Sherlock - The lying detective
| Episode of the Sherlock series | |
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| title | The lying detective |
| Original title | The Lying Detective |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Season 4, episode 2 12th episode in total ( list ) |
| First broadcast | Jan 8th 2017 (UK) on BBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 5, 2017 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Nick Hurran |
| script | Steven Moffat |
| production | Sue Vertue |
| music |
David Arnold Michael Price |
| camera | Neville Kidd |
| cut | Yan Miles |
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The lying detective (original title: The Lying Detective ) is the second episode of the fourth season of the British television series Sherlock . The first broadcast was on January 8, 2017 on the BBC , the German-language premiere took place on June 5, 2017 on Das Erste .
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Sherlock stays away from John Watson, who is still mourning after Mary's death. John, who has a new psychotherapist, keeps it to himself that he is hallucinating conversations with Mary. Culverton Smith, a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, gathers colleagues and his daughter Faith to confess that he is going to murder someone. But before he does, he forces them to take a medicated serum that inhibits memory, which prevents them from recalling his confession later. Nonetheless, Faith is able to vaguely remember a few things shortly afterwards, and notes her memories on a piece of paper. With this she comes to Sherlock and asks him for help. Since this case is too common for him, he refers her to Scotland Yard, but runs after her shortly afterwards to prevent her from suicide . They walk through the city together. Meanwhile, Mycroft tracks Sherlock's unusual movement around town. The next morning, Sherlock decides to take on Faith's case after all; For a short time, however, he is delirious from drugs, and Faith has disappeared after he wakes up. Sherlock finds out now with the help of his " memory palace " that Culverton Smith is a serial killer .
Sherlock becomes obsessed with Culverton Smith, but Mrs. Hudson can stop his crazy antics as a result of his drug use. Mrs. Hudson then drives Sherlock to John's session with the therapist in the trunk of her Aston Martin sports car because she thinks Sherlock needs John. To John's shock and annoyance, the arrival of Ms. Hudson with Sherlock in a Smith-sent car and Molly Hooper in an ambulance had been prepared by Sherlock two weeks earlier - a week before John even made a therapy appointment.
Sherlock and John arrive at a studio to meet with Culverton Smith. When Smith takes her to visit the new hospital wing, for which he was a major donor and therefore named after him, he subtly implied being a serial killer while hanging out with a group of children in the hospital. Smith then leads Sherlock and John through the hospital to his favorite room, the morgue . Sherlock tries to elicit a confession from Smith by using Faith, whom he had summoned as leverage, but when she appears, he realizes that the woman who came to his apartment days earlier was not Faith. Frustrated and drugged, Sherlock tries to attack Smith with a scalpel, but John stops him and beats Sherlock out of anger over Sherlock's behavior and Mary's death.
Sherlock then remains as a patient in Smith's hospital, and Smith secretly visits him through a secret passage in his locked room. Sherlock tells Culverton Smith that he wants to be killed by this, even though Sherlock actually doesn't want to die. Sherlock does not tell Culverton Smith that he only got himself into this predicament because Mary said in the video message from The Six Thatchers that the only way to save John is to let John save himself. After discovering and seeing this video message in Sherlock's apartment, John drives to the hospital and at the last moment is able to save Sherlock from Culverton Smith, who tries to suffocate him. Smith believes there is nothing to prove to him, so he is all the more surprised when Sherlock reveals that his action was recorded by a hidden camera in John's walking stick, which John had previously left behind.
John reconciles with Sherlock by telling him that he is no longer responsible for Mary's death and confesses to Mary (whom he still hallucinates about) that he was writing with another woman next to her. John goes to his therapist again. She reveals to him that she played both Faith (the one Sherlock had met) and John's girlfriend on the bus. She tells him her true identity - Eurus, Sherlocks and Mycrofts secret sister. When John tries to leave, she draws a gun, points it at John, and pulls the trigger.
Broadcasting, DVD Releases, and Rating
The episode aired on both BBC One and PBS on the evening of January 8, 2017 . In England, the episode was seen by 6 million viewers on the day of its appearance. In total, they have seen 9.53 million viewers so far. The episode had its first German premiere on June 5, 2017 and achieved a market share of 11.8% (2.97 million viewers).
At IMDb, the episode received 9.3 out of 10 points, which corresponds to a very good rating, otherwise the reviews were mixed to positive.
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 fourth season soundtrack was released 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.
Awards
For his portrayal of Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2018 for Best Actor in a Television Movie or Mini- Series.
Canon references
- The episode is based on the story The Detective on the Deathbed by Arthur Conan Doyle .
Trivia
- Mark Gatiss explained in an interview that years before the episode started shooting, a third sibling was discussed, but initially only as a joke. In the end, however, the Holmes sister was revealed in this episode.
- The repeatedly expressed thesis that one can foresee the future if one only knows enough facts corresponds to the thesis of the Laplace demon
- Sherlock mentions the case of an orangutan as the perpetrator. This goes back to the short story The Double Murder on Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe .
- The 9th Symphony of Beethoven is played repeatedly.
- Multiple allusions and the antagonist Culverton Smith, who has a hospital built according to his ideas (with secret doors), are allusions to the serial killer HH Holmes .
Web links
- BBC page on The Lying Detective
- Sherlock - The lügende detective in the Internet Movie Database (English)