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SHERLOCK: Back in a moment!
LESTRADE (turning and calling after him): But what mistake?!
SHERLOCK (turning back and yelling up the stairs): PINK!
(He hurries off. Lestrade sighs in exasperation and calls out.)
LESTRADE: Anderson!
(Anderson and his team are already on their way out of a downstairs room and now head up the
stairs.)
ANDERSON: I’m here.
(He stops at the top of the stairs.)
ANDERSON: So? What was the point in all that?
LESTRADE: We’re after a psychopath.
ANDERSON: So we’re bringing in another psychopath to help?!
LESTRADE: If that’s what it takes.
(He gestures towards the room.)
LESTRADE: All yours.
(John comes out of the doorway and steps aside as Anderson gestures to his team.)
ANDERSON: Right, come on.
(The team goes into the room and Lestrade turns to follow them.)
JOHN: My notes – d’you want me to, er ...
LESTRADE: Sorry, you’re ...?
JOHN: Doctor Watson.
LESTRADE: Well, you’re gonna have to go, Doctor Watson. Don’t need your notes.
(He follows the forensic team into the room.)
LESTRADE: Okay, let’s get on with it.
(John hesitates on the landing for a moment and then slowly starts making his way down the
stairs.
Shortly afterwards he has removed his coverall, and now walks out onto the street. It’s still
pouring with rain. Sergeant Donovan is nearby, leaning into the window of a police car and
talking to the driver.)
DONOVAN: Okay, look, we’re gonna need Jones and Adams at the top of the road. There’s so
many people around ...
(John looks around but he sees no sign of Sherlock. Donovan straightens up and notices him.)
DONOVAN: He’s gone.
JOHN: What, Sherlock Holmes?
DONOVAN: He just took off. He does that.
JOHN: Is he coming back?
DONOVAN: Didn’t look like it.
JOHN: Right.
(He lowers his head and shakes it angrily.)
JOHN: Right ... Yes.
(He limps towards Donovan.)
JOHN: Um, sorry, where am I?
DONOVAN (holding up the police tape to allow a colleague past): Brixton.
JOHN: Right. D’you know where I’d, er, get a cab? It’s just, my leg.
DONOVAN (still holding the tape up): Yeah, try the main road.
(John sighs and ducks under the tape before starting to walk down the road.)
DONOVAN: Hey.
JOHN: (stopping and turning back to her): Hmm.
DONOVAN: You’re not his friend – he doesn’t have friends – so who are you?
JOHN: Me? I’m ... I’m nobody. I just met him.
DONOVAN: Right, bit of advice then: stay away from that guy.
JOHN: Why?
DONOVAN: You know why he’s here? He’s not paid or anything. He likes it. He gets off on it.
The weirder the crime, the more he gets off. And you know what? One day just showing up isn’t
gonna be enough. One day we’ll be standing round a body and Sherlock Holmes’ll be the one
who put it there.
JOHN: Why would he do that?
DONOVAN: Because he’s a psychopath. And psychopaths get bored.
LESTRADE (calling from the entrance to the house): Donovan!
DONOVAN (turning and calling to him): Yeah, coming.
(She turns back towards John.)

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)