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In the shower room, Bainbridge is now lying face down on the floor on top of a great deal of
broken glass. There is a lot of blood on his lower back. The duty sergeant leads the others in,
and Reed hurries over to the body staring at it in shock.
REED: My God!
(Sighing deeply at the sight, John walks towards Bainbridge but Reed holds up a hand to stop
him.)
JOHN: Ah, no, let me take a look, sir. I’m a doctor.
REED: What? Sergeant, arrest this man.
(The duty sergeant instantly takes hold of John’s left arm and twists it behind his back.)
JOHN: What? No-no! I’m a – I’m a doctor.
REED: Oh, you’re a doctor now, too. Sergeant ...
(He jerks his head towards the door.)
JOHN: Let me examine him, please!
(The sergeant starts to pull John away but just then another sergeant comes in, bundling
Sherlock into the room. He has Sherlock’s right arm twisted up behind his back.)
SERGEANT: Sir, caught this one snooping around.
(Reed looks at John.)
REED: Is that what this was all about? Distracting me so that this man could get in here and kill
Bainbridge?
JOHN: Don’t be ...
(Sherlock has pulled free of his sergeant and is walking forward to look more closely at the
body. The sergeant follows him, taking hold of his arms and pulling him away again.)
SHERLOCK (to Reed): Kill him with what? Where’s the weapon?
REED: What?
SHERLOCK: Where’s the weapon? Go on, search me. (He holds his arms wide.) No weapon.
JOHN: Bainbridge was on parade. He came off duty five minutes ago. When’s this supposed to
have happened?
REED (to Sherlock): You obviously stabbed him before he got into the shower.
SHERLOCK: No.
REED: No?!
SHERLOCK: He’s soaking wet and there’s still shampoo in his hair. He got into the shower and
then someone stabbed him.
DUTY SERGEANT: The cubicle was locked from the inside, sir. I had to break it open.
REED: You must have climbed over the top.
SHERLOCK: Well then I’d be soaking wet too, wouldn’t I?
JOHN (loudly): Major, please. I’m John Watson, Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers. Three years in
Afghanistan, a veteran of Kandahar, Helmand, and Bart’s bloody Hospital. (Firmly) Let me
examine this body.
(Reed looks down at the body for a long moment, then finally looks at the duty sergeant and
nods sharply. The man releases John.)
JOHN (taking his jacket off): Thank you.
(Walking forward, he puts the jacket onto a bench and then goes over to crouch down beside
Bainbridge. The duty sergeant talks quietly to Sherlock.)
DUTY SERGEANT: Suicide?
SHERLOCK: No. The weapon again – no knife.
(He walks to the front of the shower cubicle and bends down to look all around it, then squats
down at Bainbridge’s head. John is examining Bainbridge’s lower back.)
JOHN: Hmm. There is a wound to the abdomen – incredibly fine.
SHERLOCK: Man stabbed to death. No murder weapon. Door locked from the inside. Only one
way in or out of here.
(John has moved to Bainbridge’s head and has peeled one of his eyes open.)
JOHN: Sherlock.
SHERLOCK: Mmm?
JOHN: He’s still breathing.
DUTY SERGEANT: Oh my God.
SHERLOCK (to John): What do we do?
JOHN: Give me your scarf.
SHERLOCK: What?
JOHN: Quickly, now.
(While Sherlock unwraps his scarf from his neck, John looks up at Reed and the others.)
JOHN: Call an ambulance.

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)