SHERLOCK: THE BLIND BANKER

UK, 2010, 89 minutes, Colour.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Zoe Telford.
Directed by Euros Lyn.

1. London settings, the collage during the credits? The glimpses of London landmarks, streets, buildings throughout the film? The musical score?

2. 21st century cases for Holmes? 21st century crimes, criminals, methods of detection?

3. The use of reason, observation, attention to detail, intuition, logic? The use of information technology?

4. Holmes as arrogant, interested only in work, no social graces, blunt in expression and obsession?

5. The opening, the teapots and the explanation, antiquities, China? Seeing the statue and the mystery? Her fear? The taking on of the case, the banker and his wanting answers? The Chinese connection? The death of the banker? The mystery of the locked room? The death of the journalist? The symbols, like graffiti, the mystery, the exploration, seeking out the graffiti expert? Holmes and his gathering of the information? The many scenes in London’s Chinatown?

6. Going to the morgue, the information about the Tongs, flattering the attendant at the morgue?

7. The issue of the scaled building, the locked room, the Tongs and their power, the tattoos? The circus, Holmes getting the tickets, Watson taking Sarah? His searching the backstage area?

8. Watson, hard work, his deductions, Holmes’ praise, then undermining it? The searching of the books to find clues for the code? Lack of sleep? His doing some temporary work as a doctor? Asleep on the job? The interview with Sarah, offering her a date? Holmes being rude to her? Going to the circus? The abduction?

9. The books, the codes, the clues, the teapots? Holmes finding the Chinese woman, the interview with her, the murderer in the museum, her brother, her death?

10. The information about the Tongs, their network, the Chinese woman’s story, smuggling as a girl, her brother, the trade, the overall boss? Drugs? Art?

11. Sarah, her observation on the graffiti – and seeing letters and words? Holmes, grabbing the A to Z book from the tourists?

12. The confrontation, the mistaking of Watson for Holmes – and the flashbacks to Holmes’ arrogance and Watson’s replies in Chinatown? Sarah being abducted? The arrow and the sandbag – from the circus, aimed at Sarah? Holmes, his discoveries, the location, hurrying in the taxi, Watson and his pushing the arrow, saving Sarah? The Chinese and his death? Shan, (*??) the boss, her disappearance?

13. Shan, her reporting to Moriarty? The build-up to the continuation of the series?