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(He moves forward, shoving Mycroft out of the way with his shoulder, and heads for the door.
Mycroft closes his eyes with resignation. Mary and John walk past him towards the door.)
MYCROFT: Doctor Watson?
(John stops and turns back to him.)
MYCROFT: Look after him ...
(He gives him a small but genuine smile.)
MYCROFT: ... please?
(John nods, then turns and leaves the plane. Mycroft turns, goes down on one knee and takes a
notebook from his breast pocket. Opening it to a bookmarked page, he picks up the torn pieces
of paper and puts them into the notebook where, written at the top of the left-hand page with a
rectangular box drawn around it, is the word

REDBEARD

Underneath on the left-hand side is:

611174
Vernet?

To the right of those is a diagonal matrix and underneath, double underlined, the words

Scarlet Roll M

(The rest of the last word is off the edge of the screen [but note fandom theory here])

Below that is some mathematical notation, apparently Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism.

[A screenshot of the page, together with other fandom theories about the significance of the
various notes, can be seen here and here. The latter in particular suggests that the number
below ‘Redbeard’ might actually be 6/1/74 which is the English way of abbreviating 6 January
1974 and could be meant to denote Sherlock’s birth date ... though why Mycroft would need to
write down his brother’s birthday is open to conjecture.]

Mycroft closes the notebook.)

Outside, Sherlock is putting on his coat as he walks across the tarmac towards the car parked
nearby.
JOHN: Sherlock, hang on. Explain. Moriarty’s alive, then?
SHERLOCK (stopping near the car and taking his gloves from his pocket): I never said he was
alive. I said he was back.
MARY: So he’s dead.
SHERLOCK: Of course he’s dead. He blew his own brains out. No-one survives that. I just went
to the trouble of an overdose to prove it.
(He throws a quick guilty look at John before looking down.)
SHERLOCK: Moriarty is dead, no question. But more importantly ...
(He raises his head and looks to one side.)
SHERLOCK: ... I know exactly what he’s going to do next.
(Smiling at his friends, he turns and continues on towards the car, leaving John to look in
confusion at Mary.)

Shortly afterwards, the car pulls away and drives off along the tarmac. As the scene fades out,
the familiar ‘Pursuit’ music starts ... and almost immediately grinds to a halt.

The screen remains dark for a moment and then ...

WATSON (offscreen): Flying machines; these, er, telephone contraptions ...
(The screen fades up to reveal Holmes and Watson sitting in their armchairs in the sitting room
of 221B. Each of them is smoking a pipe.)
WATSON: What sort of lunatic fantasy is that?

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)