Sherlock..........Who?

The Final Problem Part Four

JENNY: We're in a well. That's where we are; in the bottom of a  bloody well.

(Sherlock turns, frowning.)

SHERLOCK: Why would there be a well in Sherrinford?

(He raises the lantern and looks more closely at the array of photographs on the wall in front of him.)

SHERLOCK: Why is there a draught?

(He zooms in on where two panels of the wall have a small gap between them and a photo of a teenage Sherlock  And Jenny stuck across the gap is fluttering slightly. Frowning, he lowers his gaze to the bottom of the wall. There's a small gap between the wall and the floor.)

SHERLOCK: Walls don't contract after you've painted them.

(He lifts his eyes.)

SHERLOCK (softly, intensely): Not real ones.

(Offscreen, he has put the lantern onto the floor. Now he raises both hands and slams them hard against the wall. The entire wall falls outwards and drops to the ground outside. In front of him is a very familiar burnt-out house. He stares at it wide-eyed.)

SHERLOCK: I'm home. Musgrave Hall.

EURUS (over his earpiece): Me and Jim Moriarty, we got on like a house on fire ...

(Sherlock bends and picks up the lantern and walks out of the 'room.' Behind him the other three walls fall out and crash to the ground.)

EURUS: ... which reminded me of home.

SHERLOCK (walking towards the house): Yeah, it's just an old building. I don't care. The plane; tell me about the plane NOW!

EURUS (over earpiece): Sweet Jim. He was never very interested in being alive, especially if he could make more trouble being dead.

SHERLOCK: Yeah, still not interested. The plane!

EURUS: You knew he'd take his revenge. His revenge apparently is me.

SHERLOCK (reaching the front door, opening it and going inside): Eurus, let me speak to the little girl on the plane and I'll play any game you like.

EURUS (slowly, precisely): First find Redbeard.

(Beside the stairs in the hallway a screen is standing on top of a bureau or low cupboard which is covered with a sheet. The image of water is pouring down the screen but now is replaced by Eurus' face looking into the camera. The area behind her is dark.)

EURUS: I'm letting the water in now. You don't want me to drown another one of your pets, do you? At long last, Sherlock Holmes, it's time to solve the Musgrave ritual.

(Sherlock stumbles back from the screen.)

EURUS: Your very first case! And the final problem. (Her voice drops to a whisper.) Oh. Bye-bye.

(In the well, water is pouring down from the top.)

JENNY: Sherlock?

(Eurus' voice sings from his earpiece.)

EURUS' VOICE: ♪ I that am lost / Oh, who will find me / Deep down below ...

JOHN: Sherlock!

EURUS' VOICE: ♪ The old beech tree?

(Perhaps hearing John's voice from nearby as well as over his earpiece, Sherlock walks across the hall and opens the door to a room.)

EURUS' VOICE: ♪ Help succour me now ...