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dirty

Sherlock blinks as a rapid succession of conclusions appear in front of his eyes:

married
unhappily married
unhappily married 10+ years

Carefully Sherlock works the wedding ring off the woman’s finger and holds it up to look at the
inside of the ring. While the outside of the ring is still showing

dirty

the inside registers as

clean

As Sherlock lowers the ring and slides it back onto the woman’s finger, he has already reached
a conclusion about the ring:

regularly removed

Lifting his hands away from the woman, he looks down at her and makes his final deduction
about her:

serial adulterer

He smiles slightly in satisfaction.)
LESTRADE: Got anything?
SHERLOCK (nonchalantly): Not much.
(Standing up, he takes off the gloves and then gets his mobile phone from his pocket and
begins typing on it.)
ANDERSON (from where he is leaning casually against the doorway): She’s German. ‘Rache’:
it’s German for ‘revenge’. She could be trying to tell us something ...
(While he was speaking, Sherlock has walked quickly towards the door and now begins to close
it in Anderson’s face.)
SHERLOCK (sarcastically): Yes, thank you for your input.
(Slamming the door shut, he turns and walks back into the room. On his phone, he has called
up a menu for “UK Weather”. The menu offers five options:

Maps
Local
Warnings
Next 24 hrs
7 day forecast

He selects the Maps option.)
LESTRADE: So she’s German?
SHERLOCK (still looking at his phone): Of course she’s not. She’s from out of town, though.
Intended to stay in London for one night ... (he smiles smugly when he apparently finds the
information he needed) ... before returning home to Cardiff.
(He pockets his phone.)
SHERLOCK: So far, so obvious.
JOHN: Sorry – obvious?
LESTRADE: What about the message, though?
SHERLOCK (ignoring him and looking at John): Doctor Watson, what do you think?
JOHN: Of the message?
SHERLOCK: Of the body. You’re a medical man.
LESTRADE: Wait, no, we have a whole team right outside.

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)