![]() Holmes and Watson soon uncover a ring smuggling valuable artefacts out of China for sale in the West, and that one of the two dead men had stolen a multi-million pound jade pin on their travels. A journalist is found dead in his apartment the next day, accompanied by the same coded message. He deduces that the graffiti is a cipher intended for a specific trader at the bank, who is subsequently found murdered in his flat. Holmes is hired by an old friend to look into an unexplained break-in and spray-painted graffiti at a merchant bank. (Thankfully, the second half of Scarlet, a painfully slow unravelling of the killer’s motivation, is compressed and reworked into the chilling and far more effective face-to-face confrontation between Sherlock and Jeff.) And Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson are both convincing individually and engaging as a pair. It took several key elements of the original story and faithfully spun them into a 21st-century context, but without being hamstrung by it. ![]() However, before the battle of wits is resolved, Watson shoots Jeff dead.Īs I said in my review, this was a stylish and assured update of the Holmes origin story A Study in Scarlet, introducing us to the main characters while rolling along at a cracking pace, and setting a distinct visual story-telling template. Holmes eventually tracks down the killer, a dying cabbie named Jeff, who engages him in a deadly game of chance. Recently invalided army doctor John Watson is introduced to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes, the world’s only consulting detective, just as Holmes is called in by the police to help solve a series of seemingly impossible suicides involving a poison pill. For now, here’s a look back on the modernisation of this most Victorian of characters. With ratings and reviews confirming the series’ success with both viewers and critics, it was never a question of if the BBC would commission a second series, but when and how many. After three 90-minute episodes, the Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss update of Sherlock Holmes has already reached the end of its initial run. ![]()
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