He also notices that something was tightly packed inside the suitcase at one point.
Sherlock forces open another set of doors and finds Van Coon, who has been shot in the head, a SIG-Sauer P226 pistol lying by his side.Īs the police examine the scene, Sherlock determines from the laundry in Van Coon's suitcase that he had just come back from a three-day vacation, probably very recently. As he looks through the apartment, John buzzes the apartment to have Sherlock let him in. Sherlock jumps from her balcony onto Van Coon's directly below it, and lets himself in through the patio doors, which have been left unlocked. Claiming that he locked his keys into his flat, he asks if he can use her balcony. Sherlock buzzes her, and pretends to be Van Coon. Sherlock buzzes Van Coon several times, but no one answers, but then he notices that the woman who lives directly above Van Coon has recently moved in – her label is still handwritten.
Sherlock and John go to Van Coon's apartment. As he leaves with John, he explains that the graffiti was a message to someone, and Van Coon was the only one who could see the room where the message was left -since he trades with China, he probably works at night and the message was intended for someone who started their work at midnight. Holmes notices that Van Coon's office has a direct line-of-sight view to the symbols. He finds one office, which belongs to Eddie Van Coon of the Hong Kong division. He then walks through the office, figuring out who has a line of sight to the chairman's office. Sherlock takes photos of the symbols in the room and then steps out on the balcony and considers the street far below. Sherlock turns down the money, but John quickly accepts. He offers to pay Sherlock to find the hole in their security. The building is sealed and the CCTV shows that the vandal did the deed within a 60 second period between 11:33 PM and 11:34 PM. Sebastian shows them the room, and two symbols, one on a painting and one on the wall nearby. Sebastian explains that someone broke into their former chairman's empty office the night before and sprayed an apparently meaningless set of symbols on a wall and across the head of the chairman's portrait. He pretends to have learned this from Sebastian's secretary, but later confides to John that he figured it out from the fact that Sebastian's watch was brand new and it was also two days behind, indicating that he had crossed the International Date Line but had not altered it. As they exchange greetings, Sherlock deduces from out-of-nowhere that Sebastian has made two trips around the world in the past month. John asks for money, and Sherlock says he has to go to the bank, in actuality a big financial powerhouse.Īt the bank, Sebastian Wilkes, an old university acquaintance of Sherlock's, asks for help. John notices that Holmes is using his computer to check his e-mail. As he does, he also shoves a sword beneath the chair. Sherlock admits that he turned down a case about a diamond and gave the messenger a refusal. When John finally comes home, he complains that he had a row with a machine, and that Sherlock has not moved all day. Meanwhile, at home, Sherlock Holmes battles a robed swordsman and finally knocks him out. When she pulls the canvas away, she stares in shock at what she saw underneath.ĭr John Watson is trying to buy groceries at the supermarket, but the machine gives him problems and refuses to accept whatever form of payment he tries to use. She goes to investigate and finds a statue covered with a canvas. That night, Soo Lin is working late when she hears someone moving. Soo Lin then tells him to stop asking her out. Afterwards, as closing time approaches, her co-worker Andy Galbraith asks her out for a drink, but she turns him down and says that he would not like her very much if he knew her. Plot " Oh, I'm Sherlock Holmes and I always work alone because no one else can compete with my massive intellect!" ― John Watson, upset that Sherlock would not let him in.Īt the National Antiquities Museum, Chinese pottery expert Soo Lin Yao demonstrates a tea ceremony to a group of visitors. He soon learns that the city is in the grip a gang of international smugglers, a secret society called the Black Lotus Tong. Sherlock plunges into a world of codes and symbols, consulting with London's best graffiti artists. The first person to see the cipher is dead within hours of reading it. It first broadcast on 1 August, 2010 on BBC One.Ī mysterious cipher is being scrawled on the walls around London.
#Sherlock season 2 end series#
" The Blind Banker" is the second episode of the first series of Sherlock.