Sherlock season 1 episode 1 with Lily

A Study in Pink part 2.2

Lily P.O.V

Lestrade lead us up a circular staircase.He and John are wearing coveralls together with white cotton coverings over their shoes,and latex gloves.Sherlock and I are putting on latex gloves as we go up the stairs.

Lestrade: I can give you two minutes.
Sherlock/Lily: May need longer.
Lestrade: Her name's Jennifer Wilson according to her credit cards.We're running them now for contact details.Hasn't been here long.Some kid found her.

He lead us into a room two storeys above the ground floor.The room is empty of furniture except for a rocking horse in the far corner.Emergency portable lighting has been set up presumably by police.Scaffolding poles hold up part of the ceiling near where a couple of large holes have been knocked through one of the walls.A woman's body is lying face down on the bare floorboards in the middle of the room.She is wearing a bright pink overcoat and high-heeled pink shoes.Her hands are flat on the floor either side of her head.Sherlock and me walks a few steps into the room and then I stop holding one hand out in front of me as I focuses on the corpse.Behind me John look at the woman's body and his face fills with pain and sadness.All of us stand there silently for several long seconds then Sherlock and me look across to Lestrade.

Sherlock: Shut up.
Lestrade: I didn't say anything.
Lily: You were thinking.It's annoying.

Lestrade and John exchange a surprised look as Sherlock and I steps slowly forward untill we reaches the side of the corpse.Our attention is immediately drawn to the fact that scratched into the floorpoards near the woman's left hand is word "Rache".Our eyes flick to her fingernails where the index and middle mails are broken and ragged at the ends the pink nail polish chipped in stark comparison to her other mails which are still immaculate.The woman's index finger rests at the bottom of the'e' as if she was still trying to carve into the floor when she died.I make an instant deduction:

Left handed

I look back to the word carved into the floorboards and immediate suggestion springs into my mind:

Rache- German(n.) revenge

Instantly I shake my head in a tiny dismissive movement and suggestion disappears.I look at the carved word again and overlays the five letters with a clearer type.Next to the 'e' a rapid progression of letters appear and disappear as he tries to complete the word then the correct letter settles into place to form the word:

Rachel

I squats down beside the body and run my gloved hand along the back of her coat then lifts my hand again to look at my fingers:

Wet

I reaches into her coat pockets and finds a white folding umbrella in one of them.Running his fingers along the folds of the material I then inspects my glove again:

Dry

Putting the umbrella back into her pocket I moves up to the collar of her coat and runs my fingers underneath it before again looking at my fingers:

Wet

Reaching into my pocket I takes out a small magnifier clicks it open and closely inspects the delicate gold bracelet on her left wrist...

Clean

...then the gold earring attached to her left ear...

Clean

...and then the gold chain around her neck...

Clean

...before moving on to look at the rings on her left ring finger.The wedding ring and engagement ring flag a different message to me:

Dirty

I blinks as a rapid successsion of conclusion appear in front of my eyes:

Married
Unhappily married
Unhappily married 10+ years

Carefully I works the wedding ring off the woman's finger and holds it up to look at the inside of the ring.While the outside of the ring is still showing

Dirty

the inside registers as

Clean

As I lowers the ring and slides it back onto the woman's finger I have already reached a conclusion about the ring:

Regularly removed

Lifting my hands away from the woman I look down at her make my final deduction about her:

Serial adulterer

I smiles slightly in satisfaction

Lestrade: Got anything?
Sherlock/Lily: Not much.

Standing up I takes off the gloves and then gets my mobile phone from my pocket and begins typing on it.

Anderson: She's German.'Rache': it's German for 'revenge'.She could be trying to tell us something...

While he was speaking Sherlock and I have walked quickly towards the door and now begins to close it in Anderson's face.

Lily: Yes thank you for your input.

Slamming the door shut I turns and walks back into the room.On my phone I have called up a menu for " UK Weather".The menu offers five options:

Maps
Local
Warnings
Next 24 hrs
7 day forecast

I selects the Maps option.

Lestrade: So she's German?
Lily: Of course she's not.
Sherlock: She's from out of town though.
Lily: Intened to stay in London for one night...

I saw Sherlock he have a smile on his face.For some reson I felt pain in my stomick.

Sherlock/Lily:...Before returning home to Cardiff.So far so obvious.
John: Sorry-obvious?
Lestrade: What about the message though?
Lily: Doctor Watson ehat do you think?
John: Of the message?
Sherlock: Of the body.You're a medical man.
Lestrade: Wait no we have a whole team right outside.
Lily: Thay won't work with him.
Lestrade: I'm breaking every rule letting you in here.
Sherlock: Yes...because you need us

Lestrade stares at us for a moment then lowers his eyes helplessly.

Lestrade: Yes I do.God help me.
Lily: Doctor Watson.
John: Hm?

He looks up from the body to Sherlock and me and then turns his head towards Lestrade silently seeking his permission.

Lestrade: Oh do as he says.Help yourself.

He turns and opens the door going outside.

Lestrade: Anderson keep everone out for a couple of minutes.

Sherlock John and I walk over to the body.Sherlock and me squats down on one side of it and John painfully lowers himself to one knee on the other side leaning heavily on his cane to support himself.

( to be contion)