Sherlock - A scandal in Belgravia

Episode of the Sherlock series
title	A scandal in Belgravia
Original title	A scandal in Belgravia
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Season 2, Episode 1 4th episode in total ( list )
First broadcast	January 1, 2012 on BBC
German-language first broadcast	May 17th, 2012 on Das Erste
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Director	Paul McGuigan
script	Steven Moffat
production	Sue Vertue
music	David Arnold Michael Price
camera	Fabian Wagner
cut	Charlie Philips
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Benedict Cumberbatch : Sherlock Holmes Martin Freeman : Dr. John Watson Lara Pulver : Irene Adler Mark Gatiss : Mycroft Holmes Rupert Graves : Detective Inspector Lestrade Louise Brealey : Molly Hooper Una Stubbs : Mrs. Hudson Andrew Scott : James Moriarty Rosalind Halstead : Kate Danny Webb : Detective Inspector Carter
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A Scandal in Belgravia (Original title: A Scandal in Belgravia ) is the fourth episode of the British television series Sherlock and the first of the second season. The first broadcast was on January 1, 2012 on the BBC , the German premiere was on May 17, 2012 on Das Erste .

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The cliffhanger of the last episode is resolved: After the first confrontation with Moriarty , Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are threatened again by snipers before Moriarty explains to them that he cannot allow them to continue. Sherlock responds by aiming his pistol at an explosive explosive vest to shoot at if one of the snipers fires a bullet. The explosion would have injured or killed Moriarty as well. The hopeless situation is interrupted when Moriarty receives a call. Having been made "a better offer", he leaves Holmes and Watson alive.

With Watson blogging regularly about her cases , Holmes becomes a media star. After a series of unexciting cases, the two are taken to Buckingham Palace , the official residence of the British monarch , where they are held by Holmes' brother Mycroft , who holds a high position in the British government and has a difficult relationship with his brother entrusted to a delicate matter of an anonymous client: The dominatrix Irene Adler , also known as "the woman", has compromising photos of herself and a person close to the client on her camera phone. Holmes deduces that the person is a member of the royal family . The two are assigned to retrieve the photos.

By disguising himself as an injured pastor , Holmes and Watson attempt to gain access to Adler's property. Adler, however, has already expected the two and appears completely naked, which is why Holmes is unable to deduce anything about them. After Watson secretly triggers the fire alarm, Adler reveals the whereabouts of the pictures through her gaze, a hidden safe . At the same time, agents of the CIA break into their property and force Holmes to open the safe. Holmes realizes that the combination of the safe are eagle's body measurements. He opens the safe, which is equipped with a trap that kills one of the agents; Holmes, along with Adler and Watson, overwhelms the remaining agents. He succeeds in taking the camera phone with the pictures; it is secured with a four-digit code and contains other valuable information. These do not serve eagles as a means of blackmail, but, as she says, as their protection. In a moment of inattention , Adler injects a sedative into Holmes and steals her cell phone. Holmes later wakes up in his bed and notices that Adler has brought back the coat he had lent her and personalized the SMS tone of his cell phone, which now emits an erotic moan with every text message from her .

Six months later, Adler notifies him that she has given him her cell phone. This leads Holmes to believe that she will be found dead. Her body, severely damaged in the face, is found a short time later and identified by Holmes in the morgue of St Bartholomew's Hospital . Some time later, Watson is taken to Battersea Power Station by Sherlock's brother's attractive assistant , where, to his surprise, he finds Irene Adler, who was just faking her death to shake off certain people who tried to kill her and that Camera phone to arrive. Holmes, who followed Watson, now returns to Baker Street , knowing about Adler's survival , where he meets the CIA agents who want to get on the cell phone and threaten his landlady Mrs. Hudson. Once again, Holmes succeeds in overpowering them. Adler later explains that she is still being hunted and asks Holmes if he can decipher a code she stole from a Defense Department official . Holmes, clearly trying to impress her, decodes the code as a flight number . Adler secretly texts her contact, Moriarty, the flight number, who in turn writes to Mycroft that he now knows about the plan of the Ministry of Defense: Terrorists are to be deceived by remote control of the plane they are planning to detonate and only taking off with bodies on board .

Adler tries to seduce Holmes while his feelings towards her are unclear. They are interrupted by officers taking Holmes to London Heathrow Airport . He remembers that Mycroft on the phone " Coventry had mentioned", and the rumor that the British Government had in World War II , the Coventry Blitz approved so as not to reveal that the encryption code of the German had been cracked by the English. His suspicion of a similar scenario is confirmed by Mycroft, who has joined him: As a solution to the “Coventry dilemma”, the American and British governments had decided to implement a “flight of the dead”: a plane full of corpses was supposed to take off and explode somewhere in the air. In this way, keeping their knowledge of the terrorists' plans would not have cost human lives, while the terrorists would have been convinced of the success of their plan.

By cracking the code for Irene Adler and thus unintentionally also for Moriarty, Holmes thwarted the deception.

Adler gives Mycroft a list of costly claims, including protection, in exchange for information on her cell phone that the lives of British citizens could depend on. Furthermore, she mocks Holmes and explains that he means nothing to her. However, he knows that she is lying because he took her pulse unnoticed in the seduction scene , which was elevated, and noticed dilated pupils , from which he deduces her love for him. He proves it to her by entering the combination that has now become clear to him into her cell phone: "SHER" (which can be read on the screen as "I am SHER-locked"). Since Adler no longer has any leverage, she begs for protection because it is unlikely to escape her hunters.

A few months later, Mycroft informs Watson that Adler was beheaded by terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan , but worried about his brother asks Sherlock to tell Sherlock that she was in a witness protection program and is now in America. Holmes seems to accept this but demands that John Adler's cell phone be used. After John leaves, a flashback reveals that Sherlock traveled to Pakistan , acted as Adler's executioner, and saved her.

Canon references

• The episode is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story A Scandal in Bohemia .
• There are numerous references to other stories such as: B. on The Greek Interpreter / The Greek Interpreter (with "The Geek Interpreter" / "Der Comic-Dolmetscher"), The Speckled Band / The fleckte Band (because "The Speckled Blonde" / "The fleckte Blonde" is a corpse with Rash), The Naval Treaty / The Fleet Contract (with "The Navel Treatment" / "The Navel Treatment"), The Illustrious Client / The illustrious client (Sherlock doesn't want anonymous orders), The Six Napoleons / The six Napoleons (with the Blog entry "The Six Thatchers "), The Engineer's Thumb / The Engineer's Thumb (Mrs. Hudson finds thumb in the fridge) or The Priory School / The Abbey School (the visitor faints when entering the apartment ).
• Sherlock is congratulated on the case of Die Aluminum-Krücke . Holmes mentioned this incident in The Musgrave Ritual .
• In The Sign of Four , Holmes mentions his treatise on 140 different types of tobacco ash. Sherlock blogged over 243 of them.
• The sentence "Without my Boswell I would be lost" has been changed to "Without my blogger I would be lost".
• One of Watson's blog entries is entitled "Sherlock Holmes Baffled", like the silent film that was released in 1900 , the first film portrayal of Holmes.
• Holmes is photographed wearing his typical deerstalker hat , with which he actually wants to protect himself from the press.
• The exclamation “Vatican cameos!” Refers to an untold story mentioned in The Hound of Baskerville , but in this episode it is more like “Get ready!” As a warning of the impending exchange of fire.
• The visitor counter on John's blog that stopped at 1895 is an allusion to the poem “221B” by Vincent Starrett , which with the lines “ Here, though the world explode these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five. “Ends.
• Watson reveals that his middle name is "Hamish," a popular belief.
• There are many parallels to the feature film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes , which is one of the favorite films of screenwriter Steven Moffat . However, this time Sherlock manages to save his love.

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Benedict Cumberbatch, who cannot play the violin , was coached by violinist Eos Chater . While the original soundtrack was recorded by Chater, Sherlock was supposed to be the perfect violin player. To accomplish this, Chater was present on set in a position that allowed her to coordinate her playing with Cumberbatch's movements, while Cumberbatch, in turn, could see her picking up the violin, holding it, and wielding the bow . In the Christmas scene she was standing on a lifting platform outside the window while he was able to imitate her inside.

The scenes in which Irene Adler met Holmes and Watson naked caused a sensation in the British press after the first broadcast by the BBC on January 1, 2012, as the BBC generally only broadcasts content suitable for children before 9:00 p.m.

The episode received 6 out of 6 points in the gong .

Publications

The episode, along with the other two from the second season, was released on both DVD and Blu-ray Disc . In addition, they contain audio commentary on this episode from Steven Moffat , Mark Gatiss , Sue Vertue , Benedict Cumberbatch and Lara Pulver .

Web links

• Sherlock - A Scandal in Belgravia in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ How I taught Sherlock Holmes to play the violin. In: The Guardian . January 4, 2012, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Sherlock and the case of nudity before 9pm: BBC under fire for raunchy pre-watershed scenes in adaptation of Conan Doyle classic. In: Daily Mail Online. January 3, 2012, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Sherlock nudity before the watershed shocks viewers. In: The Telegraph . January 3, 2012, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Decency and the TV watershed. In: BBC . Retrieved January 18, 2016 .