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Mycroft confirms that the government planned to fly a plane full of corpses to avoid alerting the terrorists planning to bomb the plane, reminiscent of the Coventry myth. Adler conveys this information to Moriarty, who taunts Mycroft Holmes that he (Moriarty) now knows their plan.Ī government official brings Holmes to Heathrow. Sherlock effortlessly cracks it, revealing it to be airline seat allocation numbers.
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She asks Holmes to decipher a code stolen from MOD. Hudson ( Una Stubbs) hostage, and Holmes subdues Neilson.Īdler comes and reveals that she is still being hunted. Holmes followed them and learned the fact as well. Later, on New Year's Eve, Watson sees Adler, who is alive, and faked her death. Indeed, the police find a mutilated body, identified to be Adler. On Christmas Eve, Holmes learns that Adler has sent him her phone.Ĭonsidering the phone's importance, Holmes thinks she might die soon. Holmes gets the phone first, and Adler then sedates Holmes, takes the phone instead, and escapes. Holmes solves the password, and some agents are killed in subsequent chaos. Suddenly several CIA operatives led by Neilson ( Todd Boyce) break into the house and demand that Holmes open the safe. Holmes meets Adler stark naked leaving him unable to deduce anything about her.Īs Watson deliberately triggers the fire alarm, Holmes finds Adler's hidden safe, which Adler has glanced at nervously. Holmes and Watson try to get into Adler's home by deception, but she expects them. The authority wants to retrieve Adler's smartphone, which contains those photographs. Mycroft reveals that Irene Adler ( Lara Pulver) took compromising photographs of herself and a female member of the royal family. One day, Holmes and Watson are brought to meet Mycroft ( Mark Gatiss) in Buckingham Palace. Holmes has become a minor celebrity after Watson blogs about the cases they solved. The episode sparked controversy for showing the character of Irene Adler in the nude carefully using camera angles to avoid exposing genitalia, pre-watershed.Ĭontinuing the ending of "The Great Game", Sherlock Holmes ( Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson ( Martin Freeman) are confronting Jim Moriarty ( Andrew Scott).Īfter a phone call interrupts the dangerous exchange between Moriarty and Sherlock, Moriarty withdraws and dismisses the snipers.
Critical reactions toward the episode were largely positive, with reviewers praising the writing, acting and direction. Besides referring to the Doyle short story, the episode title names Belgravia, a district of London adjacent to the grounds of Buckingham Palace.Īfter its broadcast on BBC One, the episode was given consolidated figures of 10.663 million viewers in the United Kingdom. Sherlock spends much of the episode keeping the device out of enemy hands while trying to deduce its password. The photographs are stored inside her mobile phone, along with other valuable information which makes her a target of various political factions. The episode depicts Sherlock Holmes' ( Benedict Cumberbatch) confrontation with Irene Adler ( Lara Pulver), a dominatrix who has compromising photographs taken with a female member of the royal family. The episode was based on " A Scandal in Bohemia", a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was written by co-creator Steven Moffat, and directed by Paul McGuigan.
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" A Scandal in Belgravia" is the first episode of the second series of the BBC crime drama series Sherlock, which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was first broadcast by BBC One on 1 January 2012. 1st episode of the second series of Sherlock " A Scandal in Belgravia"