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SHERLOCK: Project HOUND. Must have read about it and stored it away. An experiment in a
CIA facility in Liberty, Indiana.
(He stands behind Stapleton while she types her User ID onto the computer, then adds her
password. A request to “Enter Search String” comes up and she looks up at Sherlock who
dictates the letters.)
SHERLOCK: H, O, U, N, D.
(She types in the letters and hits Enter. A message comes up saying “NO ACCESS. CIA
Classified” and requesting an authorisation code.)
STAPLETON: That’s as far as my access goes, I’m afraid.
JOHN: Well, there must be an override and password.
STAPLETON: I imagine so, but that’d be Major Barrymore’s.
(Sherlock spins around and walks into Barrymore’s office.)
SHERLOCK: Password, password, password.
(Switching on the lights in the room he sits down at the desk.)
SHERLOCK: He sat here when he thought it up.
(Folding his hands in front of his mouth, he slowly spins a full circle on the chair, looking around
the office as he goes. Stapleton comes to the doorway.)
SHERLOCK: Describe him to me.
STAPLETON: You’ve seen him.
SHERLOCK: But describe him.
STAPLETON: Er, he’s a bloody martinet, a throw-back, the sort of man they’d have sent into
Suez.
SHERLOCK: Good, excellent. Old-fashioned, traditionalist; not the sort that would use his
children’s names as a password. (He gestures towards the children’s drawings pinned on the
board above the desk.) He loves his job; proud of it and this is work-related, so what’s at eye
level?
(He rapidly scans around everything in the room without altering the angle of his eyes.)
SHERLOCK (gesturing to the right): Books. (Pointing to the left) Jane’s Defence Weekly – bound
copies. (He looks to the right again and at the subject matter of some of the books on the
bookshelf.) Hannibal; Wellington; Rommel; Churchill’s “History of the English-Speaking Peoples”
– all four volumes.
(He stands up and looks at a bronze bust on a shelf.)
SHERLOCK: Churchill – well, he’s fond of Churchill. (He looks back to the bookcases again.)
Copy of “The Downing Street Years”; one, two, three, four, five separate biographies of
Thatcher.
(He looks down to a framed photograph on the desk of a man in uniform standing with his
teenage son.)
SHERLOCK: Mid 1980s at a guess. Father and son: Barrymore senior. (Looking at the uniform
of the older man) Medals: Distinguished Service Order.
(He looks around to John who has come to the office door.)
JOHN: That date? I’d say Falklands veteran.
SHERLOCK: Right. So Thatcher’s looking a more likely bet than Churchill.
(He walks out of the office and heads back towards the computer.)
STAPLETON (following him): So that’s the password?
SHERLOCK: No. With a man like Major Barrymore, only first name terms would do.
(Leaning down to the keyboard, he starts to type Margaret Thatcher’s first name into the “Auth
code” box but stops when he reaches the penultimate letter. It’s possible that the password is
limited to seven letters, or he may have already realised that it’s not the correct password. He
narrows his eyes and deletes everything back to the first letter, then retypes it as “Maggie”.
Looking into the screen and gritting his teeth ever so slightly, he hits Enter. The computer
beeps happily and announces “OVERRIDE 300/421 ACCEPTED. Loading ...”
John comes over from the door to look at the screen. After a slight pause information begins to
stream across the screen as everything related to Project H.O.U.N.D. becomes available.
Sherlock’s concentration becomes intense while he takes it all in, focusing on certain phrases
like “extreme suggestibility,” “fear and stimulus,” “conditioned terror,” “aerosol dispersal.” A
photograph comes up of the project team posing happily together and he identifies the five
project leaders amongst the larger group: Elaine Dyson, Mary Uslowski, Rick Nader, Jack
O’Mara and Leonard Hansen. Clearing the photo from the screen he rearranges the names into
another order:

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)