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left-hand side of the plane as it lifts into the sky. Sherlock continues to gaze out of the window,
and the plane flies off into the distance.

The scene fades to black and the familiar drum beat of the beginning of the show’s theme tune
begins ...

... but before the actual music can start, the screen goes to static. After a moment it resolves
into a football match on the SPORTS 1 channel. The score shows SFC 0 – 0 INTER. [Click here
for further information about this match.] Men’s voices can be heard shouting encouragingly as
the commentary plays over the footage.
COMMENTATOR: Smith brings it inside. This looks good.
(The screen fritzes briefly, then the perspective pulls back a little and we see that this is a
television on the wall inside a pub.)
COMMENTATOR (on the TV): Cassandra comes in for a shot ...
(On the TV, a player volleys the ball towards the goal but it flies over the top. In the pub, the
customers groan.)
COMMENTATOR (on the TV): Oh, he missed it!
(One of the customers is Greg Lestrade, who is standing at the bar. He grimaces. The TV can be
heard fritzing again and one of the male customers calls out, presumably to the landlord.)
CUSTOMER: Oi! What’s up with the telly? There’s something wrong with the telly, mate!
(The TV can be heard fritzing even more.)
ANOTHER CUSTOMER: Give it a whack, then!
(Greg looks up at the screen, which has gone to static, but it slowly begins to clear and a shape
can just about be seen through all the distortion. It seems to be a head and shoulders shot of
someone facing to the right with their head turned away from the camera. Greg stares up at the
TV and, although we can no longer see the screen, presumably the picture is becoming clearer.
Greg’s face fills with shock.)
CUSTOMER: Who’s that?
(Over the TV a voice begins to speak. It is speaking through a device which distorts the voice.)
VOICE (pitched high): Did you miss me?
(It shifts to a very deep tone.)
VOICE: Did you miss me?

In 221B, Mrs Hudson is vacuuming the living room. She has the TV switched on and the voice
comes over the speaker.
VOICE (pitched high): Did you miss me? Did you miss me?
(She looks at the screen – which we can’t see – and jumps in shock, then starts to scream.)

At Bart’s, Molly stares in horror from the lab into a room next door which has a TV playing on a
table.
VOICE (pitched deep): Did you miss me?

In the conference room we saw earlier, Lady Smallwood stares up from her seat, apparently
looking at the TV screen.
LADY SMALLWOOD: How is this possible?
SIR EDWIN (standing beside her, also looking at the screen): We don’t know, but it’s on every
screen in the country – every screen simultaneously.
LADY SMALLWOOD: Has the Prime Minister been told? (She looks round and up to Sir Edwin.)
And Mycroft?

MYCROFT (sitting in the back seat of a stationary car and talking into a phone): But that’s not
possible.
(He opens the door and gets out.)
MYCROFT (into phone): That is simply not possible.
(He looks across to where John and Mary, holding hands and clearly still at the airfield, look
towards him. He frowns at them.)
JOHN (releasing Mary’s hand and walking towards him): What’s happened?

In the executive jet, Sherlock is still looking out of the window.
MAN’s VOICE (offscreen): Sir?
(Sherlock looks round. The man holds out a phone towards him.)

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)