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(Sherlock picks up a folded envelope. On the back of it is written:

SOO LIN
Please ring me
tell me you’re
OK
Andy

(He unfolds the envelope and looks at the front of it. Printed in the bottom right hand corner is:

NATIONAL
ANTIQUITIES
MUSEUM

SHERLOCK (croakily): Maybe we could start with this.
(He walks out, closing the door behind him, and heads off down the road, John following him.)
JOHN: You’ve gone all croaky. Are you getting a cold?
SHERLOCK (coughing): I’m fine.

NATIONAL ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM. Sherlock is pacing around a display area while he interviews
Andy.
SHERLOCK: When was the last time that you saw her?
ANDY: Three days ago, um, here at the museum.
(Sherlock focuses briefly on a glass case showing some of the clay teapots. Most of them are
dull but one is shiny.)
ANDY: This morning they told me she’d resigned just like that.
(Sherlock looks at another case containing some jade figurines, and then at a piece of artwork.)
ANDY: Just left her work unfinished.
SHERLOCK (turning to him): What was the last thing that she did on her final afternoon?

Andy has brought the boys to the basement archive, and now turns on the lights as he leads
them in.
ANDY: She does this demonstration for the tourists – a-a tea ceremony. So she would have
packed up her things and just put them in here.
(He leads them to the open stack and starts turning a handle at the end to widen the gap. John
goes to stand behind him and looks into the stack but Sherlock has noticed something more
interesting in the shadows further along the room. He walks closer to it. On a stand is a life-
sized sculpture of a nude woman ... and yellow paint has been spray painted across the front of
it. An almost horizontal straight line goes across the eyes, and over the body has been sprayed
the open upside down eight with the almost horizontal line above it. Andy and John turn and
see what he has found.)

Outside the museum, night has fallen as Sherlock and John come out.
SHERLOCK: We have to get to Soo Lin Yao.
JOHN: If she’s still alive.
RAZ: Sherlock!
(The boys turn as Raz runs over to join them.)
JOHN: Oh, look who it is.
RAZ (to Sherlock): Found something you’ll like.
(He trots off and Sherlock immediately follows. John heads off after them a little more slowly.)

Shortly afterwards the three of them are walking across Hungerford Bridge, heading towards
the south side of the river.
JOHN: Tuesday morning, all you’ve gotta do is turn up and say the bag was yours.
SHERLOCK: Forget about your court date.
(They continue onwards, unaware that the Chinese woman with the dark sunglasses is watching
them.)

SOUTH BANK SKATE PARK. Raz leads the other two across the under-croft. A boy has just done
some kind of clever jump on his pushbike.
GIRL: Dude, that was rad!

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere (arianedevere@livejournal.com)