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

His Last Vow Part Three

The distinctive crescent moon shape of the perfume bottle dissolves into a view of the real Moon, half full in the night sky. Mary is walking along a road towards Leinster Gardens. It is an expensive-looking area, with a long terrace of four-storey white-plastered Edwardian buildings lining the road. A homeless person is squatting with his back to the wall at the corner of the road. He has the hood of his jacket pulled over his head, a blanket wrapped around him, and a white plastic tub is on the ground in front of him.

HOMELESS MAN (hoarsely, as Mary walks past): Spare any change, love?

MARY (not stopping): No.

HOMELESS MAN (hoarsely): Oh, come on, love. Don't be like all the rest.

(She stops, turning back to him, then takes a handful of loose change from her coat pocket, bends down and drops the coins into the tub. Before she can fully straighten up or withdraw her hand, he takes hold of her wrist and looks up at her. It's Bill Wiggins.)

BILL (in his normal voice): Rule One of looking for Sherlock 'olmes ...

(He puts a phone and a headset into her hand.)

BILL: ... 'e finds you.

(He stands, picking up his tub.)

MARY: You're working for Sherlock now.

BILL: Keeps me off the streets, dunnit?

MARY: Well ... no.

(She shrugs at him. The phone in her hand starts to ring. As she puts the headset into her ear, Bill turns and walks away. She answers the phone.)

MARY (walking along the road): Where are you?

SHERLOCK (over phone): Can't you see me?

MARY: Well, what am I looking for?

SHERLOCK (over phone): The lie – the lie of Leinster Gardens – hidden in plain sight.

(Stepping a few feet into the road so that she can get a better view of the tall houses, she continues along the road while looking at the house fronts. There is nobody else in the street and no cars are driving along it.)

SHERLOCK (over phone): Hardly anyone notices. People live here for years and never see it, but if you are what I think you are, it'll take you less than a minute.

(She continues to walk slowly along the road.)

SHERLOCK (over phone): The houses, Mary. Look at the houses.

MARY: How did you know I'd come here?

SHERLOCK (over phone): I knew you'd talk to the people no-one else would bother with.

MARY (laughing briefly): I thought I was being clever.

SHERLOCK (over phone): You're always clever, Mary. I was relying on that. I planted the information for you to find.

(She slows down, looking at a couple of adjoining houses in the middle of the terrace.)

MARY (her voice sounding impressed): Ohh.

(She stops and turns to face the two houses which have caught her attention. Although there is no light shining from any of the windows, unlike the others on either side, the houses otherwise look similar to the rest of the terrace.)

SHERLOCK (over phone): Thirty seconds, not going to brag but Jenny found this place in 10 second

MARY: Oh yeah proud of her are we~ What am I looking at?