History Recap / SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink

* InfantImmortality: Averted with James Phillimore, as according to the newspaper article detailing his death, he is only eighteen.

* Sherlock getting a restauranteur off for murder by proving that he was committing a different crime at the time is a reference to ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBakerStreetDozen Dressed to Kill]]'', although in ''Dressed'' the crime was safecracking rather than car theft.

* TheKidnapper: John is forced get into a suspicious car with no knowledge of where he's being taken, in order to meet Mycroft in an abandoned building so the latter could offer John money to spy on Sherlock, citing the reason as: "I worry about him... Constantly."

* TheKindapper: John is forced get into a suspicious car with no knowledge of where he's being taken, in order to meet Mycroft in an abandoned building so the latter could offer John money to spy on Sherlock, citing the reason as: "I worry about him... Constantly."

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Holmes deduces that Donovan spent the night with Anderson. "And I assume she scrubbed your floor, going by the state of her knees."

* SherlockScan: The episode contains three different types of scans to [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establish]] just how CrazyAwesome Sherlock is. Though in a bit of a departure from the usual trope, he's not always ''quite'' right -- when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbhfRBAWwo he first meets Watson]], he deduces that Watson has an estranged alcoholic brother named Harry who has recently left his wife. He's right about the troubled sibling relationship, the alcohol, and the break-up... but Harry is short for ''[[TomboyishName Harriet]]''.

* BeneathNotice: Cabbies. Everyone trusts them without knowing them. They hunt in crowds because all everyone thinks about is the back of a head.

%%* BlandNameProduct: [=MePhone.org.uk=]

* BloodKnight: Mycroft suggests that John is one, evidenced by how calm and capable he is in dangerous situations, compared to his shakes and his limp in everyday life. As he so astutely notes about the ''real'' reason John is seeing a therapist;

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jeff Hope has his son and daughter, who he wants to provide more money for after his death.

* FirstEpisodeTwist: Mark Gatiss's character is hinted for the duration of the first episode to be Moriarty, but he's actually Mycroft Holmes.

* ReinventingTheTelephone: In the pilot, Mycroft contacts John by watching him on London's ubiquitous [=CCTVs=] and calling every public phone he walks by until he picks one of them up.

* AloneWithThePsycho: PlayedWith. Sherlock leaves the flat, ostensibly to [[INeedToGoIronMyDog "get some air"]], leaving John to sit about in confusion and continue trying to track down a victim's phone through its GPS. After only a few minutes, John realises that [[spoiler: the phone was at Baker Street because the [[SerialKiller cabbie]] who was there a few minutes ago had it - and now it's moving again, ''because Sherlock went out after him'']], putting Sherlock {{Alone With the Psycho}}. Played with in that Sherlock knows full well he's Alone With the Psycho, and ''actively put himself in that position''.

Dr John Watson has just returned from service in Afghanistan with BadDreams, a psychosomatic limp and a bullet wound for his trouble. John's therapist encourages him to keep a blog about his life as a returned vet, but it doesn't seem to help since, as John himself puts it, [[TemptingFate "nothing happens to [him]"]]. And to top it all off, his army pension isn't enough to keep living in London. All in all, things are kinda crappy for John until he runs into Mike Stamford, an old friend from his days at St Bart's. As it happens, Mike knows of someone who's looking for a flatmate...

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Mark Gatiss's character is hinted for the duration of the first episode to be Moriarty, but he's actually Mycroft Holmes.

** One address they pair visit is 22 Northumberland Street, which just happens to be right next door to a RealLife cafe called The Sherlock Holmes.

* RubiksCubeInternationalGeniusSymbol: It's downplayed but in one scene we see a Rubik's Cube on Sherlock's desk. He never constant diversion after all.

* ChekhovsGun: John has a gun in a drawer shows in the first minute. He takes it later.

* BlandNameProduct: [=MePhone.org.uk=]

* ButtMonkey: Anderson.

** John shouts Sherlock's name when he realises that [[spoiler:Sherlock is in another building with the murderer]]. It's muffled through a window, which lessens the impact, but the fact that there's a dramatic echo (as well as an appropriate choice in soundtrack) helps.

* SherlockScan: The episode contains three different types of scans to [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establish]] just how CrazyAwesome Sherlock is. Though in a bit of a departure from the usual trope, he's not always ''quite'' right -- when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbhfRBAWwo he first meets Watson]], he deduces that Watson has an estranged alcoholic brother named Harry who has recently left his wife. He's right about the troubled sibling relationship, the alcohol, and the break-up... but Harry [[spoiler:is short for ''[[TomboyishName Harriet]]''.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: The serial killer. He first talks Sherlock into his EvilPlan without even using his gun by manipulating Sherlock's arrogance and curiosity. Then, once Sherlock reveals that the gun is a fake in any case and he has no need to take a pill at all, he gets him to take it anyway to prove that he's really the smartest. He's only stopped by a well-placed shot from John.
** Interestingly, the serial killer in the pilot version of the first story was not this way at all: the cabbie simply drugs Sherlock in public (with everyone around assuming thanks to his acting that he's simply drunk), drags him back to his home, and presents him with the pill game when Sherlock is still too drugged to really fight him off. He even threatens to simply force the pill down his throat if Sherlock refuses. The cabbie only tries manipulating him after the police have arrived outside, thanks to John noticing something was off.

!!Tropes present in this work include:

--->'''Sherlock:''' The bullet they just dug out of the wall is from a hand gun. A kill shot over that distance from that kind of a weapon? That's a crack shot you're looking for, but not just a marksman. A fighter. His hands couldn't haven't shaken at all, so clearly he's acclimatized to violence. He didn't fire till I was in immediate danger, though, so strong moral principle. You're looking for a man probably with a history of military service, nerves of steel...\\

* MythologyGag: Much of the story takes reference to the original source story ''A Study in Scarlet''.

* AloneWithThePsycho: Sherlock and the serial killer, but he does this deliberately in order to find out how the person killed their victims.

* DyingClue: One victim scratches the word 'rache' into the floorboards with [[CouldntFindAPen her fingernails]].

** The "Rache" clue means absolutely nothing.