Holmes' Halliwell Witch

Chapter 9: The Blind Banker: pt. 7

***Recap***

(He puts his arm around Rose's shoulder to help her walk, walks out, closing the door behind him, and heads off down the road, John following the pair.)

John: You've gone all croaky. Are you getting a cold? And what happened up there?

Sherlock (coughing): I'm fine.

Rose: Don't worry about it Uncle John.  I'm okay.

***Now***

(NATIONAL ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM. Sherlock is pacing around a display area while he interviews Andy. John standing off to the side while Rose walked around looking at the exhibits.)

Sherlock: When was the last time that you saw her?

Andy: Three days ago, um, here at the museum.

(Sherlock focuses briefly on a glass case showing some of the clay teapots. Most of them are dull but one is shiny.)

Andy: This morning they told me she'd resigned just like that.

(Sherlock looks at another case containing some jade figurines, and then at a piece of artwork.)

Andy: Just left her work unfinished.

Rose (turning to him): What was the last thing that she did on her final afternoon?

(Andy has brought the trio to the basement archive, and now turns on the lights as he leads them in.

Andy: She does this demonstration for the tourists – a-a tea ceremony. So she would have packed up her things and just put them in here.

(He leads them to the open stack and starts turning a handle at the end to widen the gap. John goes to stand behind him and looks into the stack but Sherlock has noticed something more interesting in the shadows further along the room. He walks closer to it. On a stand is a life-sized sculpture of a nude woman ... and yellow paint has been spray painted across the front of it. An almost horizontal straight line goes across the eyes, and over the body has been sprayed the open upside down eight with the almost horizontal line above it. Andy and John turn and see what he has found.)

(Outside the museum, night has fallen as Sherlock, Rose and John come out.)

Sherlock: We have to get to Soo Lin Yao.

John: If she's still alive.

Razz: Sherlock!

(The trio turn as Raz runs over to join them.)

John: Oh, look who it is.

Razz (to Sherlock): Found something you'll like.

(He trots off and Sherlock immediately follows, pulling Rose with him. John heads off after them a little more slowly.)

(Shortly afterwards the three of them are walking across Hungerford Bridge, heading towards the south side of the river.)

John: Tuesday morning, all you've gotta do is turn up and say the bag was yours.

Sherlock: Forget about your court date.