Sherlock: A Study In Pink Summary – Season 1 Episode 1

Dr. Watson can’t write anything on his blog. He continuously has bad dreams and he visits a psychiatrist who does think that he’s improving.

Several suicides happened using the same poison. The police holds a conference headed by Lestrade and all the reporters get the same message, ‘Wrong’, from S.H.

John meets a friend in the park by coincidence and tells him that he’s looking for a roommate. To his surprise, his friend heard that before the same morning.

Sherlock Holmes is seen for the first time, experimenting on a dead body. The doctor working over there attempts to impress Holmes by wearing lip gloss but he shuns her off rudely.

The mutual friend brings John Watson to meet up with Sherlock Holmes who is also looking for a roommate. Sherlock manages to analyse John to the point of awkwardness, telling him little details that he shouldn’t be able to know.

Ms. Hudson meets John Watson who is checking the apartment, and she tells Sherlock about the suicides which he seemed very optimistic about. He said that there were four not three, just when the door rings and the police ask Sherlock to join the investigation.

Sherlock asks John if he was a good doctor and when the latter replies, he asks him if he’d join him in the investigation which clearly makes John very excited.

When John asks Sherlock how he knew all those things about him, Sherlock impresses him even more by explaining. Although Sherlock is wrong about John having a brother called Harry, it’s actually a sister called Harriet.

Sherlock manages to find several clues about the woman in pink. When he asks for her suitcase, Lestrade tells him that she didn’t have one.

He assumes so because the killer forgot about the suitcase and must have driven around with it. (See Game of Thrones Summary: The Wolf and the Lion – Season 1 Episode 5)

John Watson receives a warning from one of the police officers, telling him that Sherlock enjoys solving murders and is a psychopath himself.

John receives a phone call on a public phone. He is taken away by a mysterious person. When he confronts the man, the man tells him that he’s Sherlock’s arch enemy. Meanwhile, Sherlock texts John asking him to come over at once.

When John arrives, he tells Sherlock about what happened but Sherlock doesn’t seem concerned. He asks John to send a text and explains that it’s the reason he asked him to come back.

When John texts, he realizes that Sherlock actually has the suitcase. He opens it in front of him and tells him that he just texted the killer.

Sherlock takes John to a restaurant. When they are sitting, a taxi stops by for a while and the two go off chasing it; running and jumping across rooftops. John forgot his cane and was walking and running normally.

Sherlock tells Ms. Hudson that John is going to take the room. The door rings and the restaurant owner brings John’s cane back, telling him that Sherlock said he won’t need it anymore.

He sets a drugs bust to get the suitcase from Sherlock Holmes. Lestrade tells Sherlock that he should not withhold evidence. Sherlock shows lack of human feelings.

He tells the police that ‘Rachel’ is the password to the victim’s e-mail address and he uses it to locate the murderer. The phone is located where they are.

Sherlock gets into his mind palace and recognizes that he should go with the Taxi Driver who just walked upstairs. The driver has the phone.

He confesses that he talked to the suicide victims and tells Sherlock that he will go with him because he wants to understand how those people died. He also tells him that he’ll talk to him and Sherlock will kill himself. (See Game of Thrones Summary : Episode 5 – Season 2 – The Ghost of Harrenhal)

The taxi driver tells Sherlock that he has a fan who told him all about him. He takes him to an open place and tells him that he doesn’t need a gun because Sherlock will follow him anyway.

John locates the phone and runs off to the location where the Taxi Driver and Sherlock are.

The Taxi Driver challenges Sherlock’s intelligence by offering him two pills. He asks him which one is the poison. He tells him that whatever pill he doesn’t take, he will take it. One of them has to die. He pushes one pill in front of him and tells him that ‘it’s a game of chess’.

Sherlock analyzes the Driver and tells him that he’s dying. The Driver tells him that he killed those people so he would ‘out live’ them. And he also tells him that he has a sponsor who would support his children more if he kills more people.

Sherlock chooses the gun over the two pills, but then the Driver asks him if he knew which pill was the poisonous one. John, from the building in front of them pulls his gun and shoots the Driver; saving Sherlock before he takes the pill. Before the Driver dies, he tells Sherlock, ‘Moriarty’.

His arch enemy tells him that he’s concerned about him. They have a conversation and Sherlock reveals that Mycroft Holmes is his brother.