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Television episode
"The Abominable Bride"
"The Abominable Bride" is a special episode of the British television programme Sherlock. The episode was broadcast on BBC One and BBC One HD on 1 January 2016. It shows the characters in Victorian London for the first time in the series. 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 Sherlock Holmes.[2]
Plot
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The episode starts with Watson being introduced to Sherlock in Victorian London, with almost identical dialogue to the first episode and spoken double-fast by Benedict Cumberbatch.
The episode continues in exact parallels reconformed to the time period; Lestrade and Anderson run the police department, while Molly disguises herself as a man in order to work as a doctor. Mary is a normal housewife, with a keen interest in women's rights. Mycroft spends his days in the Diogenes Club, overweight and betting his own life away with his brother.
Months after their meeting, Holmes & Watson are visited at Baker Street by Lestrade, who informs them of a recent death. Mrs Ricoletti, a consumptive bride gone mad, fired on passersby in the street, before turning her pistol on herself. Later that evening, however, while exiting an opium den, her husband is encountered by what appears to be her spirit, which shoots him twice through the chest with a shotgun and then vanishes mysteriously in the fog.
Broadcast and reception
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Stubbs pictured in costume for the episode in February 2015
The episode was broadcast from 9pm on BBC One and PBS.
In a special extended version featuring twenty minutes of additional footage, including a guided set-tour of 221B Baker Street with executive producer Moffat and a short making-of with Cumberbatch and Freeman, The Abominable Bride will be granted a limited release in theatres across the United Kingdom and the United States on 5-6 January 2016.[3]
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