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(On the ground, a group of men carry a giant airbag – currently deflated – out into the street.
Molly looks out of the window. Sherlock steps up onto the ledge. Beside the ambulance station,
on the other side to where John will later stand, the team is rolling out the airbag. Molly closes
her eyes briefly, then looks upwards. Standing a short distance away from the hospital, a
woman looks up towards the roof as if awaiting a signal. John’s taxi continues on its way to the
hospital. As the airbag team continue their work, other people are standing and waiting. One of
them has a stethoscope around his neck. The first woman looks around and sees the man on
the cycle waiting nearby, one foot on a pedal and ready to go. A few feet away a second cyclist
pushes his bike into position. The first cyclist has an earpiece in his ear, and many of the others
– possibly all of them – do too. A faint male voice can be heard, presumably relaying
instructions through the earpieces. John’s taxi turns into the road near the ambulance station,
and a large group of men comes around the corner behind it. The taxi pulls up. Sherlock takes
his phone from his pocket and sees a reply to his earlier text:

LAZARUS IS GO

John gets out of the taxi and heads towards the hospital, taking Sherlock’s phone call as he
goes. Unseen by John – whose view is blocked by the ambulance station – the truck full of
rubbish bags is in position by the bus stop, several people are waiting by the wall of the
ambulance station, and the airbag is inflating at the other side of the station.)
SHERLOCK (over phone): It’s a trick. Just a magic trick.
JOHN (into phone): All right, stop it now.
SHERLOCK: No, stay exactly where you are. Don’t move.
(On the far side of the station, the team is carrying the airbag forward with blowers still
attached to it as it continues to inflate.
John’s attention is fully focussed on Sherlock.)
JOHN (into phone): All right.
(The team puts the airbag down on the road just behind the truck.)
SHERLOCK: Keep your eyes fixed on me. (His voice becomes frantic.) Please, will you do this
for me?
(The woman takes a phone call, and the second cyclist gets onto his bike.
Sherlock lowers his phone to his side, then drops it onto the roof.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): It was vital that John stayed just where I put him. That way, his view
was blocked by the ambulance station.
(John lowers his own phone and screams upwards.)
JOHN: SHERLOCK!
(Sherlock spreads his arms to either side and falls forward, plummeting towards the ground.
Inside the building, Molly gasps as he falls past her window. We see from John’s point of view
that the last thirty feet or so of the fall are blocked from his view by the station.
Unseen by him, Sherlock is plunging towards the airbag, twisting as he goes.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): I needed to hit the airbag – which I did.
(He has turned himself onto his back in mid-air and makes a perfect landing in the centre of the
airbag. Immediately everyone else springs into action, starting to run into position.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): Speed was paramount.
(He scrambles towards the edge, the team pushing the bag down to help him get off quickly.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): The airbag needed to be got out of the way just as John cleared the
station.
(The moment Sherlock is on the ground, the team picks up the airbag and starts to run towards
the left-hand side of the station. John starts to run along the right-hand side of the station.
More extras are running into position.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): But we needed him to see a body.
(Inside the hospital, a body is lying on a stretcher dressed in a Belstaff coat and a blue scarf.
Molly and two male team members haul the body up and shove it out of the open window. The
body impacts the ground directly below where Sherlock fell.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): That’s where Molly came in.
(He runs with the airbag team as they head around the left side of the station. On the other
side of the station, the cyclist is pedalling after John.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): Like figures on a weather clock, we went one way, John went the other.
(John runs to the corner of the station, then slows down and stops in the middle of the road as
he gets his first glimpse of the still figure lying on the pavement. The extras are already starting
to gather around it, and the truck drives away.)

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)