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JOHN: Well, I have. I know I have.
MRS HUDSON: Oh, I’m sure. She’s lovely!
JOHN: Yeah. I think so. What about you?
MRS HUDSON: Me?
JOHN: Did you think you’d found the right one when you married Mr Hudson?
MRS HUDSON (smiling): No! It was just a whirlwind thing for us. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I
just got sort of swept along.
JOHN: Right.
MRS HUDSON: And then we moved to Florida. We had a fantastic time, but of course I didn’t
know what he was up to. (Whispering) The drugs.
JOHN (laughing): Drugs? (He grimaces at the pain in his head.)
MRS HUDSON: He was running ... um, oh God, what d’you call it? Um, a ... cartel.
(John props up his head with his fingers.)
MRS HUDSON: Got in with a really bad crowd.
JOHN: Right.
MRS HUDSON: And then I found out about all the other women. I didn’t have a clue! So, when
he was actually arrested for blowing someone’s head off ...
(John’s eyes drift sideways, perhaps a little confused by the matter-of-fact way she just said the
phrase.)
MRS HUDSON: ... it was quite a relief, to be honest.
JOHN: ... Right.
MRS HUDSON: It was purely physical between me and Frank. We couldn’t keep our hands off
each other.
(John lowers his head, cringing.)
MRS HUDSON: I know: there was one night ...
(John holds up a finger to stop her, then turns the finger to point upwards.)
JOHN: Hang on – was that ... Sherlock?
(There’s no sound coming from above them.)
MRS HUDSON: Is it?
(John continues to point upwards, and raises the finger of his other hand to his lips. After a
moment they hear footsteps upstairs.)
JOHN: That’s Sherlock.
(He gets up and painfully walks towards the kitchen door, groaning quietly.)

Upstairs, Sherlock has an online news article on his laptop screen. It shows a photograph of
Major Sholto before he was injured, and a large strapline beside the photo reads, “‘He
destroyed us all. And he gets a medal for it.”’ A few visible lines of text above and below the
photo show that this is an interview with Madeline Small, the mother of one of the soldiers who
died under Sholto’s command. The headline of the article reads, “V.C. Hero – The Unanswered
Questions. Why did my boy have to die?”
[Transcriber’s note: to see the full text of the online article about Sholto, together with the
newspaper articles which Sherlock looks at later, and the newspaper articles at the beginning of
the episode, click here.]
Sherlock looks towards the living room door when he hears John climbing the stairs. He
switches to a different tab on the laptop – the website for I DATED A GHOST.COM. John comes
in and walks across to the dining table where Sherlock is sitting.
SHERLOCK: There are going to be others.
JOHN: Others?
SHERLOCK: Victims, women. Most ghosts tend to haunt a single house – this ghost, however, is
willing to commute, look.
(He stands up and they look at a map of London spread out on the table behind the laptop.
Sherlock has stuck a pin in various places which presumably indicate an appearance of the
‘ghost date.’ There are seven pins in the map, forming a rough circle spanning a few miles
around the Thames.)

Overhead view of a large Council Chamber. The room has wood panelling on the walls and a
blue carpet. Banks of benches with red leather-covered seats form a semi-circle. There are six
rows of these benches in tiers. At the front of the room on top of a high dais is a large ornate
bench – reminiscent of a judge’s bench in a courtroom – behind which is a chair where the
Chairman would sit. This chair is high above the chamber floor. The chamber is initially empty
but then the perspective changes and Sherlock is standing in front of the closed door at the rear

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)