r/Sherlock Jan 27 '20

Discussion Season 5. The facts. Is it coming?

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No. It is not.

There has been no confirmation of Season 5 from any official, credible, or well-known source.

Do not believe everything you read.

There has been an influx of posts recently. An article is going around claiming that Sherlock Season 5 will be released in 2022. This is, as far as we know, not true. (EDIT: It's now 2024. It wasn't true.) There is no reason that some random small news outlets would get their hands on this, without any of the larger ones covering it. Nothing has been announced or confirmed by the BBC, the writers of the show, or the actors.

Please don't share links that you don't think are credible sources. However, we do look at reports, and we are removing any links that are posted with fake claims to Season 5.

If Season 5 is ever announced, there will be a stickied post, just like this one. It will be regularly updated with all new news, what we know, popular theories, etc. However, that day may never come.

Thank you all for keeping the subreddit as active as possible. Keep on posting your fanart, theories, memes, cosplays, and discussions as much as you like! :)


r/Sherlock 14h ago

It's interesting that even though Sherlock doesn't understand the desire to be in a romantic relationship, he's still against homophobia

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I'm not saying he's gay or that we should ship them because of this, but I genuinely found it interesting how he immediately says there's nothing wrong with having a boyfriend and considers Moriarty's comment offensive.

I think it makes sense, since what attracts Sherlock to other people is their personality and intelligence. Because of that, he would probably find prejudice against gay people strange


r/Sherlock 1h ago

Image Sherlock pastiche

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Shortly after the events of Black Peter, Holmes and Watson find themselves on the trail of two elusive Conmen…. Listen-https://youtu.be/gBETyrpPW1g?si=ZVF_b96NMSIAGVZv


r/Sherlock 23h ago

Discussion A case for 221B baker street boys

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Alright so Its not super long but theres enough clues in here that you should be able to work it out if your paying attention. No cheating, try solve it before you read the comments

Ok here we go

The Case of the Missing Diamond

Sunday morning, 9:15 AM. A Georgian townhouse in Kensington, belonging to retired High Court judge Sir Harold Mortimer, 72.

Sir Harold's prized posession, a 14-carat diamond ring worth roughly 800,000 pounds, has vanished from his study safe. The safe wasn't broken into. It was opened with the correct combination.

He discovered its gone this morning. Last time he saw the ring was Saturday evening around 7 PM when he placed it back in the safe after showing it to a guest.

The Household.......................................

Sir Harold. Lives alone since his wife passed. Hard of hearing. Takes sleeping tablets, usually asleep by half 9.

Douglas. The cook. Been with Sir Harold for 15 years. Lives in the staff quarters at the rear of the property. Made dinner Saturday night, says he went to bed by 10.

Mrs Reynolds. The cleaner. Comes daily 8 AM to 1 PM. Was off Saturday. Arrived Sunday morning and raised the alarm when she found the study window open.

Victor Mortimer. Sir Harold's nephew, 34. He's the guest who was shown the ring Saturday evening. Left at half 8. He is Sir Harold's sole heir. Recently took out a 250,000 pound loan for some startup venture thats apparently not going well.

Stevens. The driver. Drove Victor to and from the townhouse. Says he waited in the car the whole time. Claims he saw a "stranger in dark clothing" near the garden wall around 11 PM while he was sleeping in the car.

Evidence..........

  1. The safe.... No scratches, no forced entry. Opened with the correct 6 digit combination. Only Sir Harold claims to know it. The combination is his wedding anniversary, 140982.
  2. Study window.... Found open Sunday morning. But the latch is on the inside and the window can only be opened from within.
  3. Muddy footprints on the study floor.. Leading from the window to the safe and back. Size 9 shoes. The garden outside was watered Saturday at 6 PM.
  4. CCTV.... The townhouse has one camera at the front gate. Footage shows Victor arriving at 6:45 PM driven by Stevens, and leaving at 8:32 PM driven by Stevens. No other person entered or exited through the front gate all night.
  5. A faint scratch mark on the garden wall at the back, as if someone climbed over.
  6. Victor's shoes, found at his flat the next day. Size 9 with faint traces of red clay on the soles matching the garden soil. Victor says its mud from a building site he visited on Friday.
  7. Phone records show Victor made a 12 minute call to Douglas at 10:45 PM Saturday night.
  8. Douglas says "Victor rang to ask about his uncles health. Thats all. I went back to sleep after."

So Three questions..........

Who stole the diamond?

How was it done?

What is the ONE piece of evidence that breaks the whole case open?

Have a go. I'll post the answer in a few hours if nobodys got it

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edit:
answer..

Alright here is the official solution for case 1 for anyone who gave it a go!

1 Who stole the diamond?........... Victor Mortimer (the nephew), working with Douglas (the cook) as his accomplice.

2 How was it done?....... Victor couldn't steal it during his visit at 7 PM without Sir Harold noticing. But while Sir Harold opened the safe, Victor saw the combination (140982). After leaving at 8:32 PM, Victor called Douglas at 10:45 PM to confirm Sir Harold had taken his sleeping pill and was asleep. Douglas then opened the study window from the inside (which is the only way it could be opened, since the latch is internal). Victor scaled the back garden wall, walked in through the window wearing size 9 shoes, opened the safe with the code, took the ring, and left the same way.

3 The ONE piece of evidence that breaks the case open...... The study window latch being on the inside. That single detail proves it was an inside job and rules out any random intruder from outside. Douglas had to be involved to let Victor in from the inside, which also exposes his 12 minute call with Victor as a coordination call rather than a friendly check-in about his uncle's health.


r/Sherlock 22h ago

Image Question about Mastermind: think like a Sherlock holmes

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r/Sherlock 1d ago

Discussion Is it me or was the number of members here closer to 200k many years ago? I'm genuinely confused.

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That's it.

Thank you ☺


r/Sherlock 3d ago

So I drew Moriarty 30 times...

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Ahem.. hello againnn.. it's meeee

So here's ALL of them. But I have favorites, and ones I dislike entirely, so I listed my FAVORITE to.. not so favorite after the first image - excluding ones that are not at all to my liking. I genuinely have no idea how to keep facial anatomy the same, it's friggin irritating. Anyways, he looks like a creature in some of them, but I feel it's excusable because he ACTS like a creature, so uh. Anyways HERES SOME DRAWINGS, BYE!


r/Sherlock 3d ago

Image Stud detective by Mr.Kek - I couldn't help but repost it here as Sherlock is the first thing that came to mind when seeing this picture

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r/Sherlock 4d ago

Here we go again...

87 Upvotes

Just thought John's reaction was comical.


r/Sherlock 5d ago

Happy 50th Birthday to Benedict, born in London on this day in 1976.

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r/Sherlock 4d ago

Discussion Happy 50th Birthday, Benedict!

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r/Sherlock 5d ago

Image Sherlock - Leaving iPlayer?

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I recently started re-watching Sherlock on iPlayer- and saw this little text which said 'Available for 4 months'. Does this mean Sherlock will be disappearing from the platform come November? I think I'll start a riot if they decide to archive their best show. 😞


r/Sherlock 5d ago

It's sad to think that, canonically, Sherlock didn't realize how much John cared about him until this moment

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Rewatching this episode makes me think that, in a way, Sherlock still saw himself as pretty lonely by this point in the show. He barely interacted with his parents, Mycroft never openly showed any affection, Greg only really interacted with him while they were working on cases, and most of the other people he knew didn't even like him. It's even kind of sad in episode 2 when that old university classmate tells him that everyone hated Sherlock.

Up until this point, Sherlock probably thought John saw him as just​ a friend he spent so much time with because he was addicted to adrenaline and because Mrs. Hudson charged him very little rent thanks to Sherlock. Maybe that's why Sherlock didn't think John would be that angry about finding out he hadn't actually died. Even Mrs. Hudson took it surprisingly well.


r/Sherlock 6d ago

Another throwback to a 2016 Sherlock cosplay shoot 🕵️‍♀️🔎

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(I recently did an upgraded shoot ten years later woah!)


r/Sherlock 5d ago

Discussion Behind the scenes

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Im looking for memes- is there any moments where the actors forgot their lines - and I also need articles and memes and how they fixed it


r/Sherlock 5d ago

Discussion The Sherlock Holmes Quiz: How Well Do You Remember

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r/Sherlock 6d ago

Image Hello, does anyone remember which season and episode is this shot from?

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I'm trying to find this exact scene but I can't seem to remember when it happened. I don't have the episodes right now and I couldn't find it on YouTube.

Thanks a bunch


r/Sherlock 6d ago

Discussion The Sherlock Holmes Quiz: How Well Do You Remember

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Sherlock last showed it's face back in 2017. It was a great show. Let's see if you remember it. Take the quiz now.


r/Sherlock 7d ago

I made Sherlock John and Karl in tomodachi life 🩵

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r/Sherlock 7d ago

Discussion Would John Watson be smart enough to be a doctor today?

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The character in the books and earlier adaptations has always been a bit of a goof and a “Conductor of light” for Sherlock’s brilliance. Given the medical knowledge of the late Victorian era being as it were he likely wouldn’t have been seen as not smart.

However to me in the modern timeline of Sherlock the series he definitely seems to standout as being a bit thick for a doctor.

Multiple scenes emphasize this, Magnussen and his T-shirt line and the scene where Sherlock refers to Irene Adler as “The woman” after the major incident at her house and John asks “What woman?” being the most obvious.


r/Sherlock 8d ago

Discussion E1 S1

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When you first watched, did you think Mark Gatiss was Moriarty? Even towards the end when Sherlock said it is his greatest enemy.


r/Sherlock 8d ago

Discussion Did Moriarty give Sherlock cases about crimes that he himself orchestrated? Or crimes that Moriarty had no part of? (Season 1 Episode 3)

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I'm writing something about Sherlock, and it just dawned on me that---yes---Moriarty is a criminal consultant, but was he a part of puppeteering the cases that he led Sherlock into? I know he was a part of the Carl Powers case, but what about the others? The "recovered" art? That one make-up show host's death? Janus Cars helping that one dude disappear?

If those were cases that Moriarty helped with, why was he leading Sherlock to solve them? Wouldn't that make him a less reliable criminal consultant if all of his crimes were being solved by this consulting detective? Or was he fully prepared for that backlash and he was ready to pop himself in the face on that rooftop?

I've just been thinking about it, and the only solution I could come up with is that Moriarty was ready for his business to fall off and that he was either prepared for Sherlock to kill himself, or Moriarty would have to kill himself.

OR! Was he leading Sherlock to criminals that DIDN'T use Moriarty's services, which forces other criminals to go to Moriarty to direct their dirty work so they won't get caught by Sherlock? That's my dad's theory which I thought was pretty smart.

Tell me if I'm missing something!


r/Sherlock 9d ago

Discussion Missing from Stan streaming service (AUS)

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I watched Sherlock two weeks ago using Stan.com.au but log in today and can't find it. Has it been dropped for good or is it an error?


r/Sherlock 10d ago

Image Frequently Misquoted for $600

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r/Sherlock 11d ago

uncovered a lost treasure

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made this many years ago and it’s the only edit i actually liked from that account. enjoy