![]() He ends up dying, but not before letting it slip that the team had been betrayed by an Englishwoman who used the code word "amo." The mission fell apart, people died, and her former assassin pal, Ajay, now wants Mary dead as revenge for her "betrayal." Ajay, incidentally, was the one smashing up the Thatcher busts, because he'd hidden an incriminating memory stick in one of them.Īnd thus, Mary is forced to trade late-night feeds for some Jason Bourne-style antics, including temporarily poisoning Sherlock, embarking on a trek across the world that was still totally undermined by a certain British detective, and facing off in a shootout with Ajay. ![]() The bust-breaking spree didn't link back to his arch-enemy Moriarty - they implicated his friend, Mary, the very person he'd vowed to protect.īack before she was pretending to be a nurse who would end up marrying Sherlock's BFF, Mary was part of a four-member team of secret agents (A.G.R.A.) charged with rescuing hostages the British embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia six years ago. Sherlock correctly guessed that the culprit wasn't just someone railing against the Iron Lady's anti-union policies some three decades after the fact, but he got everything else wrong. Some backstory: Sherlock, conveniently exonerated for killing Charles Augustus Magnussen (Lars Mikkelsen) so he could pursue any and all leads pertaining to that bigger fish, Moriarty (Andrew Scott), spent the episode investigating the destruction of six busts depicting former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Before long, however, she'd turned up as a person of interest in Sherlock's latest case, which ultimately led to her fatal shooting. The beginning of "The Six Thatchers" saw the former secret agent giving birth to the couple's daughter, Rosamund Mary (remember that name). (This may be convenient for Abbington and co-star Martin "John Watson" Freeman given their just-announced breakup, but it's pretty upsetting for Holmes heads.) Not Sherlock Holmes dead or Irene Adler dead or even Moriarty dead (because at this point we're not sure what's going on with that guy). Nope, tonight's season 4 premiere was firmly rooted in the present-day and was (sob) all too real. Benedict Cumberbatch is back as Sherlock Holmes, and unlike last year's letdown of Christmas special, he's not wasted on some Victorian-era flashback that turned out to all just be a dream. Take heart, Cumber-whatever-you-want-to-call-yourselves. ![]() Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers about the season 4 premiere of Sherlock.
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