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(John shakes his head as if he can’t believe what he’s hearing.)
SHERLOCK: ... Magnussen knows your secret, which is why you were going to kill him; and I
assume you befriended Janine ... (he grimaces, shifting uncomfortably on his chair) ... in order
to get close to him.
MARY: Oh – you can talk!
(He smiles at her.)
JOHN: Ohhh. Look at you two.
(Not raising his hands from the arms of his chair, he points his index fingers at each of them.)
JOHN: You should have got married.
(Mary turns to look at him, and Sherlock blinks a couple of times.)
MARY: The stuff Magnussen has on me, I would go to prison for the rest of my life.
JOHN: So you were just gonna kill him.
MARY: People like Magnussen should be killed. That’s why there are people like me.
JOHN (lifting his left hand and gently punching the arm of the chair): Perfect(!) So that’s what
you were? An assassin?
(He looks towards Sherlock.)
JOHN: How could I not see that?
(He turns back towards Mary.)
MARY: You did see that.
(John’s humourless and slightly murderous smile is back on his face.)
MARY (pausing for a moment): ... and you married me.
(She pauses again, then tilts her head towards Sherlock.)
MARY: Because he’s right.
(Sherlock looks down a little, unusually not looking pleased about being correct.)
MARY (softly, to John): It’s what you like.
(John looks back at her stony-faced. She holds his gaze for a moment, then lowers her eyes.)
SHERLOCK: So ... Mary ...
(He grimaces again.)
SHERLOCK: ... any documents that Magnussen has concerning yourself, you want ... (he
grimaces yet again, his voice tight as if with physical pain) ... extracted and returned.
MARY: Why would you help me?
SHERLOCK: Because ... you saved my life.
JOHN: Sor-sorry, what?
SHERLOCK (looking at Mary): When I happened on you and Magnussen ...
(He takes a couple of noisy, strained breaths, bracing his hands on the arms of his chair.)
SHERLOCK: ... you had a problem.
(The camera pulls back across the floor of the living room towards the door.)
SHERLOCK (offscreen): More specifically, you had a witness.
(Near the door, Sherlock’s familiar shadow drifts across the floor ...

... but it’s not actually in 221B. In the past, Sherlock looks carefully through the gap in the door
to Magnusson’s penthouse living room and sees Magnussen kneeling on the floor with his head
lowered and his hands raised while the black-clad assassin points a pistol at him.)
MAGNUSSEN (voiceover): What do you do now?
(The scene fast-forwards to Mary standing facing Sherlock, pointing her pistol at him while,
behind her, Magnussen is reaching to his left where his phone is lying on the floor.)
MAGNUSSEN (voiceover): Kill both of us?
[Transcriber’s note: In the original version of this scene, Magnussen said, “Kill us both?”]
(Mary pulls the trigger and in slow-motion the bullet flies out of the end of the gun.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): The solution, of course, was simple. Kill us both and leave.
(In this version of events, Mary wasn’t aiming at Sherlock’s chest and the bullet goes straight
into the centre of his forehead. His eyes close and his mouth flies open and he starts to fall
backwards. Before he even reaches the floor, Mary rapidly turns towards Magnussen, who is still
straightening up at the sound of the shot. She shoots him in the head. In slow-motion, both he
and Sherlock fall to the floor.)
SHERLOCK (in 221B in the present): However, sentiment got the better of you.
(In the past, in Magnusson’s flat the preceding scene goes into reverse and Magnussen lifts off
the floor and back onto his knees, the bullet goes back into the gun and Mary reverse-turns
towards Sherlock, who is still on his feet.)
SHERLOCK (voiceover): One precisely-calculated shot to incapacitate me ...
(Mary fires at him and Sherlock – this time shot in the chest – starts to fall backwards.)

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)