- War vet Dr. John Watson returns to London in need of a place to stay. He meets Sherlock Holmes, a consulting detective, and the two soon find themselves digging into a string of serial "suicides."
- 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.—don @ minifie-1
- John Watson, an army doctor, is wounded in Afghanistan and invalided out of the Army. Back in London his search for a place to stay leads him to share a flat with Sherlock Holmes, a brilliant but eccentric private detective. He has hardly met Holmes when Holmes gets called in by Detective Inspector Lestrade to help on a case. People have been committing suicide in identical fashion - by a poisoned pill. The police are calling it "serial suicide" but it is clearly the work of a serial killer.—grantss
- In a modern London re-tooling of the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tales, Dr. John Watson, recently invalided out of the army following service in Afghanistan, agrees to share a flat with a private detective, Sherlock Holmes. Watson is amazed at Holmes' powers of observation as well as his eccentricities. Holmes has occasionally helped the police, mainly through DI Lestrade, whose current case is most baffling: four people, all of whom apparently committed suicide. Several similarities in the cases lead the police to believe there may be another explanation. Holmes agrees to assist, particularly after hearing of a difference at most recent scene, where the victim, a lady dressed in pink, scratched the word RACHE on the floor boards. With Watson providing what proves to be invaluable assistance, the game is afoot.—garykmcd
- In a chance encounter facilitated by a mutual acquaintance, John Watson, a former army doctor injured during the conflict in Afghanistan, crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes. They decide to become roommates, sharing the residence located at 221B Baker Street, which is owned by their landlady Mrs. Hudson. A series of peculiar deaths, initially believed by Inspector Lestrade to be unrelated suicides, has caught their attention. The victims seem to have taken poison pills, leading to suspicions of a serial suicide phenomenon.
Sherlock scrutinizes the latest crime scene, where a deceased woman dressed in pink lies. Based on his deductions, he concludes that she was engaged in serial adultery and had an unhappy marriage. Unlike the previous victims, she left an unfinished note on the floor, clawing the word "Rache." Disregarding the forensic expert Anderson's suggestion that it means "revenge" in German, Sherlock asserts that it refers to "Rachel," implying that the victim perished before completing the message. Sherlock notices traces of mud on the woman's leg, indicating that she came from out of town. Although the police failed to locate a suitcase on the premises, Sherlock persists in searching and eventually discovers it in a nearby trash container.
Meanwhile, John receives a mysterious call from a public phone and is lured to an empty warehouse. There, he encounters an individual who claims to be Sherlock's ultimate adversary. The man offers John money in exchange for information about Sherlock's activities, but John firmly declines. Upon returning to 221B, Sherlock asks John to send a text message to the phone of the fourth victim. However, since the phone is neither on the victim's body nor in her possession, Sherlock deduces that the killer must have taken it. Furthermore, he deduces that the victims were abducted from crowded streets without anyone noticing.
Utilizing John's mobile phone, Sherlock sends a text message to the victim's phone, meticulously crafting it to appear as though it originated from the victim herself. Through this ruse, Sherlock lures the murderer to a specific street. While observing a local restaurant, Sherlock spots a cab and gives chase, relying on his extensive knowledge of London's streets and alleys to outrun the vehicle on foot. Yet, upon catching up to the cab with John's assistance, they discover that the passenger is a recently arrived American, providing him with a solid alibi. This revelation leads Sherlock to the realization that the murderer is a cab driver, explaining why no one notices the victims' disappearances since they simply enter the cab.
Growing suspicious that Sherlock has withheld evidence, Scotland Yard conducts a drug raid on his apartment in an attempt to search it. Sherlock intuits that "Rachel" was the victim's email password and that she had purposely planted her mobile phone on the killer to enable tracking through GPS, accessible via her email account. While John traces the signal, discovering it emanating from 221B, Mrs. Hudson informs Sherlock of a waiting cab driver downstairs. Sherlock departs the apartment and enters the waiting cab.
The cab driver confesses to his crimes but asserts that he does not commit the actual killings. Instead, he claims to engage his victims in conversation, leading them to take their own lives. He presents Sherlock with a challenge, insisting that he must solve a puzzle. They arrive at a school building, and the cab driver reveals a gun and two bottles-one containing a harmless pill and the other a lethal one. Sherlock must choose one pill while the cab driver promises to ingest the remaining one. Realizing that the cab driver is dying, Sherlock exposes the gun as a mere cigarette lighter, seeing through the ruse. The cab driver discloses that he is not wealthy and commits these acts to leave money behind for his children. He also discloses the existence of a sponsor, an ardent admirer of Sherlock, who pays him for each murder he carries out.
Leaving the scene, the cab driver challenges Sherlock once more to select a pill and solve the puzzle. Simultaneously, John traces the GPS signal from the victim's phone, following Sherlock's trail. Observing Sherlock through an adjacent building's window, John witnesses him about to consume one of the pills and intervenes by shooting the cab driver. Sherlock interrogates the dying man, first inquiring about his success in the pill game and then seeking information regarding the "fan" mentioned by the cab driver. Ultimately, the cab driver reveals the name "Moriarty." Outside, Scotland Yard has cordoned off the area. Sherlock deduces the identity of the shooter, realizing that it must be John. To protect his friend, Sherlock feigns astonishment and instructs Lestrade to disregard everything he has just stated. Subsequently, Sherlock and John leave the scene but unexpectedly encounter the man who previously abducted John-an individual who turns out to be Sherlock's elder brother, Mycroft. Mycroft directs his secretary to intensify their surveillance efforts, while Sherlock and John return to Baker Street.
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