The Empty Hearse story
Sherlock Holmes' returns to London and reunites with John Watson, along with an underground terrorist network. It is based on the short story "The Adventure of the Empty House", and "The Lost Special" with numerous references to other works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and other adaptations of the original stories.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attitude of superiority | major | Sherlock Holmes had a massive ego and condescended people, left, right and center. |
| engaged couple | major | Watson had moved on in the two years since Sherlock had presumably died and was now engaged to Mary Morstan. |
| falling out of friendship | major | Watson was upset that Sherlock let him think he was dead for the past two years, and Sherlock spent most of the story trying to make it up to Watson with a view to teaming up again. |
| private investigator occupation | major | We saw Sherlock Holmes and Watson doing what they do best. |
| reconciliation | major | Watson was upset that Sherlock let him think he was dead for the past two years, but they made up in the end. |
| terrorism | major | Sherlock and Watson uncovered a terrorist plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament during a highly ill-advised all-night sitting on Guy Fawkes Night. |
| brother and brother | minor | Mycroft saved Sherlock's ass in Russia. |
| coping with the death of a friend | minor | Watson and Mrs. Hudson commiserated over Sherlock who had apparently met his demise two years prior. |
| crackpot theory | minor | Some Sherlock fans formed a club to discuss their outlandish theories about how Sherlock could have faked his own suicide. |
| cryptographic cypher | minor | Mary received a text in a "skip code" telling her that John has been kidnapped by unknown assailants and would die if he were not rescued in time, along with a coded location. |