Sherlock - The final problem
| Episode of the Sherlock series | |
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| title | The last problem |
| Original title | The final problem |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Season 4, episode 3 13th episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | Jan 15, 2017 on BBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 11, 2017 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Benjamin Caron |
| script |
Mark Gatiss Steven Moffat |
| production | Sue Vertue |
| music |
David Arnold Michael Price |
| camera | David Luther |
| cut | Yan Miles |
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| synchronization | |
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The last problem (original title: The Final Problem ) is the third episode of the fourth season of the British television series Sherlock . The first broadcast was on January 15, 2017 on the BBC , the German-language premiere took place on June 11, 2017 on Das Erste .
action
A young girl wakes up on an airplane and is deeply concerned that everyone on board except her is unconscious. When a passenger's cell phone rings and she picks up the phone to ask for help, a male voice replies, "Hello, my name is Jim Moriarty, welcome to the last problem."
Mycroft is enjoying a vintage movie in the private cinema of his home. Suddenly the footage is disrupted by footage from his childhood and the ominous message “I'M BACK” before the film roll ends. He tries to leave, but finds the main door locked. Here are a few more effects that lead Mycroft to believe that his sister Eurus was behind all of this. When Mycroft panics, it finally turns out that it was all a trick by Sherlock and John to get Mycroft to tell stories about the secret third Holmes child, his and Sherlock's sister, as John thought Mycroft did not provide the information voluntarily would have given.
Back on Baker Street , Mycroft, as Sherlock's client, tells us that Eurus is the most intelligent of all the Holmes children, but also the most dangerous. Although Sherlock has no memory of Eurus, Mycroft tells him that every action and decision that Sherlock defines is based on Sherlock's memories of Eurus. Mycroft tells him about Eurus' childhood in Musgrave, where she lived at the time, and about her strange urge to explore. It turns out that she killed Redbart, a dog Sherlock owned when he was a child. After setting fire to her parents' home, she was given away. Sherlock and his parents were told that she perished in another fire. In reality, however, she was taken to the Sherrinford security facility , where she solves cases for the secret service and accurately predicts attacks based on a few clues. When Mycroft finishes his story, Eurus can be heard singing in Sherlock's apartment and a drone with a bomb on it flies into the room. This is triggered by movement, but only after three seconds. So Sherlock, John and Mycroft jump out of the window or run down the stairs so that they are safe during the explosion.
At sea, Sherlock and John are dropped off by a helicopter on a fishing boat, which they capture and drive to Sherrinford . Meanwhile, Mycroft is reported to have been rushed to hospital, seriously injured in the Baker Street explosion, with little hope of recovery. The boat captain and his assistant are found handcuffed by Sherrinford security officers on a nearby beach on the island. Next to them is a note written in the sand for Eurus. A fake captain and John are arrested because the chief of security believes he has seen through the fake captain's disguise and captured John and Sherlock. He gives a security card to a guard to check Eurus' whereabouts. The captain then removes his mask and it turns out that it was actually Mycroft who was hiding underneath and that the man who received the security card was Sherlock.
Disguised in this way, Sherlock sneaks past the guards and can visit Eurus. After she got Sherlock to step closer to the armored glass pane of her prison to tell him how she escaped, he realizes that there was never a pane there. Meanwhile, Mycroft is reviewing tapes of psychiatric sessions made without his consent; he had banned them because he knew about Eurus' ability to manipulate people. The head of security was also under Eurus' influence and therefore sounded the alarm. Mycroft, John and Sherlock are captured by guards. Before John is knocked down, he sees a picture of Moriarty's face on a screen that says "Did you miss me?"
In a flashback to Christmas five years ago, a helicopter flies to Sherrinford with Moriarty on board - on Mycroft's orders: Mycroft granted Eurus the Christmas wish to have an unsupervised five-minute conversation with Moriarty. During this time she had him record some audio and video sequences, e.g. B. the answer to the girl's question on the phone on the plane. Later, John wakes up with Sherlock, Mycroft and the head of security in a Sherrinford prison cell , what looks like old Eurus. They speak briefly to the girl from the plane before Eurus, who is communicating with them on a television, ends the connection. Sherlock then has to solve various puzzles in different rooms in order to prevent people from being harmed. However, this cannot always be prevented. For example, the security leader perishes. When Sherlock is supposed to decide whether to shoot Mycroft or John, he threatens Eurus to shoot himself and end their game. Before Sherlock can put his words into practice, tranquilizer arrows shoot out of the wall and Sherlock, John and Mycroft are taken away from Sherrinford .
Sherlock wakes up hours later in a cell with pictures on the walls. He is re-connected to the girl from the plane and then to John, who is chained in a well. Eurus gives Sherlock the task of solving his very first case, the Musgrave Ritual , in order to save John. At the same time, she describes this case as his “last problem”. At the same time as solving this case, Sherlock instructs the girl to land the plane, with which he decrypts the message of the cryptic song of Eurus. She explains to him that Red Beard cannot be a dog because her father is allergic to dogs. Redbeard is actually the nickname of his childhood best friend, Victor Trevor. Sherlock tried to replace the death of his friend with that of a dog to make the loss more bearable. At the same time John finds the bones of a child in the well. Sherlock realizes that the girl on the plane, which was a metaphor for her memory palace, is his sister Eurus, who calls for help out of loneliness. Sherlock gives her the love she wants, which she never received in her childhood. And he promises her to play with her, since no other children wanted to play with Eurus before. Then she reveals where John is and he is finally saved. Mycroft is found unharmed in Eurus' former cell in Sherrinford .
Eurus is then transferred back to Sherrinford . The Holmes brothers explain to their parents that Eurus is in a catatonic state and does not want to speak. Sherlock visits her in Sherrinford and keeps his promise by playing the violin with her. Upon his return, Sherlock and John are renovating his apartment on Baker Street . John receives an anonymous CD entitled "MISS YOU", which he watches with Sherlock. On it, his late wife, Mary, speaks a kind of epilogue to the television series in which she encourages the two to continue solving cases and going on adventures together.
production
The footage from the maximum security Sherrinford prison was filmed on St Catherine's Island , which is part of Tenby in Wales .
Leak
The Russian version of the episode was leaked a day before the official premiere. In response, the Sherlock makers urged fans under the hashtag #KeepMeSpoilerFree not to redistribute the episode and to keep the Internet free of spoilers.
Broadcasting, DVD Releases, and Rating
A pre-premiere of the episode took place on January 12, 2017 with a subsequent interview with Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and other people involved in the series at the British Film Institute . On the evening of January 15, 2017, the official first broadcast took place on both BBC One and PBS . The original version has since been viewed on Amazon Video , iTunes and Netflix . The episode was broadcast on June 11, 2017 on Das Erste , where it achieved a market share of 10.8% (2.56 million viewers).
In England the episode was seen by 5.9 million viewers on the day of its appearance. In addition to being broadcast on TV, the episode was shown in various cinemas in the UK and Ireland on the evening of January 15, and in over 350 US theaters on January 16 and 18, 2017, with an additional 15 minute documentary about Amanda Abbington on the Sherlock set called The Adventures of Mary Morstan .
The episode received mixed reviews. At IMDb, for example, she achieved a very good score of 8.5 out of 10, while various newspapers criticized it.
The episode was released (along with the other two episodes) on January 23, 2017 as a 2-disc set on both DVD and Blu-ray with original English sound. The release of the soundtrack for the fourth season followed on January 27, 2017. On June 12, 2017, the German-language version of Polyband was also released as a 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-ray.
Canon references
- The next title is based on the title of the story The Last Problem .
- It includes elements from The Musgrave Ritual and The Three Garridebs .
- In the Sherlock Holmes story The Gloria Scott , the college friend Victor Trevor appears, who appears here as Sherlock's first play friend.
- Several other cases are suggested at the end of the episode and there is an allusion to the story The Dancing Men .
Trivia
- In the flashback scene with Moriarty, the song I Want To Break Free is played by Queen .
- Mrs. Hudson heard the song while vacuuming The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden .
- In the final scene, Sherlock and John run out of a building that has a sign that says Rathbone Place on it. This is a reference to actor Basil Rathbone , who played Sherlock Holmes in several films in the 1940s.
- The final words of Mary's video message at the end of the episode are based on the final words in the story The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle .
- Sherrinford Holmes was the first name Arthur Conan Doyle came up with for his detective.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Benjamin Caron: The Final Problem. January 15, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
- ↑ The truth behind Sherlock's Sherrinford is finally revealed. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .