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In Magnussen’s room, adult Sherlock also turns around to where a row of panelled mirrors is
behind him on the wall. Mycroft can be seen fuzzily reflected in the mirrors as if he is standing
some distance away. Sherlock walks closer to the mirrors and looks in them.)
MYCROFT (walking closer): If the bullet had passed through you, what would you have heard?
SHERLOCK: The mirror shattering.
MYCROFT: You didn’t. Therefore ...?
(Sherlock turns and slowly walks past him.)
SHERLOCK: The bullet’s still inside me.
(He walks back to his original position.)
ANDERSON (offscreen): So, we need to take him down backwards.
MOLLY (standing in front of Sherlock again): I agree. Sherlock ...
(He turns his attention to her.)
MOLLY: ... you need to fall on your back.
ANDERSON (still behind him but now starting to walk around him to his right): Right now, the
bullet is the cork in the bottle.
MOLLY (walking around Sherlock to his left as the alarm fades away again): The bullet itself is
blocking most of the blood flow.
ANDERSON (coming to a halt in front of him and looking at him): But any pressure or impact on
the entrance wound could dislodge it.
MOLLY (now standing behind Sherlock): Plus, on your back, gravity’s working for us.
(The room takes on a blue hue.)
MOLLY (firmly): Fall now.
(Sherlock’s eyes half-close and his body begins to slump. In very slow-motion he starts to
topple backwards. The room takes on its normal colour as he slowly falls back. He is falling
towards the right-hand side of the room, and the entire room seems to tilt down towards the
left as he goes. Mary and the kneeling Magnussen, still frozen in place with her pointing her
pistol at him while she looks towards Sherlock, do not move as the room continues to tilt
further to the left, but a plant in a plant pot on the windowsill begins to slide slowly across the
sill towards the left side of the room.
Before he hits the floor Sherlock is suddenly back in the bright white mortuary room, standing
upright, and the alarm is blaring again. He stumbles back against the cabinets in the wall, claps
his hands to his ears and cries out in alarm.)
SHERLOCK: What the hell is that? What’s happening?
(He lowers his hands and looks around in confusion. Beside him, one of the cabinet doors opens
and the tray slides out. His own dead body is lying on the tray with his eyes closed. The ‘real’
Sherlock stares down at it in horror.)
MOLLY (now standing on the other side of the tray): You’re going into shock.
(Sherlock straightens up and stares at her wide-eyed.)
MOLLY: It’s the next thing that’s going to kill you.
SHERLOCK: What do I do?
(Mycroft is now standing where Molly was. Sherlock, still wide-eyed, lifts his head to meet his
gaze.)
MYCROFT: Don’t go into shock, obviously.
(He looks around the room as the alarm blares on.)
MYCROFT: Must be something in this ridiculous memory palace of yours that can calm you
down.
(He turns his head back to his brother and his last words echo.)
MYCROFT’s VOICE (as an echo): ... calm you down.
(Sherlock stares at him.)
MYCROFT: Find it.
(Sherlock screws his eyes closed, and now he’s running in slow motion down the long staircase
again.)
MYCROFT (in the morgue): The East Wind is coming, Sherlock. (He raises his eyebrows at him
as the alarm stops blaring.) It’s coming to get you.
(Elsewhere in his Mind Palace, Sherlock continues to stumble down the stairs and his own voice
sounds in his head.)
SHERLOCK’s VOICE (quiet but echoing): It’s coming to get you.
(Without transition a door opens in front of him and Mary – wearing her wedding dress and with
a white veil over her face – stands facing him aiming a pistol at him. She fires and Sherlock
screams and falls backwards in slow-motion.

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)