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33A.
30 CONTINUED:
(4) 30She stands and pulls out a large bag of coins.
HOLMES:
Keep your money. I didn't say I'd
take the case.
She ignores him. Holmes examines the envelope. On it is
stamped the letterhead of the Grand Hotel. She pauses
behind him as she exits.
IRENE:
They gave me our old room.
As she walks out she puts her photo back upright.
31 INT. 221 BAKER ST. - STAIRS 31
Irene descends the stairs just as Watson is coming in.
He lifts his hat, waits for her to pass --
IRENE:
Hello, John.
-- does a speechless double-take when he sees who it is.
Irene keeps moving.
34.
We PICK UP Irene crossing a street. She passes a DARK
ALLEYWAY. Pauses. Looks. She turns into the alley.
HOLD ON the alley for a long beat. Too dark to see much
in there.
CUT TO:
IRENE:
emerges from the alley holding a lovely bunch of roses.
She sniffs them appreciatively, walks on.
CUT TO:
IRENE:
approaches a waiting carriage, looks around her, gets in.
CUT TO:
33 33
INT. CARRIAGE
Irene sits, turns to address a man-shaped shadow filling
the opposite corner of the carriage. Before she can
speak, a gesture from the shadow stills her. This is
PROFESSOR MORIARTY.
Irene is made to wait as Moriarty finishes writing a
complex mathematical equation (in astronomy), folds the
paper to reveal that it is addressed to THE ROYAL
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, cracks open the carriage window and
slides the folded paper partway out.
Someone waiting outside takes the paper, and their
footsteps clatter away.
Moriarty closes the window, and the carriage starts
moving. A full beat goes by before he turns to Irene,
finally prepared to engage with her.
MORIARTY:
I assume he'll do it?
IRENE:
Not for money, but for me. I
wager he'll find our man within
twenty-four hours.
MORIARTY:
You wager?
(CONTINUED)
34aA.
33 CONTINUED:
33IRENE:
I'm certain.
MORIARTY:
A better word. I sincerely hope
it's accurate.
IRENE:
I --
Suddenly, the coach comes to a halt, they lurch forward.
A rough-looking BEGGAR wearing an eye patch has fallen
under a wheel of the coach.
BEGGAR:
Ow, me leg!
(CONTINUED)
34A.
34 CONTINUED:
34COACH DRIVER:
Get out of it!
BEGGAR:
You run me over, sir, yes you did!
COACH DRIVER:
You fell right into the carriage!
The Beggar is up, limping toward the window where
Moriarty and Irene sit. He has disgusting blackened
teeth.
BEGGAR:
A little charity would go a long
way, yes it would, sir.
(CONTINUED)
35.
34 CONTINUED:
(2) 34He reaches toward the window. Within a nanosecond,
Moriarty extends his hand into which a PISTOL appears,
delivered by a concealed mechanism (Travis Bickle style).
The gun rests on the Beggar's forehead. The cold eyes of
the man that holds the weapon bore into the skull of the
Beggar, who backs off in fear. The carriage moves on.
35 INT. 221 BAKER ST. - HOLMES' APARTMENT 35
Holmes is washing his face in a basin on the other side
of the room, completely transformed now, utterly alive.
Watson approaches, very concerned, almost enraged.
WATSON:
Look at you, I can't believe you
ran after her like a schoolboy
again. Leaping about, all
aflutter. Are you a masochist?
HOLMES:
Allow me to explain.
WATSON:
Don't you remember what she did to
you? She turned you inside out,
she made a proper idiot of you.
I'm sorry, you were going to
explain something...
HOLMES:
Thank you, I --
WATSON:
I know, instead of just being
tricked into being a witness at
her wedding like last time --
HOLMES:
I don't believe --
WATSON:
actually perform the ceremony.
She'd love that.
HOLMES:
You've had your fun.
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