Sherlock - A case of pink
| Episode of the Sherlock series | |
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| title | A case of pink |
| Original title | A Study in Pink |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Season 1, Episode 1 1st episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | July 25, 2010 on BBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
July 24, 2011 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Paul McGuigan |
| script | Steven Moffat |
| production | Sue Vertue |
| music |
David Arnold , Michael Price |
| camera | Steve Lawes |
| cut | Charlie Phillips |
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A Fall of Pink (Original title: A Study in Pink ) is the first episode of the British television series Sherlock . The first broadcast was on July 25, 2010 on the BBC , the German premiere was on July 24, 2011 on Das Erste . The German dubbed version had previously premiered on May 26, 2011 at the “Großer Fernsehen” in Cologne's Cinedom .
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The military doctor, who has just returned to London from the Afghan war , Dr. John Watson , who was wounded during his mission, met the somewhat eccentric private detective Sherlock Holmes through their mutual acquaintance Mike Stamford . Since Watson wants to share an apartment for financial reasons, he quickly moves in with Holmes, who has already rented space at 221B Baker Street through the landlady Mrs. Hudson.
There has been a curious series of deaths, related suicides as suggested by Detective Inspector Lestrade . Holmes is brought to the latest crime scene, where the body of a predominantly pink woman was found. He deduces that the woman had an unhappy marriage and committed adultery frequently. Unlike the other victims, however, she left a message by carving the word "vengeance" into the ground. Contrary to the advice of forensic scientist Anderson that the woman was from Germany and ultimately only wanted to swear revenge, Holmes suspects that she wanted to write the name "Rachel" and died before she could complete her work. He also discovers mud stains on the woman's leg from a suitcase and concludes that she is not from the city. Since no suitcase was found by the police, Holmes goes on a search himself, only to find it later in a nearby backyard.
Meanwhile, Watson receives a call from a public phone box and is taken to an empty warehouse. There he meets a man who introduces himself as Holmes' "archenemy". The stranger offers Watson money to provide him with information about Holmes' activities, but Watson refuses. When he returns to Baker Street , Holmes asks him to send a message from his cell phone to the fourth victim's cell phone. Holmes suspects that the killer is in possession of this one. As expected, Holmes notices a taxi in a restaurant and runs after it. With his extensive knowledge of the London map, the layout of the streets and special restrictions on the way, he and Watson manage to overtake the taxi on foot. When they finally stop, however, they only find one tourist who has just arrived from America and who could not have committed the murder.
Since Lestrade already suspected that Holmes would find the missing suitcase, he carried out a drug raid on Holmes' apartment in order to force the detective to work together when the two roommates arrived there. Holmes concludes that "Rachel" is the password for the victim's e-mail address, which he finds on the luggage tag of the suitcase that his cell phone slipped under the perpetrator so that he could be found by radio direction finding over the cellular network. While Mrs. Hudson tells Holmes that a taxi is waiting for him at the door, Watson sees the cell phone signal coming from 221B Baker Street. Holmes leaves the apartment and realizes that the taxi driver is the killer. His curiosity about the course of events and the murderer's motivation leads Holmes to get into the waiting taxi. The taxi driver, Jeff Hope, confesses to the murders and pokes Holmes' interest by saying that he would not kill his victims, but instead talk to them so that they would then kill themselves. He drives Holmes to a school building that is only frequented by the cleaning crew in the evening and is otherwise open. In one of the rooms, the taxi driver pulls out a pistol and two vials of pills and claims that one vial contains a harmless pill and the other a fatal pill. His victims always chose the deadly bottle. Holmes realizes that the taxi driver is terminally ill. He admits this and adds that for each of his murders he is sponsored by a "Holmes fan" in order to support his children financially after his death. Holmes sees through that the gun at gunpoint is just a lighter and is about to leave when the taxi driver challenges him and asks if he had chosen the right pill.
Meanwhile, Watson is able to track down Holmes' whereabouts and sets out to find him. After searching a building, he sees through the window how Holmes tries to swallow a pill in the opposite building and shoots the taxi driver in order to then flee. Holmes wants to know from the dying taxi driver whether he had chosen the right pill. Although he leaves this question open, he reveals the name of his mysterious sponsor: Moriarty under the pain inflicted on him .
After Scotland Yard arrives and investigates the crime scene, Holmes concludes that it was Watson who fired the shot at the taxi driver. As they leave, they come across the mysterious stranger who had previously offered Watson money for spying on Holmes. It turns out that the man is Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft , a man in the service of the British government. After the two leave the scene, Mycroft instructs his assistant, Anthea, to raise Sherlock Holmes and John Watson's surveillance levels.
Notes and special features
Before the actual series went into production, a 60-minute pilot version of this episode was produced. This was never broadcast on television, but is included as a bonus in the German DVD and Blu-ray collection box for seasons 1 to 3.
Canon references
- Like his literary role model, John is a retired military doctor. Both had just returned from a mission in Afghanistan shortly before their first meeting with Sherlock Holmes , which was actually taking place there at the time of their respective creation.
- The first meeting between Sherlock and John, as well as the resolution of the case, are strongly influenced by A Study in Scarlet .
- 'Vengeance' does not mean the German 'Vengeance' - as Scotland Yard suspects - but is an unfinished 'Rachel'. In the story A Study in Scarlet Red it is the other way around: Scotland Yard suspects the name Rachel behind the writing, while Holmes proves knowledge of a foreign language and assumes the German "Vengeance".
- The deductions on John's cell phone can be found in The Sign of the Four identical on Watson's watch.
- The second victim, James Phillimore, passed away while on the way to get an umbrella. In The Riddle of the Thor Bridge , Watson tells of a man of the same name who went home to get an umbrella and then disappeared without a trace.
- Sherlock pinned some pieces of paper to the mantelpiece with a knife.
- Mrs. Hudson's neighbor Marie Turner has the same name as Holmes' housekeeper from A Scandal in Bohemia .
- The text messages that John receives during the conversation with Mycroft are literally in a telegram from The Man with the Crouched Gait .
- After returning from Afghanistan, John has an injury to his leg, but it is only psychosomatic . Towards the end of the episode, however, he mentions that he actually got a bullet there, in the shoulder. This points to Watson's war wound, which according to A Study in scarlet red is in the shoulder but in later stories it is in the leg.
- In The Redheads League , Holmes describes a complex problem as the "three-pipe problem". The new Sherlock has given up smoking and switched to nicotine patches . Therefore, in this episode, he speaks of a "three-plaster problem".
- A 'good' and a 'bad' pill also appear in a study in scarlet red .
Publications
The episode, along with the other two from the first season, was released on both DVD and Blu-ray Disc . In addition, they contain an audio commentary on this episode by Steven Moffat , Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue .
Web links
- Sherlock - A Case of Pink in the Internet Movie Database (English)