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

The Six Thatchers Part Four

  NIGHT TIME. COUNTY HALL, SOUTH BANK. Inside the Sea Life London Aquarium housed inside County Hall, Sherlock makes his way along the blue-lit corridors and through the glass tunnels under the water. 

TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT: Ladies and gentlemen, the Aquarium will be closing in five minutes. Please make your way to the exit. Thank you.

(He continues onwards until he reaches an enclosed area with benches where people can sit and look at the various tanks all around. A woman is sitting on one of the benches with her back to him.)

SHERLOCK: Your office said I'd find you here.

VIVIAN: This was always my favourite spot for agents to meet. (She continues looking forward into a tank of sharks and other smaller fish.) We're like them: ghostly, living in the shadows. 

(She turns to look at him. Behind him, fluorescent jellyfish swim in another tank.)

SHERLOCK: Predatory.

VIVIAN: Well, it depends which side you're on. (She turns away to look into the shark tank again.) Also, we have to keep moving or wedie.

SHERLOCK: Nice location for the final act. Couldn't have chosen it better myself. But then I never could resist a touch of the dramatic.

VIVIAN: I just come here to look at the fish.

(She stands up and takes a few steps closer to the tank.)

VIVIAN: I knew this would happen one day.

(She turns to face him, her handbag hanging from her elbow.)

VIVIAN: It's like that old story.

SHERLOCK: I really am a very busy man. Would you mind cutting to the chase?

VIVIAN: You're very sure of yourself, aren't you?

SHERLOCK (precisely): With good reason.

VIVIAN: There was once a merchant in a famous market in Baghdad.

(Sherlock closes his eyes and lowers his head a little.)

SHERLOCK: I really have never liked this story.

VIVIAN: I'm just like the merchant in the story. I thought I could outrun the inevitable. I've always been looking over my shoulder; always expecting to see the grim figure of ...

MARY: ... Death.

(She comes into the room and stops at Sherlock's side a couple of feet away from him.)

SHERLOCK (not looking round): Hello, Mary.

MARY: Hey.

SHERLOCK: John?

MARY: On his way, Jenny?

SHERLOCK: At home can't get a word out of her. Let me introduce Amo.

MARY (staring at Vivian while sending a text to John): You were Amo? (Sherlock looks round to her.) You were the person on the phone that time?

SHERLOCK: Using AGRA as her private assassination unit.

MARY (to Vivian): Why did you betray us?

VIVIAN: Why does anyone do anything?

SHERLOCK: Oh, let me guess. Selling secrets?

VIVIAN: Well, it would be churlish to refuse. Worked very well for a few years. I bought a nice cottage in Cornwall on the back of it. But the ambassador in Tbilisi found out. I thought I'd had it. (She looks towards Mary before returning her gaze to Sherlock.) Then she was taken hostage in that coup. (She laughs.) I couldn't believe my luck! That bought me a little time.