![]() ![]() He forces Sherlock to choose one and he promises he will swallow the other, and the detective buys some time by deducing the driver is an estranged father who was given just a couple of years to live. The driver then pulls out two bottles, each with an identical pill, and claims that one is harmless but the other is poison. By the end of the episode, the driver picks Sherlock up from Baker Street and confesses to the killings, but explains he just speaks to his victims and they kill themselves, and he isn’t acting alone as he has a “sponsor”, who turns out to be Jim Moriarty. Sherlock has to solve the mystery of a series of suicides that turn out to have a taxi driver as connecting link. Titled “A Study in Pink”, the episode sees Sherlock and John meeting for the first time and their first case together. Related: Every Alternate Explanation For How Sherlock Survived The Reichenbach Fall Although many episodes take their titles from some of Holmes’ book cases (with a few changes, of course), the stories are mostly original with some elements from the books here and there, as is the case of the series’ very first episode. ![]() Sherlock brought the detective (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) to modern-day London, along with some of the most important characters from the books, such as his best friend and partner John Watson (Martin Freeman), Irene Adler (Lara Pulver), and his archenemy Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott). ![]() Among the most recent adaptations is the BBC’s TV show Sherlock, created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and which aired from 2010 to 2017. Since then, Sherlock Holmes has become one of the most popular and beloved literary characters, one that has also been adapted to all types of media for decades. The BBC’s Sherlock started strong with the episode “A Study in Pink”, which saw the famous detective forced to choose between two pills, of which one would kill him – but did he choose the right one? Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and made his first appearance in the story A Study in Scarlet in 1887, though he became widely known when the short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” was published in The Strand Magazine in 1891. ![]()
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