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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle (1984)
Does this treatment really deal with the flaw in the plot?
As always, this surpasses the original in depth and layers of meaning. The original story, however, contains a serious flaw. (SPOILER WARNING: this concerns the solution to some degree) Holmes is seen putting the recovered gem away in a drawer, stating that he intends to keep it as a souvenir. The problem is that (1) he can't legally do this as the stone belongs to the Countess; (2) he can't exonerate the wrongly arrested man without returning the stone and (3) explaining how he came by it, which would in turn oblige him to (4) reveal THE SPOILER to the police. Subsequent showings of this episode retained the drawer shot but blanked out Holmes' line of dialog about keeping the stone, allowing viewers to infer that sooner or later he did the right thing and returned the carbuncle to its legal owner.