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* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: When the pair have a stakeout at a restaurant while waiting for the murderer to appear, the waiter refers to John as Sherlock's 'date', which he immediately denies. [[ShipperOnDeck The waiter pays no attention to this and afterwards brings a candle for the table.]]
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* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: When the pair have a stakeout at a restaurant while waiting for the murderer to appear, the waiter refers to John as Sherlock's 'date', which he immediately denies. [[ShipperOnDeck The waiter pays no attention to this this, and afterwards brings a candle for the table.]]
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** One of the victims scratches RACHE into the floor with her fingernails. In the original story, this was in blood, written by Hope, and Sherlock notes that the killer has long fingernails.
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** One of the victims The most recent victim scratches RACHE into the floor with her fingernails. In the original story, this was in blood, written by Hope, and Sherlock notes that the killer has long fingernails.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Two of Beth Davenport's colleagues took her car keys from her handbag on her birthday so she couldn't drink and drive. Unfortunately this meant she also had to take a cab, and the one she took had Jeff Hope as the driver. Without realising it, her colleagues accidentally condemned her. Although, had she driven drunk, she could well have died anyway.
* NoNameGiven: The cabby's name is only revealed in the credits, and even then his last name's not given.
* NoNameGiven: The cabby's name is only revealed in the credits, and even then his last name's not given.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Two of Beth Davenport's colleagues took her car keys from her handbag on her birthday so she couldn't drink and drive. Unfortunately Unfortunately, this meant she also had to take a cab, and the one she took had Jeff Hope as the driver. Without realising it, her colleagues accidentally condemned her. Although, had she driven drunk, she could well have died anyway.
* NoNameGiven: The cabby's name is only revealed in the credits, and eventhen then, his last name's not given.
* NoNameGiven: The cabby's name is only revealed in the credits, and even
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* StickyFingers: Sherlock mentions that he regularly pickpockets Lestrade when he gets annoying, hence why he has Lestrade's badge to flash. He also apparently has several more back at his flat. [[spoiler:It's later found out that he's also pilfered at least one of his brother's IDs for similar purposes.]]
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* StickyFingers: Sherlock mentions that he regularly pickpockets Lestrade when he gets annoying, hence why he has Lestrade's badge to flash. He also apparently has several more back at his flat. [[spoiler:It's later found out that he's also pilfered at least one of his brother's IDs government badges for similar purposes.]]
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Dr John Watson has just returned from service in Afghanistan with nightmares, a psychosomatic limp and a bullet wound for his trouble. John's therapist encourages him to keep a blog about his life as a returned vet, but it doesn't seem to help since, as John himself puts it, [[TemptingFate "nothing happens to [him]"]]. And to top it all off, his army pension isn't enough to keep living in London. All in all, things are kinda crappy for John until he runs into Mike Stamford, an old friend from his days at St Bart's. As it happens, Mike knows of someone who's looking for a flatmate...
As if to prove this, Sherlock Holmes is introduced to John beating a cadaver with a riding crop ForScience, being completely oblivious to the advances of the St Bart's morgue attendant Molly Hooper and texting people the solutions to murder cases. [[SherlockScan From a glimpse of John and a brief lend of his mobile phone]], Sherlock is able to deduce that John is an army doctor home from service with a psychosomatic limp who disapproves of his alcoholic divorcee brother ([[TomboyishName though he wasn't quite right]]).
John goes to look at the flat with Sherlock and quite likes it. Sherlock introduces him to the landlady, Mrs Hudson, for whom he did a favour once. After John agrees that the flat would be a good place to live, he is interrupted by the arrival of Inspector Lestrade, who needs Sherlock's assistance with the fourth in a series of identical suicides that have been occurring. Sherlock leaves, before returning to ask John to come along since he's a qualified doctor who might be able to help. In the taxi, they talk and Sherlock explains his job: he's a consulting detective, one who helps the police with problems when they're out of their depth. He also explains his first deductions of John. John is amazed, naturally, and Sherlock is intrigued by someone who appreciates his deductions.
They go look at the corpse, a woman dressed in pink. When they get there, John finds that the police don't like Sherlock -- the first officer they meet, Sgt Donovan, calls Sherlock 'freak' and another officer, Anderson, seems to really dislike him (after Sherlock reveals his affair with Donovan, it's easy to see why). Sherlock and John examine the corpse and find a few anomalies: one, she wrote 'Rache' on the floor next to her. While Sherlock recognises this as being an incomplete 'Rachel', the question still remains: why? Two, Sherlock sees that she had a suitcase, but no suitcase was found. Finally, her phone is missing. Sherlock has a brainwave and runs out of the scene, leaving John to walk home. On his way out, Donovan gives him some advice: stay away from Sherlock, whom she calls a psychopath who gets off on crimes and puzzles. She also says that she fully expects Sherlock to eventually get bored of solving crimes and start committing them. John gets back to the main road and phones around him start ringing. He finally answers one in a public phone box and is picked up and taken to an empty warehouse, where a man with an umbrella identifies himself as the closest thing Sherlock has to a friend (an enemy) and offers John money to spy on Sherlock. John declines and is taken back to Baker Street.
John tells a remarkably unfazed Sherlock about the man's offer. Sherlock isn't bothered by the event and asks John to text a message to a certain number. John sees that Sherlock has the woman's case, and texts the message to the number- the victim's phone. The message is designed to freak out the murderer and gives an address. Sherlock and John go to a restaurant near the address and when a cab arrives, they chase it. However, the cab's passenger has a perfect alibi, and they return home only to find a drug bust in progress- Lestrade, thinking that Sherlock was withholding evidence, orchestrated the bust so he could search the flat. They find nothing, but a cabbie arrives for Sherlock, and he's got the victim's phone. Sherlock follows the cabbie outside, where the cabbie tells him that he doesn't actually kill his victims -- he talks to them and they kill themselves. Holmes' curiosity gets the better of him, so he gets into the cab.
Sherlock and the cabbie drive to a specially-chosen place, where they play a psychological mind game. The cabbie explains that he has a sponsor, a person who is giving him money for each person he kills, money that will go to his children. In addition, he's dying and thus has nothing to lose. Sherlock milks the killer for information while the killer reels Sherlock in by suggesting his game as the ultimate test of Sherlock's observation and judgement. John follows Sherlock, but the trail ends with two seemingly identical buildings. He picks the wrong building, but at the crucial moment, he shoots the cabbie through a window. Sherlock manages to get the name of his sponsor out of the man -- Moriarty.
Outside, Sherlock talks to Lestrade about the cabbie until he realises that John killed him. The man with the umbrella and his assistant arrive, and Sherlock reveals who he is -- Mycroft, Sherlock's older brother. They have a brief fight before Sherlock and John leave, and Mycroft decides to step up surveillance on his younger brother.
As if to prove this, Sherlock Holmes is introduced to John beating a cadaver with a riding crop ForScience, being completely oblivious to the advances of the St Bart's morgue attendant Molly Hooper and texting people the solutions to murder cases. [[SherlockScan From a glimpse of John and a brief lend of his mobile phone]], Sherlock is able to deduce that John is an army doctor home from service with a psychosomatic limp who disapproves of his alcoholic divorcee brother ([[TomboyishName though he wasn't quite right]]).
John goes to look at the flat with Sherlock and quite likes it. Sherlock introduces him to the landlady, Mrs Hudson, for whom he did a favour once. After John agrees that the flat would be a good place to live, he is interrupted by the arrival of Inspector Lestrade, who needs Sherlock's assistance with the fourth in a series of identical suicides that have been occurring. Sherlock leaves, before returning to ask John to come along since he's a qualified doctor who might be able to help. In the taxi, they talk and Sherlock explains his job: he's a consulting detective, one who helps the police with problems when they're out of their depth. He also explains his first deductions of John. John is amazed, naturally, and Sherlock is intrigued by someone who appreciates his deductions.
They go look at the corpse, a woman dressed in pink. When they get there, John finds that the police don't like Sherlock -- the first officer they meet, Sgt Donovan, calls Sherlock 'freak' and another officer, Anderson, seems to really dislike him (after Sherlock reveals his affair with Donovan, it's easy to see why). Sherlock and John examine the corpse and find a few anomalies: one, she wrote 'Rache' on the floor next to her. While Sherlock recognises this as being an incomplete 'Rachel', the question still remains: why? Two, Sherlock sees that she had a suitcase, but no suitcase was found. Finally, her phone is missing. Sherlock has a brainwave and runs out of the scene, leaving John to walk home. On his way out, Donovan gives him some advice: stay away from Sherlock, whom she calls a psychopath who gets off on crimes and puzzles. She also says that she fully expects Sherlock to eventually get bored of solving crimes and start committing them. John gets back to the main road and phones around him start ringing. He finally answers one in a public phone box and is picked up and taken to an empty warehouse, where a man with an umbrella identifies himself as the closest thing Sherlock has to a friend (an enemy) and offers John money to spy on Sherlock. John declines and is taken back to Baker Street.
John tells a remarkably unfazed Sherlock about the man's offer. Sherlock isn't bothered by the event and asks John to text a message to a certain number. John sees that Sherlock has the woman's case, and texts the message to the number- the victim's phone. The message is designed to freak out the murderer and gives an address. Sherlock and John go to a restaurant near the address and when a cab arrives, they chase it. However, the cab's passenger has a perfect alibi, and they return home only to find a drug bust in progress- Lestrade, thinking that Sherlock was withholding evidence, orchestrated the bust so he could search the flat. They find nothing, but a cabbie arrives for Sherlock, and he's got the victim's phone. Sherlock follows the cabbie outside, where the cabbie tells him that he doesn't actually kill his victims -- he talks to them and they kill themselves. Holmes' curiosity gets the better of him, so he gets into the cab.
Sherlock and the cabbie drive to a specially-chosen place, where they play a psychological mind game. The cabbie explains that he has a sponsor, a person who is giving him money for each person he kills, money that will go to his children. In addition, he's dying and thus has nothing to lose. Sherlock milks the killer for information while the killer reels Sherlock in by suggesting his game as the ultimate test of Sherlock's observation and judgement. John follows Sherlock, but the trail ends with two seemingly identical buildings. He picks the wrong building, but at the crucial moment, he shoots the cabbie through a window. Sherlock manages to get the name of his sponsor out of the man -- Moriarty.
Outside, Sherlock talks to Lestrade about the cabbie until he realises that John killed him. The man with the umbrella and his assistant arrive, and Sherlock reveals who he is -- Mycroft, Sherlock's older brother. They have a brief fight before Sherlock and John leave, and Mycroft decides to step up surveillance on his younger brother.
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Dr John Watson has just returned from service in Afghanistan with nightmares, a psychosomatic limp and a bullet wound for his trouble. John's therapist encourages him to keep a blog about his life as a returned vet, but it doesn't seem to help since, as John himself puts it, [[TemptingFate "nothing happens to [him]"]]. And to top it all off, his army pension isn't enough to keep living in London. All in all, things are kinda crappy for John until he runs into Mike Stamford, an old friend from his days at St Bart's.St. Bart's Hospital. As it happens, Mike knows of someone who's looking for a flatmate...
As if to prove this, Sherlock Holmes is introduced to John whilst beating a cadaver with a riding crop ForScience, being completely oblivious to the advances of theSt St. Bart's morgue attendant attendant, Molly Hooper Hooper, and texting people the solutions to murder cases. [[SherlockScan From a glimpse of John and a brief lend borrow of his mobile phone]], Sherlock is able to deduce that John is an army doctor home from service with a psychosomatic limp who disapproves of his alcoholic divorcee brother ([[TomboyishName though he wasn't quite right]]).
John goes to look at the flat with Sherlock andquite likes seems to like it. Sherlock introduces him to the landlady, Mrs Mrs. Hudson, for whom he did a favour once. After John agrees that the flat would be a good place to live, he is interrupted by the arrival of Inspector Lestrade, who needs Sherlock's assistance with the fourth in a series of identical suicides that have been occurring. Sherlock leaves, before returning to ask John to come along since he's a qualified doctor who might be able to help. In the taxi, they talk talk, and Sherlock explains his job: he's a consulting detective, one who helps the police with problems when they're out of their depth. He also explains his first deductions of John. John is amazed, naturally, and Sherlock is intrigued by someone who appreciates his deductions.
They go look at the corpse, a woman dressed in pink. When they get there, John finds that the police don't like Sherlock -- the first officer they meet,Sgt Sgt. Donovan, calls Sherlock 'freak' and another officer, Anderson, seems to really dislike him (after Sherlock reveals his affair with Donovan, it's easy to see why). Sherlock and John examine the corpse and find a few anomalies: one, she wrote 'Rache' on the floor next to her. While Sherlock recognises this as being an incomplete 'Rachel', the question still remains: why? Two, Sherlock sees that she had a suitcase, but no suitcase was found. Finally, her phone is missing. Sherlock has a brainwave and runs out of the scene, leaving John to walk home. On his way out, Donovan gives him some advice: stay away from Sherlock, whom she calls a psychopath who gets off on crimes and puzzles. She also says that she fully expects Sherlock to eventually get bored of solving crimes and start committing them. John gets back to the main road and phones around him start ringing. He finally answers one in a public phone box and is picked up and taken to an empty warehouse, where a man with an umbrella identifies himself as the closest thing Sherlock has to a friend (an enemy) and offers John money to spy on Sherlock. John declines and is taken back to Baker Street.
John tells a remarkably unfazed Sherlock about the man's offer. Sherlock isn't bothered by the event and asks John to text a message to a certain number. John sees that Sherlock has the woman's case, and texts the message to the number- the victim's phone. The message is designed to freak out the murderer and gives an address. Sherlock and John go to a restaurant near the address and when a cab arrives, they chase it. However, the cab's passenger has a perfect alibi, and they return home only to find a drug bust inprogress- progress - Lestrade, thinking that Sherlock was withholding evidence, orchestrated the bust so he could search the flat. They find nothing, but a cabbie arrives for Sherlock, and he's got the victim's phone. Sherlock follows the cabbie outside, where the cabbie tells him that he doesn't actually kill his victims -- he talks to them them, and they kill themselves. Holmes' curiosity gets the better of him, so he gets into the cab.
cab. John also gets his cane returned to him by the restaurant owner - in the heat of the chase, he completely forgot about his limp, proving that it was, indeed, psychosomatic.
Sherlock and the cabbie drive to aspecially-chosen place, special, secret location, where they play a psychological mind game. The cabbie explains that he has a sponsor, a person who is giving him money for each person he kills, money that will go to his children. In addition, he's dying and thus has nothing to lose. Sherlock milks the killer for information while the killer reels Sherlock in by suggesting his game as the ultimate test of Sherlock's observation and judgement. John follows Sherlock, but the trail ends with two seemingly identical buildings. He picks the wrong building, but at the crucial moment, he shoots sees Sherlock and the cabbie through a window. the windows across the courtyard, shooting the cabbie before Sherlock fully accepts the cabbie's challenge. Sherlock manages to get the name of his sponsor out of the wounded man -- Moriarty.
Outside, Sherlock talks to Lestrade about the cabbie until he realises that John killed him. The man with the umbrellaand his assistant arrive, arrives at the scene, and Sherlock reveals who he is -- Mycroft, Sherlock's older brother. They have a brief fight before Sherlock and John leave, and Mycroft decides to step up surveillance on his younger brother.
As if to prove this, Sherlock Holmes is introduced to John whilst beating a cadaver with a riding crop ForScience, being completely oblivious to the advances of the
John goes to look at the flat with Sherlock and
They go look at the corpse, a woman dressed in pink. When they get there, John finds that the police don't like Sherlock -- the first officer they meet,
John tells a remarkably unfazed Sherlock about the man's offer. Sherlock isn't bothered by the event and asks John to text a message to a certain number. John sees that Sherlock has the woman's case, and texts the message to the number- the victim's phone. The message is designed to freak out the murderer and gives an address. Sherlock and John go to a restaurant near the address and when a cab arrives, they chase it. However, the cab's passenger has a perfect alibi, and they return home only to find a drug bust in
Sherlock and the cabbie drive to a
Outside, Sherlock talks to Lestrade about the cabbie until he realises that John killed him. The man with the umbrella
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* BaitAndSwitch: John is forced into a meeting with a man who's very interested in Sherlock Holmes and describes himself as someone Holmes would call his arch-enemy. It's all very cloak and dagger and gives the impression that Professor Moriarty is coercing Watson's cooperation against Holmes as TheMole (the man even pulls out a small red pocketbook, like Moriarty is famous for). In truth, the man approaching Watson is ''Mycroft'' Holmes, Sherlock's brother and a government agent.
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* BaitAndSwitch: John is forced into a meeting with a man who's very interested in Sherlock Holmes and describes himself as someone Holmes would call his arch-enemy. archenemy. It's all very cloak and dagger dagger, and it gives the impression that Professor Moriarty this enemy is coercing Watson's cooperation against Holmes as TheMole (the man even pulls out a small red pocketbook, like Moriarty is famous for). In truth, the man approaching Watson is ''Mycroft'' Holmes, Sherlock's brother and a government agent.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Doctor John Watson pulls this off by shooting the serial killer in the head right before Sherlock takes one of the pills. From the next building. Through two windows. Over Sherlock's shoulder.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Doctor Dr. John Watson pulls this off by shooting the serial killer in the head right before Sherlock takes one of the pills. From the next building. Through two windows. Over Sherlock's shoulder.
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-->"I don't want to kill you, Mr Holmes. I'm going to talk to you, and then you're going to kill yourself."
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-->"I don't want to kill you, Mr Mr. Holmes. I'm going to talk to you, and then you're going to kill yourself."
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* CharacterBlog: You can look up Sherlock's website and Watson's blog but Watson's was blank for a while.
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* CharacterBlog: You can look up Sherlock's website and Watson's blog blog, but Watson's was blank for a while.
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* ClueOfFewWords: The primary clue in the mystery is that the murder victim scrawled the word "rache" in their dying moments. This is directly lifted from being an adaptation of "A Study in Scarlet". [[spoiler: It goes in a different direction however.]]
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* ClueOfFewWords: The primary clue in the mystery is that the murder victim scrawled the word "rache" "RACHE" in their dying moments. This is directly lifted from being an adaptation of "A Study in Scarlet". [[spoiler: It goes in a different direction direction, however.]]
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--->'''Sherlock:''' The bullet they just dug out of the wall is from a handgun. A kill shot over that distance from that kind of weapon? That's a crack shot you're looking for, but not just a marksman. A fighter. His hands couldn't haven't shaken at all, so clearly he's acclimatized to violence. He didn't fire till I was in immediate danger, though, so strong moral principle. You're looking for a man probably with a history of military service, nerves of steel...\\
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--->'''Sherlock:''' The bullet they just dug out of the wall is from a handgun. A kill shot over that distance from that kind of weapon? That's a crack shot you're looking for, but not just a marksman. A fighter. His hands couldn't haven't have shaken at all, so clearly clearly, he's acclimatized to violence. He didn't fire till I was in immediate danger, though, so strong moral principle. You're looking for a man probably with a history of military service, nerves of steel...\\
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** In the original story the police assumed that the person writing ''Rache'' was trying to write the name "Rachel", and Holmes pooh-poohed this by advising them that "Rache" is German for "revenge". Here, the interpretation is reversed in that the victim actually was trying to write ''Rachel'' out.
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** In the original story the police assumed that the person writing ''Rache'' ''RACHE'' was trying to write the name "Rachel", and Holmes pooh-poohed this by advising them that "Rache" is German for "revenge". Here, the interpretation is reversed in that the victim actually was trying to write ''Rachel'' out.
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* PsychoForHire: Jeff Hope kills people partially for money to provide his kids and also to satisfy his sense of superiority over others.
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* PsychoForHire: Jeff Hope kills people partially for money to provide for his kids and also to satisfy his sense of superiority over others.others (in particular, being terminally ill and yet being able to outlive his victims).
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** This episode does a great job of making you think that the sinister, all-controlling gentleman who calls himself Sherlock's arch-enemy, and who Sherlock tells John is the most dangerous man he'll ever meet, is Moriarty. This false play culminates in this man noting a NotSoDifferentRemark between himself and Sherlock, which makes perfect sense when we learn soon after it's actually Sherlock's brother Mycroft.
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** This episode does a great job of making you think that the sinister, all-controlling gentleman who calls himself Sherlock's arch-enemy, archenemy, and who Sherlock tells John is the most dangerous man he'll ever meet, is Moriarty. This false play culminates in this man noting a NotSoDifferentRemark between himself and Sherlock, which makes perfect sense when we learn soon after it's actually Sherlock's brother Mycroft.
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* RubiksCubeInternationalGeniusSymbol: It's downplayed but in one scene we see a Rubik's Cube on Sherlock's desk. He needs constant diversion after all.
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* RubiksCubeInternationalGeniusSymbol: It's downplayed downplayed, but in one scene we see a Rubik's Cube on Sherlock's desk. He needs constant diversion after all.
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* SecurityBlindspot: Invoked by Mycroft, who phones John and directs his attention to several cameras in security-conscious England, then deliberately has the cameras pan so that they're ''not'' looking at John. Basically sending the message, "I can do anything I want to you and no one will see." John, to his credit, tells Mycroft that it's a "clever trick" but that he could have just called him on his phone.
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* SecurityBlindspot: Invoked by Mycroft, who phones John and directs his attention to several cameras in security-conscious England, then deliberately has the cameras pan so that they're ''not'' looking at John. Basically It's basically sending the message, "I can do anything I want to you you, and no one will see." John, to his credit, tells Mycroft that it's a "clever trick" but that he could have just called him on his phone.
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* SerialKiller: Picking people at random and killing them because "they don't think". He has a sponsor.
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* SerialKiller: Picking people at random and killing them because "they don't think". He However, this killer also has a sponsor.sponsor...
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Jeff Hope may not look it, but he is a genius behind the simplish look.
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Jeff Hope may not look it, it at first, but he is a genius behind the simplish look.simple elderly facade.
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* StarterVillain: Jeff Hope is the first villain in the series and while clever and dangerous enough to arouse Sherlock's interest, he's just the opening act for Moriarity.
* StickyFingers: Sherlock mentions that he regularly pickpockets Lestrade when he gets annoying, hence why he has Lestrade's badge to flash. He also apparently has several more back at his flat.
* StickyFingers: Sherlock mentions that he regularly pickpockets Lestrade when he gets annoying, hence why he has Lestrade's badge to flash. He also apparently has several more back at his flat.
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* StarterVillain: Jeff Hope is the first villain in the series and and, while clever and dangerous enough to arouse Sherlock's interest, he's just the opening act for Moriarity.
Moriarty.
* StickyFingers: Sherlock mentions that he regularly pickpockets Lestrade when he gets annoying, hence why he has Lestrade's badge to flash. He also apparently has several more back at his flat. [[spoiler:It's later found out that he's also pilfered at least one of his brother's IDs for similar purposes.]]
* StickyFingers: Sherlock mentions that he regularly pickpockets Lestrade when he gets annoying, hence why he has Lestrade's badge to flash. He also apparently has several more back at his flat. [[spoiler:It's later found out that he's also pilfered at least one of his brother's IDs for similar purposes.]]
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* TakeAThirdOption: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]]. Rather than play the killer's game, Sherlock decides to take his chances with the gun, which turns out to be a cigarette lighter, correctly deducing that the killer's MO is to outwit his prey, not simply shoot them dead and that the "gun" was merely persuasion. Free to leave of his own accord, Sherlock stands up to do so but then the killer manages to bait him into his game by asking if Sherlock had figured him out, to which Sherlock can't resist and ends up nearly taking the pill.
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* TakeAThirdOption: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]]. Rather than play the killer's game, Sherlock decides to take his chances with the gun, which turns out to be a cigarette lighter, correctly deducing that the killer's MO is to outwit his prey, not simply shoot them dead and that the "gun" was merely persuasion. Free to leave of his own accord, Sherlock stands up to do so so, but then the killer manages to bait him into his game by asking if Sherlock had figured him out, to which Sherlock can't resist and ends up nearly taking the pill.
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* WasntThatFun: Sherlock and John have an important one of these after a chase, as John realizes his limp actually is psychosomatic and going on Sherlock's little adventures makes him forget the pain. The moment doesn't last long.
* WeaponForIntimidation: The culprit threatens the eponymous detective with a gun. Before long, Sherlock has reason to call his bluff. It's a novelty lighter.
* WeddingRingRemoval: Sherlock is examining the body of the woman in pink, particularly her well-maintained jewellery and her dirty and tarnished wedding band, which he finds to be clean on the inside, meaning it was regularly removed, and leading him to conclude that she was a serial adulterer.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jeff Hope. He was killing innocent people in a kamikaze murder spree that could have killed him too, but he wanted to ensure his children would be better off after his death, as for every life he took, money would be paid to his children.
* WhamLine: There's a brilliantly comical, subverted take on this trope when Sherlock and John encounter the mysterious and ominous man who has introduced himself as Sherlock's arch-enemy.
* WeaponForIntimidation: The culprit threatens the eponymous detective with a gun. Before long, Sherlock has reason to call his bluff. It's a novelty lighter.
* WeddingRingRemoval: Sherlock is examining the body of the woman in pink, particularly her well-maintained jewellery and her dirty and tarnished wedding band, which he finds to be clean on the inside, meaning it was regularly removed, and leading him to conclude that she was a serial adulterer.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jeff Hope. He was killing innocent people in a kamikaze murder spree that could have killed him too, but he wanted to ensure his children would be better off after his death, as for every life he took, money would be paid to his children.
* WhamLine: There's a brilliantly comical, subverted take on this trope when Sherlock and John encounter the mysterious and ominous man who has introduced himself as Sherlock's arch-enemy.
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* WasntThatFun: Sherlock and John have an important one of these after a chase, as John realizes his limp actually is psychosomatic and going on Sherlock's little adventures makes him forget the pain. The moment doesn't last long.
long... but by the end of the episode, John no longer needs his cane...
* WeaponForIntimidation: The culprit threatens the eponymous detective with a gun. Before long, Sherlock has reason to call hisbluff. It's bluff - it's a novelty lighter.
* WeddingRingRemoval: Sherlock is examining the body of the woman in pink,particularly comparing, in particular, her well-maintained jewellery jewelry and her dirty and tarnished wedding band, which band; he finds the latter to be clean on the inside, meaning it was regularly removed, and leading him to conclude that she was a serial adulterer.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jeff Hope. He was killing innocent people in akamikaze semi-suicidal murder spree that could have killed him too, spree, but he wanted to ensure his children would be better off after his death, as inevitable death; for every life he took, money would be paid to his children.
* WhamLine: There's a brilliantly comical, subverted take on this trope when Sherlock and John encounter the mysterious and ominous man who has introduced himself as Sherlock'sarch-enemy.archenemy.
* WeaponForIntimidation: The culprit threatens the eponymous detective with a gun. Before long, Sherlock has reason to call his
* WeddingRingRemoval: Sherlock is examining the body of the woman in pink,
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jeff Hope. He was killing innocent people in a
* WhamLine: There's a brilliantly comical, subverted take on this trope when Sherlock and John encounter the mysterious and ominous man who has introduced himself as Sherlock's
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* EmbarrassingAlibi: Discussed. Sherlock once got a friend of his out of a triple murder charge by proving he was in a completely different part of town, house-breaking, at the time of the murders.
-->'''Angelo''': But for this man, I'd have gone to prison.\\
'''Sherlock''': You ''did'' go to prison.
-->'''Angelo''': But for this man, I'd have gone to prison.\\
'''Sherlock''': You ''did'' go to prison.
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* ClueOfFewWords: The primary clue in the mystery is that the murder victim scrawled the word "rache" in their dying moments. This is directly lifted from being an adaptation of "A Study in Scarlet" [[spoiler: it goes in a different direction however.]]
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* ClueOfFewWords: The primary clue in the mystery is that the murder victim scrawled the word "rache" in their dying moments. This is directly lifted from being an adaptation of "A Study in Scarlet" Scarlet". [[spoiler: it It goes in a different direction however.]]
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: A variant; John says "Nothing ever happens to me" to his psychologist's suggestion that he blogs everything that happens to him. Then a couple of scenes later, he meets Sherlock...
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: A variant; John says "Nothing ever happens to me" to his psychologist's suggestion that he blogs blog everything that happens to him. Then a couple of scenes later, he meets Sherlock...
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* ClueOfFewWords: The primary clue in the mystery is that the murder victim scrawled the word "rache" in their dying moments. This is directly lifted from being an adaptation of "A Study in Scarlet" [[spoiler: it goes in a different direction however.]]
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* SecurityBlindspot: Invoked by Mycroft, who phones John and directs his attention to several cameras in security-conscious England, then deliberately has the cameras pan so that they're ''not'' looking at John. Basically sending the message, "I can do anything I want to you and no one will see." John, to his credit, tells Mycroft that it's a "clever trick" but that he could have just called him on his phone.
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* AllForNothing: The victims who took the poisoned pills, thinking they were being held at gunpoint when it was actually a fake. They were all chosen and by chance and could have walked out safely at any time. The one consolation is Jeff was able to get some money for his kids, but will they even want his blood money?
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* AllForNothing: The victims who took the poisoned pills, thinking they were being held at gunpoint when it was actually a fake. They were all chosen and by pure chance and could have walked out safely at any time. The one consolation is Jeff was able to get some money for his kids, kids with each kill, but will they even want his blood money?
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* AllForNothing: The victims who took the poisoned pills, thinking they were being held at gunpoint when it was actually a fake. They were all chosen and by chance and could have walked out safely at any time. The one consolation is Jeff was able to get some money for his kids, but will they even want his blood money?
