The final episode of Sherlock - His Last Vow - will be aired tonight in India. This picks up from where the second episode, The Sign of Three, left off. Mary Morstan, John Watson's new wife is pregnant with his child and the couple has settled in the suburbs. Sherlock is undercover at a drugs den and his new client comes to him with a problem that will bring him face to face with his intellectual equal.
Here are some spoiler-filled things to keep an eye out for in episode three of season three. In many ways this is a fitting end to the series.
Charles Augustus Magnussen: "None of them can turn my stomach like Charles Augustus Magnussen", says Sherlock Holmes of his newest adversary - a newspaper proprietor who is also referred to as the master blackmailer. The role, played by actor Dane Lars Mikkelsen, is silently menacing and is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's character Charles Augustus Milverton. Magnussen is a revelation.
Sherlock's 'pressure points': Magnussen assesses the weaknesses of his victims before blackmailing them. He calls these pressure points. Guess what's Sherlock's? John Watson of course.
Mary Morstan: The sweet, caring Mary who is completely in love with his fiancé in the earlier episodes is replaced by the woman who wouldn't hesitate to kill in cold blood. She sneaked up on both Sherlock and John's blind side. The scene where Sherlock exposes her to John is sheer brilliance in drama and emotional scope. Yet it's impossible to hate Mary. She's still as human as a human can be under threat from a sleazy blackmailer who will make your skin crawl. There is a tender moment when she admits that no matter what her past, the name Mary Watson will be enough for her.
Sherlock almost dies: Visually it's the most sublime scene of the entire episode where Sherlock, having been shot by Mary, deduces in a long-drawn-out fraction of a second how to land to avoid bleeding to death, how to manage the pain and how to not go into shock.
Appledore and Mind Palace: Magnussen's abode, the ultra high tech Appledore where Sherlock thinks he keeps all of his information related to his victims of blackmail is a sweeping property with a terrace overlooking acres of fields. It's gorgeous. But the vaults that Sherlock is seeking aren't there. Sherlock isn't the only one who has a Mind Palace.
Moriarty: So Sherlock isn't the only one who fakes his death it seems. 'Did you miss me?' asks a familiar face, across all TV channels in Britan just as Sherlock was bundled off to Europe on a secret mission to serve as his punishment for having shot Magnussen.
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