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LESTRADE: Oh, thank you(!)
ANDERSON: You remember how Sherlock never took the credit when he solved all of your
cases?
LESTRADE (indignantly): He didn’t solve all of my cases!
ANDERSON (gazing thoughtfully into the distance): He’s out there. He’s hiding. But he can’t
stop himself from getting involved.
(He chuckles.)
ANDERSON: It’s so obviously him, if you know how to spot the signs!
LESTRADE: The Klein Brothers, the Tower House thing, the Kensington Ripper – I solved all
those myself!
ANDERSON: Well, you got Tower House wrong.
LESTRADE: No I didn’t!
ANDERSON: Yep, you did.
(He folds the map to another location.)
ANDERSON: Okay, sighting number three ... (he taps Hamburg on the map) ... the Mysterious
Juror.
(Greg literally head-desks, thumping his forehead down onto the table.)

FLASHBACK. HAMBURG. In a jury room, the male foreman rubs his head tiredly before
addressing the rest of the jury in German.
FOREMAN: Nun, wie wir alle wissen, wurde diese Jury unter höchst ungewöhnlichen Umständen
zusammengerufen. Aber ich muss Sie jetzt auf ein Urteil drängen. Ist Herr Trephoff schuldig
oder nicht schuldig am Mord seiner Frau?
[Translation as subtitled: As we all know this jury was convened under highly unusual
circumstances, but now I must press you for a judgment. Is Herr Trepoff guilty or not guilty of
the murder of his wife?]
(One by one, the jurors answer in German.)
FEMALE JUROR 1: Nicht schuldig. [Not guilty.]
(At the end of the table, the fingers of a male juror wearing a shirt and dark coat drum
impatiently on the table.)
FEMALE JUROR 2: Nicht schuldig.
MALE JUROR 1: Nicht schuldig.
(The juror’s fingers continue to drum ...)
MALE JUROR 2: Nicht schuldig.
(... and drum ...)
FEMALE JUROR 3: Nicht schuldig.
MALE JUROR 3: Nicht schuldig.
MALE JUROR 4: Nicht schuldig.
(... and drum ...)
FEMALE JUROR 4: Nicht schuldig.
MALE JUROR 5: Nicht schuldig.
FEMALE JUROR 5: Nicht schuldig.
(... and drum ... and then stop above the table. The foreman sighs wearily and looks at the last
juror.)
FOREMAN (in an exasperated voice): Nun? [Well?]
(We see part of the juror from behind. He has dark curly hair and is wearing a dark greatcoat
with the collar popped.)

Some time later, a man walks across to a display of newspapers. The “CAM Global News” front
page headline reads “Trepoff ‘Guilty’ Sensation!” while a German newspaper beside it reads
“TREPOFF SCHULDIG!” [Trepoff guilty!]

THE PRESENT. PUB.
ANDERSON: It had to be him! There’s no-one else it can be! Do you not see?
LESTRADE: I see that you lost a good job fantasising about a dead man coming back to life, and
I know why you want that to happen. (He grimaces.) But it’s never gonna.
(Anderson shakes his head.)
LESTRADE: Okay ... (he finishes his pint) ... I’m gonna go and see an old friend.
(He picks up his coat and looks across to Anderson.)
LESTRADE: You take care, okay?

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)