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ZEB SOANES: In this episode of Sherlock Uncovered,
we look at the villains who dared to take on the detective.
And unlock the vaults of the newest criminal in town.
MAGNUSSEN: Knowing is owning.
What he does has big consequences for his victims.
SOANES: We uncover Sherlock's family connections.
My mum and dad play my mum and dad.
I just felt totally at home.
It was just lovely to be involved.
You realise that there was a family that
Mycroft and Sherlock came from.
SOANES: And speak to Sherlock's most enduring nemesis, Moriarty.
In a way, Sherlock and Moriarty love each other,
or they're certainly obsessed with each other.
-Take one, B marker. -WOMAN: Action!
SOANES: At the start of episode three,
Sherlock is caught going to extreme lengths for a case,
much to the disgust of those closest to him.
Well, is he clean?
Clean.
One of the things that everyone knows about Sherlock Holmes
is that at some point in his history he has had issues
with drug addiction and at the beginning of series three,
it comes into play again.
How dare you throw away the beautiful gifts you were born with?
And how dare you betray the love of your friends?
Say you're sorry!
I'm sorry your engagement is over
but I'm fairly grateful for the lack of a ring.
Sherlock's brought into the lab by Mary Morstan in her nighty
and Watson and he's clearly been taking drugs.
It is done for, maybe by default, but it is done for a good.
Stop it. Just stop it.
If you were anywhere near this kind of thing again,
you could have called, you could have talked to me.
Oh, please do relax. This is all for a case.
I kept... What kind of case needs you to do this?
(SIGHS)
Finally.
MOLLY: Finally what? JOHN: Good news?
Oh, terrific news, there is every chance
that my drug habit is going to hit the newspapers.
The game is on. Excuse me for a sec.
Hello?
SOANES: With his drug addiction reported in the newspapers,
Sherlock can now attract the attention of the only man he truly hates,
Charles Augustus Magnussen.
A ruthless media magnate,
he holds the whole world's sins in his head,
and won't hesitate to use them to bring down anyone, anywhere.
STEVEN MOFFAT: Sherlock Holmes hates him.
In fact, explicitly, Sherlock is trying to get his attention
because he needs to get him, because he's so...
He just... He is just repulsed by him.
He's got the power of knowledge...
He's got... Which is quite, you know, I think,
at the moment, relevant
to a certain extent, yeah.
That's what he's about, you know. The knowledge.
What he does has big consequences for his victims.
This man has to be stopped.
Mr Magnussen, I have been asked to intercede with you by Lady Elisabeth Smallwood,
on the matter of her husband's letters.
Sometime ago you put pressure on her concerning those letters.
She would like those letters back.
He is reptilian or shark-like in his cold-blooded predator nature.
And I think that riles Sherlock.
There is just no beating heart to the man.
Lady Elisabeth Smallwood?
I like her.
(SMACK LIPS)
He comes into Baker Street and does something in our flat that is so outrageous...
And not, you know, not evil and not violent but just so audacious and...
Just horrible.
(UNZIPPING)
You can do what you like here. No one's ever going to stop you.
A nation of herbivores.
I've interests all over the world but, uh, everything starts in England.
It's despicable, you know. He's, as I say, at one point of it,
he's the Napoleon of blackmail, but it's really about
who he preys on and how he preys on them.
Tell Lady Elisabeth I might need those letters, so I'm keeping them.
Goodbye.
The reason that Sherlock loathes him so much is...
I mean, is the decline of morality and ethics, you know.
And of course he attacks... That Magnussen attacks some of his loved ones.
SOANES: There's one piece of information in Magnussen's possession
that could wreak havoc to the lives of both John and Mary.
As an assassin in a previous life,
Mary will do anything to keep her dark past concealed.
He knows about Mary, that, um, she's been, an agent you know,
before that she's had a double life,
which she hasn't told her husband,
and she's been a killer.
She goes to Magnussen's offices
with the intent to kill him.
And, uh, she's just about to and Sherlock comes in.
If you're going to commit ***, you might consider changing your perfume,
Lady Smallwood.
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
Sorry... Who?
She thought that secret was buried,
but it gets
dug up by Magnussen.
That's not Lady Smallwood, Mr Holmes.
She doesn't want to lose John
and she knows that if this secret ever gets out, she'll lose him.
Is John here?
(STAMMERING) He's downstairs.
She has a care and a love for a man that goes well beyond the darkest episodes
and chapters of her past and Sherlock can see that.
Mary, whatever he's got on you, let me help.
And she does say, "Look, if you come anywhere near me, I'll kill you."
And he sees this slight wobble of the hand and he thinks,
"No, she won't", but I do. But I don't kill him.
Despite the big lie of her identity,
you know, everything she does, she tries to do to conceal
her identity to save her love for her man.
So he can see the sacrifice.
I'm sorry, Sherlock. I truly am.
She doesn't kill him. She wounds him and then calls the police
and the ambulance and runs off.
-(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) -Take one, B marker.
WOMAN: Action!
I imagine she rushes home, she gets rid of all her kit
and she rushed to hospital and she knows she hasn't killed him.
-Hey. -He's only bloody woken up.
-He's pulled through. -Really?
Seriously, oh, my God. That's amazing.
And you, Mrs Watson... You're in big trouble.
When John says, "And you, I've got to keep my eye on you",
'cause the first word that Sherlock says is "Mary",
it's like, "Okay, okay, this is good.
"So this... So I've got to..."
She has to manage the next part of this story.
-What do you mean? -His first word when he woke up.
-What? -"Mary."
(BOTH LAUGHING)
She knows that Sherlock isn't going to say anything at that moment.
He going to bide his time.
WOMAN: And... Action!
SOANES: But Mary's time would come sooner than she expected
when Sherlock tricks her into confessing her dark past in front of John.
What do you want, Sherlock?
SHERLOCK: Mary Morstan was stillborn in October 1972.
Her gravestone is in Chiswick Cemetery,
where five years ago, you acquired her name and date of birth
and thereafter her identity.
That's why you don't have friends from before that date.
That scene is basically Sherlock letting John know what her secret is.
She's basically confessing to what she is and what she does.
She thinks she's confessing to Sherlock
and she turns around and Sherlock's that side.
Why didn't you come to me in the first place?
Because John can't ever know that I lied to him.
It would break him and I would lose him forever
and, Sherlock, I will never let that happen.
And it turns out that she is actually confessing to John.
(GASPS)
FREEMAN: For John, it's hugely, um, distressing,
confusing, and his whole world just falls apart really.
John just looks at her with utter contempt and shock and hatred,
and she thinks that's the end of them.
I think the reason, you know, Sherlock does that,
is because he wants it out of the way quickly.
He wants this reconciliation quickly
so they can get on and get Magnussen.
SOANES: Once the truth is revealed to John,
Sherlock visits Magnussen to discover what information he holds on Mary
in the Appledore vaults.
Let me show you the Appledore vaults.
MIKKELSEN: The reveal of the mind palace
is in that little box...
We see him going through these doors throughout the episode,
see him going downstairs and into archives and libraries and stuff,
and at the end, he opens the doors
and it's just a small room with a chair and that's it.
JOHN: Okay, so where are the vaults then?
Vaults? What vaults?
There are no vaults beneath this building.
They are all in here.
He's spent his life building mind palaces
and building up knowledge about people and that empowers him.
WOMAN: X-36, take six, pick up.
MAN: Action.
The Appledore vaults
are my mind palace.
You know about mind palaces don't you, Sherlock?
How to store information so you never forget it
by picturing it.
He has a mind palace. He has what Sherlock has
and he's using it to destroy people lives.
I just sit here
and I close my eyes and down I go to my vaults.
If Appledore is not there, then nothing will happen when the police comes,
you know, because it's all in here.
Oh, I know, I'll look at the files on Mrs Watson.
Hmm... Ah... This is one of my favourites.
(CHUCKLES)
And then Sherlock, you know, takes the only way out and shoots him.
(LAUGHS)
Sorry, no chance for you to be a hero this time, Mr Holmes.
OFFICER ON PA: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, stand away from that man.
Do it now!
"I'm a high functioning sociopath", he says and then he shoots him.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, do your research!
I'm not a hero.
I'm a high functioning sociopath.
Merry Christmas!
And he blows his brains out because he really needs to destroy him,
he needs to take, you know, a hammer to the watermelon.
He needs to absolutely rip into the tissue and the fabric
and the very being of this man.
Give my love to Mary.
Tell her she is safe now.
It's not just that that is the hard drive, that that's the computer,
it's also that it's everything that he stands for that has to be destroyed.
SOANES: Mycroft is a constant man of mystery
and Sherlock's older and possibly wiser brother.
Working for the British government, his dealings with criminals is undeniable.
He's not afraid to use Sherlock to achieve his own devious ends,
leaving everybody guessing as to whether he is a good guy or a villain.
MALE ASSISTANT: 1103, take two, A camera.
MAN: And... Action!
JOHN: Sherlock, that's him. That's the man I was talking to you about.
I know exactly who that is.
So, another case cracked. How very public-spirited.
Though that's never really your motivation, is it?
It's interesting that Mycroft and Sherlock relationship...
It is that kind of sibling rivalry thing.
What are you doing here?
As ever, I'm concerned about you.
Yes, I've been hearing about your concern.
You realise there was a family that Mycroft and Sherlock came from.
They're not just sort of, these fictional test-tube children.
There was a domestic life to their upbringing which must have been pretty extreme.
Always so aggressive.
It's never occurred to you that you and I belong on the same side.
Oddly enough, no.
It's petulant and teenager-ish and slightly girly, without sounding misogynistic,
the way they talk to each other.
We have more in common that you'd like to believe.
This petty feud between us is simply childish. People will suffer.
And you know how it always upset Mummy.
There's something very filial about it and very domestic.
Good evening, Mycroft.
Try not to start a war before I get home.
You know what it does to the traffic.
SOANES: And in series three, we finally get to meet Sherlock's mum and dad.
When it came to casting, uh, Sherlock Holmes' parents,
well, fortunately, Benedict Cumberbatch's parents are both great actors,
Wanda Ventham and Tim Carlton.
My mum and dad play my mum and dad, which is just, uh...
It's great. And it's sort of fitting, I guess,
because of what Sherlock's done for me and what it means to me.
Oh, dear God, it's only 2:00.
It's been Christmas Day for at least a week now.
How can it only be 2:00?
MYCROFT: I'm in agony. MUM: Mikey, is this your laptop?
Upon which depends the security of the free world,
yes, and you've got potatoes on it.
The craziness of introducing parents for the family Christmas
was wonderful because I just... I just felt totally at home.
It would be nice to have the parents in as well and played by the parents.
Why are we doing this? We never do this.
We are here because Sherlock is home from hospital and we are all very happy.
-Am I happy too? I haven't checked. -Behave, Mike.
Mycroft is the name you gave me,
if you can possibly struggle all the way to the end.
Having called him Mycroft, which seems to be frightfully grand,
getting around to calling your sons Mycroft and Sherlock...
Um... I call him Mikey.
-Lovely when you bring your friends round. -Stop it, you.
Somebody has put a bullet in my boy,
and if I ever find out who, I shall turn absolutely monstrous.
Ah, this was for Mary.
It's very nice for her to be the real mother in the fictional sense of him, so...
And Dad as well. I mean, it's just... It was a great thing.
Now, no humming, you.
Complete flake my wife, but happens to be a genius.
-She was a mathematician. -Gave it all up for children.
I could never bear to argue with her.
I'm something of a moron myself, but she's...
Unbelievably hot.
I sort of beam with pride 'cause it's not just, "Ooh, look, it's my mum and dad."
They're really, really good
and they really know how to place themselves as fictional characters
as my parents. It's not just a sort of in-joke.
It was wonderful to work there because I've never worked with my son before,
and I'm never likely to again, but it's, um...
I find him such an extraordinary actor to watch.
It was wonderful being on the set.
It's a very brief scene but it was just lovely to be involved.
SOANES: Every great hero needs a great nemesis,
and for Sherlock, none could be as dangerous and crazed as Jim Moriarty.
Obsessed with his mission to kill our hero,
Moriarty is the type never to give up,
not even it might seem when his time is up.
The original idea in The Great Game was that
Moriarty would only appear as we called him Gay Jim.
-Oh, sorry. I didn't... -Jim! Hi! Come in! Come in.
Jim, this is Sherlock Holmes.
-Ah! -And, uh... Sorry.
-John Watson. Hi. -Hi.
The scene in the lab when Jim from IT makes his first appearance,
I remember feeling quite thrilled
because I knew that when people would be seeing it
they wouldn't know this was Moriarty.
So you're Sherlock Holmes.
Molly's told me all about you.
You on one of your cases?
Jim works in IT upstairs. That's how we met. Office romance.
(JIM AND MOLLY CHUCKLE)
-Gay. -Sorry, what?
Nothing. Um, hey.
Hey.
We had to cast someone as Moriarty
and we couldn't just cast on the basis of the Gay Jim scene.
So we were... We wrote a sort of preposterous scene...
I mean, it was a ridiculous scene,
full of, you know, lines like, "I will burn the heart out of you",
the most mad stuff
and Andrew Scott came along out of the blue
and just gave this coruscatingly brilliant audition.
And not only did we cast him as Moriarty,
we thought we just had to put some moderated version of it,
of that scene into the show and bring him on at the end.
And having done that, we then just, quite late on,
thought we'll have a cliff-hanger.
Is that a British Army Browning L9A1 in your pocket?
Or are you just pleased to see me?
Both.
My first line was, "Is that a British Army...
"...Browning L9A1 in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"
I mean, that's a very good opening line. (CHUCKLES)
Jim Moriarty.
Hi!
That playfulness right from the beginning is a clue into how...
For me, it was a clue into the way he is with... Slightly flirtatious.
Jim? Jim from the hospital?
Oh. Did I really make such a fleeting impression?
But then, I suppose, that was rather the point.
Moriarty's self-consciously a villain.
He knows what he's doing. He's a nutcase.
-He's mad. He's completely bonkers. -(BOTH LAUGHING)
You never question it when you watch it, do you?
I have loved this, this little game of ours.
Playing Jim from IT. Playing gay.
In the audition, he was doing this and he suddenly
shouted something,
and we all shot out of our skin, um...
And he does that in the swimming pool.
He suddenly... He shouts at Sherlock and makes them all jump.
Did you like that little touch with the underwear?
People have died.
That's what people do!
However many times we did it, I never got bored just looking, listening,
just watching this great scene being played out by two fantastic actors.
If you don't stop prying,
I'll burn you.
I'll burn the heart out of you.
Andrew does this thing and has amazing black, black eyes he has
and you feel like there's something moving behind them which is not quite real.
What if I was to shoot you now, right now?
Then you could cherish the look of surprise on my face.
I think people were disarmed by that and people were, um, like, "What the hell is this?"
Andrew Scott's Moriarty, you sort of... Again, you sort of root for him a bit
because he's so awful, but yet so funny.
My kids adore Moriarty.
It was a very, very good cliffhanger.
It was really very exciting,
uh, with Sherlock Holmes realising that The Great Game is really just about to begin.
He has now encountered his archenemy.
Wonderful cliffhanger. Wonderful cliffhanger, yeah.
That sets up the on-going threat of Moriarty.
SOANES: That threat had continued throughout series two
as Moriarty manipulated people into thinking Sherlock was in fact a villain
and he came close to winning The Great Game.
At the end of series two, episode three,
you have the final showdown,
which is based on the great, famous waterfall scene.
I am you, prepared to do anything,
prepared to burn,
prepared to do what ordinary people won't do.
It goes through lots of different elements.
Of course, the thriller element.
I really like the moment where we shake hands.
In a way, Sherlock and Moriarty love each other,
or they are certainly obsessed with each other.
As long as I'm alive, you can save your friends.
You've got a way out.
Well, good luck with that.
-(YELLS) -(GUNSHOT)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
SCOTT: If we were to sum up what Moriarty's involvement in series three is,
it would be the question of how much we miss him. (LAUGHS)