Nice move, brother. (image via BBS)
Since it is rumored that season 4 was the last for Sherlock, I thought I would expand a bit more on the last episode. If you want, you can read my thoughts on the previous two episodes after this link… not let’s proceed.
---Spoilers ahead, so beware.--
The focus here is Euros. Remember her? The girl on the bus? The phony Faith? The therapist? Sherlock’s supposed sister? The east wind?
The next 80 excruciating minutes are spent showing us how evil she is, but never quite explain why she took a shot a Watson…with a dart. Like Raymond Chandler said, “When in doubt have a man [or woman] come through a door with a gun in his hand.”
But why a dart? Who cares? The writers don’t, so let’s move on.
A very young girl awakens on a jetliner where everyone except her is unconscious. A cell phone rings. She answers. “Hello, my name is Jim Moriarty. Welcome to the final problem.”
Cut to Sherlock and Watson clowning around at Mycroft’s house trying to scare him into revealing that Euros is their sister, which he admits. He also spills the beans that Euros Holmes is incarcerated at a Sherr inford, a maximum facility under his control. Since when? Since childhood, because she’s so dangerous. She can invade your mind in five minutes.
(image via BBS)
After a great deal of boring folderol, everybody’s back at Baker Street when a little drone flies in with a powerful bomb attached. It’s motion sensitive, so one step and she blows. Yikes! Not to worry…Sherlock and Watson jump out the window and Mycroft lunges for a doorway.
We see Moriarty at Sherrinford where Euros puts full control on him …in only a few minutes. Mycroft has weaponized her “for England,” you see. Flash forward and Sherlock accompanied by Watson are onboard a stolen vessel sailing toward Sherrinford with a reluctant captain, who is Mycroft in disguise. Why? Who knows?
Once in the island facility, they magically get to Euros’ cell, a glass wall separates her from freedom. Sherlock confronts her, and she tries to give him “the treatment.” Their hands reach up to touch upon the glass, to make some psychic contact; but there is no glass! Foolish Sherlock, didn’t spot that did you?
Euros, the east wind, controls the entire facility and always has. Now she has all three of them in her clutches. They’re in her Skinner box now. Time for fun and games, which become increasingly bizarre and ludicrous with frequent calls from the girl on the plane begging Sherlock to help her, and all the while Euros is orchestrating everything from her control room.
In a test over who Sherlock should kill, John Watson or brother Mycroft, Sherlock decides to kill himself in a dramatic countdown. Euros shoots them all with tranquilizer darts from the walls of the room. They just weren’t playing right.
Sherlock awakens in another room surrounded by images. He finally solves the dilemma of the little girl on the plane—it’s a ruse. He pushes the walls over… another ruse. He is back at their childhood home, Musgrave. He must solve the Musgrave Ritual for Watson’s life depends on it. You see, he is chained to the bottom of a well with a cell phone, and the water is rising.
In a flurry of mental gymnastics, having been told by Watson a child’s bones are in the well and through frenetic swiping and rearranging projections representing his brilliant thoughts, Sherlock solves the Musgrave Ritual. The bones, Sherlock discovers, belonged to Red Beard, not Sherlock’s dog, as he thought all his life, but his childhood friend Victor Trevor, who Euros pushed down the well. The girl on the plane was Euros begging for help from Sherlock.
The once supervillain goes back to Sherrinford. (Isn’t that the place she controlled in the first go-around?) Sherlock and Watson retire to Baker Street, where an anonymous CD arrives from Mary who tells John to keep solving cases with Sherlock. It's sad that the only persona better than Sherlock, a woman, has to be insane and locked up. Seems like she was a shoehorned villain.
How do you like this move Mycroft? (image via BBS)
The SHERLOCK franchise has in Season 4 finally arrived in Samarra awaiting its appointment with Death…and so richly deserved.
The last episode... 2.5 out of 5
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