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* ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun: Sherlock performs his characteristic SherlockScan on Joan, then explains all his deductions, and Joan points out that he failed to account for knowing her father had an affair. Sherlock says he Googled it.
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* ChekhovsGun: The bag of rice where Peter Saluda kept his phone to dry, that had recording of his therapy sessions.

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* ChekhovsGun: The bag of rice which Peter Saldua had a food allergy to was where Peter Saluda he kept his phone to dry, that had recording on which he kept recordings of his therapy sessions.
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* CreepySouvenir: The decorations in the Mantlo home are perfectly symmetrical except for a ring box missing from one table. Sherlock points this out and deduces that Amy's murderer took it as a trophy, a trait usually seen in serial killers which means Amy may not be the only victim. The box later turns up at Peter Saldua's apartment when the police investigate his "suicide".
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by Saldua who was aware of his violent impulses and was actively trying to control them through therapy and medication. Unfortunately he ended up seeing a therapist who took advantage of Saldua's existing fixation on redheads to manipulate him into killing the therapist's wife.


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* NeverSuicide: Saldua is found dead with a gun in his hand, apparently having shot himself. Sherlock works out that Mantlo killed him and staged the scene to look like a suicide to cover his tracks.
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うさぎと猫と少年の夢.
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うさぎと猫と少年の夢.



* UniquePilotTitleSequence: Or lack thereof, actually. Every other episode has a RubeGoldbergDevice to drop a small cage on a figurine. The pilot throws up the title as a splash-screen with a few bars of the theme.

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* UniquePilotTitleSequence: Or lack thereof, actually. Every other episode has a RubeGoldbergDevice to drop a small cage on a figurine. The pilot throws up the title as a splash-screen with a few bars of the theme.
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Joan Watson is a sober companion ready to meet her latest her client, Sherlock Holmes. She enters his house to find a strange woman leaving. When she meets him he is shirtless and talking about the idea of love at first sight. Joan is confused, only for Sherlock to press a button of a remote, causing the television to repeat what he said. When she asks him if he ever got high, Sherlock tells her that he and the women who left got quite high on a ladder with a pair of handcuffs.

As a sober companion follows there client wherever they go, Sherlock takes her to his work, solving crime. He takes her to a crime scene where officers Captain Gregson and Detective Abreu. They are at a house where a man was reported his wife missing. Sherlock sees the broken glass that Abreu has collected and notices that it came from two glasses, proving it when he finds another glass bottom. Sherlock suggests the victim had let the killer in, and adds that the blood on the door means it was kicked after the killer left no when he entered.

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[[TheWatson Joan Watson Watson]] is a sober companion ready to meet her latest her client, [[CloudCuckoolander Sherlock Holmes. Holmes]]. She enters his house to find a strange woman leaving. When she meets him he is leaving, and Sherlock shirtless and talking about the idea of love at first sight. Joan is confused, only for Sherlock to press a button of a remote, causing the television to repeat what he said. When she asks him if he ever got was high, Sherlock tells her that he and the women who left got quite high [[BrainsAndBondage on a ladder with a pair of handcuffs.

handcuffs]].

As a sober companion follows there their client wherever they go, Sherlock takes her Joan to his work, solving crime. work. He takes her to a crime scene where officers Captain Gregson they meet [[DaChief Captain]] [[InspectorLestrade Gregson]] and [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Detective Abreu. Abreu]]. They are at a house where a man was reported his wife missing. Sherlock sees the broken glass that Abreu has collected and notices that it came from two glasses, proving it when he finds another glass bottom. Sherlock suggests the victim had let the killer in, and adds that the blood on the door means it was kicked after the killer left no left, not when he entered.



* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Joan referring to how Sherlock got addicted: "Now I know it was a woman."

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Joan referring to how Sherlock got addicted: addicted to heroin: "Now I know it was a woman."
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Joan Watson is a sober companion ready to meet her latest her client, Sherlock Holmes. She enters his house to find a strange woman leaving. When she meets him he is shirtless and talking about the idea of love at first sight. Joan is confused, only for Sherlock to press a button of a remote, causing the television to repeat what he said. When she asks him if he ever got high, Sherlock tells her that he and the women who left got quite high on a ladder with a pair of handcuffs.

As a sober companion follows there client wherever they go, Sherlock takes her to his work, solving crime. He takes her to a crime scene where officers Captain Gregson and Detective Abreu. They are at a house where a man was reported his wife missing. Sherlock sees the broken glass that Abreu has collected and notices that it came from two glasses, proving it when he finds another glass bottom. Sherlock suggests the victim had let the killer in, and adds that the blood on the door means it was kicked after the killer left no when he entered.

He looks around on the shelves and notices that a ring case is gone. Sherlock points out this is not what kidnappers do, its what serial killers do.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Joan referring to how Sherlock got addicted: "Now I know it was a woman."
* AsYouKnow: In "Pilot", Holmes uses these exact words to Joan while explaining why surgeons use beeswax in their hands and why he was able to deduce she was one.
* BreakThemByTalking: Sherlock tries to pull this on Joan earlier in the pilot... but she beautifully [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech fires back]] after that.
* ChekhovsGun: The bag of rice where Peter Saluda kept his phone to dry, that had recording of his therapy sessions.
* HyperAwareness: Sherlock, who considers this [[BlessedWithSuck both a blessing and a curse]]. Joan shows symptoms of it as well.
* MundaneSolution: When Watson asks Holmes how he knew her father had had an affair:
-->'''Holmes:''' Website/{{Google}}. ''({{beat}})'' Well, not everything is deducible.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Watson gives a brief one to him that leaves him speechless.
* ShirtlessScene: Sherlock is shirtless when he is introduced and Joan meets him.
* TemptingFate: Joan tells Sherlock that he can introduce her however he wants. So he introduces her as his ''personal valet'' and she immediately loathes it. It's become a RunningGag for him to introduce her in various ways.
* UniquePilotTitleSequence: Or lack thereof, actually. Every other episode has a RubeGoldbergDevice to drop a small cage on a figurine. The pilot throws up the title as a splash-screen with a few bars of the theme.

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