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JANINE: I’ll give your love to John and Mary.
(She goes out, closing the door behind her. Sherlock looks towards the door thoughtfully, then
looks upwards for a moment. He turns towards the morphine dispenser and, grunting in pain,
pushes the button to lower the dosage. The read-out shows the level dropping back to a lower
level. He releases the button with a tired sigh. He closes his eyes ...
... and opens them in the wooden door-lined corridor of his Mind Palace. Standing up and fully
dressed, including his coat, he stares intensely ahead of himself.)
MARY (offscreen): You don’t tell him.
(He looks along the corridor and Mary is standing a few yards away, facing him. She is wearing
the clothes she had on when he first met her in the restaurant and her hair is styled the same
way as it was then.)
MARY: You don’t tell John.
(Sherlock starts to walk towards her and the word “Liar” appears above her right shoulder.)
SHERLOCK (slowly): So ...
(He continues towards her, and many words, all saying “Liar” swirl around her. She looks at
him, apparently unperturbed, while he circles around her.)
SHERLOCK: ... Mary Watson. Who are you?
(He completes his circle around her and turns to face her again, the words still swirling around.
He looks at her for a moment, then turns and walks away, the words following him down the
corridor.)
SHERLOCK (whispering): Mary Watson.
(He stops, and the words fade out and vanish. He turns to face her ...
... and in Magnussen’s flat Mary’s black-gloved hand pulls the trigger on the pistol and the shell
flies out of the top in slow motion.
In his hospital bed, his fingers steepled together on his chest and his eyes closed, Sherlock
lowers his hands as the sound of the gunshot echoes in his ears. He sighs, raises his head and
tiredly opens his eyes.)

EVENING, possibly the same day. John is leading Greg Lestrade up the stairs of the hospital.
JOHN: Dunno how much sense you’ll get out of him. He’s drugged up, so he’s pretty much
babbling.
(As they reach the top of the stairs and walk along the landing, he looks down at the sound of a
beep and realises that Greg is doing something on his phone.)
JOHN: Oh, they won’t let you use that in here, you know.
LESTRADE: No, I’m not gonna use the phone. I just wanna take a video.
(He and John grin at each other and Greg chuckles.
Shortly afterwards John opens the door to Sherlock’s room and they go inside. The bed is
empty. John looks round the room, and his face fills with shock when he realises that the
window blind has been pulled up and the window is open.)
JOHN: Oh, Jesus.
(He and Greg stare at the window, then John sighs and the two men exchange a look.)

A little later Mary, perhaps at home, is on the phone.
MARY (into phone): So where would he go?
JOHN (on the phone to her from the hospital): Oh, Christ knows. Try finding Sherlock in
London.
(Mary lowers her phone and hangs up.)

John and Greg are on their way out of the hospital.
LESTRADE: He’s got three known bolt holes ...
(They walk away from the hospital, Greg holding his phone to his ear.)
LESTRADE: Parliament Hill, Camden Lock and Dagmar Court.

MYCROFT: Five known bolt holes.
(He is sitting at his desk in his office at The Diogenes Club, looking down at a satellite map on
his computer. The page is headed “UGLY DUCKLING”. A note in the top right corner of the map
reads, “TARGET LOCATED. TRACKING ...” and a point on the map is highlighted. As the tracker
appears to be somewhere around Warsaw in Poland, Mycroft is apparently multi-tasking. Greg is
standing at the other side of the table.)
MYCROFT: There’s the blind greenhouse in Kew Gardens and the leaning tomb in Hampstead
Cemetery.

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)