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JOHN: Right.
SHERLOCK: Which means you’ll have to start the search for the hound.
JOHN: Okay.
SHERLOCK: In the labs; Stapleton’s first.
(The guard brings back the ID card and hands it over.)
SHERLOCK (quietly to John): Could be dangerous.
(John smiles momentarily. The gate slides open and Sherlock starts the car and drives onto the
base.)

LATER. MAJOR BARRYMORE’S OFFICE. The major is talking snarkily to Sherlock.
BARRYMORE: Oh, you know I’d love to. I’d love to give you unlimited access to this place. Why
not?(!)
SHERLOCK: It’s a simple enough request, Major.
BARRYMORE: I’ve never heard of anything so bizarre.
SHERLOCK: You’re to give me twenty-four hours. It’s what I’ve ... (he pauses momentarily) ...
negotiated.
BARRYMORE (sternly): Not a second more. I may have to comply with this order but I don’t
have to like it.
(He swings around to his computer on the desk behind him as Sherlock starts to leave the
office.)
BARRYMORE: I don’t know what you expect to find here anyway.
SHERLOCK (turning back): Perhaps the truth.
BARRYMORE (looking round again): About what? Oh, I see. The big coat should have told me.
(Sherlock frowns.)
BARRYMORE: You’re one of the conspiracy lot, aren’t you?
(He grins as Sherlock rolls his eyes.)
BARRYMORE: Well, then, go ahead, seek them out: the monsters, the death rays, the aliens.
SHERLOCK (nonchalantly): Have you got any of those?
(Now it’s Barrymore’s turn to roll his eyes.)
SHERLOCK: Oh, just wondering.
BARRYMORE (leaning forward secretively): A couple. Crash landed here in the sixties.
(Sarcastically) We call them Abbott and Costello.
(He straightens up and turns back to his computer.)
BARRYMORE: Good luck, Mr Holmes.

HENRY’S HOUSE. Henry is in the sitting room holding a framed photograph of himself when he
was about five years old standing in between his parents. As he sits clutching the photograph
he gazes into the distance with a lost expression on his face but gradually exhaustion begins to
claim him and his eyelids start to droop. Eventually his eyes close completely – and immediately
the red glowing eyes of the hound flash in his mind. Gasping in horror, Henry opens his eyes
again, and then wails in anguish.
HENRY: Oh, God!
(Sobbing, he clutches at his head and then buries his face in his hands and weeps in despair.)

BASKERVILLE. The lift doors open into the first lab that the boys visited but this time only John
comes out of the elevator. Walking forward he sees that there are only two scientists in the
room and even they are leaving through a side door. One of them turns off the main overhead
lights as he goes, which leaves the room lit far more dimly by a few arc lights on stands which
are dotted around, and by the screens of some computers. John looks around a little anxiously
when he realises how spooky and quiet it is, then he walks towards a door at the far end of the
lab, the door which Doctor Frankland came out of on the first occasion that they met him. He
has a security pass in his pocket and he takes it out and swipes it through the reader, then pulls
the door open and goes inside, having apparently ignored – or been too BAMF to care about –
the handwritten notice stuck on the outside which reads:

KEEP OUT
UNLESS YOU WANT
A COLD!

He walks through the decontamination zone to the door at the far end and taps a finger on the
glass window in the door. When nobody replies he pushes the door open and goes into a room

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)