The Mikaelson of Baker Street

Chapter 36: The Great Game: pt 6

***Recap***

Sherlock: Yes. (He looks at John.) Meaning ...

John: He's our bomber.

(The pink phone rings on the side table. Sherlock hurries over to it and switches on the speaker. In the car park, the woman sobs in anguish as she reads out the latest message from the pager.)

Woman: Well done, you two. Come and get me.

Sherlock (loudly and clearly): Where are you? Tell us where you are.

(Sometime later the woman stares anxiously out of the car window as members of a bomb disposal team, dressed in protective padded clothing, make their way toward the car.)

***Now***

(MORNING. NEW SCOTLAND YARD. The trio are in Lestrade's office, Sherlock standing at the window which looks into the main office, his hands raised in front of his mouth and his fingers tapping together. John is sitting opposite Lestrade at his desk.)

Lestrade: She lives in Cornwall. Two men broke in wearing masks, forced her to drive to the car park, and decked her out in enough explosives to take down a house.

(He looks up at Sherlock who is walking towards the desk, Nikki following close behind her mate.)

Lestrade: Told her to phone you. She had to read out from this pager.

(He puts the pager onto the desk in front of John, who picks it up to look at it.)

Sherlock: And if she deviated by one word, the sniper would set her off.

John: Or if you hadn't solved the case.

Nikki (walks to the window and speaks softly, as if to herself): Oh. Elegant.

(John raises his head and sighs in exasperation.)

John: "Elegant"?

Lestrade: But what was the point? Why would anyone do this?

Sherlock: Oh - I can't be the only person in the world that gets bored. Or Nikki for that matter.

(Nikki and Sherlock flashback in their mind to shooting holes in the wall a couple of days ago. Just then the pink phone beeps a message alert. John turns round to him as Sherlock activates the phone.)

Voice Alert: You have one new message.

(As Sherlock walks towards Lestrade's desk, the phone sounds the Greenwich pips again, but this time there are three short pips and one long one.)

John: Four pips.

Sherlock: First test passed, it would seem. Here's the second.

(Sherlock shows a new photograph to the others. It's a close-up of a car with its driver's door open and the number plate clearly visible. John and Lestrade get up to take a closer look, and outside in the main office, a phone rings. Nikki looks to where the phone is ringing from.)