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

The Final Problem Part Four

(Going into the room, he stares at what he sees.)

SHERLOCK: John.

EURUS' VOICE: ♪ The East winds blow ...

(Putting the lantern on the floor he hurries across the room and stares in shock at the screen on the wall. It shows that a camera is set partway up the well and is looking downwards as the water pours down onto his friend.)

SHERLOCK: John. (Shouting) Jenny? Can you hear me? John!

EURUS' VOICE: ♪ Sixteen by six, brother, and under we go ...

(In the flight deck of the plane, the girl screams again as the plane continues to shake violently.)

GIRL: Help me! Help me, please!

JOHN (from the screen): Sherlock!

(Sherlock had his hand to his earpiece as the girl spoke but now he lowers it, staring intensely at the screen.)

EURUS' VOICE: ♪ Be not afraid ...

(Her song continues as the boys talk.)

SHERLOCK: John.Jenny!

JOHN (loudly over the sound of the water pouring down): Yeah, it's flooding. The well is flooding. Come on Jenny you've got to stand up

JENNY: I CAN'T ....It's too painful..

(We see that the image on the screen is being sent to it from a projector behind Sherlock, set up on a stand amidst all the fallen stonework.)

SHERLOCK (gesturing towards the screen even though he knows that John probably can't see him): Try as long as possible not to drown.

JOHN (putting his finger to his earpiece, finding it hard to hear over the sound of the water and Eurus' singing): What?

SHERLOCK (still gesturing pointlessly): I'm going to find you. I am finding you!

JOHN (loudly): Well, hurry up, please, because we don't have long!

(The girl on the plane screams again as it begins to bank hard to the right.)

GIRL: It's leaning over, the whole plane!

(Sherlock glances behind him to the door, then turns towards the screen again and claps his hand over his mouth, desperately trying to work out who to try and save first. In the well, John turns and tries to get handholds on the rocks lining it in an attempt to hold himself and Jenny  above the rising water. He lifts his left leg as high as it will go to try to climb up the wall a little but the chain tugs at his foot – or his fingers slide off the slippery stones – and he falls backwards and into the water with a loud cry.)

JENNY: It's no use John , leave me

JOHN: SHUT UP.... I AM NOT LEAVING YOU

(In the plane the girl stares in terror out of the windscreen. Sherlock turns and runs out into the hall as his sister continues to sing.)

SHERLOCK: Eurus, you said the answer's in the song ...

(He turns to the screen in the hall. Offscreen, she stops singing.)

SHERLOCK: ... but I went through the song line by line all those years ago ...

(Brief cut-away of young pirate Sherlock searching in the meadow.)

SHERLOCK: ... and I found nothing. I couldn't find anything. And there-there was a beech tree in the grounds and I dug.

(Brief cut-away to young Sherlock in the meadow, carrying a spade.)