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Return of Sherlock Holmes

[ranchofiesta · 9/10 · 7 August 2021]

I admit I love Andrew Gower's Sherlock Holmes in The Murdoch Mysteries! (As much as I loved Mr Gower's Prince Charles Stuart in Outlander) So I knew I would enjoy this episode, and was not disappointed. Well, a little disappointed - the final scene leaves a lot of assumptions. So Benjamin just, what? Inherits everything and happily lives with the Nanny as his guardian?? No follow up on how Ben handles the loss of parents AND imposter parents?? C'mon Dr Ogden! And you a shrink *smh* A very short conversation about that, between Sherlock and Ben, would have made sense. All in all though, I did love it.

Déja Vu, all over again.

[miles-33108 · 10/10 · 15 November 2016]

This episode begins with a red-haired woman fleeing from the scene of a suspicious death. A man lies on the floor with a head wound, next to an empty whisky bottle. When Murdoch arrives at the scene, he discovers that someone has beaten him there. It is David Kingsley, a young man already known to Murdoch, who goes through life believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes, because of a childhood trauma. 'Holmes' tells Murdoch that the dead man was his client, who had engaged him to find Nora Webb, a woman with red hair. It seems she found the dead man, Wallace Burns, before he found her.

For the sake of expediency, Murdoch plays along with Kingsley's Holmes persona, from whom he learns that Burns is a visitor from Edinburgh, and Holmes predicts that if Murdoch were to examine the dead man's wallet, he would find within it, notes in Scottish currency to match the pound note sent to hire him. These predictions prove true..

Nora Webb has been working as the nanny to a boy called Ben McQueen, but Mr and Mrs McQueen tell Murdoch that she has not returned after some time off, though they suspect she will, presently. Through speaking to the boy, it becomes clear that he enlisted the services of Mr Holmes, not the dead man Burns. Shocked by his error, Holmes quickly reviews his information, from which it becomes plain that Burns is Ben's Godfather.

This episode contains some fine twists and turns, requiring cutting-edge forensic science, psychological insights and the attention to detail for which Holmes and Murdoch are famed. By the end, we also understand why Ben is so drawn to Holmes.

It was a joy to watch this story.

Love seeing this "Sherlock"

[tert72 · 10/10 · 9 December 2020]

These have been my favorite episodes... Also has a lot less Julia in it, so that is part of it....

Sherlock who?

[ctyankee1 · 25 January 2015]

This is the story of a man that is murdered in his hotel room. The man that admires Sherlock Holmes gets hired by who he thinks is the man that was murdered.

It has to do with finding a red headed female.

Murdock meets Sherlock and a message was left in code to bring them to a house of people that are rich and have a nanny. The nanny bonded with a boy she takes care of but has not shown up for a couple of days and no one knows where she is.

In the course of the story there are too many characters that think they have the answers to this mystery. Sherlock thinks he is smart, the two female doctors, Murdoch's boss and also Office Crabtree. Sometimes it gets confusing when Sherlock overtalks the others.

The end is good through and the little boy who also likes the stories of Sherlock Holmes has a big part in offering clues to finding his nanny.

Sherlock episodes are too cheesy and cringy

[interestingstuff · 16 October 2022]

I don't know why they keep bringing back that fake Sherlock guy who not only adds nothing to the story but makes the episode super cheesy and cringy every time he appears in an episode. He is too cartoony and extremely distracting. It's hard to follow the story with all his antics going on in the background that add nothing to the case.

As much as the case goes, it's a recycle of a similar case this show already covered a couple seasons before this episode, almost to the T. I don't know why this show keeps recycling same storylines over and over. If they are running out of ideas, they should reduce the number of episodes. Instead of making 250+ mediocre episodes they could have made 100 solid episodes and have a better show overall.

Also the solution was exceptionally stupid. At the end Murdoch simply "solves" the case by having a vision on his head and presents ZERO proof of his conclusion so in reality the case actually remains unsolved but the show still pretends he "solved" the case just because they ran out of time.