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* The idea of having a female Watson is followed from ''Series/Elementary'', where the series was first known to have the first female Doctor Watson.

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* The idea of having a female Watson is followed from ''Series/Elementary'', ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', where the series was first known to have the first female Doctor Watson.
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* The idea of having a female Watson is followed from ''Series/Elementary'', where the series was first known to have the first female Doctor Watson.
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* "Stolen Virus" is "The Bruce-Partington Plans".
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* Several elements from "The Greek Interpreter" are present:
** In the intro, Watanuki Hiroshi plays the part of Paul Kratides, presenting his torturer with a Greek word which turns out to be a hint for the password they are seeking, prompting the villain to seek an expert's help to decipher it.
** As we eventually come to realize, Shiina Yuma turns out to be a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of two characters from the story: Sophia Kratides, a sister unwittingly caught up in criminal intrigues involving her sibling, and [[spoiler:Wilson Kemp, the glasses-wearing villain who kidnaps and tortures the victim to get him to hand over valuable assets.]]
** By the end, the villains of each story have killed their initial victim and [[spoiler: placed an ally of the heroes in mortal danger, though the latter is saved by a timely police arrival.]]
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** The galleries that offered to buy the painting was called Gables and Gelder (Gelder & Co., the company that manufactures the Napoleon busts in "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons").

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** The galleries that offered to buy the painting was were called Gables and Gelder (Gelder & Co., the company that manufactures the Napoleon busts in "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons").

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*** This also overlaps with the Sherlock episode ''The Great Game'', which has [[spoiler: Watson abducted by the antagonist and in mortal peril.]] It also introduces [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Moriarty and his criminal empire]], whereas Stella Maris was first mentioned in "Lily".]]

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*** ** A password is cracked in both episodes.
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This also overlaps with the Sherlock episode ''The Great Game'', which has [[spoiler: Watson abducted by the antagonist and in mortal peril.]] It also introduces [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Moriarty and his criminal empire]], whereas Stella Maris was first mentioned in "Lily".]]
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* Its Canon counterpart is "The Stockbroker's Clerk". Holmes' client was offered a well-paying job at *Mawson* & Williams, so that the villains [[spoiler: - two brothers - can impersonate him to carry out a robbery. The Shiina sisters did the same to the researcher at *Mawson* Pharmaceuticals.]] The story also ends with the police arresting the criminals.

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* Its Canon counterpart is "The Stockbroker's Clerk". Holmes' client was offered a well-paying job at *Mawson* ''Mawson'' & Williams, so that the villains [[spoiler: - two brothers - can impersonate him to carry out a robbery. The Shiina sisters did the same to the researcher at *Mawson* ''Mawson'' Pharmaceuticals.]] The story also ends with the police arresting the criminals.

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** The galleries that offered to buy the painting was called Gables and Gelder (Gelder & Co., the company that manufactures the Napoleon busts in "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons").
*** SIXN also features the defacing/destruction of a work of art (busts of Napoleon being smashed versus Sachiko's painting being damaged), and TheReveal shows that what the culprit sought after isn't actually what was initially thought. [[spoiler:The black pearl of the Borgias, and the frame made by Stradivari.]]



* "I didn't notice a thing." "Of course not. You look but you don't observe." / "You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear." (SCAN)
* "Eliminate the impossible, and you're left with the unlikely truth." / "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (BERY)

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* "I didn't notice a thing." "Of course not. You look but you don't observe." / "You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear." (SCAN)
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* "Eliminate the impossible, and you're left with the unlikely truth." / "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (BERY)(The Beryl Coronet)


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* Its Canon counterpart is "The Stockbroker's Clerk". Holmes' client was offered a well-paying job at *Mawson* & Williams, so that the villains [[spoiler: - two brothers - can impersonate him to carry out a robbery. The Shiina sisters did the same to the researcher at *Mawson* Pharmaceuticals.]] The story also ends with the police arresting the criminals.
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* "Eliminate the impossible, and you're left with the unlikely truth." / "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (BERY)
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* "I didn't notice a thing." "Of course not. You look but you don't observe." / "You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear." (SCAN)
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* In MAZA (The Mazarin Stone), Holmes tricks the criminals into thinking that he's in the next room with a recording of a violin. In "The Dock", Mrs. Hatano tells others that the cello playing is Yo-Yo Ma instead of Sherlock upstairs.

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* In MAZA (The Mazarin Stone), Holmes tricks the criminals into thinking that he's in the next room with a recording of a violin. In "The Dock", Mrs. Hatano tells others that the cello playing is Yo-Yo Ma instead of Sherlock upstairs.upstairs.
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** A Bach piece is mentioned - Partita no. 1 in B-flat major (for violin) and the Prelude to the Cello Suite no. 1 in G major.
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* Sherlock tries to log into the medical prison's server with the username ''baskervilles'' and password ''dartmoor1880''. HOUN (The Hound of the Baskervilles) takes place in Dartmoor and involves a prison (technically, an escaped convict). Dr. Watson was invalided out of the army and returned to London (thereby meeting Holmes) in 1880.

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* Sherlock tries to log into the medical prison's server with the username ''baskervilles'' and password ''dartmoor1880''. HOUN (The Hound of the Baskervilles) takes place in Dartmoor and involves a prison (technically, an escaped convict). Dr. Watson was invalided out of the army and returned to London (thereby meeting Holmes) in 1880.1880.
* In MAZA (The Mazarin Stone), Holmes tricks the criminals into thinking that he's in the next room with a recording of a violin. In "The Dock", Mrs. Hatano tells others that the cello playing is Yo-Yo Ma instead of Sherlock upstairs.
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*** [[spoiler:In TRF, Moriarty waits for Sherlock to come to the top of the building after having summoned him first. In TD, Sherlock calls Irikawa to the top of the Reichenbach building and waits for her there.]]
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** TD and TRF both ends with Watson visiting [[spoiler:Sherlock's grave/where she jumped]] and a hint that Sherlock is [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]] as the theme music swells triumphantly.

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** TD and TRF both ends with Watson visiting [[spoiler:Sherlock's grave/where she jumped]] and a hint that Sherlock is [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]] as the theme music swells triumphantly.triumphantly.
* Sherlock tries to log into the medical prison's server with the username ''baskervilles'' and password ''dartmoor1880''. HOUN (The Hound of the Baskervilles) takes place in Dartmoor and involves a prison (technically, an escaped convict). Dr. Watson was invalided out of the army and returned to London (thereby meeting Holmes) in 1880.
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** Sherlock gets [[spoiler:framed and accused of setting up every crime s/he has ever solved.]] Raimon/Lestrade's superior is brought into the case and voices disapproval of bringing a civilian in in the first place.
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** [[spoiler: Eurus Holmes, the villain of the ''Sherlock'' episode ''The Final Problem''[[note]]which is unrelated to the Holmes story. The BBC version had adapted FINA into "The Reichenbach Fall" earlier.[[/note]] posed as John's therapist. She also forced the heroes to shoot someone.]]

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** [[spoiler: Eurus Holmes, the villain of the ''Sherlock'' episode ''The Final Problem''[[note]]which is unrelated to the Holmes story. The BBC version had adapted FINA into "The Reichenbach Fall" earlier.[[/note]] posed as John's therapist. She also forced the heroes to shoot someone.]]]]
** TD and TRF both ends with Watson visiting [[spoiler:Sherlock's grave/where she jumped]] and a hint that Sherlock is [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]] as the theme music swells triumphantly.
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** [[spoiler: Sherlock jumps off a building for Wato/John's sake.]]

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** [[spoiler: Sherlock jumps off a building for Wato/John's sake.]]
** In "The Great Game", Sherlock is briefly led to believe Watson is villainous by the villain. In this one, [[spoiler:the villain tries to force Wato to kill Sherlock.]]
** Wato's gun hand trembling recalls John's intermittent tremor, which his therapist wrongly assumes to occur in a high-stress situation.
** [[spoiler: Eurus Holmes, the villain of the ''Sherlock'' episode ''The Final Problem''[[note]]which is unrelated to the Holmes story. The BBC version had adapted FINA into "The Reichenbach Fall" earlier.[[/note]] posed as John's therapist. She also forced the heroes to shoot someone.
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** In SUSS, [[spoiler:the boy poisoned his half-brother with curare out of hatred.]] TWF has the culprit being [[spoiler:intent on avenge his dead fiancée, who was killed in a car crash involving Wakasugi Sakura, tricking the boy into injecting his little sister with "medicine" that was actually curare.]]

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** In SUSS, [[spoiler:the boy poisoned his half-brother with curare out of hatred.]] TWF has the culprit being [[spoiler:intent on avenge avenging his dead fiancée, who was killed in a car crash involving Wakasugi Sakura, tricking the boy into injecting his little sister with "medicine" that was actually curare.]]
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** ''Lily'' features [[spoiler:a drug that removes fear]], "Hounds" has [[spoiler:a drug that induces fear]].

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** ''Lily'' "Lily" features [[spoiler:a drug that removes fear]], "Hounds" has [[spoiler:a drug that induces fear]].
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*** This also overlaps with the Sherlock episode ''The Great Game'', which has [[spoiler: Watson abducted by the antagonist and in mortal peril.]]

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*** This also overlaps with the Sherlock episode ''The Great Game'', which has [[spoiler: Watson abducted by the antagonist and in mortal peril.]] It also introduces [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Moriarty and his criminal empire]], whereas Stella Maris was first mentioned in "Lily".]]
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*** This also overlaps with the Sherlock episode ''The Great Game'', which has [[spoiler: Watson abducted by the antagonist and in mortal peril.]]
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* The pattern behind the "M" in the "Miss Sherlock" logo is the Holmes tartan (pattern on the typical deerstalker/Inverness ensemble).
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* "The Dock" is "The Final Problem" and the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "The Reichenbach Falls".

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* "The Dock" is "The Final Problem" and the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "The Reichenbach Falls".Fall".
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** The motive for the murders is [[spoiler: to avenge the death of a girl raised by a single parent,]] as in STUD.

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** The motive for the murders is [[spoiler: to avenge the death of a girl raised by a single parent,]] as in STUD.STUD.
* "Sachiko's Mustache" is an adaptation of "The Three Gables".
** The secret of the episode lies in something left behind by a dead man.
** The clients are both widows who live alone.
* "Lily of the Valley" is almost an inverted version of "The Hounds of Baskerville" from Series/{{Sherlock}}.
** ''Lily'' features [[spoiler:a drug that removes fear]], "Hounds" has [[spoiler:a drug that induces fear]].
** The motive for both episodes involve childhood trauma. [[spoiler:Henry Baskerville saw his father being murdered. Shiina Yuma murdered her abusive father.]]
** Sherlock's older brother has a part in the case and disapproves of Sherlock being in the thick of it.
* "The Wakasugi Family" is "The Sussex Vampire" with a twist.
** In SUSS, [[spoiler:the boy poisoned his half-brother with curare out of hatred.]] TWF has the culprit being [[spoiler:intent on avenge his dead fiancée, who was killed in a car crash involving Wakasugi Sakura, tricking the boy into injecting his little sister with "medicine" that was actually curare.]]
** Two characters are said to be involved with an archery club. Holmes mentions in SUSS that [[spoiler:in South America, arrows are sometimes dipped in curare to make them more lethal.]]
** The client knew Wato/Watson beforehand.
* "The Missing Bride" is "The Noble Bachelor".
* "Stella Maris" is "The Cardboard Box".
* "The Dock" is "The Final Problem" and the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "The Reichenbach Falls".
** [[spoiler: Sherlock jumps off a building for Wato/John's sake.]]
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** Sherlock and Wato goes to the Criterion Club to investigate. Watson ran into Stamford, who introduced him to Holmes, at the Criterion restaurant in London.
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* "The First Case" is a blend of "A Study in Scarlet" - the first Holmes story, chronologically - and "The Devil's Foot".
** The explosive is named after the titular hallucinogenic.
** The concept of a fatal pill is from STUD, and the company that makes it is called Poldhu, after the town in Cornwall where DEVI takes place.
** The motive for the murders is [[spoiler: to avenge the death of a girl raised by a single parent,]] as in STUD.

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