Sherlock S3 DVD Commentary His Last Vow

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00:00:00Mr. Magnuson, please state your full name for the record.

00:00:04Hello, I'm Stephen Moffat, co-creator and exec on Sherlock and also writer of this episode.

00:00:10Hello, I'm Mark Gatiss. I'm the same apart from being the writer of this episode and the Steve Moffat bit.

00:00:17Hello, I'm Eunice Dobbs and I play Mrs. Hudson.

00:00:21And I'm Sue Virtue, the producer, and still married to Stephen. We haven't fallen out in the middle episode.

00:00:27Oh, we've missed something. What is it?

00:00:31You mean our silent commentary?

00:00:33Yes, I really enjoyed that one.

00:00:34Yeah, it was excellent. If you enjoyed the silent commentary, write in and we'll do some more.

00:00:39We already have.

00:00:42So, episode three is last about.

00:00:48Curiously enough, this is very near the end of the shoot, isn't it? If not, actually the last day?

00:00:52Was it the last day?

00:00:53It was the last day.

00:00:54The Welsh Senate, wasn't it?

00:00:55We should accept an invitation.

00:00:57Because, you and I, Matt, we dashed off to shoot another thing and got it all wrong or something.

00:01:02It was the close-up of the door.

00:01:04Yeah, yeah.

00:01:04One thing you had to do.

00:01:06And one thing.

00:01:07You didn't understand what was written in the script.

00:01:10Two creators, one shot.

00:01:12It was really one mobile door.

00:01:17Obviously, this story, anyone who knows this story, this story is mostly based on the adventure

00:01:22of Charles Augustus Milverton, once known as the worst man in London.

00:01:27Yeah, worst.

00:01:27Which has always long been a favourite of ours.

00:01:30Yeah.

00:01:31And it's about a blackmailer.

00:01:34And we always thought that, of all the stories that could be sort of easily translatable into

00:01:40the 21st century, a figure like Magnuson was a very contemporary figure.

00:01:47Though, of course, they made him a newspaper proprietor.

00:01:50This was the most amazing building.

00:01:52Stephen, when you first said the kind of building you wanted, you said, I want something like

00:01:56the Bob...

00:01:57Was it the Bob Hope?

00:01:58Yeah, there's a Bob Hope and an extraordinary mansion.

00:02:01Extraordinary.

00:02:01The script, it says, it says, the Citizen Kane mansion for the iPod generation.

00:02:06Yeah.

00:02:06It's like, it's exactly what it is.

00:02:08We thought, oh, well, fine, that is near Cardiff.

00:02:11Yeah.

00:02:12So we did.

00:02:13But it was all, it was so much glass that every member of the crew had elastoplasts on there,

00:02:20the bridge of their noses, because they were just constantly walking into the glass walls.

00:02:24It was hysteria.

00:02:25And sometimes repeatedly.

00:02:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:28Yeah, somebody injured their nose rushing off to get an elastoplast, or somebody else had

00:02:32just injured their nose.

00:02:33It's true.

00:02:33It was beautiful, but it wasn't, that element of it wasn't used.

00:02:39And a swimming pool that just, the floor just went down.

00:02:42It was a leather floor.

00:02:44You could walk on, then it just goes down.

00:02:46And you could choose which would be the deep end by pressing a button.

00:02:49It would go on.

00:02:50Yeah.

00:02:53Now, Milverton, in the story, is described as being like a reptile.

00:02:58Yeah.

00:02:59And he's one of the only people that Sherlock Holmes has a physical aversion to.

00:03:03Yeah.

00:03:04It was, it was, it was the only time you could really find him actually hating somebody.

00:03:08I mean, it's quite emotional a lot of the times in the original stories, contrary to

00:03:12the popular conception.

00:03:13But he doesn't express hatred as anything.

00:03:15Never hates Moriarty.

00:03:17He hates Milverton so much.

00:03:19I'm currently in my position.

00:03:21Will you please move your hand?

00:03:23And that was just, that was the thing that we sort of zeroed in on, was to, to, to have

00:03:27a character that, that, that Sherlock Holmes loves.

00:03:30He's repulsive.

00:03:31And it's, it's what everything he stands for.

00:03:33Yeah.

00:03:33He hates.

00:03:34Well, it's sort of picking on the outsider, because clearly Sherlock Holmes sort of views

00:03:38himself as that, which is quite interesting.

00:03:40Remember we, in the original story he's referred to as, uh, this, uh, Sherlock Holmes says, you

00:03:46get a shrinking sensation when you look at snakes.

00:03:48Like a reptile.

00:03:50Yeah, snakes.

00:03:51And we, uh, and I changed it to a shark, uh, in a tank.

00:03:55And then we thought, no, no, the snakes are better.

00:03:58But then, then we cast the wonderful Lars and thought, no, no, he's definitely a shark.

00:04:03I believe it is shark.

00:04:05It's just, we've talked about the wonderful, uh, Lindsay there, who, uh, she, she'd always

00:04:11been, she should have been Sherlock from the beginning.

00:04:14Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:04:14She's so classy and, uh, actually not a big part at all.

00:04:18She just, Lindsay Duncan just brings so much to it.

00:04:21It's, it's one of those things where you have to have someone, it, it can't be a minor

00:04:25actor.

00:04:25It's a sort of substance.

00:04:26Yeah.

00:04:27Yeah.

00:04:28It's like, even though, you know, M has to be important in a Bond film, you have to

00:04:31have someone with stature doing it.

00:04:33She's so good in this, see.

00:04:34And it's so repulsive.

00:04:36But like all the old English films, the evening comedies, they were made up of wonderful actors

00:04:42in tiny parts.

00:04:42Yes, absolutely.

00:04:44And it just gives it a sort of richness.

00:04:46Exactly.

00:04:47So let's talk about casting Lars Nicholson.

00:04:49Yeah.

00:04:51It was lovely when he turned up.

00:04:54He's too gorgeous.

00:04:56Oh, okay.

00:04:57Well, you know Mrs. Hudson's vote.

00:04:59That's Rupert and Lars.

00:05:02Yeah, we went through quite a few ideas, didn't we, of names, and then we heard that he was

00:05:06in, in town.

00:05:09Um, and so I went to meet him for a cup of tea.

00:05:13He never did.

00:05:13Because also I'd never heard, we'd never heard him speak in English.

00:05:16He didn't know how, because he's, he's at some point or anything.

00:05:19And he's basically, he's here, he's natural, and it's Cockney.

00:05:22Yeah.

00:05:23Yeah, South London, yeah.

00:05:24So there was a sort of a, um, I think so.

00:05:27Yes, me saying to Lars, well, it might be an American, but I mean, if it, if it didn't

00:05:31go American, I mean, is Sherlock something that you might be, you know, it was a very,

00:05:35sort of, um, poke and dagger thing.

00:05:38But then we actually asked him to do a read, and, and, like, so yeah.

00:05:41I remember you, uh, you sent me the DVD, so I sat and watched it, and I got halfway through

00:05:46the first take, and I just phoned Sue up and said, for God's sake, just book him.

00:05:50Obviously, obviously, it's, uh, but the one thing was he, uh, we had to tell him to do

00:05:55an accent, because his natural way of speaking English is Cockney.

00:05:59He, he sort of learned his English through, through, um, Wondie Python.

00:06:03Wondie Python.

00:06:04Um, and, so it was actually better to have a bit of Danish in it, wasn't it?

00:06:09But he was so proud of his Cockney.

00:06:11Yeah.

00:06:12And he sometimes made it thicker and thicker.

00:06:14You see, that's another childhood, isn't it, now?

00:06:16You think of, of, um, uh, Lars and Mags both watching Wondie Python.

00:06:22I know, yes.

00:06:24She's real bad, isn't she?

00:06:25Yes.

00:06:26Hannibal and Victor.

00:06:27Yeah.

00:06:28I remember when Benedict had done a small scene with Lars, and he came back.

00:06:33Oh, Lars, he's fantastic, isn't he?

00:06:36He's brilliant.

00:06:37He's also that brilliant thing of, uh, he, he's so, um, chilling as Magnussen.

00:06:45And in, in real life, he's such a dude.

00:06:47Yeah.

00:06:48He's such a lovely man.

00:06:49Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:06:50And yet he puts that suit on the glasses, and he's like, he looks like Max von Sydow, and

00:06:54he's got those blank eyes, and it's just wonderful.

00:06:57He could not be less like that.

00:06:59Yeah.

00:06:59He's sort of enthusiastic, sort of, almost geeky.

00:07:04Really?

00:07:04I'm sorry.

00:07:06I think Martin's very funny in this.

00:07:08He's a complete indifference to her plate.

00:07:11Yes.

00:07:12Not getting it.

00:07:13Yeah.

00:07:13But this is, of course, this is from another story.

00:07:16This is from The Man with the Twisted Lead.

00:07:18And, uh, the, the rescue of, uh, Isaiah Winnie.

00:07:24Isaiah?

00:07:24Isaiah Winnie.

00:07:25Isaiah Winnie.

00:07:26Yeah.

00:07:27The usual.

00:07:27From, uh, from an opium den.

00:07:29Uh, yeah.

00:07:30Where, uh, unexpectedly Dr. Watson finds Sherlock Holmes.

00:07:35It's about much.

00:07:35It's, uh, it just, it was such a brilliant, I mean, it has nothing to do with the story

00:07:39of The Man with the Twisted Lead.

00:07:40It's just, again, uh, Doyle's instinct for giving Sherlock Holmes a great entrance.

00:07:44Yeah.

00:07:45Uh, and so, uh, as ever, we're lifted from the original.

00:07:49From the master.

00:07:50Whatever you call it.

00:07:51Where is he?

00:07:52It's a house.

00:07:53It's a dump.

00:07:54I mean, it's practically falling down.

00:07:55And this is us doing the fact that, uh, John, of course, about a month into, uh, domesticity,

00:08:01he's not bored of, uh, his wife or anything like that.

00:08:04He's just, he just wants to go on an adventure.

00:08:08And this is, of course, Martin pre-driving.

00:08:11Which was a great source of something in, uh, Holmes, because Sherlock had to drive them

00:08:17to Dartmoor.

00:08:18And it's like, he, he shouldn't, but Martin can't drive.

00:08:20And then, um, a few months ago, we were having a, having a lunch, and, uh, we got the message

00:08:27that Martin will drive himself in.

00:08:29We thought, well.

00:08:29Well, they've got that wrong.

00:08:31Yeah.

00:08:31And then he turns up, and he's learnt to drive, uh, in, to do Fargo.

00:08:36It was amazing, wasn't it?

00:08:38That's me, the shame.

00:08:39I'm the last one now.

00:08:41Well, learnt to Fargo, will you?

00:08:42Yeah.

00:08:44I remember, actually, the conversation we were doing basketballs about, uh, who we were driving.

00:08:48We couldn't, we, we couldn't have, we said we couldn't have Sherlock driving.

00:08:50It was wrong.

00:08:51And, of course, we did, in the end, just because there was no possible way to figure out

00:08:55it.

00:08:55He's in the practicalities of me.

00:08:57Tell him.

00:08:59I'm looking for a friend.

00:09:00I didn't know that.

00:09:01Very specific.

00:09:02Two of my sons.

00:09:03I'm not just browsing.

00:09:05I sort of drive, but I haven't for many years.

00:09:08I don't know.

00:09:08It does sort of drive, except we've got rid of our car, which we've had for eight years.

00:09:11And I've never driven it.

00:09:12And Stephen realise he's never driven it.

00:09:14He doesn't drive that.

00:09:15I'm just, I, I'm just not very good at it, though.

00:09:18It's just fine.

00:09:19Go.

00:09:19Some people shouldn't be behind a wheel, and I'm one of them.

00:09:22Really?

00:09:23Mmm.

00:09:24No.

00:09:25This is the great, uh, Tom Brook playing Wiggins, who is, uh,

00:09:29the leader of the Baker Street Irregulars in the original stories.

00:09:33And sort of a conflation of two characters, really, because there's Billy the page boy,

00:09:37who occasionally turns up, or turns up once or something, uh, and helps Sherlock Holmes,

00:09:41and Wiggins, who's the, the, the leader of the Baker Street Irregulars,

00:09:45who's to combine them and make them, uh, this character.

00:09:49And Tom Brook is so funny, I think.

00:09:52His eyes are quick.

00:09:53I remember when the make-up cut his hair.

00:09:56Oh, it's the worst hair cut in the world, isn't it?

00:09:58Oh, darling.

00:09:59I thought he did it himself, deliberately.

00:10:01Then he was going out that evening.

00:10:03Yeah.

00:10:04I think a hat was worn.

00:10:09There's a nice thing going on there, where he becomes, sort of, attaches himself to them,

00:10:14and then sort of becomes a bit of a disciple.

00:10:16Yeah, yeah.

00:10:18It's a lovely character.

00:10:20Isaac?

00:10:21Of course, being Sherlock, we go into our drug den, but it has to be the most exotic-looking,

00:10:25beautiful drug.

00:10:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:26It's an art house drug den.

00:10:29That's amazing.

00:10:29It's just an amazing building, isn't it?

00:10:31It's just an old maritime building, it had all those, um, all that wonderful block flooring

00:10:36just falling to pieces.

00:10:38Look at me.

00:10:39Luckily for us.

00:10:39You're calling for me.

00:10:41You think I'd have people here?

00:10:42Yeah.

00:10:43Mm.

00:10:44All right?

00:10:45Oh, and there he is.

00:10:46Oh, hello, John.

00:10:53Come for me, too.

00:10:56No, this was the source of some debate, because we had to decide whether he was genuinely

00:11:00taking drugs again.

00:11:02Yeah.

00:11:02Or whether he was faking it, but actually, in the end, it was, he is.

00:11:06Yeah, it's because he could-

00:11:07He's totally in control of it, for a reason.

00:11:09Yeah.

00:11:11But, but, you know, it's always keeping the ambiguity to, you know, is he-

00:11:15Is he written?

00:11:16Yeah.

00:11:16No, not now!

00:11:18No, not now!

00:11:19That's that child.

00:11:20Spoiled.

00:11:23Ah, I love all this stuff, I'm taking them all home.

00:11:26Please.

00:11:28Come on, I think I've got a broken arm.

00:11:29No.

00:11:30Why?

00:11:31Yeah, just get in, it's a sprain.

00:11:33Ha, ha.

00:11:34Guilty.

00:11:35Isn't everybody home, are we?

00:11:37Yeah.

00:11:39Oh, Chezza.

00:11:40Chezza.

00:11:42Undercover.

00:11:43Seriously, Chezza vote.

00:11:44So here's our new gang.

00:11:45We never thought we'd have a gang.

00:11:46There's a gang.

00:11:47Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:11:49Needs to-

00:11:49Hmm.

00:11:53Anyone who's ever been to Barts Hospital tell you that, um, this interior, which is actually

00:11:59Cardiff University, uh, and that exterior, which Sherlock jumped off, are not alike.

00:12:04Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:12:05This is the most wonderfully high-tech place you can imagine.

00:12:10Actually, it's a good job we're not going back to Barts again, I don't think, on that

00:12:12outside, because I saw an artist's impression of what they're going to do to it.

00:12:16Oh.

00:12:17It's all housing, and restaurants, and pedestrians.

00:12:20Say you're sorry, Ian.

00:12:21The blue plaque, I hope.

00:12:22Yeah.

00:12:24Still the telephone box, probably.

00:12:27Just stop it.

00:12:28If you were anywhere near this kind of thing again, you could have called-

00:12:32Lewis.

00:12:33So good.

00:12:34Well, she's probably-

00:12:35She's working quite hard.

00:12:36She did?

00:12:37Yeah.

00:12:38She's probably appalled, I think, which is really good.

00:12:41She knows-

00:12:43She obviously loves-

00:12:44She's in love with him, but she knows what his gifts are, and what's going on inside

00:12:48that brain, and the idea that he might just throw it away like that-

00:12:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's truly annoying to her.

00:12:53Truly enraging.

00:12:54Yeah, there's some guy.

00:12:56And this is where, and Sherlock picks up on the fact that, you know, John is the addict.

00:13:02Yeah.

00:13:03Is it a shirt?

00:13:04I'm sorry.

00:13:05He's so laid back.

00:13:10We had some problems, he had to-

00:13:12Trying to get the creases in.

00:13:14It's never a problem.

00:13:16If you buy a shirt, you can't get the things out.

00:13:18But try and put them in, it's absolutely a problem.

00:13:20It's only non-iron shirts.

00:13:21Yes.

00:13:23I used to get it fresh out of a box, really.

00:13:25You can shower when you get there, and then dress in the clothes you brought with you.

00:13:30Hooray, it's a deduction.

00:13:31Yes!

00:13:35Not bad.

00:13:36And I further deduce-

00:13:37Yeah.

00:13:40Have you got a bit of chafing?

00:13:43No, he's-

00:13:44Mm.

00:13:44Like that.

00:13:45Remind me, what's your name again?

00:13:46They call me the wig.

00:13:47The wig.

00:13:49Well, they call me Wiggy.

00:13:51Cut quite a lot into this thing, didn't I?

00:13:53I remember there was a longer version.

00:13:54It was longer, wasn't it?

00:13:55Yeah, yeah.

00:13:56A bit of wigage.

00:13:57Nice observation.

00:13:58It's an interesting thing with Mary.

00:14:01We're not, you know, considering where we're going to get to.

00:14:04It's still, it's deliberately lighthearted.

00:14:07There's no suggestions.

00:14:08But we did have a, we had a long debate, didn't we, about the first two episodes being deliberately

00:14:13more lighthearted.

00:14:15Yeah.

00:14:16And again, people picked up on this, because we thought, well, we need to make it look

00:14:20like Sherlock is sort of softening, because we knew we were going to build up to this

00:14:26horrific ending.

00:14:27And it sort of worked, I think, because it, because people thought, oh no, they've, they've

00:14:32made him too, like-

00:14:33It's too fluffy, is it?

00:14:34It's too, uh, it's too content, everyone's happy now, and, uh, you know, and then suddenly

00:14:40it's all overturned.

00:14:41Yeah.

00:14:41But I remember in the writing of it, having to work out ways that we see a fair amount

00:14:45of Mary before she becomes the centre of the story.

00:14:48In her normal role.

00:14:50Because there was a tiny bit, wasn't there, in, in the second episode, when they're reading

00:14:53the telegrams.

00:14:55I think.

00:14:55And there's the one from Cam.

00:14:56Oh yes, there's a reference to Cam, yeah, and she, she, and she looks odd, but actually

00:14:59you feel that's because it's mentioning her parents.

00:15:02Yes, yeah.

00:15:03I think, you know, I think we, we, we ladled quite a bit on, but, uh, it's because people

00:15:07were charmed by a man that they didn't want to listen.

00:15:09This is exactly what happens to Sherlock Holmes.

00:15:11He's charmed by Mary.

00:15:13He stops listening to his own brain.

00:15:15I mean, this is the, this is the obvious.

00:15:17Mr Holmes!

00:15:19When will we see Uncle Rudy?

00:15:21Yeah.

00:15:23Uncle Rudy.

00:15:25Cross-impressing detective.

00:15:29Hey.

00:15:30Hey, isn't it?

00:15:31Lovely Catherine J. Quays.

00:15:33Another of the, the gang, the empty hearse gang.

00:15:36Entirely trustworthy, and even willing to search through the dumps that you were pleased to

00:15:41call a flat.

00:15:42You're a celebrity these days, Sherlock, you can't afford it.

00:15:45Now we've got Neville Kidd lighting, uh, uh, 221B, slightly different, but I rather like

00:15:50his rather warmer version of it.

00:15:52It's, uh, it's, it's cosier.

00:15:54Well we did, you know, remember we had a month talk about, this had to be very, very,

00:15:58very early in the morning, because this day is very long.

00:16:00Yes, there's a, there's a long bath, and then Magnuson arrives, and it's all the same

00:16:05day.

00:16:05So that lovely golden light, I remember the discussion, it's like, they've, they've probably

00:16:10come there at the crack of dawn.

00:16:11Yes.

00:16:12She's not even going to work yet.

00:16:15Aaron's boss in Oklahoma, won't be the first time that your substance...

00:16:20The little window opened onto the line dancing.

00:16:23Yes, Mr and Mrs Holmes.

00:16:25We should just ask them to do that, for a DVD.

00:16:29Blind dancing clothes.

00:16:31Blind dancing with the Holmeses.

00:16:32In Oklahoma.

00:16:34You think Harren could have done one of his little extra bits, just in the background.

00:16:39That name you think you may have.

00:16:40Nick does love little bits which aren't actually included in the script at all, so...

00:16:44He's, uh, he's amazing at, at doing these things, I think.

00:16:48Nick Harren, the director, he, uh, he, he would just extra value.

00:16:52Yeah.

00:16:52And those little, like that shot of the, um, of the writing and putting in, and it just,

00:16:58and it takes you to...

00:16:59John, I don't know whether we used John folding the shirt, did we put his shot?

00:17:01Yeah, just that, yeah, yeah.

00:17:03No, he does, he does an awful lot of that.

00:17:05He, uh, he, he, he basically wants everything available in his toolbox and he goes into the

00:17:09cutting room, is, is the way he approaches these things.

00:17:11But he plans so meticulously, he has time to do them all.

00:17:15Yeah.

00:17:15Because he gets a lot shot, Nick.

00:17:17It's all going against...

00:17:18The first few days, some of the crew look a bit confused.

00:17:20I keep thinking, where is, where is this in the script?

00:17:23Oh, yeah.

00:17:24You know what, the first cut of this episode was about...

00:17:26Yes, yes.

00:17:26Five and a half hours long.

00:17:27Yes.

00:17:28With half of, with half of it missing, perversely.

00:17:32Yeah.

00:17:32Ah, some action among the Holmes brothers.

00:17:34Naughty.

00:17:35Yeah.

00:17:36Don't appall me when I'm...

00:17:38Don't appall me when I'm high.

00:17:40That's great.

00:17:40Another word.

00:17:41How, how did that miss the T-shirt?

00:17:48Don't speak.

00:17:50Just leave.

00:17:52And, of course, the umbrella.

00:17:53Yeah.

00:17:55Who knows what secrets it contains.

00:17:56You're desperate to have secrets inside the umbrella, I know.

00:17:59I did talk about...

00:18:00You did try to persuade me that, yes, it was all in the umbrella.

00:18:04That, that would have been, that would have been a different show.

00:18:09You can't believe that this room is a studio.

00:18:12Yeah.

00:18:13What's all the case?

00:18:14Too big a dangerous for anything.

00:18:15It's a lovely place to live.

00:18:16You trying to put me off?

00:18:19Trying to recruit you.

00:18:22Okay, and genuinely shocking a moment coming up.

00:18:28Now, this whole thing really sort of comes from the original story.

00:18:32Yes.

00:18:33Because, of course, in order to, uh, infiltrate Milvert in the original story, he ends up dating.

00:18:39Becoming engaged.

00:18:40Becoming engaged.

00:18:41My dear fellow, I must congratulate you.

00:18:43Yes, Watson immediately accepts it.

00:18:46It sounded like an argument.

00:18:47You were so fine.

00:18:49But, again, this is, as, as with, as with Ed, um, Yasmin was so wonderful in episode two.

00:18:55Yeah.

00:18:55It's like, well, she's got to come back.

00:18:57It was interesting.

00:18:58Oh.

00:18:59It also made it crueler, didn't it, that it was someone we'd already seen.

00:19:03And we knew that Sherlock already, actually, genuinely liked.

00:19:06Which makes it all the more, sort of, sinister in a way.

00:19:09That he's able to do what he does.

00:19:11Uh, is...

00:19:12Because he actually likes her.

00:19:14Well, again, in a, in a master plan kind of way, he, uh, the fact that they got on so

00:19:19well in tune made it look like he was, sort of, softening.

00:19:22Yeah.

00:19:22He does this incredibly cruel thing.

00:19:24Mm-hmm.

00:19:25But it is from Doyle, so, you know, it's not just that he's allowed to.

00:19:28Mm-hmm.

00:19:29Yeah.

00:19:30So...

00:19:31I can't believe it.

00:19:34But he is actually pleased from it.

00:19:36Yeah.

00:19:36And this week, remember the very first cut of this made him look as though he was jealous?

00:19:40Saying, no, no, no, he's...

00:19:41Just not a good idea.

00:19:41He's, he's, he's thrilled.

00:19:44But, but a little bit, what?

00:19:46Yeah, yes.

00:19:47Out of nowhere, you've got the really hot girl from the wedding.

00:19:50Out of nowhere.

00:19:52It's because Sherlock talks about it like he's just bought a new pair of shoes.

00:19:54Yes, I've got some shoes on.

00:19:55Yeah.

00:19:56That's a great way she is, absolutely.

00:19:58Um, there he is.

00:19:59He is in his tank.

00:20:01Yeah.

00:20:01Now, he does look like a shark.

00:20:03Oh, does he?

00:20:03Murder is a second.

00:20:05I love this, because the way Martin plays it.

00:20:07We, we get through all the exposition with Martin just waiting,

00:20:10like, when can I ask you about the girl?

00:20:12You've got to ask.

00:20:13Anything at all.

00:20:14Yeah.

00:20:16But, you know, he's one of the few actors in the world good enough, Martin Freeman,

00:20:19to be able to make it clear that he's not listening to the person speaking.

00:20:23He's not, he's blanking the whole thing.

00:20:25Also, a great way to hide exposition.

00:20:27Yes.

00:20:27It was.

00:20:28Useful.

00:20:30You and Janine?

00:20:30Hmm.

00:20:31Yes.

00:20:37It's Sherlock's good-natured attempt at sounding normal.

00:20:41It's perfectly plausible.

00:20:42Yeah.

00:20:43Okay, you two bad boys.

00:20:45Behave.

00:20:46Just know what to do with himself.

00:20:48Yeah.

00:20:49Just know what to do with him.

00:20:50He's not working.

00:20:51Work.

00:20:52He's not working.

00:20:53Oh.

00:20:54He knows what you like.

00:20:55Oh.

00:20:56Don't be good at letting off.

00:20:57He's so good.

00:20:58Yeah.

00:20:59Oh, my just actioning.

00:21:01And very lovely, I'd have to say, that Sherlock's done well for himself at his first goal, really.

00:21:06His first goal.

00:21:07That was the original title.

00:21:08His first goal.

00:21:14That's a prequel.

00:21:15That's Joey's last round.

00:21:16Yeah.

00:21:17I'm going to dance.

00:21:19Mm-mm.

00:21:19Good to see you.

00:21:20You too.

00:21:23And his reaction to the, his go-on-my-son reaction to the kiss.

00:21:28I might call you.

00:21:31Is it really?

00:21:32Okay.

00:21:33He's like a little boy.

00:21:38There's a little nod there.

00:21:39Yeah, that's it.

00:21:40Yes.

00:21:41Good work, Sherlock.

00:21:42He's definitely kissing, huh?

00:21:43Yeah.

00:21:44But then, boy.

00:21:48Again, the little romantic part of you wants it to be true, wouldn't it be nice?

00:21:52Wouldn't it be a happier man if he did a nice girlfriend?

00:21:56Of course he hasn't, because he's evil.

00:21:58Looking at the Twitter feed, not everyone wanted it to be true.

00:22:02No.

00:22:03No.

00:22:04Ah, Twitter is not the audience.

00:22:06Mm-hmm.

00:22:07Of blackmail.

00:22:07And he has created an...

00:22:09Again, lumping on the exposition, while everyone's staring somewhere else.

00:22:15Look, a picture of a house.

00:22:18I was expecting, at some stage, when we were filming it, that the lawn would come up and

00:22:22Thunderbird 2 would actually mean it.

00:22:25Yes.

00:22:26Seriously?

00:22:27I've just told you that the Western world has run from this house, and you want to talk

00:22:30about dinner.

00:22:32All right.

00:22:33Okay.

00:22:34Yeah.

00:22:35Let's get on with the episode, for God's sake.

00:22:37Yeah.

00:22:39The Alexandrian library.

00:22:41And scandals.

00:22:42And we've got us a...

00:22:44Where is it?

00:22:44It says Napoleon the blackmail, which of course is ripped off Napoleon of crime, which is Moriarty.

00:22:50The personal freedom of anyone.

00:22:52It's an interesting thing, wasn't it?

00:22:53Once...

00:22:53Having done Moriarty so swiftly.

00:22:56Mm.

00:22:57Yeah, she...

00:22:57In the fridge, it kept...

00:22:58Eh?

00:22:59Yeah.

00:22:59Um, was that we...

00:23:01You know, we needed...

00:23:02Milton is one of the really Class A baddies.

00:23:04Mm.

00:23:05Uh, it's a fascinating, um...

00:23:07Different...

00:23:08A totally different kind of character.

00:23:10Such a great fellow.

00:23:11I've never spent here reading about your past.

00:23:14The exotic dance.

00:23:15Semi-reformed alcoholic.

00:23:17Semi-reformed.

00:23:18I like semi-reformed.

00:23:19I never knew, did you?

00:23:20No.

00:23:21Had a hint.

00:23:22Yeah.

00:23:25I knew I'd been a bit fruity.

00:23:30You know, we wrote it for you.

00:23:32Yeah.

00:23:36But I also like that Mrs. Hudson is perfectly happy to talk about all that.

00:23:39Yeah.

00:23:40Because no one else...

00:23:40No one can shut her off.

00:23:41They're saying, no, we want you to be the sweet old lady downstairs, but no.

00:23:44Oh, she's not.

00:23:45Oh, she has a herbal mixture for a hint.

00:23:47Yes.

00:23:48Oh, that's right.

00:23:49Right back in episode one.

00:23:51And here he is.

00:23:53The tallest man in the universe.

00:23:55We're meeting at your office.

00:23:58This is my office.

00:24:05He's actually frightening me now.

00:24:09It's very interesting, isn't it, the, uh, talking about the equivalence again.

00:24:14What a person like Milverton in the original story of Magnus and this, what he represented.

00:24:21In the Victorian era, he was a private gentleman.

00:24:24Yeah.

00:24:25Apparently, an impeachable.

00:24:26Here he is, a newspaper magnet.

00:24:28And in fact, uh, more than that, what would you call him?

00:24:32He's no longer had no practical use to you, so with that in mind, there's only one word

00:24:37I can think of and I can't say it.

00:24:41Yeah, I was just staying silent on that one, man.

00:24:43Uh, do you know that Charles Augustus Milford was made, was based on a real person?

00:24:48Really?

00:24:48Yeah, now, I wish I'd remembered this, because it would make the information I'm afraid to

00:24:52fail to impart so much more interesting.

00:24:54He's an art dealer or something, called Charles Augustus something else.

00:24:58Really?

00:24:58Yeah, and he was found murdered in very mysterious circumstances.

00:25:01Good luck.

00:25:02Yeah.

00:25:03So, we're still, we're still dragging that man's name to the list.

00:25:06Yes.

00:25:07When I first met Lars, and he was telling me about how he felt when he first saw the script

00:25:13for Sherlock, he said because he was astounded and thrilled, because in Scandinavia, they

00:25:19don't have scripts like that.

00:25:20The actors actually make up a lot of the dialogue themselves.

00:25:24Do you have a very good idea?

00:25:26No.

00:25:27I don't think so.

00:25:29Because actually, when I, also when I first met him, he hadn't really, he'd clearly never

00:25:32seen Sherlock, but he didn't know much about it.

00:25:34Incredible.

00:25:37Impossible.

00:25:40Remember, we went to, we went over to Copenhagen a few years ago for a, for a TV festival.

00:25:47Yeah.

00:25:47And, um, the most amazing thing, they were, they were all sort of saying, you know, we

00:25:52want all the things like Sherlock, and we were all going, but literally everybody's beating

00:25:56a path to your door saying, we want, we want your things.

00:26:00No.

00:26:00No one's ever going to stop you.

00:26:02This is filthy.

00:26:03No, this is the moment in which he has to die.

00:26:06Nothing else he does is really that bad compared to weeing in Sherlock Holmes' fireplace.

00:26:11And there's just no way you're leaving this.

00:26:12We know how to clean it up, don't we?

00:26:14Yeah.

00:26:17I tried in a reen.

00:26:20Oh, Sherlock, you've done it again.

00:26:22Sorry.

00:26:24Fantastic speech, and, and such a chilling notion that, that, that the UK is a petri dish, and

00:26:32if it works, I'll try it on a real country.

00:26:34Yes.

00:26:34It's exactly the disdain with which you think, feel our country is actually treated.

00:26:38Yes.

00:26:40By Scandinavians.

00:26:41Yeah.

00:26:41It was horrible when he threw his tissue on the floor.

00:26:44Funny.

00:26:46Funny.

00:26:47Funny.

00:26:51Yeah, it's a terrific performance.

00:26:55I think he did.

00:26:57It was a moment that kind of stuck it.

00:26:59Yeah.

00:27:01The thing about Lars was he could, generally speaking, we would cut some of his dialogue

00:27:07from each scene, because he would have done it all with the look.

00:27:11Mm-hm.

00:27:11You know, he would do so much of it just with his presence, with those fish eyes.

00:27:17Mm-hm.

00:27:17Which he doesn't really seem to have in real life.

00:27:19No, no.

00:27:20He's such a-

00:27:22In his London office while he's out to dinner with the marketing group of Great Britain from

00:27:25Seventil.

00:27:25His brother's a cannibal, though.

00:27:27He doesn't talk about that.

00:27:29Yeah.

00:27:29I was watching him the other night.

00:27:30He's terrifying.

00:27:32And he did horrible things to James Bond.

00:27:34Mm-hm.

00:27:36How long before, before Lars is a bond for them?

00:27:38Surely, they've just-

00:27:39I don't know.

00:27:39They've never done the double.

00:27:41He could be Le Chiffre, brother.

00:27:43Yeah.

00:27:43Le Chiffre, too.

00:27:45Then we got out of the house, John.

00:27:46You've gone on seven pounds since you got married, and the cycling isn't doing it.

00:27:51It's actually four pounds.

00:27:52Mary and I think seven.

00:27:54See you later.

00:27:55Mm-hm.

00:27:56So here's again we see Mary and Sherlock have become quite thick on each other.

00:28:00We did talk, didn't we?

00:28:01I remember very early on the idea was that she would be taking violin lessons.

00:28:06Yeah.

00:28:06And then he'd be really looking forward to her coming round, and then one day she comes

00:28:10round at the wrong time and just says, I'm going to be as a client, and everything changes.

00:28:14Mm-hm.

00:28:15This is an amalgamation of about three different locations, isn't it?

00:28:18Yeah.

00:28:18The outside was one.

00:28:19Another one.

00:28:20And Tower 42, isn't it?

00:28:22Yeah, Vicky.

00:28:24There are 14 loads of security.

00:28:26It's amazing that there are so many places that do look.

00:28:30They're from the future now.

00:28:31Yeah.

00:28:32Actually, you'd have to have built this once.

00:28:34Now they're everywhere.

00:28:34Yeah.

00:28:36Magnuson's private lift.

00:28:37Go straight to his penthouse and office.

00:28:39All this stuff about the mobile phone, erasing your card.

00:28:44It's just, when we were at the hotel.

00:28:46Yeah, yeah.

00:28:47When we were at that, doing the TCA's for Sherlock.

00:28:49Yes.

00:28:50In LA, that's what I was warned.

00:28:51Don't put your card with your phone.

00:28:52Oh, it's the most frustrating thing.

00:28:55If I was to use this car...

00:28:56Where is this car?

00:28:57What happens?

00:28:58Uh-oh.

00:28:59It's in the city.

00:28:59London.

00:29:00London.

00:29:01It's in London.

00:29:02There was a car, we got out.

00:29:05They're all around the same banky bit.

00:29:08I remember we were shitting in there, and there were fans standing outside.

00:29:13In the rain.

00:29:14Staring at the walls of a building in which Benedict and Martin were standing.

00:29:18in the rain.

00:29:20Which is devotion.

00:29:21Because I went out and said, there isn't a scene out here, and you're about to miss

00:29:25the last thing.

00:29:28They didn't move, did they?

00:29:29Mm-hmm.

00:29:30Died.

00:29:31Next morning.

00:29:32All of them dead.

00:29:32Yeah.

00:29:33It's very sad.

00:29:34These people here, rather cleverly, these were street artists.

00:29:39Ah.

00:29:39Which is why they're so good at standing.

00:29:42Well, we gave them a bit of help.

00:29:43We gave them a bit of help, but they were stunningly good.

00:29:46They were, the moment they actually stop was really like a freeze frame.

00:29:50Yeah.

00:29:51Which I think was.

00:29:52It wasn't gotten.

00:29:53It becomes one.

00:29:54Trust them to make a positive answer.

00:29:55So this is Tower 42.

00:29:57Almost certainly his PA.

00:29:59And here is.

00:30:01A terrible piece of.

00:30:03Human error.

00:30:03Of evil.

00:30:04Human error.

00:30:05Human error.

00:30:06I know.

00:30:07So at this point, anybody who thought he'd got a bit soft.

00:30:10He's about to learn.

00:30:12All he's learned about human behaviour is how to manipulate it.

00:30:15I can really simulate all those emotions you can do.

00:30:19Spock.

00:30:24I'll nick her and behave.

00:30:26But there is, um, now you have to backtrack and think, what do you mean?

00:30:31Now, was she attached to Mary?

00:30:34I can't even remember.

00:30:35So that she became her friend, so she could go to the wedding.

00:30:38Is that all part of Magnusson's?

00:30:40The terrible web.

00:30:41Hmm.

00:30:42Do what?

00:30:43Magnusson's terrible web.

00:30:44The other title.

00:30:46Magnusson's terrible web.

00:30:51And, again, it's the, uh, it's the engagement, which, um, the only difference we've made here is we've made it

00:30:57a bit more dynamic, I suppose.

00:30:58It's the moment of proposal that we've come.

00:31:00Yes, Robert's reporting.

00:31:02Yeah.

00:31:02That was Janine.

00:31:03Of course it was Janine.

00:31:04She's Magnusson's PA.

00:31:05That's the whole point.

00:31:06It's horrible.

00:31:07Yeah.

00:31:08Yeah.

00:31:12He's so good at that stuff, Ben, isn't he?

00:31:14He's so perfect.

00:31:15You know, you somehow, because he just doesn't get that he's being vile, you sort of don't hate him.

00:31:20Mm-hmm.

00:31:21There's no smugness in him.

00:31:22It's just, I-I don't understand why you're objecting.

00:31:24And the fact he's quite light-hearted.

00:31:27There's only so fight and go.

00:31:28Our relationship was a ruse to break into a boss's office, I imagine.

00:31:31This is a, this, they had to slow this lift down, didn't they?

00:31:34Yeah.

00:31:34Not when we, in the past, because it was so fast people were sick.

00:31:37Oh, really?

00:31:38Yeah.

00:31:41Well, it is, it's what-

00:31:42Well, you'd leave your stomach.

00:31:43Yeah.

00:31:44It's a bit rude, because he's not there.

00:31:49Did you faint?

00:31:51We do, um, you know, look at Benedict here being completely cold and inhuman and then remember

00:31:58what he's like in real life.

00:32:00Mm-hmm.

00:32:00And how, uh, how bumbly and, and charming he is.

00:32:04And, uh, yeah, and concerned, you know.

00:32:05It's just such a, it's just a great performance, it really is.

00:32:08He's just so unlike this, yeah.

00:32:11But they say if you want a nasty performance, get a nice person.

00:32:16Often.

00:32:16Well, that lets you with the acting profession.

00:32:19Yes.

00:32:22Very good.

00:32:27They must help.

00:32:28Because you've got to like the person.

00:32:30Loathe them, haven't you?

00:32:31Yes, have you, indeed.

00:32:31Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:32:32Well, he's going to be fascinatingly awful, shall I, of course, isn't he?

00:32:35You've got to sort of long for the next terrible thing he does.

00:32:38They're flying.

00:32:40Okay.

00:32:40This is one of those things when you realise that the availability of incredible office space

00:32:45in London, which is fantastic for filming but rather scary for the economy.

00:32:48Oh, yeah.

00:32:48Yes.

00:32:49Incredible.

00:32:50Absolutely empty, yeah.

00:32:52Oh, not very.

00:32:53Quite spooky, wasn't it?

00:32:54Yeah, very spooky.

00:32:55Didn't they, they had financial trouble?

00:32:57Yeah, yeah.

00:32:59But I remember we went, um, right up to look at the view.

00:33:04Yeah.

00:33:04And it's one of those things you just don't see anywhere else.

00:33:07It's when suddenly London is so far below it, it looks more like Tokyo or something.

00:33:11It's all lights.

00:33:12Absolutely fantastic.

00:33:13Now we've switched to Cardiff.

00:33:17We're now in the set.

00:33:19Mm-mm.

00:33:22But is this a protection he would want?

00:33:24Additionally, if you're...

00:33:25Magnusson's genuinely afraid, I think.

00:33:28But always thinking.

00:33:29Absolutely.

00:33:30Though it must be said to you, let's hear it from Mary Morstan,

00:33:33Mary figures out the only thing you can do with Magnusson.

00:33:36At this point, it's just killing.

00:33:38Yeah.

00:33:39Sherlock was going to take another hour to get to.

00:33:41Oh, okay, I'll just shoot him in the face.

00:33:44She's clever.

00:33:44Yeah, yeah.

00:33:45Everybody's clever.

00:33:46Oh, Mary.

00:33:50Didn't see that one coming, did you?

00:33:55I, uh...

00:33:55Still I'm with you?

00:33:57Yes.

00:33:58This is what if I misspelled it wrong with you.

00:34:00Le-le.

00:34:02Le-le.

00:34:03Le-le.

00:34:04Le-le.

00:34:06What's that Jason Orange there?

00:34:08Put it back here.

00:34:09Le-le.

00:34:10Le-le.

00:34:11Le-le.

00:34:12Le-le.

00:34:12Do you remember Nick's original cut there, the moment of revealing Mary?

00:34:16Mm-hmm.

00:34:17We just, it just didn't happen.

00:34:18It was so long, yeah.

00:34:19It was everything possible.

00:34:20Yeah.

00:34:21We must see her now.

00:34:22Yeah.

00:34:22Otherwise, we'll forget, we'll forget what's happened.

00:34:24Yeah.

00:34:25That's right.

00:34:26Is this still Sherlock?

00:34:28Oh, sorry.

00:34:29Oh, we've just brought him back.

00:34:30Offensive shirts.

00:34:32Mm-hmm.

00:34:32Yes.

00:34:33Mm-hmm.

00:34:36The costume going, do we really need to do another one?

00:34:38Mm-hmm.

00:34:40No, to answer the question that everyone asks, which is why does that, uh, in a moment,

00:34:45ah, we could be, I'm, I'm pre-empting it, pre-empting it.

00:34:49Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:50The impact isn't spread over a wide area.

00:34:52It's tightly focused, so there's little or no...

00:34:54I mean, that's bright.

00:34:55Mm-hmm.

00:34:55Um...

00:34:56And the bullet pushes through.

00:34:58You're almost certainly going...

00:34:59I did, uh, I did a fair amount of research for this.

00:35:01It's still mostly wrong.

00:35:03Ha-ha-ha.

00:35:03At least I, I knew it was mostly wrong.

00:35:05She tried.

00:35:05Yeah.

00:35:07She gets to roll up, I think, this episode.

00:35:10The, the Mind Palace, eh, from a throwaway...

00:35:13Yeah.

00:35:14...thing in, in, uh, Hounds has become such a thing.

00:35:16And it's, it's incredibly useful, but also very exciting, because you can sort of,

00:35:19it's a bit like, uh, a dream sequence.

00:35:22Oh, it's pretty, it's fantastically good.

00:35:24Mm-hmm.

00:35:24But the, uh, but the absolute reality is, it was because we got to a point in basketball,

00:35:28so we realised Sherlock Holmes was basically going to have to say, hang on, I've just remembered.

00:35:32I, I know this bit.

00:35:33Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

00:35:36Um...

00:35:37Oh, for the sake, Sherlock, it doesn't matter about the girl.

00:35:39Oh, no, I think there's a very handsome young man about to appear.

00:35:41Here he is!

00:35:42Oh.

00:35:42Oh, no, no, no.

00:35:43I said, oh, who is that?

00:35:45Who is that star of the future?

00:35:47Goodness.

00:35:48Little boy.

00:35:49Little boy.

00:35:50Mummy.

00:35:50For those of you who don't know, that's, uh, Sue and I's son.

00:35:52It doesn't matter about the gun.

00:35:55Why not?

00:35:56Aw.

00:35:57Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

00:35:57Are you being mean to my son, Mark?

00:36:00He did audition, didn't everything?

00:36:01He did.

00:36:01There's no negatives move on.

00:36:03And we said, oh, you probably won't get the part, you've got the wrong coloured eyes,

00:36:06and this and this.

00:36:07And I remember telling him, you are not, uh, we are not giving you any support, we're not

00:36:11even looking at your audition, everyone else makes the choice, uh, you have to get this

00:36:15part on merit alone.

00:36:16And he looked at me with what I thought was total understanding and said, you are the

00:36:21worst dad in the world!

00:36:27all other parents be really supportive but you are not well he triumphed yeah and changed the

00:36:35color of his eyes casey war contact lenses really yeah a little moment that's true in a young man's

00:36:40life yeah of course the funny was because the contact lens because it's quite dark and set

00:36:44and your eyes you know you don't really see yeah which meant that he really couldn't right

00:36:49that that orchid goes on a fishing wire because just to to screw with everyone's heads yeah which

00:36:56it has done ever since yes so that the whole set was not tilted don't go into shock obviously

00:37:03must be something in this ridiculous memory palace of yours that i often replaced lube really in a

00:37:08role is that something you've done before i've never yet taken over yeah it's about to happen

00:37:13yeah because he wanted to continue to get you he was good wasn't he he's properly good

00:37:26hello red beard here boy oh mysterious red beard come on walk towards

00:37:33oh there it is i just played that on the set yeah

00:37:39he's not fun is it

00:37:46he of course named after sherlock's pirate fixations yeah

00:37:54poor old red beard yeah love that show that's a great show in the foreground isn't it

00:38:00yeah internal bleeding you have this point people think he's only just come back from the dead

00:38:05goodness sake speaking of which it tends to happen yeah

00:38:13you and you yet yet again turning up on the sherlock set he killed you at the end of last

00:38:18he's no white nob so i reminded him about that day in the tube i thought no it's not over

00:38:22yet

00:38:22yeah it's never over this was that mad day when we had units everywhere yeah absolutely

00:38:30the true disgusting set though it's brilliant it's disgusting

00:38:35i remember when we were shooting this and we had uh andrew on on his knees with his

00:38:41and then looking through the letterbox thing was charles augustus magnuson yes come to look into

00:38:46it into the entire set and it was just frightening because you know this it was terrible eyes were

00:38:51suddenly i think everybody both of them are here

00:38:55the villain overload there's this owl again yeah yeah

00:39:01what happened then you got shot it's more wallpaper

00:39:06oh my who shot him lovely look from there you know who shot him and themselves

00:39:14it's poor isn't it andrew looks like that because he's supposed to be sort of

00:39:18corpse like yeah someone did ask me what what was wrong with him and i thought well he is dead

00:39:24that's that's what's wrong with it people don't look at their best when they're dead

00:39:28we looked we checked we researched someone has pointed out to me and i didn't even know because

00:39:34i am a fool that i used the same rhyme in sherlock but i in uh in jekyll uh but

00:39:40but i i don't i

00:39:42don't remember i i thought i'd made it up again i did i made it up twice it's still not

00:39:46yours

00:39:49isn't it steal from yourself i don't even know i'm doing it

00:40:02this is all madness but i do rather love it and the woman is nearly going yeah it's the actual

00:40:11idea that he might have to leave john without knowing what mary's really like that sort of

00:40:17brings him very exciting in danger less like he has the hero music thinks all right yeah i'm on

00:40:27now his ears isn't working yeah at some point during that i think it's on the staircase benedict

00:40:37actually manages to hurt his hand doesn't he or no or no it was on the was it banging the

00:40:41door

00:40:41it was in episode two yeah it was bang in the door

00:40:51upstairs he comes hooray

00:40:56can't keep a truly atrocious amoral man down i hope not

00:41:07he's a rubbish doctor they were really embarrassed after that

00:41:11he was dead they were all the way home packing up look it was just unplugged oh no

00:41:23he's taking that long to get up the stairs because he's wearing that coat in the middle of summer

00:41:26yeah i never managed to work out how to take it off well this is true though because we have

00:41:31tried

00:41:32to give him the summer coat we always just end up saying no he has to wear the coat he

00:41:35always wears

00:41:36the coat mary we do make a coat every year don't we reject it the thing is in the end

00:41:41he takes it

00:41:42off and he has the suit and it's that's fine but yeah he still has to put it on sometimes

00:41:47yeah this is

00:41:48i remember watching this and the edit and think this is this is suddenly so alarming that we know like

00:41:54this and that awful over the shoulder look oh my god what is she up to one of the very

00:42:01very few

00:42:02cut scenes from sherlock we barely lost a scene but there was actually a scene where uh magnuson

00:42:08goes to visit you don't tell yeah uh sherlock as he sleeps quite it's quite a creepy scene

00:42:18yeah woman's hands he says i don't know quite what he was thinking no i think that's from black

00:42:22that is that is it oh no ah you have a woman's hand all my life is a confusing mess

00:42:31i'm thinking

00:42:32i'm writing other people's shows tell me you're not gonna tell him

00:42:37i think it's a measure of amanda's skill that you don't we we are intrigued but we don't hate her

00:42:44we

00:42:45want to know what's going on so this um oh yeah yeah she's just so so likeable um but the

00:42:52uh this

00:42:53was a an interesting scene wasn't it i mean uh i knew that one thing i thought was she had

00:42:58to kick

00:42:58back at him i didn't want her to be just the sorrowing woman uh but we originally do you remember

00:43:04at the end of the scene we had her leaving and they and they and they almost make up yeah

00:43:09so says

00:43:09yeah she says look you know we're obviously not getting married but if no one wants us at the age

00:43:13of 60 yeah should we just get together yeah and that sort of ties in with the idea of the

00:43:17cottage

00:43:18that we know he's going to one day live in well she says she's she's bought the cottage and says

00:43:22it downs with the money and he says keep the beehives but it was too he got off the hook

00:43:28yeah i didn't

00:43:29like the idea that he'd got off the hook that he should he should be made to suffer because i

00:43:33mean

00:43:33she takes the sort of comedy revenge of the uh of the newspapers which i think he probably quite

00:43:38admires uh finds it faintly embarrassing but admires that she was clever but the fact that she

00:43:44just skewers him with you lied and lied and we could have been friends and that seems to me quite

00:43:50no

00:43:50it's good because it's it has consequences yeah it means he's not just going to get away with it

00:43:55and he does actually like her yeah but the fact is he's capable of doing this kind of thing to

00:44:00people

00:44:00he likes and she's you know she's kind decent and clever and look how he screwed up and also i

00:44:08mean he could just have asked her nailed it

00:44:14but a really lovely performance yeah i know what kind of man you are as we know he'll be back

00:44:20everybody is yes she's such fun in me she's like well i just like the idea that i don't know

00:44:25if we'd

00:44:26ever do it but sherlock if if he needs a date for somewhere would just phone up and say would

00:44:31you

00:44:31go come on i'll take you that place and she'd say you know i hate you yeah and he'd oh

00:44:35come on and

00:44:36she'd go and they'd have a great time and he'd still be appalling to her and leave her stranded

00:44:41somewhere or possibly she'd leave maybe she'd just hang up

00:44:50evil amanda

00:44:52mary watson

00:45:04mary watson

00:45:06same uh corridors as john watson ran through in study in pink

00:45:11we're running out of locations

00:45:16on two shows it must be said actually i just remember there's a there's another mini scene

00:45:22here we had to lose that's fine uh with the there's a doctor yes they're talking about uh

00:45:28he's taking all the morphine yeah but they have yeah it didn't actually make sense but yeah did we

00:45:34shoot it we did yeah so where would he go oh christ knows yeah it was just the gag was

00:45:40he someone's

00:45:40taking all the morphine yeah he does that he's got i love you but he

00:45:45hill camden lock and dagmar court five known bold holes there's the blind greenhouse in queue

00:45:51gardens and the leaning it's the first scene rupee live ever actually this is that's it really

00:45:56i'm sorry man would you like more things

00:46:02what is a blind greenhouse writing

00:46:06that's great he's applying two with a blind green eyes and something mysterious yeah terribly

00:46:11convincing he only knows about it because he stalked him one night

00:46:17he knew have you ever seen with everybody the bullet wound was here so he was facing

00:46:22have you had a scene with everybody i suppose christmas you saw quite a lot of people yes

00:46:25it's usually one of yeah can i point out a mistake uh yeah yeah this scene doesn't i think play

00:46:35quite

00:46:35as strongly because we we cut the bit from the beginning where it's been clear that sherlock has

00:46:40been to the flat he says that there's some food missing and oh yes by cutting that it's not as

00:46:47immediately impactful that he's left the uh the perfume bottles i i i regret that i wish we'd kept

00:46:53that that didn't didn't occur to me until obviously yeah so i resign and with that yes goodbye

00:47:05that'd be great i have to do no more writing yeah john you have to answer it oh god

00:47:17now here we go the saga of leinster terrace leinster gardens now what was it you first found it i

00:47:24found it for in my tube research this amazing fact that there is this these two houses

00:47:33which are totally fake and i meant to cover a vent from when the tubes were steam trains and um

00:47:42i don't know i rang you up this is the most amazing thing desperately tried to visit the empty

00:47:47house where it was supposed to be because i remember you told me and i was actually i think

00:47:50i was in carlis i went back when i went got back to london and i went straight and looked

00:47:54and i thought

00:47:54it was the most i don't know quite why i find that so haunting and so thrilling but it's yeah

00:48:00yes it is

00:48:01actually this is the real thing yeah there is a that the the windows are painted there's no letter

00:48:06boxes it's only five foot deep and as you see when you go over it's um it's just um event

00:48:13for the truth

00:48:13yeah and um and people people live there and don't know they live next door yeah yeah so um

00:48:22pizza delivery people yeah it's it's oh be famous one of those things that people are sent on their

00:48:26first day so this so this is real this isn't this isn't cgi this is an actual uh uh the

00:48:34shot is actually

00:48:34reversed it's just out of the way but um uh so there is no house behind it just that which

00:48:41i think is one

00:48:41of the most no we we tried so hard right up to the ship to try and get it into

00:48:47the empty house

00:48:47and then we had a flailing attempt to get it into the sound of three do you remember

00:48:53and i remember emailing you think i finally i think i've got a way to get into it last month

00:48:58but it's one of those things actually one of the funny things it's like that's why it's slightly

00:49:03annoying but that um that samartha road isn't really there because it's quite nice to find some to

00:49:08actually be able to say to people you can go and look at that it's so brilliant i should i

00:49:12should

00:49:13specify there isn't really an interior 23 and 24 leinster gardens leinster gardens this is now the

00:49:19studio version yeah we've made and your neighbors don't know apparently the book i founded in the

00:49:25the guy went to talk to people and they'd say for what and he'd go it's there all years people

00:49:31and

00:49:31actually the hotel that we we were based in there for filming the henry the eighth i think it is

00:49:37uh

00:49:37they um apparently when he spoke to me they didn't have a clue it's like this here

00:49:45i want to go tomorrow

00:49:46i think people haven't uh if i could just complain to charlotte fandom i know people've got excited

00:49:53enough about this maybe they don't realize it's real but maybe we're we're not watching them going

00:49:58every day that's true one of my cameras has failed he said that's it how bad did you want to

00:50:06find

00:50:06out oh this is exciting yeah with your face projected on the front of it yeah it's uh it's

00:50:15also i mean it's exciting it's also joyously mad isn't it when they're in inside a facade

00:50:25this world's largest metaphor yes Amanda's brilliant thing here just she's still very

00:50:31charming but she sort of drops all the pleasantness yes really you can completely believe it but she's

00:50:37made a big mistake

00:50:43dummy i suppose that was a fairly obvious trick

00:50:54i slightly wish i'd cut a couple of lines there i wish i'd kept in uh when she says uh

00:50:59you know you

00:51:00know uh he says you saved my life or whatever he says i nearly killed you and he says yeah

00:51:05and you

00:51:05didn't hit the middle of the coin you nobody's perfect we sort of slightly covers the fact that

00:51:10although although she saves his life she also nearly kills him yeah i'll take the case

00:51:19so in in in in sherlock's defense he's he's really quite forgiving as far as

00:51:24assassins yeah i mean he's he's decent i think i'd be i would be crosser i think i would maintain

00:51:32floider i don't think for a longer period i think he's got the energy that's the key to

00:51:36yourself he doesn't look so well no he doesn't he does a lot really well doesn't he benedict

00:51:42just a slightly lots of choices yeah which is serious okay

00:51:51my favorite bit coming up which is that in the midst of this great emotional trauma

00:51:55john is still mostly concerned about putting his hair right

00:52:08oh god it's just dreadful yeah this is this is further this is a moment of tension this is another

00:52:17lovely bit i think that again that decision to then just go forward well away so you can go back

00:52:24it

00:52:24just it just sort of in all honesty i don't know why that works i remember just thinking i was

00:52:30writing i have to cut forward i need to get out of here yeah but then you have to go

00:52:33back yeah but

00:52:34it sort of makes you look forward to it yeah lying around if it's so important but it felt odd

00:52:39to me

00:52:40i kept i kept waiting for the note you know don't do that and uh okay how warm was it

00:52:47on that christmas

00:52:48oh god yes that was a very hot christmas yes so much greenery around

00:52:54i don't know you had to remind remind them that it was a christmas thing at some point

00:52:59said no can you not pan off that rose in full blue i have i have threatened to do special

00:53:06classes for

00:53:07all directors and dops about what happens to leaves at christmas

00:53:10yes okay but we have actually got some good shots of uh apparently wintry landscapes

00:53:21now why why is sherlock her favorite that's what i would clearly is yeah well you know he's younger

00:53:29younger glamorous oh god better looking how much i said get out

00:53:36you're a stuffy old civil servant he's a detective i mean really

00:53:41and i love the fact that he insisted on that bow tie yeah yeah that's because he's getting ready to

00:53:46watch doctor who no he said that he said he does that to benedict to embarrass him he does exactly

00:53:51that because he's wearing some musical socks in silly bow ties he's a dear

00:53:57beautiful one for children i could just the thing that fathers do i do just be you know even worse

00:54:03than normal to faintly embarrass your son well you really you get to that stage don't you i think

00:54:08when you're older at christmas you think oh i'm the man in the corner now yeah

00:54:13my duty is to embarrass and then suddenly it all becomes clear yeah honestly yes no yeah it's very liberating

00:54:22isn't it

00:54:24if you don't mind no of course not oh i love this i think it's desperately moving and so

00:54:33real actually after all they've been through i think it's terribly real

00:54:40and also it's good we don't you know we don't actually have to go through all those months of

00:54:45silence yeah you can just sketch it in like that you know it's also something very i mean i know

00:54:53we sort of hesitated over it but with uh benedict there saying uh we've had their ups and downs it's

00:54:58just a very honest answer you often see sherlock always just having to deal with just real life as

00:55:03it is it's fantastic john one thing to note in this uh i think this extraordinary scene where all

00:55:10uh all four of you are just amazing is that amanda has one word she has one word and look

00:55:18at what

00:55:18she puts into it exactly is the point of view

00:55:25everybody else is is the biggest crisis of their lives yeah this is right about the neighbors

00:55:32a psychopath yes we've settled that shut up i remember getting the rushes of this

00:55:43and uh just thinking it's it's just the best acting i've ever seen which one to choose yeah

00:55:50my whole life to deserve you and i have to say the you know next blocking of it allowing you

00:55:57know

00:55:57martin on the floor and uh and there's sherlock standing in the doorway of his own lair sort of

00:56:03almost nervous to come in yes he knows he's even we've just seen what he's been capable of yes he's

00:56:11very nervous about this yeah your best friend is a sociopath who solves crimes as an alternative to

00:56:16getting high i mean it did take a while on this cut didn't it because you could go so many

00:56:20different

00:56:20ways about how the angers show yeah i know as ever martin gives you loads and loads of different

00:56:25possibilities if you've been youtube john lifestyle does it we worried about the youtubing line didn't

00:56:33it but i think just keeping the the the thing going of of mrs hudson not really joining in with

00:56:39the

00:56:39angst yes she wasn't supposed to be why is she like that again beautiful music ah this music i was

00:56:54playing it for uh from the cd that it was just it's we haven't talked enough about the music

00:57:00it was astonishingly good that's david arnold and michael price as ever um absolutely fantastic it's

00:57:08so um what i mean you know when when we need it to be extremely exciting exactly but they are

00:57:16they

00:57:16have such a wonderful touch with with the melancholy yeah and the heartbreak irene's theme

00:57:21from uh scandal but yes this um theme is just wonderful okay there were some girls yesterday

00:57:29in uh in richmond string quartet by the station playing the show no just when they saw you

00:57:38she's gone she's gone who's that is that you can be quick um this is amanda's single word coming up

00:57:46just how much has she got into that the people who come in here with their stories

00:57:52that the clients that's all you are now mary i was uh at the orchestra recording for for this

00:57:58actually um and it was just heartbreaking hearing it all the stuff as it swells towards the end of

00:58:05this thing it's absolutely extraordinary i love those recordings because there's nothing you can do

00:58:13it's just so you you do just sort of think musicians are just more talented than other people

00:58:20because they see this music for the first time that day they sit with a bunch of people they don't

00:58:23know

00:58:23that well and they all play it at once and they've got a hive mind it's amazing we were at

00:58:27david um

00:58:29constantly we can uh sometimes it's actually difficult to realize they're in front of you

00:58:33playing it yeah the sound is so complete so full yes it's sort of like you're just listening in the

00:58:39cinema anything no they're just there and he said they got that music that morning yeah yeah

00:58:44so you can tell them when they end the world festival now agra agra it's of course a back

00:58:50reference to the great agra treasure which is mary's inheritance in the story she first appears in

00:58:57here it's her initials amanda what's that google ray rampant

00:59:05oh you've got a necklace i think what is it on there yes if you love me don't have to

00:59:13explain

00:59:13that at some point yes there's quite a lot of things we have to explain mark i've got a list

00:59:19somewhere i don't want to see that happen

00:59:27oh i'm getting absorbed by this yeah it's difficult you have to think though what

00:59:34has mary herself made a decision to change her life i mean if she meets john watson and she thinks

00:59:42he's a very decent man is she actually intending to become to go straight i think so or is it

00:59:51always

00:59:52my it was my it's my sort of feeling was better you know but a bit like john she can't

00:59:59really keep

00:59:59away from that you know she fits in with uh these two blokes because she's got exactly the same

01:00:05problem you know i've spent you know i can spend six months without having an adventure but not seven

01:00:10you know that's you know it's just she's happy when what other what other wife is going to be

01:00:17sending john out to play with sherlock and then tagging along you know the way she behaves in the

01:00:22sign of three is preposterous for a bride at a wedding yeah yeah any documents that magnuson

01:00:27has she she likes that world better and returned in my head though she's sort of like um

01:00:35callum she she's a she's a troubled assassin yeah yeah i don't want to think that she's

01:00:40she's not totally evil i know i think the callum comparison is terrific

01:00:44i love callum but the idea that she's done bad things but not because that's what she wants to do

01:00:50yeah what do you do now i love the shot coming up uh the one where she hits but she

01:00:59hits large yes

01:01:00it's amazing and the glasses flew off in the most perfect way nice shooting

01:01:13these are fun rushes to watch the sentiment got the better of you

01:01:18the sentiment got the better phantom is such a great camera isn't it in the hope that it would

01:01:24bide you more time to negotiate my silence

01:01:27of course we're going to shoot magnuson on this book broke into the building

01:01:31and the husband would become a slammer yeah it's just fantastic but this shot his phantom camera is

01:01:37wow yeah that magnuson would use the fact of your involvement rather than sharing the information

01:01:46with the police as is his emma

01:01:50should mention clara here as well a great makeup designer who uh who did the first series and then

01:01:58uh couldn't do the second series i found the ambulance who's uh arwell's wife there's no nepotism

01:02:03yeah there was a point where which we three wasn't when i worked how many married couples

01:02:08that were on the table

01:02:11i think particularly the stages of sherlock's recovery actually he looks properly ghastly yeah

01:02:17and then that sort of like as he does here sort of feverish yeah it's not a good idea to

01:02:23be walking

01:02:23around at this point it's very erratic you may need to restart my heart's on the way of you john

01:02:33john like this is all the matters good it's well the entire magnuson plot has has taken a back seat

01:02:38here yeah for quite a while but you don't mind because the actual emotional stakes i think is so

01:02:43huge well it's it's the way it leads you from one story to another doesn't it yeah you know you're

01:02:50investigating magnus and then it turns out oh damn it you're actually investigating mary yeah

01:02:57i remember when i was watching this being filmed i was really confused the way why uh nick had put

01:03:02christmas lights in the industry yes yes just to make the transition work it's very clever

01:03:07would you come here a moment no tell me have you just oh this is altogether too moving

01:03:19it's in from the spare room i've thought long enough about what i want to say to you see i

01:03:25think

01:03:25this is very clever i must say the the curse of saying things that you wouldn't say in real life

01:03:33i remember martin at the graveside in reichenbach saying i find you genuinely find this very difficult

01:03:38and then eventually i then quoted him in the tube station saying exactly that because there's sort

01:03:42of things you don't really say you have to say it but then to actually work out a way of

01:03:48saying i've

01:03:48thought about this these are prepared words it's kind of the perfect escape because it means so much

01:03:55but he couldn't just do it on the hoof now no i didn't write it

01:04:00but also there's actually five doctor who scripts on that memory stick damn is that where they went

01:04:08that's where they look no wonder we're behind um yeah but it's also it's a fun thing isn't it

01:04:15because i mean i think that's i think this whole sequence has been rather wonderful but the truth is

01:04:19it's uh structurally it allows you to get past the fact that may has revealed has shot

01:04:24sherlock and been revealed to be a villain and now he's going to be forgiven yeah yeah in a

01:04:28relatively short space of time and you sort of buy it curiously i think if you did that in a

01:04:33linear

01:04:34way it would work now you think not enough time has passed somehow and this was a lot of people's

01:04:44why do you hate him because you'll note uh uh that uh we've christmased the background sometimes

01:04:50you see wader shots here and they're uh the frosting and a bit of bear trees

01:04:55we had a special de-leafing man didn't we yeah yeah and that's the christmas the anti-christmas man

01:05:02yes jack frost he came in he was made of sticks

01:05:08i'm inviting mary of this scene i don't smoke

01:05:12okay there's heristic herbal cigarettes and then um benedict saying he he needed real ones

01:05:25um well it was it was affecting his breathing or something and then he wanted real ones and then

01:05:30he said he it was making him a bit spacey and i was just standing there having smoked like 85

01:05:37i'm all right smelling like a bomb yeah oh they're so horrible on balance you have more utility closer

01:05:44to home utility how do i have utility here be dragon you'll be dragon this isn't but again here this

01:05:54you're saying oh i'm glad you've got over the whole you need loads magnuson thing yes it's over

01:05:59as far as i think so yes also hmm oh dear your loss would break my heart it's all right

01:06:07it's only

01:06:08the punch talking isn't it yeah remember when we debated about that you know because yeah i wasn't

01:06:13showing you what you thought if we actually just he has been drugged maybe he's just a bit

01:06:19that's all right yeah actually the funny way it's about both of them being high yes very briefly

01:06:24yeah but uh sherlock got us out here to see this is one of my favorite bits that's an amazing

01:06:30emotional it's a devastating thing and then sherlock just pops and says don't drink the punch

01:06:36it's horrible but you've got it when we showed it at the uh a bafta that night you weren't

01:06:40there mark it gets a huge laugh yeah the uh don't drink the tea

01:06:44yeah just in case you thought you've forgotten that you were watching sherlock holmes we're back

01:06:53in his text to see his dad still breathing yes that's okay though had he not been breathing he'd

01:06:59carried on let's be clear don't worry wiggins isn't it i calculated your wife's toast myself

01:07:07you'll monitor their recovery it's more than us his day job deal with the devil

01:07:16they're curious i don't know why i always forget the scene is coming

01:07:21this restaurant in cardiff which i've eaten in many times has the most brilliant thing you know that

01:07:25often italian office italian restaurants have pictures of visiting stars yeah and i've always

01:07:31loved that there they are this one has so many pictures of tom jones it's like a flick book

01:07:37when you watch him age yes i'm assuming there's now a picture

01:07:45i've still got the card from that restaurant because it's got a little uh it's got a little

01:07:50magnifying glass in the card which enables me to read yes i noticed that magnifying glass i gave

01:07:56you for your 50 of your desk next to next to any given piece of newsprint i'm afraid so i'm

01:08:02afraid so

01:08:04i do need it it's not a joke

01:08:08i've got glasses and i still need the magnifying glass

01:08:14it's the dead i've never eaten in that restaurant is it nice yes

01:08:17very nice i'll be in this good other restaurants are available we haven't named it it's fine

01:08:21okay it's just that restaurant it's that restaurant but this is also nice because it's one of those

01:08:27things which we we've always striven to keep in which is that sherlock makes mistakes yes he's not

01:08:31a superhuman he's not totally omniscient he gets things wrong and this is a biggie yeah he's uh

01:08:39because he's totally failed to realize how like him magnuson is yeah the one thing he is blind to

01:08:45is what he's like

01:08:50and a lovely discussion as well about the point here where lars um invasively puts his hand in his

01:08:57yeah food and eats an olive and then he washes his fingers it's so disgusting

01:09:03well it's just that sense of entitlement isn't it absolutely love his stillness as well

01:09:12he had such a good time in this show didn't he yes he really loved doing it

01:09:18it's horrible that is just disgusting

01:09:25you can imagine though it's someone's like that that powerful they become well it's the story of

01:09:29all kings i'd say completely lose touch with the reality christmas think everything is their play

01:09:35thing and i can almost don't know when you're watching the tennis yes and you've always got

01:09:40the ball boys that give them the towel yeah and they never say thank you do they

01:09:43that really annoy us it's like that thank you yes you knew nigh there

01:09:58ah there's our lift

01:10:02see again a little leafless tree there does me care

01:10:09where are we sure they can't go in the helicopter a bit no

01:10:13yeah everyone

01:10:14no

01:10:19we've ever encountered and the odds are comprehensively stacked against us

01:10:23but it's christmas

01:10:27hoary old gag i apologize but it makes me laugh

01:10:39this is hard to imagine a time there was a time in television when those two guys weren't

01:10:44sparring all those trees yeah but you can't tell i think once you establish there's one there

01:10:49there's what just those i'll say two words climate change yeah yeah and some of them are evergreen

01:10:54obviously yeah yeah yeah yeah are you watching the scene yeah i hope so

01:11:00now this is interesting here's a he's a bond fact this uh guy with the long long white ponytail

01:11:06is one of the other poker players in casino royale is that where i know i'm from

01:11:12lars's brother so there's a strange one connection oh yeah

01:11:23it's good because it's the place despite its luxury is soulless just like lars i think it's kind

01:11:28of clinical i think partly because it isn't lived in but it's uh yeah it's uh

01:11:32i would offer you a drink like an art gallery one yeah

01:11:43there we are and now it's explained he's watching the empty house look yes he loves it

01:11:50a big fan of sure yeah just catching up on me

01:11:53there's been a whole episode since then you've missed one

01:12:01other detective shows our room no they're not

01:12:06put me in a fire for leverage oh i've never let you burn dr watson

01:12:15i'm not a man again sherlock thinks he's been very clever but he's miscalculated here rather badly

01:12:24i suppose in the end uh magnuson's miscalculation is

01:12:29there's no there's no way to defeat me bang

01:12:32his last his last thought must have been bugger oh yeah good one oh that yes

01:12:40shoot me in the face that works it's just ruined ruined ah no but no one's watching it for the

01:12:46first

01:12:46time listening to us wittering are they and if they are then they're fools

01:12:52what's this wife i own my crop maybe they didn't know of course he's what the dubbing was bad

01:12:58that's a very interesting point though the the idea of the leverage on different people that that's

01:13:03in fact how it must always work you think that someone's untouchable they'll have a weakness because

01:13:10of their fondness for someone or something you get to that you lean on that and eventually you've got the

01:13:16person so it makes a horrific sense doesn't i'm sure it's true you don't it doesn't have to be the

01:13:21person with the weakness doesn't even have to be their wife doesn't even have to be their wife's

01:13:24friend but if the wife's friend's friend you know and then and then you've got the dominoes falling

01:13:29i don't need to see it but you might enjoy it though i enjoy it then why didn't you show

01:13:37us show you

01:13:38it's um it's interesting isn't it uh one thing i think is always very wrong when people talk about

01:13:45um writing is uh is fear of exposition the exposition is actually really quite interesting

01:13:52particularly towards the end that's all exposition yeah but it's interesting you want to know it

01:13:57well it's people will always get rightly frustrated if they don't want to come on it it's not about

01:14:03it's just about how you do it i think what's annoying is when people feel they have to tell

01:14:07you everything about their backstory there's nothing to do and they tell each other and then you're all

01:14:12my life here's my story and here's a poignant incident from my childhood which mystically

01:14:18accounts for why i'm behaving like this especially when i do

01:14:25i think in the um in the original story it's curious ending isn't it it's a wonderful story

01:14:31charles augustus milverton but holmes and watson break into appledore to his house

01:14:37appledore towers in order to get all this all the stuff they've been um commissioned

01:14:45but then what happens while they're hiding behind the curtains milverton comes in and then

01:14:50a totally random other victim a woman comes in because sherlock arms and confronts him and shoots

01:14:58him and grinds her shoe into his face it's wonderful um and then the and then the servants

01:15:04come and then the police come and uh and then and and sherlock and dr watson flee and nearly get

01:15:11caught

01:15:12and it's very exciting but it's a curious thing because again this is sort of meant this ending

01:15:16a bit that uh it feels a bit like dr watson narrating that story slightly altered the truth

01:15:22because you think well who really killed him yes

01:15:26i didn't realize it was apple door in the original yeah yeah i'd have known if i would

01:15:30it was worrying at this late stage darling oh dear it's just a toilet

01:15:47what are those doors so they were made out of one all the doors in the house are all made

01:15:54from one

01:15:55trees so if you look at them yeah they all match so if you scratch them they were just priceless

01:16:01if

01:16:02you scratch the door you'd have to replace all oh god oh god all that stuff and go get it

01:16:09out

01:16:09and that table as well that was their table yeah close my eyes that's why he's sitting in that quite

01:16:15cheap chair it's not a cheap chair is it okay i can go anywhere inside my vault and the actual

01:16:24vault

01:16:24is in um in the university isn't it and you shot that that's it that's where we took our door

01:16:30yeah

01:16:31that's right it was actually shot it's a shot um just before janine comes out i think nick wanted

01:16:39to see martin's hand going to open oh yes he did yes he did but it was we just couldn't

01:16:45work out

01:16:45what he was talking about no we we worked out very cleverly what he must have meant and delivered

01:16:52a completely useless shot yeah the two of you took a whole crew off to do yeah yeah yeah it's

01:16:57got

01:16:57to be said i shot all these though that's not martin that's thy bomb is it oh my god

01:17:04i remember it was benedict this is lovely this is whatever terrible naughty secrets

01:17:15i can really see why you like her

01:17:22you know the i'm sure we said this before actually last time but the odd thing the very first time

01:17:26i

01:17:26came across the idea of a mine palace was in hannibal the novel uh by thomas harris

01:17:32not because hannibal elected does it no it's all strangely come

01:17:35everything is knowing is owning but if you just know it then you don't have proof proof

01:17:45what would i need proof for i'm in news you're more that's it that's to me is the most chilling

01:17:50line isn't it because that's absolutely i don't need proof i'm in news it's that's fine

01:17:55we don't have to prove it i just have to print it yes uh as earlier which again has been

01:17:59pointed

01:18:00and i wrote exactly the same right line in press gang many many years about you see i didn't know

01:18:06i'd written it before i thought i'd made it up new i'm getting i'm just i'm just going in circles

01:18:18that table

01:18:22starring the table now we shot this scene over three nights because we could only have it at certain

01:18:29light and the helicopter for a certain yeah i remember that the amazing thing with the helicopter

01:18:34that guy could literally land it on it on a pound coin he was amazing but then when he when

01:18:41his time

01:18:41was up he just went he suddenly said i have to go now and then we go well we actually

01:18:47turned the camera

01:18:47on it and say at least get him going away it's all to do where they have to get back

01:18:54to and they've

01:18:55got lights they can't fly at night this is the most obsessive scene it's horrible isn't it yeah

01:19:02which is again interesting because it's nothing it's not exactly severe torture is it it's just

01:19:09humiliating isn't it look at that

01:19:15it's a great man who did that three nights of this wasn't it it was yes but i think they

01:19:21worked out

01:19:21the way that would be least horrific i know who's married he does this to countries that's

01:19:27and again that's that's how it works isn't it who hates her

01:19:32he has a horrible line about janine he did it

01:19:38all in my mind palace

01:19:41he's just a bully really yeah

01:19:43it is sort of he's sort of trivial in a sort of way as he says he doesn't have a

01:19:49master plan

01:19:49he's not about to conquer the world he's just acquiring stuff let me flick your face

01:19:54and also he doesn't know he's a babby no not at all that's that's the way well he doesn't think

01:19:59in other people matter enough for it to be evil to abuse them a bit but he's never killed anyone

01:20:05as sherlock is about to just because i've said that i personally i'd shoot him in the face

01:20:11i think he's a long time ago

01:20:17horrible horrible it's obstinately upsetting

01:20:20let him i'm sorry so humiliating so i never mind the pain

01:20:25come on don't worry it's good he's got a bad thing's gonna happen i'm fairly confident

01:20:32it's difficult isn't it janine managed it once

01:20:36she makes it we then did um the helicopter close-ups of me arriving uh at the airport in a

01:20:44plane

01:20:44yeah we did in a because we didn't which i then do yes we would go we didn't have time

01:20:51this is

01:20:52it yeah we didn't have time i was supposed to to go into the helicopter that we were at time

01:20:56so

01:20:56that was done several weeks later in your mind nowhere else just there they're not real

01:21:07it's fine i'm a low-paid archaeologist happy birthday merry christmas goodbye she's waiting

01:21:15as benedict uh yeah got slightly lost in his lines at one point

01:21:20i'm a business man you happen to be one of them sorry no time it's full of hero shots yeah

01:21:32it's awfully good this show i tell you i know i've said that before

01:21:38i'm not a hero i'm a high functioning sociopath merry christmas

01:21:51get fired get fired yeah you useless bunch of numpties what were you doing i was supposed to

01:21:57deny with our guns they might have to remember benedict was asking for various other ways of

01:22:06killing magnus yes that's right yes he wanted to do it he wouldn't break twist his head off yeah yeah

01:22:12i think he was yes he was he's gone a bit calm i think he can yeah makes me cry

01:22:19every time

01:22:22well it's pretty because the handsome young man

01:22:24yeah that's amazing

01:22:38oh sherlock we're just watching it now isn't it we're useless

01:22:43there he is

01:22:45oh the little blue eyes like that yes i had i had that as the the uh my the shot

01:22:52on my iphone for ages

01:22:53just i thought i've got my son crying no the one from behind when he's got his hands up yeah

01:22:59uh and i

01:23:00thought i've got a picture on my iphone of my son being you know held at gunpoint by a helicopter

01:23:05that's that's not healthy there will always come a time it was good though wasn't it wonderful

01:23:11weren't you rather ill when we did this yes i had this is just before my physical collapse at

01:23:16the end of the series i got conductivitis in a terrible colour that's a brotherly wonderful

01:23:20simon quince there yes he's great really great you know what happened to the other one what did that

01:23:27name

01:23:27that name

01:23:29without causing a riot on a daily basis

01:23:33the alternative however would require your approval for some reason

01:23:39because she's the head of of approvals because she's wearing sarah james smith top from planet the

01:23:44spiders um there's a little bond reference at the top of that isn't there which we've been talking

01:23:47about there which is oh yes yes uh it's uh it is um is it m that says of uh

01:23:54bond this country

01:23:56needs a a blunt instrument you will look after him for me won't you don't worry okay so this is

01:24:04it the

01:24:04great goodbye that's my girl well he leaves at the end of all seriousness this is the one we thought

01:24:14well at least we don't have to go back and reshoot this again yes now this plane belongs to

01:24:23bruce dickinson from iron maiden yes but it was based in den wasn't it going back to denmark they

01:24:28know we could have taken last yeah he lent us his planes very kind of awfully nice now we've had

01:24:37a scam we're pretty sure it's a girl okay we did have a long talk about this at the end

01:24:44of it they

01:24:45should just have a handshake yeah of course we forget this this episode is called his last vow which is

01:24:50a

01:24:51version of his last bow which is the canonically the last story the time the last time we see them

01:24:56together just before the first world war and sherlock is in disguise and it's about a german

01:25:01spy called von bork and dr watson is involved and then they have when it's all sorted they have this

01:25:06fantastic famous scene on the balcony looking out over the sea and he says there's an east wind coming

01:25:11and he says no i think it's going to be quite fair good old watson the one fixed point in

01:25:16a changing

01:25:17age and this is really the only bit of it that's in the episode but it's fantastic yeah yeah it's

01:25:23it's

01:25:23a very it's a terribly moving scene in the original because it because it unlike this it really is the

01:25:28last time this week and yeah because holmes says to watson this may well be the last quiet chat we

01:25:33ever

01:25:33have yeah uh the implication being that holmes is going back undercover and so on so all the stuff

01:25:38that's here and the war to come yes now the now i can't remember i have i've lost track here

01:25:49but uh

01:25:49it gives the name william sherlock scott holmes that comes from uh the ws bangles uh biography of

01:25:56sherlock which he's worked out that that's what he must be called yes yes whether it's true or not who

01:26:01knows because we never never actually worked out actually why how two normal parents eventually

01:26:08give them such strange names there must be some reason yeah well i bet you see william sherlocks

01:26:15i mean sherlock could he i know but i don't like i've never liked that that's like to me that's

01:26:19not

01:26:19like at the end of last crusade when you discover that he's not called indiana jones he's he's called

01:26:23henry jr the dog was called i'd never like that no that's his name i think we just are there

01:26:29any other

01:26:29sherlocks or michael as real no unless they've ever been named after this i can't i quite like

01:26:37the fact he chose sherlock maybe he's been leaving the realms of speculation but i do like

01:26:44the idea that everyone calls mycroft mike i think that's great because that is true that is true

01:26:51people would call him mike yes there you go there's when we gave you to can you just bring the

01:26:58plane

01:26:59round again to certain yes i objected to some piece of blocking and uh and sue said okay bring the

01:27:05plane

01:27:07the benefit of sleeping with the jeepsel what the look at that football game mark

01:27:15i don't know what they're doing

01:27:29you don't know it's on every screen in the country every screen simultaneously and indeed

01:27:34in fact it's the second time he's returned this episode it's pretty impressive but that's not

01:27:40possible that is simply not possible what's happened sir it's your brother

01:27:52mycroft hello little brother that didn't last long did it

01:27:56well i certainly hope you've learned your lesson

01:28:01for god's sake make up your mind he needs me this time did you miss me did you miss me

01:28:12did you miss me did you miss me i don't know how did you do it was a shocker to

01:28:17me he just keeps

01:28:17coming back doesn't he so how can he be back well if he is remembering that we were in the

01:28:24edit with

01:28:25nick and um i said we should we should put the very last thing in it after the credits yeah

01:28:30yeah yeah

01:28:30just so we've got something else to look forward to

01:28:37hey i thought that was great

01:28:42let's play my favorite television program apart from the other one

01:28:47which is also

01:28:49and the one in the middle

01:29:04hey yeah miss me

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