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MAN: It’s your brother.
(Sherlock takes the phone and holds it to his ear.)
SHERLOCK: Mycroft?
MYCROFT’s VOICE (over phone): Hello, little brother. How is the exile going?
SHERLOCK: I’ve only been gone four minutes.
MYCROFT (now sitting in the back of his car again, and smiling pleasantly): Well, I certainly
hope you’ve learned your lesson. As it turns out, you’re needed.
SHERLOCK: Oh, for God’s sake. Make up your mind. Who needs me this time?
(In Mycroft’s car, the distorted voice can be heard.)
VOICE (pitched high): Did you miss me? Did you miss me?
(Mycroft looks to the front of the car where a small TV screen is set into the dashboard. On the
screen is a still photograph of Jim Moriarty facing the camera and smiling. To the left of his
mouth is the message:

MISS ME?

The jaw of Jim’s photograph has been animated so that it moves up and down a little as the
voice repeats over and over.)
VOICE (pitched high): Did you miss me? Did you miss me?

In Piccadilly Circus in London, the huge screens above the street are each filled with the same
part-animated image of Jim’s smiling face with the message beside it, and the voice plays over
speakers.
VOICE (pitched high): Did you miss me? Did you miss me?
(And a view from a high vantage point shows the city of London while the voice plays on.)
VOICE (pitched high): Did you miss me? Did you miss me?

In the back of the car, as the voice plays on, Mycroft speaks a single word into his phone in
response to Sherlock’s question.
MYCROFT (with a somewhat exasperated sigh in his voice): England.
(Outside the car, Mary looks at John.)
MARY: But he’s dead. I mean, you told me he was dead, Moriarty.
JOHN: Absolutely. He blew his own brains out.
MARY: So how can he be back?
JOHN (turning and looking to his right): Well, if he is ... he’d better wrap up warm.
(Mary turns to follow his gaze.)
JOHN: There’s an East Wind coming.
(He and Mary watch as Sherlock’s plane comes in to land.)

The familiar drum beat starts up again and this time the theme tune follows and the closing
credits roll to the end.

And then ...

As the Hartswood, BBC and Masterpiece logos fade, Jim Moriarty, now no longer animated but
live and standing facing the right, looks towards the camera straight-faced and speaks in his
normal voice.
JIM: Miss me?

The Abominable Bride

Text on screen:

So far on SHERLOCK

2010
Sherlock unzips the body bag in “A Study in Pink.”

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)