![]() Next up: Eurus forces Sherlock to manipulate Molly Hooper into telling him she loves him (a strangely pointless aside), and then in the last, inevitable, stage: to choose whether to kill John or Mycroft.īut it's all a cop out! Because despite a few deaths of unimportant characters, Sherlock never has to really choose to do something controversial, or lose someone important to him. But Eurus doesn't care about justice: she kills both the innocent and the guilty. After this comes a classic Holmes case ( The Three Garridebs) in which Sherlock must identify a killer from a series of clues. When both men refuse, the governor commits suicide. The series is underpinned by a constant threat: there's a little girl trapped in an unmanned airplane which will crash if Sherlock doesn't go along with what Eurus says.įirst up: Sherlock must order either Mycroft or John to shoot the prison governor and thereby save the governor's wife. It's John that deduces Sherrinford's governor is under Eurus's power and she has been free the entire time.Įurus then puts Sherlock through his paces in a series of morality quandaries - the trolley problem turned into a game. When Sherlock finally comes face to face with his nutty sister, he's quickly bamboozled by her scheme to entrap him. Mycroft is technically the boss, but he wants to see how secure the prison actually is. The Baker Street boys (plus Mycroft) proceed to break into Sherrinford by commandeering a fishing boat. Yes, brother mine, I have sent our murderous sister to Azkaban.Īfter Sherlock and John wheedle (half of) the truth out of Mycroft, the three of them manage to escape one of Eurus's traps (how they do this exactly is left to the imagination - surely jumping out of a second story window would leave a mark? - and why Eurus set this trap when she really wants her two remaining brothers to fall into her reality show/philosophy class on Sherrinford is a mystery.) ![]() Mycroft describes how she used to slice open her own arms "to see how the muscles worked" - which explains the scars Sherlock noticed last week. Even though he can't remember her, Mycroft tells Sherlock: "Every choice you've ever made, every path you've ever taken, the man you are today.is your memory of Eurus." The traumatic memories turned him cold and callous, pretending to be a "high-functioning sociopath." A real sociopath, of course, is no different from a psychopath, and has no emotional guide to morality. Redbeard, in the newly invented Sherlock Holmes backstory, represents Victor Trevor, Sherlock's childhood friend, who was murdered by his sister, Eurus.Įurus, then, is the explanation for Sherlock Holmes the man. ![]() Ever since The Sign of Three, we've heard or seen references to Redbeard, Sherlock's pet Irish setter from when he was a boy. What memories he has have been translated into a broken, disjointed metaphor for what really happened (a coping mechanism he shares with Eurus). Just hanging at the fake gravestones on the family estate. She's also behind the "Do You Miss Me" Moriarty scam, which is nothing more than it seems: a video of Jim Moriarty, filmed before his death.īut most importantly: she's an insane pyromaniac that Mycroft locked away the high-security prison of Sherrinford, after she burned down the family home, Musgrave. She's been masquerading as both John's therapist and Sherlock's client, Faith Smith. ![]() The last episode ended with the revelation that Sherlock and Mycroft had a hidden sibling: Eurus. This is the Great Detective's origin story.īehind every great man is an insane psycopathic sister. Obviously, in these postmodern times, we can't just leave it at that, so Sherlock sets itself the task of unraveling the mystery of Sherlock Holmes. Beyond an atypical big brother and an unremarkable background pieced together from hints, Sherlock is without a history. He's charming, polite, and a brilliant detective. When we meet Sherlock in A Study in Scarlet, we learn almost everything we need to know about him in his first appearance. ![]() Who is Sherlock Holmes?Īrthur Conan Doyle wasn't particularly interested in telling us. Who is Sherlock Holmes? I don't mean Benedict Cumberbatch. My review of the previous episode: The Lying Detective. ![]()
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