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

The Final Problem Part Four

SHERLOCK: You killed my best friend.

EURUS (quietly but with a hint of anger in her voice): I never had a best friend. I had no-one.

(Sherlock raises his head towards the ceiling. In the well, John struggles to keep his footing, the water now up to the top of his chest and up to Jenny's neck as more pours down. Sherlock gazes upwards, his face anguished. He closes his eyes. Flashback to little Eurus running around on the beach, flying her toy aeroplane beside her. Adult Sherlock stands nearby watching her. Smiling, she runs around him with her plane. She looks up at him.)

YOUNG EURUS (offscreen): Play with me, Sherlock! Play with me!

(She continues to run around him.)

ADULT EURUS (on the screen, bitterly): No-one.

(In the hall, adult Sherlock lowers his head, his eyes still closed. Young Sherlock runs across the graveyard towards the house. The camera pans across the gravestone of Nemo Holmes and its impossible dates.)

EURUS (offscreen, in a whisper): No-one.

(The camera focuses in on the gravestone and writing overlays the top line.

NEMO
n. [nee-moh]
Latin - no one, nobody

In the hall, Sherlock bites his lip and raises his head, looking towards the screen with determination.)

JENNY(screams off screen): SHERLOCK! HURRY UP!

SHERLOCK (more strongly): Okay. Okay, let's play.

(He turns and picks up the lantern from the floor and runs outside, hurrying around the side of the house, through an open gate and into the graveyard at the back of the house. As he runs around, bending down and shining his light closely onto various gravestones, the little girl's voice comes over his earpiece.)

GIRL (offscreen): Hello? Are you there?

SHERLOCK: Need your help. I'm trying to solve a puzzle.

GIRL (offscreen): But what about the plane?

SHERLOCK: Well, the puzzle will save the plane.

(He runs to another gravestone and looks at the inscription. The bottom two lines read "1818 / Aged 24 and 26 Years".)

SHERLOCK: The wrong dates. She used the wrong dates on the gravestones as the key to the cipher ... (he runs to shine the lantern on Nemo Holmes' gravestone) ... and the cipher was the song.

JOHN (shouting above the noise of the rising water): Is this strictly relevant? THE WATER IS UP TO JENNY'S CHIN.

SHERLOCK: Yes, it is. I'll be with you in a minute.

JENNY: I don't have a MINUTE!!!!!!

JOHN: HURRY UP

(He puts the lantern on the ground and focuses in on another, very old and worn, gravestone which gives dates of "134 - 1719". The numbers "134" and "1719" appear in the air in front of his eyes. He looks across to other gravestones, mentally pulling the numbers from each of them, including those from Nemo Holmes' grave, and putting them beside the first set until he has a long string of numbers in front of him. Rubbing his hands over his nose and mouth, he lowers them and breathes in sharply.)

GIRL (from the plane's flight deck): The lights are getting closer.

SHERLOCK (gesturing dismissively to one side): Hush, now. Working.