It all starts with a Newspaper Article: Bank Gang leave Cops clueless! Before 18 months that Gang just walks free from the trial, Greg Lestrade is so pissed that he wants to catch them in action - before 12 months they always seem to know when the cops are trying to catch them. And it contuniues to 3 months before - he wants to get them in the act of doing the crime. Yesterday...the gang hacks into the Security Software of the bank to block the alarm while they are getting all the gold out. But this time the cops are standing ready...and while he going into the bank, ready to finally get them - this phone keeps peeping.
As he gets it, the message says : Help. Baker St. Now! and a second one: Help me. Please.
And he just leaves, calling for maximum Backup running for Bakerstreet. He runs up the stairs, storming into the room...and there he sits. Sherlock Holmes...saying it is the hardest thing he ever had to do. Pointing a book at Greg. How to write an unforgettable Best Man Speech.
And from outsite you can hear the sirens of the police and even a helicopter..."You didn´t get in any trouble - did you?"
Baker Street. Mrs. Hudson brings Sherlock some tea while he is playing the Violin. As se opens the door she sees Sherlock is actually dancing...the tries to compose a melody for the wedding.
Mrs. Hudson serves him tea and tries to explain to him that this wedding is going to change things, cause Sherlock doesn´t think it is something that will change his current relationship with John.
She tells him of her former best friend, that she hadn´t seen often after her own wedding, that her friend left the wedding early - who does that, it´s so sad - she says. He gets her to leave, as his eyes turn to John´s favourite seat...empty.
As he is about to get into his suit he just says: Into Battle!
A man is getting dressed into a military Uniform. With gloves and a sword. He does everything with one hand, the other is deeply scarred from burnings. Just like the left half of his face.
The Wedding Bells ring and John comes out with Mary on his arm. The Braidmaid is kinda flirting with Sherlock but he just tells her who she should put her advances to - pointing out the character of a possible partner, and she is delighted. She wants to make use of his amazing sharp talent. And he is rather surprised that she stays beside him.
The Guest are congratulating the pair one after the other, Sherlock stands beside John, as Mary´s Ex comes to them, strangely behaving while talking to Mary, they introduce Sherlock to him...but they have met before.
Sherlock lured him into Baker Street. Getting information out of him. It appears he is still very fond of her. He knows every little detail about his facebook account about meetings and he just calls him a Psychopath and Sherlock replies: highfunctioning Sociopath with your number.
Then there a Lady with her boy, who suddenly hugs Sherlock and she is just delighted that he manged to get him out of his shell. Wondering how Sherlock did it.
The boy was with Sherlock, talking about the wedding ceremony, but the boy is more interested in him being a Detective - wanting to see - so Sherlock shows him some pics on his Laptop. The Kid asks: What is all that stuff in his eye?
- Maggotts.
Cool.
His Mum says, he said you had some pictures for him as a treat, luckily the boy hasn´t said what kind of pictures ;-)
Molly is al over Tom, wearing a yellow dress with some kind of strange bow tie on her hat, and Mrs. Hudson is wearing a gigantic white hat with feathers.
Greg Lestrade is more intrested to get drunk.
Sherlock is helping the Braidmaid sorting the guys out...she just would like to keep him. Like a pet. Just as she asks him if he would be free - his eyes wander to John...
John wonders if he will come - than the man in the military Unifrom enters. He is Johns old Major. Sherlock learns that John talks a lot about him to Mary. The man is barely under people, he is just there for John.
What Sherlock shocks even more is that Mary says to him John said that man were the most unsocial man he ever met, he almosts acts jealous, Mary laughs neither of them were the first.
Mycroft is working out, as he receives a call from Sherlock, he wants him to come - but he will happily stay away. He had warn him to not get envolved, Sherlock is not envolved, what does he think, but it´s the end of an era. Domestic bliss is what they call it.
And there it comes his speech as the best man. After the awkward introduction he really puts out the telegrams and just reads them out load.Then he starts with John about how he got asked for it - as John comes in Sherlock is cooking an eye...as he talks it falls into his tea. As the asks for his thoughts about his best man for the wedding Sherlock counts all kind of people...not understanding that he is in FACT Johns Best Friend.
His inner monologe was that he was indeed flattert and surprised, he never expected this, he was a little daunted in the face of it, he would do his very best at this difficult task that was asked of him, he thanked John for the trust he placed in him, and he was very close to be moved by it.
Outside he wasn´t moving or saying anything at all.
First he says that he can´t congrualte him, because of his opinion of the marriage and the society upon it, but then he swings back to John, saying he himself is the most unpleasant, rude, ignorant, asshole - you could ever have the chance to meet. And because of that he had not only never expect to be a best man - because he never had expected to be anyones best friend. Specially not of the bravest, kindest and wisest human being he had ever known. Saying he sits today between the woman he made his wife and the man he saved. The 2 two people who love him the most in this world. And they would never let him down - with a life time a head to prove that. Just as the room starts to cry...he asks John if he had done it wrong...
And John can´t help himself but to hug him. But Sherlock continues - he still has some funny Stories about John - just take a look at John´s Blog. The Timeline of their work together - The Hollow Client, the Poison Gigant, touching cases ... and so on. But for this day - there is something special about the case of the bloody guardsman.
It all started with the planing for the wedding, as Mary convinces John to show Sherlock that he is still there even if he is married. As John comes back in the room Sherlock has faltert 22 other Sydney opernhouses - So John tells him he wants to get out and he should pick a case. Pretending he should do it for him.
And he decideds for the Guardman that is being stalked. A man is making pictures of him every day. At the man´s dorm - he is still on duty for about an hour, John and Sherlock sit across him. Chatting. Sherlock is wondering if they get any kind of training - to not even scratch themselves. Sherlock wants to know about Johns Commander, he was a war hero, but not for everyone. He lead new recruits into battle - a standard prucidure bringing the new boys in. But it went wrong. They all died but him - leaving him scarred and the press just as the parents gave him hell, he gets more death threats as Sherlock. John wants to know where the interest comes from and he says he is chatting...
Me too John, me too. John talks on watching the gate - but as he turns around Sherlock is gone. He sneaked into the Building. Just as their Client is done with his duty. He changes in the Showerrooms. While John is in the Office asking for him. A Sergant gets in the shower to get him - but he is lying dead on the floor and blood is sliding out of the shower - he storms the Office and they ran again into the Showerrooms.
The Commander is quiet suspicious of these two man - but John manages to get all soldier like to get to examine the Body of the young man. There is a very fine wound at his abdomen. But no weapon in sight. And he shower was closed from the inside. And John notices that the man is still breathing. The Shouts at the men to get an ambulance while calling Sherlock a nurse - OMG - he is supposed to press his scarf onto the wound.
Back at the wedding Sherlock is playing his game further in asking the crowd, what happend - people can´t walk through walls - not jet so what actually happend. And as he asks Scottland Yard Greg he simply says they are looking for a dwarf that was small enough to get through the vent ...
He just can´t believe his ears - can he ... but the most important thing is that while he tried to solve a crime John actually did save a live. Despite that Sherlock never solved that Crime.
Change of topic the stag night - Sherlock wants to visit the pubs with John that are in the same street as their greatest cases. Molly helps find sort that one out.
He gets 2 very long glasses and fills them with about 500ml Beer...and starts a countdown on his handy as they start drinking. They keep drinking with this glasses from one pub to the other -
he keeps looking at the ml John drinks and keeps notes of the count of glasses they have drunken. As John leaves for the toilett he works on his statistic of Urine, Blood Alcohol and the amount of glasses.
Sherlock doesn´t see that John drinks also one shot wodca - and also drops one shot of wodca into Sherlocks Beer. Sherlock almost got into a fight shouting "I know ash" and out of some reason they lay there on the stairs in the Stairway of Baker Street...Mrs. Hudson wakes them - they only were out for 2 hours. So they play a little game. And it´s called Who am I?
I just need to point out that Sherlock thinks he´s the current King of England oO and than he says he´s got it "I am you am I?"
Just as a Client walks in. She had a date with a great guy they had amazing conversations - just as she says she wished that he would have at least called to say that they are finished and starts crying Sherlock just ...
She went to his flat and now she thinks that she had dinner with a Ghost. Because one week on they had dinner there and now the landlord told her the man that lived there had a heart attack. And then she found that Internet page of girl that think they have dated a ghost. They go to the flat of the man - the landlord opens it for them. They are still horribly drunk. Even Sherlocks thoughts seem drunk.
As Sherlock sleeps in on the floor the landlord wants to throw them out - she stops him saying this are the famous Sherlock Holmes and John Hemish Watson.
Just as Sherlocks speaks he suddenly vomits on the carpet.
John and Sherlock get awakend by Greg Lestrade - they are in jail. Sherlock is still wavering as he tries to walk out of the cell. There they go back to Baker Street where Mrs. Hudson tells John about her merriage - with a boss of a drug kartell. Who was arrested for blowing someones head off. Oh dear.
And he just escapes as she starts to talk about her sexlife with him - Sherlock looks up the old Major of John. But as he hears him coming upstairs he changes the webpage to I dated a ghost.
He starts a chat with the woman that dated a ghost and live in the same map area. He tries to find patterns - but there are none. Just always his place. But different adresses. Even different hair colours. All dead single men. He uses the dead man flats - looking for their names in the newspaper articles. But why all that for one Dinner? John suggestion that he is married - was quite fitting.
At the wedding: all this should only show how invalubale John is for Sherlock. He can read a crime scene but John can read a human being.
"I can solve your murder but it takes John Watson to save your life!"
As he toast to them - Mary and John he - stands still - photos are taken - and his glass falls down...just then he remembers that the maid their client said John Hamish Watson. John never said Sherlock his full name he did have to get his birth certificate. And the woman also knew.
His full name just was on the invitation for the wedding. His brother appears in his mind - there is criminal intend - and more important the man is here - on this wedding. And something is going to happen. It could happen any minute.
He needs to keep the control of the room where everyone is sitting in place - and he starts walking up and down talking about all kind of strange things keeping them distracted - while he tries to find the man.
And he knows someone is going to die - and if he knows who he may can find out who the murder is. He starts insulting the guests - sending a message to Greg. To shut the palce down.
And in a code he lets John know that someone is going to die.
"So lets play a game - let´s play murder..."
Who could you only kill at a wedding? He always plays this kind of game in his dead killing his collegues, he would poison John, but who could you only kill at this wedding? It has to be a unique oppurtunity. Someone who lives at an unknown location. He keeps talking while he gives the major a Buisness Card saying it´s you. And the little boy points out that the man that killed the guards man could kill someone leaving any evidence. Just as the major leaves the room Sherlock gives a toast - finally. Sherlock gets Watson - as they leaving Mary is coming after. The Mjor is entering his room getting his gun. Sher, John and Mary stand before his room. Sherlock doesn´t know how he did it - but the Major sitting there with his gun only is opening the door if Sherlock can solve how the murderer did it.
Mary asks him to do it - he needs to do it for now it is important - John pleages at him that he is not a puzzle solver but a Drama Queen.
The Game is ON - SOLVE IT! And he makes the connection between the Uniforms right on the spot where the young guard was hurt, the belt is tightly pressed onto the waist holding the flesh together. Pirced himself with the fine needle hours ago - as soon as he gets undressed he will bleed out.
The Major is going to get killed by his Uniform. John says through the door to stop what ever he is doing in there - and indeed he is about to take the belt off. He adresses to Sherlock as he thinks that they are alike. And he understands his way of thinking to face death head on when it comes-
"Of cause but not at John´s wedding. We wouldn´t do that - would we? You and me - we would never do that to John Watson!"
And finally he opens the door and let´s them in. Meanwhile the wedding goes on.
Sherlock and the braidmaid are rehearsal the dancing, for her skills are rather poorly. And he proves that he loves dancing to her, and she just looks at him wishing he weren´t well what ever it is that he is. And he smiles. As John joins them and Lestrade brings the photographer with the camera of the wedding. Sherlock switches through the photos.
There is always a man at any wedding who is not in the photograph, he can go anywhere, and you never see his face. The Photograph. A brother of one of the young recruits that died under the Major. And Guardsman was his rehearsal. Greg arrests him.
Finally the wedding dance.
Sherlock plays on the violin the theme he had composed for their dance.
As Sherlock speaks his last word he makes is first and last vow - to always be there for the three of them ... he corrects himself meaing the two of them. Just with the two of them - he explains all the symptomes she showed all day are signs of a pregnancy.
Calming John he says he had enough practice - by watching over him. Slowly realizing that John not only married but also has a Baby on the way - there is merely space in that for him or Crime Cases. John and Mary join the dance floor - Sherlock almost joined too - but decided other wise, leaving the wedding early
... just like the best friend of Mrs. Hudson ...
