Sherlock - The Dogs of Baskerville
| Episode of the Sherlock series | |
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| title | The Baskerville dogs |
| Original title | The Hounds of Baskerville |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Season 2, episode 2 5th episode in total ( list ) |
| First broadcast | Jan 8, 2012 on BBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 27, 2012 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Paul McGuigan |
| script | Mark Gatiss |
| production | Sue Vertue |
| music |
David Arnold , Michael Price |
| camera | Fabian Wagner |
| cut | Charlie Phillips |
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The Hounds of Baskerville (original title: The Hounds of Baskerville ) is the fifth episode of the British television series Sherlock and the second of the second season. The episode was first broadcast on January 8, 2012 by the BBC , the German premiere was on May 27, 2012 on Das Erste .
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Sherlock Holmes is plagued by boredom. With nicotine withdrawal and without a new case, he slowly begins to despair when the young, traumatized Henry Knight asks for his help. Henry saw his father killed by a gigantic, monstrous dog in swampy Dartmoor twenty years ago as a young boy . The body was never found. Since none of the residents believe him and they make fun of him instead, Henry now wants Sherlock to solve the case. However, Holmes also doubts his credibility and suspects that Henry has just talked himself into the story over the years. When Henry uses an unusual term (" hound "), Sherlock suddenly becomes suspicious and takes over the case.
Together with John Watson he travels to the barren, rural Dartmoor. Near the area is the Baskerville military base , where the residents of the village suspect secret genetic experiments. While Holmes and Watson look around the landscape, Henry begins a consultation with his therapist Dr. To remind Mortimer of the words "Liberty In", but neither he nor Dr. Mortimer understand a connection to the crime.
After Sherlock and John found out from the owners Gary and Billy in a restaurant in the village that what they consider to be the ridiculous story of Henry is boosting tourism in the village and that they are in a way grateful to him, they learn from the tourist guide Fletcher that he is claims to have seen the monstrous dog recently.
Holmes and Watson go to Baskerville to find out what the secret genetic experiments are all about. To gain entry, Sherlock pretends to be his brother Mycroft , who has a stolen ID with him. During their "inspection", which they use as a pretext for appearing, the two of them meet employee Dr. Frankland, who was a good friend of Henry's father. When Major Barrymore, head of the base, shows up and it is noticed that the ID is not valid, Sherlock and John's plan is threatened. Only with the help of Dr. Frankland, who speaks to Sherlock as Mycroft and pretends to have recently met him at a conference in Vienna , they can go unhindered. Outside the labs, Dr. Frankland that he recognized Sherlock and John the same way. When he learns from them that it is about Henry Knight, he offers them to help as much as possible. Then Holmes and Watson drive to Henry Knight's house. Sherlock plans that as soon as it gets dark he, John, and Henry go out to Dartmoor to see if the giant dog shows up.
While they are on the way, John notices that on a hill not far away, Morse code is being given that form the letters UMQRA. Meanwhile, Sherlock and Henry have come to the point where Henry's father was killed. Suddenly they hear a loud yowl and see the huge dog. They run away in fear. When Henry excitedly tells John what they saw, Sherlock denies having met the dog.
After Watson brings Henry home, he meets Sherlock in a pub. John continues to believe that Henry is only imagining it, but Holmes now also admits to having seen the dog. Sherlock then begins to doubt himself for the first time in his life, because he simply cannot believe what he has seen and feels great fear. During their conversation, Holmes and Watson start arguing, whereupon Sherlock says furiously that he has no friends. Disappointed with Holmes, John goes to the hill from which the Morse code is being sent. However, it turns out that only people meet there for dogging and the lights come from the headlights of their cars. Back at the restaurant, John Henry's therapist Dr. Mortimer know, but pretends to be Henry's old friend to get information about Knight. But when Dr. Frankland discovered him and Dr. Mortimer ignorantly explains that Watson and Sherlock are private investigators , she leaves without giving him any further information.
The next morning Sherlock apologizes to John and says that he has no friends, only one, and that is him. At the same time he notices that “Hound” may not be a word, but an abbreviation made up of several words and therefore “HOUND” is written. Also, he now believes the dog was just their imagination, as they were probably being given a drug.
At Gary and Billy's restaurant they meet Detective Inspector Lestrade , who says he is on vacation in the village. However, Sherlock suspects that Mycroft sent him because he wanted to know what Sherlock was doing with the ID he stole. When John accidentally reads one of the restaurant's order slips that says that meat has been ordered, they become suspicious, because the restaurant is vegetarian . When questioned by Lestrade, the two owners admit that they had only recently had a dog with which they wanted to scare Henry Knight and thereby ensure that it continues to spread the story of the monstrous dog and that tourism continues to grow. However, the dog could no longer be kept under control, which is why he had to be euthanized .
Sherlock is convinced that the dog appearance is due to drugs used in chemical warfare , and to investigate the mode of action, he drives John once more to Baskerville. While Sherlock is talking to Major Barrymore, John goes into the room where the animals are locked. When he notices that a cage has been broken into, he wants to leave the laboratory again, but the electrically secured door does not open and the lights go out. Locked up alone, he sees the huge dog in the room. He runs into an open cage and locks himself in it. Fearfully, he calls Holmes who tells him that he will be there soon. When the dog approaches the cage, the light suddenly comes on again and Sherlock opens the gate. He explains to John that he has just been drugged and that he just imagined the dog. Sherlock suspects the drug to be in Henry Knight's sugar. With the help of the laboratory employee Dr. Stapleton examines Sherlock's sugar, but no such substances are found in it. Angry that he was wrong, Holmes sends Watson and Dr. Stapleton out of the room to concentrate better and find out what the words "Liberty" and "In" mean, which combine in his head to "HOUND, Liberty, Indiana ". Through computer research, he came across the secret research project "HOUND", in which a group of scientists produced a substance that causes anxiety and delusions . Dr. Frankland involved.
At the same time, Henry Knight had a consultation with Dr. Mortimer delusions and shoots her as he thinks the therapist is the dog. However, he just misses it. Back in his senses, Henry runs away, frightened. Dr. Mortimer calls John and tells him what happened. Sherlock suspects Henry is going where it all started for him, the Dartmoor. They go there as quickly as they can and call Lestrade to come to their aid.
Once in Dartmoor, desperate Henry wants to shoot himself, but Sherlock and John stop him. Holmes explains to him that at the time he did not see a dog kill his father, but a man, Dr. Frankland. Suddenly there is a loud bark and the dog comes up to them. Sherlock notices that it was not the sugar in the coffee that triggered the delusions, but the fog around them. Watson and Lestrade shoot the beast, which was really just Gary and Billy's dog, which the two had released because they couldn't have the heart to put him to sleep. Suddenly Dr. Frankland emerges and is overwhelmed by Holmes. Frankland was discovered by Knight's father during his experiments in the forest and then murdered him, while Henry, hidden behind a tree, had to watch everything.
While Holmes confronts the doctor with his deed, the dog gets up again before he is finally shot. Frankland uses this confusion to escape. However, on his escape, he runs across a minefield that extends around Baskerville. When Frankland steps on a mine , he stops in despair. When his pursuers catch up, he triggers the ignition mechanism by taking his foot off the mine.
The next morning Sherlock and John want to go back to London . During breakfast, John wonders how the drug got into his body since he wasn't anywhere near the mist when Sherlock and Henry first saw the dog. Sherlock confesses that he assumed the drug was in the sugar and had done a lab to see how the drug affected John. Sherlock admits that he was wrong in assuming it was the sugar, but had no idea at the time that John had already been exposed to the gaseous drug.
In the last scene you see Moriarty locked in a small cell. The door opens and Mycroft enters the room with orders to let him go. Moriarty has covered the walls with one and the same word: "Sherlock".
DVD publications
This episode was released together with the two other episodes of the second season on May 29, 2012 in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc .
Canon references
- The story is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of Baskerville .
- The opening scene in which Holmes appears with a bloody harpoon comes from the case of The Black Peter .
- The scene in which Holmes tries to obtain information by pretending to a tourist guide (in whose pocket he discovered a horse racing newspaper ) an alleged bet with Watson for 50 pounds comes almost exactly from the canon case The Blue Carbuncle .
- In the novel The Hound of Baskerville , a character is called Sir Henry Baskerville, while Sherlock's client here is named Henry Knight ("Sir" is the addition to the name for holders of the British nobility " Knight "). This is how the country doctor Dr. Mortimer here the therapist of the same name, from whom natural scientist Dr. Stapleton holds a doctorate in science and from the butler Barrymore the equally opaque Major Barrymore, who like the character from the novel also has a beard (despite being a member of the military).
- The hallucinogenic mist goes back to the case of The Devil's Foot .
- Sherlock tells Inspector Lestrade he's brown as a nut . Watson heard the same thing from his friend Stamford in A Study in Scarlet .
Web links
- Sherlock - The Hounds of Baskerville in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sherlock: The Reichenbach Falls. In: Moviepilot . Retrieved January 18, 2016 .