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

The Empty Hearse Part One

As John Watson's and Jenny smiths anguished cry of "Sherlock!" rings in the air, John himself approaches Sherlock Holmes' headstone. We see brief flashback clips of Sherlock and Jim Moriarty on the rooftop of Bart's Hospital, then of John and Jenny arriving by taxi at the hospital and Sherlock standing on the roof's edge talking to her by phone.

SHERLOCK: It's a trick. Just a magic trick.

JENNY : No. All right, stop it now.

(She starts to walk towards the hospital entrance.)

SHERLOCK (urgently): No, stay exactly where you are. Don't move.

(Jenny stops and backs up, holding up her hand towards Sherlock in capitulation.)

JENNY : All right. Sherlock last night-

(But now we're seeing new footage. Behind Sherlock, two men are dragging the body of Jim Moriarty across the roof towards the door. Sherlock doesn't react to them and continues to concentrate on Jenny .)

SHERLOCK: It's what people do, don't they? Leave a note?

JENNY : Leave a note when?

SHERLOCK: Goodbye, Jenny .

JENNY : No. Don't.

(The men drag Jim's body into a service elevator inside the hospital, and lay it on the floor. While Sherlock continues to look down towards Jenny , one of the men opens a case. Inside is a latex mask which is a perfect replica of Sherlock's face. The other man closes the lift doors, while the first man takes a small bottle from the case and, using tweezers, carefully extracts a blue soft contact lens. On the roof, Sherlock drops his phone behind him and stares intensely ahead of himself as John and Jenny screams, "Sherlock!" up at him. In the elevator, Jim's dead open eyes are now blue instead of brown. The man takes the mask out of the case and lays it over Jim's face, then picks up a scalpel and reaches forward to start lifting the closed eyes on the mask. The second man starts to apply a dark curly wig to Jim's slicked-down hair.On the roof, Sherlock spreads his arms and falls forward. John stares in horror, Jenny running for her life and a man on a pushbike slams into him from behind, sending him crashing to the ground. Sherlock plummets towards the ground, but now it's clear that he is attached to a bungee cord. While John lies on the ground still trying to catch his breath, Molly Hooper watches from a window of Bart's as Sherlock plunges past, the bungee cord trailing behind him. He heads towards the pavement but the cord stops his fall when it reaches its full extension. Sherlock's breath whooshes out of him ... then the elastic begins to contract and Sherlock is yanked skywards. Molly gasps as he shoots back into view, flailing to change his direction and, before she can react, he wraps his arms around his head and kicks his way through the window in front of her. She cringes back from the breaking glass and Sherlock lands on his feet and quickly unclips the bungee cord from his waist. It is whipped out of the window and disappears from view and Sherlock straightens his coat, ruffles his hands through his hair and marches over to Molly, taking her head in his hands and kissing her deeply for a couple of seconds. She reaches up to hold his head but he pulls away, gives her a long last look and then leaves the room. She watches him go with a girly smile on her face. Downstairs, the two men are dragging Jim's body – now perfectly disguised as Sherlock's, including being dressed in a Belstaff coat and blue scarf – out onto the street. Nearby, a man wearing a fur-lined hooded jacket is approaching John. The men put the body into position on the pavement and one of them squirts fake blood onto the paving stones around the head. Other people – various fake medical staff and passers-by – are running into position around the body. The jacket-wearing man walks over to John as more people run towards the scene. John gets up onto his knees, seeing the passers-by running over to the body and pointing upwards as they appear to discuss what they just saw. John gets to his feet, and the man steps into his way.)