YMMV / Sherlock S2 E2 "The Hounds of Baskerville"

• Complete Monster: Dr. Bob Frankland was once one of the lead scientists in Project H.O.U.N.D., working with the group in testing an awful new hallucinogen on unwitting innocents who were subsequently driven into homicidal or suicidal mania, resulting in countless deaths attributed to the project. Going into hiding after the project was shut down, Frankland continues the experiments in the hopes of creating a new method of chemical warfare he can sell. When one of his co-workers tries to expose Frankland's heinous machinations, Frankland infects the man and his young son Henry with the chemical and beats Henry's father to death, spending years after trying to drive Henry to suicide with the hallucinogen to cement the cover-up.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The whole reveal that the hound was not a dog but a man is incredibly similar to the situation regarding Victor and Redbeard in "The Final Problem". Henry couldn't cope with the trauma, so he rationalised it into a dog killing his father, in the same way as Sherlock imagining it was his beloved dog that had died, not his best friend, as he had always wanted a dog but due to his father being allergic to them, was never allowed one.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A reference is made to Sherlock losing a game of Cluedo because he insists that Dr Black committed suicide. Later that year, after "The Reichenbach Fall" was broadcast, a Sherlock themed version of Cluedo was released in which the victim was Jim Moriarty - who in the series definitely did commit suicide.
  • After Sherlock complains about experiencing emotions, Watson sarcastically calls him "Spock". In the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Khan Noonien Singh, who has several showdowns with Spock.
  • Russell Tovey is hunted by a hound. In Being Human (UK), he played a werewolf.
• Moral Event Horizon: Bob Frankland crossed it by beating Henry's father to death, right in front of Henry (leaving him an orphan in the process), because Henry's father found Frankland testing the abandoned Project Hound drug. Henry was left emotionally and mentally traumatised and unstable and had to attend therapy as an adult.
• The Woobie: Henry. His mother died when he was very young, then he watched his father DIE by the hands of Dr. Frankland, but he was manipulated into thinking it was a monsterous Hound, becoming an orphan from the age of seven, which left HUGE mental scars on him, so much so that everybody takes him as mentally disturbed. And he apparently doesn't have much of a lovelife or any nearby relatives. And what's worse is Dr. Frankland is STILL DOING IT TO HIM until Sherlock and Watson solve the case, and Henry almost commits suicide over it. No wonder, when he finally learned the truth, he tried to attack Frankland. It's amazing he even survived the episode.

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