Sherlock - the empty coffin
| Episode of the Sherlock series | |
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| title | The empty coffin |
| Original title | The Empty Hearse |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Season 3, episode 1, 7th episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 1, 2014 on BBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 29, 2014 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Jeremy Lovering |
| script | Mark Gatiss |
| production | Sue Vertue |
| music |
David Arnold Michael Price |
| camera | Steve Lawes |
| cut | Charlie Phillips |
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The Empty Coffin (Original Title: The Empty Hearse ) is the first episode of the third season of the British television series Sherlock . The title comes from the original story The Empty House (original title: The Adventure of the Empty House ) and refers to the Sherlock fan club founded by Philip Anderson .
action
Two years after the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock is tracked down and tortured in Serbia. He is freed by his brother Mycroft and brought back to London to prevent a terrorist bomb attack. There are now a number of conspiracy theories that Sherlock is supposed to have survived, but his friends still think he is dead. Sherlock has excavated Moriarty's empire in the last two years and is looking forward to meeting John. However, he is deeply affected by the fact that Sherlock has not let him in on his plan and turns away from Sherlock.
John's fiancée Mary Morstan tries to persuade him to make up with Sherlock. However, John is kidnapped by strangers on the street and buried in a pile of wood for a bonfire. Just in time, Sherlock and Mary, guided by an encrypted SMS, can get to this bonfire and save John before it is ignited as part of Bonfire Night .
Sherlock and John investigate together to prevent an "underground terror network" attack. It turns out that (Engl. On a subway line underground , dt .: "underground") below the Parliament building a bomb is to be detonated while the British Parliament -terrorism law anti debated a new one. Sherlock and John discover the bomb in a subway car and defuse it. The person who commissioned the bombing is arrested, and Sherlock and John are celebrated as heroes. The last shot shows an old man watching a video again and again that shows Sherlock pulling John out of the bonfire.
Video publications
This episode was released together with the two other episodes of the third season on June 10, 2014 in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc .
Canon references
- As in “The Empty House”, Sherlock approaches John in disguise and suddenly reveals himself. Like the old man, he came to Watson's office disguised as a bookseller and offered him 3 books with similar titles for sale.
- Sherlock describes that one of 13 scenarios was to escape using a Japanese wrestling technique. In “The Empty House” Holmes tells that he fought against Moriarty with “ Bartitsu ”. A poster showing this technique hung in Sherlock's room in A Scandal In Belgravia.
- The episode with the client playing a friend to his stepdaughter in order to keep her from marrying due to the disappointment of this relationship and to continue to profit from her income, comes from the original story "A case of Identity" / " A question of identity ".
- Shortly before her supposed death, John calls Sherlock the "best and brightest person he has ever known". Watson refers to Holmes with the last sentence in his obituary in "The Final Problem" / " The Last Problem ".
- As in “The Greek Interpreter” / “The Greek Interpreter”, Sherlock and Mycroft carry out a joint deduction. Holmes Watson demonstrates the deduction on a hat about its owner in “The Blue Carbuncle”.
Trivia
- The plan to blow up the parliament building goes back to Guy Fawkes' conspirators with their Gunpowder Plot , which is commemorated by the Bonfire Night that also occurs.
- The subway car with the bomb inside it in an abandoned subway station is a reference to V for Vendetta .
- The subway cars (tube) moving in the surveillance video do not correspond to the type of the subway cars (sub-surface) shown later, which were prepared with bombs.
- At times, Sherlock and Molly are accompanied by a female assistant.
- In Anderson's first attempt at explaining how Sherlock could possibly have survived, the mentalist Derren Brown plays himself for a short time: He “stuns” John to cover the dissection of a fake corpse. Lestrade thinks this idea is utter nonsense.
Web links
- Sherlock - The empty coffin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Third season "Sherlock" on Blu-ray. Entertainment portal digitalfernsehen.de, June 5, 2014, accessed on June 6, 2014 .