Original subtitles

My brother is a m u rderer.

N o cha nce for you to be a hero th is ti me, Mr. H olmes.

Oh, do you r resea rch .

I' m not a hero.

I' m a h ig h-fu nction i ng sociopath .

Merry Ch ristmas!

(GU NS H OT)

MYCRO FT: I am not given to outbursts ofbrotherly comPassion.

You know what ha ppened to the other one.

-Miss me? - (DISTO RTED VOICE) Didyou miss me?

Didyou miss me? Didyou miss me?

I've on ly been gone fou r m i n utes.

Well, I certa i n ly hope you 've lea rnt you r lesson .

What you ' re a bout to see is classified beyond top secret.

Is that q u ite clea r?

Don 't m i n ute a ny of th is.

Once beyond these wa lls, you m ust never spea k of it.

A D-notice has been sla pped on the enti re i ncident.

On ly those with i n th is room, codena mes Anta rctica, La ngda le, Porlock a nd Love,

wi ll ever know the whole truth .

As fa r as everyone else is concerned,

goi ng to the Pri me Mi n ister a nd way beyond,

Cha rles Aug ustus. . . Are you tweeti ng?

- N o. -Well, that's what it looks li ke.

Of cou rse I' m not tweeti ng . Why wou ld I be tweeti ng?

-Give me that. -What? N o.

-What a re you doi ng? Get off. What? -Give it here.

-" Back on terra fi rma . . . " - N o, don 't read them out.

-" Free as a bi rd . " -God, you ' re such a spoi lsport.

Wi ll you ta ke th is matter seriously, Sherlock?

I a m ta ki ng it seriously. What ma kes you th i n k I' m not ta ki ng it seriously?

" Hashtag, oh what a bea utifu l morn i ng . "

Look, not so long ago I was on a m ission that mea nt certa i n death,

my death, a nd now I' m back i n a n ice, wa rm office,

with my big brother a nd . . . Are those g i nger n uts?

-Oh God . - Love g i nger n uts.

Ou r doctor sa id you were clea n .

I a m, utterly.

N o need for sti m u la nts now, remem ber?

I have work to do.

You ' re h ig h as a kite.

Natu ra l h ig h . I assu re you .

Tota lly natu ra l. I' m j ust...

# GIad to be alivel # (CH UCKLI N G)

What sha ll we do next? What's you r na me?

-Vivia n . -What wou ld you do, Vivia n?

- Pa rdon? -It's a lovely day.

Go for a stroll, ma ke a pa per a i rpla ne, have a n ice lolly?

-Ice lolly, I su ppose. -Ice lolly it is.

What's you r favorite?

Oh, rea lly, I shou ld n 't...

-Go on . - Do they sti ll do Mivvies?

-Mr. H olmes. -Yes?

We do need to get on .

Yes, of cou rse.

(H ELICO PTER WHI RRI N G)

S H ERLOCK: Do your research.

Im not a hero,

Im a high-functioning socioPath.

(GU NS H OT)

-SocioPath. - (GU NS H OT)

-SocioPath. - (GU NS H OT)

-S H ERLOCK: I see. -SocioPath.

Who is su pposed to have shot h i m then?

Some over-eager sq uadd ie with a n itchy trigger fi nger, that's who.

That's not what ha ppened at a ll.

It is now.

Rema rka ble. H ow d id you do it?

We have some very ta lented people worki ng here.

If Ja mes Moria rty ca n hack every TV screen i n the la nd,

rest assu red, we have the tech to doctor a bit of secu rity footage.

That is now the officia l version,

the version a nyone we wa nt to wi ll see.

LADY SMALLWOO D: N o need to go to the trou ble

of getti ng some sort of officia l pa rdon .

You ' re off the hook, Mr. H olmes.

You ' re home a nd d ry.

Okay, cheers.

Obviously, there's u nfi n ished busi ness.

Moria rty.

I told you, Moria rty's dead .

You say he fi lmed that video message before he d ied?

-Yes. -You a lso say

you know what he's goi ng to do next.

What does that mea n?

Perha ps that's a ll there is to it.

Perha ps he was j ust tryi ng to frig hten you .

N o, no, he wou ld never be that d isa ppoi nti ng .

H e's pla n ned someth i ng, someth i ng long term .

(I N HALES) Someth i ng that wou ld ta ke effect

if he never made it off that rooftop a live.

Posth u mous revenge. N o, better tha n that.

Posth u mous ga me.

We broug ht you back to dea l with th is.

-What a re you goi ng to do? -S H ERLOCK: Wa it.

Wa it?

Of cou rse, wa it. I' m the ta rget. Ta rgets wa it.

Look...

Whatever's com i ng, whatever he's li ned u p,

I' ll know when it beg i ns.

I a lways know when the ga me is on .

-You know why? -Why?

(I N HALES) Beca use I love it.

(TH EME MUSIC P LAYI N G)

(WATER BU B B LI N G)

S H ERLOCK: There was once a merchant

in the famous market at Baghdad.

Dne day he saw a stranger Iooking at him in surPrise.

And he knew that the stranger was Death.

Pale and trembling, the merchant fled the marketPIace

and made his way many, many miles

to the city ofSamarra.

For there he was sure Death could not find him.

But when, at Iast, he came to Samarra,

the merchant saw, waiting for him,

the grim figure ofDeath.

Very well, said the merchant.

Igive in. I am yours.

But tell me, why didyou Iook surPrised

when you saw me this morning in Baghdad?

Because, said Death,

I had an aPPointment with you tonight,

in Samarra.

If th is gets a ny better, I' m gon na get two kn ives.

It pays to advertise.

So, what a bout Moria rty then?

Oh, I have a pla n .

I' m goi ng to mon itor the u nderworld, every q u iver of the web

wi ll tell me when the spider ma kes h is move.

So basica lly, you r pla n is j ust to sit there solvi ng cri mes li ke you a lways do.

Awesome, isn 't it?

H e d rowned, Mr. H olmes. That's what we thoug ht.

- But when they opened u p h is lu ngs. . . -Yes?

-Sa nd . -Su perficia l.

Come back, it's the wrong th u m b.

-Sherlock. -It's never twi ns.

H opki ns, a rrest Wi lson . Di m mock, look i n the lym ph nodes.

H O P KI NS: Wilson? DIMMOCK: LymPh nodes?

Sherlock...

Yes, you may have noth i ng but a li m bless torso,

but there' ll sti ll be traces of i n k left

i n the lym ph nodes u nder the a rm pits.

If you r mystery corpse had tattoos, the sig ns wi ll be there.

BIoody hell. Is that a guess?

I never g uess.

-Sherlock. . . - H O P KI NS: So, he s the killer.

The canary trainer?

-Of cou rse he's the ki ller. -Didn t see that coming.

Natu ra lly.

Sherlock, you ca n 't go on spi n n i ng plates li ke th is.

That's it, the place was spi n n i ng .

The hea rt med ication you a re ta ki ng is known to ca use bouts of a m nesia .

Yes, I th i n k so.

-Why? - Beca use the fi ngerpri nts

on you r brother's neck were you r own .

JO H N : (LAUG HI N G) A jellytish . S H ERLOCK: I know.

You ca n 't a rrest a jellytish .

-You cou ld try. -We d id try.

- (MO BI LE VI B RATI N G) - (SIG HS)

-Oh, God . -Ma ry?

Fifty-n i ne m issed ca lls.

We' re i n a lot of trou ble.

(MARY SCREAMI N G)

Ow! Oh, my God !

Oh, my God !

Relax. It's got two sylla bles...

MARY: I' m a n u rse, da rli ng . I th i n k I know what to do.

JO H N : All rig ht, then . Come on .

-MARY: Re. . . - Lax.

Oh, j ust d rive. Please go. J ust d rive. God, d rive.

- (SCREAMI N G) -Sherlock? Ma ry.

S H ERLOCK: That's it, Ma ry. Re...

Don 't you sta rt.

-S H ERLOCK: Lax. - (MARY G RU NTS)

MARY: Joh n? Joh n?

I th i n k you have to pu ll over.

-Ma ry, Ma ry. - Pu ll over!

-S H ERLOCK: Oh, my God . - (MARY SCREAMI N G)

Has that come out?

-They never come out when I ta ke them . - Let's have a look.

MRS. H U DSO N : Oh, she's so bea utifu l.

- (BABY GU RG LI N G) - Have a nother go.

-What a bout a na me? -Catheri ne.

-Oh, yea h, we've gone off that. - Have we?

-Yea h . -Oh .

-Well, you know what I th i n k. - BOTH : It's not a g i rl's na me.

Molly, Mrs. H . We wou ld love you to be god pa rents.

-Oh ! -If you ...

- Rea lly? -That's so lovely.

(CLEARS TH ROAT) And, u h ...

-You too, Sherlock. -You too, what?

Godfather. We'd li ke you to be godfather.

God is a lud icrous fiction d rea mt u p by i nadeq uates

who a bnegate a ll responsi bi lity to a n i nvisi ble mag ic friend .

Yea h, but there' ll be ca ke. Wi ll you do it?

-I' ll get back to you . -All rig ht.

Father, we ask you to send you r blessi ngs on th is water,

a nd sa nctify it for ou r use th is day,

i n Ch rist's na me.

N ow, what na me have you g iven you r da ug hter?

- Rosa m u nd Ma ry. - Rosa m u nd?

Mea ns " rose of the world . "

Rosie, for short.

Did n 't you get Joh n 's text?

N o, I delete h is texts.

-I delete a ny text that beg i ns, " H i . " - (BABY CRYI N G)

N o idea why people th i n k you ' re i nca pa ble of h u ma n emotion .

- (MRS. H U DSO N CLEARS TH ROAT) -Sorry.

Phone.

-And now, god pa rents. - (BABY CRYI N G)

Are you ready to help the pa rents of th is ch i ld

i n thei r d uties as Ch ristia n pa rents?

We a re.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Sorry, I didn t catch that.

PIease rePeat the question.

(SIG HS) As ever, Watson, you see but do not observe.

To you, the world rema i ns a n i m penetra ble mystery,

whereas to me it is a n open book. Ha rd log ic versus roma ntic wh i msy.

That is you r choice.

You fa i l to con nect actions to thei r conseq uences.

N ow, for the last ti me.

If you wa nt to keep the rattle,

do not th row the rattle.

(BABY GU RG LI N G)

Good g i rl, good g i rl, good g i rl.

-I'd better fi n ish th is, had n 't I? - (BABY WHIMP ERS)

- H i . -JO H N : Afternoon .

H e says you 've got a good one, Greg .

Oh, yea h .

(CROWD SI N GS HAPPY BIRTHDA Y)

LESTRAD E: It was David Welsborough s 5Øth birthday.

(AP P LAUS E)

DAVI D: I' m 50?

Where does it go? I know for a fact I was on ly 21 th is ti me last week.

Yea h, well, that's i m possi ble, that's before you ...

-Met me. -Oh, no, no.

BOTH : There never was such a ti me.

She's looki ng at me d isa pprovi ng ly aga i n .

N o.

-She's j ust jea lous. - N o. Well.

I th i n k we both a re.

- (MO BI LE VI B RATI N G) -Oh .

N o, no, don 't. Come on, you prom ised .

- N o. - (VI B RATI N G CO NTI N U ES)

Oh no, it's a Skype ca ll.

Oh, then it m ust be Cha rlie.

At least he's phon i ng, I su ppose.

-Oh, look, hello ! -Hey, Dad.

HaPPy birthday.

Sorry to miss the Party, but travel broadens the mind, right?

N o. Pictu re's frozen .

Yeah, signals rubbish. But I can still hearyou.

Why is it ru bbish, where a re you?

H ow is he? Is he eati ng? Ask h i m if he's eati ng .

MAN : David . Em ma .

N o, no, ha ng on a sec. I' ll fi nd somewhere q u ieter.

So, Cha rlie, where a re you?

Are you there?

Sorry, Im here.

-ImJust a bit... -You a ll rig ht?

Its nothing.

ProbablyJust the altitude.

Altitude?

Im in Tibet. Didn t you see the mountains?

Oh, never m i nd mou nta i ns.

You r mother wa nts to know if you ' re eati ng properly.

-Look, Dad, couldyou do me a favor? -What?

CouldyouJust check something on my car?

-You r ca r? -To settle a bet.

The guys here don t believe Ive got a Power Ranger stuck to the bonnet.

Couldyou take a Photo and send it?

-Ah, yes, I ca n do that. - (CAMERA CLICKS)

All done. You got it?

Cha rlie...

LESTRAD E: A week later...

JO H N : Yea h?

LESTRAD E: Someth i ng rea lly wei rd ha ppens.

Dru n k d river, he's tota lly smashed . The cops a re chasi ng h i m .

And he tu rns i nto the d rive of the Welsboroug h house to try a nd get away.

- (SI REN WAI LI N G) -U nfortu nately...

The d ru n k g uy su rvived . They ma naged to pu ll h i m out,

but when they put the fi re out a nd exa m i ned the pa rked ca r...

Whose body?

LESTRAD E: Cha rlie Welsboroug h, the son .

-What? -The son who was i n Ti bet.

D NA a ll checks out. N ig ht of the pa rty the ca r is em pty.

Then a week later...

The dead boy is fou nd at the wheel.

(CH UCKLI N G)

Yea h, I thoug ht it'd tickle you .

JO H N : You got a la b report?

Yea h, Cha rlie Welsboroug h 's the son of a ca bi net m i n ister,

so I' m u nder a lot of pressu re to get resu lts.

Who ca res a bout that? Tell me a bout the seats.

-The seats? -Yes, the ca r seats.

Made of vi nyl.

Two d ifferent types of vi nyl present.

Was it h is own ca r?

LESTRAD E: Yea h, not flash . H e was a student.

-Well, that's suggestive. - LESTRAD E: Why?

Vi nyl's chea per tha n leather.

Yea h, rig ht.

-JO H N : There's someth i ng else. -Yes?

Accord i ng to th is, Cha rlie Welsboroug h had a lready been dead for a week.

What?

The body i n the ca r, dead for a week.

Oh, th is is a good one. Is it my bi rthday?

You wa nt help?

-Yes please. -One cond ition .

-Okay. -Ta ke a ll the cred it.

It gets bori ng if I j ust solve them a ll.

Yea h, you say that, a nd then Joh n blogs a bout it,

a nd you get a ll the cred it a nyway.

-Yea h, he's got a poi nt. -Wh ich ma kes me look li ke some ki nd of

pri ma don na who i nsists on getti ng cred it for someth i ng he d id n 't do.

Well, I th i n k you 've h it a sore spot, Sherlock.

Li ke I' m some ki nd of cred it j u n kie.

- Defi n itely a sore spot. -So, you ta ke a ll the g lory, tha n k you .

-Okay. - LESTRAD E: Tha n ks a ll the sa me.

J ust solve the bloody th i ng wi ll you . It's d rivi ng me n uts.

Anyth i ng you say, Gi les.

J ust kidd i ng .

(MOUTHI N G)

(CLEARS TH ROAT)

JO H N : It's obvious thoug h, isn 't it, what ha ppened?

Joh n, you a maze me. You know what ha ppened?

N ot a clue, it's j ust you norma lly say that at th is poi nt.

H m m-m m m .

Well, then, let's help you solve you r little problem, Greg .

-You hea r that? -I know.

So how's it goi ng then, fatherhood?

Oh, good, g reat. Yea h, a mazi ng .

-Getti ng a ny sleep? -Ch rist, no.

You at the beck a nd ca ll of a screa m i ng, dema nd i ng ba by,

woken u p a ll hou rs to obey h is every wh i m?

Must feel very d ifferent.

-I' m sorry, what? -JO H N : Yes, well, you know how it is.

All you do is clea n u p thei r mess.

- Pat them on the head . . . -You two havi ng a little joke?

JO H N : N ever a word of tha n ks.

-Ca n 't even tell people's faces a pa rt. -Th is is a joke, isn 't it?

Yea h, a nd it's a ll, "Oh, a ren 't you clever? You ' re so, so clever. "

Is it a bout me?

I th i n k he needs wi nd i ng .

JO H N : You know, I th i n k that rea lly m ig ht be it.

N o, don 't get it.

Cha rlie's fa m i ly a re pretty cut u p a bout it, as you 'd expect.

-So go easy on them, yea h? -You know me.

-MARY: (O N MO BI LE) Hey, hello. -Yea h .

Got 'em, don 't worry. Pa m pers, the crea m you ca n 't get from Boots.

Yea h, never m i nd a bout that. Where a re you now?

-At the dead boy's house? -Yea h .

MARY: What does he think, any theories?

U h, I texted you the deta i ls.

Yea h, two d ifferent types of vi nyl.

S H ERLOCK: H ow do you know a bout that?

MARY: Dh, youd be amazed at what a recePtionist Picks uP.

They know everyth i ng .

-S H ERLOCK: Solved it, then? -I' m worki ng on it.

Dh, Mary, motherhoods slowing you down.

- Pig . - Keep tryi ng .

So, what about it then?

What, an emPty car that suddenly has a week-old corPse in it.

And what are you gonna call this one?

-Oh, "The Ghost Driver. " - Don 't g ive it a title.

- People li ke the titles. -I hate the titles.

Give the people what they wa nt.

N o, never do that. People a re stu pid .

U h, some people.

AII PeoPIe are stuPid.

Most PeoPIe.

Biza rre enoug h, thoug h, isn 't it, to be h i m?

I mea n it's rig ht u p you r strasse.

Mr. a nd Mrs. Welsboroug h .

I rea lly a m most terri bly sorry to hea r a bout you r da ug hter.

-Son . -Son .

Mr. a nd Mrs. Welsboroug h, th is is Mr. Sherlock H olmes.

Tha n k you very m uch for com i ng . We've hea rd a g reat dea l a bout you .

If a nyone ca n th row a ny lig ht i nto th is da rkness, su rely it wi ll be you .

Well, I believe that I

ca n .

DAVI D: Well, Cha rlie was ou r whole world, Mr. H olmes. I...

Sherlock?

-Mr. H olmes? -Sorry, you were sayi ng?

Well, Cha rlie was ou r whole world, Mr. H olmes. I...

I don 't th i n k we' ll get over th is.

N o. Shou ld n 't th i n k so.

(GAS PS)

So, sorry, wi ll you excuse me a moment? I j ust...

I' ll j ust, erm ...

(JO H N CLEARS TH ROAT)

- N ow, what's wrong? - N ot su re. I j ust...

" By the pricki ng of my th u m bs. "

- (CH UCKLES) Seriously, you? -Intu itions a re not to be ig nored, Joh n .

They represent data processed too fast for the conscious m i nd to com prehend .

What is th is?

U h, it's a sort of sh ri ne, I su ppose, rea lly.

Bit of a fa n of Mrs. T, big hero of m i ne when I was getti ng sta rted .

Rig ht. Yes.

-Who? -What?

-Who, who is th is? -Are you serious?

Sherlock.

It's Ma rga ret Thatcher.

The fi rst fema le Pri me Mi n ister of th is cou ntry.

S H ERLOCK: Rig ht.

- Pri me Mi n ister? - H m m .

- Leader of the govern ment. -S H ERLOCK: Rig ht.

Fema le?

For God 's sa ke, you know perfectly well who she is.

Why a re you playi ng for ti me?

It's the ga p, look at the ga p. It's wrong .

Everyth i ng else is perfectly ordered .

Ma naged .

(SIG HS) Th is whole th i ng 's verg i ng on OCD.

My respects.

Th is fig u ri ne is routi nely repositioned after the clea ner's been,

a nd th is pictu re's stra ig htened every day.

Yet th is ug ly ga p rema i ns.

Someth i ng 's m issi ng from here, but on ly recently.

- DAVI D: Yes, a plaster bust. - Plaster bust.

Oh, for God 's sa ke, it got broken .

What the hell has th is got to do with Cha rlie?

- Rug . -What?

Well, how cou ld it get broken? The on ly place for it to fa ll is floor.

And there is a big, th ick rug .

- Does it matter? -Mrs. Welsboroug h, my a polog ies.

It is worth letti ng h i m do th is.

Is you r friend q u ite mad?

N o, he's a n a rsehole, but it's a n easy m ista ke.

Look, no, we had a brea k-i n .

Some little basta rd smashed it to bits.

We fou nd the rema i ns out there i n the porch .

The porch where we ca me i n?

DAVI D: H ow a nybody cou ld hate her so m uch,

they'd go to the trou ble of smash i ng her li keness.

I' m no expert, but possi bly her face.

Why d id n 't he smash a ll the others?

Perfect opportu n ity. And look at that one, she's sm i li ng i n that one.

EMMA: Oh, Inspector, th is is clea rly a waste of ti me.

-If there's noth i ng . . . -I know what ha ppened to you r son .

You do?

It's q u ite si m ple. Su perficia l, to be blu nt.

But fi rst, tell me, the n ig ht of the brea k-i n .

-Th is room was i n da rkness? -Well, yes.

And the porch where it was smashed, I noticed

the motion sensor was da maged .

-So, I assu me it's perma nently lit? - H ow d id you notice that?

I lack the a rroga nce to ig nore deta i ls. I' m not the police.

JO H N : So, you ' re sayi ng, he smashed it

-where he cou ld see it. -S H ERLOCK: Exactly.

-Why? - Don 't know.

Wou ld n 't it be fu n if I knew?

Mr. H olmes, please.

It was you r 50th bi rthday, Mr. Welsboroug h .

Of cou rse you were d isa ppoi nted

that you r son had n 't made it back from h is ga p yea r.

After a ll, he was i n Ti bet.

-Yes. - N o.

N o?

S H ERLOCK: The first Part ofyour conversation was,

in fact, Pre-recorded video.

Easily arranged.

It's a Skype ca ll.

The trick was mea nt to be a su rprise.

-Trick? -Obviously.

Cou ld you ta ke a photo a nd send it?

S H ERLOCK: There were two types of vi nyl i n the bu rnt out rema i ns of the ca r.

One, the actua l passenger seat, the other, a good copy.

Well, good enoug h .

Effectively a costume.

(SCO FFS) You ' re joki ng .

I' m not.

All he wa nted was for you to get close enoug h to the ca r

so he cou ld spri ng the su rprise.

(DAVI D SIG HS)

Oh, my God !

Su rprise !

(VOICE DISTO RTI N G)

That's when it ha ppened .

I can t be certain, of course, but I think Charlie

must have suffered some sort ofa seizure.

You said he d felt unwell.

-You a ll rig ht? -CHARLI E: Its nothing.

ProbablyJust the altitude.

S H ERLOCK: He died there and then.

No one had any cause to go near his car,

so there he remained in the drivers seat, hidden until...

(SI REN WAI LI N G)

S H ERLOCK: When the two cars were examined,

the fake seat had melted in the fire, revealing Charlie,

who d been sitting there, quite dead, for a week.

Oh, God .

Poor kid .

Rea lly, I' m so sorry.

Mr. Welsboroug h, Mrs. Welsboroug h .

Th is is where it was smashed .

-That was a mazi ng . -What?

The ca r, the kid .

Ancient h istory. Why a re you sti ll ta lki ng a bout it?

What's so i m porta nt a bout a broken bust of Ma rga ret Thatcher?

Ca n 't sta nd it. N ever ca n .

There's a loose th read i n the world .

Doesn 't mea n you have to pu ll on it.

What ki nd of a life wou ld that be? Besides...

-I have the stra ngest feeli ng . -Miss me?

That's m i ne. You two ta ke a bus.

JO H N : (CH UCKLI N G) Why?

I need to concentrate a nd I don 't wa nt to h it you .

- (EN GI N E STARTS) -The Ma ll, please.

-I met her once. -Thatcher?

Rather a rroga nt, I thoug ht.

-You thoug ht that? - (CH UCKLES) I know.

Why a m I looki ng at th is?

That's her, Joh n a nd Ma ry's ba by.

Oh, I see, yes.

Looks very...

Fu lly-fu nction i ng .

Is that rea lly the best you ca n do?

Sorry, I've never been very good with them .

Ba bies?

H u ma ns.

Moria rty.

Did he have a ny con nection with Thatcher?

Any i nterest i n her?

(SCO FFS) Why on ea rth wou ld he?

I don 't know, you tell me.

(S NI FFS)

In the last yea r of h is life,

Ja mes Moria rty was i nvolved with fou r politica l assassi nations,

over 70 assorted robberies a nd terrorist attacks,

i nclud i ng a chem ica l wea pons factory i n N orth Korea,

a nd had latterly shown some i nterest i n

tracki ng down the Black Pea rl of the Borg ias.

Wh ich is sti ll m issi ng, by the way,

i n case you feel li ke a pplyi ng you rself to someth i ng practica l.

It's a pea rl, get a nother one.

Someth i ng i m porta nt a bout th is.

I' m su re, maybe it's Moria rty.

Maybe it's not.

But someth i ng 's com i ng .

Are you havi ng a premon ition, brother m i ne?

The world is woven from bi llions of lives,

every stra nd crossi ng every other.

What we ca ll premon ition is j ust movement of the web.

If you cou ld atten uate to every stra nd of q u iveri ng data,

the futu re wou ld be enti rely ca lcu la ble.

As i nevita ble as mathematics.

APPointment In Samarra.

I' m sorry?

MYCRO FT: The mercha nt who ca n 't outru n Death .

You a lways hated that story as a ch i ld .

Less keen on predesti nation back then .

I' m not su re I li ke it now.

You wrote you r own version, as I remem ber.

APPointment In Sumatra.

The mercha nt goes to a d ifferent city, a nd is perfectly fi ne.

Good n ig ht, Mycroft.

Then he becomes a pi rate, for some reason .

S H ERLOCK: Keep me i nformed .

-Of what? -Absolutely no idea .

(G LASS S HATTERS)

MAN 'S VOICE: Ammol

-Ammol - (SI REN WAI LI N G)

(B REATH TREMB LI N G)

(LESTRAD E PANTI N G)

Oh, h i, Stella .

-Greg . -You, erm . . .?

Yea h, he's j ust got a client, so...

Rig ht, rig ht, rig ht.

Er, so you see a lot of each other, do you?

It's noth i ng .

I mea n, it's noth i ng serious.

N o, no.

I j ust pop a rou nd every now a nd aga i n for a chat.

LESTRAD E: Yea h, of cou rse.

I mea n, he loves a rea lly tricky case.

(LAUG HI N G) Yea h, he does.

So, what a re you here for?

Well, Interpol th i n k the Borg ia Pea rl tra i l leads back to London, so...

Borg ia Pea rl, a re they sti ll after that, a re they?

Yea h .

So, how d id you two fi rst meet?

Oh, it was a case a bout...

Ten yea rs ago, nobody cou ld fig u re it out.

There was a n old lady fou nd dead i n a sa u na .

Oh, yea h?

- H ow d id she d ie? - Hypotherm ia .

-What? -I know.

But then I met Sherlock. It was so si m ple the way...

Wou ld you please keep it down?

-Sorry. -Sorry.

N ow, you haven 't a lways been i n life i nsu ra nce, have you?

You sta rted out i n ma n ua l la bor.

Oh, don 't bother bei ng aston ished .

You r rig ht ha nd 's a lmost a n enti re size bigger tha n you r left.

Ha rd ma n ua l work does that.

Oh, I was a ca rpenter, li ke my dad .

Are you tryi ng to g ive u p smoki ng u nsuccessfu lly?

And you once had a Ja pa nese g i rlfriend that mea nt a lot to you,

but now you feel i nd ifferent a bout.

H ow the hell...

Yes.

E-ciga rettes.

N ot j ust that, ten i nd ivid ua l e-ciga rettes.

If you j ust wa nt to smoke i ndoors, you wou ld have i nvested

i n one of those i rritati ng electron ic pi pe th i ngs.

But you ' re convi nced you ca n g ive u p, so. . . (I N HALES)

You don 't wa nt to buy a pi pe,

beca use that mea ns you ' re not serious a bout q u itti ng .

So i nstead, you buy i nd ivid ua l ciga rettes,

a lways su re that each wi ll be you r last. Anyth i ng to add, Joh n?

-Joh n . -U h, yea h, yea h, listen i ng .

-What is that? -That is me.

Well, it's a me su bstitute.

Don 't be so ha rd on you rself, you know I va lue you r little contri butions.

JO H N : Yea h? It's been there si nce 9 :00 th is morn i ng .

Has it? Where were you?

H elpi ng Mrs. H with her Sudoku .

-What a bout my g i rlfriend? -What?

You sa id I had a n ex.

You 've got a Ja pa nese tattoo i n the crook of you r elbow i n the na me Aka ko.

It's obvious you 've tried to have it removed .

But su rely that mea ns I wa nt to forget her,

not that I' m i nd ifferent.

If she'd rea lly h u rt you r feeli ngs,

you wou ld have had the word obliterated .

But the fi rst attem pt wasn 't successfu l a nd you haven 't tried aga i n .

So it seems you ca n live with th is slig htly blu rred memory of Aka ko.

H ence, the i nd ifference.

I thoug ht you 'd done someth i ng clever.

Oh, no. N o, but now you 've expla i ned it. It's dead si m ple, i n n it?

(SIG HS)

I've with held th is i nformation from you u nti l now, Mr. Ki ngsley,

but I th i n k it's ti me you knew the truth .

What do you mea n?

Have you ever wondered if you r wife was a little bit out of you r leag ue?

-Well. . . -You thoug ht she was havi ng a n affa i r.

I' m afra id it's fa r worse tha n that. You r wife is a spy.

-What? -That's rig ht.

H er rea l na me is Greta Bengsdotter.

Swed ish by bi rth, a nd proba bly the most da ngerous spy i n the world .

She's been operati ng deep u nder cover for the past fou r yea rs now

as you r wife, for one reason on ly -

to get nea r the America n Em bassy, wh ich is across the road from you r flat.

Tomorrow the US President wi ll be at the em bassy

as pa rt of a n officia l state visit.

As the President g reets mem bers of staff,

Greta Bengsdotter, d isg u ised as a 2 2 -stone clea ner,

wi ll i nject the President i n the back of the neck with a da ngerous new d rug,

h idden i nside a secret com pa rtment i nside her padded a rm pit.

Th is d rug wi ll then render the President enti rely suscepti ble

to the wi ll of that new master.

- N one other tha n Ja mes Moria rty. -What?

Moria rty wi ll then use the President as a pawn

to desta bi lize the U n ited Nations Genera l Assem bly,

wh ich is d ue to vote on a n uclea r non-proliferation treaty,

ti ppi ng the ba la nce i n favor of a fi rst-stri ke policy aga i nst Russia .

Th is cha i n of events wi ll then prove u nstoppa ble,

th us preci pitati ng World Wa r Th ree.

(CH UCKLI N G) Are you serious?

N o, of cou rse not. H is wife left h i m beca use h is breath sti n ks

a nd he li kes to wea r her li ngerie.

I don 't.

-J ust the bras. -Get out.

So.

What's th is a ll a bout, then?

- Havi ng fu n . - Fu n?

-Wh i le I ca n . -Mm m-h m m .

(KN OCK AT DOO R)

-Sherlock. - Borg ia Pea rl. Bori ng, Go.

- But. . . -Go.

Oh, th is had better be good .

Oh, I th i n k you ' ll li ke it.

That is the bust, isn 't it, the one that was broken?

N o, it's a nother one. Different owner.

Different pa rt of town .

You were rig ht. Th is is a th i ng . Someth i ng is goi ng on .

What's wrong? I thoug ht you 'd be pleased .

-S H ERLOCK: I a m pleased . -You don 't look pleased .

Th is is my ga me face.

The ga me is on .

LESTRAD E: Another two have been smashed si nce the Welsboroug h one.

One belong i ng to Mr. Moha ndes Hassa n ...

Identica l busts.

Yea h, a nd th is one to a Dr. Ba rn icot i n H olborn . Th ree i n tota l.

God knows who'd wa nt to do someth i ng li ke th is.

Yea h, but some people have that com plex, don 't they?

An idee fixe.

They obsess over one th i ng a nd they ca n 't let it go.

S H ERLOCK: N o, no, good .

There were other i mages of Ma rga ret.

-Ma rga ret? -You know who she is.

Thatcher, present at the fi rst brea k-i n .

Why wou ld a monoma n iac fixate on j ust one?

-Ooh . -JO H N : What?

Blood .

Qu ite a bit of it, too.

Was there a ny i nj u ry at the cri me scene?

Na h .

Then ou r suspect m ust have cut themselves brea ki ng the bust.

-Come on . - H olborn?

- La m beth . - La m beth? Why?

-To see Toby. -Ah, rig ht.

-Who? -You ' ll see.

- Rig ht, you com i ng? - N o, he's got a lu nch date

with a bru nette forensic officer that he doesn 't wa nt to be late for.

Who told you?

The rig ht sleeve of you r jacket

plus the forma ldehyde m ixed with you r colog ne,

a nd you r com plete i na bi lity to stop looki ng at you r watch .

Have a good ti me.

I wi ll.

Trust me, thoug h, she's not rig ht for you .

-What? -She's not the one.

Well, tha n k you, Mystic Meg .

H ow do you work a ll that out?

She's got th ree ch i ld ren i n Rio that he doesn 't know a bout.

-Are you j ust ma ki ng th is u p? - Possi bly.

JO H N : Who's Toby?

S H ERLOCK: There's a kid I know, hacker, bri llia nt hacker.

One of the world 's best.

Got himselfinto serious trouble

with the Americans a couPIe ofyears ago.

He hacked into the Pentagon security system

andl managed to get him off the charge.

Therefore, he owes me a favor.

JO H N : So, how does that help us? S H ERLOCK: What?

-Toby the hacker. -Toby is not the hacker.

What?

-All rig ht, Cra ig . -All rig ht, Sherlock.

Cra ig 's got a dog .

JO H N : So I see. S H ERLOCK: (CH UCKLES) Good boy.

H iya !

Ma ry? What a re you ...

We, we ag reed . We wou ld never bri ng Rosie out on a case.

Exactly, so...

- Don 't wa it u p. - (ROSI E CRI ES)

- H ey, Sherlock. -S H ERLOCK: H ey.

But Ma ry, what a re you doi ng here?

-She's better at th is tha n you . - Better?

So I texted her.

JO H N : Ha ng on . Ma ry's better tha n me?

Well, she is a reti red su per-agent with a terrifyi ng ski ll-set.

Of cou rse she's better.

-Okay. -S H ERLOCK: N oth i ng persona l.

Well, so I' m su pposed to j ust go home now, a m I?

Oh, what do you th i n k, Sherlock? Sha ll we ta ke h i m with us?

-S H ERLOCK: Joh n or the dog? - Ha-ha, that's fu n ny.

-Joh n . H e's ha ndy a nd loya l. -That's h i la rious.

- H m m . -Is it too ea rly for a d ivorce?

-Aw! -S H ERLOCK: Ba rn icot's house, then .

Anyone u p for a trudge?

- (DOG BARKS) - Keep u p. H e's fast.

- H e's not movi ng . - H e's th i n ki ng .

H e's rea lly not movi ng .

Slow but su re, Joh n, not d issi m i la r to you rself.

You j ust li ke th is dog, don 't you?

-Well, I li ke you . - H e's sti ll not movi ng .

- Fasci nati ng . -Oh !

(MARY CLEARS TH ROAT)

S H ERLOCK: Well, what do you ma ke of it?

MARY: That we' re looki ng for someth i ng .

Yes, but it wasn 't a bu rg la r.

They ca me specifica lly for that Thatcher bust. Why?

Clever.

Well, if you were wou nded a nd you knew you were leavi ng a tra i l,

-where wou ld you go? - Li ke h id i ng a tree i n a forest.

Or blood i n a butcher's.

N ever m i nd, Toby. Better luck next ti me, h m m?

Th is is it, thoug h . Th is is the one. I ca n feel it.

N ot Moria rty?

Has to be h i m . It's too biza rre, it's too ba roq ue.

It's desig ned to beg u i le me, tease me a nd lu re me i n .

Blast.

A noose for me to put my neck i nto.

MARY: You shou ld have seen the state of the front lawn .

It was li ke The Exorcist.

(SCO FFS) Was Rosie's head spi n n i ng rou nd?

Mm m, no. J ust the projecti le vom iti ng .

- N ice. -Mm m .

N ow, you th i n k we'd have noticed when she was born .

N oticed what?

The little 666 on her forehead .

Mm m . That's The Dmen.

-So? -You sa id it was li ke The Exorcist.

They' re two d ifferent th i ngs.

She ca n 't be the Devi l a nd the Antich rist.

(SCO FFS)

(ROSI E CRYI N G)

-Yea h, ca n 't she? - (G RU NTS)

Oh, com i ng, da rli ng .

-Mu m my's com i ng . - (MO BI LE VI B RATI N G)

MARY: Oh, what a re you doi ng?

What a re you doi ng?

CRAIG: You hea rd of that th i ng i n Germa ny?

You ' re goi ng to have to be more specific, Cra ig .

U h, Osta lg ie.

People who m iss the old days u nder the Com m u n ists.

- People a re wei rd, a ren 't they? -Mm m .

Accord i ng to th is, there's q u ite a ma rket for Cold Wa r memora bi lia .

Thatcher, Reaga n, Sta li n .

Ti me's a g reat leveller, i n n it?

Thatcher's li ke, I don 't know, Na poleon now.

Yes, fasci nati ng a nd releva nt. Where exactly d id they come from?

Well, I've got i nto records of the su ppliers, Gelder a nd Co.

-Seems they' re from Georg ia . -S H ERLOCK: Where exactly?

Tbi lisi .

Batch of six.

One to Welsboroug h, one to Hassa n,

one to Dr. Ba rn icot. Two to Miss Orrie Ha rker,

one to a Mr. Jack Sa ndeford of Read i ng .

- Lestrade, a nother one? - Yeah.

Ha rker or Sa ndeford?

Ha rker. And it's m u rder th is ti me.

Mm m . That perks th i ngs u p a bit.

Defensive wou nds on her face a nd ha nds, th roat cut, sha rp blade.

The sa me th i ng i nside the house, the bust.

Two of them th is ti me.

Interesti ng . That batch of statues was made i n Tbi lisi severa l yea rs ago.

Li m ited ed ition of six.

And now someone's wa nderi ng a bout destroyi ng them a ll.

Ma kes no sense. What's the poi nt?

Well, they' re not destroyi ng them . That's not what's ha ppen i ng .

-Yes, it is. -Well, it is what's ha ppen i ng,

but it's not the poi nt.

I've been slow. Fa r too slow.

Well, I' m sti ll bei ng slow over here, so if you wou ld n 't m i nd .

Slow but lucky, very lucky.

Si nce they smashed both busts, ou r luck m ig ht j ust hold .

Jack Sa ndeford of Read i ng is where I' m goi ng next.

Cong ratu lations, by the way.

-Sorry? -Well, you ' re a bout to solve a big one.

Yea h, u nti l Joh n pu blishes h is blog .

Yea h . Ti ll then, basica lly.

(WATER S P LAS HI N G)

That's enoug h now, love.

Daddy has th i ngs to do, I' m afra id .

And you need to get to bed .

Come on .

It wou ld be m uch si m pler to ta ke out you r g rieva nces at the polli ng station .

S H ERLOCK: You were on the ru n .

N owhere to h ide you r precious ca rgo.

You fi nd you rself i n a workshop,

plaster busts of the Iron Lady d ryi ng . It's clever.

Very clever. But now you 've met me.

And you ' re not so clever, a re you?

Who a re you?

My na me is Sherlock H olmes.

Good bye, Sherlock H olmes.

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMS)

(G RU NTS)

(G RU NTS)

(CH O KI N G)

(GAS PI N G)

S H ERLOCK: You ' re out of ti me.

Tell me a bout you r boss, Moria rty.

Who?

I know it's h i m . It m ust be h i m .

You th i n k you u ndersta nd?

You u ndersta nd noth i ng .

S H ERLOCK: Well, before the police come i n a nd spoi l th i ngs,

why don 't we j ust enjoy the moment?

Let me present Interpol's n u m ber one case.

Too toug h for them, too bori ng for me.

The Black Pea rl of the Borg ias.

It's not possi ble.

H ow cou ld she...

MARY: Everyth i ng a bout who I was is on there.

The problems of you r past

a re you r busi ness.

The problems of you r futu re

a re my privi lege.

S H ERLOCK: I don 't u ndersta nd .

-She, she destroyed it. -She?

(GU N COCKI N G)

You know her.

You do, don 't you?

You know the bitch .

She betrayed me.

(SI REN WAI LI N G)

- Betrayed us a ll. -Ma ry.

Th is is a bout Ma ry.

Is that what she's ca lli ng herself now?

PO LICEMAN : (OVER LOU DS P EAKER) ArmedPolice. Youre surrounded.

Give it to me.

Give it to me !

PO LICEMAN : Im going in. I want to see your hands above your head.

N obody shoots at me. If a nyone shoots, I ki ll th is ma n .

Lay down your weaPons.

Do it nowl

I' m leavi ng th is place.

If no one follows me, no one d ies.

Lay down your weaPons.

You ' re a policemen .

I' m a professiona l.

Tell her she's a dead woma n .

She's a dead woma n wa lki ng .

She's my friend,

a nd she's u nder my protection .

Who a re you?

I' m the ma n

who's goi ng to ki ll you r friend .

Who's Sherlock H olmes?

N ot a policema n .

(ALARM RI N GI N G)

AMBASSADO R: What do you th i n k? Mate i n two?

(S P EAKI N G LOCAL LAN GUAG E)

MAN : Don 't a ntagon ize them, da rli ng .

Well, what else is there to do? Chess pa lls after th ree months.

Everyth i ng pa lls.

They' ll send someone soon .

"They"? Who a re "they"?

Seems to me we put a n awfu l lot of fa ith i n "they. "

Well, I've got someth i ng "they" wou ld dea rly love

if on ly we cou ld get out of here.

-I've got Am mo. -Am mo?

(S H OUTI N G)

Mada m Am bassador.

What took you so long?

-Ca n 't get the staff. -MALE SO LDI ER: Everyone out, now!

MALE SO LDI ER: To you r left.

(P EO P LE SCREAMI N G)

(LAUG HI N G)

What now. What do we do?

We d ie.

Well?

H e ca n 't have got fa r. We' ll have h i m i n a bit.

-I very m uch dou bt it. -Why?

Beca use I th i n k he used to work with Ma ry.

(GU N FI RE)

(MEN S P EAKI N G LOCAL LAN GUAG E)

(G RU NTS)

(GU N FI RE)

(G RU NTS)

Am mo. Am mo. Am mo.

Am mo. Am mo. Am mo.

(MOANI N G)

Passed out aga i n .

It's no fu n when they pass out.

We' ll come back later.

What wou ld he do if he knew, h u h?

About the Eng lish woma n .

What wou ld you do to a tra itor?

Maybe we' ll tell h i m one day.

If he lives that long . (LAUG HS)

(TH U N D ER RUMB LI N G)

S H ERLOCK: I a m a n id iot.

I know noth i ng .

MARY: Well, I've been telli ng you that for ages.

That was q u ite a text you sent me.

What's goi ng on, Sherlock?

S H ERLOCK: I was so convi nced it was Moria rty,

I cou ld n 't see what was rig ht u nder my nose.

Expected a pea rl.

-Oh, my God . That's a . . . -Yes, it's a n AG RA memory stick.

Li ke you gave Joh n, except th is one belongs to someone else.

-Who? -I don 't know.

We, we a ll had one, but the others were...

Well, haven 't you even looked at it yet?

I g la nced at it, but I prefer to hea r it from you .

Why?

Beca use I' ll know the truth when I hea r it.

(SCO FFS)

There were fou r of us.

-Agents. - N ot j ust agents.

Polite term .

Alex, Ga briel, me a nd Ajay.

There was a bsolute trust between us.

The memory sticks g ua ra nteed it.

We a ll had one.

Each conta i n i ng a liases, ou r backg rou nd, everyth i ng .

We cou ld never be betrayed beca use we had everyth i ng we needed

to destroy the other.

-Who em ployed you? -Anyone who pa id well.

Oh, we were at the top of ou r ga me for yea rs,

a nd then it a ll ended .

There was a cou p i n Georg ia .

The British Em bassy i n Tbi lisi was ta ken over,

lots of hostages, we got the ca ll to go i n,

get them out, there was a cha nge of pla n, a last-m i n ute adj ustment.

-Who from? -I don 't know.

J ust a nother voice on the phone.

And a codeword .

-Am mo. -Am mo?

Li ke a m m u n ition .

We went i n, but then someth i ng went wrong .

Someth i ng went rea lly wrong .

(P EO P LE SCREAMI N G)

That was six yea rs ago.

Feels li ke forever.

I was the on ly one that made it out.

N o.

-What? -I met someone ton ig ht.

The sa me someone who's looki ng for the sixth Thatcher.

Oh, my God . That's Ajay. That's h i m .

-What, he's a live? -Yea h, very m uch so.

I don 't believe it. Th is is a mazi ng .

I thoug ht I was the on ly one,

I thoug ht I was the on ly one who got out.

Where is he? I need to see h i m now!

Before you gave it to Joh n, d id you keep you r memory stick safe?

Yea h, of cou rse. It was ou r i nsu ra nce.

Above a ll, they m ustn 't fa ll i nto enemy ha nds.

So Ajay su rvived as well,

a nd now he's looki ng for the memory stick he ma naged to h ide,

with a ll of AG RA's old a liases on it, but why?

I don 't know.

Tbi lisi was six yea rs ago, where's he been?

Ma ry, I' m sorry to tell you th is, but he wa nts you dead .

(LAUG HS)

Sorry, no, no, 'ca use we, we were fa m i ly.

Fa m i lies fa ll out.

The memory stick is the easiest way to track you down .

You ' re the on ly other su rvivor, it m ust be you that he wa nts,

a nd he's a lready ki lled looki ng for the Thatcher bust.

Well, he's j ust tryi ng to fi nd me. H e su rvived .

That's a ll that matters.

S H ERLOCK: I hea rd it from h is own mouth .

"Tell her she's a dead woma n wa lki ng . "

Why wou ld he wa nt to ki ll me?

- H e sa id you betrayed h i m . -Oh, no. N o, that's i nsa ne.

Well, it's what he believes.

(EXHALES)

I su ppose I was a lways afra id th is m ig ht ha ppen .

That someth i ng i n my past wou ld come back to ha u nt me one day.

Yes, well, he's a very ta ng i ble g host.

God, I j ust wa nted a bit of peace, a nd I rea lly thoug ht I had it.

N o, Ma ry.

You do.

I made a vow, remem ber?

To look after the th ree of you .

Sherlock, the d ragon slayer.

Stay close to me a nd I wi ll keep you safe from h i m, I prom ise you .

There's someth i ng I th i n k you shou ld read .

What is it?

MARY: I hoped I wou ld n 't have to do th is.

What a re you ...

-Ma ry. . . Oh, no. -There you go.

It's a ll rig ht.

It's for the best, believe me.

(G ROANS)

You j ust look after h i m ti ll I get back. I' m sorry.

I' m so sorry.

(LITTLE GI RL SI N GI N G)

(DOG BARKI N G)

(G ROANS)

(TH U N D ER RUMB LI N G)

Ag ra?

A city on the ba n ks of the river Ya m u na,

i n the northern state of Utta r Pradesh, Ind ia .

It is 378 ki lometers west of the state ca pita l, Lucknow...

What a re you, Wi ki ped ia?

-Yes. -AG RA's a n acronym .

Oh, good . I love a n acronym .

All the best secret societies have them .

Tea m of agents, the best.

- But you know a ll of that. -Of cou rse, I do. Go on .

One of them, Ajay, is looki ng for Ma ry, a lso one of the tea m .

Indeed . Well, that's news to me.

Is it?

H e's a lready ki lled looki ng for that memory stick,

AG RA a lways worked for the h ig hest bidder,

I thoug ht that m ig ht i nclude you .

-Me? -Oh, I mea n the British Govern ment

or whatever govern ment you ' re cu rrently proppi ng u p.

MYCRO FT: AG RA were very relia ble.

Then ca me the Tbi lisi i ncident.

They were sent i n to free the hostages,

but it a ll went horri bly wrong .

And that was that. We stopped usi ng freela ncers.

-You r i n itiative? -My i n itiative.

Freela ncers a re too woolly, too messy.

I don 't li ke loose ends.

N ot on my watch .

There was someth i ng else.

A deta i l.

A codeword .

-Am mo? -It's a ll I've got.

Little enoug h .

S H ERLOCK: Cou ld you do some d igg i ng as a favor?

You don 't have ma ny favors left.

Then I' m ca lli ng them a ll i n .

And if you ca n fi nd who's after her a nd neutra lize them, what then?

You th i n k you ca n go on savi ng her forever?

Of cou rse.

Is that senti ment ta lki ng?

N o. It's me.

Difficu lt to tell the d ifference these days.

Told you, I made a prom ise. A vow.

All rig ht, I' ll see what I ca n do.

But remem ber th is, brother m i ne.

Agents li ke Ma ry tend not to reach reti rement age.

They get reti red

i n a pretty perma nent sort of way.

N ot on my watch .

MARY: My darling,

I need to tellyou this because you mustn t hate me for going away.

(I N N EW YO RK ACCENT) Pa rdon me. I ca n hea r a sq uea ki ng .

Ca n you hea r a sq uea ki ng?

N o.

On ly I watched a docu menta ry on the Discovery Cha n nel,

Why PIanes Fail, d id you see it?

-Ca n 't say I d id . -Oh, tru ly terrifyi ng .

Swore I wou ld never fly aga i n, yet here I a m .

- Everyth i ng okay, mada m? - N o.

N o, it's not. But then what's the use i n com pla i n i ng?

I hea r a sq uea ki ng .

Proba bly the wi ng wi ll come off, is a ll.

Everyth i ng 's fi ne, I prom ise you . J ust relax.

Oh, okay, relax.

She sa id relax. (LAUG HS)

Did you have a n ice ti me i n London?

It was okay, I g uess.

But d id somebody h ide the su n?

Did you lose it i n the wa r? (LAUG HS MANICALLY)

MARY: Igave myselfPermission to have an ordinary Iife.

Im not running, IPromise you that.

IJust need to do this in my own way.

Oh, God .

I, I don 't feel so good . Oh, my God .

- Everyth i ng okay, mada m? -I th i n k I' m dyi ng .

I don 't feel so good .

- (B REATH ES H EAVI LY) -You ' re a ll rig ht.

Oh, you ' re sweet.

You have a very ki nd face. God wi ll sm i le on you .

MARY: But I don t want you and Sherlock hanging offmy gun arm.

Im sorry, my Iove.

I knowyoull try to find me, but there is no Point.

Every move is random and not even Sherlock Holmes

can anticiPate the roll ofa dice.

I need to move the target far, far away

from you and Rosie, and then III come back, my darling.

I swear, I will.

(MAN S P EAKI N G I N DISTI N CTLY)

MAN : You haven 't got a cha nce. N ot a cha nce.

I've got you where I wa nt you .

Give i n, g ive i n . I wi ll destroy you .

You ' re com pletely at my mercy.

S H ERLOCK: Mr. Ba ker. Well, that com pletes the set.

MAN : N o, it is not.

S H ERLOCK: Well, who else a m I m issi ng?

Master Bu n . It's not a set without h i m .

H ow ma ny more ti mes, Mr. Sherlock?

H m m . Maybe it's beca use I' m not fa m i lia r with the concept.

Oh, h i, Ma ry.

What concept?

Ha ppy fa m i lies. N ice tri p?

- H ow the f. . . - Please, Ma ry, there is a ch i ld present.

- H ow d id you get i n here? -S H ERLOCK: Ka ri m let me i n .

H ello.

Ka ri m, wou ld you be so ki nd as to fetch us some tea?

-Su re. -Tha n k you .

N ice to meet you, Mrs. .

N o, I, I mea n, how d id you fi nd me?

-I' m Sherlock H olmes. -MARY: Rea lly thoug h, how?

Every movement I made was enti rely ra ndom .

Every new persona lity, j ust on the roll of a d ice.

Ma ry, no h u ma n action is ever tru ly ra ndom .

An adva nced g rasp of the mathematics of proba bi lity

ma pped on to a thoroug h a pprehension of h u ma n psychology

a nd the known d ispositions of a ny g iven i nd ivid ua l

ca n red uce the n u m ber of va ria bles considera bly.

I myself know of at least 58 tech n iq ues

to refi ne the seem i ng ly i nfi n ite a rray of ra ndom ly generated possi bi lities

down to the sma llest n u m ber of feasi ble va ria bles.

But they' re rea lly d ifficu lt, so i nstead I j ust

stuck a tracer on the i nside of the memory stick.

(S H ERLOCK LAUG HS)

Oh, you basta rd .

-You basta rd . -I know, but you r face.

"The mathematics of proba bi lity. "

You believed that.

" Feasi ble va ria bles. "

Yes, I sta rted to ru n out a bout then .

In the memory stick.

Yea h, that was my idea .

(CALL TO P RAYER)

-JO H N : AG RA. -Yes.

Mm m-h m m . You sa id it was you r i n itia ls.

-In a way, that was true. -In a way?

So ma ny lies.

I' m so sorry.

-I don 't j ust mea n you . -What?

Alex, Ga briel, Ajay...

You ' re R.

Rosa m u nd?

Rosa m u nd Ma ry.

I a lways li ked Ma ry.

Yea h, me too.

I used to. (SIG HS)

I d id n 't know what else to do.

You cou ld have stayed . You cou ld have ta lked to me.

That's what cou ples a re su pposed to do.

Work th i ngs th roug h .

Yes.

Yes, of cou rse.

Ma ry, I may not be a very good ma n .

But I th i n k I' m a bit better tha n you g ive me cred it for.

-Most of the ti me. -All the ti me.

You ' re a lways a good ma n, Joh n . I've never dou bted that.

You never j udge. You never com pla i n .

I don 't deserve you, I...

All I ever wa nted to do was keep you a nd Rosie safe, that's a ll.

I wi ll keep you safe.

But it has to be i n London .

It's my city, I know the tu rf.

Come home a nd everyth i ng wi ll be a ll rig ht, I prom ise you .

-Get down ! - (GU NS H OTS)

- H ello aga i n . -Ajay.

Oh, you remem ber me. I' m touched .

Look, I thoug ht you were dead . Believe me, I d id .

I've been looki ng forwa rd to th is for longer tha n you ca n i mag i ne.

I swea r to you, I thoug ht you were dead .

I thoug ht I was the on ly one who got out.

(GU NS H OT)

S H ERLOCK: H ow d id you fi nd us?

By followi ng you, Sherlock H olmes.

I mea n, you ' re clever.

You fou nd her, but I fou nd you, si r.

Perha ps not so clever.

And now here we a re. At last.

- (GU NS H OT) - (BU LB S HATTERS)

(CH UCKLES) Touché.

Listen, whatever you th i n k you know,

we ca n ta lk a bout th is, we ca n work it out.

She thoug ht I was dead .

I m ig ht as well have been .

It was a lways j ust the fou r of us. Always, remem ber?

-Oh, yea h . -So why do you wa n na ki ll me?

AJAY: Do you know how long they kept me prisoner?

What they d id to me?

-They tortu red Alex to death . - (GAS PS)

I ca n sti ll hea r the sou nd of h is back brea ki ng .

But you, you, where were you?

That day, at the em bassy, I esca ped .

Ha !

But I lost sig ht of you, too, so you expla i n, where were you?

Oh, I got out. For a wh i le.

Long enoug h to h ide my memory stick.

I d id n 't wa nt that to fa ll i nto thei r ha nds.

I was loya l, you see.

Loya l to my friends.

They took me, tortu red me.

N ot for i nformation .

- (G RU NTI N G) - (SCREAMI N G)

N ot for a nyth i ng except fu n .

They thoug ht I'd g ive i n . Die.

But I d id n 't, I lived .

And eventua lly, they forgot a bout me rotti ng i n a cell somewhere.

Six yea rs they kept me there.

Ti ll one day, I saw my cha nce.

Oh, a nd I made them pay.

You know, a ll the ti me I was there,

I j ust kept picki ng u p th i ngs.

Little wh ispers, la ug hter, gossi p.

H ow the clever agents had been betrayed .

Broug ht down by you !

-Me? - (H O RN H O N KI N G)

(GU N COCKI N G)

(G RU NTS)

You know I' ll ki ll you, too. You know I wi ll, Ajay.

(PANTI N G) What, you th i n k I ca re if I d ie?

I've d rea med of ki lli ng you .

Every n ig ht for six yea rs.

Sq ueezi ng the life

out of you r treacherous, lyi ng th roat.

I swea r to you, Ajay.

S H ERLOCK: What d id you hea r, Ajay?

When you were a prisoner, what exactly d id you hea r?

AJAY: What d id I hea r?

Am mo.

Every day, as they tore i nto me,

Am mo. Am mo.

Am mo. Am mo.

We were betrayed !

S H ERLOCK: And they sa id it was her.

-And you betrayed us. -They sa id her na me?

Yea h, they sa id it was the Eng lish woma n .

- (GU NS H OTS) - N o ! N o !

S H ERLOCK: The English woman. Thats all he heard.

Naturally, he assumed it was Mary.

Cou ld n 't th is wa it u nti l you ' re back?

N o, it's not over.

Ajay sa id that they'd been betrayed .

The hostage-ta kers knew AG RA were com i ng .

There was on ly a voice on the phone.

Remember, and a codeword.

Am mo, yes, you sa id .

H ow's you r Lati n, brother dea r?

My Lati n?

Amo, a mas, a mat.

I love, you love, he loves, what...

N ot Am mo as i n a m m u n ition, but Amo mea n i ng ...

You 'd better be rig ht, Sherlock.

(B EEPS)

(B EEPI N G)

(B EEPI N G)

- (B EEPI N G) - Bloody th i ng .

What's goi ng on?

I' m very sorry, Lady Sma llwood,

you r secu rity protocols have been tem pora ri ly resci nded .

What?

JO H N : So many Iies.

I don tJust mean you.

(I N DISTI N CT CHATTER)

- H ello. -Ah, hello. (LAUG HS)

-I li ke you r da isy. -Tha n k you, yea h .

It's not rea lly me, thoug h, I th i n k.

- N o? - N o, no.

It's too flora l for me.

I' m more of a knackered with wea ry old eyes ki nd of a g uy.

Well, I th i n k they' re n ice.

- N ice eyes. What, what. . . -Tha n k you . (LAUG HS)

I don 't norma lly do th is, but, u m ...

- But you ' re gon na . -Yea h .

- (CH UCKLES) -What's th is?

Th is is me.

U h, tha n k you .

-Cheers. -Yea h, rig ht.

- Bye. - Bye.

(B EEPS)

(CH UCKLES)

(CLEARS TH ROAT)

(MO BI LE VI B RATI N G)

N ow, you th i n k we'd have noticed when she was born .

N oticed what?

The little 666 on her forehead .

Mm m . That's The Dmen.

-So? -You sa id it was li ke The Exorcist.

They' re two d ifferent th i ngs.

She ca n 't be the Devi l a nd the Antich rist.

(SCO FFS)

(ROSI E CRYI N G)

-Yea h, ca n 't she? - (G RU NTS)

Oh, com i ng, da rli ng .

-I' m com i ng . - (MO BI LE VI B RATI N G)

(SIG HS)

MARY: Why a re you cryi ng? Sh h, sh h .

- (MO BI LE VI B RATES) - (CRYI N G CO NTI N U ES)

MARY: I know.

(MO BI LE VI B RATI N G)

(SIG HS)

MARY: Oh, you ' re not goi ng to stop cryi ng, a re you?

(MO BI LE VI B RATI N G)

MARY: I know, sha ll we go a nd see Daddy? (GAS PS)

Let's go see Daddy.

Daddy's here. It's okay, Rosie's com i ng .

-I' ll ta ke her. -Yea h?

Yea h, I m ig ht as well get u p a nyway.

H ey, ba by, it's Daddy.

(KISSI N G) Daddy.

-Come here, Rosie. -Yea h .

Come here, da rli ng, it's a ll rig ht.

-MARY: Yea h, tha n k you . - (CRYI N G CO NTI N U ES)

Th is is a bsolutely rid icu lous, a nd you know it.

H ow ma ny more ti mes?

Six yea rs ago, you held the brief for foreig n operations. Codena me, Love.

And you ' re basi ng a ll th is on a codena me?

On a wh ispered voice on the telephone?

Come on, Mycroft.

You were the cond u it for AG RA.

Every assig n ment, every deta i l they got from you .

It was my job.

Then there was the Tbi lisi i ncident.

-AG RA went i n . -Yes.

-And they were betrayed . - N ot by me.

Mycroft, we've known each other a long ti me.

I prom ise you, I haven 't the fogg iest idea

what a ll th is is a bout.

You wou nd u p AG RA a nd a ll the other freela ncers.

I haven 't done a ny of the th i ngs

you ' re accusi ng me of. N ot one.

N ot one.

Do you th i n k she' ll li ke bedti me stories?

-I'd li ke to do those. -Yea h?

Yea h, I j ust ma ke a series of g u rg li ng noises at the moment.

- (CH UCKLES) -Althoug h she does seem to enjoy them .

Well, I' ll have to g ive that a go.

(CH UCKLES)

Got a lot to catch u p on .

AJAY: You think you understand.

You understand nothing.

MYCRO FT: Codenames Antarctica, Langdale, Porlock and Love.

MARY: Youd be amazed what a recePtionist Picks uP.

They know everything.

AJAY: They said it was the English womanl

Don t minute any of this.

MARY: They know everything.

You don 't ma ke it easy, do you?

What do you mea n?

I mea n . . . (CLEARS TH ROAT) Bei ng so perfect.

Ma ry.

I need to tell you ...

- (MO BI LE VI B RATI N G) - Ha ng on .

Ca n you tell me later?

-Yea h, yea h . -Great.

Oh, no, we ca n 't j ust go.

- Rosie. U h, you go. - N o !

I' ll come as soon as I've fou nd someone.

-Mrs. H udson . -Corfu ti ll Satu rday.

-Molly. -U h, yea h, I' ll try.

Well we shou ld both stay a nd wa it for her.

N o, you know that's not gon na ha ppen .

If there's more to th is case, you ' re the one who needs to see it.

Yea h, okay, you wi n .

MAN : (OVER PA) Ladies andgentlemen.

The aquarium will be closing in five minutes.

PIease make your way to the exit.

Thank you.

S H ERLOCK: You r office sa id I'd fi nd you here.

VIVIAN : Th is was a lways my favorite spot for agents to meet.

We' re li ke them .

Ghostly, livi ng i n the shadows.

Predatory.

Well, it depends wh ich side you ' re on .

Also, we have to keep movi ng or we d ie.

N ice location for the fi na l act.

Cou ld n 't have chosen it better myself.

But then I never cou ld resist a touch of the d ra matic.

VIVIAN : I j ust come here to look at the fish .

I knew th is wou ld ha ppen one day.

It's li ke that old story.

I rea lly a m a very busy ma n .

Wou ld you m i nd cutti ng to the chase?

You ' re very su re of you rself, a ren 't you?

With good reason .

There was once a mercha nt

i n a fa mous ma rket i n Bag hdad .

I rea lly have never li ked th is story.

I' m j ust li ke the mercha nt i n the story.

I thoug ht I cou ld outru n the i nevita ble.

I've a lways been looki ng over my shou lder.

Always expecti ng to see the g ri m fig u re of...

-MARY: Death . - H ello, Ma ry.

-Joh n? - H ey. On h is way.

S H ERLOCK: Let me i ntrod uce Am mo.

You were Am mo?

You were the person on the phone that ti me?

Usi ng AG RA as her private assassi nation u n it.

Why d id you betray us?

-Why does a nyone do a nyth i ng? -S H ERLOCK: Let me g uess.

Selli ng secrets?

Well, it wou ld be ch u rlish to refuse.

Worked very well for a few yea rs.

I boug ht a n ice cottage i n Cornwa ll on the back of it.

But...

The a m bassador i n Tbi lisi fou nd out.

I thoug ht I'd had it.

Then she was ta ken hostage i n that cou p. (LAUG HS)

I cou ld n 't believe my luck.

That boug ht me a little ti me.

But then you fou nd out you r boss had sent AG RA i n .

VIVIAN : Very ha ndy.

They were a lways such relia ble ki llers.

What you d id n 't know, Ma ry, was that th is one

a lso ti pped off the hostage-ta kers.

Lady Sma llwood gave the order,

but I sent a nother one to the terrorists.

With a n ice little clue a bout her codena me,

shou ld a nyone have a n i nq u i ri ng m i nd .

Seemed to do the trick.

And you thoug ht you r trou bles were over.

I was ti red .

Ti red of the mess of it a ll.

I j ust wa nted some peace, some cla rity.

The hostages were ki lled . AG RA too.

Or so I thoug ht.

My secret was safe.

But, a ppa rently not.

J ust a little peace.

That's a ll you wa nted too, wasn 't it?

A fa m i ly? H ome?

Rea lly, I u ndersta nd .

So, j ust let me get out of here, rig ht?

Let me j ust wa lk away.

I' ll va n ish, I' ll go forever.

-What do you say? -After what you d id?

Ma ry, no !

MARY: Okay.

London Aq ua ri u m . Yes, now.

VIVIAN : I was never a field agent.

I a lways thoug ht I'd be rather good .

(SCO FFS)

Well, you ha nd led the operation i n Tbi lisi very well.

-Tha n ks. - For a secreta ry.

What?

Ca n 't have been easy a ll those yea rs sitti ng i n the back,

keepi ng you r mouth sh ut, when you knew you were cleverer

tha n most of the people i n the room .

I d id n 't do th is out of jea lousy.

N o?

Sa me old d rudge, day i n, day out.

N ever getti ng out there, where a ll the excitement was.

J ust back to you r little flat on Wig more Street.

- (STAMMERS) -They've ta ken u p the pavement

outside the post office there.

The loca l clay on you r shoes is very d isti nctive.

-Yes, you r little flat. - H ow do you know?

Well, on you r sa la ry, it wou ld have to be modest,

a nd you spent a ll the money on that cottage, d id n 't you?

And what a re you? Widowed or d ivorced?

Wedd i ng ri ng 's at least 30 yea rs old,

a nd you 've moved it to a nother fi nger.

That mea ns you ' re senti menta lly attached to it.

But you ' re not sti ll ma rried .

I favor widowed, g iven the n u m ber of cats

-you sha re you r life with . -Sherlock?

Two Bu rmese a nd a tortoiseshell,

j udg i ng by the cat ha i rs on you r ca rd iga n .

A d ivorcee's more li kely to look for a new pa rtner.

A widow to fi ll the void left by her dead h usba nd .

-Sherlock, don 't. - Pets do that, or so I' m told .

And there's clea rly no one new i n you r life

otherwise you wou ld n 't be spend i ng you r Friday n ig hts i n a n aq ua ri u m .

That proba bly accou nts for the d ri n k problem too.

The slig ht tremor i n you r ha nd .

The red wi ne sta i n g hosti ng you r top li p.

So, yes.

I'd say jea lousy was you r motive, after a ll.

To prove how good you a re.

To ma ke u p for the i nadeq uacies of you r little life.

Well, Mrs. N orbu ry,

I m ust ad m it, th is is u nexpected .

Vivia n N orbu ry.

You outsma rted them a ll.

All except Sherlock H olmes.

There's no way out.

So it wou ld seem .

You see rig ht th roug h me, Mr. H olmes.

It's what I do.

Maybe I ca n sti ll su rprise you .

N ow come on . Be sensi ble.

N o, I don 't th i n k so.

(GU NS H OT)

- (MARY SCREAMS) -Su rprise.

(GAS PS)

(MARY G RU NTI N G)

Everyth i ng 's fi ne. It's gon na be okay.

-Get a n a m bu la nce. - (MARY GAS PI N G)

S H ERLOCK: It's a ll rig ht. It's a ll rig ht.

-Ma ry! -Joh n .

Oh . . . Ma ry?

Ma ry? Stay with me. Stay with me.

- Don 't worry. -MARY: Come on, Doctor.

-You ca n do better tha n that. -JO H N : Come on, Ma ry.

Ma ry?

-Joh n, I th i n k th is is it. - N o, no, no, no.

It's not. It's...

You 've made me so ha ppy.

You gave me everyth i ng I cou ld ever, ever...

-Sh h, sh h . -Wa nted .

-Ma ry, Ma ry? Sh h, sh h . - (CRYI N G)

- Look after Rosie. -Sh h .

- Prom ise me. -I prom ise.

- (SO B BI N G) -Yes, I prom ise.

- Prom ise. -I prom ise. I prom ise.

Sh h .

H ey, Sherlock.

Yes.

I so li ke you .

Did I ever say?

Yes, yes, you d id .

I' m sorry for shooti ng you that ti me.

I' m rea lly sorry.

It's a ll rig ht.

-I th i n k we' re even now, okay? -Okay.

(WI N CES) I th i n k we' re even .

- Defi n itely even . -Ma ry...

Ah ! (SO B BI N G)

You were my whole world .

(SO B BI N G)

Bei ng Ma ry Watson ...

...was the on ly life...

...worth livi ng .

Tha n k you .

(JO H N PANTI N G)

Ma ry?

(JO H N SO B BI N G QUI ETLY)

(G RU NTI N G)

(G ROANI N G)

(SCREAMI N G)

(B REATHI N G D EEP LY)

JO H N : Don 't you da re.

(PANTI N G)

You made a vow.

You swore it.

(MO BI LE VI B RATI N G)

(MO BI LE CO NTI N U ES VI B RATI N G)

ELLA: Youve been having dreams.

A recurring dream?

Do you wa n na ta lk a bout it?

Th is is a two-way relationsh i p, you know.

(SIG HS)

The whole world has come crash i ng down a rou nd you .

Everyth i ng is hopeless.

Irretrieva ble.

I know that's what you m ust feel.

But I ca n on ly help you

if you com pletely open you rself u p to me.

S H ERLOCK: That's not rea lly my style.

I need to know what to do.

ELLA: Do?

About Joh n .

(G RU NTS)

(SIG HS)

Put me th roug h to Sherri nford, please.

Yes, I' ll wa it.

MRS. H U DSO N : N oth i ng wi ll ever be the sa me aga i n, wi ll it?

-I' m afra id it won 't. - (SO B BI N G)

We' ll have to ra lly a rou nd, I expect, do ou r bit.

Look after little Rosie.

I' m j ust goi ng to, erm ...

Look th roug h these th i ngs. There m ig ht be a case.

A case? Oh, you ' re not u p to it, a re you?

Work is the best a ntidote to sorrow, Mrs. H udson .

Yes, yes, I expect you ' re rig ht.

I' ll ma ke some tea, sha ll I?

-Mrs. H udson? -Yes, Sherlock?

If you ever th i n k I' m becom i ng a bit fu ll of myself,

-cocky or overconfident. . . -MRS. H U DSO N : Yes?

Wi ll you j ust say the word " N orbu ry" to me?

-Wou ld you? - N orbu ry.

J ust that.

I'd be very g ratefu l.

What's th is?

Oh, I broug ht that u p. It was m ixed u p with my th i ngs.

-God, is that. . . -Must be.

Oh .

I knew it wou ld n 't end li ke th is.

I knew Moria rty made pla ns.

(B EEPI N G)

Thoug ht that wou ld get you r attention .

So th is is i n case...

In case the day comes.

Ifyoure watching this, Im Probably dead.

I hoPe I can have an ordinary Iife.

But who knows? Nothing is certain, nothing is written.

My old life...

It was fu ll of conseq uences.

The da nger was the fu n pa rt.

But you ca n 't outru n that forever.

You need to remem ber that, so...

I' m g ivi ng you a case, Sherlock.

Might be the hardest case ofyour career.

When I' m gone, if I' m gone...

I need you to do someth i ng for me.

(DOO R O P ENS)

H i .

I j ust wondered how th i ngs were goi ng, you know.

And if there was a nyth i ng I cou ld do?

It's, u h . . . It's from Joh n .

- Rig ht. -You don 't need to read it now.

I' m sorry, Sherlock. H e says...

Joh n sa id if you were to come rou nd,

aski ng after h i m, offeri ng to help...

Yes?

H e sa id ...

That he'd rather have a nyone but you .

Anyone.

(DOO R CLOS ES)

MARY: Im giving you a case, Sherlock.

When Im gone, iflm gone...

I needyou to do something for me.

Save Joh n Watson .

Save h i m, Sherlock.

Save h i m .

S H ERLOCK: When does the Path we walk on Iock around our feet?

When does the road become a river with only one destination?

Death waits for us all in Samarra.

But can Samarra be avoided?

(TH EME MUSIC P LAYI N G)

Go to hell, Sherlock.