Question Five

Do you think the relationship between the two characters is portrayed equally in both transcripts? Are there any factors you believe influence this relationship?

Question Four

Do you think that the power ratio remains constant throughout the scene? If not, where do you perceive it to alter/switch?

Question Three

Do you believe the power ratio is clearer in 'A Game of Shadows' or 'The Reichenbach Fall'?

Question Two

Select two key utterances that you believe support your interpretation of this power ratio.

Question One

In reference to the two transcripts separately, who do you believe has the higher ratio of power in each?

BBC Adaptation; The Reinchenbach Fall Transcript

BBC Adaptation; Sherlock, The Reinchenbach Fall. Transcript of Dialogue between Sherlock Holmes and Jim Moriarty. (68.22mins – 77.20mins within the episode)

JM: Well (1.0) Here we are at last (3.0) You and me Sherlock (.) And our problem (.) The final problem (2.0) staying alive (4.0) It’s so boring, isn’t it? (3.0) it’s just (1.0) staying (1.0) All my life I’ve been searching for distractions and you were the best distraction and now I don’t even have you (.) Cause I’ve beaten you (2.0) And you know what (.) In the end it was easy (4.0) it was easy (.) now I’ve got to go back to playing with the ordinary people (,) And it turns out you’re ordinary just like all of them (5.0) oh well (7.0) Did you almost start to wonder if I was real? (2.0) Did I nearly get ya?

SH: Richard Brooke.

JM: Nobody seems to get the joke (2.0) But you do.

SH: Of course.

JM: That a boy.

SH: Rich Brooke in German is Reinchenbach (.) The case that made my name.

JM:  Just trying to have some fun (7.0)  Good (.) You got that too.

SH:  [Drums out beats behind back]                                             Beats like digits (.) Every beat is a one (.) Every rest is a zero (1.0) Binary code (.) That’s why all those assassins tried to save my life (.) It was hidden on me (.) Hidden inside my head (.) a few simple lines of computer code that can break into any system.

JM: Told all my clients (.) last one to Sherlock is a sissy.

SH: Yes, but now that it’s up here I can use it to alter all the records (3.0) I can kill Rich Brooke and bring back Jim Moriarty.

JM: No (1.0) no no no no (.) This is too easy (.) This is too easy (.) There is no key Doofas (4.0) Those digits are meaningless (1.0) They’re utterly meaningless (.) You don’t really think (.) a couple of lines of computer code are gonna crash the world around our ears I’m disappointed (.) I’m disappointed in you (mocking) ordinary Sherlock.

SH: But the rhythm.

JM: Partita Number One (.) Thank-you Johan Sebastian Bach.

SH: Then how  did you

JM:                 Then how  did I break into the bank, to the tower, to the prison? (.) Daylight robbery (.) All it takes is some willing participants (7.0) I knew you’d fall for it (.) That’s your weakness (.) You always want everything to be clever (.) Now, shall we finish the game? (1.0) One final act (.) Glad you chose a tall building (.) Nice way to do it.

SH: Do it? Do what? (3.0) Yes of course (2.0) My suicide.

JM: Genius detective proved to be a fraud (.) I read it in the papers so it must be true (.) I love newspapers (1.0) fairy tales (3.0) And pretty grim ones too.

SH: I can still prove that you created an entirely false identity.

JM: Oh just kill yourself it’s a lot less effort (2.0) Go on (.) For me (2.0) Please?

SH: You’re insane

JM: You’re just getting that now? (3.0) Okay (2.0) Let me give you a little extra incentive (2.0) Your friends will die if you don’t.

SH: John?

JM: Everyone.

SH: Mrs Hudson?

JM: Everyone.

SH: Lestrade?

JM: Three bullets (.) Three gunmen (.) Three victims (.) There’s no stopping them now (1.0) unless my people see you jump (6.0) You can have me arrested (.) You can torture me (.) You can do anything you like with me but nothing is going to prevent them from pulling the trigger (.) Your only three friends in the world will die (.) Unless

SH: I kill myself (.) complete your story.

JM: You gotta admit (.) that’s sexier.

SH: And I die in disgrace.

JM: Well, of course, that’s the point of this (.) Go on (.) You’ve got an audience now (1.0) Off you pop (1.0) Go on (1.0) I told you how this ends (1.0) Your death is the only thing that is going to call off the killers (.) I’m certainly not going to do it.

SH: Will you give me (.) one moment (.) please? (1.0)One moment of privacy (.) Please?

JM: Of course

SH: [Laughs]

JM: What? (1.0)What is it? (1.0)What did I miss?

SH: You’re not going to do it (.) So the killers can be called off it (.) There’s a recall code or a word or a number (1.0) I don’t have to die (1.0) if I’ve got you.

JM: Oooh (.) You think you can make me stop the order? You think you can make me do that?

SH: Yes (.) So do you.

JM: Sherlock. Your big brother and all the kings’ horses couldn’t make me do a thing I didn’t want to.

SH: Yes (.) But I’m not my brother remember (1.0) I am you (.) prepared to do anything (1.0) prepared to burn (1.0) prepared to do what ordinary people won’t do (1.0) You want me to shake hands with you in hell I shall not disappoint you.

JM: Nah (.) You talk big (.) Nah (.) You’re ordinary (.) You’re ordinary (.) You’re on the side of the angels.

SH: Oh, I may be on the side of the angels but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.

JM: No (.) You’re not (7.0) I see (2.0) You’re not ordinary (.) No (2.0) You’re me (.) You’re me (1.0) Thank-you (.) Sherlock Holmes (10.0) Thank-you (1.0) Bless you (3.0) As long as I’m alive you can save your friends (.) You’ve got a way out (3.0) Well, good luck with that. [Shoots himself]

SH: NO!

‘A Game of Shadows’ Transcript

‘A Game of Shadows’ Transcript. Transcript of Dialogue between Sherlock Holmes and Jim Moriarty (108.9 to 119.2 minutes)

JM: I’m sorry (1.0) Is this a bad time?

SH: Never better (1.0) Would you bring that clock?

JM: We get to play that game after all (13.0) There we are [Gives Jacket] (8.0) Don’t want you to catch a cold

SH: A five minute game?

JM: If you think you can manage it

SH: We both have two bishops (.) I may be absent from the room (.) but my methods are not

JM: You can’t mean Doctor Watson (.) surely (3.0) That doesn’t seem fair.

SH: The ambassador you replaced with Renee (.) Is he still alive?

JM: Would you like me to recommend your next move?

SH: Perhaps the assassin will take measures to make sure he doesn’t give himself away (.) A gambler concealing a tell

JM: Your clock is ticking (2.0) May I remind you this is blitz chess (.) A single miscalculation will cost you the game

SH: Maybe it’s less obvious (.) A nervous tick (.) A flutter of anxiety

JM: I expect everyone has a reason to be nervous tonight

SH: So perhaps it’s the opposite (.) A failure to behave naturally (1.0) An actor so consumed by his performance that the one characteristic he cannot accommodate (.) is spontaneous reaction (12.0) That doesn’t bode well does it?

JM: Seems your bishop was of some benefit (.) after all

SH: This game is still young

JM: Actually it’s (.) in its adolescence (12.0) I think you’ve just lost your most valuable piece

SH: A winning strategy sometimes necessitates sacrifice

JM: You see (.) hidden within the unconscious is an insatiable desire for conflict (2.0) So you’re not fighting me (1.0) so much you are the human condition (2.0) all I want to do it own the bullets and the bandages (1.0) War on an industrial scale is inevitable (.) They’ll do it themselves within a few years (1.0) All I have to do (1.0) is wait (3.0) I like Switzerland (1.0) they respect a mans privacy here (.) particularly if he has a fortune

SH: Bishop takes knight (.) check

JM: The game is over (.) you should get that shoulder looked at

SH: About that fortune of yours (1.0) I believe it’s just been substantially reduced

JM: King to rook two

SH: I attended several of your lectures (2.0) it was in (.) Oslo I first got a glimpse of your little notebook (1.0) red leather bound from Smithes in Bond Street (2.0) Rook to kings rook three (1.0) Check

JM: Bishop to rook three (.)   I support

SH:                                 This was not fully apparent to me until I observed your fousseau for feeding pigeons (.) then it occurred (.) with an empire so enormous (.) even you must keep a record of it somewhere (.) bishop takes bishop

JM: Rook to bishop four

SH: I then only required the notebook itself (.) you didn’t make it easy (1.0) I would need to endure a considerable amount of pain (2.0) but the notebook would undoubtedly be encoded (.) so how then to break the code? (1.0) rook takes rook

JM: Pawn takes rook

SH: Bishop to bishop seven

JM: Queen (.) takes knight pawn

SH: Does the (.) art of domestic horticulture mean anything to you? (3.0) how could a man as meticulous as you own such a book yet completely neglect the flowers in your window box? (1.0) Irony bounds (3.0) Never mind (.) It’s safe (.) In London (1.0) where my colleagues are making good use of it (2.0) The most formidable criminal mind in Europe has just had all his money stolen by possibly the most inept inspector in the history of Scotland Yard (.) He’ll be making an anonymous donation to the widows and orphans of war fund (2.0) Bishop to bishop eight (.) discover check (1.0) and incidentally (.) mate (2.0) I seem to have injured my shoulder (.) Do you mind?

JM: It’d be my pleasure (3.0) once we’ve concluded our business here (.) It’s important you know (.) I shall endeavour to find the most creative of endings for the doctor (2.0) and his wife [Fight Scene] Let’s not waste anymore of one another’s time (3.0) we both know how this ends

SH: Conclusion (.) Inevitable (1.0) Unless…