SCENE 2: A BRIGHTLY LIT HOSPITAL ROOM
THE CAMERA IS JOHN'S EYES. THE PICTURE COMES IN SLOWLY, AND BLURRED. THE AUDIO IS DISTANT AND OF POOR QUALITY. BOTH THE AUDIO AND PICTURE CLEAR UP SLOWLY, THEN SNAP TO HIGH-QUALITY AS THE CAMERA IS NO LONGER IN JOHN'S PLACE AND IS INSTEAD NEXT TO HIS BED.
SHERLOCK paces next to the bed. LESTRADE is frowning and watching JOHN.
LESTRADE:
Sherlock, he's awake.
SHERLOCK races over and grabs JOHN by the shoulders. He looks furious and also somehow relieved.
SHERLOCK: (almost shouting)
About time! What were you doing?!
JOHN smiles, hyped up on the drugs.
JOHN:
Have you considered mouthwash?
SHERLOCK looks horrified and even more enraged. He turns sharply on his heel and crisply begins pacing again as if to say, "Forget you!"
LESTRADE: (sighing)
Sherlock, they've got him on some pretty strong stuff. He's useless like this.
JOHN giggles as if LESTRADE said something very funny.
SHERLOCK: (snapping)
So you mean to tell me our ONE witness is high?
LESTRADE:
Yeah, that's it.
SHERLOCK gives up trying with LESTRADE. He returns to JOHN and shakes him.
SHERLOCK: (shouting again)
Come on, John! Think! What happened!
JOHN blinks.
JOHN: (shouting)
Why you shouting? I can hear!
LESTRADE shakes his head
SHERLOCK: (rolling his eyes, but nonetheless softer)
What happened?
He shakes JOHN again
JOHN:
What happened where?
SHERLOCK: (angrily)
At the explosion!
JOHN: (slurred)
Explosion? Glad I wasn't there...
SHERLOCK:
You were there! You're in the hospital because of it!
JOHN:
This is the hospital? I just thought you had redecorated... I don't like it.
SHERLOCK gives him his horrified face again.
LESTRADE:
Sherlock-
SHERLOCK:
What happened? Concentrate!
JOHN focuses against the drugs, but in vain. SHERLCOK shakes him again.
LESTRADE:
Sherlock! Let him rest! He'll make more sense after he gets some sleep.
SHERLOCK
Fine.
He turns crisply and walks out of the room.
SHERLOCK: (calling back)
What are you waiting for? Let's go see that body!