This all plays out like in an eerie dream sequence, but surprise! It’s actually an experiment that Sherlock and John - who, we learn, was shot with a tranquilizer in E’s office, not a real bullet - have elaborately set up using paid actors to frighten Mycroft into revealing the truth: He deliberately hid the identity of a secret sister from Sherlock for Sherlock’s entire life, eventually warning him only that “the East wind is coming” rather than telling him that a psychopathic surprise sibling was gunning for him. (Over the course of the scene, we get one of the most fanservice-y reveals of the series: Mycroft’s ever-present umbrella is really concealing a sword, giving a backpat to years of fan theories that the umbrella was a weapon all along.) When she answers a passed-out passenger’s ringing cell phone on the plane, she hears the voice of Moriarty ( Andrew Scott).Īt some other nebulous point in time, Sherlock’s brother Mycroft (who is played by Gatiss) is watching his favorite film noir when it’s interrupted by mysteriously spliced-in home footage of an early Holmes family picnic and a scary message: “I’m back.” Frightened, he realizes that an assortment of horror clichés have invaded his home: a terrifying ghost girl, an evil clown. She soon discovers that everyone else on the plane, including the pilots, have been drugged, and that the plane is now flying on autopilot over unknown terrain, doomed to crash. Rather than picking up right where “The Lying Detective” left off, “The Final Problem” - whose title refers to the famous Arthur Conan Doyle story in which Sherlock kills his nemesis Moriarty - opens instead with a young girl awaking on a strange flight. All of these women, “shockingly,” turned out to be Sherlock’s never-before-mentioned sister, Eurus ( Siân Brooke) - Eurus, as the show took pains to point out, being a Greek word which means “the East wind.” The episode ended on a cliffhanger, with Eurus shooting John at the end of his therapy session. As it turned out, “E” was also the same woman who’d tricked Sherlock ( Benedict Cumberbatch) into believing she was a client in the previous episode. Sherlock’s previous episode, “ The Lying Detective,” ended with the surprise reveal that John Watson’s ( Martin Freeman) sort-of girlfriend, as well as his new therapist, were the same person. “The Final Problem” contains a lot of jittery and confusing plot twists BBC One
SHERLOCK SEASON 2 FINALE SERIES
Full of frenzied plot twists, “The Final Problem” closed out the season and maybe the series with an episode that - if it really is the last - feels like a huge anticlimax that substitutes implausible drama and showiness for meaningful character development and any kind of narrative payoff. There is, however, a lot of high drama and plot shenanigans, and much of it is confusing. There’s ultimately not a lot of substance behind all of the sturm und drang that has led to this final episode, and there’s even less logic.
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