Sherlock: The Lying Detective

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The Lying Detective is what I describe as a real Sherlock episode which was much stronger than the last episode, The Six Thatchers. After watching this episode I was thrown into all sorts of thoughts and questions. The episode begins with John (who is still mourning) at a therapist's office and he  starts hallucinating and talking to Mary who is dead. Sherlock is back on drugs, isn't keen on seeing anyone and has a drug dealer living with him. The first thirty minutes were filled with voice overs, flashbacks, visual effects and playful transition. Faith the daughter of Culverton Smith, a famous entrepreneur and philanthropist visits Sherlock at his apartment. She tells him about a meeting she had with her father and a few other people three years ago where her father connects everyone in the room to a drip with a drug that would erase their memory after he tells them that he was going to kill someone. She gives Sherlock a paper where she managed to write down some of the things her father said at the meeting. She asks Sherlock to help her find who her father killed.

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 Sherlock thinks Smith isn't just a killer but a serial killer and he makes this known to the public. Smith asks to see Sherlock at one of the hospitals he helped build. At the hospital they talk about serial killers and Sherlock tells Smith that he invited his daughter who he met before and had chips with to the hospital but when she comes Sherlock sees someone different from who he talked to at his apartment. Smith laughs at Sherlock making him go crazy and he tries to stab Smith. John stops Sherlock and starts slapping, punching and kicking him. Mycroft summons John to Sherlock's apartment and they find the video Mary left him. In the video Mary tells Sherlock to put himself in harms way so John would save him. He hurries back to the hospital to save Sherlock and fulfill Mary's post humus wish. 

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At the hospital they talk about serial killers and Smith makes a reference to H.H. Holmes, a serial killer who was active during the Chicago Fair more than a hundred years ago. Sherlock tells Smith that he invited his daughter who he met before and had chips with to the hospital but when she comes Sherlock sees someone different from who he talked to at his apartment. Smith laughs at Sherlock making him go crazy and he tries to stab Smith. John stops Sherlock and starts slapping, punching and kicking him. Mycroft summons John to Sherlock's apartment and they find the video Mary left him. In the video Mary tells Sherlock to put himself in harms way so John would save him. He hurries back to the hospital to save Sherlock and fulfill Mary's post humus wish. 

Back at the hospital, Smith tries to murder Sherlock by suffocating him but John rushes into the room just in time to stop him. Sherlock tells Smith that he just confessed to murder and the device he hid in John's walking stick three weeks ago recorded everything. Sherlock never fails at predicting the moves of the people around him. Sherlock embraced his drug addiction making everyone think he was actually in trouble so he could be saved by John but as usual our favorite sociopath is always ten steps ahead. Before the episode ends, it is revealed that the lady John met on the bus and had been chatting with disguised herself as his therapist and pretended to be Smith's daughter to Sherlock is actually Sherlock's sister. I was left with so many questions like how would John forget how the lady he was cheating on Mary with looked like or how would Sherlock fail to recognize his own sister? We'll learn more about this in the next episode. Sherlock has used this tactic of acting like he is in trouble for John to come to his rescue just like in the third season when he was in a trap house for weeks. This episode only proves to us once again that Sherlock Holmes is always right and always in control. 

Randoms 

1. How crazy would it be if in the final episode we find out that everything that has been happening since "The Six Thatchers" was a figment of Sherlock's drugged brain? 

2. The reference to H.H. Holmes puts the story in my head again. I read about him a few years ago and his killing spree creeps me out every time I think about it.

3. I actually miss Moriarty as the main villain in the series. Just like Sherlock I'm still waiting for him to pop up at any second.

4. I wish we could see more of Molly Hooper. 

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