The story is very well structured as we are introduced to the recently returned from Afghanistan Dr John Watson who has a walking stick and a limp and a pistol in his bedroom drawer. He needs a place to live and is introduced to the brilliant but annoying Sherlock Holmes, a Consulting Detective who has a habit of annoying the Police by generally insulting them and making them look stupid. A good example is in the opening scene where he hijacks a press conference about a series of suicides by sending texts to all the people there contradicting anything that the Police state as fact.
The murders are dealt with in the usual Sherlock way leaving us to figure out what has happened by giving us a few clues but nothing more than the other characters in the story.
Needless to say the final scenes are with the murderer where Holmes puts himself in danger to prove a point only to be saved at the last second by Watson.
The maniac side of Holmes comes out at this stage as he tortures the dying villain to find out the name of his 'sponsor' and is rewarded with a cry of 'Moriarty'.
Que our heroes walking off into the night briefly interrupted by Sherlocks brother Mycroft who watches them walk away and introduces Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
The other two spisodes await me and I cannot wait to reacquaint myself with them.
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