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(He presses the card against the reader. A circle on the reader screen, and the words CAM
GLOBAL NEWS at the bottom of the screen, both turn from blue to red and there’s a beep.)
JOHN (quietly, standing to the side out of view of the camera): You realise you don’t exactly
look like Magnussen.
SHERLOCK (looking confidently into the security camera while speaking quietly and barely
moving his lips): Which, in this case, is a considerable advantage.
(Up in the office at the top of the building, the laptop beeps its alert and shows its message on
the screen. The woman walks across the room to press a key on the keyboard and Sherlock’s
live image smiles into the camera at her. She walks around the desk to get a better look and
now we see that it’s Janine. She stares at the image in amazement.)
JANINE (quietly, over the intercom to the security reader beside the lift): Sherlock, you
complete loon! What are you doing?!
(Sherlock smiles more widely into the camera. John looks round in surprise.)
JOHN: Hang on – was that ...? That ...!
(He instinctively starts to step closer but Sherlock holds up the flat of his hand to him to stop
him and talks into the camera.)
SHERLOCK: Hi, Janine. (Secretively, glancing around) Go on, let me in.
JANINE: I can’t! You know I can’t. Don’t be silly.
SHERLOCK (softly): Don’t make me do it out here. Not ... (he pauses and turns his head to
glance at a woman walking past, then once she’s gone he turns back to the camera) ... in front
of everyone.
JANINE: Do what in front of everyone?
(Beside him, John smiles and nods politely at another woman as she walks past. Sherlock
lowers his eyes and blows out a big breath, then takes out a small dark red box and clicks it
open before holding it up to the camera to show the large diamond engagement ring inside it.
Janine gasps and straightens up, clapping her hand to her mouth. Downstairs, John stares at
the ring. Janine does likewise upstairs while Sherlock holds the box in front of his face and turns
on his biggest puppy dog eyes over the top of it as he looks into the camera and then smiles.
Lowering her hand, Janine lets out a silent delighted laugh – and downstairs the card reader
screen turns from red to blue and the lift doors open. Sherlock grins into the camera, then
clicks the box closed and turns to John, whose mouth is open as he stares at his friend.)
SHERLOCK: You see? As long as there’s people, there’s always a weak spot.
(He starts to walk into the lift but John stops him.)
JOHN: That was Janine.
SHERLOCK: Yes, of course it was Janine. She’s Magnussen’s PA. That’s the whole point.
JOHN: Did you just get engaged to break into an office?
SHERLOCK: Yeah. (He steps into the lift.) Stroke of luck, meeting her at your wedding. You can
take some of the credit.
JOHN: Je-Jesus!
(He looks down at the coffee cups he’s still holding, then drops them into a waste bin just
outside the lift before getting in.)
[Transcriber’s note: thanks to ‘Hobbitfoot’ on fanfiction.net who pointed out that in one of the
earlier long shots while John and Sherlock are still some distance away from the lift, there’s a
bin beside the lift. The bin disappears in the shots where they’re close to the lift but it does
make more sense than John simply dropping the cups onto the floor.]
JOHN (leaning close to Sherlock and speaking quietly): Sherlock, she loves you.
SHERLOCK (flatly, staring ahead of himself): Yes. Like I said – human error.
(The doors close and the lift begins its ascent. John turns to look at him.)
JOHN: What are you gonna do?
SHERLOCK: Well, not actually marry her, obviously. (He looks round to him.) There’s only so far
you can go.
JOHN: So what will you tell her?
(Sherlock briefly looks at him again before facing the front.)
SHERLOCK: Well, I’ll tell her that our entire relationship was a ruse to break into her boss’
office. I imagine she’ll want to stop seeing me at that point ... (he looks at John again) ... but
you’re the expert on women.
(The lift stops at floor 32 and the doors open. Sherlock turns on his human smile and walks out,
bobbing up and down in an ‘I’ve just come to get engaged to you’ way as he looks around for
his new fiancée. After a moment he stops, looking around more carefully and frowning when
there’s no sign of her. The boys walk into her office but she still can’t be seen.)
JOHN: So where did she go?

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)