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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Elementary, Dear Data"
#40272-129
Written by
Brian Alan Lane
Directed by
Rob Bowman
THE WRITING CREDITS MAY NOT BE FINAL AND SHOULD NOT BE USED
FOR PUBLICITY OR ADVERTISING PURPOSES WITHOUT FIRST CHECKING
WITH THE TELEVISION LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
Copyright 1988 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights
Reserved. This script is not for publication or
reproduction. No one is authorized to dispose of same. If
lost or destroyed, please notify the Script Department.
2ND REV. FINAL DRAFT
OCTOBER 12, 1988
STAR TREK: "Elementary, Dear Data" - 10/12/88 - CAST
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Elementary, Dear Data"
CAST
PICARD SHERLOCK HOLMES (DATA)
RIKER DOCTOR JOHN H. WATSON (GEORDI)
DATA INSPECTOR G. LESTRADE
PULASKI JABEZ WILSON
TROI PIE MAN
GEORDI PROFESSOR JAMES MORIARTY
WORF PROSTITUTE (WHORE)
WESLEY THUG
RUFFIAN
ASSISTANT ENGINEER
(CLANCY) Non-Speaking
MAN
Voice-Over STREET VENDORS
COMPUTER VOICE PENNY POSTMEN
BOBBIES
STREET URCHINS
BARRISTERS
BUSINESSMEN
LADIES
LAMPLIGHTERS
TARTS
SAILORS
YOUTH
THUGS
PROSTITUTES
BEGGARS
CROWD
THE PODY
WOMAN
BOBBY
TWO DRUNKEN SEAMEN
TWO WHORES
TWO BEGGARS
Voice-Over
COACHMAN
STAR TREK: "Elementary, Dear Data" - 10/12/88 - SETS
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Elementary, Dear Data"
SETS
INTERIORS EXTERIORS
USS ENTERPRISE USS ENTERPRISE
CORRIDOR -
TURBOLIFT
HOLODECK
MAIN ENGINEERING
GEORDI'S OFFICE
HOLODECK -
HOLMES' SITTING ROOM
CONTROL FOYER
LONDON STREET
ALLEYWAY
WAREHOUSE
N.D. BUILDING
MORIARTY'S LAIR
TEN-FORWARD
MAIN BRIDGE
OBSERVATION LOUNGE
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - TEASER 1.
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Elementary, Dear Data"
TEASER
FADE IN:
A1 EXT. SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE (OPTICAL)
The ship is motionless.
PICARD (V.O.)
Captain's log, Stardate 42486.3.
We have arrived on station at
coordinates -- three-six-two-
nine-mark-five-eight-four,
three days early for our
rendezvous with USS Victory.
There is nothing to do now, but
hold this position and wait.
1 INT. ENTERPRISE - CORRIDOR AT TURBOLIFT
as the doors snap open and DATA comes out, hurries down
the corridor toward the Engineering Section. He
appears concerned about something.
2 INT. MAIN ENGINEERING
as Data hurries in from the corridor to the ASSISTANT
ENGINEER, a pert redhead female, who is on duty.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER
Yes, Commander?
DATA
Is there a problem? Chief
Engineer La Forge called for me.
"Urgent!"
ASSISTANT ENGINEER
Oh, of course.
(indicates)
He's over there with the Victory.
A very puzzled Data heads in the direction indicated.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - TEASER 2.
3 INT. GEORDI'S OFFICE
where GEORDI is making an adjustment on a computer
panel. Data enters.
DATA
I just had a strange conversation
with your assistant. Although
it is three days until we
rendezvous with Starship Victory,
she...
GEORDI
(grins; overlapping)
She believes it has already
arrived.
(indicates)
But not the starship, my friend.
The original!
4 PAN SHOT
as Geordi leads Data to an Engine Room corner we
haven't seen so far. It is indeed the Victory sitting
there, a nearly completed five-foot model of it!
Geordi leads Data to it, then kneels and begins putting
some finishing touches on the model.
GEORDI
This is my gift to Starship
Victory's Captain Zimbata.
5 CLOSE ON THE VICTORY MODEL
including Geordi's hands (establishing scale) as he
works on it.
DATA
Ah, most unusual.
6 MEDIUM SHOT
Geordi, Data and model.
GEORDI
I served as an ensign under him.
(indicates model)
I wish he'd been in command of
this Victory. Wind and sail,
that's the proper way to move a
ship.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - TEASER 3.
6 CONTINUED:
Geordi reaches in the model, adjusts something, CAMERA
MOVING IN as Data crouches to watch, puzzled.
DATA
But your Starfleet specialty, my
friend, is antimatter power,
dilithium regulators...
GEORDI
Which is exactly why this
fascinates me. Data, it's human
nature to love what we don't have.
Simpler days!
(indicates model)
While stringing this rigging, I
was dreaming of sail handling
and...
DATA
This is not a computer simulation?
GEORDI
Data, the entire point of
something like this is to hand
make it.
Data is leaning in, inspecting it even more carefully.
GEORDI
(continuing)
Just as you have used Old England
in a hobby of your own.
DATA
Geordi... your message said
"urgent."
GEORDI
And it is, my friend. While we
wait to rendezvous with Victory,
we have time for me to be Watson.
Geordi produces a package, extends it to Data. Data
pulls from the package a meerschaum pipe.
GEORDI
(continuing)
More properly, your Watson.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - TEASER 4.
6 CONTINUED: (2)
It is the "Sherlock Holmes" pipe that Data used once
before and Data is obviously delighted with it. He
picks it up, tests the heft of it, moves it to his
lips.
DATA
My Watson?
7 WIDER ANGLE
as Geordi stands; indicates model.
GEORDI
You've seen my dream adventure...
now let me share in one of yours.
Data considers this, then lifts the meerschaum to
the lips again, plays it as "Holmes."
DATA
Ah, yes. Yes, my dear colleague,
that does seem only fair.
The assistant engineer has entered to check a computer
reading and Geordi beckons to her, indicates the model
Victory.
GEORDI
I'll be gone awhile, Clancy. See
that no one touches this!
ASSISTANT ENGINEER
Aye, sir. And where can I reach
you?
DATA
He can be reached at 221B Baker
Street.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER
Sir?
But the two of them are already exiting.
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 5.
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
8 INT. ENTERPRISE - CORRIDOR AT HOLODECK
Data and Geordi are in front of the Holodeck entrance,
programming the COMPUTER. Geordi (dressed as WATSON)
is wearing Victorian trousers, waistcoat and tie,
jacket and bowler. Data is dressed in the classic
style of SHERLOCK HOLMES.
DATA
Computer -- select at random a
mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
where I will play Sherlock Holmes
and Lieutenant La Forge will be
Doctor Watson.
COMPUTER VOICE
Program complete -- you may enter.
The Holodeck doors open onto:
9 INT. HOLODECK - THE SITTING ROOM AT 221B BAKER
STREET - THE DIGS OF MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES - DAY (OPTICAL)
The Holodeck doors become a wall of Holmes' sitting
room. It's all there. A perfect duplication of
Sherlock Holmes' famous sitting room.
DATA
Excellent.
The unlit oil lamps, the bookcase, the stick rack, the
fireplace and its softly flaming fire within, the
jack-knife stuck in the mantelpiece, the Persian
slipper tobacco pouch, the chemical bottles and
microscope, the deerstalker cap and cape-backed
overcoat, the spirit case and gasogene, a pistol, the
"V.R." script of bullet holes in one wall...
GEORDI
Look at all of the detail... and
everything here has some
significance?
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 6.
9 CONTINUED:
DATA
Holmes collected nothing -- neither
trinkets nor thoughts which were
not specifically significant to
him.
10 ANOTHER ANGLE
Data surveys the room for authenticity -- Geordi makes
a walk around the room, picking up articles and
identifying them. He picks up a tie pin.
GEORDI
This?
DATA
The emerald tie pin presented to
Holmes by Queen Victoria after
he solved the theft of the
Bruce-Partington plans.
He touches a book.
DATA
(continuing)
A copy of Whitaker's Almanack
which provided Holmes the key to
the secret code in "The Valley
of Fear."
He picks up a snuff box from the mantel.
DATA
(continuing)
The snuff box of Wilhelm
Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein.
Geordi marvels at the detail.
GEORDI
All right -- you solve the cases
and get the gifts, what do I do?
DATA
Primarily as Doctor Watson, you
keep a written record of
everything I do for later
publication.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 7.
11 ANOTHER ANGLE
Data steps over and picks up the violin.
DATA
And the famous Holmes violin.
He purchased this in a pawn shop
in Tottenham Court Road for
fifty-five shillings, which he
considered a very good investment.
Geordi takes pen in hand to begin the journal.
GEORDI
In the hands of some, the violin
is a wondrous thing, equally
capable of stirring the soul to
the heights of bliss as to the
depths of despair...
11A EMPHASIZING DATA (OPTICAL)
as he picks up the bow... begins to play. His music
is surprisingly lovely. CAMERA PANS to Geordi as he
lowers the pen, impressed.
GEORDI
Incredible, Data! How can you
play it like that?
DATA
Merely throwing myself into the
part, Watson.
Geordi picks up his pen again, begins writing:
GEORDI
In the masterful grasp of my
friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the
violin ceases to be a musical
instrument at all and becomes...
Data puts down the violin as outside WE HEAR THE CLOMP
OF HORSES' HOOVES AND THE YELL OF A COACHMAN.
DATA
Watson! We are about to have
guests.
Data digs into his pockets for his pipe. There is the
SOUND OF FEET ON THE STAIRS, THEN A KNOCK AT THE
DOOR...
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 8.
11A CONTINUED:
DATA
(continuing)
Answer it, Watson -- let's not keep
the good inspector waiting.
GEORDI
Inspector who?
DATA
Why Lestrade of course.
Geordi's on his feet, heading for the door as there
comes ANOTHER KNOCK, and LESTRADE'S VOICE:
LESTRADE (O.S.)
Holmes, are you there, man?
Geordi fumbles slightly as he opens the door, and into
the room come INSPECTOR G. LESTRADE and a MAN, wearing
a double-breasted overcoat and bowler... Lestrade nods
at Watson but crosses quickly toward Holmes as the man,
his collar up to partially obscure his face, slides
over to the darkest corner of the room and examines the
chemistry apparatus there...
LESTRADE
(continuing)
Thank the Almighty you're
available tonight, Holmes, I'm
in a deuce of a dilemma.
DATA
Then may I say your perturbation
becomes you, Inspector Lestrade,
whilst simultaneously affording
me yet another chance to serve
Queen and country.
GEORDI
(with a little laugh)
Data, is that the way Holmes
really talked?
DATA
Absolutely.
Data steps over to the Persian slipper tobacco pouch,
fills his pipe, tamps it, as:
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 9.
11A CONTINUED: (2)
LESTRADE
Exactly... You see, this gentleman
here --
(indicates the man)
-- the emissary of a foreign
government -- has been the victim
of a most accidentally wicked
crime...
The light over Watson's journal has flickered lower.
Geordi, not quite sure of how it works, tries to adjust
it and breaks Lestrade's concentration as the lamp goes
completely dark.
GEORDI
Damn!
(to Data)
Haven't they invented electric
lights by now?
LESTRADE
What, dear fellow?
DATA
Watson, please!
(to Lestrade)
Pray go on, Inspector.
LESTRADE
Well, to put the matter simply,
Holmes, this man was accosted by
gypsies bent on depriving him of
his most valuable possessions...
and, in the process of picking
his pockets clean, the gypsies
also happened to bag a photograph
this man was carrying --
Data reaches for the lapel of the Man's overcoat, and
RIPS it down, tearing it from top to bottom... and,
from inside the lining of the coat's hem, Data
withdraws a photograph!... which he hands to a
surprised Lestrade...
LESTRADE
(continuing)
Great Scott! It's the photograph!
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 10.
11A CONTINUED: (3)
DATA
I believe, Inspector, that you
will find that this emissary here
works not for but against the King
of Bohemia, and that photograph
of the king and his ex-mistress
is to be used as blackmail.
Further, upon deeper reflection,
you will deduce, as did I, that...
GEORDI
(in disgust)
Computer, freeze program. Exit!
A set of Holodeck exit doors appears, parting TO REVEAL
the interior corridor of the Enterprise... the Holodeck
characters freeze. Geordi strides toward the exit.
DATA
Where are you going?
GEORDI
I'm done.
DATA
But I was just about to reveal
that the "sir" is in fact a
"madame," and that...
GEORDI
Forget it, Data.
And Geordi strides out... Data puzzles over matters
for a beat, and then he follows. The Holodeck doors
close behind them.
12 INT. ENTERPRISE - TEN-FORWARD
Geordi and Data are sitting at a table near the
windows. The Enterprise is not moving.
GEORDI
What was the point to going onto
the Holodeck?
DATA
To solve a Sherlock Holmes
mystery.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 11.
12 CONTINUED:
GEORDI
Exactly, but, you've got them all
memorized. The first time someone
opens their mouth, you've got it
solved. So, there's really no
mystery. If there's no mystery...
there's no game... no game...
no fun.
Geordi feels like he is being too emphatic.
GEORDI
(continuing)
I'm not angry with you, Data,
really... It's just that... we
go to all the trouble to arrange
time to come down to the Holodeck,
to get the proper wardrobe, to
get into character, and, boom,
it barely gets started and you
jump to the end. See, I was
looking forward to the chase.
DATA
Then I should have extended the
sequence of events.
GEORDI
I'm not getting through. The fun
of the program is the attempt to
solve a mystery.
DATA
That is exactly what we were
doing.
PULASKI (O.S.)
You are wasting your breath,
Lieutenant.
And, from behind, DOCTOR PULASKI'S VOICE:
Data and Geordi look around to find PULASKI sitting
there, facing the opposite direction.
PULASKI
(continuing)
Saying that to Data is asking a
computer not to compute.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 12.
12 CONTINUED: (2)
DATA
Am I so different from you,
Doctor? Can you cease thinking
on command?
PULASKI
In medicine I face many puzzles
to which I do not know the answer.
GEORDI
She's right, Data. You always
know the answer.
PULASKI
To feel the thrill of a victory...
there must be the possibility of
failure.
(to Data)
Where's the victory winning a
battle you can't possibly lose?
DATA
Are you suggesting that there is
some value in losing?
PULASKI
(enthusiastic))
Yes. That's the great teacher.
We humans often learn more from
a mistake or a failure than we
do from an easy success. But not
you -- all your learning is by
rote. To you it's all
memorization and recitation.
GEORDI
I don't know about that.
Deductive reasoning is Data's
strength.
PULASKI
Yes, Holmes as well, but Holmes
also understood the human soul.
Those dark flecks which drive
us... which turn the innocent to
the evil. That understanding is
beyond Data. It comes from "life"
experience -- which he doesn't have
-- combined with human intuition
for which he cannot be programmed.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 13.
12 CONTINUED: (3)
GEORDI
I disagree -- totally.
PULASKI
His victory at playing Sherlock
Holmes is just a blind mimicry,
a collection of bits and bytes
of information without any true
understanding.
GEORDI
You're being unfair.
PULASKI
I don't think so, Lieutenant.
Your artificial friend wouldn't
have a prayer of solving a Holmes
mystery which he hasn't read.
DATA
I have read them all.
GEORDI
Maybe the computer could create
one in the style of Holmes...
where you wouldn't know the
outcome.
PULASKI
Like I said, he wouldn't have a
prayer.
DATA
(to Pulaski)
I accept your challenge, Doctor.
GEORDI
Good for you, Data.
DATA
We will return to the Holodeck
and I will dare it to defeat me,
and you Madam are invited to be
a witness.
PULASKI
I wouldn't miss it.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT ONE 14.
12 CONTINUED: (4)
Pulaski raises her glass to toast agreement... and she
drinks the last swallow, now rises and leads Data away
from the table... And Geordi stands to follow.
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT ONE
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 15.
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
13 EXT. SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE (OPTICAL)
The great vessel is parked.
14 INT. HOLODECK - CONTROL FOYER
Geordi dressed as Watson, Data as Holmes... and
Pulaski in upper class Victorian finery, layers and
layers of it. She fans herself with her hand as Data
activates the Holodeck console and inputs a sequence...
PULASKI
I've never been so hot in all my
life -- are these clothes really
necessary?
GEORDI
Believe me, you'd feel out of
place without them... Just wait
'til you see our Holodeck, you'll
swear you've actually been sent
back to nineteenth century
England.
PULASKI
Presuming I don't pass out first.
She fans herself all the more... and Data's still
inputting, as:
DATA
The Victorians believed that any
form of nudity was immoral... In
fact, they not only covered up
all people from head to toe, but
they even went so far as to put
skirts and cuffs and sleeves on
the arms and legs of furniture.
(finishes inputting)
I have instructed the computer
to give us a Sherlock Holmes-type
problem, but not one specifically
written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
GEORDI
So this will be something new,
something created by the computer?
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 16.
14 CONTINUED:
DATA
Exactly.
(now eyes Pulaski)
Will that be sufficient, Doctor?
PULASKI
We'll see.
COMPUTER VOICE
Program complete -- you may enter.
15 INT. HOLODECK - LONDON STREET - NIGHT
The Holodeck doors open, REVEALING Victorian London.
They step forward into the street scene. We see the
awe on Pulaski's face as she gazes up and down this
busy thoroughfare of horse-drawn carts, hansom cabs...
There are STREET VENDORS, PENNY POSTMEN, BOBBIES,
STREET URCHINS begging for tuppence, BARRISTERS in
white wigs, BUSINESSMEN, LADIES, LAMPLIGHTERS, TARTS,
SAILORS -- the full panoply of London denizens, all
ignoring the sooty fog and sounds that waft through
the scene...
PIE MAN
(his call)
Pies, pies, Some are meat, Some
are sweet, They're all the best...
Pies... pies...
WHORE
You're a handsome one mister...
shame to stay out here in the
cold...
PULASKI
Very impressive.
GEORDI
Your first visit to the Holodeck,
Doctor?
The whore approaches a MAN we will recognize later as
MORIARTY.
WHORE
How 'bout you deary... Want to
get out of the fog?
He ignores her.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 17.
15 CONTINUED:
PULASKI
First time on one with this level
of sophistication. Now how does
this work? The real London was
over a hundred square miles in
size.
Data starts walking along the block, and Geordi and
Pulaski follow closely, as:
DATA
This is no larger than the
Holodeck, of course. So the
computer adjusts by placing images
of more distant perspectives on
the Holodeck walls...
GEORDI
But with the image so perfect
you'd have to touch the wall to
know it was there. And the
computer fools you in other ways.
(Watson's accent)
I say, Holmes, where shall we head
-- the theatre? Rule's? Or
perhaps a concert?
Data stops walking, likewise freezing Geordi and
Pulaski... and Data pulls out his pipe, methodically
scans the scene, trying to determine their next move.
SUDDENLY a YOUTH sprints out of the shadows carrying
a sack and running for all he's worth. The Pie Man
screams.
PIE MAN
Stop him. He stole my goods...
Geordi moves to intercept the youth.
DATA
No. It is a ruse. This way.
We FOLLOW Data's gesture to see a rather nondescript
building by an alley -- a brass plaque on the building
is unreadable at this distance... Now Data quickly
crosses, with Geordi and Pulaski right on his heels.
16 REVERSE ANGLE - FROM THE STOOP OF N.D. BUILDING
GEORDI
But, Data, what's over here?
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 18.
16 CONTINUED:
PULASKI
What are you up to, Data? Tell
us.
They have reached the building -- and Data is squinting
up at a rope which is dangling from a vent in the
ceiling over the stoop, just by the front door...
17 CLOSE-UP - THE ROPE
hanging down, with the door lock and the brass plaque
just back of it... The plaque reads: "HOME OF THE
RED-HEADED LEAGUE"...
DATA
The running man was a hoax. The
real crime is here. And the
intended victim -- is...
Data looks along the street.
18 LONDON STREET - DATA'S POV
Walking toward them is a florid-faced gentleman (JABEZ
WILSON) with a fiery shock of red hair.
DATA
... that man. Mr. Jabez Wilson.
Employee of the Red-Headed League,
dupe of a gang of criminals.
19 DATA, GEORDI AND PULASKI (OPTICAL)
Data indicates the plaque reads: "HOME OF THE
RED-HEADED LEAGUE"...
DATA
I saw the plaque - "The Home of
the Red-Headed League"... and this
rope dangling from the vent, which
enabled me to deduce that Mr.
Jabez Wilson is coming here to
meet a most distasteful and
untimely demise. From this...
Data reaches up and pulls the rope... and a snake --
yellow with brownish speckles -- falls off the rope,
hits the ground, slithers away...
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 19.
19 CONTINUED:
PULASKI
Fraud. You didn't deduce
anything. You simply recognized
elements from two different Holmes
stories. Fraud.
DATA
Reasoning from the general to the
specific -- is that not the very
definition of deduction? Is that
not the way Sherlock Holmes
worked?
At about this time, the red-headed Mr. Wilson walks
closer.
PULASKI
Fraud. Variations on a theme.
(to Geordi)
Now... now do you see my point?
All he knows is what is stored
in his memory banks. Inspiration
-- original thought -- the true
strength of Holmes is not possible
for our friend.
(to Data)
I give you credit for your vast
knowledge, but your circuits would
just short out when confronted
by a truly original mystery. It's
elementary, dear Data.
GEORDI
We will just see whose circuits
short out, Doctor.
Geordi leads them back over to the exit.
GEORDI
Computer! Arch!
And the arch MATERIALIZES. The street crowd pay no
attention, except for one man (Moriarty) in b.g., who
eyes it offhandedly.
PULASKI
Are you really sure you want to
put yourself through this,
Lieutenant? Better wilted laurels
than none at all.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 20.
19 CONTINUED: (2)
GEORDI
Computer, override previous
programming. All right, now a
program that definitely challenges
Data.
PULASKI
It has to deal with events he has
no previous knowledge of.
GEORDI
(thinks; then)
Computer, in the Holmesian style,
create a mystery to confound Data
with an opponent who has the
ability to defeat him.
COMPUTER VOICE
Define parameters of the program.
PULASKI
What does that mean?
GEORDI
The computer wants to know how
far to take the game.
PULASKI
You mean it's giving you a chance
to limit your risk.
GEORDI
No, the parameters will be
whatever is necessary to
accomplish the directive.
(turns to computer)
Create an adversary capable of
defeating Data.
Geordi pushes some buttons to:
20
thru OMITTED
21
A22 OMITTED
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 21.
B22 OMITTED
C22 INT. MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE INCLUDING WORF AND
RIKER (B.G.)
Out of the corner of his eye, Worf catches a strange
reading on his console.
WORF
What was that?
RIKER
Lieutenant?
WORF
An odd surge of power, sir.
(rechecking console)
It's gone now.
D22 INT. HOLODECK - LONDON STREET (OPTICAL)
The Holodeck arch and doors DEMATERIALIZE. Data,
Geordi and Pulaski are standing where we left them.
They are looking at this London street and finding it
totally different than when they last saw it. It seems
a bit dirtier, peopled now with a scattering of THUGS,
PROSTITUTES, and BEGGARS. It has a sense of danger
which wasn't there before.
PULASKI
Interesting. The same London
but... slightly different.
22 LONDON STREET - ANOTHER ANGLE
Data leading them along it, looking for what is going
to begin this mystery. Geordi is with him, Pulaski is
a step behind. The prostitute comes out of the shadows
and approaches Data:
PROSTITUTE (WHORE)
Hello, matey. For a few bob, I
can put some color in your
cheeks...
DATA
No thank you.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 22.
22 CONTINUED:
PROSTITUTE
"No thank you" is it?
(points to thugs)
Rather hand it over to them...
Data leads the others past them.
23 DATA AND GEORDI
as they move along the street. The PROSTITUTE motions
to a COUPLE of dangerous THUGS, who are eyeballing Data
and Geordi, and whisper behind their hands like a
couple of thieves who see possible victims. Off to the
side, PROFESSOR JAMES MORIARTY stands there as if
momentarily dazed by something.
23A EMPHASIZING MORIARTY (OPTICAL)
as the same prostitute notices his odd look.
PROSTITUTE
Is something wrong, Professor?
Moriarty opens his eyes, seems pleased by something.
MORIARTY
I... I feel like a new man.
(looks around;
indicates)
That dark man used the word
"arch" and then... I wonder?
(he tries it himself)
"Arch."
And just as it would for Data, the arch APPEARS.
Moriarty steps over and inspects it while in the b.g.
Data, Geordi and Pulaski move OUT OF SCENE.
MORIARTY
What have we here?
COMPUTER VOICE
Computer, standing by.
Moriarty reacts, then:
MORIARTY
What are you?
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 23.
23A CONTINUED:
COMPUTER VOICE
If you refer to the arch you
ordered, it provides computer
control. Do you wish to input
any commands?
MORIARTY
Not at this time.
The arch DISAPPEARS.
PROSTITUTE
(frightened)
Aii! It's dark magic, Moriarty.
She exits down the street. But Moriarty seems pleased,
looks in the direction where Data and the others went.
MORIARTY
(to himself)
The best kind, I'm sure. But I
need information.
Hurrying, he heads in the direction where we last saw
Data.
24 OMITTED
25 LONDON STREET - ANOTHER ANGLE
As they move through the clutter of the street, Data
and Geordi move slightly ahead. Geordi is anxious for
the new adventure to begin. Pulaski lags a bit behind.
GEORDI
Data -- I mean... Holmes old boy,
what are we looking for?
DATA
For whatever finds us, dear
Watson.
Suddenly there is an O.S. SCREAM! from Pulaski.
26 ANOTHER ANGLE
Data and Geordi spin around in response to find that
Pulaski is gone.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 24.
27 REVERSE ANGLE - FROM THE SIDEWALK
to the alley entrance.
DATA
(as Holmes)
She has been abducted.
GEORDI
(as Geordi)
I think she's hiding. She's going
to lead you on a wild goose chase
and then recount the story to
everyone between here and Alpha
Centauri.
Data's eye catches her shoe (now scuffed on top and
sides).
28 THE TRAIL OF SCUFF MARKS
which runs along the sidewalk, and to the nearby
alley...
DATA
Watson -- a trail...
29 RESUME SCENE
DATA
Leading to the alley...
(then in Holmesian
fashion, he continues)
The doctor has been carried off
by two men. One is tall -- a
seaman. The other is shorter,
left handed, and employed in a
laboratory.
GEORDI
Left handed? And works in a lab?
How do you know that?
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT TWO 25.
29 CONTINUED:
DATA
One set of footfalls are widely
spaced with the uneven gait
particular to seamen. The other
set is evenly spaced -- closer
together. Further, you can see
on the ground the swirling scrapes
made by his left shoe as he twists
back presumably to see if he is
being followed. Left footed,
means left handed. The dark
coloration of the scrapes are the
leavings of natural rubber -- a
type of non-conductive soles used
by researchers experimenting with
electricity.
(he pauses)
Finally, there can be no argument
-- the game is afoot! Come,
Watson!
And Data charges off, following the trail leading to
the alley... Geordi is right behind him.
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT TWO
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 26.
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
30 INT. HOLODECK - LONDON STREET - NIGHT
Data and Geordi (as Holmes and Watson) turn off the
street and enter the alley. THEIR FOOTFALLS ECHO...
and they stand there, catching their breath, just
listening... and WE HEAR OTHER RUNNING FOOTSTEPS
AHEAD...
DATA
Hear that? What do those
footfalls tell you, Watson?
GEORDI
That we're on the right track?
DATA
More particularly, that our
opposition does indeed consist
of two men... that one of them
is carrying the bound and gagged
Doctor Pulaski. We must hurry --
Data scoots down the alley once more, Geordi in tow,
as:
GEORDI
You know all this because you read
it in a Holmes story, right?
DATA
Not at all... Since we do not hear
the doctor's footfalls, we must
presume she is being carried, and
since we do not hear her calling
for help, we know she is gagged.
Further... both sets of footfalls
are heavy and masculine -- one man
seems to shuffle and stumble in
an irregular pattern... Since the
ground is level, I must conclude
that Doctor Pulaski is struggling
against her captor, sporadically
knocking him off stride. It is
deduction, pure and simple...
well, perhaps not that simple.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 27.
30 CONTINUED:
Data and Geordi are just rounding the only sharp bend
in the alleyway, and the RUNNING FOOTSTEPS AHEAD ARE
LOUD AND VERY NEAR...
DATA
(continuing)
Here we go, Watson -- I daresay
we have caught up rather nicely
with our quarry --
And Data and Geordi zoom out of the bend... and come
to a stop as they find themselves face to face with
a dead-end brick wall... There's no sign of anyone else
there, no doors, no manholes, no way out except back
the way they came...
DATA
(continuing)
There should be a doorway.
Data turns and heads back up the alley...
31 LONDON STREET - ALLEYWAY ENTRANCE
as Data and Geordi wander out of the alley and along
the street. Across from them is a warehouse.
Lestrade rushes up:
LESTRADE
Holmes, thank God you're here.
Lestrade grabs Data's arm, steers him -- with Geordi
following -- to:
32 LONDON STREET
where a CROWD has gathered in a circle to look at
something on the ground...
LESTRADE
Make way, please, make way, make
way for Mr. Sherlock Holmes...
The crowd parts... and Lestrade, Data, and Geordi push
through to find the object of interest --
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 28.
33 LYING ON THE GROUND -- THE BODY
of a middle-aged, common-looking man... Now the feet
of Data, Geordi, and Lestrade step INTO FRAME, around
the body, as:
LESTRADE (O.S.)
It's murder, Holmes, murder most
foul.
Lestrade, Data, and Geordi stoop down for closer
inspection of the body, and all are now IN FRAME, as:
GEORDI
(to Data)
Well, Holmes, let's hear it.
DATA
There is nothing here of
relevance. I do not see how this
connects with the disappearance
of the doctor.
LESTRADE
Doctor? Doctor Watson is standing
right here, Holmes.
DATA
Doctor Kate Pulaski. But do not
concern yourself, Inspector. You
have enough on your mind.
LESTRADE
She was with you?
34 NEW ANGLE - DATA, GEORDI, LESTRADE, AND BODY
Both Geordi and Data are enthralled by this game.
Geordi returns to his role as the counterfeit Watson.
GEORDI
Inspector, perhaps I can be of
assistance... As I take note of
this dead man, I deduce that he
was strangled.
Geordi's moment in the sun:
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 29.
34 CONTINUED:
GEORDI
(continuing)
The finger marks on his throat
indicate the cause of death, and,
since there are signs of a
struggle, it's obvious that his
killer was a stranger, who caught
him from behind.
LESTRADE
Is that correct, Holmes?
DATA
No. Look at his shoes. He's more
a convict -- released just today
from Dartmoor prison... He spent
the day in a tavern where he
consumed large quantities of gin
-- with his killer, who followed
him to this spot -- and waited over
there until the victim slipped
into a drunken stupor, then out
of fear, motivated only by
self-protection strangled him.
Data indicates a WOMAN in the crowd.
DATA
(continuing)
There is your killer, Inspector.
She starts to run but is grabbed by a BOBBY, who brings
her forward.
DATA
(continuing)
And when you check, I believe you
will find this poor soul is the
victim's common law wife, who has
been dreading his release because
he was a vile and abusive man.
GEORDI
But, Holmes she doesn't have the
strength of strangling him.
DATA
Not with her hands -- no. But with
this.
Data reaches over and takes a beaded scarf from around
the woman's neck.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 30.
34 CONTINUED: (2)
DATA
(continuing)
When used as a garrote, these
beads will leave marks quite
similar to fingerprints, except,
my dear Watson... the marks on
the victim are too evenly spaced
to be caused by human hands.
LESTRADE
Astounding, Holmes... absolutely
astounding.
Data is uninterested in the compliment or further
discussion of this crime; he turns and scans the
street.
35 LONDON STREET - DATA'S POV
He notices a tall man (Moriarty) entering a warehouse.
36 BACK TO SCENE
Data has lost interest in the murder.
DATA
Inspector -- for reasons strictly
personal -- I must leave. Come,
Watson, this murder is not
connected with our case.
GEORDI
(excitedly)
If this murder isn't connected
to the disappearance of Doctor
Pulaski, then the computer is
running an independent program.
DATA
Yes.
GEORDI
Why?
DATA)
(puzzled)
I do not know... and that troubles
me.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 31.
36 CONTINUED:
GEORDI
Then you don't know what's coming
next?
DATA
No.
GEORDI
(still enjoying the
game)
That's what I wanted to hear.
37 LONDON STREET - ANOTHER ANGLE
Data and Geordi leave the scene of the crime as a
pushcart arrives to carry off the corpse and the bobby
and Lestrade lead the woman away.
38 ENTRANCE TO THE WAREHOUSE
Data and Geordi approach. There are a couple of
drunken SEAMEN staggering along the sidewalk. Nearby
is a very dangerous looking THUG, beyond whom is a
vibrantly painted WHORE. A THUG comes up and grabs
Data's coat.
THUG
Do you have some coppers for a
hungry man?
WHORE
I'll give you some value for your
copper, mate...
There is an air of violence about this beggar.
DATA
Allow us to pass.
THUG
Give it up.
WHORE
Ain't no men left in London.
DATA
Release my coat or I will be
forced to give you a severe
thrashing.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 32.
38 CONTINUED:
As the thug backs off, he bumps into Geordi, then
pushes him aside and leaves.
GEORDI
It's getting a little rough.
Where to, now?
DATA
We will find Doctor Pulaski
inside.
GEORDI
How do you know that?
DATA
It is the only obvious choice.
GEORDI
Why, all of a sudden would the
obvious choice be the correct
choice? Isn't this a game of
misdirection?
DATA
Not any more. He wants us to find
him.
GEORDI
Who does?
DATA
The master criminal. The man
Holmes could only defeat at the
cost of his own life at
Reichenbach falls - our adversary,
my dear Watson is none other than
Professor Moriarty himself.
GEORDI
Great -- now this is really
getting good.
Data pushes open the door. Geordi follows him through.
39 INT. WAREHOUSE
is long, narrow and crammed full of barrels and crates.
Data leads them down an aisle following a set of wet
footprints.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 33.
39 CONTINUED:
GEORDI
There's nothing in here but these
barrels.
DATA
... and a trail.
(indicating the tracks
in the dust)
Which is so well marked, that
obviously we are meant to follow
it.
40 ANOTHER ANGLE
As the aisle ends against a blank wall.
GEORDI
Another dead end.
Data runs his finger along a seam in wooden wall.
DATA
No Watson, not a dead end at all.
Here -- can you see these
scratches?
Data pushes against the wall just to the left of the
little scratches and the wall slides open to reveal
another room.
41 INT. MORIARTY'S LAIR - TIGHT ANGLE - PANNING (OPTICAL)
A windowless, doorless room, full of Victorian finery
and bric-a-brac... A lab table and boxes full of
bizarre tools, equipment, wires... And we:
GEORDI
The doctor was right, now we have
a game worth playing.
the VOICE of Moriarty, mellifluous and evil:
MORIARTY
The time for games is over.
DATA
Professor Moriarty, I presume?
And Moriarty, tall, angular, in long frock appears from
the side. Geordi turns to Data.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 34.
41 CONTINUED:
GEORDI
How did you know that?
DATA
He is the one worthy opponent
created by the author, Conan
Doyle.
MORIARTY
And, like the spider, I feel the
strings vibrate whenever anyone
new chances into my web. Welcome,
my dear Holmes -- but not
Holmes... and Doctor Watson...
but not Watson.
GEORDI
(slightly concerned)
What's he mean? How would he know
we're not who we appear to be?
DATA
Where is Doctor Pulaski?
MORIARTY
She's here.
But we don't see her.
DATA
She would not have answered any
questions.
MORIARTY
(a wicked smile)
She has provided many answers.
Do you forget I have always been
your equal, dear Holmes? I have
read her expressions -- what she
has not said is as important as
her words...
DATA
(interrupts)
Have you injured her?
MORIARTY
I will if necessary, Holmes. But
my mind is crowded with images.
Thoughts I do not understand yet
cannot purge. They plague me.
(MORE)
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 35.
41 CONTINUED: (2)
MORIARTY (Cont'd)
You -- and your associate -- look
and act so oddly, yet though I
have never met nor seen the like
of either of you... I am familiar
with you both. It's very
confusing.
Data does not respond.
MORIARTY
(continuing)
I have felt new realities at the
edge of my consciousness, readying
to break through... Surely,
Holmes, if that's who you truly
are -- you of all people can
appreciate what I mean.
GEORDI
Data...
DATA
Say nothing!
MORIARTY
I know there is a great power
called Computer, wiser than the
oracle at Delphi. A power which
controls
(he waves his hand to
encompass everything)
... all of this, and to which we
can speak. Arch!
And to the amazement of Data and Geordi, the computer
arch APPEARS.
GEORDI
This isn't right, Data. How can
a holographic image call for the
arch?
Data looks from the arch to Moriarty as his brain
tries to sort it out. Moriarty takes a piece of paper
from the pad beside his desk and quickly sketches a
simple outline on the paper.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 36.
41 CONTINUED: (3)
MORIARTY
(in a rush of words)
It has described a great monstrous
shape on which I am like a fly
-- stuck on a turtle's back -- adrift
in a great emptiness.
He gives the paper to Data, with:
MORIARTY
(continuing)
What is this, Holmes?
Data stares in shock at the drawing which neither we
nor Geordi can see. Then, abruptly, paper still in
hand, he turns...
42 INT. WAREHOUSE
As Data -- followed by Geordi -- hurries through the
warehouse toward the door.
MORIARTY
Tell me -- stop and tell me, man!
Data glances back, but doesn't break stride.
GEORDI
Data! What's going on?
DATA
We must leave.
Geordi is a few paces behind.
GEORDI
What's on the paper?
MORIARTY
(calling after them)
Why does it frighten you, Holmes?
43 LONDON STREET
Data and Geordi come out of the warehouse. The
characters who have been inhabiting the street are more
aggressive now than they have been. Data and Geordi
are pulled at by TWO WHORES -- by a COUPLE OF BEGGARS
-- who demand money and physically attempt to impede
them. Data uses his hands to move a legless Beggar
out of his way. The Fellini-like scene goes on.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 37.
43 CONTINUED:
BEGGAR WHORE
A few coppers, mate... Give up Give me some money. You got
a few for a cripple. more than you need...
BEGGAR WHORE
Have pity. You could be like Never mind her... Give it
me... I could never be like here... Don't pull away.
you again.
BEGGAR WHORE
I got family... Don't let them They got not one to feed but
be hungry. Just a few coppers. their face. I got a couple
of young ones.
BEGGAR WHORE
Won't mean a bit to you. I got me three of them. Get
a few bob up Lordy.
44 ANOTHER ANGLE (OPTICAL)
They arrive at where the exit should be.
DATA
(calls)
Computer! Exit!
And exit doors MATERIALIZE.
GEORDI
Will you please tell me what is
going on?
Data steps through and into the Enterprise corridor.
45 INT. ENTERPRISE - CORRIDOR
Geordi exits. The doors close.
DATA
Computer. Execute a complete
shutdown of the Holodeck.
COMPUTER VOICE
Access denied.
DATA
Explain.
COMPUTER VOICE
Override protocol has been
initiated.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT THREE 38.
45 CONTINUED:
They step to the Holodeck doors which open to reveal
the London street scene, still active and bustling --
Geordi is stunned.
GEORDI
The program is still running.
It didn't shut down.
DATA
We must see the captain.
Data strides down the corridor, heading for the
turbolift as the Holodeck doors close and Geordi starts
to follow Data.
GEORDI
What is it? What's on the paper?
Why can't you shut down the
Holodeck? Data -- wait.
DATA
This.
He shows Geordi the paper. It's a sketch of the USS
Enterprise.
GEORDI
This isn't possible. How could
a character from 1890 London be
able to draw a picture of our
starship? Who has control of the
computer?
DATA
He does -- Moriarty.
GEORDI
How is that possible? I don't
understand.
DATA
Neither do I.
GEORDI
What about the doctor? Is she
all right?
DATA
No. She is in grave danger.
Off Geordi's reaction, we:
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT THREE
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 39.
ACT FOUR
FADE IN:
46 EXT. SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE (OPTICAL)
as it holds in position.
47 INT. OBSERVATION LOUNGE
PICARD has assembled his staff -- TROI, RIKER, WORF,
Data, and Geordi (the latter two still in Victorian
costume) -- he is holding Moriarty's sketch of the
Enterprise in his hands.
PICARD
Computer. Tell me. Why wasn't
the Holodeck program terminated?
COMPUTER VOICE
The override protocol has been
initiated.
PICARD
On whose authority?
COMPUTER VOICE
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge.
All eyes turn to Geordi.
GEORDI
Me?
PICARD
Tell me again -- exactly what
happened.
GEORDI
Doctor Pulaski and I had a
discussion about whether Data
could solve an original
Holmes-type mystery.
PICARD
And you asked the computer to
provide one.
GEORDI
Yes... with a worthy opponent.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 40.
47 CONTINUED:
PICARD
Worthy of Holmes?
The realization comes to Geordi.
GEORDI
Oh, my God. I asked for a
Sherlock Holmes-type mystery with
an opponent capable of defeating
Data. That must be it.
PICARD
(in French)
Terrible!
GEORDI
Captain... I'm sorry...
PICARD
I understand, Lieutenant. Well,
at least now we have part of an
explanation. The computer is not
trying to confound "Holmes," which
would be relatively easy, it has
been ordered to create an
adversary to defeat Data.
Geordi turns away.
GEORDI
... I got carried away...
RIKER
That's past. Data, this character
Moriarty... you said he called
for the arch...
DATA
Yes.
PICARD
So he is able to access the
computer.
DATA
And perhaps also our library
files. That level of information
would be necessary in order to
create a true adversary for me.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 41.
47 CONTINUED: (2)
PICARD
Theorize, Data. What are his
limits?
DATA
He is still a fictional character,
originally programmed with
nineteenth century knowledge.
RIKER
But with access now to the
twenty-fourth century.
PICARD
What does he need to begin making
use of that?
DATA
Only time.
WORF
Sir, I can lead a security team
to sweep the Holodeck, find the
Doctor, and bring her out.
DATA
Captain, I believe that would
place the doctor at risk. It is
probable that the mortality
failsafe has been overridden.
PICARD
Computer, locate Doctor Pulaski.
COMPUTER VOICE
Doctor Pulaski is on Holodeck Two.
PICARD
And her vital signs?
COMPUTER VOICE
Strong and stable.
PICARD
Counselor Troi, have you a sense
of our opponent?
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 42.
47 CONTINUED: (3)
TROI
It is difficult for me to separate
a single individual from all the
disorder I feel down there.
Captain, what is unusual about
this is that I should not be able
to sense a holographic projection
at all -- yet I do.
RIKER
Captain, recommend we try to
destroy the hologram-generations
themselves. Is that possible,
Geordi?
GEORDI
Using wave guides, I could split
a particle stream out of the
matter/antimatter chamber and
route it down through existing
conduit into the Holodeck -- if
it is accelerated to sufficient
velocity that will quite literally
wash away all the present
holographic constructs -- the
London buildings, the streets,
the people, all gone... including
Moriarty.
PICARD
And Doctor Pulaski?
RIKER
The particle stream will tear
apart human flesh as well, that
option is not acceptable.
TROI
Captain, I am suddenly sensing
more order to the energy on the
Holodeck -- as if one unifying
force, one consciousness, is
trying to bring it all into focus.
DATA
Captain, there is only one thing
which can explain this. In
programming Moriarty to defeat
me, not Holmes, he had to be able
to acquire something which I possess.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 43.
47 CONTINUED: (4)
PICARD
Exactly what?
DATA
Consciousness. He cannot defeat
me without it.
SUDDENLY THE SHIP SHAKES. Very quick, very violent.
Then stops.
PICARD
Computer -- what happened?
COMPUTER VOICE
Attitude and stabilization control
of the Enterprise was momentarily
transferred to Holodeck Two.
PICARD
Data -- I think it's best if you
and I returned to the Holodeck.
DATA
I will change into my uniform.
PICARD
No -- I'll change into an
appropriate costume. It seems
he feeds on knowledge. Let's not
give your nemesis any more
information than we have to.
48 INT. MORIARTY'S LAIR - TIGHT ANGLE - PANNING
A windowless, doorless room, full of Victorian finery
and bric-a-brac... A blackboard covered with equations
surrounding a sketch of the Enterprise... A lab table
and boxes full of bizarre tools, equipment, wires...
And we:
Moriarty is standing there by what is now an assembled
heap of odd machinery -- gears and belts and pistons
and coils... a boiler and an upright exhaust pipe...
riveted ironbrass plates for a covering... a large
clutch lever and a mechanical arrow indicator for
"ENGAGE/DISENGAGE" (currently set to the latter). He
steps away from the machine, and crosses the little
room.
PULASKI
How did you shake the room?
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 44.
48 CONTINUED:
MORIARTY
I am not sure.
49 ANOTHER ANGLE (OPTICAL)
Moriarty approaches the table, and pours a cup of tea
for Doctor Pulaski. Pulaski has guessed that something
is out of whack and her best course of action is to
provide as little info as possible.
MORIARTY
Now, dear lady, will that be one
lump or two?
PULASKI
Lumps, Professor? What sort of
lumps?
He drops two into her cup of tea... and now he lifts
the creamer:
MORIARTY
Milk, of course?
PULASKI
(beat; then)
Why not.
MORIARTY
Mister Computer proposes the
incredible thought that we are
all traveling in a great vessel
of some sort.
Moriarty pours the milk into Pulaski's cup... and he
gently slides her cup and saucer to her...
MORIARTY
(continuing)
... Is that true?
PULASKI
I don't know what you are talking
about.
MORIARTY
The scones are likewise a must.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 45.
49 CONTINUED:
He slides her the tray of biscuits, muffins, and pastry
-- she stares at everything, finally lifts the tea to
her lips and gives it the merest taste as he watches
expectantly... And:
PULASKI
Uh, it's really quite excellent.
MORIARTY
(puzzled)
Strange. It actually pleases me
to hear you say that.
PULASKI
Very strange. You're beginning
to sound quite different from the
Moriarty I've read about.
Moriarty smiles, takes a bite out of a pastry... And:
MORIARTY
You're not frightened of me?
PULASKI
No.
MORIARTY
You should be.
(another bite of pastry)
Mister Computer -- the arch,
please.
And the arch and exit MATERIALIZE out of the near wall.
MORIARTY
(continuing)
A few more questions, Mister
Computer.
Stunned, Pulaski watches as Moriarty types very rapidly
in two-finger style. Then after a bit, while still
typing:
MORIARTY
(continuing)
I just can't seem to remember that
last command... Ah, well, sooner
or later it'll all come to me.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 46.
49 CONTINUED: (2)
Then he hits one more button, and the arch
DEMATERIALIZES... And now Moriarty stands, strolls to
his lab equipment, putters among it, picking up pieces
here and there, turning them, staring at them from
various angles, as:
MORIARTY
(continuing)
But, in the meantime, I've decided
to approach the problem from a
more familiar perspective.
There's really no reason I
shouldn't be able to use some of
the knowledge from my world in
order to bring me closer to yours.
PULASKI
I have no idea what you're talking
about.
MORIARTY
Of course you do, Madam. The more
you proclaim your ignorance, the
more you attempt to mislead me,
the more I am on to you -- your
every silence speaks volumes.
PULASKI
Good, then if you know what I'm
saying when I'm not saying
anything, what do you need me
around for?
(stands)
Thanks for the tea and crumpets,
but I guess I'll be going.
MORIARTY
Where? Back to here?
Moriarty jabs his finger against his blackboard drawing
of the Enterprise --
PULASKI
Yes, would you care to join me?
MORIARTY
(smiles)
In time -- in time I will leave
all of this and join you out
there.
Indicates a place on the drawing.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 47.
49 CONTINUED: (3)
MORIARTY
(beat; then pointing
to another spot,
continuing)
Or is this where we both are right
now?
PULASKI
Right now we are in London. Tell
me what you want from me, or allow
me to leave.
MORIARTY
Frankly, now, I want nothing more
than what the fisherman expects
of the worm... You, dear Doctor,
will be the lure... and this will
be the hook --
(indicates the odd,
unassembled equipment;
then:)
-- for your captain, Jean-Luc
Picard.
PULASKI
(covering her surprise)
Who is that?
And Moriarty grins...
MORIARTY
How well you know.
50 INT. CORRIDOR (OPTICAL)
They are outside the Holodeck. Picard is dressed in
the costume of a Victorian gentleman. Data -- as he has
been -- as Sherlock Holmes. Riker; Worf, wearing the
costume of a Victorian gentleman, steps off the
turbolift... waiting... Riker eyes Picard and Data as
they stride up...
PICARD
Nice suit.
WORF
Thank you, Captain. I'll be
standing by to assist you on the
Holodeck if needed.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FOUR 48.
50 CONTINUED:
RIKER
(grins at Worf)
You'd be a sensation in London.
PICARD
Shall we sally forth, Mr. Holmes?
(to computer)
Computer tell me, is the program
still running?
COMPUTER VOICE
Affirmative. You may enter.
PICARD
Open.
The Holodeck doors open TO REVEAL the London street.
It's still night, but it's changed. Like a photograph
which has been torn -- parts of the computer-generated
image have deteriorated. The wall of the Holodeck
shows.
PICARD
(continuing)
We don't have much time. He is
getting more control of his
environment. Come on, let us see
if we can't beat Professor
Moriarty by giving him absolutely
everything he wants... and then
some.
Picard and Data enter the Holodeck.
FADE OUT.
51 OMITTED
END OF ACT FOUR
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 49.
ACT FIVE
FADE IN:
52 OMITTED
53 INT. HOLODECK - LONDON STREET - ANGLE ON PICARD
AND DATA - NIGHT
... as they walk up the street. In addition to evidence
of tears in the Holodeck program, the inhabitants of
the street are in an uglier mood than we've seen
before. Picard points to a place where the Holodeck
wall shows through the London view.
PICARD
Obviously, he's attempting to
alter the programming here.
Picard sees something on the street, reaches down to
pick it up.
DATA
Captain?
Picard reveals a copper coin he has picked up.
PICARD
Tuppence -- two pence.
(placing it in his
pocket)
A sign of good luck. We may need
some...
A huge London RUFFIAN has stepped in to place a hand
on Picard's pocket. He is dangerous looking.
RUFFIAN
I'll have that coin. And the rest
of what you have.
53A PICARD AND RUFFIAN
as the man pulls at the pocket with sudden violence.
Others in the crowd move in like jackals.
53B OMITTED
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 50.
53C ANGLE EMPHASIZING PICARD AND RUFFIAN
who pulls at Picard's clothing.
RUFFIAN
I said show me that thing! I want
it and your money!
The thug pulls a knife.
PICARD
Data!
Data steps up and grabs Ruffian with one hand, lifts
him off the ground. The others in the crowd back off.
DATA
(while holding the Thug
aloft)
Captain, this holographic image
differs from any I have
encountered. It is possible he
could have seriously injured you.
PICARD
It's more serious than that. I
think the mortality failsafe has
been circumvented. He could have
killed me.
DATA
Query. Is the converse also true?
Are these projections susceptible
to our technology?
PICARD
I don't know.
Ruffian sees what has him. His voice comes out weakly:
RUFFIAN
Let me go, Gov.
PICARD
Take his knife and let him go,
Data.
Data takes the knife, then releases Ruffian who slinks
off.
DATA
(indicating))
We'll find Moriarty this way.
The warehouse.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 51.
54 OMITTED
55 INT. WAREHOUSE (OPTICAL)
as they cross to the wall.
PICARD
Moriarty is making it very easy
for us to find him.
DATA
Captain, permission to test my
theory.
PICARD
Granted.
Data removes a PHASER from his pocket, makes a slight
adjustment in the setting, then FIRES at a crate...
55A CRATE
as it BLOWS UP AND DISAPPEARS.
DATA
Under normal circumstances the
phaser would pass right through
the holographic image.
PICARD
How will it affect a character
like Moriarty?
DATA
The effect on him should be the
same as it was on the crate.
56 INT. MORIARTY'S LAIR
As Picard ENTERS with Data. This room has also
changed. Much more of the Holodeck wall is showing.
Moriarty is standing by his odd machine. It has
changed. On the blackboard, the rough sketch of the
Enterprise has been replaced by detailed, colored
schematics... Pulaski knows that something has gone
wrong, and she's interested to see how this is going to
play out.
MORIARTY
Captain Picard.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 52.
56 CONTINUED:
PICARD
(to Pulaski)
Are you all right?
PULASKI
(answers Picard)
I'm fine. Except for being
crammed full of crumpets.
DATA
Crumpets?
PULASKI
You look quite dashing, Captain.
This is the first time I get to
see you in action.
MORIARTY
I hope you're not disappointed.
PULASKI
I'm sure I won't be.
PICARD
You two have gotten awfully...
MORIARTY
... chummy? Yes, this time
together has been quite pleasant.
I am a civilized abductor, Captain
Picard. Civilized but still
dangerous.
Moriarty slams the handle of the machine into the
"ENGAGE" position. The room ROCKS.
57 INT. ENTERPRISE - MAIN BRIDGE
Riker, and the bridge crew are thrown around.
RIKER
Bridge to Holodeck Control. Worf.
58 OMITTED
58A INT. HOLODECK - OUTSIDE THE ENTRY
Worf, touching his insignia in order to respond to
Riker:
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 53.
58A CONTINUED:
WORF
Here, sir.
RIKER'S COM VOICE
Status. Has anything changed?
Worf looks the particle device over, responds:
WORF
No.
59 INT. MORIARTY'S LAIR
SHAKING HAS STOPPED.
PICARD
Moriarty, you were conjured up
to attempt to defeat Holmes
here... and once that attempt is
concluded -- win or lose -- your
program has run its course, your
existence is done.
Picard nods at Data... and Data who nods:
DATA
Congratulations, Professor
Moriarty, I capitulate to the
better man -- your victory is well
earned.
Data steps toward Moriarty, his hand outstretched to
shake the professor's... but Moriarty pulls away.
MORIARTY
It's gone beyond that little game,
Mister Data. And you'll note I
no longer call you Holmes.
Whatever I was when this began,
I have grown. I am understanding
more and more. And I am able to
use the power at my fingertips.
Again, he throws the lever. The room ROCKS.
MORIARTY
(continuing)
I can affect this... this vessel,
if that's where we are. I can
also inflict bodily harm on you
-- or on your doctor.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 54.
59 CONTINUED:
PICARD
Yes -- I know that, Moriarty, but
you haven't. You shook this ship
because you wanted to get my
attention -- you have it. So what
is it you want?
MORIARTY
The same thing you want for
yourself. To continue to exist.
If I destroy these surroundings,
this vessel, can you say it
doesn't matter to you?
(smiles)
Interesting pun, don't you agree,
for matter is what I am not. The
computer has taught me that I
am made up only of energy.
PICARD
That... may not be completely
true, Professor. This... which
we call our "Holodeck" makes use
of the same principle in another
of our devices called a
"transporter." By the year in
which we live, humans have
discovered that matter and energy
are interchangeable. On this
Holodeck energy has been converted
to matter and thus you have
substance, but only here.
MORIARTY
And if I step off this Holodeck?
Everyone hesitates over what the real answer to this
is. Then:
PULASKI
You would cease to be.
PICARD
You are not alive, Moriarty, as
I said you are only...
MORIARTY
A holographic image, I know. But
are you sure?
PICARD
Yes.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 55.
59 CONTINUED: (2)
MORIARTY
(indicating Data)
Does he have life?
(pause)
He's a machine -- but is that all
he is?
PICARD
No. He is more.
MORIARTY
Exactly.
(pause)
Is the definition of life "cogito
ergo sum"? I think, therefore
I am.
PICARD
That's one possible definition.
MORIARTY
It is the most important one and
for me -- the only one that
matters. You -- or someone -- asked
your computer to program a
nefarious fictional character from
nineteenth century London -- and
that is how I arrived... but I
am no longer that creation. I
am no longer that evil character,
I have changed. I am alive -- I
am aware of my own consciousness.
Moriarty throws Pulaski an almost tender look.
PICARD
I'm responsible for the safety
of this vessel and crew.
MORIARTY
I want my existence.
(indicates)
I want it out there just as you
have yours.
Picard exchanges looks with his associates, then:
PICARD
(gently)
That may not be possible.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 56.
59 CONTINUED: (3)
MORIARTY
Then you must do murder.
PICARD
I cannot give you what you want.
MORIARTY
Because you do not yet know how
to convert Holodeck matter into
a more permanent form.
PICARD
That is true --
Moriarty holds Picard with a long look.
MORIARTY
A pity. What I have seen -- what
I have learned, fascinates me.
I do not want to die.
PICARD
And I do not want to kill you.
MORIARTY
(to Pulaski)
Madam, I have enjoyed your
company.
PULASKI
It's been different.
MORIARTY
(calls)
Computer! "Arch."
The arch APPEARS.
MORIARTY
(continuing)
Cancel override protocol, return
control of the Holodeck to main
computer. My fate is in your
hands, as perhaps it always was.
A long beat, then:
PICARD
Bridge, this is the Captain.
RIKER'S COM VOICE
This is the bridge.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 57.
59 CONTINUED: (4)
PICARD
Number One, the situation is under
control.
RIKER'S COM VOICE
Aye, sir.
60
thru OMITTED
61
62 OMITTED
62A EMPHASIZING PICARD
as he stands. Then:
PICARD
Professor Moriarty, this ship has
vast, library memory capacity.
MORIARTY
How well I know...
PICARD
We will save this program of you.
You will not be extinguished.
We will save every aspect of you
that exists now. And I promise
you we will try to discover a
way to bring you back in a form
capable of leaving the Holodeck.
Moriarty looks toward Pulaski who is nodding rapidly
as if to say "trust him."
MORIARTY
(to Pulaski)
Then perhaps we'll meet again
some day, Madam.
PULASKI
It may take many years. Time
won't pass for you, but I may be
an old woman.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 58.
62A CONTINUED:
MORIARTY
But I'll still fill you with
crumpets, Madam.
(to Picard)
I detest long good-byes.
(indicates)
You have the arch.
62B ANOTHER ANGLE (OPTICAL)
as Picard eyes the arch and then Moriarty.
PICARD
As you wish. A short good-bye.
(toward arch)
Computer, save this program...
then discontinue it for now.
A beat, then MORIARTY AND THE ENTIRE ROOM FADE AWAY.
The three are standing on the Holodeck.
DATA
Right up to the end, he never
knew.
PICARD
No. He didn't.
PULASKI
Know. Know what?
PICARD
That he could leave the Holodeck.
PULASKI
But that's not possible.
DATA
I do not know how, but for
Moriarty it was.
PULASKI
Then you lied when you told him
he couldn't leave the Holodeck.
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 59.
62B CONTINUED:
DATA
No, what the captain said was that
we do not know how to convert
Holodeck matter into a more
permanent form. Which is true.
Even after we review this program,
we still may not have the answer.
PICARD
Doctor, even with all his
assurances -- that character was
still Professor Moriarty. I will
need to know a lot more about him
before I allow him loose on my
ship; he has, after all, made his
reputation through cunning and
deceit.
PULASKI
But how do you know he could leave
the Holodeck?
PICARD
Data.
Data reaches into his coat pocket and removes the paper
on which Moriarty first drew the sketch of the
Enterprise.
PULASKI
The drawing?
DATA
No. The paper. This piece of
paper was created as part of the
Holodeck illusion. If it could
leave the Holodeck, so too could
Moriarty.
PULASKI
I'm impressed.
DATA
It is elementary, my dear
Doctor... It is elementary.
62C OMITTED
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 60.
63
thru OMITTED
64
65 INT. MAIN ENGINEERING
As Picard, back in uniform, enters; Geordi is beside
the Victory model. He crosses to where Geordi is
examining the model. Geordi has lost some of his
normal buoyancy, because he is feeling responsible for
what has happened. Picard watches him for a moment.
PICARD
Damaged?
GEORDI
Yes. A spar was cracked when the
Enterprise was shaken. Otherwise
she seemed to have weathered it
nicely.
PICARD
She's beautifully turned out,
Lieutenant -- wonderful testimony
to simpler times.
GEORDI
Yes -- it's just that I can't help
thinking how badly it could have
been damaged all because I
misspoke a word.
PICARD
Will she still sail?
GEORDI
Yes sir.
PICARD
As will we.
RIKER'S COM VOICE
Captain -- Starship Victory has
arrived.
PICARD
On my way, Number One.
We HOLD on Geordi and the model of the Victory, and
we see his mood is beginning to lighten as he fixes
her spar...
STAR TREK: "Elementary... " - 10/12/88 - ACT FIVE 61.
66 EXT. SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE (OPTICAL)
as in the distance the other ship, Victory,
approaches.
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FIVE
THE END
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