The Mikaelson of Baker Street

Chapter 13: A Study in Pink: pt 10

***Recap***

(He turns and leaves. Some distance away, the cab drives on and finally stops at the front of two identical buildings side by side. Jeff turns off the engine and gets out, coming to the back door and opening it. He looks in at Sherlock.)

Sherlock: Where are we?

Jeff: You know every street in London. You know exactly where we are.

Sherlock: Roland-Kerr Further Education College. Why here?

Jeff: It's open; cleaners are in. One thing about being a cabbie: you always know a nice quiet spot for a murder. I'm surprised more of us don't branch out.

Sherlock: And you just walk your victims in? How?

(Jeff raises a pistol and points it at Sherlock. Sherlock rolls his eyes and turns his head away.)

Sherlock: Oh, dull.

Jeff: Don't worry. It gets better.

Sherlock: You can't make people take their own lives at gunpoint.

Jeff: I don't. It's much better than that.

(He lowers the gun.)

Jeff: Don't need this with you, 'cause you'll follow me.

(He confidently walks away. Sherlock sits for a moment, then grimaces in exasperation at himself as he does just what Jeff predicted and gets out of the cab to follow the man.)

***Now***

(Back at 221B, John is in the flat with Nikki, who is sitting in Sherlock's chair. He can see the worry she has for the detective on her face but he remains silent on the matter. John appears to have decided to go home and walks towards the living room door, then looks down and clenches his right hand as if realizing that he doesn't have his walking cane. He looks around and sees the cane lying on top of a box of papers next to the dining table and goes over to collect it.)

(Sherlock's notebook is still on Mephone's website and the clock is spinning on the screen while the site searches for Jennifer Wilson's phone. As John picks up the cane and heads for the door again, the computer beeps triumphantly and a map appears on the screen, and starts to zoom in on the new location of the phone. John turns back as the computer beeps repeatedly as Nikki's eyes fell onto the notebook as well.)

(Going back to the table and propping his cane against it, he picks up the notebook and looks at the screen, then he turns and takes the notebook with him as he hurries out of the door and down the stairs, once again forgetting to take his cane. Nikki quickly followed after the doctor, not allowing him to go save her mate on his own.)

(At Roland-Kerr College, Jeff opens the door of a room and stands aside so that Sherlock can go in. Sherlock looks at him closely but steps inside the room, then Jeff releases the door and lets it swing closed as he walks over to some switches on the wall and turns on the lights. The men are in a large classroom that has long fixed wooden benches and free-standing plastic chairs. Sherlock walks deeper into the room, looking around.}