Will Meek Engl 1102-028 01/28/2014 Assignment 1 Figured World Location Sherlock, a television series takes place in present

day London. London is a modernized city in England modeled after western culture. Automobile, subway trains, and walking are the most common forms of transportation. Similar to most major cities, London is divided into culturally distinctive districts based on the distribution of wealth. In wealthier portions of the city, people are expected to behave with a high level of professionalism, wear professional looking attire such as suits, to be polite and courteous towards others and to obey the law. These parts of the city are filled with skyscrapers and lots of fancy post-modernism buildings. In the middle-class districts, people are expected to obey the law and share the same levels of courtesy as in the upper-class districts, but emphasis on presenting ones self in such a professional fashion is much less important. People are also expected to be more interactive with their neighbors and community in the mid-level districts. The middle level districts make up most of London. They are mostly comprised of suburbs and old buildings that have been refurbished to suit modern needs. In the poor districts of London, while it is not taught as a positive behavior, it is expected that many people here break the law. There is still some emphasis on being polite in these locations but it is not by any means a social expectation. Most underground criminals and criminal organizations reside in these districts of the city. These areas are coated in graffiti and other street art, each one has a distinctive look, yet all are far from fancy. The social dress code standard for these areas is not to wear what you arent prepared to lose. Discourse Communities London police: All of the members of the London Police hold a special anguish towards Sherlock except their boss, Lestrade. While even he dislikes Sherlock as a person, he cant deny Sherlocks results. Despite the polices irritancies with Sherlock, they allow him to help in their investigations because they recognize his brilliance even though they refuse to admit it. Consulting Detectives: Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. John Watson are both addicted to the thrill of chasing criminal masterminds though their purposes are somewhat different. John loves the thrill of catching a criminal and being a hero whereas Sherlock mostly seeks to prove that hes smarter than the evil genius hes chasing. The Black Lotus: A Chinese criminal organization which specializes in smuggling. They have a branch operating in London where they sell valuable Chinese antiquities on the black market for millions. John and Sherlock gain interest in bringing the organization down after it murders three of its members and leaves Sherlock with a puzzling cipher to solve.

Actors Sherlock Holmes: Self-proclaimed consulting detective, Sherlock is extraordinarily gifted in observing and deducting. Sherlock cant resist showing off his superior intellectual abilities and is often resented for it. He considers himself to be of higher status relative to the rest of the world and gives no regard for others personal sensitivity. Dr. John Watson: Dr. Watson is a former British Royal Army field medic. He craves adventure and danger and this aspect of his personality causes him to find Sherlock and his life of spontaneity and peril irresistible. Sgt. Sally Donovan: An officer of the London Police Force who doesnt understand Sherlock and repeatedly calls him freak. Inspector Lestrade: Lestrade is a detective inspector for the London Police. He often times calls Sherlock during investigations involving especially clever criminals. Lestrade knows involving Sherlock is illegal but cares more about catching the dangerous criminals than his job. Anderson: A forensics specialist who works for the London Police and dislikes Sherlock even more than most of the people who know him. Soo Lin Yao: A former smuggler for the Chinese criminal organization the Black Lotus, Soo Lin is an expert on ancient Chinese antiquities. Five years after leaving the organization, the Black Lotus hunts her down and kills her for her betrayal. Before she is killed, Soo Lin translates the first two words of the gangs cipher which allows Sherlock to catch the gang and the members responsible for hers and several others deaths. The Spider: The name of a deadly assassin and member of the Black Lotus. The Spider turns out to be Soo Lin Yaos brother and killer. The Spiders daring break-in to the Shad Sanderson bank is what gets Sherlock hired and begins his hunt to bring the organization down. Dr. Sarah Sawyer: When John gets tight on money and searches for a job, Sarah becomes his new employer and love interest. Sarah shows quick thinking and bravery on multiply occasions and not only saves both John and Sherlocks lives, but gives them a major clue in solving the Black Lotus cipher. Artifacts Pills: The weapon the serial killer uses to execute his victims. Taxi: The urban camouflage the serial killer uses to move about the streets of London undetected. He also uses his knowledge as a cab driver to select the locations he murders his victims. Johns cane: John is suffering from PTS syndrome after the war and believes he can no longer walk without the use of a cane after getting shot. In reality, his mind is playing tricks on himself and he only believes he needs the cane because he has developed a self-image of a boring man without any action in his life and sees himself as incapable of doing anything anymore.

Johns gun: John keeps a gun in the drawer of his desk because he is just waiting for some thrills to come into his life and secretly hopes he gets the chance to discharge a firearm again. Suitcase: The victim in pinks suitcase is what clues Sherlock in to the whereabouts of the killer and gives him proof that the suicides are in fact murders. Victims phone: The woman in pinks phone is what allows Sherlock and John to catch the serial killer, after they deduce that the message she scratched into the floor during her last breaths was the phones password. Horse crop: Sherlock could have beaten the stiff in the beginning of the episode with practically anything, but he chose to do so with a horse crop. It displays his character as someone with class but in an odd sort of fashion. Serial killers gun: The serial killer is above using real guns, they would make his game too boring. The gun he uses to force people to take the pill is actually just a cigarette lighter. John and Sherlocks flat: The place John and Sherlock call home. Sherlock keeps it a mess with all of his assorted experiments and compiled research for the cases he solves. John helps Sherlock organize the flat from a place to sleep into a real home. Yellow Paint: The Black Lotus, a Chinese criminal organization uses distinctive yellow spray paint to write graffiti messages around the city. Crossbow: The Black Lotus, a Chinese criminal organization uses an antique artistic Chinese crossbow in one of their circus acts and to kill some of their victims. Teapots: These 400 year teapots have become Soolins obsession and she risks her life to care for them, a risk which ends in her demise. Origami lotus: The Black Lotus, a Chinese criminal organization places origami black lotuses on the victims they kill as a trademark. Lotus tattoo: Each of the members of the black lotus, a Chinese criminal organization, are branded with a tattoo of a black lotus on their foot. These tattoos allow Sherlock to convince the new detective inspector of the organizations presence in London. Literacy Practices Traffic signs: Sherlock uses the traffic signs and patterns to map out in his head the destination of a taxi which the killer is driving. Text messages: Sherlock sends text messages to the police and reporters during the press conference, primarily to show off that he can. He also uses a text to frighten the serial killer and cause him to make a mistake which leads them closer to finding him. Many of the other characters also use text messages on a frequent basis. The note: The note the victim in pink scratches into the floor, Rache, is what allows John, Sherlock, and the police to catch the serial killer.

Hangzhou: An ancient Chinese dialect and numeral system which the Black Lotus uses as part of its secret code. London A-Z: A book that most tourists and even many residents of London own. It is significant to members of the Black Lotus Chinese criminal organization because it is the book their secret cipher is based upon. E-mail: Most residents of London use email and Sherlock Holmes is no different. One he receives, in particular, leads him to his mission of bringing down the Black Lotus, a Chinese gang who has been conducting smuggling operations in London. Observation One (Flash back) Dr. John Watson is serving in active combat for the British Royal Army in Afghanistan and is wounded during an intense firefight. (Oct 12) An unknown woman is talking on the phone to her wealthy husband or boyfriend whom has just arrived in the airport in London. She advises him that there is not a car waiting for him and that he will need to take a taxi to come home. The man seen talking on the phone takes a pill and dies. (Nov 26) Two teenage boys are walking in the rain when a taxi drives by, one of the boys tries to flag down the cab but the driver does not stop. The boy who attempts to catch the cab walks home to get an umbrella. The same boy is seen taking the same pill as the previous man and dies as well. (Jan 27) A woman is seen taking the keys of one of her so-called friends because her friend has been drinking. The woman is then seen taking the same pill as the previous two victims when trying to find a way home. (Jan 28) 8:00 John is writing a blog about what happens to him but can not think of anything to write. 9:00 John is seen inside an office attending a mental therapy session for his PTS syndrome he developed from his time serving in the war. His therapist believes writing a blog about his life will help him adjust to life as a civilian. 9:30 Police are holding a press conference about the recent deaths. Inspector Lestrade makes a statement claiming them to be serial suicides when everyone in the room gets a text message that says wrong! Lestrade assures the media that the police have their best people investigating when everyone receives another text which also says wrong! The inspector continues by claiming everyone is as safe as they want to be when a final wrong! text is received. When

the press conference is over, Lestrade receives a message which says you know where to find me. 10:00 John is walking in a park when an old military buddy, Mike, recognizes him. John and Mike talk briefly and John tells Mike he is searching for a new roommate. Mike suggests a friend who earlier that morning also mentioned he was in need of a roommate. 10:30 Sherlock is in the morgue examining a body to authenticate the alibi of one of his clients when John and Mike walk in. Sherlock asks Mike if he can borrow his phone but John offers his instead. Sherlock asks John Afghanistan or Iraq? John is amazed at how Sherlock could have known such a thing and Sherlock continues to boast his skills of deduction and tell John about many personal details in his life that only his closest friends would know. Sherlock invites John to come look at a flat with him and Mike confirms yeah, hes always like that. 11:00 Woman in pink seen reaching for the same pill that killed the first three victims. 11:30 Sherlock and John arrive at the flat on 221B Baker St, London. The apartment is a mess and John says this could be very nice, just got some old junk to clean out not realizing that Sherlock already lives there. Sherlocks only friend is an old skull and tells John that hes much better company. Lestrade arrives at Sherlocks apartment to tell him there is a fourth victim, and that this one left a note. As soon as Lestrade leaves the room, Sherlock jumps and shouts brilliant! and compares four suicides and a note to Christmas. As Sherlock is leaving to observe the crime scene of the fourth victim, Mrs. Hudson calls John the sitting down type. Outraged, John can not refuse Sherlocks offer to come with him to investigate the crime scene of the fourth victim and come see some more trouble, more referring to the initial traumatizing experiences he encountered while in the war. 12:00 While in a taxi on the way to the crime scene, Sherlock shows off his deductive abilities and explains how he knew all of the details about Johns life after John calls Sherlock an amateur detective. 12:30 John and Sherlock arrive at the crime scene. Upon arrival, Sgt. Donovan refers to Sherlock as freak and is surprised to see him with company. The murder scene is an old abandoned apartment building. The body has been found upstairs with the note; the word Rache scratched into the floor. At a quick glance, Sherlock is able to notice that the victim was left handed, the note was meant to say Rachel, the victim had an unhappy marriage which had lasted over ten years, was a serial adulterer, that the woman came from out of town, and that she had a suitcase with her (even though one wasnt found on the crime scene). John cant help blurting out how impressed he is. 1:00 The phone in a public booth rings just as John walks passed it. This repeats until finally John answers the phone in the third booth he passes. The man on the phone advises him of the cameras located all around him and tells John to get in the car. 1:30 John meets the mysterious man in an abandoned warehouse. The man asks John about Sherlock and calls himself Sherlocks arch enemy. The man bribes John to spy on Sherlock for him but John refuses. John receives a text from Sherlock telling him to come home and that it

was urgent. The man notices that Johns hand has stopped twitching and informs him that he isnt haunted by the war but that he misses it. 2:00 John stops at his house to get his gun on the way back to the new flat. 2:30 John arrives back at the new flat to find Sherlock wearing three nicotine patches. John tells Sherlock about the mysterious man he met and Sherlock informs him that this man is extremely dangerous. The urgent reason Sherlock called him back was to have him send a text. The text is addressed to the victims phone so that the killer would see it written as though it were from the victim in pink. When John asks why Sherlock is talking to him instead of the police, Sherlock replies Mrs. Hudson took his skull. 5:00 John and Sherlock go out to dinner at a caf when Sherlock realizes the serial killer must be using taxis to snatch up his victims. 7:00 Sherlock and John chase after the cab right in front of them and John leaves without his cane to hunt the cab down. Sherlock is able to calculate the taxis route based on the traffic patterns. After running through alleys and jumping across rooftops, Sherlock and John catch the cab they are chasing but realize the man in the back is not the serial killer. While walking home, they bond over telling each other corny yet witty jokes. 8:00 When John and Sherlock get home, the police are searching the flat on a drug bust because Sherlock has been withholding the suitcase, valuable evidence. The police tell Sherlock that Rachel was the victims still born daughter. Sherlock determines that Rachel must have been the password to her e-mail/smart phone. They use this information to track the location of the victims phone and thus the location of the killer. While everyone else is distracted with this newly found information, an unordered cab arrives for Sherlock and he realizes that it must be the killer, so he goes to get in. The man waiting outside was the driver of the same cab Sherlock and John had chased down earlier that evening. Instead of running in and getting the police to arrest the man, Sherlock gets in because the serial killer tells him if he doesnt, hell never know what he said to the victims to get them to kill themselves. John traces the location of the phone but is confused when it says that the phone was at their apartment. 8:15 Watson realizes that Sherlock is missing and that the location of the phone has changed after tracing it a second time. He informs the police of this newly found information and they chase after Sherlock and the serial killer. 9:00 While on the road, the serial killer tells Sherlock that he recognizes him from Sherlocks website and that he was warned about him but he doesnt say by whom. He explains the genius and convenience of being a cab driver when killing people. 9:30 The killer takes Sherlock into an empty schoolhouse to show him how he convinced the others to kill themselves. 9:45 The killer explains his method. There are two identical bottles with identical pills, but one bottle contains a good pill, and the other contains a lethal pill. Sherlock must choose one and whichever he doesnt take, the killer will take the other. After explaining his brilliant system

and feeling overconfident, the killer calls Sherlock stupid and Sherlock proves how much smarter he is. He has already figured out that the serial killer must be dying to put himself in such risky scenarios and that the killer is murdering his victims for his kids but isnt sure why. The killer informs Sherlock that he has a sponsor, the same man who warned him about Sherlock. 9:50 Watson and the police arrive at the location the killer has taken Sherlock. The police form a perimeter but John runs frantically to find Sherlock and save him. 10:00 Sherlock must choose between one of the pills or the gun, he chooses the gun, realizing that its a fake. The serial killer beaten, Sherlock begins to walk away but returns to play his game. Just as Sherlock is about to take one of the pills, John sees him from out the window of an adjacent building and shoots the killer before either of them can take a pill. As the serial killer is dying, Sherlocks first question is whether or not he chose the right pill. In the serial killers last breaths, Sherlock manages to get the name of the man who warned the killer about Sherlock, Moriarty. 10:30 The police are wrapping up everything that happened when Sherlocks arch enemy shows up. The man reveals himself to be Mycroft Holmes, Sherlocks brother. Mycroft is in an extremely high ranking government position in charge of the British secret service among many other things. 10:45 John asks why Sherlock is smiling and Sherlock tells him that he is excited about Moriarty. Observation Two (Feb 22) 5:00 Soo Lin Yao is performing a Chinese tea ceremony as a demonstration in a museum to care for and preserve the condition of beautiful antique Chinese clay teapots which are over 400 years old. 5:30 A boy who also works in the museum talks to Soo Lin and shows obvious romantic interest. He asks her out on a date but she declines and says I dont think you would like me all that much. 7:30 Soo Lin is in the museum after hours cataloging artifacts when she hears a noise and becomes alarmed. When she goes to investigate, she uncovers something which leaves her with a face of consternation. (Feb 23) 10:00 John is shopping for groceries when the self-check-out machine malfunctions and works him into a fluster. Meanwhile, Sherlock is in their flat fending off a blade bearing assassin. During the brawl, the assassins sword makes a deep scratch in the dining room table. Sherlock eventual gains leverage over the attacker and lands a strike which knocks the assassin unconscious.

10:30 John arrives back at the flat empty handed because his credit card was declined. When Sherlock offers John his card and sends him back to the store, John, already upset, yells at Sherlock for being so lazy; unaware of the attacker Sherlock had just fended off earlier that morning. As John is yelling at him, Sherlock receives an email from an old colleague and now a rich banker named Sebastian offering him a job. When John humbly asks Sherlock if he can borrow some money, Sherlock ironically says I need to go to the bank. 11:00 When at the bank, Sebastian informs John and Sherlock that his bank has a security breach and offers them a five figure number to find it, but when Sherlock sees the puzzling cipher painted on the wall, he becomes less interested in the money and more fascinated with breaking the code. When Sherlock waves off the money and tells his former colleague that he doesnt need motivation, Watson is quick to inform the banker that Sherlock was only joking and collects the down-payment gasping at the amount for which it was written. 11:15 Sherlock is observing the break-in at the bank. A symbol has been painted on the wall of the bank in yellow spray paint and next to it, in the same paint, a line has been sprayed over the eyes of a fancy portrait. The security camera shows the wall was painted at 12:34 am the night before, but the feed from the cameras has been tampered with so that no one is ever seen entering or exiting the bank. After observing the bank, Sherlock determines that the paint was a warning intended for Edward Vancoon, one of the banks employees. 3:30 John and Sherlock go to Edward Vancoons apartment to investigate. When they find that no one is home, Sherlock gets in by dropping from the balcony above and using the back door. John is upset because Sherlock is too busy making his own observations to unlock the front door and let John in when Sherlock discovers Vancoon dead. 4:30 When the police arrive, there is a new detective inspector in charge. The inspector assumes Vancoon committed suicide, the way things were made to look by the assassin, but Sherlock points out that Vancoon was left handed based on observations he made around the apartment and that Vancoon was shot on the right side of his head, an unlikely scenario for a lefthanded suicide. 8:00 Sherlock rudely interrupts Sebastians business lunch meeting to inform him that Vancoon has been murdered. Sebastian informs Sherlock about Vancoons involvement in his company. He had been working the Hong-Kong branch and made frequent and often times sudden trips there so no one suspected anything when he didnt show up for work. Sebastian also told Sherlock about a time when Vancoon had lost five million pounds in a single morning and then made it all back a week later. 10:00 A man is holding running through the street constantly looking behind him with a look of horror as though he is being chased. (Feb 24) 10:00 The man with the crush on Soo Lin is asking his boss about her since he hasnt seen her in a couple of days. His boss informs him that she resigned and suggests that perhaps it was because some of her fellow employees wouldnt leave her alone.

2:00 John is applying for a job at a medical clinic due to his lack of financial security. It is obvious that he has a crush on Sarah, the doctor interviewing him. She notices he served in the army and informs him that the job can be a bit mundane, but John accepts the job anyways. (Feb 25) 10:00 The man who was seen running frantically through the streets has been found murdered. After begging the new detective inspector, Sherlock has been permitted five minutes in the mans flat to make observations. Within five minutes, Sherlock determines that the killer got in through the skylight and finds a book from the West Kensington Library, where he and John go to search for further clues. 10:30 While in the library, John finds symbols identical to those found in the bank sprayed on one of the bookshelves by the same paint. 12:00 Sherlock consults a street artist (vandal) for more information about the graffiti. While Sherlock and John are talking to the graffiti expert, two police officers arrive and arrest John for the painting of a cop with a pig nose as Sherlock and the street artist run away. 2:00 When John and Sherlock go to investigate more about the two victims, they both wind up at the Lucky Cat Emporium in China town. Upon reading a price tag in the Lucky Cat, Sherlock determines that the cipher is comprised of an ancient Chinese dialect and numeral system known as Hangzhou. He realizes that the two victims must have been smugglers and that the Lucky Cat was their drop-off location. He also concludes that one of the victims must have stolen something of value to the organization and so both were threatened. 2:30 Sherlock breaks into an abandoned flat across the street from the caf he and John are having lunch in and adjacent to the Lucky Cat noticing that no one has been home for a couple of days. Sherlock doesnt realize, however, that the flat belongs to Soo Lin Yao and that the killer is still inside. The assassin attacks Sherlock and strangles him until he falls to the floor and places an origami black lotus in Sherlocks pocket. While John is bickering and frustrated that Sherlock did not let him into the apartment for a second time, Sherlock opens some of Soo Lins mail and uses the address to retrace some of her steps to the museum in order to search for more clues. 5:00 When exiting the museum, the street artist notifies Sherlock that hes found more of the symbols in the distinctive yellow paint. 6:00 Sherlock and John arrive at one of the underground communities of London. All of the walls are caked in graffiti and the symbols that Sherlocks consultant found have already been painted over. Sherlock and John hunt around the area in search of more of the symbols. 7:00 John finds an entire wall of the symbols but before he can show Sherlock, the wall is painted over entirely in black. Fortunately, John took a picture on his phone and so the pair are able to have a rosetta stone of sorts to help themselves crack the code. (Feb 26)

10:00 When visiting the museum a second time, Sherlock notices that two of the teapots are now shining as opposed to the one that had been on their previous visit. Sherlock concludes that Soo Lin must be breaking into the museum at night to finish taking care of the pots which allows him and John to find her. 2:00 Sherlock and John wait for Soo Lin in the museum where she tells them about her past. Five years ago, she had been a smuggler for a Chinese criminal organization known as the Black Lotus. The assassin killing the victims was one of their members and known as the Spider. She also informs them that the code is based upon a book and that the gangs general in charge of the London operation is known as Shan when the three realize that the killer is in the museum. When Sherlock and John leave Soo Lin to go fend off the Spider, they foolishly leave her defenseless and she is murdered by her own brother. (Feb 27) 10:00 Sherlock informs D.I. Dimmock of the Black Lotus operations in London but he requires proof. 11:00 Sherlock flirts with Molly in order to gain access to the bodies of the recently deceased victims he suspects to be involved in the Black Lotus smuggling operations. 11:15 Sherlock shows the D.I. Dimmock the tattoos on the two victims feet, he is now convinced Sherlock is telling the truth and gives him access to the books found at the victims apartments, as requested. 12:00 While waiting for the books to be delivered, Sherlock ponders why Shan would need to go to Soo Lin for help and concludes that the Black Lotus must be smuggling ancient Chinese antiquities and selling them on the black market in London. Sherlock also realizes that the code is comprised of numbers and related to a book, therefore the code must refer to the page numbers of the book and a specific word on the page. 12:30 The books from Vancoon and Lukis apartment arrive. Sherlock begins searching through each of them with John using the picture of the wall John took to put together a sentence that makes sense. (Feb 28) 2:00 While Sherlock continues to decipher the script, John goes to work at his new job but falls asleep on his first day after staying up all night again attempting to break the code with Sherlock. Dr. Sawyer finds him asleep and takes all of his clients for the day. 5:00 When he wakes up, John apologizes and informs Sarah that he had been out late. After Sarah inquires whether he had been out late with a date, John invites her to go out with him that evening. 6:00 When John informs Sherlock of his plans to go to the movies with Sarah, Sherlock calls the idea dull and predictable. He suggests John take her to the Chinese circus, secretly suspecting that the circus is put on by members of the Black Lotus.

8:00 John ends up taking Sarah to the circus when Sherlock makes an unexpected appearance. 8:30 The first act of the circus is a stunt in which a tied up warrior must escape his bonds before an iron ball drops and activates the pressure plate trigger of an intricate crossbow aimed at his heart. 8:45 An acrobat introduced as the deadly Chinese bird spider is performing while Sherlock searches backstage. He finds a can of yellow paint, the same kind used to make the symbols when he is discovered by the warrior from the crossbow stunt. Sherlock and John are nearly killed by the warrior when Sarah swats him over the head with the bolt from the crossbow. 9:30 Sherlock, John, and Sarah return to Sherlock and Johns flat. While Sherlock continues his attempts to solve the code, John and Sarah try to continue their date. John is in the kitchen looking for something to eat after Sarah mentions shes starving. While he is off, Sherlock is treating Sarah with an attitude as though she were incompetent is she pieces together the evidence John and Sherlock have so far when she points out that Soo Lin had solved the first two words of the code from the picture John took, something Sherlock and John had previously failed to notice. Realizing that the book to translate the code must still be on Soo Lins desk, Sherlock rushes out to find it and finish translating the code in the picture. 9:45 On his way to the museum, Sherlock realizes that the book the code is based upon is London A-Z. He grabs a copy from a couple of German tourists and translates the original message which was left for Vancoon and Luki, deadman. 10:00 Sherlock arrives back at the flat to discover John and Sarah missing and the deadman message painted on the windows. Sherlock quickly finishes translating the cipher in Johns picture in order to determine where the Black Lotus must have taken them. 10:30 John and Sarah are tied up in a sewer tunnel with the crossbow from the circus aimed at Sarah! General Shan is convinced that John is Sherlock Holmes after finding the check from the banker in his wallet addressed to Sherlock, the tickets to the circus reserved under Sherlocks name, and the credit card Sherlock had lent to John to buy groceries and plans to kill him. Sherlock arrives just in time to prove Gen. Shan wrong and distract the gang while Watson kicked the crossbow causing the bolt to miss Sarah and hit the Spider. During the commotion, however, Gen. Shan escapes. Interview of John Watson Q: How did you first meet Sherlock? A: Um, I was talking to an old mate of mine from when we were in the army and at the time, I was looking for a new flat mate. My mate told me he knew someone who had just told him earlier that morning that he was also in need of a new flat mate. So Mike, my old colleague, and I went to the morgue where we met Sherlock and he was, different. He told me all about myself before we even spoke and offered to view a flat together later that afternoon. I didnt exactly think things would work out between us at that point but I figured Id give it a go, so we went to look at the flat and it was just a bloody mess. Then I found out that Sherlock already lived there

and based on the way he was before we met, I cant say Im surprised that the place was such a wreck. Sherlock always gets too caught up in his cases to take care of his personal life. But anyways, he ended up with a case that day and I got sucked in. We solved it together, I moved in, and weve been best mates ever since. (Feb 29) 11:00 Sherlock and John head over to the bank which employed them. While John is collecting the twenty thousand pound check, Sherlock takes inquires about how the secretary got her hair pin, the stolen treasure the Black Lotus had been after. He realizes that she had been in a relationship with Vancoon and he must have taken it without realizing its value and given it to her as a gift. Sherlock takes delight in informing the secretary of the value the pin is worth, nine million pounds! Q: Sherlocks never had friends before you, why are you so close to him? A: Sherlock is, a bit special. He treats you with utter disrespect, but thats just cause hes bloody ignorant. Once you get to know him, hes not just some freak like some people call him. He does care about other people, myself, Molly, Mrs. Hudson. He just doesnt like to show it because he feels like it makes him weaker. He likes to think hes above the rest of us, and at times I believe he is. Q: Some people say hes just a phony, that its all just a magic trick. Do believe Sherlock is truly brilliant or just a magician? A: Sherlock is probably the most intelligent human being who has ever lived, when he wants to be. The things hes able to notice, the speed he puts it all together, the sheer mass of random facts he has memorized, its just brilliant. Just being around him is incredible, watching him put it all together. No, Ive been with Sherlock long enough now to know its not all a game, even though hed probably love it if it were. Hes like a big, too smart for his own good, child really. With all his genius, all hes interested in doing is playing games. And showing off of course. Q: Does he ever get on your nerves? A: Oh god yeah. Every moment Im awake Sherlock is making me bloody miserable. Its almost funny, he doesnt even understand when hes being inappropriate, but Ive taken it upon myself to try and teach him some manners. And I do honestly believe he does it on purpose, just another game for him to play, to annoy everyone he meets. I think the one thing he does that bothers me the most is how he boasts his massive intellect like hes some sort of superior being. If I had a pound for every time he did something just to show off I could buy all of England. Dont get me wrong, Id go to hell and back for him, but he can be just a twit sometimes. Add definitions to bold words. Well organized paper as a whole.