Sherlock - The Reichenbach Falls
| Episode of the Sherlock series | |
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| title | The Reichenbach Falls |
| Original title | The Reichenbach Fall |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Season 2, episode 3 6th episode in total ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 15, 2012 on BBC One |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 28, 2012 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Toby Haynes |
| script | Stephen Thompson |
| production | Elaine Cameron |
| music |
David Arnold , Michael Price |
| camera | Fabian Wagner |
| cut | Tim Porter |
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The Reichenbachfall (original title: The Reichenbach Fall ) is the sixth episode from the British television series Sherlock and the last of the second season. The first broadcast took place on January 15, 2012 on the BBC , the German premiere was on May 28, 2012 in Das Erste .
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John Watson seeks out his therapist because he cannot cope with the death of his friend Sherlock Holmes . The real story is then told in a flashback . Grateful clients are shown for whom Holmes had solved cases, as a result of which he had gained unwanted attention in the media, for example by finding Turner's painting The Reichenbachfall .
James Moriarty triggers the alarm in the Tower of London to get to the British Crown Jewels , at the same time opens the Bank of England vault on his cell phone and unlocks all cells in Pentonville Prison . Before he smashes the protective window of the showcase with the crown jewels, he writes the words "Get Sherlock" on it, which is recorded by the surveillance camera. Sitting on the throne and hung with the jewels, he allows himself to be arrested. Sherlock is set to testify in the Moriarty trial. Although he describes Moriarty as a criminal mastermind and who deliberately does not cite any evidence in his defense, Moriarty is acquitted because he blackmailed the jury by threatening their families with violence. After his acquittal, he visits Sherlock and threatens him with the words "I owe it to you".
Sherlock and John Watson are investigating the kidnapping of the British ambassador's two children to the United States . The kidnapping of the boarding school children is part of a Moriarty plot. He's trying to make people believe that Sherlock orchestrated all of his cases himself. Moriarty has so traumatized the kidnapped daughter of the ambassador that she panics at the sight of Sherlock. Sergeant Donovan, an employee of Sherlock's confidante at Scotland Yard , Detective Inspector Lestrade , suspects Sherlock and wants to arrest him. Sherlock escapes, however, with John as a "hostage", as both are handcuffed to each other. They find out that Moriarty wants to incite the criminal underworld on him with "Get Sherlock" by making the criminals believe that Sherlock has a computer code with which one can bypass all security systems.
Sherlock and John break into the house of a journalist who has published an exposé about Sherlock. There they meet the journalist and then Moriarty, who has a fake identity as Richard Brook (or Rich Brook, "Reichen Bach" in German ). Moriarty plays as Brook an actor whom Sherlock allegedly paid to play the character Moriarty in order to appear as a master detective. Sherlock's image is further damaged by the false media reports, and so he starts a final move. Sherlock leaves John alone to visit Molly at the morgue and ask for help. John goes to the Diogenes Club to see Sherlock's brother Mycroft because he is sure that Moriarty received the details of Sherlock's life from Mycroft, which he admits. Sherlock now believes that Moriarty gave him the computer code by tapping with his fingers during his previous visit and thus hiding it in his head.
John finds Sherlock in the laboratory at St Bartholomew's Hospital , but leaves after hearing that Mrs. Hudson, their landlady, has been shot. Sherlock texts Moriarty to meet him on the roof of the hospital to solve the "final problem". Sherlock claims that the code can now also electronically erase Richard Brook and reveal Moriarty's true identity. Moriarty reveals that there was never a code and that he only bribed the security guards at the tower. Sherlock would now have to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of the house, or Moriarty's snipers would kill John, Mrs. Hudson and Lestrade. Sherlock realizes that only Moriarty can call off the kills with an order. When Sherlock can suggest to Moriarty that he is ready to do anything to elicit this order from him, thereby convincing Moriarty that they are equal, Moriarty commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. Since Moriarty can no longer revoke the order to kill, Sherlock must come to death in public. The news of his suicide was the signal to the snipers that they were leaving Sherlock's closest confidante alive.
John has since found Mrs. Hudson unharmed, found out that the news that she had been shot was a diversion, and is on his way to the hospital. When Sherlock sees John, he explains over the phone that the phone call is his "suicide note" and that Moriarty's and the media's claim that he was always a fraud was true. He tells John to keep an eye on him while he's about to jump off the roof of the hospital. Sherlock jumps in front of the horrified eyes of John, who wants to rush to him, but falls to the ground by a cyclist. Still completely dazed from the fall, he stumbles to his friend lying on the sidewalk, but cannot get to him because a large group of hospital staff surround him. John sees Sherlock being taken inside the hospital on a trolley.
The episode returns to John's therapy session during which he was unable to speak. Mycroft is shown reading the tabloid The Sun , which has the front page headline "False Genius Commits Suicide". John later visits Sherlock's grave with Mrs. Hudson. Inconsolably, he confirms his belief in Sherlock and asks him not to be dead. After John has left, you can see Sherlock standing behind a tombstone.
Canon references
- In the conversations between Holmes and Moriarty, the latter mentions "the final problem". This refers to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Final Problem .
- Moriarty's break-in and the trial are reminiscent of the movie The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes .
- Watson is called by a phone call to Mrs. Hudson, who was allegedly shot. In The Last Problem , a messenger calls him away because a woman from his hostel is seriously ill and wants an English doctor.
- Holmes jumps off the roof of St Bartholomew's after Moriarty shot himself. In The Last Problem , both plunge into the depths at the Reichenbach Falls .
Publications
This episode, together with the two other episodes of the second season, was released on May 29, 2012 in Germany on both DVD and Blu-ray Disc .
Web links
- Sherlock - The Reichenbach Falls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ William Turner: The Reichenbach Falls. Illustration
- ↑ Sherlock: The Reichenbach Falls. In: Moviepilot . Retrieved January 18, 2016 .