{recap} Sherlock 1x01 - A Study in Pink
Okay originally I just wanted to make a few little picspams of Sherlock with those gorgeous HD-caps I have for my tumblr. But somehow that totally got out of hand and now it’s more like a recap of episode 1. So I thought I might as well post it here as well so you guys can take a look at it as well! Hope you'll enjoy! =)
I really love the cinematography in this show!!!!! It's just awesome, the dynamic, the editing, the colouring... just everything! And we already get this shown in the very first scene! (though I have to admit when I've first seen this scene I thought I had downloaded the wrong show^^) Also Martin is just great in this opening scene imo!
and of course there are these awesome opening credits!!!
and I might have been totally in love with that show after I saw them for the first time already!!!
I thought this press conference was too funny for words! And I also think Lestrade was kinda right to say you shouldn’t commit suicide after all that’s what they were, suicides. =P
John goes for a walk in the park and meets and old friend/colleague?, awkward conversation follows, but this guy will be more important than we all dare to think as he’s the one who introduces John and Sherlock! =D
Mike Stamford: John! John Watson! [John pauses and looks at him] Stamford, Mike Stamford. We were at Barts together.
John Watson: Yes, sorry, yes, Mike, hello.
Mike Stamford: Yeah, I know, I got fat.
John Watson: No, no.
Mike Stamford: I heard you were abroad somewhere getting shot at. What happened?
John Watson: I got shot.
[they are sitting down on a bench, drinking coffee]
John Watson: Are you still at Barts, then?
Mike Stamford: Teaching now, yeah. Bright young things like we used to be. God, I hate them. What about you? Just staying in town till you get yourself sorted?
John Watson: I can't afford London on an Army pension.
Mike Stamford: And you couldn't bear to be anywhere else. That's not the John Watson I know.
John Watson: Yeah I'm not the John Watson...
Mike Stamford: Couldn't Harry help?
John Watson: Yeah, like that's gonna happen!
Mike Stamford: I don't know, get a flatshare or something?
John Watson: Come on, who'd want me for a flatmate? [Mike laughs] What?
Mike Stamford: You're the second person to say that to me today.
John Watson: Who was the first?
And finally we get introduced to Sherlock! He’s fully in his element playing around with a corpse doing experiments and leaving John speechless with showing off his deduction skills. =D
And of course there's the famous wink (which I just noticed I don’t have a cap of - shame!!!)
Sherlock Holmes: How do you feel about the violin?
John Watson: I'm sorry, what?
Sherlock Holmes: I play the violin when I'm thinking and sometimes I don't talk for days on end. Would that bother you? Potential flatmates should know the worst about each other.
John Watson: [to Mike] You told him about me?
Mike Stamford: Not a word.
John Watson: Then who said anything about flatmates?
Sherlock Holmes: I did. Told Mike this morning I must be a difficult man to find a flatmate for. Now here he is, just after lunch, with an old friend clearly just home from military service in Afghanistan. Wasn't a difficult leap.
John Watson: How did you know about Afghanistan?
Sherlock Holmes: Got my eye on a nice little place in central London. Together we ought able to afford it. We'll meet there tomorrow evening, seven o'clock. Sorry, got to dash. I think I left my riding crop in the mortuary.
John Watson: Is that it?
Sherlock Holmes: Is that what?
John Watson: We've only just met and we're going to go and look at a flat?
Sherlock Holmes: Problem?
John Watson: We don't know a thing about each other. I don't know where we're meeting. I don't even know your name.
Sherlock Holmes: I know you're an Army doctor and you've been invalided home from Afghanistan. You've got a brother worried about you, but you won't go to him for help because you don't approve of him, possibly because he's an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife. And I know your therapist thinks your limp's psychosomatic, quite correctly, I'm afraid. That's enough to be going on with, don't you think?
The name's Sherlock Holmes, and the address is 221 B Baker Street. Afternoon.
Mike Stamford: Yeah, he's always like that.
First time in Baker Street 221b! Mrs Hudson being awesome as always (and no we don’t think they need two bedrooms either =P)! Lestrade asking for help and finally Sherlock asking John to come with him! THE GAME IS ON!!!! =)
Car ride to the crime scene!
I fucking love their car rides!!! Also we get to know how Sherlock found out all the things about John when they first met and John is totally in love impressed! =D
John Watson: That was amazing.
Sherlock Holmes: You think so?
John Watson: Of course it was. It was extraordinary, it was quite extraordinary.
Sherlock Holmes: That’s not what people normally say.
John Watson:What do people normally say?
Sherlock Holmes: ‘Piss off’.
Finally the first time we see Sherlock investigating and of course he’s fucking gorgeous brilliant doing so! Lestrade and John seem quite impressed themselves.
Lestrade: Cardiff?
Sherlock Holmes: It’s obvious, isn’t it?
John Watson: It’s not obvious to me.
Sherlock Holmes: Dear God. What is it like in your funny little brains, it must be so boring.
We also learn that Anderson is quite a dick and Sherlock likes to make fun of him =D
I love how they made it so we can actually “see” the way Sherlock works (with the text and everything)!!!
in the end Sherlock just leaves John, which isn’t so nice but well John needs to get used to that I guess…
So John all left alone gets a mysterious call on a public phone and is “asked” to go and meet an unknown guy; we get to see Mycroft Holmes for the first time (though we don’t know yet) who says he’s a friend aka arch-enemy of Sherlock and asks John to be his spy, which John declines.
We also learn that John likes the refound danger in his life (and Sherlock is already missing John and texting him constantly =D)
Mycroft Holmes: I imagine people have already warned you to stay away from him, but I can see from your left hand that is not going to happen.
John Watson: My what?
Mycroft Holmes: Show me. [John reluctantly holds up his left hand]
John Watson: [when Mycroft is approaching him] Don't! [eventually shows him left hand]
Mycroft Holmes: Remarkable. Most people blander round the city and all they see are streets and shops and cars. When you walk with Sherlock Holmes you see the battlefield. You've seen it already, haven't you?
John Watson: What's wrong with my hand?
Mycroft Holmes: You have an intermittent tremor in your left hand. Your therapist thinks it's post-traumatic stress disorder. She thinks you're haunted by memories of your military service.
John Watson: Who the hell are you? How do you know that?
Mycroft Holmes: Fire her. She's got it the wrong way round. You're under stress right now and your hand is perfectly steady. You're not haunted by the war Dr. Watson. You miss it. [whispers] Welcome back!
I love that scene of Sherlock lying on the sofa (or whatever that is) all caught up in thoughts with a little help from 3 nicotine patches (cause you can’t maintain a smoking habit in London^^)! of course Sherlock found the dead lady’s suitcase in between, just her mobile phone is missing. So John (who of course rushes to Sherlock when he calls for him and is utterly disappointed that he only wanted his phone^^) ends up potentially texting a murderer, cause that's what you do, isn't it =D
So Sherlock finally takes John on a proper date … eh… STAKEOUT!!! =D (awkward conversation included *gg*)
John Watson: You don’t have a girlfriend, then?
Sherlock Holmes: Girlfriend? No, not really my area.
John Watson: Oh right then. [pause] Do you have a boyfriend? Which is fine, by the way -
Sherlock Holmes: I know it’s fine.
John Watson: So you’ve got a boyfriend?
Sherlock Holmes: No.
John Watson: Right, okay. You’re unattached, just like me. Fine. Good.
Sherlock Holmes: John, erm. I think you should know that I consider myself married to my work and while I am flattered by your interest I’m -
John Watson: No -
Sherlock Holmes: - really not looking for anyone -
John Watson: No. I’m not asking - no. I was just saying. It’s all fine.
Sherlock Holmes: Good. Thank you.
followed by one of the most awesome “car” chases through London ever!!! did I say already that I love the editing in this show?!?
So the boys are back at their place where they first stop to giggle like two schoolgirls about their recent adventure (really the amount of giggling between these two!!! do men even giggle normally?!? =D)
John Watson: That was ridiculous. That was the most ridiculous thing... I've ever done.
Sherlock Holmes: And you invaded Afghanistan.
[they laugh]
John Watson: That wasn't just me.
Until they discover there’s actually a drug bust going on in their flat (and it seems it’s not entirely without reason)
But of course Sherlock has a brilliant idea just in time (though it took him awfully long to get the connection to the cab driver imo!) but of course he doesn’t tell anyone but just decides to leave on his own… *sighs*
Okay so Sherlock of course goes with the serial murder cabbie cause he promises him all the answers he desires and Sherlock (idiot he is ;-)) fully takes on the game. Thank God John is already to the rescue!!! =)
Finally we hear that name noone says but every Sherlock Holmes fan knows by heart for the first time: Voldemort Moriaty!
This is quite possibly my favourite scene in that episode!!!! I love how Sherlock is perfectly describing John to Lestrade, then realizing it and stopping mid-sentence telling Lestrade to ignore him cause he’s in shock!
Sherlock Holmes: Why have I got this blanket? They keep putting this blanket on me.
D.I. Lestrade: Yeah it's for shock.
Sherlock Holmes: I'm not in shock!
D.I. Lestrade: Yeah, but some of the guys wanna take photographs.
Sherlock Holmes: So the shooter - no sign?
D.I. Lestrade: Cleared off before we got here. But a guy like that would've had enemies, I suppose. One of them could've been following him but... we've got nothing to go on.
Sherlock Holmes: Oh, I wouldn't say that.
D.I. Lestrade: OK. Give me.
Sherlock Holmes: The bullet you just dug out of the wall is from a handgun. A kill shot over that distance, from that kind of a weapon, that's a crack shot you are looking for. But not just a marksman, a fighter. His hands couldn't have shaken at all, so clearly he's acclimatised 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 and... nerves of steel... [sees John]
Actually, do you know what, ignore me.
D.I. Lestrade: Sorry?
Sherlock Holmes: Ignore all of that, it's just the shock talking.
D.I. Lestrade: Where are you going?
Sherlock Holmes: I just need to talk about... about the... the rent...
D.I. Lestrade: But I've got questions for you!
Sherlock Holmes: Oh not now! I’m in shock - look, I’ve got a blanket!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!! Then he thanks John which leads to more giggling!!! =D
John Watson: Erm... Sergeant Donovan's... just been explaining... everything. Two pills... really dreadful business, isn't it? Dreadful.
Sherlock Holmes: Good shot.
John Watson: Yes. Yes, must have been. Through that window.
Sherlock Holmes: Well, you'd know. Need to get the powder burns out of your fingers. I don't suppose you'd serve time for this, but let's avoid the court case.
[John clears throat]
Sherlock Holmes: Are you all right?
John Watson: Yes, of course I'm all right.
Sherlock Holmes: Well, you have just killed a man.
John Watson: Yes, I... [pause] That's true, isn't it? But he wasn't a very nice man.
Sherlock Holmes: No. No, he wasn't, really, was he?
John Watson: Frankly, a bloody awful cabbie.
Sherlock Holmes: [chuckles] That's true, he was a bad cabbie. You should have seen the route he took us to get here.
John Watson: [giggles] Stop! We can't giggle, it's a crime scene. Stop it.
Also more Mycroft and we learn it’s actually Sherlock’s brother (Mummy which Mummy? *LMAO*)
All the caps used were capped by myself.
Find The Blind Banker recap here.
So that’s it for “A Study in Pink”, hope you enjoyed my little spam a bit… =) (maybe there's also more to come...)
I'd prefer it if you wouldn't repost these but rather link to this post here, but if you have to it would be decent to at least give credit, thanks!
I really love the cinematography in this show!!!!! It's just awesome, the dynamic, the editing, the colouring... just everything! And we already get this shown in the very first scene! (though I have to admit when I've first seen this scene I thought I had downloaded the wrong show^^) Also Martin is just great in this opening scene imo!
and of course there are these awesome opening credits!!!
and I might have been totally in love with that show after I saw them for the first time already!!!
I thought this press conference was too funny for words! And I also think Lestrade was kinda right to say you shouldn’t commit suicide after all that’s what they were, suicides. =P
John goes for a walk in the park and meets and old friend/colleague?, awkward conversation follows, but this guy will be more important than we all dare to think as he’s the one who introduces John and Sherlock! =D
Mike Stamford: John! John Watson! [John pauses and looks at him] Stamford, Mike Stamford. We were at Barts together.
John Watson: Yes, sorry, yes, Mike, hello.
Mike Stamford: Yeah, I know, I got fat.
John Watson: No, no.
Mike Stamford: I heard you were abroad somewhere getting shot at. What happened?
John Watson: I got shot.
[they are sitting down on a bench, drinking coffee]
John Watson: Are you still at Barts, then?
Mike Stamford: Teaching now, yeah. Bright young things like we used to be. God, I hate them. What about you? Just staying in town till you get yourself sorted?
John Watson: I can't afford London on an Army pension.
Mike Stamford: And you couldn't bear to be anywhere else. That's not the John Watson I know.
John Watson: Yeah I'm not the John Watson...
Mike Stamford: Couldn't Harry help?
John Watson: Yeah, like that's gonna happen!
Mike Stamford: I don't know, get a flatshare or something?
John Watson: Come on, who'd want me for a flatmate? [Mike laughs] What?
Mike Stamford: You're the second person to say that to me today.
John Watson: Who was the first?
And finally we get introduced to Sherlock! He’s fully in his element playing around with a corpse doing experiments and leaving John speechless with showing off his deduction skills. =D
And of course there's the famous wink (which I just noticed I don’t have a cap of - shame!!!)
Sherlock Holmes: How do you feel about the violin?
John Watson: I'm sorry, what?
Sherlock Holmes: I play the violin when I'm thinking and sometimes I don't talk for days on end. Would that bother you? Potential flatmates should know the worst about each other.
John Watson: [to Mike] You told him about me?
Mike Stamford: Not a word.
John Watson: Then who said anything about flatmates?
Sherlock Holmes: I did. Told Mike this morning I must be a difficult man to find a flatmate for. Now here he is, just after lunch, with an old friend clearly just home from military service in Afghanistan. Wasn't a difficult leap.
John Watson: How did you know about Afghanistan?
Sherlock Holmes: Got my eye on a nice little place in central London. Together we ought able to afford it. We'll meet there tomorrow evening, seven o'clock. Sorry, got to dash. I think I left my riding crop in the mortuary.
John Watson: Is that it?
Sherlock Holmes: Is that what?
John Watson: We've only just met and we're going to go and look at a flat?
Sherlock Holmes: Problem?
John Watson: We don't know a thing about each other. I don't know where we're meeting. I don't even know your name.
Sherlock Holmes: I know you're an Army doctor and you've been invalided home from Afghanistan. You've got a brother worried about you, but you won't go to him for help because you don't approve of him, possibly because he's an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife. And I know your therapist thinks your limp's psychosomatic, quite correctly, I'm afraid. That's enough to be going on with, don't you think?
The name's Sherlock Holmes, and the address is 221 B Baker Street. Afternoon.
Mike Stamford: Yeah, he's always like that.
First time in Baker Street 221b! Mrs Hudson being awesome as always (and no we don’t think they need two bedrooms either =P)! Lestrade asking for help and finally Sherlock asking John to come with him! THE GAME IS ON!!!! =)
Car ride to the crime scene!
I fucking love their car rides!!! Also we get to know how Sherlock found out all the things about John when they first met and John is totally in love impressed! =D
John Watson: That was amazing.
Sherlock Holmes: You think so?
John Watson: Of course it was. It was extraordinary, it was quite extraordinary.
Sherlock Holmes: That’s not what people normally say.
John Watson:What do people normally say?
Sherlock Holmes: ‘Piss off’.
Finally the first time we see Sherlock investigating and of course he’s fucking gorgeous brilliant doing so! Lestrade and John seem quite impressed themselves.
Lestrade: Cardiff?
Sherlock Holmes: It’s obvious, isn’t it?
John Watson: It’s not obvious to me.
Sherlock Holmes: Dear God. What is it like in your funny little brains, it must be so boring.
We also learn that Anderson is quite a dick and Sherlock likes to make fun of him =D
I love how they made it so we can actually “see” the way Sherlock works (with the text and everything)!!!
in the end Sherlock just leaves John, which isn’t so nice but well John needs to get used to that I guess…
So John all left alone gets a mysterious call on a public phone and is “asked” to go and meet an unknown guy; we get to see Mycroft Holmes for the first time (though we don’t know yet) who says he’s a friend aka arch-enemy of Sherlock and asks John to be his spy, which John declines.
We also learn that John likes the refound danger in his life (and Sherlock is already missing John and texting him constantly =D)
Mycroft Holmes: I imagine people have already warned you to stay away from him, but I can see from your left hand that is not going to happen.
John Watson: My what?
Mycroft Holmes: Show me. [John reluctantly holds up his left hand]
John Watson: [when Mycroft is approaching him] Don't! [eventually shows him left hand]
Mycroft Holmes: Remarkable. Most people blander round the city and all they see are streets and shops and cars. When you walk with Sherlock Holmes you see the battlefield. You've seen it already, haven't you?
John Watson: What's wrong with my hand?
Mycroft Holmes: You have an intermittent tremor in your left hand. Your therapist thinks it's post-traumatic stress disorder. She thinks you're haunted by memories of your military service.
John Watson: Who the hell are you? How do you know that?
Mycroft Holmes: Fire her. She's got it the wrong way round. You're under stress right now and your hand is perfectly steady. You're not haunted by the war Dr. Watson. You miss it. [whispers] Welcome back!
I love that scene of Sherlock lying on the sofa (or whatever that is) all caught up in thoughts with a little help from 3 nicotine patches (cause you can’t maintain a smoking habit in London^^)! of course Sherlock found the dead lady’s suitcase in between, just her mobile phone is missing. So John (who of course rushes to Sherlock when he calls for him and is utterly disappointed that he only wanted his phone^^) ends up potentially texting a murderer, cause that's what you do, isn't it =D
So Sherlock finally takes John on a proper date … eh… STAKEOUT!!! =D (awkward conversation included *gg*)
John Watson: You don’t have a girlfriend, then?
Sherlock Holmes: Girlfriend? No, not really my area.
John Watson: Oh right then. [pause] Do you have a boyfriend? Which is fine, by the way -
Sherlock Holmes: I know it’s fine.
John Watson: So you’ve got a boyfriend?
Sherlock Holmes: No.
John Watson: Right, okay. You’re unattached, just like me. Fine. Good.
Sherlock Holmes: John, erm. I think you should know that I consider myself married to my work and while I am flattered by your interest I’m -
John Watson: No -
Sherlock Holmes: - really not looking for anyone -
John Watson: No. I’m not asking - no. I was just saying. It’s all fine.
Sherlock Holmes: Good. Thank you.
followed by one of the most awesome “car” chases through London ever!!! did I say already that I love the editing in this show?!?
So the boys are back at their place where they first stop to giggle like two schoolgirls about their recent adventure (really the amount of giggling between these two!!! do men even giggle normally?!? =D)
John Watson: That was ridiculous. That was the most ridiculous thing... I've ever done.
Sherlock Holmes: And you invaded Afghanistan.
[they laugh]
John Watson: That wasn't just me.
Until they discover there’s actually a drug bust going on in their flat (and it seems it’s not entirely without reason)
But of course Sherlock has a brilliant idea just in time (though it took him awfully long to get the connection to the cab driver imo!) but of course he doesn’t tell anyone but just decides to leave on his own… *sighs*
Okay so Sherlock of course goes with the serial murder cabbie cause he promises him all the answers he desires and Sherlock (idiot he is ;-)) fully takes on the game. Thank God John is already to the rescue!!! =)
Finally we hear that name noone says but every Sherlock Holmes fan knows by heart for the first time: Voldemort Moriaty!
This is quite possibly my favourite scene in that episode!!!! I love how Sherlock is perfectly describing John to Lestrade, then realizing it and stopping mid-sentence telling Lestrade to ignore him cause he’s in shock!
Sherlock Holmes: Why have I got this blanket? They keep putting this blanket on me.
D.I. Lestrade: Yeah it's for shock.
Sherlock Holmes: I'm not in shock!
D.I. Lestrade: Yeah, but some of the guys wanna take photographs.
Sherlock Holmes: So the shooter - no sign?
D.I. Lestrade: Cleared off before we got here. But a guy like that would've had enemies, I suppose. One of them could've been following him but... we've got nothing to go on.
Sherlock Holmes: Oh, I wouldn't say that.
D.I. Lestrade: OK. Give me.
Sherlock Holmes: The bullet you just dug out of the wall is from a handgun. A kill shot over that distance, from that kind of a weapon, that's a crack shot you are looking for. But not just a marksman, a fighter. His hands couldn't have shaken at all, so clearly he's acclimatised 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 and... nerves of steel... [sees John]
Actually, do you know what, ignore me.
D.I. Lestrade: Sorry?
Sherlock Holmes: Ignore all of that, it's just the shock talking.
D.I. Lestrade: Where are you going?
Sherlock Holmes: I just need to talk about... about the... the rent...
D.I. Lestrade: But I've got questions for you!
Sherlock Holmes: Oh not now! I’m in shock - look, I’ve got a blanket!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!! Then he thanks John which leads to more giggling!!! =D
John Watson: Erm... Sergeant Donovan's... just been explaining... everything. Two pills... really dreadful business, isn't it? Dreadful.
Sherlock Holmes: Good shot.
John Watson: Yes. Yes, must have been. Through that window.
Sherlock Holmes: Well, you'd know. Need to get the powder burns out of your fingers. I don't suppose you'd serve time for this, but let's avoid the court case.
[John clears throat]
Sherlock Holmes: Are you all right?
John Watson: Yes, of course I'm all right.
Sherlock Holmes: Well, you have just killed a man.
John Watson: Yes, I... [pause] That's true, isn't it? But he wasn't a very nice man.
Sherlock Holmes: No. No, he wasn't, really, was he?
John Watson: Frankly, a bloody awful cabbie.
Sherlock Holmes: [chuckles] That's true, he was a bad cabbie. You should have seen the route he took us to get here.
John Watson: [giggles] Stop! We can't giggle, it's a crime scene. Stop it.
Also more Mycroft and we learn it’s actually Sherlock’s brother (Mummy which Mummy? *LMAO*)
All the caps used were capped by myself.
Find The Blind Banker recap here.
So that’s it for “A Study in Pink”, hope you enjoyed my little spam a bit… =) (maybe there's also more to come...)
I'd prefer it if you wouldn't repost these but rather link to this post here, but if you have to it would be decent to at least give credit, thanks!