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After Sherlock’s three day stay in Hospital, the Leinster Gardens confrontation occurs. Mary's past is revealed to John by Sherlock and the trio head back to Baker Street to get things sorted. The Watsons and Sherlock Holmes exit a London cab and ascend the 27 steps into 221b Baker Street.
Int. Baker Street
MARY
[shouting] ...because you just had to bloody move, didn't you. Sherlock, I said, don’t move. It would have all been fine.
MARY is the first to storm into 221b. She slams her bag and coat down beside the fireplace and stands beside the skull.
MARY
I would have killed Magnussen, wiped the security footage, taken us all out through the back. I had it under control. But you! You just had to move, didn’t you?
SHERLOCK follows behind her at a slower pace. He looks intrigued
SHERLOCK
Oooh-- Will you show me that? ..how to wipe surveillance footage. I had a guy who was going to do it for me (owed me a favor) but he had a thing. Something about a removal. [waves his hand dismissively]
JOHN looks at them both incredulously. He escapes to the kitchen to make tea and breathe
Cut to. Kitchen
John is furious and confused and quiet. He fights past a cabinet full of cylinders to reach the mugs in the back.
JOHN
fu- [swears as he nearly drops a beaker on his foot ]
John puts the kettle on and waits.
Cut to. Common Room
Sherlock sits in his chair. Mary stands above him. She speaks firmly.
MARY
Well I wouldn't have had to wipe the surveillance video if you wouldn't have [voice escalating] used my best friend to get into Magnussen's office!
SHERLOCK
Well. Um.
MARY
Shut up! Just-- don’t even say it.
SHERLOCK
You did the same thing.
MARY
You proposed to her, Sherlock!
Mary plants herself into John’s chair, massages her temples
SHERLOCK
I merely detected a human erro-
MARY
Don’t, Sherlock.
Don’t pull that shit with me.
You’re not even a sociopath. I’ve dealt with Sociopaths and you, Mr. Holmes [Mary straightens in her chair showing confidence] are not one. Yes [she leans forward in her chair] yes, I used her but she was also my friend. [voice steadies]I actually care about her a lot.
Sherlock looks confused. He assumed Mary was like him. He’s not sure if he feels disappointed, hurt or confused.
MARY
I knocked her out for her own good. By the time you had exited the elevator, I’d already called her an ambulance. It was her alibi, damn it. She knows what kind of woman I am, Sherlock. She would have been carted off and Magnussen would have been taken to the morgue. I’d have gone home to John and we’d have invited you up for tea, which-
SHERLOCK
That ambulance was for me
MARY
No. It wasn’t. I didn’t even know you were coming. It was for Janine.
SHERLOCK
[Resolutely] Oh
…well I wouldn’t have come for tea
MARY
[Laughs]you would have declined initially, but still would have come at John’s insistence. After all you did tell us we were pregnant and we owe you a thank you. Thank you very much for the early detection, by the way. It would have been there, at tea, with John and myself where I would have told you everything. I would have made John come clean too[stifled giggle]
SHERLOCK
[aghast]Come clean? What for?
MARY
He’s been sneaking out at all hours. Doctor John Watson is definitely not cheating on his pregnant wife and he wasn’t with you (I checked). So I figured he must be running about, fighting crime again.
SHERLOCK
Again? [snippy]
Without me?
MARY
Sherlock, focus.
SHERLOCK
Janine- you said Janine knows what kind of woman you are?
MARY
Yes. A dangerous one.
This is me. [Mary reaches into her back pocket and hands Sherlock a memory stick] This is AGRA. These are my initials- my original ones from back then. Understand Sherlock that I am who I say I am, but when I wasn’t, I was- I
SHERLOCK
[Eyes Wide] you killed people.
MARY
[Murmured] Geez, you do have a type don’t you?
SHERLOCK
What?
John enters the common room with three mugs he hands Sherlock a mug
JOHN
[clears throat] Here’s yours.
SHERLOCK
Quite good.
Sherlock stares at Mary. He’s still interested
SHERLOCK
So, you’re ex-operative, privately contracted for some time then left it all behind. Possibly because you were hiding, possibly because you were tired.
John places the two remaining mugs on the coffee table and sits on the couch. Mary begins to answer Sherlock but is cut off by John
JOHN
Yeah, all of that. Don’t forget the part about how she shot you[nervous stressful laugh]
MARY
[sternly]I told him not to move, John. He moved. You think I really wanted to shoot Sherlock Holmes in the chest?
JOHN
You’re an assassin. That’s exactly what I think.
MARY
Yes I am- was. And you're a self-righteous, crack shot from what I hear. Playing Batman again, are we?
JOHN
You lied to me, Mary.
SHERLOCK
[shouting]Everyone shut up! Think, John! [Sherlock looks fascinated he rubs his thumb across the memory stick]
John walks across the room to the brown leather sofa He needs the distance. He doesn’t recline. He sits up straight and listens as silence fills the room.
SHERLOCK
[looking toward John] Your wife, a reformed CIA operative. No, a pregnant reformed CIA operative is being blackmailed by one of the most powerful people in the world. She has a new life to protect. A child. Someone of her intelligence and expertise, could anything else be expected of her?
MARY
Don’t speak about me as if I am not here.
JOHN
Former CIA? [looks at Mary]. You’re not even English.
SHERLOCK
...and in all honesty, she’s right. I did move.
JOHN
I know I joke, but really, you two should have married.
MARY
[soothing] Nonsense, John. There’s just a lot to process.
JOHN
My pregnant wife isn’t named Mary, isn’t English, but is an assassin and is being blackmailed by a news magnate.
MARY
Keep repeating it if it helps...but, yes. Yes, I am. All of it.
JOHN
And if we get him.. get Magnussen, we’ll also be freeing a number of others who are under his thumb?
MARY
Yes.
John looks contemplative. He knows they have no choice. He stands up, hands formed into fists at his sides
SHERLOCK
John, it appears we have a client in your wife
JOHN
Okay [inhales]. Okay, Sherlock. Your way. Always your way.
Silence. Sherlock and Mary share a knowing glance.
MARY
Actually it’s my way, darling.
Now, about Magnussen...