![]() In an episode so packed with twists, Holmesian references (such as the Three Garridebs and Musgrave Hall) and over-the-top situations, it was hard to keep sight of the fact that this was actually Holmes at his best solving problems and encountering moral dilemmas with the support of his friends and, perhaps grudgingly, his brother. Good to see Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton back in their roles of Sherlock’s parents, understandably shocked to find that Eurus is alive but too dangerous to be free. Once Sherlock discovered that the little girl and the crashing plane were a fantasy (well, we did wonder how they were staying in the air so long), it was just a matter of saving John from drowning (though how did Sherlock manage that without climbing down the well and cutting the chain?), decoding the Redbeard mystery (it was a boy, not a dog) and recapturing the now almost catatonic Eurus. So if Jim was indeed dead, who arranged for a little girl to be the only one awake on a plummeting plane full of sleeping passengers? Connected by phone to solve the puzzle, Sherlock, John and Mycroft were put through a series of perverse emotional experiments in which the innocent (or the guilty), including sad little Molly Hooper, were the victims.įinally released only when Sherlock threatened to kill himself, they found themselves back in the ruins of the family home Musgrave Hall. We kept expecting to see a big white balloon floating into shot, but instead it was Jim Noriarty in a black helicopter – apparently Eurus seduced him five years previously, when Mycroft presented him to her as a Christmas present. But how had Sherlock’s memories of his childhood and the disappearance of the dog Redbeard been manipulated?Īnd how was Jim Moriarty involved? He was all over the monitor screens as the alarm system went berserk in a scene reminiscent of The Prisoner. But Sherlock’s confrontation with Eurus was not what anyone expected.Įurus seemed to be a mixture between Carrie, Magneto, Hannibal Lecter and The Master, and using her almost psychic powers of persuasion she had suborned the entire garrison of Sherrinford there was no great mystery to how she escaped, as she was never being kept prisoner. The trio survived through a Die Hard-style window leap (while Mrs Hudson is saved by the power of Iron Maiden), and they penetrated the high-tech maximum security fortress of Sherrinford Island through a combination of piracy and stage make-up. Mycroft’s revelations about the enormously talented and dangerous Eurus, and the prison island of Sherrinford where she has been incarcerated, answered a lot of questions (if true), but don’t explain how she got out and sent an explosive drone to blast Baker Street. Mycroft neither confirmed nor denied the existence of a third, female Holmes, let alone a demented one, but that’s what we were left to assume. Moriarty announced his return by making a phone call to a plane full of sleeping passengers, while Sherlock scared Mycroft’s pants off with a doctored home movie (did we notice a chubby Mycroft?) and a killer clown. ![]() Of course, we have also been teased about the possible return of the (supposedly dead) Moriarty – so could both be the coming East Wind? Could they even be one and the same? The self-named Eurus, the East Wind, manipulated both Sherlock and John in The Four Thatchers, and ended up tranquilising John after a particularly unsatisfying therapy session.
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