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(The taxi passes him by. In Chicken Cottage, the fast food restaurant outside which John is
standing, the payphone on the wall begins to ring. John turns and looks as one of the serving
staff walks over to it but as he reaches for the phone, it stops. John walks on down the road
and shortly afterwards approaches another public telephone box. The phone inside starts to
ring. Mystified by this, he pulls open the door, goes inside and lifts the phone.)
JOHN: Hello?
(A man’s voice speaks down the phone.)
MAN’s VOICE: There is a security camera on the building to your left. Do you see it?
JOHN (frowning): Who’s this? Who’s speaking?
MAN’s VOICE: Do you see the camera, Doctor Watson?
(John looks through the window of the phone box at the CCTV camera high up on the wall of a
nearby building.)
JOHN: Yeah, I see it.
MAN’s VOICE: Watch.
(The camera, which was pointing directly at the phone box, now swivels away.)
MAN’s VOICE: There is another camera on the building opposite you. Do you see it?
(John looks across to the second camera, which is also pointed towards the phone box.)
JOHN: Mmm-hmm.
(The camera immediately swivels away.)
MAN’s VOICE: And finally, at the top of the building on your right.
(John stares up into the third camera which is watching him but which now turns away.)
JOHN (into phone): How are you doing this?
MAN’s VOICE: Get into the car, Doctor Watson.
(A black car pulls up at the kerbside near the phone. The male driver gets out and opens the
rear door.)
MAN’s VOICE: I would make some sort of threat, but I’m sure your situation is quite clear to
you.
(The phone goes dead. John puts it down and looks thoughtful for a long moment, then
apparently decides that there’s not much else he can do and turns to leave the phone box.)

A few moments later he is sitting in the back seat of the car as it pulls away and drives off. An
attractive young woman is sitting beside him, her eyes fixed on her BlackBerry while she types
on it. She is pretty much ignoring him.
JOHN: Hello.
WOMAN (smiling brightly at him for a moment before returning her gaze to her phone): Hi.
JOHN: What’s your name, then?
WOMAN: Er ... Anthea.
JOHN: Is that your real name?
WOMAN (smiling): No.
(John nods, then twists to look out of the rear window briefly before turning back again.)
JOHN: I’m John.
NOT-ANTHEA: Yes. I know.
JOHN: Any point in asking where I’m going?
NOT-ANTHEA: None at all ...
(She turns and smiles briefly at him, then looks back at her phone again.)
NOT-ANTHEA: ... John.
JOHN: Okay.

Some time later, the car pulls into an almost-empty warehouse. A man in a suit is standing in
the centre of the area, leaning nonchalantly on an umbrella as he watches the car stop and
John get out.
[Transcriber’s note: Now, I know that the vast majority of people who read this transcript will
have already seen the episode, but for the benefit of the very few people who may be reading
this having never watched the show, and because at this point in the episode we are not told
who this person is, I’m going to refer to him as ‘M’, which is short for ... um, ‘Man,’ okay?
{transcriber inserts winky face here...}]
In front of the man is a straight-backed armless chair facing him. He gestures to it with the
point of his umbrella as John limps towards him leaning heavily on his cane.
M: Have a seat, John.
(John continues towards him, his voice calm.)
JOHN: You know, I’ve got a phone.

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)