Sherlock then aims his handgun at the explosive vest, intending mutual assured destruction.Īs with all episodes of Sherlock, the plot combines those of a number of works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
However, as Sherlock takes off Watson's vest, Moriarty returns (having changed his mind) with multiple snipers aiming at Sherlock and Watson. Moriarty appears and leaves after a brief interaction with Sherlock and Watson. Instead of luring Moriarty with the device, Watson arrives as the fifth hostage, wearing an explosive vest. They track down Joe Harrison, West's potential brother-in-law, who admits to stealing the flash drive and accidentally killing West in an argument unable to sell it, Harrison keeps the drive. Watson investigates West's death and Sherlock discovers it as the fifth mystery.
The museum curator confesses the forgery and outs her accomplice: a man named " Moriarty". He spots a supernova in the painting that post-dates Vermeer, thus stopping the bomb. While Sherlock examines the painting, a child hostage calls: Sherlock has ten seconds to prove the forgery. After tracing Woodbridge's interest in astronomy, Sherlock deduces that the guard had uncovered a forged Johannes Vermeer painting about to be exhibited. Sherlock claims that Woodbridge was strangled by an assassin called the "Golem" using his bare hands. The fourth message is a photograph of the River Thames, and no hostage calls Sherlock and the police discover security guard Alex Woodbridge's body on the riverbank. Despite Sherlock solving the puzzle, the hostage is killed for describing the kidnapper. Sherlock disproves the cause of death, and Watson interviews Prince's brother Kenny Sherlock pins the crime on the housekeeper Raoul de Santos-Kenny's lover-who murdered Connie by increasing her botox injection. A third message and hostage point Sherlock to the demise of Connie Prince, who allegedly died from tetanus.
After learning that the blood in the car had been frozen, Sherlock announces that the missing man paid the agency owner to help him disappear, and the hostage is freed. Finding the vehicle without its driver, Sherlock interviews the missing man's wife and the car rental boss, whom he deduces was recently in Colombia. Proving the boy was poisoned with botulinum toxin via his eczema medication, Sherlock announces the solution to the bomber, and the hostage is freed.Ī second MMS shows a blood-stained sports car another hostage phones, saying Sherlock has eight hours to solve this mystery. Sherlock traces the trainers to Carl Powers, a schoolboy who reportedly drowned in a swimming pool. The phone shows a photo of trainers, and a hostage calls: if Sherlock cannot solve the puzzle in twelve hours, a bomb will kill her. Sherlock refuses and is called to Scotland Yard where he receives a mobile phone matching the victim's from " A Study in Pink". Mycroft Holmes urges Sherlock to investigate the death of Secret Intelligence Service clerk Andrew West and the disappearance of a flash drive containing missile plans. Sherlock Holmes is bored without stimulating cases. Like its predecessors, the episode features numerous references to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.Ĭritical reception of "The Great Game" was highly positive, being praised for its complex and gripping plot, and its unusual and original portrayal of Moriarty. The standoff is left as a cliffhanger until Season 2. After four such cases, the episode ends in a standoff between Holmes and the bomber, who it turns out is Jim Moriarty, the "consulting criminal" and the main antagonist for the rest of the series. If they fail to solve the case in the time specified by the bomber, he will kill the hostage he is holding. The episode follows Sherlock Holmes ( Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson ( Martin Freeman) as they race to solve a series of seemingly unrelated cases presented by a mysterious bomber.
It was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Paul McGuigan. It was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 8 August 2010. " The Great Game" is the third and final episode of the first series of the television series Sherlock.
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