The Mikaelson of Baker Street

Chapter 28: The Blind Banker: pt 12

***Recap***

Sherlock: Soo Lin used it to do this! Whilst we were running around the gallery, she started to translate the code. It must be on her desk.

(And he's gone, hurrying out the door leaving a shocked Nikki behind with John and his date.)

Nikki (not wanting to bother John anymore during his date) Well John, I'm going to go back to my flat. I trust Sherlock will be fine, but if you need anything just shout.

(John nodded once to the female hybrid as she left the flat. Reaching her own flat, Nikki noticed that the door was slightly open. Allowing her vampire face to show, Nikki slowly opened the door and walked inside. Once inside Nikki felt a needle filled with verlan stuck in her neck and a wooden stake shoved into her chest before blacking out.)

***Now***

(Out on Baker Street, a man and woman are walking along the road. Obviously, tourists, they are consulting the London A-Z and looking around. Sherlock bursts out of the door of 221B, running towards the curb to hail a passing black cab.)

Sherlock: Taxi!

(As he sweeps past the tourists, he brushes past hard enough to break the man's hold on the book, which falls to the ground. The man yells at him indignantly in German.)

Tourist: Hey, du! Siehst du nicht wo du hingehst? [Hey, you! Why don't you look where you're going?]

(Sherlock turns back and picks up the book, handing it back to the man.)

Sherlock: Entschuldigen Sie, bitte. [Forgive me, please.]

Tourist (sneakily, snatching the book back): Ja, danke! [Yeah, thanks(!)]

(He turns away, putting his arm around his wife and still bitching.)

Tourist: Und dann sagen die, dass die Engländer höflich sind! [And they say the English are polite!]

(Sherlock turns and raises his arm to the cab again but it has already driven past. He grunts in exasperation and walks down the road, looking over his shoulder to check traffic coming from behind him. After a few yards, he stops and turns back again, grunting angrily a second time when no cabs magically materialize for him. Looking up and down the road, he sees an Asian couple, possibly father and daughter, standing at the corner over the road and consulting an A-Z as they too try to work out their route.)

(Sherlock's eyes narrow, and he flashes back in his mind to walking across Lukis' living room and looking at a pile of books and papers on a table. The London A-Z was the top book on the pile. He flashes back further into the past and remembers seeing a pile of books in Van Coon's living room. The third book down on the pile was the London A-Z. Then he remembers turning around from the crates in his own living room and staring at his bookcase.)

Sherlock (in flashback): A book that everybody would own.

(His memories move on to him smiling at Soo Lin after he handed her the teapot in the restoration room. On the table was a London A-Z. In the present, Sherlock's mouth opens in startled realization and he breaks into a run, chasing back the German couple.)

Sherlock (shouting): Please, wait! Bitte! [Please!]

(The tourists turn back and frown in confusion as he hurries toward them.)