The Blind Banker is the 2nd episode in season 1 of the Sherlock TV series, aired on 4 august 2010 on BBC1. He finds a can of the spray paint and confirms it is the same type, and then the escape artist attacks him with a sword. Marijana Latinovic . Contents. In the museum, Sherlock dives behind the large statue, which moves. The first person to see the cipher is dead within hours of reading it. Dimmock first believed the banker's death to be a suicide, and needed a significant amount of convincing from Sherlock to believe that it was murder. Sebastian explains that someone broke into their former chairman's empty office the night before and sprayed an apparently meaningless set of symbols on a wall and across the head of the chairman's portrait. The Blind Banker, Part 3 Once John and Amelia had caught up with Sherlock after his sudden departure from the café, they watched as he bent down in front of the door and ran his finger over a yellow phone book, still wrapped up in a plastic bag, checking to see how damp it was. In the next shot, the line he drew is completely different. Additionally, Van Coon was shot in the right side of his head, but he was left-handed (as evidenced by his habits and the layout of furniture in his apartment). • As if series creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss had listened to my criticisms about their pilot (and not minding the facts that I uttered these three years after this episode had already premiered), Sherlock's unneeded thought bubbles have been taken out for the biggest part. That night, Sherlock and John discover Soo Lin in hiding at the museum, who explains that the code is the work of the criminal "Black Lotus Tong", of which she was once a member. We'd been called in by an old school friend of his. The Blind Baker. • Smart reference to the source material with Sherlock just randomly fighting a robed figure in the beginning of the episode. He leaves for the museum restoration room to find the book that she used, while at Baker Street, John suggests to Sarah that they get takeaway. The primary investigator, DI Dimmock, is prepared to regard it as a suicide, though Sherlock points out several holes in that theory – for one thing, someone appears to have inserted a black paper lotus flower into Van Coon's mouth post-mortem. In the bank where Sherlock is trying to get a view of the painting with the Chinese numbers, he backs into a pillar, which wobbles. According to Molly's blog, the date when Sherlock flirts with her to see the bodies in the morgue is March 25. Shan runs off and Sherlock frees Sarah, while John assures her that their next date would not be the same. When John asks how well she knows Zhi Zhu, Soo Lin explains that he is her brother. That night, Soo Lin is working late when she hears someone moving. She shows them a Tong tattoo on the heel of her right foot, which resembles a lotus flower, and explains that everyone who smuggles for them bears this mark. ), SHERLOCK (shouting): Please, wait! He then walks through the office, figuring out who has a line of sight to the chairman's office. The fight bursts onto the stage, and John and Sarah comes to Sherlock's aid. Previous: Search for "The Blind Banker" on Amazon.com, Title: or. Afterwards, as closing time approaches, her co-worker Andy Galbraith asks her out for a drink, but she turns him down and says that he would not like her very much if he knew her. After the incident, John and Sherlock talk to Dimmock at the police station. The trouble is, though, that Sherlock's idea of a visit to the bank is not quite what Watson had in mind. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. He explains that Van Coon had been threatened (the spray-painted message from the bank is proof of this) and was waiting for the killer. Sherlock S1 Ep2 The Blind Banker -1. Third and forth pairs of numbers in the cipher were 36-37 and 70-95,but Sherlock reads them as. She admits to Sherlock that she ended the affair because Van Coon often took her for granted and they planned to go somewhere for the weekend, only he left on trips for China on short notice. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman star in Sherlock. don @ minifie-1. However, when they arrive there, they discover Sherlock is there, and he admits that he bought a third ticket in his name. And while this manga did not make me like the narrative more, I still enjoyed reading it. Further searching for Chinese artifacts sold at auction shows in London over the past few months show that many of those sold came from anonymous sources. ), SHERLOCK: Entschuldigen Sie, bitte. The Blind Banker Sherlock BBC. Meanwhile, Sarah tries to make conversation with Sherlock without success. As they leave, a mysterious woman takes photos of them. John manages to knock himself over and jar the crossbow, which instead fires at and impales Zhi Zhu. Sherlock notices a skylight in the apartment, and realises that the two victims both thought that by locking themselves in, they would be impossible to reach. Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas-Wikipedia. Watch Preview. Sherlock and John ambling through the not particularly tiny city of London and encountering important hints for unravelling the murders as frequently as bookstalls. Dr John Watson is trying to buy groceries at the supermarket, but the machine gives him problems and refuses to accept whatever form of payment he tries to use. Sherlock forces open another set of doors and finds Van Coon, who has been shot in the head, a SIG-Sauer P226 pistol lying by his side. Sherlock sneaks off while the next act begins: a masked acrobat who "flies" on silk robes. 1 h 28 min. View production, box office, & company info. A part of conversation is in German. ). When John says he has no idea, they use the circus crossbow to threaten Sarah, and cut open the sandbag weight to activate the trigger, intending to kill her through a failed escapology performance. The gang mistake Watson for Holmes and capture him and his new girl-friend, requiring Holmes to come to the rescue. Performing a web search on recently discovered Chinese artifacts sold at auction, Sherlock finds the recent sale of two Ming vases that are being auctioned off by an anonymous source. Sherlock buzzes her, and pretends to be Van Coon. Next: Sherlock S1 Ep2 The Blind Banker -2. On the table was a London A-Z. He explains to John that the Tong are using the circus as a cover to get the killer out of China – given that Chinese exit visas are hard to come by and those who do get them need very good reasons to leave the country – and he needs John's help to look around. 89 check-ins. Amelia was standing at her kitchen table, arranging a vase of flowers when she heard the sound of someone fighting next door. Baker Street Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. THE BLIND BANKER SHOOTING (DRAFT 8) GREEN 16-02-10 1. 37:47. As Seb hands John a check for finding the hole in their security (which is merely that they need to nail the windows shut), Sherlock talks to Amanda again. He writes a note on museum stationary and places it in the mail slot. Chinese museum employee Soo Lin tells Sherlock Holmes that, as a teenaged orphan in China, she ran drugs for the Black Lotus crime syndicate, for whom the two dead men also worked. Van Coon never knew of its real value, but only the fact that it would suit her. It first broadcast on 1 August, 2010 on BBC One. He deduces that Van Coon and Lukis each brought back one of the vases when they returned on their latest trips to China – and it was their last delivery (Sherlock remembers having noted that something was tightly packed inside Van Coon's suitcase). A mysterious cipher is being scrawled on the walls around London. Closed Now. He reveals that she and Van Coon were having an affair – he remembers seeing an almost empty bottle of scented hand soap in Van Coon's bathroom, and hand soap would not be something Van Coon would keep unless he was having a woman coming over. When she pulls the canvas away, she stares in shock at what she saw underneath. Director: "The Blind Banker" is the second episode of the television series Sherlock, first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 1 August 2010. • General Shan creeping from the other side of the street really was a well-done suspension building move "The Blind Banker" would have needed more of. Examining the receipts, Sherlock finds some very interesting details – Van Coon took a taxi out to the West End, but a ticket shows that he took the London Underground to get back, signifying that Van Coon lugged a heavy package up the escalator. The Blind Banker. By the time she was 17, she was smuggling thousands of pounds worth of drugs across the border into Hong Kong. She too is then murdered, the killer being a human fly who can scale buildings. Was this review helpful to you? The Blind Banker is the second episode of the television series Sherlock and was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 1 August 2010. [Hey, you! And as if to secure that this episode is inferior to the whole rest of the bunch by an English-Channel-sized margin with all means available, there's also a colossal bouquet of plot holes to indulge in, along with some general oversimplifying, i.e. The Blind Banker part 1. Later that night, journalist Brian Lukis is seen running down a busy street, constantly looking over his shoulder, like he is being chased. • Since he is right about the epitome of a socially awkward fellow, it's only been a matter of time until the series included Sherlock Holmes simpering and, well, here it is! The shooter then left the message at the library for Lukis, and later that night, Lukis was killed. Furthermore, the hand soap in question happens to be of the very same brand as the hand cream Amanda has on her desk. As he does, he also shoves a sword beneath the chair. See more of The Blind Baker on Facebook. The Blind Banker It all began with Sherlock and I visiting the bank. He soon learns that the city is in the grip a gang of international smugglers, a secret society called the Black Lotus Tong. Season 1 Episode 2 | 1h 23m 10s | Video has closed captioning. When he denies it, she points out that he has Sherlock's credit card, Sebastian's check to Sherlock, and the circus tickets in his name. Sherlock Season 1 Episode 2 The Blind Banker - Part … 1 Plot summary; 2 Cast; 3 Crew; 4 Photos; 5 Trailer; Plot summary . Amanda admits that Van Coon was not appreciative of her – he only was appreciative of very expensive items – though Sherlock notices a bottle of expensive hand cream that he might have bought for her. She explains that the killer is Zhi Zhu, "The Spider". 37:12. 5 out of 5 stars. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? He informs them that he has exactly two minutes before two community police officers will come running around the corner and catch him in the act. Sherlock Vol. — "The Blind Banker" Detective Inspector Dimmock is an inspector of New Scotland Yard. ], (Sherlock runs up to them and snatches the A-Z from the man’s hands and turns away, looking down at the book. Community See All. He determines that the shooter broke into Lukis' apartment through the skylight, after climbing up the wall and running along the roof. But solving mysteries won't pay the bills. They spread out the search, and Sherlock finds a can of discarded spray paint. • What is with Sherlock's soft-focused establishing shots? Mysterious symbols and murders are showing up all over London, leading Sherlock and John to a secret Chinese crime syndicate called Black Lotus. ], TOURIST (angrily): Gib mir doch mein Buch zurück! See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. 3,426 people follow this. He also notices that something was tightly packed inside the suitcase at one point. Sherlock and John go over the books, looking for the book that both of them had and has significant words that match the two numbers, page and word (the conclusion being that it refers to the first entry on page 15 of a book that both victims own). Air Date: The same goes for the Online News site (C:\http\onlinenews\online-news.html) and Quest Search (C:http\quest\questsearch.html) when Sherlock is looking for Chinese antiquities sold at auction. Fight in the beginning: Maybe I should rewatch. As Andy shows them her locker, Sherlock notices a nearby statue with two of the same ciphers on them, painted with exactly the same yellow paint. Banker Eddie Van Coon and reporter Brian Lukis are both shot dead in identical slayings, in rooms locked from the inside. The Blind Banker. John is more interested in getting off with Sarah. Sherlock is unable to find the proper book, and tells John they should go out to get some air. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 20 Dark Child . When John finally comes home, he complains that he had a row with a machine, and that Sherlock has not moved all day. Inside, they discover that many of the goods have numbers on them, in the same symbols as the ciphers. Later that night, Jim begins targeting her.