History NightmareFuel / Sherlock

* This line, all by itself. Doubles as AdultFear.

* Moriarty's series of pre-recorded messages. The red tint that colours Moriarty's features during every recording adds to the jarring effect of his appearances.

* A mere thought of Moriarty, back from the dead prompted Sherlock to inject himself with dangerous amount of Cocaine, resulting in the entire 1895 delusion you see in just a short span of time on the airplane he was exiled on.]

** Especially chilling when you take into account that Sherlock, John, Henry and Lestrade are all [[spoiler:seeing ''something a little different.'' They're all presumably seeing an [[http://cultfix.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sherlock-202-the-hound.jpg enormous black dog with huge teeth and red eyes]], but the details are totally subjective.]] They're all seeing whatever scares the hell out of each of them individually.

* The death of Henry Knight's father. His traumatised memories of the event are bad enough, as we hear his father screaming as he's mauled, [[spoiler:but the reality is actually even worse: An ordinary man wearing a [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DduPrbEcnI/TxdWHv39sFI/AAAAAAAAAGY/eRoI4x3V03g/s1600/image04.png creepy gas mask with red lenses]] and VaderBreath brutally battering Mr Knight to death, then slowly turning and staring at young Henry]].
* At the end of the episode, we get a look at Moriarty's RoomFullOfCrazy. Sherlock's name, scratched into the walls, over and over and over again.]]

* All of the MindRape and emotional breaking Eurus inflicts on the Sherlock, Mycroft, and John, from forcing [[spoiler:the head of the asylum to kill himself to save his wife only for Eurus to ''kill'' said wife, killing two people when Sherlock and Mycroft pinpoint the murderer, and then killing the murderer anyway, and let's not even ''get'' to the fact Eurus forces Sherlock into emotional torment on Molly Hooper by forcing the two to "confess" their love for each other]].

* The cabbie. There's something that's simply... off about him. His body language is utterly creepy and he even sneaks into the flat '''with a police group and Sherlock still in there'''. And just because [[spoiler:his passengers took his cab]], they're going to be '''forced to kill themselves'''.

* [[spoiler:Shan nearly killing Sarah. With a harpoon. And Sarah barely manages to avoid it, thanks to Sherlock and John. One second more and she would've been '''dead'''.]]
* The ending scene: Shan is communicating with her employer, who only goes by "M", and she's trying to convince him of her usefulness, telling it that she won't reveal the latter's identity. [[spoiler:The last shot of the episode is of Shan, with a laser pointed at her forehead and a SmashToBlack as a gunshot is heard. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness You can guess what had just happened.]]]]

* All those poor people in ''The Great Game''. The palpable fear. The sobbing breaths. The things they were [[spoiler:forced to say. The laser sight trained on them. ''That little boy.'']]

** This: [[spoiler:"I can stop John Watson too..." It's the only time John has any difficulty calmly relaying what he's being told to say. The other hostages knew they were in danger and made much more obscure references to the consequences of Sherlock not solving the puzzle, things like "I'm going to be so naughty" or "I can soon stop that"--but Moriarty forces John to relay the threat using his ''own name.'']]

* The moment at the end of ''The Great Game'' when [[spoiler:Moriarty]] gives the first real flash of what he really is -- with just a single word at the end of a four-word sentence.

'''Jim:''' That's what people ''''[[SuddenlyShouting DO!]]''''

* The information found on [[spoiler:the H.O.U.N.D hallucinogen using the Major's password.]] We never get details, but the photographs and snatches of headlines like "blood-brain", "severe frontal lobe damage", "gross cranial trauma", and "multiple homicide" projected across Sherlock's face are incredibly creepy.

* Henry tries to shoot the hound as it's chasing him across the moor. As soon as he fires the gun, a sudden cut reveals that [[spoiler:it was just a hallucination. He was still at his house and ''almost shot his therapist.'']]
* After Sherlock leads everyone to believe there ''isn't'' an actual hound [[spoiler:it turns up anyway with no warning.]]

* Sherlock's [[spoiler:hallucination of Moriarty when unmasking Frankland.]]

* At the end of the episode, we get a look at [[spoiler:Jim's RoomFullOfCrazy. Sherlock's name, scratched into the walls, over and over and over again.]]

* Kidnapped children are nightmarish by definition, but Moriarty's not content with that. He [[spoiler:locks the terrified brother and sister alone in a dark factory, where they will starve to death unless they eat the chocolates he has left for them. For added cruelty, the wrappers are painted with mercury, poisoning the chocolate]].

* Moriarty [[spoiler:pretending to be Richard Brook, a scared actor who was hired by Sherlock to be Moriarty in an attempt to take Sherlock down. He's so convincing that he can make anyone believe that Sherlock is the bad guy.]]
** The idea of Moriarty [[spoiler:having his own kid's show. The guy has strapped ''bombs'' to children. He has poisoned children with mercury. Not to mention the crap he pulls on adults. He's the storyteller on TV. Small children ''trust'' him.]]
* Moriarty's telling of the "tale of Sir Boast-a-Lot." The bad, gritty, home video-like visuals, Moriarty's [[SlasherSmile creepy grin]] throughout, that fact that such a horrifying metaphor is [[spoiler:being disguised as a ''children's program'']]... Sherlock is visibly unnerved as he watches the recording on a cab's TV. [[spoiler:And then the cabbie turns out to be Moriarty.]]

* Moriarty threatening not just John, but everyone Sherlock has ever cared about, in order to convince the detective [[spoiler:to leap off a building to his death]]. If Moriarty's words alone don't do it for you, the sick, ferocious glee with which he says them probably will:

* Moriarty [[spoiler:[[AteHisGun suddenly pulling a gun on himself]], and the [[SlasherSmile psychotic grin]] on his face as he lay in a puddle of his own blood. And, if you look closely, you can see pieces of Jim's brain floating on the edge of the blood]].
** There's also something absolutely ''chilling'' about his words to Sherlock when he arrives on the roof about "staying alive" and "All my life I've been looking for a distraction." Because he freaking ''means it.'' He's not thrilled that he thinks he's beaten Sherlock Holmes. He's ''suicidal'' because he thinks he's beaten his one true diffculty. Jim's realisation that he could [[spoiler:commit suicide to solve the problem of "staying alive" ''and'' scupper Sherlock's chances of beating him]] makes perfect, albiet horrible, sense.
* John [[spoiler:in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle. Sherlock's suicide saved his life by ''mere minutes.'']]
* [[spoiler:Faked or not]], John witnessed [[spoiler:his best friend fall from a building and saw his head smashed in on the ground, blood pooling everywhere, felt his non-existent pulse and saw the lifeless eyes on Sherlock's face]]. It doesn't matter how many dead bodies John has seen in his life, which no doubt is a lot, this was someone he cared passionately about.

* In the Serbian prison, Sherlock's captor is whipping him with a heavy chain. He then picks up a thick, heavy metal pipe and swings it hard in the direction of his face and neck, stopping only because he wants to hear what Sherlock is whispering about him. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Mycroft]] is sitting in the corner with his feet up casually watching, and even at this point, ''he doesn't even flinch.''
* John's [[spoiler:kidnapping and prepared execution.]] And there's even a close up of the [[spoiler:syringe entering John's neck to drug him.]]
** [[spoiler:All those close ups of John struggling under debris and trying to yell for help, only to have his voice come out so quiet and muffled from not being able to get enough air to properly yell. And then the gasoline was added and John started to realize what he was under was about to be a bonfire.]]
** And when it happened, about thirty people realised [[spoiler:a man was trapped in the bonfire]] and, whether because of BystanderEffect or because of self preservation instincts, Sherlock, and Mary to less extent, is the only one to try and help.
* Watching Anderson have a [[SanitySlippage psychotic breakdown]] after [[spoiler:encountering Sherlock for the first time in two years and hearing how he faked his death,]] especially considering how guilty he already felt.

* Charles Augustus Magnussen. Everything he does, from licking Lady Smallwood's face to flicking John's face. [[spoiler:In a deleted scene Magnussen comes into Sherlock's hospital room and touches him while Sherlock is half-unconscious and still under the effects of heavy medication, very similar to the scene where Mary comes in a threatens him while he's medicated.]]

* When Sherlock goes in his Mind Palace during [[spoiler:his DyingDream after being shot by Mary Watson. He goes down to eventually lock himself inside a padded room in which a straight-jacketted Moriarty is staying. This mental Moriarty then tries to incite Sherlock to stop struggling to remain alive.]]

* [[spoiler:Mary]] herself borders on this. Just the fact that she's able to put up such a kind and funny personality to hide from everyone, including Sherlock Holmes of all people, that she was once a ruthless assassin. Not only that, but she's prepared to shoot and mortally wound her closest friends in order to keep her secret.
** There's something especially chilling about the scene where Sherlock is waking up from life-threatening surgery, drugged and weak, to find [[spoiler:Mary]] hovering over him, threatening him not to tell John. She doesn't even show concern or remorse for what she's done to him.

-->[[spoiler:'''Mrs Holmes:''' Someone has put a bullet in my boy and if I ever find out who I shall turn absolutely monstrous. Oh, this was for Mary.]]
* TheStinger. [[spoiler:"[[BackFromTheDead Did you miss]] [[BigBad me?]]"]]. Added with the MassOhCrap reaction from the rest of the characters.

* A mere thought of [[spoiler:Moriarty, back from the dead]] prompted Sherlock to [[spoiler:inject himself with dangerous amount of Cocaine, resulting in the entire 1895 delusion you see]] in just a short span of time on [[spoiler:the airplane he was exiled on.]]

* Sherlock's paranoia about Moriarty gets to the point where he thinks any challenging case [[spoiler:was orchestrated by Moriarty when it fact, it isn't.]]
* The ease and effectiveness that [[spoiler:Mary changes her appearance is very creepy. We see her change from a blonde into a long-haired, red-headed motorcyclist after one quick makeover, and then into a hijab-wearing woman immediately after.]] Imagine someone like this [[spoiler:being your wife!]]
* [[spoiler:Vivian Norbury. An unassuming old secretary who secretly hired assassins for her own benefit right under the noses of her bosses in the British government. Even when exposed, she never ceases being calm and friendly.]].

* TheReveal that the BigBad of season 4 is [[spoiler:Eurus Holmes, the Holmes' brothers' sister so unstable that Mycroft apparently has her watched to make sure she is "secure", whom Sherlock doesn't seem to know exists.]]
** Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely everyone ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including the audience]]) for weeks!]]
** Then there's this line [[spoiler:about what happened to the real therapist.]]
--->'''[[spoiler:Eurus]]:''' Oh hang on. It's fine. She's in the sack in the airing cupboard.

* [[spoiler:[[AllJustADream Despite turning out to be a scenario playing out in Eurus's imagination]],]] the plight of the little girl on the airplane. Imagine being less than twelve years old and being the only one conscious on an airplane with no one piloting it, with no knowledge of how to land it and the only person there to try to help you being a complete stranger on the phone who keeps getting cut off from you.

* TheReveal where we find out just why Sherlock never remembered he had a sister: Throughout the story, it is a plot point that Sherlock's saddest childhood memory was losing his beloved pet dog Redbeard. However, it turns out that Sherlock's memory of losing his Redbeard [[spoiler:was actually something he convinced himself had happened all these years. Redbeard was actually the nickname given to Sherlock's ''best friend'' Victor whenever they played pirates. When Eurus saw that Sherlock was always playing pirates with Victor instead of her, Eurus ''drowned Victor in a well''. Young Sherlock was so traumatized by this that he blocked it all out and instead convinced himself that it was a family pet who had drowned for years afterward.]]
** The worst part? [[spoiler:As this is happening, John is trapped in the very same well that Victor drowned in. John's confused by the presence of unidentified bones in the well with him...until both he and Sherlock realize who these bones belonged to. John picks up the young boy's '''''skull''''' in horror.]]
** At one point, we hear Sherlock say that he dug and dug for days trying to find Redbeard. This is already horrifying enough in and of itself, but with [[spoiler:TheReveal of Redbeard's true identity,]] this becomes even worse. [[spoiler:Just imagine a young Sherlock, terrified and desperate, digging up all of the fake graves in search of the friend he knows is somewhere out there, dying. Young Sherlock wasn't just traumatized because Redbeard was killed, he was traumatized because he wasn't smart or fast enough to save him!]]

'''Jim:''' That's what people ''''DO!''''

** Even worse, [[spoiler:it's an empty room and he has nothing to "write" with. [[FridgeHorror ''What did he use to carve the walls?'']]]]

* The moment at the end of ''The Great Game'' when [[spoiler:Moriarty]] gives the first real flash of what he really is -- with just a single word at the end of a four-word sentence. Give the actor a gold star.

* The rotting, corpse of Emilia Ricoletti '''coming alive [[HellIsThatNoise with a fucking unearthly cry]]''', grabbing Sherlock, as pictured.

* The cabbie. There's something that's simply... off about him. His body language is utterly creepy and he even sneaks into the flat '''with a police group and Sherlock still in there'''. And just because [[spoiler: his passengers took his cab]], they're going to be '''forced to kill themselves'''.

* [[spoiler: Shan nearly killing Sarah. With a harpoon. And Sarah barely manages to avoid it, thanks to Sherlock and John. One second more and she would've been '''dead'''.]]
* The ending scene: Shan is communicating with her employer, who only goes by "M", and she's trying to convince him of her usefulness, telling it that she won't reveal the latter's identity. [[spoiler: The last shot of the episode is of Shan, with a laser pointed at her forehead and a SmashToBlack as a gunshot is heard. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness You can guess what had just happened.]]]]

* All those poor people in ''The Great Game''. The palpable fear. The sobbing breaths. The things they were [[spoiler: forced to say. The laser sight trained on them. ''That little boy.'']]

** This: [[spoiler: "I can stop John Watson too..." It's the only time John has any difficulty calmly relaying what he's being told to say. The other hostages knew they were in danger and made much more obscure references to the consequences of Sherlock not solving the puzzle, things like "I'm going to be so naughty" or "I can soon stop that"--but Moriarty forces John to relay the threat using his ''own name.'']]

-->'''Sherlock:''' "People have died."
-->'''Jim:''' "That's what people ''''DO!''''"

--->'''Jim:''' "SAY THAT AGAIN!! Say that again, and know that if you're lying to me, I will ''find'' you, and I will ssssskiiiinnnnn you..."

* After Sherlock leads everyone to believe there ''isn't'' an actual hound [[spoiler: it turns up anyway with no warning.]]

* Sherlock's [[spoiler: hallucination of Moriarty when unmasking Frankland.]]
* The death of Henry Knight's father. His traumatised memories of the event are bad enough, as we hear his father screaming as he's mauled, [[spoiler: but the reality is actually even worse: An ordinary man wearing a [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DduPrbEcnI/TxdWHv39sFI/AAAAAAAAAGY/eRoI4x3V03g/s1600/image04.png creepy gas mask with red lenses]] and VaderBreath brutally battering Mr Knight to death, then slowly turning and staring at young Henry]].
* At the end of the episode, we get a look at [[spoiler: Jim's RoomFullOfCrazy. Sherlock's name, scratched into the walls, over and over and over again.]]
** Even worse, [[spoiler: it's an empty room and he has nothing to "write" with. [[FridgeHorror ''What did he use to carve the walls?'']]]]

* Kidnapped children are nightmarish by definition, but Moriarty's not content with that. He [[spoiler: locks the terrified brother and sister alone in a dark factory, where they will starve to death unless they eat the chocolates he has left for them. For added cruelty, the wrappers are painted with mercury, poisoning the chocolate]].

* Moriarty [[spoiler: pretending to be Richard Brook, a scared actor who was hired by Sherlock to be Moriarty in an attempt to take Sherlock down. He's so convincing that he can make anyone believe that Sherlock is the bad guy.]]
** The idea of Moriarty [[spoiler: having his own kid's show. The guy has strapped ''bombs'' to children. He has poisoned children with mercury. Not to mention the crap he pulls on adults. He's the storyteller on TV. Small children ''trust'' him.]]

* Moriarty threatening not just John, but everyone Sherlock has ever cared about, in order to convince the detective [[spoiler: to leap off a building to his death]]. If Moriarty's words alone don't do it for you, the sick, ferocious glee with which he says them probably will:
-->'''Moriarty:''' "Ok. Let me give you a little extra incentive... your friends will die if you don't."
-->'''Sherlock:''' "...John?"
-->'''Moriarty:''' "Oh, not just John. ''Everyone''."
-->'''Sherlock:''' "Mrs. Hudson?"
-->'''Moriarty:''' "''EVERYONE''."
-->'''Sherlock:''' "Lestrade?"
-->'''Moriarty:''' "Three bullets. Three gunmen. Three victims. There's no ''stopping'' them now."
* Moriarty [[spoiler: [[AteHisGun suddenly pulling a gun on himself]], and the [[SlasherSmile psychotic grin]] on his face as he lay in a puddle of his own blood. And, if you look closely, you can see pieces of Jim's brain floating on the edge of the blood]].

* In the Serbian prison, Sherlock's captor is whipping him with a heavy chain. He then picks up a thick, heavy metal pipe and swings it hard in the direction of his face and neck, stopping only because he wants to hear what Sherlock is whispering about him. Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Mycroft]] is sitting in the corner with his feet up casually watching, and even at this point, ''he doesn't even flinch.''
* John's [[spoiler: kidnapping and prepared execution.]] And there's even a close up of the [[spoiler: syringe entering John's neck to drug him.]]
** [[spoiler: All those close ups of John struggling under debris and trying to yell for help, only to have his voice come out so quiet and muffled from not being able to get enough air to properly yell. And then the gasoline was added and John started to realize what he was under was about to be a bonfire.]]
** And when it happened, about thirty people realised [[spoiler: a man was trapped in the bonfire]] and, whether because of BystanderEffect or because of self preservation instincts, Sherlock, and Mary to less extent, is the only one to try and help.
* Watching Anderson have a [[SanitySlippage psychotic breakdown]] after [[spoiler: encountering Sherlock for the first time in two years and hearing how he faked his death,]] especially considering how guilty he already felt.

* Charles Augustus Magnussen. Everything he does, from licking Lady Smallwood's face to flicking John's face. [[spoiler: In a deleted scene Magnussen comes into Sherlock's hospital room and touches him while Sherlock is half-unconscious and still under the effects of heavy medication, very similar to the scene where Mary comes in a threatens him while he's medicated.]]

* [[spoiler: Mary]] herself borders on this. Just the fact that she's able to put up such a kind and funny personality to hide from everyone, including Sherlock Holmes of all people, that she was once a ruthless assassin. Not only that, but she's prepared to shoot and mortally wound her closest friends in order to keep her secret.
** There's something especially chilling about the scene where Sherlock is waking up from life-threatening surgery, drugged and weak, to find [[spoiler: Mary]] hovering over him, threatening him not to tell John. She doesn't even show concern or remorse for what she's done to him.

* TheStinger. [[spoiler: "[[BackFromTheDead Did you miss]] [[BigBad me?]]"]]. Added with the MassOhCrap reaction from the rest of the characters.

* A mere thought of [[spoiler: Moriarty, back from the dead]] prompted Sherlock to [[spoiler: inject himself with dangerous amount of Cocaine, resulting in the entire 1895 delusion you see]] in just a short span of time on [[spoiler: the airplane he was exiled on.]]

* Sherlock's paranoia about Moriarty gets to the point where he thinks any challenging case [[spoiler: was orchestrated by Moriarty when it fact, it isn't.]]
* The ease and effectiveness that [[spoiler: Mary changes her appearance is very creepy. We see her change from a blonde into a long-haired, red-headed motorcyclist after one quick makeover, and then into a hijab-wearing woman immediately after.]] Imagine someone like this [[spoiler: being your wife!]]

* TheReveal that the BigBad of season 4 is [[spoiler: Eurus Holmes, the Holmes' brothers' sister so unstable that Mycroft apparently has her watched to make sure she is "secure", whom Sherlock doesn't seem to know exists.]]

** Then there's this line [[spoiler: about what happened to the real therapist.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Eurus]]''': "Oh hang on. It's fine. She's in the sack in the airing cupboard."

--> '''Eurus''': You were my favorite.
--> '''Sherlock''': Why was I your favorite?
--> '''Eurus''': Because I could make you laugh. I loved it when you laughed. Once I made you laugh all night, I thought you were going to burst. Then Mummy and Daddy had to stop me, of course.
--> '''Sherlock''': Why?
--> '''Eurus''': Well, turns out I got it wrong. [[MoodWhiplash It turns out that you were screaming.]]
* [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream Despite turning out to be a scenario playing out in Eurus's imagination]],]] the plight of the little girl on the airplane. Imagine being less than twelve years old and being the only one conscious on an airplane with no one piloting it, with no knowledge of how to land it and the only person there to try to help you being a complete stranger on the phone who keeps getting cut off from you.

* All of the MindRape and emotional breaking Eurus inflicts on the Sherlock, Mycroft, and John, from forcing [[spoiler: the head of the asylum to kill himself to save his wife only for Eurus to ''kill'' said wife, killing two people when Sherlock and Mycroft pinpoint the murderer, and then killing the murderer anyway, and let's not even ''get'' to the fact Eurus forces Sherlock into emotional torment on Molly Hooper by forcing the two to "confess" their love for each other]].
* TheReveal where we find out just why Sherlock never remembered he had a sister: Throughout the story, it is a plot point that Sherlock's saddest childhood memory was losing his beloved pet dog Redbeard. However, it turns out that Sherlock's memory of losing his Redbeard [[spoiler: was actually something he convinced himself had happened all these years. Redbeard was actually the nickname given to Sherlock's ''best friend'' Victor whenever they played pirates. When Eurus saw that Sherlock was always playing pirates with Victor instead of her, Eurus ''drowned Victor in a well''. Young Sherlock was so traumatized by this that he blocked it all out and instead convinced himself that it was a family pet who had drowned for years afterward.]]
** The worst part? [[spoiler: As this is happening, John is trapped in the very same well that Victor drowned in. John's confused by the presence of unidentified bones in the well with him...until both he and Sherlock realize who these bones belonged to. John picks up the young boy's '''''skull''''' in horror.]]
** At one point, we hear Sherlock say that he dug and dug for days trying to find Redbeard. This is already horrifying enough in and of itself, but with [[spoiler: TheReveal of Redbeard's true identity,]] this becomes even worse. [[spoiler: Just imagine a young Sherlock, terrified and desperate, digging up all of the fake graves in search of the friend he knows is somewhere out there, dying. Young Sherlock wasn't just traumatized because Redbeard was killed, he was traumatized because he wasn't smart or fast enough to save him!]]

--> ''"Oh, the skull... I wonder how your skull would look on my wall..."''[[/folder]]

* Kidnapped children are nightmarish by definition, but Moriarty's not content with that. He [[spoiler: locks the terrified brother and sister alone in a dark factory, where they will starve to death unless they eat the chocolates he has left for them. For added creulty, the wrappers are painted with mercury, poisoning the chocolate]].

*** Not to mention how Mycroft's first flashback to young Eurus is shown in the typical way for this series, with the adult standing in the memory as an observer. So far, so normal... until the young girl Eurus looks straight at the adult Mycroft remembering her and says [[CreepyChild "You look funny grown up."]] Present day Mycroft is visibly unsettled.

*** Not to mention how Mycroft's first flashback to young Eurus is shown in the typical way for this series, with the adult standing in the memory as an observer. So far, so normal... until the young girl Eurus looks straight at the adult Mycroft remembering her and says [["You look funny grown up."]] Present day Mycroft is visibly unsettled.

*** Not to mention how Mycroft's first flashback to young Eurus is shown in the typical way for this series, with the adult standing in the memory as an observer. So far, so normal... until the young girl Eurus looks straight at the adult Mycroft remembering her and says "You look funny grown up." Present day Mycroft is visibly unsettled.

* The ending scene: Shan is communicating with her employer, who only goes by "M", and she's trying to convince him of her usefulness. [[spoiler: The last shot of the episode is of Shan, with a laser pointed at her forehead. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness You can guess where it goes from there.]]]]

* Sherlock's paranoia about Moriarty gets to the point where he thinks any challenging cases [[spoiler: was orchestrated by Moriarty when it fact, it isn't.]]

* TheReveal that the BigBad of season 4 is [[spoiler: Eurus Holmes, the Holmes' brothers' sister so unstable that Mycroft apparently has her watched to make sure she is "secure," whom Sherlock doesn't seem to know exists.]]

* "Oh, stupid. Stupid. Obvious. [[WhamLine He's still here.]]

* The ending scene: Shan is communicating with her employer, who only goes by "M", and she's trying to convince him of her usefulness. [[spoiler: The last shot of the episode is of Shan, with a laser pointed at her forehead. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness You can guess where it goes from there.]]

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* Henry tries to shoot the hound as it's chasing him across the moor. As soon as he fires the gun, a sudden cut reveals that [[spoiler:it was just a hallucination. He was still at his house and ''almost shot his theropist.'']]

* Sherlock is introduced vigorously beating a corpse with a riding crop. Molly then remarks thatshe knew the deceased personally, and that they were "nice". The show wastes no time pointing out Sherlock's lack of empathy.