Funny intro with Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) with the killer who thinks he'll help him, though he did have time to give him a lesson in proper grammar, before he was hanged. Then finding out Watson (Martin Freeman) has a blog and Sherlock doesn't know anything about the stars or the earth is round. Which was obviously going to come into play later on otherwise it wouldn't have been mentioned, the stars that is.
Sherlock is bored and can't contain his boredom, resorting to firing Watson's gun inside. Mrs Hudson (Una Stubbs) wasn't happy with seeing her wall like that. Mycroft (Mark Gatiss) wants him to take on a case involving national security but he's too busy for that, mundane work. As he tries to annoy with his violin.
"Ah, precious..."
Mycroft gives the file to Watson concerning the disappearance of some Ministry of Defence files, only he doesn't tell Watson that straight off. Watson leaves and there's an explosion outside. He spent the night on Sarah's (Zoe Telford) sofa, not lilo as Sherlock refers to it. It's put down to a gas leak but it's more than that, it's a bomb explosion. All this being done to catch Sherlock's attention of course. Lestrade (Rupert Graves) calls and wants him on the case. Someone left a letter for him, a note, which he works out is written in a lady's hand and the paper is Czech, Bohemian. That was the Czech connection.
Inside is a phone which is pink, similar to the phone from the first episode but not the same. Someone's gone to a lot of trouble to make it look the same. It rings and there are five pips. Which he puts down to a message as secret societies used to send a message with melon pips or orange pips. There's a photo of a fireplace which he recognizes as being the one at the house. It's the downstairs flat which Mrs Hudson can't let out. Inside are a pair of trainers. Needing to analyze these he returns to St Bart's and examines the pollen. Molly (Louise Brealey) comes in along with Jim (Andrew Scott) from IT who wants to meet him. Sherlock mumbling "gay" under his breath. He drops a dish and leaves behind his card as Sherlock tells her. He's rather abrupt as we know and she leaves in tears. After giving her a blow by blow account of his underwear, his dyed eyebrows, and he uses hair product. As does Watson, but at least he washes his hair. He's saving her the trouble of finding out later.
Sherlock asks Watson to describe what he sees on the trainers and he notices the name inside and how they've been kept clean. Sherlock finds pollen unique to a specific area. When they leave he recalls the case about Carl, a missing boy who was later found dead. He noticed he left his clothes at the pool but his shoes weren't found. The police refused to listen. The woman with explosives strapped around her reads out a message for him from a pager. When he solves the case about who the boy is she's freed. But he didn't find out who killed him though so that wasn't consistent with what the bomber wanted him to do Other than the fact Sherlock linked the bomber to also being the killer.
The next pip is a photo of a car and Sherlock is called on the other line. Sally (Vinette Robinson) referring to Sherlock as "freak." The man saying he knows he went to the police. This leads to an abandoned car with blood on the seat. The missing man was probably a banker as Sherlock infers, what another one, and his wife (Deborah Moore) arrives at the scene. Sherlock feigns being his friend and his tears too. Though he does cry since he wipes his tears afterwards. She tells him more than she thinks as he uses the past tense to talk about her husband and she follows suit, but they haven't even found the body yet.
The caller tells him Janus Cars is a clue. Since the car dealer's called Janus Cars and he was connected to the wife. Sherlock asks for change to use the cigarette machine and notices his wallet. He had a note from Columbia, was tanned. Thus he disposed of the bankers DB in Columbia. Janus being the God of two faces as Watson says. Surprised no one saw that man standing in Piccadilly like that as suspicious and what happened to all that CCTV too.
Third Vic is a blind woman who calls and he has to look into the murder of a TV personality, Connie Prince (Di Botcher) who made people over. Watson watches her show with Mrs Hudson. There are scratches on her arms and the cut is made after she was already dead. But no one noticed the botox injection marks, well Sherlock did , but didn't put them together right away. Okay he did but not that we were meant to know this just yet. He sends Watson to her brother's, Kenny (John Sessions) to question him and Watson notices the cat. Also the gardener Raoul (Stefano Braschi) who kept the house spotless as Sherlock tells him. The cat has disinfectant on its paws but Sherlock tells him she was killed by botox and Raoul did it. Sherlock's Home office contact the Home Secretary owed him a favour and found Raoul had been ordering botox from the Internet. He also finds that Carl's shoelaces were laced with botox. He had eczema so was on medication. He went swimming and was paralyzed, causing him to drown. The blind woman (Rita Davies) tries to talk about the mysterious man but is killed. She lives in a flat so 12 others are also killed.
The other case, well Sherlock waits for the call and sits around watching trashy TV. He's sent a photo of the skyline and the river. Looking at various reports which turn up nothing he asks if there has been anything found at the river. Here there's a DB which he deduces was a security guard and that the Vermeer painting due to go on display is a fake. That's not enough though. Sherlock deducing he was killed by an assassin, a Golem (John Lebar). Watson finds out about the guard as he's been reported missing and that he's a star gazer, another clue. Also professor Cairns (Lynn Farleigh) called for him. Sherlock uses his 'homeless network' to find out his whereabouts. Would have called them his "Holmes network." Hope you got that pun.
This leads them to the professor where once again Sherlock is attacked and almost strangled by the Golem. Yes Watson you should have shot him like he told you to. He escapes though and isn't caught. Heading to the museum, Sherlock tells the caller the painting is a fake but he needs more time. The boy is given 10 seconds and then he finally gets it. The Van Buren comet painted wouldn't have been around in the sixteenth century. So he knows his comets but not his stars. Hey you can't get a view of the London nightsky so clear.
Also they solve the Westie (San Shella) murder, killed by his fiance, Lucy (Lauren Crace) brother since he was a drug dealer and stole the stick. Disposing the DB on top of a train but it fell off when the points changed on the track. Which pleases Mycroft who threatens Sherlock with another knighthood.
It's not all over yet as there's still one more pip left. Watson leaves to visit Sarah but doesn't get there. As Sherlock finds him at the pool with explosives around him. Cue Jim Moriarty but he's not after the memory stick. He wants to kill Sherlock but not yet. He leaves after much conversation and his Westwood suit and Watson is saved, remarking how it would be suspicious if anyone saw how quickly Sherlock ripped his clothes off in a dark pool. But it's not over since Moriarty returns and this time has several snipers trained on them. Leaving Sherlock with only one dilemma...to blow up the explosives by shooting at them. But that's for another series...
SO the phone battery didn't die, unless of course the phone was charged without us knowing. But hey Sherlock doesn't need to charge a phone, that'd be Watson's area. Continuity here again with A Study in Pink since we got the pink phone again and Watson blogging about this case. Pink phone had to turn up since Moriarty has been watching every move and the blog. A bit creepy if you think about it. Sherlock watching Watson when he went on his case, Moriarty watching Sherlock.
Obviously Jim was so obvious and not just on fourth viewing. Should have worked that out with his name, Jim, but too busy engrossed in Sherlock to have been paying attention. Also when Molly introduced him as the IT guy, he's big on that as we saw last episode too. But glad they brought up Sherlock's character here with Watson thinking he's cold and just doesn't care about people. He does his job cos he's bored and using his brain will alleviate that boredom. He's not normal in that sense and so wouldn't do 'normal' things. Still love his "shut up" line. He's heartless which is brought up again at the end when he finally meets Moriarty face to face, with introductions this time round of course. Adding some say he hasn't got a heart.
Disproved since he does try to save Watson, okay not just tries but wants to, has to. Just like he does save the others too. Guess Watson showed he had the bigger heart in that he held Moriarty to him and wanted Sherlock to leave, which he didn't. Moriarty, criminal for hire, "criminal consultant" had a nice ring to it, being the polar opposite of Sherlock. The only "consulting detective."
There was so much happening in this episode. The five puzzles to solve, the Andrew West case, all linked, had to be. Sherlock using his "science of Deduction" website. Also notice he didn't eat again in the cafe, but Watson did. Those nicotine patches must curb hunger pangs. Moriarty wanting Sherlock to "burn!" Also Sherlock with both hands on his hips after telling Molly Jim is gay! ha.
"Catch you later" was funny with it's double meaning. He did catch him and we did too in series 2. Watson and his "gottle of geer..." Already used in Doctor Who, The God Complex, with the ventriloquist's dummy. Ohh bit of a rehash there. Considering Mark Gatiss was also in that episode too!
It wasn't that much of a wait for series 2, not as long as we're having to wait for series 3!
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