sherlock : case of evil
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the adventure of the speckled band is one of the most memorable stories that tell of the cases of sherlock holmes. the adventure of the speckled band is arguably the first case to feature an “evil” villain, where holmes has to best a conniving, mad murderer .
all of the clues combined make the solution to the case obvious to sherlock holmes, but helen stoner and dr watson are completely baffled .
the narrative of the adventure of the speckled band starts with dr watson looking back at the earliest cases of sherlock holmes; with the good doctor explaining that a vow of secrecy had previously prevented him from publishing the case .
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sherlock: case of evil. usa network, made for tv, 2002. uk title: sherlock. james d’arcy (sherlock holmes), roger morlidge (dr. watson), gabrielle anwar (rebecca doyle), vincent d’onofrio (professor moriarty), nicholas gecks (inspector lestrade), richard e. grant (mycroft holmes). based on the characters created by arthur conan doyle. director: graham theakston .
so sherlock holmes has solved another case, and whilst the detective was responsible for the death of roylott, holmes had no regrets as his client was alive and safe from future peril .
later on in 1892, the adventure of the speckled band was republished as part of the compilation work, the adventures of sherlock holmes .
the adventure of the speckled band is one of the darker sherlock holmes stories dealing with murder by unusual means .
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the adventure of the speckled band is of course memorable because of the murder, but it is also praised, amongst fans of sherlock holmes, for highlighting all of the best characteristics of the detective. in the story holmes shows a real concern for his client, overlooking the lack of payment for services, as wells as concern for the wellbeing of dr watson. the case also shows the physical strength of holmes, and of course, his ability to deduce and extrapolate from the evidence presented to him .
as with many of the sherlock holmes stories, the adventure of the speckled band was adapted for tv by granada, with jeremy brett starring as sherlock holmes; the adaptation being the sixth episode of the first series .
sherlock holmes has retired. but when macdonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. there have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. at... see full summary »
holmes teams up with gregson and swain. a dead greyhound, a train journey and a night - time stakeout on the lake at bly bring the case to an end .
the story is written as if it was one of the earliest cases undertaken by holmes and watson as a duo, with the case being brought to the consulting detective by a scared young lady, helen stoner .
in thomas harris’ the silence of the lambs, hannibal lecter tells clarice starling “nothing happened to me [ … ] i happened. you can’t reduce me to a set of influences. ” it’s an elegant, invincible line, one that waves away the tricks of their trades as psychiatrist and fbi agent, and paints lecter as pure evil .
middling sherlock holmes yarn, d' arcy gives us a sexed up holmes the likes of which i don' t remember seeing, watson in strangely dense as fog and vincent d' onofrio is suitably evil as professor moriarty. nothing particularly original or worth recommending it, still it' s a perfectly watchable and serviceable mystery thriller that won' t offend those looking for a whodunit set in sherlock' s time .
in sherlock season 1 episode 1 the serial killer asks sherlock to take one of two bottles. 1 bottle is ok other is bad (poisonous). whatever bottle sherlock takes the serial killer takes the other one. that is same way the serial killer murdered his other victims .
. ironically, amongst sherlockian film fans, grant has often been mentioned as a favorite for the role of sherlock holmes .
according to sherlock, his aunt is ‘quite mad’. i’m inclined to believe him .
the characters of sherlock holmes and dr. watson are now in the public domain, as the copyright has expired, so authors other than the originator, sir arthur conan doyle, can use these characters in their own works. playwright katie forgette has done so in sherlock holmes and the case of the jersey lily, creating a comedic mystery set in 1890 and involving the then leading theatrical star lille langtry, known as
the jersey lily
.
nevertheless, sherlock continues to be a class act – a testament to the almost hallucinatory talents of creators mark gatiss and steven moffat, and proof of the malleable potential of arthur conan doyle’s pipe - smoking detective .
the case commences with the arrival of a client at 221b baker street at 7: 15am. normally, a client would not have been admitted at this time, but mrs hudson had given entrance as the prospective client was a frightened young lady .
sherlock holmes and watson are on the trail of a criminal and scientific mastermind who seems to control monsters and creations which defy belief .
good timing, too, because culverton smith summons sherlock and john for a meeting. sherlock has publically accused culverton of being a serial killer, but the philanthropist greets sherlock with a warm hug when they meet. what the…? actually, culverton turned sherlock’s accusation into a pr ploy for a breakfast cereal. he even shoots an ad, grinning, “i’m a cereal killer! ” (groan. )
then again, this is sherlock. the dead are always back before you know it .
but he’s stopped just in time… by john! remember that video mary left for sherlock last week? john found it, and realized she instructed sherlock to “save john watson” by getting himself into danger: “go to hell, sherlock. go right into hell and make it look like you mean it. ” and it worked! sherlock wryly adds that the drug culverton pumped him full of was merely saline .
meanwhile, culverton sits down next to sherlock’s bed, surgical gloves on. he looks ready to kill, but sherlock beats him to the punch: “i want you to kill me. ” he even tells culverton how to up the dosage on his meds to finish him off, but that’s not enough for the evil culverton: “killing human beings… it just makes me incredibly happy. ” impatient with the drugs, culverton starts to suffocate sherlock with his bare hands, demanding that he “maintain eye contact…. i want to watch it happen. ”
the game is afoot. this made for cable movie focuses on the young 20 - something sherlock holmes. as the movie opens, sherlock is in pursuit of the evil moriarty and apparently shoots him to death, but his body cannot be found as he falls in a sewer. ah, but anyone who knows the holmes mythos knows that moriarty is not so easily killed. nonetheless, holmes gains notoriety with the press and the police for his apparent killing of the evil moriarty. this accomplishment brings him into the company of dr. watson, an early practitioner of autopsies, for the first time. together, they start an investigation into the murder of several crimelords and become convinced that moriarty is alive and behind a plot to organize drug dealing. given that moriarty is supposedly dead, holmes finds it hard to convince inspector lestrade. holmes investigation leads him to a beautiful prostitute, who posed as a rich woman to lure holmes into the plot .
the speed of her transformation from evil genius to vulnerable child though, was this episode’s toughest sell. as soon as sherlock solved her cry - for - help riddle and bounded up those stairs her malevolence powered down so completely that she could be trusted back in the same cell she’d effortlessly broken free of in the same prison - asylum she’d turned into her own personal human experimentation lab. that must have been some hug. he should have tried it on moriarty and saved everyone a lot of bother .
an unpleasant surprise appears in watson' s bedroom. mycroft reveals more background to the case and its links to the illegal arms trade to africa. holmes and watson attend the surrey and suburban stakes at epsom to watch silver blaze run, and watson has an encounter there with moran. the case culminates aboard a cross - channel paddle - steamer, with holmes and watson attempting to prevent an attack on the heir to the french throne .
the cabbie is indeed shown to be terminally ill and wants to raise money for his family. however, this only explains why he resorts to killing people (= earn money fast). motives of moriarty are part of the bigger overall story arc in the sherlock holmes universe as moriarty is the arch - nemesis of sherlock .
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a few months later they are visited by archdeacon percy, who has been sent an exploding clock. blagdon arrives shortly after and asks them to take up the savile case again. holmes believes that savile is involved in cheiromancy. blagdon tells him of a party given by the duchess of paisley at which savile had his palms read by septimus podgers. holmes and watson attend parliament where savile is due to speak on an act targeted at fortune tellers. they resolve to keep watch on savile, but another death occurs to end the case .
woman (after introducing sherlock to a friend of hers at a party): “do victoria! ” – sherlock turns to her, ‘wtf? ’ written all over his face – “the detecting, deducing thing. ” right. he later proceeds to do one of them, by the way .
but the episode doesn' t say how exactly serial killer achieved this. before sherlock can take one of the bottles the serial killer is murdered .
the adventure of the speckled band was written by sir arthur conan doyle for the february 1892 edition of the strand magazine. the previous month the man with the twisted lip had been published, and so the adventure of the speckled band is the eighth published of the original 56 short sherlock holmes stories .
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holmes, in 1927, would list his 12 favourite sherlock holmes stories, and in that list, the adventure of the speckled band was first named .
his confrontation with sherlock is a battle in the understanding of human behavior. it is a match to decide who can better see through the other' s act. they have layers and layers of bluff / misdirection in all the small details of their actions .
early in his crime - solving career, sherlock holmes attempts to prevent moriarty from cornering the heroin market .
( working title) started on the fifth of november, 2001 and ended on the 16th of december. the telefilm was given an advance screening in the uk in august of 2002 under the simplified name of
but sherlock’s texts are about to come back into play. he tells the villain he texted culverton’s daughter faith with a confession. and faith does arrive at the morgue… but it’s a different woman than the one sherlock spent the night with. sherlock is baffled — that’s strange to see, isn’t it? — while culverton explodes with creepy laughter. sherlock grabs a scalpel and lunges at culverton, shouting “stop laughing at me! ”
more disappointing was the usually excellent toby jones who appeared to have wandered in from some kids’ comedy drama circa 1989. culverton smith was an entrepreneur – more philip green than richard branson – whose visits to children’s wards and advertising of a cereal called gnash masked horrible deeds in hospital morgues. indeed the grimness of this (and the possible shades of the savile case) made jones’s panto performance all the more uncomfortable .
sherlock holmes and watson do battle with their nemesis, professor moriarity, over an ancient necklace attributed to cleopatra .
sherlock series 4 bows out on an ultra - tense, heightened episode that unearths holmes family secrets. spoilers ahead…
in a show of strength, roylott bends a fireplace poker, and warns sherlock holmes to stay out of his business. the threat of violence and the show of strength do not seem to worry the detective though, and after dr roylott departs, holmes easily bends the poker back straight, so that it can be used again .
with james d’arcy and vincent d’onofrio; in which sherlock’s past is illuminated, the beginning of his career as a consulting—or, as he calls himself in this film, private—detective. it’s made of spoilers, reader discretion is advised .
a young sherlock holmes seeks to bring down the criminal mastermind moriarty as he solves a crime involving a blackmailed prince .
sherlock grumbles that culverton is “hiding in plain sight, ” and reveals that when he hugged the villain, he nicked his cell phone and sent a number of texts on his behalf. (that’ll come into play later .) but first, culverton takes sherlock and john to his hospital’s pediatric ward, taunting sherlock in front of the kids that a smart, rich serial killer couldn’t be stopped: “you only catch the dumb ones. ” well, we’ll see about that…
sherlock, meanwhile, receives a text — and john deduces it’s from… irene adler! what’s more, that text can only mean one thing: it’s sherlock’s birthday. after teasing sherlock about irene (“the posh boy loves the dominatrix! ”), he pushes him to open his heart to her: “she likes you! and she’s alive! ” sherlock finally agrees to go out with john for some birthday cake… and even puts on the “damn” deerstalker cap for good measure .
it could very well be the last time sherlock pulls any tricks. there’s been a real sense of farewell about series four, not least in this episode’s many fan - pleasing moments. the mention of victor trevor, sherlock remembering greg' s name and lestrade revisiting his line from the pilot to call sherlock a good man received whoops from the audience at the public screening, as did the appearance of mycroft’s john steed umbrella - sword, an object mark gatiss has publicly coveted for the character for years and at last allowed himself .
sherlock: “you’ve got me. what else could you possibly want? ” – mycroft: “what do i want? the rest of your life to be a living hell! ”
one problem that i noticed is that there is no water in the final scene where they are both about to take the pills. one way to explain this is that the cabbie' s sponsor moriarty (who has been described as a' fan' of sherlock) did not want sherlock dead. if neither of them used poison water then neither one would die. presumably, the cabbie would fake his own death, let sherlock think he had chosen right, and then who knows ?
all in all, this is all just jumbled and turned around and thrown back together. the writing’s not bad, there are a few very funny lines, there is good bits of brilliant deduction going on, and especially sherlock and mycroft are quite sweet together. the thing is, it’s not sherlock holmes. it’s a re - invention of him, but it’s not sherlock holmes. it seems almost pointless ‘cause they might as well have given the baker street boys other names, too, and made this another thing entirely. then, one might have grinned at the references to sherlock, instead of spending half the time wondering about what the hell’s gone wrong with this one .
john’s right: sherlock’s a mess, sporting some ragged stubble… and on the needle once again. (we spot a syringe lying nearby .) but he perks up when a new case comes his way in the form of faith, culverton smith’s daughter. culverton is a famous entrepreneur and beloved in the community, but he has a dark side. we see him dose his closest confidants, faith included, with a memory - wiping drug and confess: “i need to kill someone. ” her memory is hazy, so faith turns to sherlock to find out exactly who her father needs to kill .
sherlock intends to send faith away, saying the case is “way too weird for me, ” but stops himself when he deduces faith has a gun in her handbag and intends to take her own life. instead, he takes her out to get some chips and talk. she thinks her father’s confession was followed by one word, which means the person he intends to kill is known on a first - name basis. but later, sherlock pieces it together: culverton actually said, “i need to kill someone… anyone. ” in short, one of britain’s most powerful men is a serial killer .
that cuts to a fishing boat in the middle of stormy weather. the two - man crew gets an alert they’re passing by sherrinford prison, but when they go up on the deck they’re greeted by an unscathed sherlock and watson. the famous detective? they ask. no, sherlock responds, the pirate .
i just finished watching the movie, gotta say, this says everything i felt! i was looking for some scrapes of mycroft whump, but after watching the movie, i was rewarded with much more sherlock whump than i had hoped for! !! ! (oh, i’m an evil one .) but really, in some scenes, d’arcy looks so much like cumberbatch, and even in one place (i think it’s towards the end, when they meet again in that dim enclosure, just before he turns around and sees moriarty with the actress, he says “professor moriarty”) sounds like him too! loved the review, how did you like gatiss’ fangirling in sherlock s3e1 ?
i loved this. how have i never seen this james d’arcy is amazing as sherlock and vincent d’onofrio as moriarty, spectacular .
holmes is also something of a publicity hound, an aspect of his personality that turns dr. watson off when first they meet. and if by now you haven’t realized why the howls of protest went up so quickly after this movie was released, you can hardly consider yourself a true believing sherlock holmes fan .
sibling reveal - ry | with the culverton case wrapped up, sherlock and john manage to settle their differences. john says he’s not ok: “i’m never going to be ok. it is what it is. and what it is, is s–t. ” but he understands that sherlock didn’t kill mary… and he even confesses to her ghost about the infidelity we saw last week. it was only texting, but he still feels unworthy of her: “who you thought i was… is the man i want to be. ” ghost mary forgives him, though, telling him to “get the hell on with it. ”
helen stoner’s sister had died in mysterious circumstances, and ultimately this death proved to be one of the earliest examples in crime fiction, of a “locked room” mystery. subsequently, this type of problem was taken up by sir arthur conan doyle in the adventure of the empty house and the adventure of the crooked man; and, of course, ever since the time of conan doyle, crime writers have made use the locked room problem .
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holmes sends details of rawdon moran' s career, which closely resembles that of his brother sebastian, to sir melville macnaghten .
peggy butler plays mrs. tory, the housekeeper, a more important role than one might think, and i quite liked her. shawn havranek played moriarty with polish and an evil glint in his eye, all that can be expected. john smythe was excellent as moriarty' s henchman, finding his disgruntled malice. and sam martinez is credible as the prince' s agent, a cameo role .
mycroft: “brilliant! quite brilliant. ” – sherlock: “i have my moments. ” – “i was referring to the professor! ”
but it gets worse, actually: watson, our dear dr. watson, is not the man he once was. there is no mention whatsoever of him being a soldier, instead he appears to have been a police surgeon for most of his life, and he’s suddenly become something of an entrepreneur, with a taste for inventing things: a rifle cane, then a contraption that holds a corpse’s head and that has slits on the sides to aid the use of a saw to cut up the brain in slices, oh, and he got a camera to work to take a photograph of sherlock—the iconic picture with the deerstalker and the pipe. the hat, by the way, is from his aunt hagatha, a get - well - soon gift after the moriarty case is solved .
@ minusseven: it is clearly shown in the episode that the cabbie is skilled at predicting human behavior. i think it is highly unlikely that the writers would portray him as being' sherlock using his powers for evil' and would then use a cheap trick to explain his success. it' s also unlikely that if his victims would choose the correct bottle, he would simply take the poison. if you' re really looking for a trick: he promises to take whichever bottle is left but just shoots his victims when he would lose .
the latest wheeze of writers steven moffat and mark gatiss is that sherlock holmes didn’t just happen, something happened to him. namely, his little sister. like hannibal the cannibal, childhood family trauma made sherlock the man he is today. or rather, the man he was before a study in pink and john watson’s friendship thawed his icy heart .
john stops him, though, before he can reach culverton, punching sherlock and screaming at him, “is this a bloody game? ” he has to be pulled away from sherlock, who doesn’t fight back: “let him do what he wants. he’s entitled… i killed his wife. ” to which john says: “yes, you did. ” (ouch .) sherlock is subdued and placed in a hospital bed, while culverton laughs the whole event off on tv, saying he bears sherlock no ill will: “i might even move him to my favorite room. ”
watson receives a press clipping through the post, about the death of captain carey in india. its sender, reverend dordona, calls at baker street, and tells holmes and watson of carey' s last hours, and his account of the death of prince louis napoleon in natal, and of a horseman, seen observing the killing from a kraal above .
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and waving a gun around the flat, almost blowing poor mrs. hudson’s head off. so mrs. hudson turns to john for help, screaming up to his therapist’s office in a sleek sports car (what? she can afford it) and pleading for him to reconnect with sherlock. when he agrees, he learns that the little old lady actually got sherlock’s gun away from him and forced him into the trunk of her sports car: “you’re not my first smackhead, sherlock holmes! ” go, mrs. hudson !
colin has been reading as long as he can remember, and the works of conan doyle were some of the early works that kept him reading .
the lady in question was helen stoner, and it was immediately obvious from her demeanour and appearance, that she was in fear for her life. before presenting her case though, miss stoner makes it clear that she cannot pay holmes for his services at that time. holmes quickly brushes aside this minor detail, and ushers helen stoner to tell her tale .
there are though other reasons that keep people away from stoke moran, as grimesby roylott has acquired a collection of exotic pets, including a cheetah and a baboon, which roam the grounds of the house. additionally, roylott also allows a band of gypsies to camp with the grounds of stoke moran .
the classic basil rathbone series moved him to the ww ii era, and i rather liked young sherlock holmes fast and loose as it played with it all .
and so we come to the end of another sherlock season. it always makes for an intoxicating experience, since each hour - and - a - half is chock - full of mysteries and plot twists but it’s all over in less than a month. last episode finished with one of the greatest cliffhanger reveals in the show’s history. how did the season 4 finale follow through on that ?
postscript: i seem to have ended this review with leaving myself room to show you one more photo. miss doyle is a client that both gets herself into trouble and helps to get sherlock out of some trouble that he gets himself into. she’s an important part of the story, and i really can’t leave her out :
and i always thought he was some kind of poker genius able to read other peoples' minds. but maybe this whole
i can play everybody' s mind to always win the correct bottle
- show was really just to distract sherlock .
neither of the pills were poisonous. the poison was in a glass of water he would offer the victims to wash it down with. he' d dry swallow the pill. in my opinion it' s one of the better answers .
that included a horror - homage opening, an action - movie prison infiltration complete with patrolling henchmen and more ticking clock scenes in close succession than is medically wise. there were laughs too, courtesy of mycroft’s cornish fisherman (the reveal of which felt very league of gentlemen) and yet another (brilliantly entertaining) surprise appearance by andrew scott. that surely has to be the last time sherlock pulls that trick .
@ minusseven: i agree 12% is small odds, but far from being impossible. however each event is a separate' roll of the dice'. once he survive he might as well do it again - he has a 50% chance of wining again. i think the' win every time' could be part of the' script' he' s been given from moriarty to entice sherlock .
the governor is a little peeved that these guys snuck into his prison undercover, but that’s nothing compared to mycroft’s anger that he somehow compromised his most dangerous prisoner. mycroft directs sherlock to euros’ “prison within a prison, ” and soon sherlock finds his sister playing violin in her own specialized cell, like she’s magneto in x2 or something .
sherlock holmes: the actor
( 2010) included in: sherlock holmes and the ghosts of bly (donald thomas) story type: pastiche canonical characters: sherlock holmes; dr. watson; stanley hopkins; inspector bradstreet fictional characters: sasanoff shakespeare company historical figures: (henry irving; edward vii; sir josiah guest; queen victoria; prince albert; thomas edison; oscar wilde) other characters: roland gwyn; stage hands; actors; sir henry caradoc price; (
captain
carnaby jenks; lady myfanwy price) date: 1879 - 1881 locations: royal herculaneum theatre story: watson finds mementoes of holmes' s theatrical career in a trunk in the attic. he tells the life story of the actor - manager caradoc price .
note: alfred swain is a character in a series of books by donald thomas .
from there, we go to mycroft watching an old movie in his personal basement theater. lady smallwood is nowhere to be seen, which begs the question why the show made such a big deal out of their prospective date in the last episode. anyway, mycroft’s viewing session is interrupted by a message saying “i’m back” spliced into the film. then someone calls his name, and the lights start flickering. mycroft goes to investigate, and draws a hidden sword out of a nearby umbrella — pretty cool, but no replacement for an armed and trained security force, you would think. for someone who is ostensibly the key to the british government, mycroft rolls with pretty light security. the prospect of euros’ return terrifies him, and he’s convinced she couldn’t have “gotten out. ” turns out she didn’t — the whole thing was a ruse put on by sherlock and watson, to force mycroft to admit he’d been hiding the existence of the holmes sister. watson is fine, by the way — apparently euros’ gun was only a tranquilizer or something. seems like a waste of a perfectly good cliffhanger, but okay. watson and sherlock explain to mycroft that euros did in fact get out, appearing to both of them in disguise. they tell mycroft to take his case to 221b baker street .
before mycroft can say any more, however, the crew gets an unexpected surprise gift from euros: a drone that flies into the baker street loft, singing the song from sherlock’s recent dream sequences about redbeard and carrying a bomb on its back. using their sterling powers of analysis, the boys realize that the bomb is a motion sensor set to go off the moment it detects them, which will leave them only three seconds before the explosion engulfs the flat. somehow they manage to plan it perfectly, and sherlock and watson go jumping out of the windows just ahead of the flames like heroes from an ‘80s action movie .
the ghost of you lingers | the episode opens with john in therapy, short on sleep and blaming himself for not taking good enough care of new baby rosie after mary’s death: “i’m letting my daughter down. how is that ok? ” we soon learn he has someone else to tell his problems to: the ghost of mary, who follows him everywhere and serves as a sounding - board. he won’t tell the therapist about ghost mary… and he doesn’t know what’s become of sherlock, who’s been holed up in his flat for weeks .
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one more final twist, though: john’s back at his therapist, saying things are better these days, and the therapist brings up the idea of a third holmes brother. but how would she know about that? “maybe sherlock told me, ” she says. “we spent the night together. ” set your faces to stunned: john’s therapist is also… the fake faith sherlock met! what’s more: as sherlock looks again at faith’s note and sees the classic “miss me? ” in invisible ink — god, this show uses that phrase a lot! — we learn the therapist is also … the woman from the bus john’s been text - cheating with !
the guy killed 3 people before sherlock. that makes the chances about 12% . and he did say he would win every time he tried. there had to be some trick involved .
and so the final problem reveals what we’ve really been watching these past six years: sherlock’s gradual journey back to humanity. all you need is love. da da - da da - da .
and by movie’s end, holmes is definitely chastened and perhaps has “come of age” a bit .
the roylotts are one of england’s oldest families, and stoke moran is the family’s ancestral home. generations of overindulgence had left the roylotts impoverished, and so grimesby roylott, being the last of the family line, had departed years earlier for india, in order to make his own money .
culverton still denies confessing, though. in fact, he removed the three recording devices sherlock had hidden in his coat. but sherlock just smiles: “people always give up after three. ” a fourth recording device was hidden inside… john’s cane! and once caught, culverton seems happy to confess his crimes to lestrade: “i didn’t realizing confessing would be so enjoyable. i should’ve done it sooner! ”
‘my favorite room’ | after the pediatric ward, culverton leads sherlock and john down to the hospital’s morgue (his “favorite room”), where he morbidly plays with the dead bodies: “they’re so pliable. ” after offhandedly stating that a hospital would be the perfect front for a serial killer, culverton points out how unstable a clearly jonesing sherlock is, saying he’s “off his tits on drugs” to discredit his accusations .
the monsters are inside all of us. writers are the ones who let them out to play .
you’re right, from the right angle, there’s an uncanny resemblance between the two — though i fear cumberbatch’s cheekbones will always be sharper 😉 thank you, i’m glad you liked it! i love the empty hearse, i really do. gatiss has done a marvellous job bringing sherlock back the way he did. i love the way he can write both the heavy, the funny, the loud and the quiet scenes between sherlock and john; and in s03e01, he’s also given the rest of the supporting cast such opportunities to shine. it was brilliant, and seeing more of mycroft was a bonus, too .
the cast of characters, besides the three already mentioned, are oscar wilde, here a close friend of mrs. langtry and her constant companion; mrs. tory, mrs. langtry' s housekeeper; professor moriarty, holmes' s archenemy; shahab pierre, a henchman of moriarty; and abdul karim, an emissary from the prince of wales, with whom mrs. langtry once had a dalliance .
holmes and watson accompany the brownings back to venice, where the lawyer, fiori, arranges for them to examine the remaining papers. he closely examines the handwriting of a byron manuscript and declares it genuine, but endeavours to find proof that a manuscript of don juan in the new world is a forgery by howell. in order to do so he sends a telegram to a vacuum cleaner company. he next sets about establishing the provenance of papers supposedly written by browning. an examination of the rare editions in the collection provides him with much of his evidence. he also reveals the true facts of howell' s death .
it was all handled with a minimum of visual tricks. in an ordinary episode, sherlock ’s flashy post - production effects are there to jazz up what are essentially scenes of someone sitting down and thinking. in the final problem, a big, heightened concept episode, all the thinking was done out loud and standing up. the action negated the need for too much visual interference; there was already enough going on .
the man in black' s intelligence test. he provides two vials, one of which is poisoned .
and that’s not all, folks: as the therapist reveals she’s wearing a wig and contacts, she pulls a gun on john and introduces herself as eurus. it’s greek, she says, and means “the east wind. ” but it is a weird name, she admits, kind of like mycroft… or sherlock. yes, sherlock doesn’t have another brother; he has a sister. and holding john at gunpoint, she says he’s “making a funny face… i think i’ll put a hole on it. ” gunshot! and cut to black .
his episode, entitled the lying detective, was terrific in several other ways. martin freeman gave an unsentimental, brisk study in grieving as watson tried to reassemble some sense of normality. meanwhile, sherlock was back on the opium (or possibly something even more harmful) – with a whey - faced dealer ensconced at baker street and poor old mrs h (a wonderful, tightly wound una stubbs) driven to distraction by her nightmare tenant. cumberbatch does mental anxiety very well, and throughout the episode he made you feel as if you were living sherlock’s nightmare .
what we get is, in one word, shocking: not entirely bad, but, come on! this script simply ignored nearly all of doyle’s creation, apart from the names, the period clothes and sherlock’s address. apparently, the writers wanted to put a new spin to it, but it’s more like they invented themselves a new carousel. basically ignoring the canon at large, there are few elements of the stories and characters that actually remain. most of all, there is no mrs hudson. how could that man survive without mrs hudson? !
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the poison pill trick is not random. the cabbie is skilled in reading and manipulating people. he has analyzed what drives his victims and acts accordingly. he knew sherlock would get in his cab instead of calling the police. the poison pill trick is his way of showing he has control through his skill. his victims can make the choice but as they are choosing, the cabbie manipulates them. he knows which of the bottles is poisonous and will manipulate his victims into taking the bad bottle. if they take the good one, he will convince them to change their mind. this shows of how good the cabbie is in reading people, predicting their train of thought and knowing what to say to mislead them. it takes great skill to manipulate people that know you are trying to kill them .
( 45) is a veteran of both uk film and television. he made a notable splash in the cult classic
after qualifying as a military surgeon, watson stops briefly in cape town en route to afghanistan. in india, on the train to lahore, he hears of rawdon moran' s subaltern' s court martial over his treatment of emmeline putney - wilson. he lives through the battle of maiwand and returns to england, where he is introduced to holmes .
i’m not sure whether this was originally a british production or not, but from the names of the people involved, actors and otherwise, i suspect that it was. what i am sure of is that a lot of the people who commented on this film on imdb really hated it — really really hated it — and for the usual and obvious reasons .
this story of alexander the great has many very competent actors of classic background in british and american and french theatre which gives the film a serious feel, together with lavish adventurous battle scenes. the main characters of phillip of macedonia, alexander' s father, played well by frederick march in good form, and alexander played by richard burton showing the determination required of leadership and anguish used up in the many trials and tribulations of the task ahead. alexander not only gathers together the whole of the clashing greek tribes into a whole, but sets out to conquer the world. all the actors are very good in their roles from the cowardly persian king, whom alexander gives respect, to the mother of this world leader in her reckless belief in magic and in alexander' s god - qualities. this film was criticised when it first came out, but i think it is better than the latest
alexander the great
film, and shows the whole of the story with all the characters, even the leader' s teacher, aristotle the great philosopher, as well as the tragedies .
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holmes and watson travel to broadmoor to interview victoria. after the interview they visit king alfred' s school to learn the reason for miles' s dismissal. they learn of the murder of a mill - owner and theft of his gold near a circle of standing stones close to bly house. at bly, they talk with mrs grose, the housekeeper. a visit to somerset house confirms victoria' s innocence for holmes, but he announces that there is still a murder to be solved and turns to a study of occult texts. he lays a trap at a seance with a severed head illusion .
the killer was terminally ill with a brain aneurism and could die at any moment. he was using the' scheme' to raise money. he was earning money from moriarty, who was essentially sponsoring the cabbie to murder people in this manner. moriarty' s motive is unclear, perhaps just to cause chaos, but more likely to get his name in front of sherlock .
but if i’m evidence of the fact, i think you can be a lifelong sherlock holmes fan and still enjoy this movie. i didn’t mind the alterations to holmes the character, and besides, who knows what he might have been like in his younger days (though the bedroom scene with the two young ladies removing their chemises or whatever was obviously designed to tweak somebody’s noses) .
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a box tv / castel film / pueblo ag production sherlock holmes – james d’arcy dr. john h. watson – roger morlidge mycroft holmes – richard e. grant professor moriarty – vincent d’onofrio rebecca – gabrielle anwar lestrade – nicholas gecks harrington – struan rodger director – graham theakston director of photography – lukas strebel producer – tim bradley production designer – chris roop costume designer – ana ioneci post production – abis studio
he and watson aren’t fooling around with that pirate bit, either. they commandeer the boat, take it to sherrinford, and scrawl “tell my sister i’m here” on the beach sand. when the island’s governor sends men to investigate, they find watson standing alongside a bearded fisherman. assuming the man is sherlock in disguise, the governor has them both brought to an interrogation cell – only for the fisherman to unmask himself, revealing mycroft. sherlock had been disguised as a worker at the prison, and he just walked away with the governor’s keys .
more than twenty years earlier: holmes is called on by sir arthur bigge. prince george and the duke of clarence are being blackmailed over correspondence to
women of a certain kind
. the blackmailer is working through an agent, charles augustus howell. holmes meets howell in hyde park and sets watson the task of following him, giving watson his first sighting of professor moriarty. he and lestrade set up watch from camden house while holmes meets with the blackmailers at 221b. moran enters the fray, and holmes carries out a burglary .
( 1994). d' onofrio' s chameleon - like ability to play a wide variety of characters is comparable to gary oldman .
helen stoner goes on to tell how, in the nights preceding her death, julia had told her sister of hearing strange whistling noises .
holmes and watson do make their way down to stoke moran, and whilst grimesby roylott is absent, undertake an examination of the house .
stick it to him | john visits a sleeping sherlock in the hospital, but insists, “i’m just in to say goodbye. ” he does leave a parting gift, though: his old walking stick. and in a conversation with mycroft, john (egged on by mary’s ghost) notices that mycroft slipped up and mentioned the possibility of… a third brother. there’s another holmes boy out there? god help us all .
all eurus needed was love too. trapped in her mind palace, she simply wanted her brother' s love, but, typical woman, instead of asking him outright, dropped hints, wrote him a coded song, flew a grenade drone into his flat, trapped him in the crystal maze of doom, invented a metaphorical plane, killed a bunch of non - metaphorical people and almost drowned his best friend .
little mischa lecter may have been a sweet thing (you’d have to ask those nazis), but little eurus holmes was a monster. born with a fearsome intellect outstripping that of her brothers, eurus’ curiosity was unrestrained by conscience or empathy. as a kid, she drowned ‘redbeard’—not a dog but sherlock’s childhood friend—and in so doing cauterised her brother’s emotions. afterwards sherlock “was different. so changed. ” suffering, he repressed his feelings, chose rationality over sentiment and didn’t make another friend until mike stamford introduced him to a certain ex - army doctor looking for digs. and having failed to solve the puzzle eurus promised would lead him to redbeard, he’s solved every other puzzle he can lay his hands on since.
sherlock : case of evil is a 2002 made-for-television movie focusing on sherlock holmes ( james d'arcy ) as a young adult in his late 20s . the story noticeably departs from the classic depiction , style and backstory of the original material . 
sherlock: case of evil is a 2002 made-for-television movie focusing on sherlock holmes (james d'arcy) as a young adult in his late 20s. the story noticeably departs from the classic depiction, style and backstory of the original material.
sherlock: case of evil is a 2002 made-for-television movie focusing on sherlock holmes (james d'arcy) as a young adult in his late 20s. the story noticeably departs from the classic depiction, style and backstory of the original material.