the thing Sherlock that inconvenient voice said as he ghosted along empty corridors neatly avoiding all the CCTV cameras and the very occasional patrol by security guards more interested in the quiet life and a good pension than any effective security provision. He glared at that voice The principle John is that this company, amongst other things, is withholding scientific research on the toxic effect of their chemicals on the environment and bees specifically.
Breaking and entering, not to mention theft Sherlock is illegal, his John voice pointed out as he reached the secure document store and pulled on a pair of latex gloves, which will be a moot point John if Civilization collapses due to chronic food shortages, which is what will happen if we loose pollinators like bees. He dismissed further argument with his inner John in favour of picking the lock and entering to search for the documents he needed.
Half an hour later, documents securely copied and the originals safely back where they should be he extracted himself from the labs where he was currently working undercover as a lab technition, and headed for the dead drop he and John had set up. John would wonder at the packets for onward posting but would dutifully post them and the rest for the moment was up to the recipients, after all he did still have a possible murder case to solve.