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SHERLOCK: Oh, we’re done waiting!
(He starts to hurry down the stairs again.)
SHERLOCK: Look at her, really look! Houston, we have a mistake. Get on to Cardiff: find out
who Jennifer Wilson’s family and friends were. Find Rachel!
(He reaches the bottom of the stairs and disappears from view.)
LESTRADE (calling after him): Of course, yeah – but what mistake?!
(Sherlock comes back into view and runs up a couple of stairs so that he can be seen before he
stops and yells up to Lestrade.)
SHERLOCK: PINK!
(He hurries off again. Lestrade, baffled, turns and goes back into the room while Anderson and
his team, who had been waiting on the next landing down, hurry up the stairs and follow him
into the room.)
ANDERSON: Let’s get on with it.
(Forgotten by everyone else, John hesitates on the landing for a moment and then slowly starts
making his way down the stairs. A couple more police officers hurry up and one of them bumps
against him, throwing him off-balance and making him lurch heavily against the bannisters. The
man hurries on without a word, although his colleague does at least look apologetically at John
as he passes. John regains his balance and continues down the stairs.
Shortly afterwards he has removed his coverall and put his jacket back on, and now walks out
onto the street. Looking all around, he can see no sign of Sherlock. He walks towards the police
tape, still looking around. Donovan, standing at the tape, sees him.)
DONOVAN: He’s gone.
JOHN: Who, Sherlock Holmes?
DONOVAN: Yeah, he just took off. He does that.
JOHN: Is he coming back?
DONOVAN: Didn’t look like it.
JOHN: Right.
(He looks around the area again thoughtfully, unsure what to do.)
JOHN: Right ... Yes.
(He turns to Donovan again.)
JOHN: Sorry, where am I?
DONOVAN: Brixton.
JOHN: Right. Er, d’you know where I could get a cab? It’s just, er ... well ... (he looks down
awkwardly at his walking stick) ... my leg.
DONOVAN: Er ... (she steps over to the tape and lifts it for him) ... try the main road.
JOHN (ducking under the tape): Thanks.
DONOVAN: But you’re not his friend.
(John turns back towards her.)
DONOVAN: He doesn’t have friends. So who are you?
JOHN: I’m ... I’m nobody. I just met him.
DONOVAN: Okay, bit of advice then: stay away from that guy.
JOHN: Why?
DONOVAN: You know why he’s here? He’s not paid or anything. He likes it. He gets off on it.
The weirder the crime, the more he gets off. And you know what? One day just showing up
won’t be enough. One day we’ll be standing round a body and Sherlock Holmes’ll be the one
that put it there.
JOHN: Why would he do that?
DONOVAN: Because he’s a psychopath. And psychopaths get bored.
LESTRADE (calling from the entrance to the house): Donovan!
DONOVAN (turning and calling to him): Coming.
(She turns back towards John as she walks towards the house.)
DONOVAN: Stay away from Sherlock Holmes.
(John watches her go for a moment, then turns and begins to limp off down the road. To his
right, the phone in a public telephone box begins to ring. He stops and looks at it for a few
seconds but then looks down at his watch, shakes his head and continues down the road. The
phone stops ringing.)

Not long afterwards, John is walking down what may well be Brixton High Road. He tries to hail
a passing taxi.
JOHN: Taxi! Taxi ...

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)