Light Hi-Fi - The Abominable Bride is a special episode of the British television programme Sherlock. The episode was broadcast on BBC On...
Light Hi-Fi - The Abominable Bride is a special episode of the British television programme Sherlock. The episode was broadcast on BBC One, PBS and Channel One on 1 January 2016. It depicts the characters of the show in an alternative timeline: the Victorian London setting of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The title is based on the quote "Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife" from "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual", which refers to a case mentioned by Holmes.
In the 19th century, Dr. John Watson has been medically discharged from the Army and travels to London. Watson is met by Stamford, his fellow-student at Bart's, who takes him to meet Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock is beating corpses with a cane to establish the principle of bruising after death. Holmes invites Watson to share his new flat in Baker Street, which Watson accepts.In 1895, Inspector Lestrade arrives and presents Holmes and Watson with a puzzling case: Emelia Ricoletti, a consumptive bride, had fired on by-passers in the street from a balcony, before fatally shooting herself. Later that evening, Mr Ricoletti was confronted by Emelia, who shot him before disappearing into the fog. Intrigued by Emelia's apparent survival, Holmes takes the case. At the morgue, Dr Hooper informs Holmes that the woman who killed herself, the woman who murdered Mr Ricoletti and the body on hand have all been positively identified as Emelia Ricoletti. Stymied, Holmes loses interest in the case. When the bride apparently returns to murder other men, he deduces that these are copycat crimes.
In Victorian England, Holmes is awakened by Watson in the past with the events of the present seemingly a delusion from the diluted cocaine solution he had injected. Holmes receives a telegram from Mrs Watson saying she has found Emelia's co-conspirators at a desanctified church. There they discover and interrupt a secret group of the Women's Rights Movement (similar to the Suffragette movement in the late 19th century), whose members include Dr Hooper, Janine Hawkins and Watson's maidservant. Holmes explains that they used a double to fake Emelia's death, allowing her to kill her husband and create the persona of the avenging bride. Already dying, she was later killed at her request by being shot through the mouth; the duplicate corpse was replaced by her actual corpse, the one Holmes and Watson saw at the morgue, for a positive identification. Since then, the women have used the persona of the bride to murder men who wronged them. Sherlock surmises that Lady Carmichael, being a member of the society, killed her husband. He makes his accusation to the approaching bride, assuming that it is Lady Carmichael. When he lifts the bride's veil, however, he finds that the "bride" is actually Moriarty.
Sherlock then seems to awaken in the present, where he insists on digging up Emelia's grave to prove that her body-double was buried under the coffin. While doing so, he hears Emelia's corpse repeatedly whispering, "Do not forget me". The corpse moves to attack him, then Holmes awakens in the past on a ledge next to the Reichenbach Falls. Moriarty appears and says Holmes is still stuck in his Mind Palace - Holmes realises that he was still dreaming whilst digging up the corpse. The men fight and Moriarty gains the upper hand, but Watson appears and holds Moriarty at gunpoint. Watson kicks Moriarty off the ledge and then asks Holmes how he can wake up in the present. Holmes decides to fall over the ledge, having confidence he will survive.
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