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MYCROFT HOLMES: Everything. We will need a list.
(Taking a breath, Holmes takes a piece of paper from his pocket and holds it up.)
MYCROFT HOLMES: Good boy.
(Holmes walks towards his brother, who reaches for the paper, but Holmes lifts it away, screws
it up and puts it back into his pocket.)
HOLMES: No. I haven’t finished yet.
MYCROFT HOLMES: Moriarty may beg to differ.
(Holmes sighs sharply.)
HOLMES: He’s trying to distract me, to derail me.
(He places his hands palms together under his chin.)
MYCROFT HOLMES: Yes. He’s the crack in the lens, the fly in the ointment ... the virus in the
data.
(Lowering his hands, Holmes turns round and looks sharply at him.)
HOLMES: I have to finish this.
MYCROFT HOLMES: If Moriarty has risen from the Reichenbach cauldron, he will seek you out.
HOLMES: I’ll be waiting.
(He walks away and leaves the room, closing the door behind him. Mycroft’s face becomes sad.)
MYCROFT HOLMES (softly): Yes. (He looks across to the painting.) I’m very much afraid you
will.

221B SITTING ROOM. Holmes, wearing a blue dressing gown over his clothes, is sitting cross-
legged in the middle of the floor facing the fireplace. The backs of his hands rest on his knees
and he is touching the index finger of each hand to the thumb as if in a yoga pose for
meditation. His eyes are closed. Newspapers lie on the floor all around him. In the corner
behind his chair smoke is rising from what I presume is an incense burner.
In the same place but inside his Mind Palace, he opens his eyes and torn-out cuttings from
newspaper articles start to float past him in mid-air. He reaches out and grabs random cuttings
as they pass, looking at the text on them. Some of them read:

THE DEATH OF EUSTACE CARMICHAEL

STATEMENT FROM CAB DRIVER
”IT WAS MRS RICOLETTI”

ALARMING DISCOVERY IN ISLINGTON

ANOTHER BRIDE OUTRAGE

VISCOUNT HUMMERSKNOT DEAD
SORDID END TO BRILLIANT CAREER
RENOWNED PEER VICTIM OF VITRIOL ATTACK
SCOTLAND YARD BAFFLED
CAUSE OF DEATH
The mysterious death of Viscount Hummersknot on
Wednesday last has led to questions in the House.
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard refused to say
whether the peer’s death was anything to do with
the now notorious ‘Bride’ murders.

WHO WILL BE NEXT?
A strange discovery awaited Miss Eliza Bar-
ton on Monday last. Entering the Union Chapel, Is-
lington where she is employed as char, Miss Barton
found the corpse of Captain Leo Masterson, late of
Her Majesty’s Navy, shot to death. Captain Master-
son had succumbed to his wounds following a shot-
gun blast to the head. Mysteriously, the body was
covered in a quantity of rice, though a wedding
had lately taken place [words obscured by Holmes’ thumb] wedding had
[unclear] the [obscured] blood upon the floor
was the [obscured]

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)