Sherlock

1A Study in Pink

Wounded in the Afghan war Dr.John Watson returns to contemporary London and answers an advert for a flatmate,which brings him to Mrs. Hudson's house at 221b,Baker Street,sharing with brilliant if eccentric private eye Sherlock Holmes. There have been three identical suicides and Inspector Lestrade asks for Sherlock's intervention over the fourth,the suspicious death of Jennifer Wilson. As she lay dying she wrote 'Rachel' in the dust and Sherlock deduces that this was not only the name of her stillborn daughter of many years earlier but the password to her mobile phone. Jennifer sent a text to her killer to give a clue as to their identity.This leads Sherlock to a meeting in a deserted college with a terminally ill serial killer,slaying people for kicks,to show superiority over the rest of society and determined to make Sherlock the next victim.

2The Blind Banker

Banker Eddie Van Coon and reporter Brian Lukis are both shot dead in identical slayings, in rooms locked from the inside. Chinese museum employee Soo Lin tells Sherlock Holmes that, as a teenaged orphan in China, she ran drugs for the Black Lotus crime syndicate, for whom the two dead men also worked. She too is then murdered, the killer being a human fly who can scale buildings. The gang mistake Watson for Holmes and capture him and his new girl-friend, requiring Holmes to come to the rescue.

3The Great Game

Mycroft wants his brother Sherlock to investigate the murder of civil servant Alan West and theft of the Bruce-Partington missile plans. Sherlock,however,prefers to assist Lestrade following a massive bomb blast. The sadistic bomber abducts a string of hostages,who will be released after Sherlock has solved a series of puzzles,including a twenty year old murder and two insurance scams,the second involving an alleged art theft. The gallery owner tells Sherlock she was approached by a criminal who claimed he could make money for her - his name being Moriarty. He is the arrogant bomber. Sherlock solves all the puzzles and the West murder before confronting Moriarty,a seemingly innocuous man he has met before,at a swimming pool.

4Unaired Pilot

1A Scandal in Belgravia

Following a bizarre stand-off with master criminal Moriarty,ended when the villain responds to a phone call, Sherlock interrupts his investigation of a rural slaying when summonsed to Buckingham Palace. Dominatrix Irene Adler has incriminating photos of a royal princess which Sherlock is engaged to retrieve. However,having engineered a meeting with Irene Sherlock realises that she has far more dangerous evidence in her possession,sought by rogue CIA agents, and which cause her to fake her death and pass the facts,encrypted in her camera phone,to Sherlock. Having decyphered the explosive result and discovered a government plot,Sherlock has to consider if Irene can be trusted and indeed if she is in league with Moriarty.

2The Hounds of Baskerville

Twenty years earlier,aged seven,young Henry Knight saw his father torn to pieces by a monstrous creature at Dewer's Hollow near their Dartmoor home. Now Henry has seen the footprints of a huge beast and suspects that the nearby Baskerville government research station is breeding mutant animals. Sherlock and John travel to the moor where local lad Fletcher organizes tourist walks cashing in on the legend of Dartmoor's spectral hound. Using false I.D. the pair infiltrate Baskerville and are challenged by secretive Major Barrymore but rescued by sympathetic Dr. Frankland, a friend to Henry. After Sherlock himself sees the monstrous creature he enlists the help of geneticist Dr. Stapleton to help him solve the mystery of the H.O.U.N.D.

3The Reichenbach Fall

Moriarty comes close to stealing the Crown Jewels to prove it might be done but allows himself to be caught. Sherlock gives evidence at the trial where Moriarty has scared the jury into acquitting him and later visits Sherlock,camply taunting him with his superior computer skills,seemingly capable of any crime. Sherlock rescues two children abducted by his enemy but his brilliantly accurate deductions lead the police to believe that he may have been an accomplice in the kidnapping and he is arrested,going on the run with John. After a further encounter with Moriarty,who has persuaded a journalist to publish that he is an innocent actor paid by Sherlock to masquerade as his enemy for Sherlock's own glory,the two meet atop a very high building...

4Special Many Happy Returns #2.04

1The Empty Hearse

Two years after his reported Reichenbach Fall demise, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) has been completely exonerated of the slander that was caused him at the hands of James Moriarty. The opening scene shows a version of how Sherlock might have faked his death: by jumping from the roof with a bungee cable, bouncing back and entering the building through a window, where Molly stood waiting for him. While Sherlock absconded, members of his homeless network put a mask on Moriarty's face so that he would look like Sherlock, and then dragged onto the street to the spot where Sherlock would have landed and sprayed him with fake blood. All while this happened, Watson was lying on the ground, his vision obscured, having just been run over by a cyclist, who was in on the plan and who hypnotised him to give the others extra time to plant the body, this however is shown to be a conspiracy theory of Anderson. Sherlock with the aid of Mycroft returns to London which is under threat of terrorist attack. John has moved on and has a girlfriend, Mary Morstan (Amanda Abbington), whom he intends to propose to in a restaurant, when Sherlock enters, disguises himself as a French waiter with a thick accent and visits John's table a couple of times before he notices who he is.Sherlock reveals that he death was fraudulent to John, who fuelled by anger, hits him more than a few times. Sherlock enlists Molly to assist him in the case of an underground skeleton behind a desk containing a manuscript: "How I did it" by Jack the Ripper, revealed to be a fake planted by Anderson (now a conspiracy theorist, driven by guilt over his role in Sherlock's defamation) to lure Holmes out of hiding. Later that day, Mary receives a text telling her covertly that John has kidnapped by unknown assailants and will die if he isn't rescued in time, along with a location. Sherlock and Mary come to his rescue on a motorcycle, and manage to drag him out of a pyre on which a Guy was about to be burned. John and Holmes then return to solving Mycroft's terrorist problem, which is revealed to be planned by an "underground movement" in the most literal sense (i.e. a movement based in the London Underground). They discover that a key figure in the plot is a politician named Moran, who with his organisation plots to blow up the Houses of Parliament during an all night sitting on the Fifth of November (Bonfire Night), to vote on a new terrorist law. Near a never used Underground station, they manage to find an Underground carriage that was earlier seen disappearing with Moran on it, and find that it is rigged with explosives. Sherlock manages to defuse the bomb by turning the off-switch, but not before making Watson believe the bomb can't be defused, causing him to panic and reveal to Sherlock how much he has missed him, to his later embarrassment. In a flash forward before Sherlock reveals he has defused the bomb, he is seen visiting Anderson and revealing to him how he faked his death as part of a plan to round up Moriarty's network. An alternate version of the faked death is shown, leaving it ambiguous to which one is true, if any of them. Sherlock tells Anderson that he and Mycroft had anticipated thirteen possible scenarios that could happen on the roof. Each possibility had a code name and a plan of action attached to it. Sherlock however, did not anticipated that Moriarty would kill himself. Thus, Sherlock texts his brother one of the code names ("LAZARUS"). His homeless network shut down the entire street and were at the ready. John, who had no idea all this was happening could be seen in the cab driving towards the hospital. When John came, Sherlock made sure he stood at the right spot so that his view of the bottom half of the building was blocked. The homeless network and Mycroft's people set a large inflated cushion which allowed Sherlock to fall on safely and trick everyone. All the people rushed to pull the cushion away and Sherlock ran to hide. Then, Molly who was near a window threw a body double on the ground (the same person who Moriarty used to frame Sherlock for the abduction of Rufus Bruhl's children). John, who had rushed to the scene, only saw a glimpse of the body before he was intentionally knocked down by the cyclist which stalled him and allowed Sherlock to take the place of the body double and put a ball under his armpit to momentarily give the impression of having no pulse. The people that surrounded him then poured blood around and on him to further make the illusion, thus allowing Sherlock to fake his suicide. In the ending scene, a silhouetted figure with blue eyes wearing glasses is observed watching footage of Sherlock and Mary.

2The Sign of Three

John Watson and Mary Morstan are having their wedding. Sherlock Holmes, being John Watson's best man, rises from his seat to give the best man's speech, but he hesitates and is unsure of what to say. Flashbacks show that he had failed in writing the speech. Sitting in the audience and watching him are Lestrade, Molly, Tom, and Mrs Hudson, as well as Major Sholto, who is John's former commander. John was delighted when Sholto walked in, since he didn't reply to his invitation, and it is explained that Sholto lives in seclusion. He is suffering from criticism by the media, and death threats, after having lost a unit of newly trained soldiers in Afghanistan. Sherlock grasps for material and starts giving a rambling narrative about an attempted murder he and Watson had worked on, the Bloody Guardsman: not long ago, a Grenadier Guard was found unconscious in a shower room, suffering from a stab wound, but the weapon couldn't be found, and there wasn't a route for the attacker to escape. Earlier, the guardsman had emailed Sherlock after suspecting that someone was stalking him. Sherlock reluctantly admits that the case was never solved. Sherlock's narrative drifts to another case, the Mayfly Man; a woman who worked as a private nurse, several days after going to a man's apartment for dinner, found that the apartment was vacated, and moreover, that the man was listed as having died weeks ago. Sherlock and Watson swept that apartment but couldn't find clues. One thing was strange; the woman knew John's middle name. Afterwards, Sherlock chatted online with other London women who had a similar experience, but couldn't find a connection between them. He concludes in his speech that the perpetrator must have been a man bored with marriage. The man must have used disguises and broken into the homes of people who recently died, as seen in obituaries. While moving to the toast, Sherlock suddenly freezes in realisation. Knowing that John Watson is a man who never uses his middle name, it is obvious that the woman must have seen it somewhere besides normal print. Specifically, in John Watson's wedding invitation, one of whose recipients was Major Sholto. Sherlock concludes that all of the women were working for Sholto and bound to confidentiality, being his gardener, security guard, etc, and private nurse. The perpetrator is trying to get close to him to attack him, and the current wedding is his chance. Sherlock slips a note to Sholto and the latter returns to his hotel room, and gets his pistol in order to defend himself. However, Sherlock deduces again that the stabbing of the the guardsman might be linked, and spots the common element as the military uniform. Since the the guardsman collapsed in the shower, he must have been stabbed with a razor thin stiletto type blade beforehand, but with the military waistbelt firmly holding the flesh together, the damage wouldn't take effect until the belt loosened. They send Sholto to hospital and arrest the wedding photographer, who is found to be someone who wants to kill Sholto because his brother was one of the new soldiers that perished. Afterwards, with the sun having set, people move to a different hall for a dance. Sherlock quietly reveals to John and Mary the three signs he has observed confirming she is pregnant, then, unable to find a dance partner, he departs from the venue alone.

3His Last Vow

Lady Elizabeth Smallwood is one of many victims of master blackmailer and media tycoon Charles Augustus Magnussen and asks Holmes to retrieve some incriminating letters for her. Having cultivated Magnussen's secretary Janine, Holmes breaks into Magnussen's office but is confronted by a mysterious black-clad woman, who shoots him. THAT mysterious black clad woman is none other than MARY WATSON!!! He recovers in hospital and goes after her to discover her identity and reason for wanting the blackmailer dead before he and Watson visit Magnussen at his country house for a confrontation where Sherlock shoots Magnussen dead.!!Sherlock is convicted. Mycroft somehow manages to release Sherlock of his conviction and sends him on a Six months mission..As soon as Sherlock leaves BOOOOM..Every television in England is flooded with a video; Guess Who's Back..Yes..it is MORIARTY! How?? We don't know; but yes, MORIARTY is back!!

1The Six Thatchers

As Sherlock waits to see Moriarty's next move, he takes on the case of finding someone who is going around and smashing six unique head statues of Margaret Thatcher.

2The Lying Detective

As Sherlock attempts to comfort John Watson after his wife's death entrepreneur and apparent philanthropist Culverton Smith tests a new drug on daughter Faith and his employees to make them forget his confession that he is planning to commit murder. Faith has a partial memory and approaches Sherlock to identify a likely victim but her disappearance and his descent into drug-taking lands him in Smith's hospital and at his mercy. However Sherlock is not as helpless as he appears and has his own way of trapping Smith though the final shock is reserved to Watson as his therapist springs a terrible surprise on him.

3The Final Problem

In the final episode of this season, written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, long-buried secrets finally catch up with the Baker Street duo. Someone has been playing a very long game indeed and, alone and defenseless, Sherlock and Dr Watson face their greatest ever challenge. Is the game finally over?