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* When Sherlock goes in his Mind Palace during [[spoiler:his Dying Dream 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.]]
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* When Sherlock goes in his Mind Palace during [[spoiler:his Dying Dream 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.]]
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* 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!]]
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* 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, [[spoiler:you can see pieces of Jim's brain floating on the edge of the blood]].
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* 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, [[spoiler:you you can see pieces of Jim's brain floating on the edge of the blood]].
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* The rotting, corpse of Emilia Ricoletti '''coming alive [[HellIsThatNoise with a fucking unearthly cry]]''', grabbing Sherlock, as pictured.
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->''"When does the path we walk on lock around our feet? When does the road become a river with only one destination? Death waits for us all in Samarra. But can Samarra be avoided?"''
-->-- '''Sherlock Holmes''', "[[Recap/SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers The Six Thatchers]]"
Where there is a crime for Sherlock and John to investigate, there will always be moments like this that will make you want to puke.
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->''"When does the path we walk on lock around our feet? When does the road become a river with only one destination? Death waits for us all in Samarra. But can Samarra be avoided?"''
-->-- '''Sherlock Holmes''', "[[Recap/SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers The Six Thatchers]]"
Where there is a crime for Sherlock and John to investigate, there will always be moments like this that will make you want to puke.
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* 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 hiscab]], their going to be '''forced to kill themselves'''.
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* 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 hiscab]], their his cab]], they're going to be '''forced to kill themselves'''.
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* Mycroft being menaced in a darkened room with a ghostly disembodied voice, followed by a MonsterClown. Yes, [[spoiler:it was all Sherlock's doing]], but ''still.''
** Your mileage may vary, but the clown and the little girl did ''not'' get any less scary when [[spoiler: you see what they really are: junkies dressed up in costume. Actually... they were arguably scarier.]]
* Moriarty's series of pre-recorded messages deserve an honorable mention. In an episode that's already got a chillingly mesmerizing villain in the form of Eurus, and a slowly escalating tension the moment Sherlock, John, and Mycroft set foot on Sherrinford, it's a little easy to forget the late consulting criminal... but then the moment things start to spiral out of control and it's revealed that the island prison has been compromised, alarms start to blare and a voice begins projecting over the PA system. At first it seems like a typical red alert, but then the phrases get progressively more random and weird, and it isn't until John lays his eyes on a set of television screens that Moriarty reveals himself in a manner much similar to how he turned up in the previous finale, only this time it's under much more tense circumstances. Talk about a MindScrew.
** The series of prompts that Eurus initiates during her little game are also quite disturbing in their own right, as the red tint that colors Moriarty's features during every recording adds to the jarring effect of his appearances.
* [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream Despite turning out to be a scenario playing out in Eurus's imagination]],]] the plight of the unnamed 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.
* Eurus. You'd swear that she would even haunt the nightmares of Hannibal Lector. She is shown to have the odd, almost hypnotic ability to bend people to her every will and has brought most of the management at the asylum she is being kept at to its knees. It's mentioned in passing that she successfully willed a worker there into shooting ''his own family''. (After which the man also [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]].)
** In flashbacks, we see that [[CreepyChild she was even creepy as a kid]]. In one flashback to the Holmes siblings' childhood, we see Eurus being confronted by her parents and doctors over why she was ''slicing her skin open with a knife''. [[spoiler: Even discounting TheReveal.]]
--->''I wanted to see how my muscles work.''
*** And then when she was asked whether she felt pain, her response was "Which one's pain?"
*** 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.
** This conversation:
--> '''Eurus''': You, you were my favorite.
** Your mileage may vary, but the clown and the little girl did ''not'' get any less scary when [[spoiler: you see what they really are: junkies dressed up in costume. Actually... they were arguably scarier.]]
* Moriarty's series of pre-recorded messages deserve an honorable mention. In an episode that's already got a chillingly mesmerizing villain in the form of Eurus, and a slowly escalating tension the moment Sherlock, John, and Mycroft set foot on Sherrinford, it's a little easy to forget the late consulting criminal... but then the moment things start to spiral out of control and it's revealed that the island prison has been compromised, alarms start to blare and a voice begins projecting over the PA system. At first it seems like a typical red alert, but then the phrases get progressively more random and weird, and it isn't until John lays his eyes on a set of television screens that Moriarty reveals himself in a manner much similar to how he turned up in the previous finale, only this time it's under much more tense circumstances. Talk about a MindScrew.
** The series of prompts that Eurus initiates during her little game are also quite disturbing in their own right, as the red tint that colors Moriarty's features during every recording adds to the jarring effect of his appearances.
* [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream Despite turning out to be a scenario playing out in Eurus's imagination]],]] the plight of the unnamed 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.
* Eurus. You'd swear that she would even haunt the nightmares of Hannibal Lector. She is shown to have the odd, almost hypnotic ability to bend people to her every will and has brought most of the management at the asylum she is being kept at to its knees. It's mentioned in passing that she successfully willed a worker there into shooting ''his own family''. (After which the man also [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]].)
** In flashbacks, we see that [[CreepyChild she was even creepy as a kid]]. In one flashback to the Holmes siblings' childhood, we see Eurus being confronted by her parents and doctors over why she was ''slicing her skin open with a knife''. [[spoiler: Even discounting TheReveal.]]
--->''I wanted to see how my muscles work.''
*** And then when she was asked whether she felt pain, her response was "Which one's pain?"
*** 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.
** This conversation:
--> '''Eurus''': You, you were my favorite.
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** Your mileage may vary, but the clown and the little girl did ''not'' get any less scary when [[spoiler: you see what they really are: junkies dressed up in costume. Actually... they were arguably scarier.]]
* Moriarty's series of pre-recorded messages deserve an honorable mention. In an episode that's already got a chillingly mesmerizing villain in the form of Eurus, and a slowly escalating tension the moment Sherlock, John, and Mycroft set foot on Sherrinford, it's a little easy to forget the late consulting criminal... but then the moment things start to spiral out of control and it's revealed that the island prison has been compromised, alarms start to blare and a voice begins projecting over the PA system. At first it seems like a typical red alert, but then the phrases get progressively more random and weird, and it isn't until John lays his eyes on a set of television screens that Moriarty reveals himself in a manner much similar to how he turned up in the previous finale, only this time it's under much more tense circumstances. Talk about a MindScrew.
** The series of prompts that Eurus initiates during her little game are also quite disturbing in their own right, as the red tint that colors Moriarty's features during every recording adds to the jarring effect of his appearances.
* [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream Despite turning out to be a scenario playing out in Eurus's imagination]],]] the plight of the unnamed 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.
* Eurus. You'd swear that she would even haunt the nightmares of Hannibal Lector. She is shown to have the odd, almost hypnotic ability to bend people to her every will and has brought most of the management at the asylum she is being kept at to its knees. It's mentioned in passing that she successfully willed a worker there into shooting ''his own family''. (After which the man also [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]].)
** In flashbacks, we see that [[CreepyChild she was even creepy as a kid]]. In one flashback to the Holmes siblings' childhood, we see Eurus being confronted by her parents and doctors over why she was ''slicing her skin open with a knife''. [[spoiler: Even discounting TheReveal.]]
--->''I wanted to see how my muscles work.''
*** And then when she was asked whether she felt pain, her response was "Which one's pain?"
*** 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.
** This conversation:
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--> '''Eurus''': Well, turns out I got it wrong. It turns out that you were screaming.
** One of the downright ''creepiest'' things about Eurus is her body language. Or rather, her lack of it. Everyone in Sherlock tends to move when they talk. Sherlock does some other task without looking at people, John looks people in the eye, Mycroft has a patronizing little nod he does, even Moriarty shifts from side to side every now and then. With Eurus... Nothing. She barely blinks, barely shifts an inch, she just ''stands there and talks.'' Like one of those animated puppets that can only move its jaw.
* 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 beloved pet dog Redbeard [[spoiler: was actually something he convinced himself had happened all these years. What really happened? Redbeard was actually the nickname given to Sherlock's ''best human 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.]]
** One of the downright ''creepiest'' things about Eurus is her body language. Or rather, her lack of it. Everyone in Sherlock tends to move when they talk. Sherlock does some other task without looking at people, John looks people in the eye, Mycroft has a patronizing little nod he does, even Moriarty shifts from side to side every now and then. With Eurus... Nothing. She barely blinks, barely shifts an inch, she just ''stands there and talks.'' Like one of those animated puppets that can only move its jaw.
* 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 beloved pet dog Redbeard [[spoiler: was actually something he convinced himself had happened all these years. What really happened? Redbeard was actually the nickname given to Sherlock's ''best human 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.]]
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--> '''Eurus''': Well, turns out I got it wrong. [[MoodWhiplash It turns out that you were screaming.
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.
* Mycroft being menaced in a darkened room with a ghostly disembodied female voice, followed by an armed MonsterClown.
* 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.
* Eurus. She is shown to have the odd, almost hypnotic ability to bend people to her every will and has brought most of the management at the asylum she is being kept at to its knees. It's mentioned in passing that she successfully willed a worker there into shooting ''his own family''. After which the man also [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]].
** One of the downright ''creepiest'' things about Eurus is her body language. Or rather, her lack of it. Everyone inSherlock ''Sherlock'' tends to move when they talk. Sherlock does some other task without looking at people, John looks people in the eye, Mycroft has a patronizing little nod he does, even Moriarty shifts from side to side every now and then. With Eurus... Nothing. She barely blinks, barely shifts an inch, she just ''stands there and talks.'' Like one of those animated puppets ''
** In flashbacks, we see thatcan [[CreepyChild she was even creepy as a kid]]. In one flashback to the Holmes siblings' childhood, we see Eurus being confronted by her parents and doctors over why she was ''slicing her skin open with a knife''. She "wanted to see how [her] muscles worked". And then when she was asked whether she felt pain, her response was "Which one's pain?"
*** 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.
* 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 onlymove its jaw.
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 hisbeloved pet dog Redbeard [[spoiler: was actually something he convinced himself had happened all these years. What really happened? Redbeard was actually the nickname given to Sherlock's ''best human 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.]]
* [[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.
* Mycroft being menaced in a darkened room with a ghostly disembodied female voice, followed by an armed MonsterClown.
* 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.
* Eurus. She is shown to have the odd, almost hypnotic ability to bend people to her every will and has brought most of the management at the asylum she is being kept at to its knees. It's mentioned in passing that she successfully willed a worker there into shooting ''his own family''. After which the man also [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]].
** One of the downright ''creepiest'' things about Eurus is her body language. Or rather, her lack of it. Everyone in
** In flashbacks, we see that
*** 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.
* 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
* 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
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** 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!]] Explains a lot, really.
* '''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 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]].
** [[spoiler: Sherlock's reaction is ''worse'', with closing the fake casket in the room only to ''smash'' it with such fury and emotion]], considering [[spoiler: [[MoralityPet what Molly is to Sherlock]]]], next to John anyway.
* The whole Eurus situation from the point of view of her family, particularly when you bring FridgeLogic into the picture. ''There is nothing they can do to help her.'' In the unlikely event that she did begin acting "normally," she's a master manipulator who can never be fully trusted, so even if she was genuinely "cured," there's no way you could know for certain and no way you could let her go free. In order to limit the atrocities she's capable of, your choices are limited to letting her live a life of solitary confinement and killing her. You'll never know if she genuinely loves you, or if you've just become one of her latest experiments.
** For her parents: your only daughter is a viciously dangerous sociopath with zero empathy, who attempts to ''incinerate'' [[spoiler:your youngest son]] and ''drowns'' [[spoiler:his best friend]]. She can't be reasoned with because she has no concept of right and wrong; you can't even try to stop her by outsmarting her, because she's cleverer than anyone who might try to contain her. Just living with her is an exercise in mind gaming, when you're never sure who she's manipulating (your spouse? Your other children? ''You''?) or why she's doing it. She traumatises her younger sibling so badly that his memories and personality are effectively rewritten, and you have to watch that happen. Eventually, your brother/brother-in-law has her taken away and locked up, and later your oldest child tells you that she's dead. Years later, you discover he lied: she's alive and as dangerous as ever, but she's still your child, and she's spent her whole life isolated and under constant surveillance.
** For [[spoiler:Mycroft]]: You've watched the nightmarish events unfold as your parents have, but you're a child yourself. You have to maintain the lie that your youngest sibling has told himself while being fully aware of the truth. When your uncle dies, you become your sister's keeper, with all the ShootTheDog decisions that that entails, and you decide that it's best to lie to your parents and claim that she's dead rather than locked up...so you get to watch them grieve her, fully aware that this is ''your'' lie and therefore ''your'' fault. Then, because you've royally screwed up, you hand her the opportunity to torture both yourself and your sibling all over again, and after you've both been thoroughly scarred for life, you get to tell your parents that you've been lying to them about your sister's fate for years.
* '''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 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]].
** [[spoiler: Sherlock's reaction is ''worse'', with closing the fake casket in the room only to ''smash'' it with such fury and emotion]], considering [[spoiler: [[MoralityPet what Molly is to Sherlock]]]], next to John anyway.
* The whole Eurus situation from the point of view of her family, particularly when you bring FridgeLogic into the picture. ''There is nothing they can do to help her.'' In the unlikely event that she did begin acting "normally," she's a master manipulator who can never be fully trusted, so even if she was genuinely "cured," there's no way you could know for certain and no way you could let her go free. In order to limit the atrocities she's capable of, your choices are limited to letting her live a life of solitary confinement and killing her. You'll never know if she genuinely loves you, or if you've just become one of her latest experiments.
** For her parents: your only daughter is a viciously dangerous sociopath with zero empathy, who attempts to ''incinerate'' [[spoiler:your youngest son]] and ''drowns'' [[spoiler:his best friend]]. She can't be reasoned with because she has no concept of right and wrong; you can't even try to stop her by outsmarting her, because she's cleverer than anyone who might try to contain her. Just living with her is an exercise in mind gaming, when you're never sure who she's manipulating (your spouse? Your other children? ''You''?) or why she's doing it. She traumatises her younger sibling so badly that his memories and personality are effectively rewritten, and you have to watch that happen. Eventually, your brother/brother-in-law has her taken away and locked up, and later your oldest child tells you that she's dead. Years later, you discover he lied: she's alive and as dangerous as ever, but she's still your child, and she's spent her whole life isolated and under constant surveillance.
** For [[spoiler:Mycroft]]: You've watched the nightmarish events unfold as your parents have, but you're a child yourself. You have to maintain the lie that your youngest sibling has told himself while being fully aware of the truth. When your uncle dies, you become your sister's keeper, with all the ShootTheDog decisions that that entails, and you decide that it's best to lie to your parents and claim that she's dead rather than locked up...so you get to watch them grieve her, fully aware that this is ''your'' lie and therefore ''your'' fault. Then, because you've royally screwed up, you hand her the opportunity to torture both yourself and your sibling all over again, and after you've both been thoroughly scarred for life, you get to tell your parents that you've been lying to them about your sister's fate for years.
to:
** 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!]] Explains a lot, really.
* '''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 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]].
** [[spoiler: Sherlock's reaction is ''worse'', with closing the fake casket in the room only to ''smash'' it with such fury and emotion]], considering [[spoiler: [[MoralityPet what Molly is to Sherlock]]]], next to John anyway.
* The whole Eurus situation from the point of view of her family, particularly when you bring FridgeLogic into the picture. ''There is nothing they can do to help her.'' In the unlikely event that she did begin acting "normally," she's a master manipulator who can never be fully trusted, so even if she was genuinely "cured," there's no way you could know for certain and no way you could let her go free. In order to limit the atrocities she's capable of, your choices are limited to letting her live a life of solitary confinement and killing her. You'll never know if she genuinely loves you, or if you've just become one of her latest experiments.
** For her parents: your only daughter is a viciously dangerous sociopath with zero empathy, who attempts to ''incinerate'' [[spoiler:your youngest son]] and ''drowns'' [[spoiler:his best friend]]. She can't be reasoned with because she has no concept of right and wrong; you can't even try to stop her by outsmarting her, because she's cleverer than anyone who might try to contain her. Just living with her is an exercise in mind gaming, when you're never sure who she's manipulating (your spouse? Your other children? ''You''?) or why she's doing it. She traumatises her younger sibling so badly that his memories and personality are effectively rewritten, and you have to watch that happen. Eventually, your brother/brother-in-law has her taken away and locked up, and later your oldest child tells you that she's dead. Years later, you discover he lied: she's alive and as dangerous as ever, but she's still your child, and she's spent her whole life isolated and under constant surveillance.
** For [[spoiler:Mycroft]]: You've watched the nightmarish events unfold as your parents have, but you're a child yourself. You have to maintain the lie that your youngest sibling has told himself while being fully aware of the truth. When your uncle dies, you become your sister's keeper, with all the ShootTheDog decisions that that entails, and you decide that it's best to lie to your parents and claim that she's dead rather than locked up...so you get to watch them grieve her, fully aware that this is ''your'' lie and therefore ''your'' fault. Then, because you've royally screwed up, you hand her the opportunity to torture both yourself and your sibling all over again, and after you've both been thoroughly scarred for life, you get to tell your parents that you've been lying to them about your sister's fate for years.him!]]
* '''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 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]].
** [[spoiler: Sherlock's reaction is ''worse'', with closing the fake casket in the room only to ''smash'' it with such fury and emotion]], considering [[spoiler: [[MoralityPet what Molly is to Sherlock]]]], next to John anyway.
* The whole Eurus situation from the point of view of her family, particularly when you bring FridgeLogic into the picture. ''There is nothing they can do to help her.'' In the unlikely event that she did begin acting "normally," she's a master manipulator who can never be fully trusted, so even if she was genuinely "cured," there's no way you could know for certain and no way you could let her go free. In order to limit the atrocities she's capable of, your choices are limited to letting her live a life of solitary confinement and killing her. You'll never know if she genuinely loves you, or if you've just become one of her latest experiments.
** For her parents: your only daughter is a viciously dangerous sociopath with zero empathy, who attempts to ''incinerate'' [[spoiler:your youngest son]] and ''drowns'' [[spoiler:his best friend]]. She can't be reasoned with because she has no concept of right and wrong; you can't even try to stop her by outsmarting her, because she's cleverer than anyone who might try to contain her. Just living with her is an exercise in mind gaming, when you're never sure who she's manipulating (your spouse? Your other children? ''You''?) or why she's doing it. She traumatises her younger sibling so badly that his memories and personality are effectively rewritten, and you have to watch that happen. Eventually, your brother/brother-in-law has her taken away and locked up, and later your oldest child tells you that she's dead. Years later, you discover he lied: she's alive and as dangerous as ever, but she's still your child, and she's spent her whole life isolated and under constant surveillance.
** For [[spoiler:Mycroft]]: You've watched the nightmarish events unfold as your parents have, but you're a child yourself. You have to maintain the lie that your youngest sibling has told himself while being fully aware of the truth. When your uncle dies, you become your sister's keeper, with all the ShootTheDog decisions that that entails, and you decide that it's best to lie to your parents and claim that she's dead rather than locked up...so you get to watch them grieve her, fully aware that this is ''your'' lie and therefore ''your'' fault. Then, because you've royally screwed up, you hand her the opportunity to torture both yourself and your sibling all over again, and after you've both been thoroughly scarred for life, you get to tell your parents that you've been lying to them about your sister's fate for years.
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* "At last. A noose for me to put my neck into." Sherlock still hasn't learned... It gets to the point that he thinks any challenging cases [[spoiler: was orchestrated by Moriarty when it fact, it isn't.]]
* The less told about the failed [[spoiler:rescue operations, the dead hostages and suffering of captured A.G.R.A. members]], the better.
** All this happened because of [[spoiler:one bored black ops secretary leaking info about the operation right under ''government'' noses.]] At the end, she doesn't seem to feel any remorse about it either.
* The less told about the failed [[spoiler:rescue operations, the dead hostages and suffering of captured A.G.R.A. members]], the better.
** All this happened because of [[spoiler:one bored black ops secretary leaking info about the operation right under ''government'' noses.]] At the end, she doesn't seem to feel any remorse about it either.
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* "At last. A noose for me to put my neck into." Sherlock still hasn't learned... It Sherlock's paranoia about Moriarty gets to the point that where he thinks any challenging cases [[spoiler: was orchestrated by Moriarty when it fact, it isn't.]]
* The less told about the failed [[spoiler:rescue operations, the dead hostages and suffering of captured A.G.R.A. members]], the better.
** All this happened because of [[spoiler:one bored black ops secretary leaking info about the operation right under ''government'' noses.]] At the end, she doesn't seem to feel any remorse about it either.]]
* The less told about the failed [[spoiler:rescue operations, the dead hostages and suffering of captured A.G.R.A. members]], the better.
** All this happened because of [[spoiler:one bored black ops secretary leaking info about the operation right under ''government'' noses.]] At the end, she doesn't seem to feel any remorse about it either.
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* Literally everything about Culverton Smith is enough to send chills down the spine of every viewer.
** Sherlock realizes that the word that changed Faith's life wasn't a name; it was "anyone." Meaning Culverton didn't care '''who''' he killed, so long as he killed '''someone,''' making him about a hundred times scarier than a villain who targets a particular person who has wronged them.
** There's also the fact that he was clearly based off of real serial killers. H. H. Holmes is directly mentioned multiple times, and killed in a very similar way.
** A British philanthropist and TV star who takes advantage of people's trust and severely harms them behind the scenes, with some even silently complicit in his crimes due to his fame? Culverton comes off as an Expy of the BBC's Jimmy Savile, who after his death was revealed to have used his fame to commit hundreds of sex crimes while working for the BBC. The only difference is that Culverton is a murderer, not a rapist.
** He casually leads Sherlock and John [[spoiler:into the morgue full of the corpses of his victims.]] What does that say about the man?
** Sherlock realizes that the word that changed Faith's life wasn't a name; it was "anyone." Meaning Culverton didn't care '''who''' he killed, so long as he killed '''someone,''' making him about a hundred times scarier than a villain who targets a particular person who has wronged them.
** There's also the fact that he was clearly based off of real serial killers. H. H. Holmes is directly mentioned multiple times, and killed in a very similar way.
** A British philanthropist and TV star who takes advantage of people's trust and severely harms them behind the scenes, with some even silently complicit in his crimes due to his fame? Culverton comes off as an Expy of the BBC's Jimmy Savile, who after his death was revealed to have used his fame to commit hundreds of sex crimes while working for the BBC. The only difference is that Culverton is a murderer, not a rapist.
** He casually leads Sherlock and John [[spoiler:into the morgue full of the corpses of his victims.]] What does that say about the man?
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* Literally everything about Culverton Smith is enough to send chills down the spine of every viewer.
viewer. His near inhuman way of moving and speaking, the rotting teeth and how he choses his vocabulary to make his inner monster sound like an act.
** Sherlock realizes that the word that changed Faith's life wasn't a name; it was "anyone." Meaning Culverton didn't care '''who''' he killed, so long as he killed'''someone,''' making him about a hundred times scarier than a villain who targets a particular person who has wronged them.
** There's also the fact that he was clearly based off of real serial killers. H. H. Holmes is directly mentioned multiple times, and killed in a very similar way.
** A British philanthropist and TV star who takes advantage of people's trust and severely harms them behind the scenes, with some even silently complicit in his crimes due to his fame? Culverton comes off as an Expy of the BBC's Jimmy Savile, who after his death was revealed to have used his fame to commit hundreds of sex crimes while working for the BBC. The only difference is that Culverton is a murderer, not a rapist.
** He casually leads Sherlock and John [[spoiler:into the morgue full of the corpses of his victims.]] What does that say about the man?'''someone'''.
** Sherlock realizes that the word that changed Faith's life wasn't a name; it was "anyone." Meaning Culverton didn't care '''who''' he killed, so long as he killed
** There's also the fact that he was clearly based off of real serial killers. H. H. Holmes is directly mentioned multiple times, and killed in a very similar way.
** A British philanthropist and TV star who takes advantage of people's trust and severely harms them behind the scenes, with some even silently complicit in his crimes due to his fame? Culverton comes off as an Expy of the BBC's Jimmy Savile, who after his death was revealed to have used his fame to commit hundreds of sex crimes while working for the BBC. The only difference is that Culverton is a murderer, not a rapist.
** He casually leads Sherlock and John [[spoiler:into the morgue full of the corpses of his victims.]] What does that say about the man?
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** Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]]
*** Many of the things she says to Sherlock that sound nice the first time around ("You're not what I expected, Mr. Holmes. You're...nicer." "Interesting, how you think... Sweetly.") can come across a lot more sinister after TheReveal.
*** Many of the things she says to Sherlock that sound nice the first time around ("You're not what I expected, Mr. Holmes. You're...nicer." "Interesting, how you think... Sweetly.") can come across a lot more sinister after TheReveal.
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** [[spoiler: [[RedRightHand Her]] [[MismatchedEyes EYES]]. Yes, it's because one has a brown contact in and the other is blue, but the effect is extremely disconcerting, especially because there's no ''reason'' to only take one out and not the other except to invoke this.]]
** The creepy part? '''''[[NotSoDifferent They're like Sherlock's.]]'''''
** The creepy part? '''''[[NotSoDifferent They're like Sherlock's.]]'''''
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* Where to begin? This may very well be one of the darkest, most horrifying episodes of the entire show's run.
* For starters, during almost the entirety of [[spoiler:Eurus' experiments]], there is [[NothingIsScarier no music whatsoever]].
* For starters, during almost the entirety of [[spoiler:Eurus' experiments]], there is [[NothingIsScarier no music whatsoever]].
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* Moriarty breaking into 221B while Sherlock and John are out and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enIwRGc8XlM recording]] his whispered observations on a shaky video camera, then posting the whole thing to John's blog? [[StalkerWithACrush Very]] [[ParanoiaFuel creepy]]. The fact that he did it ''while Mrs. Hudson was home''? HEAPING BUCKETS OF NIGHTMARE FUEL.
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* Moriarty breaking into 221B while Sherlock and John are out during ''The Hounds of Baskerville'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enIwRGc8XlM recording]] his whispered observations on a shaky video camera, then posting the whole thing to John's blog? [[StalkerWithACrush Very]] [[ParanoiaFuel creepy]]. The fact that he did it ''while Mrs. Hudson was home''? HEAPING BUCKETS OF NIGHTMARE FUEL.home''?
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** And maybe worse:
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** And maybe worse:worse, when Moriarty finds the skull on the mantelpiece.
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* 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.]]
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* So your son [[spoiler: invites one of his friends over and drugs you, your family and his other friends to sleep]] in your Christmas meeting. Creepy.
* Charles Augustus Magnussen. That name makes your skin crawl. Everything he does, from licking Lady Smallwood's face to flicking John's face. He is by far the creepiest villain featured, and this is a show that had ''Moriarty'' as a villain.
** [[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 (almost) Dying Dream 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.]]
** Hell, just the fact that Moriarty occupies a place (and apparently, the darkest place of all) in Sherlock's Mind Palace. The man is ''dead'' [[spoiler: (maybe)]], but there's a little part of Sherlock who can't forget him and possibly even wonders if he's still out there somewhere. Both Sherlock and Moriarty's eyes look... ''dead'' as Jim sings. Especially with Benedict's usually very expressive eyes. Not only is Moriarty in Sherlock's mind palace, but Sherlock has to keep him in a ''straitjacket, chained to the wall of a padded cell''.
* [[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.
* Charles Augustus Magnussen. That name makes your skin crawl. Everything he does, from licking Lady Smallwood's face to flicking John's face. He is by far the creepiest villain featured, and this is a show that had ''Moriarty'' as a villain.
** [[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 (almost) Dying Dream 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.]]
** Hell, just the fact that Moriarty occupies a place (and apparently, the darkest place of all) in Sherlock's Mind Palace. The man is ''dead'' [[spoiler: (maybe)]], but there's a little part of Sherlock who can't forget him and possibly even wonders if he's still out there somewhere. Both Sherlock and Moriarty's eyes look... ''dead'' as Jim sings. Especially with Benedict's usually very expressive eyes. Not only is Moriarty in Sherlock's mind palace, but Sherlock has to keep him in a ''straitjacket, chained to the wall of a padded cell''.
* [[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.
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* Charles Augustus Magnussen. That name makes your skin crawl. Everything he does, from licking Lady Smallwood's face to flicking John's face. He is by far the creepiest villain featured, and this is a show that had ''Moriarty'' as a villain.
** [[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.]]
** Hell, just the fact that Moriarty occupies
* [[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
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** It's also heavily implied that she did some very, very bad stuff in the past. Enough to have her convinced that a soldier and vigilante like John wouldn't love her anymore if he found out the truth. Considering what John lets slide with Sherlock, as well as the lives he's taken himself, one has to wonder just what she could have done to think he wouldn't be able to accept her for her past actions. [[ForgivenButNotForgotten John proves her wrong.]]
* The fact that if [[spoiler: Moriarty is still alive, he survived a '''self-inflicted point blank gunshot wound to the head''' (if the theory that he shot a blood pack in a way that made it look like he AteHisGun doesn't turn out to be true)]].
* TheStinger. [[spoiler: "[[BackFromTheDead Did you miss]] [[BigBad me?]]"]]. Added with the MassOhCrap reaction from the rest of the cast.
* [[spoiler:Assume that Moriarty is dead and this is a posthumous plan. Sherlock spent two years trying to dismantle his criminal empire, was completely sure it was gone, and yet not only did someone remain, they hacked into every television in the country.]]
* The fact that if [[spoiler: Moriarty is still alive, he survived a '''self-inflicted point blank gunshot wound to the head''' (if the theory that he shot a blood pack in a way that made it look like he AteHisGun doesn't turn out to be true)]].
* TheStinger. [[spoiler: "[[BackFromTheDead Did you miss]] [[BigBad me?]]"]]. Added with the MassOhCrap reaction from the rest of the cast.
* [[spoiler:Assume that Moriarty is dead and this is a posthumous plan. Sherlock spent two years trying to dismantle his criminal empire, was completely sure it was gone, and yet not only did someone remain, they hacked into every television in the country.]]
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** It's also heavily implied that she did some very, very bad stuff in the past. Enough to have her convinced that a soldier and vigilante soldier like John wouldn't love her anymore if he found out the truth. Considering what John lets slide with Sherlock, as well as the lives he's taken himself, one has to wonder just what she could have done to think he wouldn't be able to accept her for her past actions. [[ForgivenButNotForgotten John proves her wrong.]]
* The fact that if [[spoiler: Moriarty is still alive, he survived a '''self-inflicted point blank gunshot wound to the head''' (if the theory that he shot a blood pack in a way that made it look like he AteHisGun doesn't turn out to be true)]].
* TheStinger. [[spoiler: "[[BackFromTheDead Did you miss]] [[BigBad me?]]"]]. Added with the MassOhCrap reaction from the rest of the cast.
* [[spoiler:Assume that Moriarty is dead and this is a posthumous plan. Sherlock spent two years trying to dismantle his criminal empire, was completely sure it was gone, and yet not only did someone remain, they hacked into every television in the country.]]
* The fact that if [[spoiler: Moriarty is still alive, he survived a '''self-inflicted point blank gunshot wound to the head''' (if the theory that he shot a blood pack in a way that made it look like he AteHisGun doesn't turn out to be true)]].
* TheStinger. [[spoiler: "[[BackFromTheDead Did you miss]] [[BigBad me?]]"]]. Added with the MassOhCrap reaction from the rest of the cast.
* [[spoiler:Assume that Moriarty is dead and this is a posthumous plan. Sherlock spent two years trying to dismantle his criminal empire, was completely sure it was gone, and yet not only did someone remain, they hacked into every television in the country.
* TheStinger. [[spoiler: "[[BackFromTheDead Did you miss]] [[BigBad me?]]"]]. Added with the MassOhCrap reaction from the rest of the characters.
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** Then there's [[spoiler:Moriarty]] talking with Sherlock in his usual self, and then he turned around...
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** When Sherlock starts quoting the words from John -- [[spoiler:''1895's John'']] -- John, Mary and Mycroft are suitably terrified.
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* Apparently Jim has been to Baker Street a total of 6 times. We know of at least two instances - the one from John's blog and the one during "The Reichenbach Fall" - and a possible third (it was most likely him who planted the trainers there in "The Great Game"). That leaves the remaining three up to the imagination. Oh dear.
* Sherlock reveals that [[spoiler:Lady Carmichael]] was in league with the conspiracy herself. [[spoiler:Yes, Eustace might had it coming, but she just helped her friends murder her own husband.]]
** Plus, ''Sherlock can't figure out [[spoiler:why she come to him for help in the first place.]]''
* Moriarty manages to be his creepy old self and then some when he talks to Holmes in Baker Street. He indicates that he's sneaked into the place more than once and follows this up by stating that Holmes' bed is "surprisingly comfortable". He then wipes a finger over the dusting mantlepiece, commenting that dust is largely made up of dead human skin. At which point he licks his finger.
* Sherlock reveals that [[spoiler:Lady Carmichael]] was in league with the conspiracy herself. [[spoiler:Yes, Eustace might had it coming, but she just helped her friends murder her own husband.]]
** Plus, ''Sherlock can't figure out [[spoiler:why she come to him for help in the first place.]]''
* Moriarty manages to be his creepy old self and then some when he talks to Holmes in Baker Street. He indicates that he's sneaked into the place more than once and follows this up by stating that Holmes' bed is "surprisingly comfortable". He then wipes a finger over the dusting mantlepiece, commenting that dust is largely made up of dead human skin. At which point he licks his finger.
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* Apparently Jim has been to Baker Street a total of 6 times. We know of at least two instances - the one from John's blog and the one during "The Reichenbach Fall" - instances, and a possible third (it was most likely him who when he planted the trainers there in "The Great Game"). Game". [[NothingIsScarier That leaves the remaining three up to the imagination. Oh dear.
imagination.]]
*Sherlock reveals that [[spoiler:Lady Carmichael]] was in league with the conspiracy herself. [[spoiler:Yes, Eustace might had it coming, but she just helped her friends murder her own husband.]]
** Plus, ''Sherlock can't figure out [[spoiler:why she come to him for help in the first place.]]''
* MoriartyVictorian!Moriarty manages to be his as creepy old as his real self and then some when he talks to Holmes Victorian!Holmes in Baker Street. He indicates that he's sneaked into the place more than once and follows this up by stating that Holmes' Victorian!Holmes' bed is "surprisingly comfortable". He then wipes a finger over the dusting mantlepiece, commenting that dust is largely made up of dead human skin. At which point he licks his finger.
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** Plus, ''Sherlock can't figure out [[spoiler:why she come to him for help in the first place.]]''
* Moriarty
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* John's [[spoiler: kidnapping and prepared execution. They were going to burn him alive with a little kid nearby!]]
** When we get a close up of the [[spoiler: syringe entering John's neck to drug him. Bad enough for anyone with a phobia of needles, not to mention the fear of being drugged and kidnapped in broad daylight.]]
** The editing of that scene is terrifying. [[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.]]
** It's worse. [[spoiler: By the end of the episode, even Sherlock ''[[NothingIsScarier has no idea who did it and why.]]'']]
** ''Even worse.'' [[spoiler: Someone working for Magnusson was filming it, and Magnusson is shown rewatching it on a dozen screens keeps replaying the same moment from John's rescue, over and over.]]
** 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 Holmes is the only person who did anything to help. (So much for his being a high-functioning [[NotSoStoic sociopath,]] huh.)
* This is likely to be scary later, not now, but: [[spoiler: part of Sherlock's deduction of Mary Morstan is that she's a liar. The people who took John texted her, not Sherlock, which throws the idea that "it's to warn off Sherlock" into question. Something is wrong with Mary Morstan, we just don't know what it is...]]
** [[spoiler:Then we find in a later episode that she's an assassin. A round of applause to whoever posted this.]]
* In the beginning sequence 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.''
* Watching Anderson very nearly 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, was both darkly funny and very disturbing.
* A lot of fans found Sherlock's manipulation in the train car scene deeply disturbing. As reconciliations go, it was pretty messed up.
** When we get a close up of the [[spoiler: syringe entering John's neck to drug him. Bad enough for anyone with a phobia of needles, not to mention the fear of being drugged and kidnapped in broad daylight.]]
** The editing of that scene is terrifying. [[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.]]
** It's worse. [[spoiler: By the end of the episode, even Sherlock ''[[NothingIsScarier has no idea who did it and why.]]'']]
** ''Even worse.'' [[spoiler: Someone working for Magnusson was filming it, and Magnusson is shown rewatching it on a dozen screens keeps replaying the same moment from John's rescue, over and over.]]
** 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 Holmes is the only person who did anything to help. (So much for his being a high-functioning [[NotSoStoic sociopath,]] huh.)
* This is likely to be scary later, not now, but: [[spoiler: part of Sherlock's deduction of Mary Morstan is that she's a liar. The people who took John texted her, not Sherlock, which throws the idea that "it's to warn off Sherlock" into question. Something is wrong with Mary Morstan, we just don't know what it is...]]
** [[spoiler:Then we find in a later episode that she's an assassin. A round of applause to whoever posted this.]]
* In the beginning sequence 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.''
* Watching Anderson very nearly 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, was both darkly funny and very disturbing.
* A lot of fans found Sherlock's manipulation in the train car scene deeply disturbing. As reconciliations go, it was pretty messed up.
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** When we get a close up of the [[spoiler: syringe entering John's neck to drug him. Bad enough for anyone with a phobia of needles, not to mention the fear of being drugged and kidnapped in broad daylight.]]
** The editing of that scene is terrifying. [[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.]]
** It's worse. [[spoiler: By the end of the episode, even Sherlock ''[[NothingIsScarier has no idea who did it and why.]]'']]
** ''Even worse.'' [[spoiler: Someone working for Magnusson was filming it, and Magnusson is shown rewatching it on a dozen screens keeps replaying the same moment from John's rescue, over and over.]]
** 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 Holmes is the only person who did anything to help. (So much for his being a high-functioning [[NotSoStoic sociopath,]] huh.)
* This is likely to be scary later, not now, but: [[spoiler: part of Sherlock's deduction of Mary Morstan is that she's a liar. The people who took John texted her, not Sherlock, which throws the idea that "it's to warn off Sherlock" into question. Something is wrong with Mary Morstan, we just don't know what it is...]]
** [[spoiler:Then we find in a later episode that she's an assassin. A round of applause to whoever posted this.]]
* 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
* A lot of fans found Sherlock's manipulation in the train car scene deeply disturbing. As reconciliations go, it was pretty messed up.
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* The killer from this episode. Even ''Sherlock'' can't figure out how he did it at first, and he does it with a lethal and single-minded precision. Also, you are killed ''by your uniform.'' Just. Wow.
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* The killer from this episode.Mayfly Man. Even ''Sherlock'' can't figure out how he did it at first, and he does it with a lethal and single-minded precision. Also, you are killed ''by your uniform.'' Just. Wow.
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* ''The Hound of The Baskervilles'' has always been one of the most chilling of Holmes' adventures. Updating it to the modern day setting of the series does little to change this. Especially when the end leads one to believe there ''isn't'' an actual hound. [[spoiler: And then the damn thing turns up anyway. Sure, the hallucinogens in the mist made the characters see it differently from what it actually was... but what they saw (and subsequently what ''we'' see) is ''terrifying'']].
** Especially when you take into account that all four of them -- Sherlock, John, Henry and Lestrade -- they 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.
* Those bloody '''flood lights''' (in front of Henry's house, of all places) NothingIsScarier, ''indeed.''
* Sherlock's [[spoiler: hallucination of Moriarty.]]
** 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.]] Dear God.
*** Even worse, [[spoiler: it's an empty room and he has nothing to "write" with. ''What did he use to carve the walls ?'']]
* The information they find 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. Then in retrospect we find out [[spoiler:our heroes have all been hanging out in a mist full of this stuff.]]
** Actually [[http://iamilex.tumblr.com/post/15680155443/project-h-o-u-n-d someone took the time to type up the onscreen text from that scene]]. It's ''[[NothingIsScarier horrifying]]''.
*** At least it doesn't come with pictures...the actual report did. And with the injuries described in it, it must have been ''even goddamn worse.''
* Dr Stapleton is chillingly matter-of-fact when she agrees with John that she has very little compassion (toward her own ''daughter''), and that sometimes she hates herself.
* 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. A 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]].
* 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 Louise.'']]
** Especially when you take into account that all four of them -- Sherlock, John, Henry and Lestrade -- they 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.
* Those bloody '''flood lights''' (in front of Henry's house, of all places) NothingIsScarier, ''indeed.''
* Sherlock's [[spoiler: hallucination of Moriarty.]]
** 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.]] Dear God.
*** Even worse, [[spoiler: it's an empty room and he has nothing to "write" with. ''What did he use to carve the walls ?'']]
* The information they find 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. Then in retrospect we find out [[spoiler:our heroes have all been hanging out in a mist full of this stuff.]]
** Actually [[http://iamilex.tumblr.com/post/15680155443/project-h-o-u-n-d someone took the time to type up the onscreen text from that scene]]. It's ''[[NothingIsScarier horrifying]]''.
*** At least it doesn't come with pictures...the actual report did. And with the injuries described in it, it must have been ''even goddamn worse.''
* Dr Stapleton is chillingly matter-of-fact when she agrees with John that she has very little compassion (toward her own ''daughter''), and that sometimes she hates herself.
* 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. A 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]].
* 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 Louise.'']]
to:
* ''The Hound of The Baskervilles'' has always been one '''flood lights''' in front of Henry's house. NothingIsScarier, indeed.
* The information found on [[spoiler:the H.O.U.N.D hallucinogen using themost chilling of Holmes' adventures. Updating it to Major's password.]] We never get details, but the modern day setting 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.
** And then [[http://iamilex.tumblr.com/post/15680155443/project-h-o-u-n-d a fan took theseries does little time to change this. Especially when type up the end onscreen text from that scene]]. It's ''[[NothingIsScarier horrifying]]''.
* 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.'']]
* After Sherlock leadsone everyone to believe there ''isn't'' an actual hound. hound [[spoiler: And then the damn thing it turns up anyway. Sure, the hallucinogens in the mist made the characters see it differently from what it actually was... but what they saw (and subsequently what ''we'' see) is ''terrifying'']].
anyway with no warning.]]
** Especially chilling when you take into account thatall four of them -- Sherlock, John, Henry and Lestrade -- they 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.
* Those bloody '''flood lights''' (in front of Henry's house, of all places) NothingIsScarier, ''indeed.''
* Sherlock's [[spoiler: hallucination of Moriarty.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.]] Dear God.
*** Even worse, [[spoiler: it's an empty room and he has nothing to "write" with. ''What did he use to carve the walls ?'']]
* The information they find 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. Then in retrospect we find out [[spoiler:our heroes have all been hanging out in a mist full of this stuff.]]
** Actually [[http://iamilex.tumblr.com/post/15680155443/project-h-o-u-n-d someone took the time to type up the onscreen text from that scene]]. It's ''[[NothingIsScarier horrifying]]''.
*** At least it doesn't come with pictures...the actual report did. And with the injuries described in it, it must have been ''even goddamn worse.''
* Dr Stapleton is chillingly matter-of-fact when she agrees with John that she has very little compassion (toward her own ''daughter''), and that sometimes she hates herself.
* 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. A 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]].
*Henry tries to shoot At the hound as 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'schasing him across an empty room and he has nothing to "write" with. [[FridgeHorror ''What did he use to carve 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 Louise.'']]walls?'']]]]
* The information found on [[spoiler:the H.O.U.N.D hallucinogen using the
** And then [[http://iamilex.tumblr.com/post/15680155443/project-h-o-u-n-d a fan took the
* 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.'']]
* After Sherlock leads
** Especially chilling when you take into account that
*** Even worse, [[spoiler: it's an empty room and he has nothing to "write" with. ''What did he use to carve the walls ?'']]
* The information they find 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. Then in retrospect we find out [[spoiler:our heroes have all been hanging out in a mist full of this stuff.]]
** Actually [[http://iamilex.tumblr.com/post/15680155443/project-h-o-u-n-d someone took the time to type up the onscreen text from that scene]]. It's ''[[NothingIsScarier horrifying]]''.
*** At least it doesn't come with pictures...the actual report did. And with the injuries described in it, it must have been ''even goddamn worse.''
* Dr Stapleton is chillingly matter-of-fact when she agrees with John that she has very little compassion (toward her own ''daughter''), and that sometimes she hates herself.
*
** Even worse, [[spoiler: it's
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* 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. The wrappers are painted with mercury]].
* Sherlock's chilling re-enactment of the kidnapping of the children. "Help us" glowing eerily on the wall. Sherlock's silhouette at the door, hand held like a gun. The details of the boy on tip-toe with a ''gun to his head.'' The little girl being grabbed around the neck. [[spoiler:Holy ''shit,'' no wonder they thought he did it.]]
* Sherlock's chilling re-enactment of the kidnapping of the children. "Help us" glowing eerily on the wall. Sherlock's silhouette at the door, hand held like a gun. The details of the boy on tip-toe with a ''gun to his head.'' The little girl being grabbed around the neck. [[spoiler:Holy ''shit,'' no wonder they thought he did it.]]
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* When Moriarty's team offers no defence at his trial, he looks up at John in the gallery and smirks. John is visibly upset by this. Sherlock described his standoff with Moriarty as "five minutes... I pointed a gun at him, he tried to blow me up." But for ''John,'' the ordeal went for ''hours''. He was knocked unconscious, unarmed, totally unable to defend himself, and he was the one actually wearing the bomb. He has impressive nerves, and considerable loyalty to Sherlock, to bring himself to be in court at all.
** The series itself never tells us what happened between John leaving the apartment for Sarah's and Sherlock arriving at the pool some hours later. John later blogged a basic outline --he was bundled into a car and knocked unconscious-- but most of the details are missing. It was clearly extremely traumatic for him; in terms of his blog, he posts that [[http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/01may he took some time away from guns and bombs and maniacs]] after that incident. In the actual series itself, the effect that being Moriarty's hostage had on him is hinted at earlier than the trial. When John intercepts Jim's text on Sherlock's phone, and tries to bring it to Sherlock's attention, he looks like he's about to pass out. Not a reaction we've come to expect from someone who developed a hand tremor because he ''missed being in constant danger.'' It's highly implied that there are some details of his hostage experience prior to Sherlock appearing that he's unwilling to share, because they are really, ''really bad.''
* 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 almost (maybe even completely) make you believe it, that Sherlock is the bad guy.]]
* Moriarty threatening not just John (which is expected at this point), 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.
* And after that, "Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase?"
* 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]] was incredibly unnerving.
** Agreed. Especially considering the [[NotSoDifferent "you'd do anything to not feel bored"]] comment the Cabbie directed at Sherlock in the pilot.
** 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 Sherlock Holmes. As Sally Donovan pointed out in ''A Study in Pink,'' psychopaths get bored. They tend to commit suicide in prison because of it. 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, horrible sense.
** A less internal detail, but if you look closely [[spoiler:you can see pieces of Jim's brain floating on the edge of the blood.]]
** All this to prove just how TheUnfettered can get deconstructed.
** And it gets even better. This level of [[spoiler:realistic and utterly gruesome]] detail must have come from [[spoiler:Molly. She's a forensic pathologist, after all, it's what she does for a living. She probably "decorated" him herself, even. She has/had a major crush on him, and the more realistic she makes his "death" look, the more she is guaranteing she'll ''never'' see him again... And that she'll have ''lots of guilt'' whenever she runs into their grief-stricken mutual friends]]...
* John unknowingly [[spoiler:in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle. Sherlock's 'suicide' saved his life by ''mere minutes.'']]
* The idea of Moriarty [[spoiler: having his own kid's show. The guy has strapped ''bombs'' to children. He has poisoned children with mercury (symptoms include losing hair, teeth and nails, kidney dysfunction, itching, burning, pain, light sensitivity and ...you know... death). Not to mention the crap he pulls on adults. He's the storyteller on TV. Small children ''trust'' him.]] What could possibly go wrong with that?
* [[spoiler:Fake death]] 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 'dead' 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. It wouldn't be surprising if Series 3 mirrored Series 1's opening by showing us John reliving that moment in a nightmare.
* A small one, but it's pretty chilling seeing Sherlock Holmes standing on top of a building, broken and crying, giving John his "note" over the phone.
* The *CRUNCH* when Sherlock hits the ground is absolutely awful.
* Moriarty's ([[spoiler:"Richard Brook'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:Oh, and the cabbie is Moriarty.]]
-->''"No charge."''[[/folder]]
** The series itself never tells us what happened between John leaving the apartment for Sarah's and Sherlock arriving at the pool some hours later. John later blogged a basic outline --he was bundled into a car and knocked unconscious-- but most of the details are missing. It was clearly extremely traumatic for him; in terms of his blog, he posts that [[http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/01may he took some time away from guns and bombs and maniacs]] after that incident. In the actual series itself, the effect that being Moriarty's hostage had on him is hinted at earlier than the trial. When John intercepts Jim's text on Sherlock's phone, and tries to bring it to Sherlock's attention, he looks like he's about to pass out. Not a reaction we've come to expect from someone who developed a hand tremor because he ''missed being in constant danger.'' It's highly implied that there are some details of his hostage experience prior to Sherlock appearing that he's unwilling to share, because they are really, ''really bad.''
* 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 almost (maybe even completely) make you believe it, that Sherlock is the bad guy.]]
* Moriarty threatening not just John (which is expected at this point), 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.
* And after that, "Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase?"
* 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]] was incredibly unnerving.
** Agreed. Especially considering the [[NotSoDifferent "you'd do anything to not feel bored"]] comment the Cabbie directed at Sherlock in the pilot.
** 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 Sherlock Holmes. As Sally Donovan pointed out in ''A Study in Pink,'' psychopaths get bored. They tend to commit suicide in prison because of it. 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, horrible sense.
** A less internal detail, but if you look closely [[spoiler:you can see pieces of Jim's brain floating on the edge of the blood.]]
** All this to prove just how TheUnfettered can get deconstructed.
** And it gets even better. This level of [[spoiler:realistic and utterly gruesome]] detail must have come from [[spoiler:Molly. She's a forensic pathologist, after all, it's what she does for a living. She probably "decorated" him herself, even. She has/had a major crush on him, and the more realistic she makes his "death" look, the more she is guaranteing she'll ''never'' see him again... And that she'll have ''lots of guilt'' whenever she runs into their grief-stricken mutual friends]]...
* John unknowingly [[spoiler:in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle. Sherlock's 'suicide' saved his life by ''mere minutes.'']]
* The idea of Moriarty [[spoiler: having his own kid's show. The guy has strapped ''bombs'' to children. He has poisoned children with mercury (symptoms include losing hair, teeth and nails, kidney dysfunction, itching, burning, pain, light sensitivity and ...you know... death). Not to mention the crap he pulls on adults. He's the storyteller on TV. Small children ''trust'' him.]] What could possibly go wrong with that?
* [[spoiler:Fake death]] 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 'dead' 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. It wouldn't be surprising if Series 3 mirrored Series 1's opening by showing us John reliving that moment in a nightmare.
* A small one, but it's pretty chilling seeing Sherlock Holmes standing on top of a building, broken and crying, giving John his "note" over the phone.
* The *CRUNCH* when Sherlock hits the ground is absolutely awful.
* Moriarty's ([[spoiler:"Richard Brook'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:Oh, and the cabbie is Moriarty.]]
-->''"No charge."''[[/folder]]
to:
* When Moriarty's team offers no defence at his trial, he looks up at John in the gallery and smirks. John is visibly upset by this. Sherlock described his standoff with Moriarty as "five minutes... I pointed a gun at him, he tried to blow me up.minutes." But for ''John,'' the ordeal went for ''hours''. He was knocked unconscious, unarmed, totally unable to defend himself, and he was the one actually wearing the bomb. He has impressive nerves, and considerable loyalty to Sherlock, to bring himself to be in court at all.
** The series itself never tells us what happened between John leaving the apartment for Sarah's and Sherlock arriving at the pool some hours later. John later blogged a basic outline --he was bundled into a car and knocked unconscious-- * Kidnapped children are nightmarish by definition, but most of the details are missing. It was clearly extremely traumatic for him; in terms of his blog, he posts that [[http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/01may he took some time away from guns and bombs and maniacs]] after that incident. In the actual series itself, the effect that being Moriarty's hostage had on him is hinted at earlier than not content with that. He [[spoiler: locks the trial. When John intercepts Jim's text on 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]].
** Sherlock'sphone, and tries to bring it to chilling re-enactment of the kidnapping of the children. "Help us" glowing eerily on the wall. Sherlock's attention, he looks silhouette at the door, hand held like he's about a gun. The details of the boy on tip-toe with a ''gun to pass out. Not a reaction we've come to expect from someone who developed a hand tremor because he ''missed being in constant danger.his head.'' It's highly implied that there are some details of his hostage experience prior to Sherlock appearing that he's unwilling to share, because they are really, ''really bad.''
The little girl being grabbed around the neck...
* Moriarty [[spoiler: pretending to be Richard Brook, a scared actor who was'hired' hired by Sherlock to be Moriarty in an attempt to take Sherlock down. He's so convincing that he can almost (maybe even completely) make you anyone believe it, 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.]]
-->''"No charge."''
* Moriarty threatening not justJohn (which is expected at this point), 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."Ok. Let me give you a little extra incentive... your friends will DIE die if you don't.
-->'''Sherlock:''' ...John.
don't."
-->'''Sherlock:''' "...John?"
-->'''Moriarty:'''Oh, "Oh, not just John. ''Everyone''.
''Everyone''."
-->'''Sherlock:'''Mrs. Hudson?
"Mrs. Hudson?"
-->'''Moriarty:'''''EVERYONE''.
"''EVERYONE''."
-->'''Sherlock:'''Lestrade?
"Lestrade?"
-->'''Moriarty:'''Three "Three bullets. Three gunmen. Three victims. There's no ''stopping'' them now.
* And after that, "Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase?"
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 ownblood]] was incredibly unnerving.
** Agreed. Especially consideringblood. And, if you look closely, [[spoiler:you can see pieces of Jim's brain floating on the [[NotSoDifferent "you'd do anything to not feel bored"]] comment edge of the Cabbie directed at Sherlock in the pilot.
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 beatenSherlock Holmes. As Sally Donovan pointed out in ''A Study in Pink,'' psychopaths get bored. They tend to commit suicide in prison because of it. 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, horrible albiet horrible, sense.
** A less internal detail, but if you look closely [[spoiler:you can see pieces of Jim's brain floating on the edge of the blood.]]
** All this to prove just how TheUnfettered can get deconstructed.
** And it gets even better. This level of [[spoiler:realistic and utterly gruesome]] detail must have come from [[spoiler:Molly. She's a forensic pathologist, after all, it's what she does for a living. She probably "decorated" him herself, even. She has/had a major crush on him, and the more realistic she makes his "death" look, the more she is guaranteing she'll ''never'' see him again... And that she'll have ''lots of guilt'' whenever she runs into their grief-stricken mutual friends]]...
* John unknowingly [[spoiler:in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle. Sherlock's 'suicide' suicide saved his life by ''mere minutes.'']]
*The idea of Moriarty [[spoiler: having his own kid's show. The guy has strapped ''bombs'' to children. He has poisoned children with mercury (symptoms include losing hair, teeth and nails, kidney dysfunction, itching, burning, pain, light sensitivity and ...you know... death). Not to mention the crap he pulls on adults. He's the storyteller on TV. Small children ''trust'' him.]] What could possibly go wrong with that?
* [[spoiler:Fake death]][[spoiler:Faked or not, 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 'dead' 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. It wouldn't be surprising if Series 3 mirrored Series 1's opening by showing us John reliving that moment in a nightmare.
* A small one, but it's pretty chilling seeing Sherlock Holmes standing on top of a building, broken and crying, giving John his "note" over the phone.
* The *CRUNCH* when Sherlock hits the ground is absolutely awful.
* Moriarty's ([[spoiler:"Richard Brook'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:Oh, and the cabbie is Moriarty.]]
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* Moriarty [[spoiler: pretending to be Richard Brook, a scared actor who was
** 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.]]
-->''"No charge."''
* Moriarty threatening not just
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-->'''Sherlock:'''
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* And after that, "Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase?"
* 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
** Agreed. Especially considering
** 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
** All this to prove just how TheUnfettered can get deconstructed.
** And it gets even better. This level of [[spoiler:realistic and utterly gruesome]] detail must have come from [[spoiler:Molly. She's a forensic pathologist, after all, it's what she does for a living. She probably "decorated" him herself, even. She has/had a major crush on him, and the more realistic she makes his "death" look, the more she is guaranteing she'll ''never'' see him again... And that she'll have ''lots of guilt'' whenever she runs into their grief-stricken mutual friends]]...
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* [[spoiler:Fake death]]
* A small one, but it's pretty chilling seeing Sherlock Holmes standing on top of a building, broken and crying, giving John his "note" over the phone.
* The *CRUNCH* when Sherlock hits the ground is absolutely awful.
* Moriarty's ([[spoiler:"Richard Brook'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:Oh, and the cabbie is Moriarty.]]
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* In a mix of [[BlackHumor hilarity and slight horror]]; Sherlock is vigorously beating the corpse of someone Molly knows of with a riding crop. Molly even remarked that the deceased was 'nice'. The show wastes no time pointing out Sherlock's lack of empathy.
* Lovely, kind-hearted Mrs Hudson's husband was such an awful person, and apparently committed such a heinous crime, that she loves Sherlock forever for ensuring the man was ''executed.''
** For starters, according to ''The Signs of Three'', [[spoiler: He ran a drug cartel in America.]] [[spoiler: Now think about all the horrible things Walter White and Gus Fring did in Series/BreakingBad, or the brutality of Sanchez's gang in ''Film/LicenceToKill'', or all the terrible atrocities committed by the cartels in the Mexican Drug War]].
* The kidnapper. Just because [[spoiler: you took the wrong cab]] you're going to be '''forced to kill yourself'''.
** 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'''.
* You know ... it may be for the best that John Watson, veteran of the Afghan War, never found out that Sherlock ''tortured a dying man'' for information.
** Then again, he was dying ''because'' John decided to shoot him, showing that John can be ''just'' as ruthless at times. ''Yikes.'' Screw with his friend, and he'll ''end you.'' [[/folder]]
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* If you think about it, [[spoiler: Eddie Van Coon, Lucas, Shen died (and John and Sarah could have) because Eddie stole something to apologise to his girlfriend.]]
** [[spoiler:One lousy hairpin. ''ONE''. World of crimes is complicated and scary.]]
** The end result for the gangster. It's not pretty. [[spoiler: Of course, that's what you get when you disappoint Moriarty.]] [[/folder]]
* Lovely, kind-hearted Mrs Hudson's husband was such an awful person, and apparently committed such a heinous crime, that she loves Sherlock forever for ensuring the man was ''executed.''
** For starters, according to ''The Signs of Three'', [[spoiler: He ran a drug cartel in America.]] [[spoiler: Now think about all the horrible things Walter White and Gus Fring did in Series/BreakingBad, or the brutality of Sanchez's gang in ''Film/LicenceToKill'', or all the terrible atrocities committed by the cartels in the Mexican Drug War]].
* The kidnapper. Just because [[spoiler: you took the wrong cab]] you're going to be '''forced to kill yourself'''.
** 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'''.
* You know ... it may be for the best that John Watson, veteran of the Afghan War, never found out that Sherlock ''tortured a dying man'' for information.
** Then again, he was dying ''because'' John decided to shoot him, showing that John can be ''just'' as ruthless at times. ''Yikes.'' Screw with his friend, and he'll ''end you.'' [[/folder]]
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** [[spoiler:One lousy hairpin. ''ONE''. World of crimes is complicated and scary.]]
** The end result for the gangster. It's not pretty. [[spoiler: Of course, that's what you get when you disappoint Moriarty.]] [[/folder]]
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* In a mix of [[BlackHumor hilarity and slight horror]]; Sherlock is introduced vigorously beating the a corpse of someone Molly knows of with a riding crop. Molly even remarked that then remarks thatshe knew the deceased was 'nice'.personally, and that they were "nice". The show wastes no time pointing out Sherlock's lack of empathy.
* Lovely, kind-hearted Mrs Hudson's husband was such an awful person, and apparently committed such a heinous crime, that she loves Sherlock forever for ensuring the man was ''executed.''
** For starters, according to ''The Signs of Three'', [[spoiler: He ran a drug cartel in America.]] [[spoiler: Now think about all the horrible things Walter White and Gus Fring did in Series/BreakingBad, or the brutality of Sanchez's gang in ''Film/LicenceToKill'', or all the terrible atrocities committed by the cartels in the Mexican Drug War]].
* The kidnapper. Just because [[spoiler: you took the wrong cab]] you're going to be '''forced to kill yourself'''.
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* You know ... it may be for the best that John Watson, veteran of the Afghan War, never found out that Sherlock ''tortured a dying man'' for information.
** Then again, he was dying ''because'' John decided to shoot him, showing that John can be ''just'' as ruthless at times. ''Yikes.'' Screw withthere'''. And just because [[spoiler: his friend, and he'll ''end you.'' [[/folder]]
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** For starters, according to ''The Signs of Three'', [[spoiler: He ran a drug cartel in America.]] [[spoiler: Now think about all the horrible things Walter White and Gus Fring did in Series/BreakingBad, or the brutality of Sanchez's gang in ''Film/LicenceToKill'', or all the terrible atrocities committed by the cartels in the Mexican Drug War]].
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* Holmes and Watson's first encounter with [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L9oFFHKikGg/Upt7XJC4baI/AAAAAAAAIds/hx8DtJTxpBc/s1600/Benedict+Cumberbatch+and+Martin+Freeman+as+Sherlock+Holmes+and+John+Watson+follow+Golem+in+BBC+Sherlock+Season+1+Episode+3+The+Great+Game.jpg the Golem.]] The guy is freakishly large and all you see of him is his shadow, lurking behind a corner in an underground tunnel; then there's a vague shot of him running to his car in the creepiest way possible, magnified by that freaking shadow.
** His shadow is also reminiscent of [[TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man]]
** The moment when the Golem [[http://i.imgur.com/MqYoHWW.png creeps up on Sherlock from behind]] in the Planetarium is pretty unsettling too, especially with the flashing lights and garbled audio.
** That [[TranquilFury quite, chilling threat]] on the Golem's life.
* 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. ''The little boy.'']]
** His shadow is also reminiscent of [[TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man]]
** The moment when the Golem [[http://i.imgur.com/MqYoHWW.png creeps up on Sherlock from behind]] in the Planetarium is pretty unsettling too, especially with the flashing lights and garbled audio.
** That [[TranquilFury quite, chilling threat]] on the Golem's life.
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** The moment when the Golem [[http://i.imgur.com/MqYoHWW.png creeps up on Sherlock from behind]] in the Planetarium is pretty unsettling too, especially with the flashing lights and garbled audio.
** That [[TranquilFury quite, chilling threat]] on the Golem's life.
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** 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.'']]
* One could almost say that Sherlock ''himself'' was working towards nightmare fuel in ''The Great Game.'' Especially at the very end, with Sherlock grinning most of the time the [[spoiler:little boy is being held hostage]]; he has a nice little moment of swagger and egotistical pleasure before finally [[spoiler:giving the answer that saves the child's life]]. Remember that [[spoiler: the previous victim -- and eleven other people -- died]].
* One could almost say that Sherlock ''himself'' was working towards nightmare fuel in ''The Great Game.'' Especially at the very end, with Sherlock grinning most of the time the [[spoiler:little boy is being held hostage]]; he has a nice little moment of swagger and egotistical pleasure before finally [[spoiler:giving the answer that saves the child's life]]. Remember that [[spoiler: the previous victim -- and eleven other people -- died]].
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** 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.'']]
*One could almost say that Sherlock ''himself'' was working towards nightmare fuel in ''The Great Game.'' Especially at the very end, and John's first encounter with [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L9oFFHKikGg/Upt7XJC4baI/AAAAAAAAIds/hx8DtJTxpBc/s1600/Benedict+Cumberbatch+and+Martin+Freeman+as+Sherlock+Holmes+and+John+Watson+follow+Golem+in+BBC+Sherlock+Season+1+Episode+3+The+Great+Game.jpg the Golem.]] The guy is freakishly large and all you see of him is his shadow, lurking behind a corner in an underground tunnel; then there's a vague shot of him running to his car in the creepiest way possible, magnified by that freaking shadow.
** The moment when the Golem [[http://i.imgur.com/MqYoHWW.png creeps up on Sherlockgrinning most of from behind]] in the time Planetarium is pretty unsettling too, especially with the [[spoiler:little boy is being held hostage]]; he has a nice little moment of swagger flashing lights and egotistical pleasure before finally [[spoiler:giving the answer that saves the child's life]]. Remember that [[spoiler: the previous victim -- and eleven other people -- died]].garbled audio.
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** Andrew Scott's acting abilities - he punctuates Moriarty's speech with little gulps when he's losing control - cannot be praised enough. Rewatch the following fragment.
--->'''Jim''': If you don't stop prying, I will burn you. I will burn the ''heart'' out of you.
* This [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/b/b2/Sherlock_103-04.jpg terrifying]] screenshot when Sherlock confronts the Golem. His FACE.
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** Andrew Scott's acting abilities - he punctuates Moriarty's speech with little gulps when he's losing control - cannot be praised enough. Rewatch the following fragment.
--->'''Jim''': If you don't stop prying, I will burn you. I will burn the ''heart'' out of you.
* This [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/b/b2/Sherlock_103-04.jpg terrifying]] screenshot when Sherlock confronts the Golem. His FACE.
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-->'''Jim:'''That's "That's what people ''DO''!
** Andrew Scott's acting abilities - he punctuates Moriarty's speech with little gulps when he's losing control - cannot be praised enough. Rewatch the following fragment.
--->'''Jim''': If you don't stop prying, I will burn you. I will burn the ''heart'' out of you.
* This [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/b/b2/Sherlock_103-04.jpg terrifying]] screenshot when Sherlock confronts the Golem. His FACE.''''DO!''''"
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** Andrew Scott's acting abilities - he punctuates Moriarty's speech with little gulps when he's losing control - cannot be praised enough. Rewatch the following fragment.
--->'''Jim''': If you don't stop prying, I will burn you. I will burn the ''heart'' out of you.
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** Your mileage may vary, but the clown and the little girl did ''not'' get any less scary when [[spoiler: you see what they really are: junkies dressed up in costume. Actually... they were arguably scarier.]]
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* Moriarty's series of pre-recorded messages deserve an honorable mention. In an episode that's already got a chillingly mesmerizing villain in the form of Eurus, and a slowly escalating tension the moment Sherlock, John, and Mycroft set foot on Sherrinford, it's a little easy to forget the late consulting criminal... but then the moment things start to spiral out of control and it's revealed that the island prison has been compromised, alarms start to blare and a voice begins projecting over the PA system. At first it seems like a typical red alert, but then the phrases get progressively more random and weird, and it isn't until John lays his eyes on a set of television screens that Moriarty reveals himself in a manner much similar to how he turned up in the previous finale, only this time it's under much more tense circumstances. Talk about a MindScrew.
** The series of prompts that Eurus initiates during her little game are also quite disturbing in their own right, as the red tint that colors Moriarty's features during every recording adds to the jarring effect of his appearances.
** The series of prompts that Eurus initiates during her little game are also quite disturbing in their own right, as the red tint that colors Moriarty's features during every recording adds to the jarring effect of his appearances.
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** For [[spoiler:Mycroft]]: You've watched the nightmarish events unfold as your parents have, but you're a child yourself. You have to maintain the lie that your youngest sibling has told himself while being fully aware of the truth. When your uncle dies, you become your sister's keeper, with all the ShootTheDog decisions that that entails, and you decide that it's best to lie to your parents and claim that she's dead rather than locked up...so you get to watch them grieve her, fully aware that this is ''your'' lie and therefore ''your'' fault. Then, because your royally screwed up, you hand her the opportunity to torture both yourself and your sibling all over again, and after you've both been thoroughly scarred for life, you get to tell your parents that you've been lying to them about your sister's fate for years.
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** For [[spoiler:Mycroft]]: You've watched the nightmarish events unfold as your parents have, but you're a child yourself. You have to maintain the lie that your youngest sibling has told himself while being fully aware of the truth. When your uncle dies, you become your sister's keeper, with all the ShootTheDog decisions that that entails, and you decide that it's best to lie to your parents and claim that she's dead rather than locked up...so you get to watch them grieve her, fully aware that this is ''your'' lie and therefore ''your'' fault. Then, because your you've royally screwed up, you hand her the opportunity to torture both yourself and your sibling all over again, and after you've both been thoroughly scarred for life, you get to tell your parents that you've been lying to them about your sister's fate for years.
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* The whole Eurus situation from the point of view of her family, particularly when you bring FridgeLogic into the picture. ''There is nothing they can do to help her.'' In the unlikely event that she did begin acting "normally," she's a master manipulator who can never be fully trusted, so even if she was genuinely "cured," there's no way you could know for certain and no way you could let her go free. In order to limit the atrocities she's capable of, your choices are limited to letting her live a life of solitary confinement and killing her. You'll never know if she genuinely loves you, or if you've just become one of her latest experiments.
** For her parents: your only daughter is a viciously dangerous sociopath with zero empathy, who attempts to ''incinerate'' [[spoiler:your youngest son]] and ''drowns'' [[spoiler:his best friend]]. She can't be reasoned with because she has no concept of right and wrong; you can't even try to stop her by outsmarting her, because she's cleverer than anyone who might try to contain her. Just living with her is an exercise in mind gaming, when you're never sure who she's manipulating (your spouse? Your other children? ''You''?) or why she's doing it. She traumatises her younger sibling so badly that his memories and personality are effectively rewritten, and you have to watch that happen. Eventually, your brother/brother-in-law has her taken away and locked up, and later your oldest child tells you that she's dead. Years later, you discover he lied: she's alive and as dangerous as ever, but she's still your child, and she's spent her whole life isolated and under constant surveillance.
** For [[spoiler:Mycroft]]: You've watched the nightmarish events unfold as your parents have, but you're a child yourself. You have to maintain the lie that your youngest sibling has told himself while being fully aware of the truth. When your uncle dies, you become your sister's keeper, with all the ShootTheDog decisions that that entails, and you decide that it's best to lie to your parents and claim that she's dead rather than locked up...so you get to watch them grieve her, fully aware that this is ''your'' lie and therefore ''your'' fault. Then, because your royally screwed up, you hand her the opportunity to torture both yourself and your sibling all over again, and after you've both been thoroughly scarred for life, you get to tell your parents that you've been lying to them about your sister's fate for years.
** For her parents: your only daughter is a viciously dangerous sociopath with zero empathy, who attempts to ''incinerate'' [[spoiler:your youngest son]] and ''drowns'' [[spoiler:his best friend]]. She can't be reasoned with because she has no concept of right and wrong; you can't even try to stop her by outsmarting her, because she's cleverer than anyone who might try to contain her. Just living with her is an exercise in mind gaming, when you're never sure who she's manipulating (your spouse? Your other children? ''You''?) or why she's doing it. She traumatises her younger sibling so badly that his memories and personality are effectively rewritten, and you have to watch that happen. Eventually, your brother/brother-in-law has her taken away and locked up, and later your oldest child tells you that she's dead. Years later, you discover he lied: she's alive and as dangerous as ever, but she's still your child, and she's spent her whole life isolated and under constant surveillance.
** For [[spoiler:Mycroft]]: You've watched the nightmarish events unfold as your parents have, but you're a child yourself. You have to maintain the lie that your youngest sibling has told himself while being fully aware of the truth. When your uncle dies, you become your sister's keeper, with all the ShootTheDog decisions that that entails, and you decide that it's best to lie to your parents and claim that she's dead rather than locked up...so you get to watch them grieve her, fully aware that this is ''your'' lie and therefore ''your'' fault. Then, because your royally screwed up, you hand her the opportunity to torture both yourself and your sibling all over again, and after you've both been thoroughly scarred for life, you get to tell your parents that you've been lying to them about your sister's fate for years.
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** One of the downright ''creepiest'' things about Eurus is her body language. Or rather, her lack of it. Everyone in Sherlock tends to move when they talk. Sherlock does some other task without looking at people, John looks people in the eye, Mycroft has a patronizing little nod he does, even Moriarty shifts from side to side every now and then. With Eurus... Nothing. She barely blinks, barely shifts an inch, she just ''stands there and talks.'' Like one of those animated puppets that can only move its jaw.
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*** And then when she was asked whether she felt pain, her response was "Which one's pain?"
*** 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.
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* Where to begin? This may very well be one of the darkest, most horrifying episodes of the entire show's run:
* Let's start with Mycroft being menaced in a darkened room with a ghostly disembodied voice, followed by a MonsterClown. Yes, [[spoiler:it was all Sherlock's doing]], but ''still.''
* Let's start with Mycroft being menaced in a darkened room with a ghostly disembodied voice, followed by a MonsterClown. Yes, [[spoiler:it was all Sherlock's doing]], but ''still.''
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** 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!]] Explains a lot, really.
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* Sherlock casually admits that he has mentally planned out how he would murder each of his closest friends. For fun. It's chilling to imagine what he'd be like [[GladHesOnOurSide if he weren't on the side of the angels]].
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* Sherlock casually admits that he has mentally planned out how he would murder each of his closest friends. For fun. Then he starts describing how he would do it. ''While still giving his speech''. It's chilling to imagine what he'd be like [[GladHesOnOurSide if he weren't on the side of the angels]].
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* "At last. A noose for me to put my neck into." Sherlock still hasn't learned... It gets to the point that he thinks any challenging cases [[spoiler: was orchestrated by Moriaty when it fact, it isn't.]]
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* "At last. A noose for me to put my neck into." Sherlock still hasn't learned... It gets to the point that he thinks any challenging cases [[spoiler: was orchestrated by Moriaty Moriarty when it fact, it isn't.]]
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** This conversation:
--> '''Eurus''': You, 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. It turns out that you were screaming.
--> '''Eurus''': You, 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. It turns out that you were screaming.
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** [[spoiler: Sherlock's reaction is ''worse'', with closing the fake casket in the room only to ''smash'' it with such fury and emotion]], considering [[spoiler: MoralityPet what Molly is to Sherlock]], next to John anyway.
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** [[spoiler: Sherlock's reaction is ''worse'', with closing the fake casket in the room only to ''smash'' it with such fury and emotion]], considering [[spoiler: MoralityPet [[MoralityPet what Molly is to Sherlock]], Sherlock]]]], next to John anyway.
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* '''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 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]].
** [[spoiler: Sherlock's reaction is ''worse'', with closing the fake casket in the room only to ''smash'' it with such fury and emotion]], considering [[spoiler: MoralityPet what Molly is to Sherlock]], next to John anyway.
** [[spoiler: Sherlock's reaction is ''worse'', with closing the fake casket in the room only to ''smash'' it with such fury and emotion]], considering [[spoiler: MoralityPet what Molly is to Sherlock]], next to John anyway.
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* Where to begin?
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* Where to begin?begin? This may very well be one of the darkest, most horrifying episodes of the entire show's run:
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* [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream Despite turning out to be a scenario playing out in Eurus's imagination]],]] the plight of the unnamed 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.
* Eurus. You'd swear that she would even haunt the nightmares of Hannibal Lector. She is shown to have the odd, almost hypnotic ability to bend people to her every will and has brought most of the management at the asylum she is being kept at to its knees. It's mentioned in passing that she successfully willed a worker there into shooting ''his own family''. (After which the man also [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]].)
** In flashbacks, we see that [[CreepyChild she was even creepy as a kid]]. In one flashback to the Holmes siblings' childhood, we see Eurus being confronted by her parents and doctors over why she was ''slicing her skin open with a knife''. [[spoiler: Even discounting TheReveal.]]
--->''I wanted to see how my muscles work.''
* 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 beloved pet dog Redbeard [[spoiler: was actually something he convinced himself had happened all these years. What really happened? Redbeard was actually the nickname given to Sherlock's ''best human 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.]]
* Eurus. You'd swear that she would even haunt the nightmares of Hannibal Lector. She is shown to have the odd, almost hypnotic ability to bend people to her every will and has brought most of the management at the asylum she is being kept at to its knees. It's mentioned in passing that she successfully willed a worker there into shooting ''his own family''. (After which the man also [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]].)
** In flashbacks, we see that [[CreepyChild she was even creepy as a kid]]. In one flashback to the Holmes siblings' childhood, we see Eurus being confronted by her parents and doctors over why she was ''slicing her skin open with a knife''. [[spoiler: Even discounting TheReveal.]]
--->''I wanted to see how my muscles work.''
* 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 beloved pet dog Redbeard [[spoiler: was actually something he convinced himself had happened all these years. What really happened? Redbeard was actually the nickname given to Sherlock's ''best human 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.]]
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* Let's start with Mycroft being menaced in a darkened room with a ghostly disembodied voice, followed by a KillerClown. Yes, [[spoiler:it was all Sherlock's doing]], but ''still.''
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* Let's start with Mycroft being menaced in a darkened room with a ghostly disembodied voice, followed by a KillerClown.MonsterClown. Yes, [[spoiler:it was all Sherlock's doing]], but ''still.''
