![]() ![]() Then, as part of the Best Man’s speech, not least to pull himself out of a hole he’s dug by his relentless honesty, Sherlock relates the case of The Bloody Guardsman – a Buckingham Palace guard who thinks he’s being stalked, does a perfectly healthy shift on guard, goes off duty, hits the showers, and then bleeds almost inexplicably almost to death. Weirdly, but in a developing theme of the series, the case, which seems like just a sad lonely hearts affair, turns out to be rather more interesting and complex than that, as Sherlock uncovers a whole handful of women dating the same dead man, even though he looks entirely different to all of them. Sherlock investigating a crime scene when blitzed out of his skull though gives us a fantastically funny scene – the usual on-screen prompts of his brilliant insights are subverted with drunk-thoughts, which are simply genius. Their wild night of debauchery takes them all of about two hours, proving that one of them was never built for this kind of thing, and one is now too old and respectable for it. Firstly there are the women who are dating a dead man, a case that Sherlock and Watson undertake while smashed out of their respective brains on the Stag Do (Watson having sabotaged Sherlock’s plan to be just nicely drunk, rather than throwing up in pot plants). Along the way, Sherlock relates two cases which turn out to be merely preparations for the big day itself. Everything from boredom to napkin-folding, from the stag do to the much-dreaded-by-practically-everyone Best Man’s speech is covered in the first episode that took three writers – Gatiss, Moffat and Stephen Thompson. And very, very much play is made of Sherlock’s high-functioning sociopathy in this episode, to at least semi-comic, and sometimes distinctly comic effect. How can you tell it’s a comedy episode? Well, nobody actually dies, for one. ![]() The Sign of Three is pretty much a comedy episode of Sherlock, dealing with the preparation for, and the day of, Watson’s wedding to Mary Morstan (played by Martin Freeman’s long-term partner in real life, Amanda Abbington). I mean, who, in what we can only presume is their right mind, would ask Sherlock Holmes to be their Best Man?
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