season 1 – 2010, season 2 – 2012. 1.episode 1: a study in pink 2.episode 2: the blind banker...

Season 1 – 2010, Season 2 – 2012

“SHERLOCK”

1. Episode 1: A Study in Pink

2. Episode 2: The Blind Banker

3. Episode 3: The Great Game

SHERLOCK – SEASON 1

Plot: • Serial suicides • What is the link? • Why? • Watson and Sherlock meet • Last victim: a lady wearing a pink suit, with a pink

suitcase • Villain: Cab driver• How? “2 pills; one is good, one is bad, you take one, I’ll

take the other”• Final scene: Sherlock about to take the pill, Watson

shoots the villain. • Moriarty connection: The villain shouts M’s name; first

time we hear it.

A STUDY IN PINK

A STUDY IN PINK

Dr. John Watson

A STUDY IN PINK

The Blog!

A STUDY IN PINK

From “The Problem of Thor Bridge”:

“Among these unfinished tales is that of Mr. James Phillimore, who, stepping back into his own house to get his umbrella, was never

more seen in this world”

A STUDY IN PINK

DI Lestrade(First name coming

up in Season 2)

A STUDY IN PINK

First sign of SH: Everyone is wrong!

(Text on screen; genius idea!)

A STUDY IN PINK

Watson meets Stamford Do you remember where they

met?

A STUDY IN PINK

First time we meet Sherlock Holmes.

Stamford to Watson: “When in comes to beating the

subjects in the dissecting-rooms with a stick, it is certainly taking a rather

bizarre shape”

A STUDY IN PINK

SH to W: “Iraq or Afghanistan?”

Canon: “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive”

A STUDY IN PINK

221B on the door

A STUDY IN PINK

From “The Musgrave Ritual”: “…when I find a man who

keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and

his unanswered correspondence transfixed by

a jack-knife into the very center of his wooden

mantelpiece…”

A STUDY IN PINK

Mrs. Hudson

A STUDY IN PINK

Reverse logicCanon: Rache (German

for revenge)BBC: Rache (Rachel)

A STUDY IN PINK

Mycroft Holmes(red herring in the

episode; we think he is Moriarty)

A STUDY IN PINK

From “The Read-Headed League”: “It is

quite a three pipe problem”

THE BLIND BANKER

Plot:• A series of break-in’s and suicides (or are they?)• Ancient Chinese dialect ciphers painted on the walls• An old acquaintance of SH asks for help; a break-in at an

international finance building • Link between victims: All went to an oriental shop• Villain: Black Lotus Tong (Organization) • John gets a job, meets Sarah • Villain kidnaps John and Sarah • SH tracks them down, rescues them. • Moriarty connection: Leader of the Tong chats with “M” in

the end, and is assassinated by a sniper.

Connections with the Canon: • The Valley of Fear: use of book references • The Adventure of the Dancing Men: using pictorial

references

THE BLIND BANKER

Plot:• Mycroft wants SH to investigate the murder of an MI6

employee• (Employee is Andrew West, from The Adventure of the

Bruce-Partington Plans, victim was Arthur West. Person guilty was brother of victim’s fiancée, from The Adventure of the Naval Treaty)

• A flash drive with top secret information is missing; SH not interested

• A phone similar to the one in Study in Pink is sent to Scotland Yard

• SH gets riddles; random people in danger; he has to solve the riddles

• A fake Vermeer painting • Moriarty connection: First time we see M; he tricks

Watson• Cliffhanger at the end!

THE GREAT GAME

THE GREAT GAME

From “The Musgrave Ritual”: “have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an

open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer

humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a

hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with patriotic V. R. done in bullet-

pocks,…”

THE GREAT GAME

From “A Study in Scarlet”: “..he was ignorant of the

Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar

System…” “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a

little empty attic, and you have to stock it with furniture

as you choose” BBC: Hardware

THE GREAT GAME

The Lost Vermeer

THE GREAT GAME

Analyzing stationary; thick Bohemian paper. A Scandal in

Bohemia.

Cell phone message: 5 Greenwich pips

The Five Orange Pips (That’s us!!!)

THE GREAT GAME

First time we see Moriarty; we don’t know it yet

(supposedly); disguised as poor Molly’s boyfriend.

THE GREAT GAME

SH talking to the wife of one of the victims,

pretending to be a friend of the victim; notice the tear. Modern disguise.

THE GREAT GAME

Using the homeless for information; no more homeless children in

London; updated Baker Street Irregulars.

THE GREAT GAME

Another disguise, with the fake Vermeer.

Remember why it was fake?

THE GREAT GAME

Final confrontation with Moriarty at the

swimming pool. Big cliffhanger; we had to

wait 2 years!!!

1. Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia

2. Episode 2: The Hound of the Baskervilles

3. Episode 3: The Reichenbach Fall

SHERLOCK – SEASON 2

Plot: • A dominatrix, known as The Woman (!) has photographs of a

female member of the royal family on her phone. • SH tries to get the phone from her. • Later, we learn that IA is dead. Turns out, she faked her death.• Meanwhile, Irene Adler needs SH to crack a code. When he

does, she tells Moriarty, who in turn tells Mycroft that he knows the plot now, and all is ruined.

• Irene Adler demands protection, among other things from Mycroft, in exchange of her phone.

• But SH cracks the code of her phone.• Later, Mycroft tells Watson that IA was beheaded. Watson

doesn’t tell SH. • It turns out, SH saved IA.

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

How do they get out of the cliffhanger? Moriarty’s phone rings! (Tune is

Stayin’ Alive!)And who is calling???

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

First time we see “the woman”

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

“…that really odd case of the melting

laptop…”

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

Sherlock Holmes Baffled is the first SH movie; made in 1900, runs for 30 seconds.

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

Aaaaand here it is…

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

Thumbs! All thumbs of engineers??

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

SH invited to Buckingham Palace…not uncommon for

SH to deal with royalty.

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

Enter “The Woman”

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

Canon: An elderly clergyman

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

She’s special…

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

The only woman who beats SH

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA

Plot: • A visit from Henry Knight (Sir Henry Bask. in canon)

about a “gigantic hound”.• SH and Watson go to Dartmoor (Canon); visit Baskerville,

a Ministry of Defense research base. • Sherlock also sees the hound. • Henry’s therapist: Dr. Louise Mortimer (Canon: Dr. James

Mortimer)• Liberty, Indiana: H.O.U.N.D.: secret military project,

creating a weapon

THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE

THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE

Harpoon: Adventure of Black Peter

THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE

Man on the Tor!

THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE

Major Barrymore: Butler in the canon

THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE

Gorgeous Greg!

THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE

Mind Place…

THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE

Moriarty gets out of jail…

Plot:• Moriarty breaks in: Crown Jewels, Bank of England,

Pentonville Prison• Walks away free • Kids kidnapped, SH finds them, they get frightened when

they see him • Moriarty’s plot is revealed: The fall of SH! • Final confrontation• Moriarty kills himself• SH kills himself• Or does he???

THE REICHENBACH FALL

THE REICHENBACH FALL

SH recovers the stolen Turner painting of the

Falls

THE REICHENBACH FALL

THE REICHENBACH FALL

In The Musgrave Ritual: “…a full

account of Ricoletti of the club foot and his

abominable wife”

THE REICHENBACH FALL

In Blue Carbuncle: “I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and has just been serving his time in

Pentonville. “

THE REICHENBACH FALL

Music M is listening to The Thieving Magpie. Does this photo remind

you of someone?

THE REICHENBACH FALL

A very domestic confrontation.

SH: How are you going to

burn me?M: That’s the problem; the final problem. What’s the

final problem?

THE REICHENBACH FALL

Diogenes Club

Douglas Wilmer

THE REICHENBACH FALL

Molly tells SH that he can ask for her help

for anything.

A clue?

THE REICHENBACH FALL

So…Moriarty is really dead??

THE REICHENBACH FALL

SH really jumps???

THE REICHENBACH FALL

The Adventure of the Solitary

Cyclist…surely this was intentional…?

THE REICHENBACH FALL

One last miracle…

THE REICHENBACH FALL

THE END

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