Sherlock: How The Cabbie Killed So Many People
The first episode of the BBC’s Sherlock allowed the title character to show off his unbelievable deduction skills, but a big question remains about that specific case: how did the cabbie know what their victims would pick, thus killing so many people? Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular literary characters, and as such, he and his stories have been adapted to all types of media for decades, though not all of them have been loyal to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works.
Many artists and creators have taken a lot of creative liberties when adapting Sherlock Holmes to other media, and one of the most recent and successful examples of this is the BBC’s Sherlock. Created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, Sherlock brought the Great Detective and company to modern-day London, with Benedict Cumberbatch playing Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson, Sherlock’s loyal friend and partner. Sherlock’s episodes were based on Conan Doyle’s stories, beginning with “A Study in Pink”, based on the short story A Story in Scarlet, which introduced the audience to the detective and his many skills but left a big question about the villain.
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«A Study Pink» followed Sherlock and John on their first case together, in which they investigated a series of murders initially believed to be suicides. Sherlock found out that these were not suicides, and by the end of the episode, he met the man behind it all: Jeff Hope, a cabbie who liked to play a game with his victims. This consisted of him pulling out two bottles containing identical pills – one is harmless, the other is poison – and inviting his victims to choose one, promising he would take the other. However, the
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