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LESTRADE: Hardly anything left of the place except a strong box – a very strong box – and
inside it was this.
(He points to what Sherlock’s looking at.)
SHERLOCK: You haven’t opened it?
LESTRADE: It’s addressed to you, isn’t it?
(Sherlock reaches towards the envelope.)
LESTRADE: We’ve X-rayed it. It’s not booby-trapped.
SHERLOCK (hesitating slightly): How reassuring(!)
(He picks up the envelope and takes it across the room to another table which has an
anglepoise lamp on it. Holding the envelope close to the bulb he examines both sides carefully.
On the front in elegant handwriting are the words “Sherlock Holmes – by hand.”)
SHERLOCK: Nice stationery. Bohemian.
LESTRADE: What?
SHERLOCK: From the Czech Republic. No fingerprints?
LESTRADE: No.
SHERLOCK (looking closely at the writing): She used a fountain pen. A Parker Duofold – iridium
nib.
JOHN: “She”?
SHERLOCK: Obviously.
JOHN (struggling not to sigh): Obviously(!)
(Sherlock picks up a letter opener from the desk and carefully slits the envelope open. He looks
inside and his mouth opens a little in surprise as he reaches in and takes out a pink iPhone.)
JOHN (shocked): But that’s – that’s the phone, the pink phone.
LESTRADE: What, from the Study in Pink?
SHERLOCK: Well, obviously it’s not the same phone but it’s supposed to look like ...
(He stops when he realises what Lestrade just said. He turns to face him. Sally has come into
the room to put some files down on a desk near the door.)
SHERLOCK: The Study in Pink? You read his blog?
LESTRADE: Course I read his blog! We all do. D’you really not know that the Earth goes round
the Sun?
(Sally sniggers loudly. Sherlock, who is taking off his gloves, glares at her while John purses his
lips in embarrassment. Sally leaves the room and Sherlock turns his concentration back to the
phone.)
SHERLOCK: It isn’t the same phone. This one’s brand new.
(He’s looking at the connection sockets, none of which have scratches around them.)
SHERLOCK: Someone’s gone to a lot of trouble to make it look like the same phone, which
means your blog has a far wider readership.
(He throws an accusatory look at John, who does his best to ignore it. Sherlock switches on the
phone and immediately gets a voice alert.)
VOICE ALERT: You have one new message.
(The message plays but there is no voice – just the unmistakeable sound of the Greenwich Time
Signal. However, while the “Greenwich pips” – as they’re more generally called – consist of five
short pips and one longer tone, this recording has only four short pips and the longer one.
Strangely, nobody ever comments on this.)
JOHN: Is that it?
SHERLOCK: No. That’s not it.
(A photograph has also been uploaded to the phone. He opens it and Lestrade comes across to
look over his shoulder. The picture is of an unfurnished room with a fireplace on one wall. The
wallpaper is peeling and there’s a tall mirror propped up in one corner. A smaller mirror – the
type which is usually hung up above a fireplace – is standing on the mantelpiece.)
LESTRADE: What the hell are we supposed to make of that? An estate agent’s photo and the
bloody Greenwich pips!
SHERLOCK (gazing thoughtfully into the distance): It’s a warning.
JOHN: A warning?
SHERLOCK: Some secret societies used to send dried melon seeds, orange pips, things like
that. Five pips. They’re warning us it’s gonna happen again.
(He briefly looks down at the photo again, then brandishes the phone at the others as he starts
to leave the office.)
SHERLOCK: And I’ve seen this place before.
JOHN (following him): H-hang on. What’s gonna happen again?
SHERLOCK (turning back and raising his hands dramatically): Boom!

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)