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

The Hounds Of Baskerville Part Four

BASKERVILLE. Stapleton leads Sherlock , Jenny and John along a corridor and uses her card to swipe them into a large room which has Major Barrymore's office in the corner. As they go into the room, Sherlock points back to the door they just came through.

SHERLOCK: John.

JOHN: Yeah, I'm on it.

(He turns back to keep an eye on the door while Stapleton goes over to Jenny who has sat down at a computer.)

SHERLOCK: Project HOUND. Must have read about it and stored it away. An experiment in a CIA facility in Liberty, Indiana.

(He stands behind Jenny while she types in Stapleton User ID onto the computer, then adds the password. A request to "Enter Search String" comes up and she looks up at Sherlock who dictates the letters.)

SHERLOCK: H, O, U, N, D.

(She types in the letters and hits Enter. A message comes up saying "NO ACCESS. CIA Classified" and requesting an authorisation code.)

STAPLETON: That's as far as my access goes, I'm afraid.

JOHN: Well, there must be an override and password.

STAPLETON: I imagine so, but that'd be Major Barrymore's.

(Sherlock spins around and walks into Barrymore's office.)

SHERLOCK: Password, password, password.

(Switching on the lights in the room he sits down at the desk.)

SHERLOCK: He sat here when he thought it up.

(Folding his hands in front of his mouth, he slowly spins a full circle on the chair, looking around the office as he goes. Stapleton comes to the doorway.)

SHERLOCK: Describe him to me.

STAPLETON: You've seen him.

SHERLOCK: But describe him.

STAPLETON: Er, he's a bloody martinet, a throw-back, the sort of man they'd have sent into Suez.

SHERLOCK: Good, excellent. Old-fashioned, traditionalist; not the sort that would use his children's names as a password. (He gestures towards the children's drawings pinned on the board above the desk.) He loves his job; proud of it and this is work-related, so what's at eye level?

(He rapidly scans around everything in the room without altering the angle of his eyes.)

SHERLOCK (gesturing to the right): Books. (Pointing to the left) Jane's Defence Weekly – bound copies. (He looks to the right again and at the subject matter of some of the books on the bookshelf.) Hannibal; Wellington; Rommel; Churchill's "History of the English-Speaking Peoples" – all four volumes.

(He stands up and looks at a bronze bust on a shelf.)

SHERLOCK: Churchill – well, he's fond of Churchill. (He looks back to the bookcases again.) Copy of "The Downing Street Years"; one, two, three, four, five separate biographies of Thatcher.

(He looks down to a framed photograph on the desk of a man in uniform standing with his teenage son.)

SHERLOCK: Mid 1980s at a guess. Father and son: Barrymore senior. (Looking at the uniform of the older man) Medals: Distinguished Service Order.

(He looks around to John who has come to the office door.)

JOHN: That date? I'd say Falklands veteran.