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A Study in Pink
(Sherlock: Season 1, Episode 1) Directed by: Paul McGuigan Screenplay by: Steven Moffat Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch Martin Freeman Rupert Graves Una Stubbs Release Date: October 24, 2010 IMDB Storyline: Wounded in Afghanistan while in the Army, Dr. John Watson returns to contemporary London and, through a mutual acquaintance, becomes a flatmate at Mrs. Hudson's 221B Baker Street apartment with brilliant if eccentric private investigator Sherlock Holmes. There have been three identical apparent suicides, and Inspector Lestrade asks for Sherlock's intervention over the fourth, the suspicious death of Jennifer Wilson. As she lay dying she wrote 'Rache' upon the floor and Sherlock deduces that this is not just the incomplete name of her stillborn daughter "Rachel" of many years earlier but the password of her mobile phone. This leads Sherlock to confront a terminally ill serial killer who slays people, in part, to show superiority over the rest of society, and who is determined to make Sherlock his next victim. |
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The Blind Banker
(Sherlock: Season 1, Episode 2) Directed by: Euros Lyn Screenplay by: Steve Thompson Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch Martin Freeman Una Stubbs Zoe Telford Release Date: October 31, 2010 IMDB Storyline: Banker Eddie Van Coon and reporter Brian Lukis are both shot dead in identical slayings, in rooms locked from the inside. Chinese museum employee Soo Lin tells Sherlock Holmes that, as a teenaged orphan in China, she ran drugs for the Black Lotus crime syndicate, for whom the two dead men also worked. She too is then murdered, the killer being a human fly who can scale buildings. The gang mistake Watson for Holmes and capture him and his new girl-friend, requiring Holmes to come to the rescue. |
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The Great Game
(Sherlock: Season 1, Episode 3) Directed by: Paul McGuigan Screenplay by: Mark Gatiss Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch Martin Freeman Rupert Graves Una Stubbs Release Date: November 7, 2010 IMDB Storyline: Mycroft wants his brother Sherlock to investigate the murder of civil servant Andrew West and theft of the Bruce-Partington missile plans. Sherlock, however, prefers to assist Lestrade following a massive bomb blast. The sadistic bomber abducts a string of hostages, who will be released after Sherlock has solved a series of puzzles, including a twenty year old murder, an insurance scam and the alleged forgery of a long lost painting. |
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