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of the room, and many women are standing silently in front of seats all around the room.
Sherlock walks down the steps towards the floor, looking around him as he goes, then he
reaches the bottom, walks across towards the Chairman’s bench and turns to face the seats.
There are at least forty-eight women standing around the room. Sherlock slowly scans all of
them, then pulls a thoughtful face and points towards one of the women to his right.
SHERLOCK: Mmmmmm, not you.
(The woman sits down. He points to another woman on the right.)
SHERLOCK: Not you.
(That woman sits down. He takes a few steps forward and points to a woman on the left-hand
side of the seating.)
SHERLOCK: Not you.
(She sits and he points separately to two women behind her.)
SHERLOCK: Not you. Not you.
(The women sit down.)
[Transcriber’s note: Your humble transcriber is so anally obsessed with the accuracy of her
transcripts that normally she would type every single instance of what follows, carefully
counting every “Not you” and the location of the woman to whom Sherlock says it. However, it
would probably make for very boring reading and so for speed, convenience and the nurturing
of very sore typing fingers, suffice it to say that this scene continues for a long time, with
Sherlock dismissing woman after woman, each of whom sits down.]
(Eventually only four women remain standing. Sherlock looks around the room once more, then
walks over to the nearest of the standing women. She is wearing a black dress.)
SHERLOCK: Hi.
WOMAN: Gail.
(He turns and walks to the next nearest standing woman, who is wearing a denim jacket.)
SECOND WOMAN: Charlotte.
(He turns his head to look at the third woman, wearing a pink jacket.)
THIRD WOMAN: Robyn.
(He turns to the final standing woman, wearing a red dress and red leather jacket.)
FOURTH WOMAN: Vicky.
(He turns away and walks towards the Chairman’s bench, then turns back and looks across the
room again. The perspective changes and now all the seated women have vanished and the four
remaining women are now standing in a semi circle in front of him. He looks at Gail.)
SHERLOCK: How did you meet?
GAIL: Came up to me in a pub.
(He looks at Charlotte.)
CHARLOTTE: Same gym as me.
(He turns his head to Robyn.)
ROBYN: We just got chatting on the bus.
(He looks at Vicky, who lowers her eyes flirtatiously at him.)
VICKY: Online.
(He turns his head back towards Gail.)
SHERLOCK: Name?
GAIL: Told you.
SHERLOCK: His name.
GAIL: Oscar.
(He turns his head to Charlotte and then in turn to the other two.)
CHARLOTTE: Mike.
ROBYN: Terry.
VICKY: Um, “love_monkey.”
(Sherlock frowns, then turns back to Gail.)
SHERLOCK: Your place?
ALL FOUR WOMEN (simultaneously): His place.
SHERLOCK (to Gail): Address?
(The four women simultaneously recite four different addresses. Your transcriber isn’t so anal as
to try and decipher what each of them says.)
GAIL: Nothing happened. It was just ... very romantic.
SHERLOCK (looking above their heads): Four women in four nights. He must have something
special.
GAIL: He was very charming.
CHARLOTTE: He listened.

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)