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

The Final Problem Part Four

SHERLOCK & JENNY (in a whisper): Victor.

EURUS (softly, on the screen): Now it's coming.

SHERLOCK (softly, his voice shaking): Victor Trevor.

(He frowns a little as the memories keep coming. On the beach the two boys trot away together. Young Eurus turns her head away, a sad look on her face.)

SHERLOCK: We played pirates. I was Yellowbeard , Jenny the pirate princess and he was ...

(Eurus looks into the screen, her mouth slightly open and an expectant look on her face. Sherlock raises his tear-filled eyes to her.)

SHERLOCK: ... he was Redbeard.

EURUS: You were inseparable. But I wanted to play too.

(Sherlock looks away as he begins to realise what started his sister's behaviour. Eventually he sighs and lowers his head, closing his eyes.)

SHERLOCK: Oh. Oh God.

(He cries softly.)

SHERLOCK: What ... (he pulls in several breaths before he can continue) ... what did you do?

EURUS (singing softly, and more slowly than usual): ♪ I that am lost / Oh, who will find me / Deep down below / The old beech tree? ♪

(During the last line of her song, we cut away to young Victor, sopping wet and almost up to his waist in water, standing at the bottom of the well. His toy sword is floating beside him. He stares upwards and calls out desperately.)

VICTOR: Please let me out! Please, someone help me! Please.

(The camera pulls upwards, leaving him lost and abandoned at the bottom of the well.
In the house, adult Sherlock gazes downwards, lost in grief. Young Sherlock walks across the meadow, disconsolate at the loss of his friend. Adult Sherlock hears his younger self.)

YOUNG SHERLOCK (calling out worriedly offscreen): Come on, Redbeard!

(Lights seem to flicker across adult Sherlock's face. Young Sherlock continues searching in the meadow, his face anguished. Adult Sherlock stands in the hall, surrounded by darkness and lost in memories. Young Sherlock now seems to be in the same position, surrounded by darkness, his face sad. Adult Sherlock gazes tearfully across the hall. Young Sherlock, tears pouring down his face, softly speaks the name of his best friend, but it's his adult voice that we hear.)

SHERLOCK's VOICE (in a whisper): Victor.

(Flashback to a long view of the gently rippling water in the swimming pool where Sherlock and Jim had their stand-off at the end of the "The Great Game.")

EURUS (softly, offscreen): Deep waters, Sherlock, all your life.

(Sherlock's distraught face is briefly overlaid with dark blue rippling water.)

EURUS (softly, offscreen): In all your dreams.

(Flashback to Victorian Holmes lying on the rocky ledge while the Reichenbach Falls thunder downwards behind him.)

EURUS (softly, offscreen): Deep waters.

(In the hall, Sherlock stares ahead of himself, his face covered with tears.)

SHERLOCK (devastated): You killed him.

(Dark rippling water overlays his face and for a moment a merged image of adult and young Sherlock stares sadly across the hall with tears on his face. Adult Sherlock lifts his head, looking towards the screen.)