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PRESSURE POINT: >
DISABLED DAUGHTER
(SEE FILE)

MAGNUSSEN: However, you have my sincere apologies for being foreign.
GARVIE: That’s not what I meant. That is not in any way ...
LADY SMALLWOOD (talking over him): Mr Magnussen, can you recall an occasion when your
remarks could have influenced government policy or the Prime Minister’s thinking in any way?
(While she has been speaking, Magnussen has turned his gaze to her and information
immediately appears in front of his eyes.)

LADY ELIZABETH SMALLWOOD
MARRIED
SOLVENT
FORMER GYMNAST
PORN PREFERENCE: NONE
VICES: NONE

and, in red underneath:

PRESSURE POINT: >SEARCHING

The line flashes for a moment.
Magnussen takes off his glasses and reaches for a small cloth on the table.)
MAGNUSSEN: No.
LADY SMALLWOOD: Are you sure?
(Magnussen pauses while he cleans the lenses on his glasses and then puts them on again. He
looks at Lady Smallwood and the information about her reappears in front of his eyes. The basic
details about her then disappear leaving just the red line which is no longer flashing and now
reads:

PRESSURE POINT: >
HUSBAND

MAGNUSSEN (holding her gaze): I have an excellent memory.

[Transcriber’s note: on the Region 2 DVD of this episode, when Magnussen looks at Lady
Smallwood and sees the text in front of his eyes, it actually reads ‘Lady Alicia Smallwood’, not
‘Lady Elizabeth Smallwood’. This error was not on the version transmitted by the BBC, and
whoever let the wrong version appear on the DVD wants a good slapping. Anyway, onwards ...]

DUSK. Ornate electronic gates open across a wide drive, and a black car bearing the licence
plate 1 CAM drives through and progresses along the drive which curves across the centre of a
small lake. At the end of the drive is a large beautiful and almost futuristic-looking house with
tall windows and curved walls. At the house, a man in a suit opens the door to Magnussen and
he walks into an opulent-looking hall which has walls that are part bare pale grey brick and part
plastered in white. The floor is a pale colour and glass panels line the staircases. Magnussen
walks downstairs, passing a kitchen which is all pale brown tiling and stainless steel. He
progresses to a glass wall with a glass door in it which leads into a room – possibly a study –
which has a table inside on which are some slender and strange-looking ornaments. He goes in
and walks across to a double set of wooden doors. He pauses for a moment, then opens them.
He walks down a light brown wooden spiral staircase, again lined with glass panels. Further
down, the spiral staircase becomes narrower and is now made of light grey metal. The stairs
lead into a large library. The shelves are full of files and ledgers. He walks through the stacks,
his fingers raised and flicking towards various shelves as if he is trying to remember where he
has put something specific.
At the rear of the library the room becomes familiar to us and we realise that this is the place
where the man we now know to be Magnussen watched the footage of Sherlock rescuing John
from the bonfire at the end of “The Empty Hearse.” It is dark and creepy in this area and the

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)