Sunday, April 7, 2013

Sherlock wants to make you smarter

Spoilers for "Snow Angels," episode 1.19.

Sherlock is clearly the best at putting little details together to figure out the big picture, but I like that he helps other people become better investigators.

Examples from this week's episode:

1. Sherlock and Joan go to the crime scene and see where the guard died. There's a bullet hole in the far wall, and Sherlock looks to Joan to explain what happened. She figures out that the guard was not dead when he fell. He fired once at someone who was standing by the wall and hit that person in the abdomen, judging by the height of the bullet hole and the blood stains.

2. Sherlock finds a strand of synthetic blonde hair at the robbery scene, so one of the thieves wore a wig. Later at the hospital, Detective Bell notices a strand of blonde hair on Elle's coat (but she has brown hair). He holds the strand under a lamp and it melts, so he knows it's synthetic. Then he arrests Elle to take her to the police station for questioning.

3. At the end of the episode, Sherlock is setting up a fake blood splatter on the floor of the apartment. He tells Joan to come back to the living room in ten minutes with a blindfold, and then the lesson will begin. Sherlock shows people his investigative methods while he is out on a case, but then he sets up simulations to practice methods, too.

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