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underneath, an accomplice pushes the manhole cover up and across onto the road, where
Emelia has taken a step back and is waiting. Shortly afterwards, PC Rance runs towards where
he last saw her and stops ... on top of the now-closed cover.)
HOLMES (voiceover): There was only one thing left to do.
(Emelia, still in the wedding dress, is lying on a bed while someone offscreen points a pistol at
her mouth.)
EMELIA: Swiftly now. No tears.
(She settles her head on the pillow and opens her mouth. As the scene fades out, the gun is
fired.)
HOLMES (pacing along the chapel): All that remained was to substitute the real Mrs Ricoletti for
the corpse in the morgue.
(Brief flashback to Emelia’s covered body, chained to the table in the morgue.)
HOLMES (voiceover): This time, should anyone attempt to identify her ...
(The sheet is pulled back from Emelia’s face.)
HOLMES (in the crypt): ... it would be positively, absolutely her.
MRS WATSON: But why would she do that – die to prove a point?
HOLMES: Every great cause has martyrs; every war has suicide missions – and make no
mistake, this is war. One half of the human race at war with the other.
(He walks back along the crypt, looking at the robed figures on either side.)
HOLMES: The invisible army hovering at our elbow, attending to our homes, raising our
children, ignored, patronised, disregarded, not allowed so much as a vote.
(Almost as one, the robed figures reach up and begin to remove their conical hats. As they pull
them off their heads, each one is revealed to be a woman.)
HOLMES: ... but an army nonetheless, ready to rise up in the best of causes, to put right an
injustice as old as humanity itself. So, you see, Watson, Mycroft was right. This is a war we
must lose.
(He turns away from Watson but turns back again as he speaks.)
WATSON: She was dying.
HOLMES: Who was?
WATSON: Emelia Ricoletti. There were clear signs of consumption. I doubt she was long for this
world.
HOLMES: So she decided to make her death count. She was already familiar with the secret
societies of America and was able to draw on their methods of fear and intimidation to publicly
– very publicly – confront Sir Eustace Carmichael with the sins of his past.
FEMALE VOICE (offscreen): He knew her out in the States.
(The voice is familiar to us. We heard it earlier in the episode, although back then it was
deeper. Holmes turns towards the sound.)
FEMALE VOICE (offscreen): Promised her everything ...
(The owner of the voice comes into view. It is, as we expected, Hooper, now with no moustache
and with her hair in a more ‘normal’ style for a woman. She is dressed in the same blue robe as
the other women and is carrying her hood.)
HOOPER: ... marriage, position – and then he had his way with her and threw her over, left her
abandoned and penniless.
HOLMES: Hooper!
(Flashforward to Molly Hooper slapping Sherlock’s face in the lab at Bart’s after she had tested
him for drug abuse in “His Last Vow.” She slaps him again, and again.
Flashback to Doctor Hooper – in her male guise – standing at the side of the morgue table on
which Emelia lies.)
HOOPER (softly, in the crypt): Holmes.
WATSON: For the record, Holmes, she didn’t have me fooled.
(Holmes turns and stares at him. Watson smiles in a rather satisfied way. Then his gaze shifts
and he stares in surprise as one of the women leans into view and waves cheekily at him. It is
his maid.
Flashback to his dining room where she last addressed him:
JANE: Why do you never mention me, sir?
(In the crypt, Jane finishes her wave and steps back. Watson looks a little awkward as Holmes
smirks. Another woman steps forward. Again she is very recognisable to us, and her Irish
accent confirms it.)
JANINE: Emelia thought that she’d found happiness with Ricoletti, but he was a brute too.
(Holmes has turned to look at her as she spoke and his eyes have widened.

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)