I don't know, "how many times did he fall out of the window?" Implying that sherlock carried the unconscious and broken body of the cia agent upstairs just to throw him out again multiple times might beat this one.
"There's a good bo'ol and a bad bo'ol. You take the pill from the good bo'ol you live. You take the pill from the bad bo'ol you die" - the scary bo'ol game by the cabbie
Whoever was aiming the gun would not have fired one shot and hit the cabbie. If he wanted to kill both the cabbie and Sherlock, the shooter would have done so.
It could be a technique to trace back where the shooter is. Bullet trajectory, the line. All I'm saying is Sherlock used it to trace back where the shooter is or was standing
I think this dude is actually scarier than Moriarty. He almost got Sherlock to kill himself just be talking to him. No weapons, no grand plan, no criminal conspiracy, just by understanding his psychology and playing on his weaknesses.
@@robinvik1 Nah; here is the thing... it was never that Moriarty couldn't have Holmes dead... but that killing him wasn't enough. He wanted to destroy Holmes... play with him.... Killing Sherlock isn't the hard part...
the most dangerous one was Magnussen, if he has some intentions to rule the world, it will happened, Moriarty can be outsmarted by Sherlock and Mycroft, but Magnussen only can be stopped by killing him
@@bbw4235 If he was that smart he would be smart enough to have someone search them for weapons before letting them into appledore. Wtf happened to all his bodyguards, were they having a day off?
The most intriguing thing about Sherlock Holmes is that for someone so impressive and seemingly untouchable, he is so heartbreakingly vulnerable. So many people us it to their advantage. The cabbie uses Sherlock's obsessions with being right to his advantage, and Moriarty uses Sherlock's emotional vulnerabiliy to his advantage.
They kinda hint at that with the Magnussen character. With everyone else he sees a few weaknesses he can exploit but when he looks at sherlock he sees dozens
@@gregjenkinson7512 Magnussen doesn't see a dozen weaknesses, he sees half a dozen weaknesses. Opium, Watson, Adler, Moriarty, Redbeard, Hounds of Baskerville. Though, I don't get how Hounds of Baskerville is his weaknesses since it is just a case to him. What was actually done is that, these weaknesses were presented in a loop so as to make the viewer think there are too many to count.
I love this scene mainly because that gunshot (+ when Sherlock covered for John to Lestrade) is the moment casual flatmates became the ride-or-die friendship we love
Season 3 & 4 were terrible. It just became fan fiction to appeal to the teenage fangirls. Making the characters like they're in a soap opera rather than a detective show along with the bad writing and plot holes. When you have Sherlock acting like this superhuman and jumping out of an blown up apartment it loses it's sense of reality.
Lauren's question pertains to after John shot the driver. The driver is lying on the floor dying, and Sherlock asks him if he "was right" (about his choice of pill). Lauren is asking, why didn't Sherlock just pick the pills up off the ground and take them to the lab and answer his own question about who was right, instead of getting so mad?
Kind of late, but here's what I think: At that point, Sherlock decided "To hell with these pills." He'd already solved the case. He'd figured out who the killer was, why he kills, and how. If he'd taken the poison, lab tests would be moot to him. If he'd chosen the right bottle, the police can just as easily collect the pills as evidence and test them (the pills fell in different places; with Sherlock's memory, it'd be easy enough for him to sort them out). But the pills didn't matter anymore because the killer was dying, Sherlock had little time left, and he focused on the more important question: who was the killer's sponsor? I really liked how they revealed Moriarty's name!
I love the face Sherlock makes after the cabbie yells Moriarty's name. You can tell that he is shocked and even a little scared. Because he genuinly has no clue who that could be.
Some damn good writing here. Sherlock does his thing and reads the cabbie, case solved. But the cabbie isn't an idiot either and figures out Sherlock's weakness: pride. I don't think Sherlock hates being bored; I think he's addicted to being right.
He shot bullets randomly into a wall because he was bored... I think his problem is being bored... Not saying you are wrong, just saying being blred is *definitely* part of it.
The only reason Sherlock is puzzled by that one (the bottles), is because of his lack of "useless information" a.k.a. knowledge of popular culture. The taxi driver is, obviously, not a genius, so he borrowed the idea. From where? The 1980's movie "The Princess Bride". The solution? Both bottles contain poison. Look up the scene called: "The Battle of Wits" from the movie. The only way out is to choose the gun, which Sherlock already did. He only keeps struggling because he's missing that reference.
I think it's obvious that he is a genius. He walked into police investigation and lured Sherlock away, and clearly demonstrates he understands exactly how Sherlock thinks and knows exactly what to say to make him do whatever he wants. The only other character that acts like that is Moriarty, and when he manipulates Sherlock he needs to put in way more effort.
I literally came here to say this =D The moment they did the "2 bottles" thing, I thought of The Princess Bride. The cabbie was immune to the poison. It wasn't cleverness, it wasn't an uncanny ability to read people. It was a guarantee for him.
@@westwoods7675 And you trust/believe a killer who's looking to get money for his kids? Why do people insist on trusting the word of the 'bad guy'? Literally the lease trustworthy individuals.
@@sunbladedrgn La probabilidad de que 4 personas escojan al azar la pastilla "mala" no es de 0.0625% (1/16) ??? Por qué mentiría. No debería, ya que en realiadad es como una marioneta de Moriarty. Moriarty lo usa para que el use su inteligencia, y en medio de eso lo agarra a Sherlock; se ve confiesa mientras es torturado así que ...
Where did all the those people in the comments get the water is posioned theory from? There was never any water shown, not even a glass, so I don't know where that theory came from.
silvergirlXO there’s a well known brain teaser that shows something like a murderer makes his victims pic a pill and he always gets the harmless one how does he do this I think this might be where the idea is from
The pills weren't poisoned at all, poison was in the water that he gave his victims, he dry-swallowed his own, he didn't give Sherlock any water because Moriarty wanted him to live... a theory just... Might be wrong since Moriarty only came to know about Sherlock after his adventures went viral on the net. Dunno
No, porque Sherlock estaba actuando. Actuaba como si "estuviera jugando en serio" mientras John venia con su pistola, por eso le avisó que podía ser peligroso. Nunca se la iba a tragar, y aun asi, sabía que la pistola era falsa; el taxista estaba perdido como sea. Se supone que Sherlock descubrió la pildora buena@@lm-il8ou
This reminds me of that one scene in the Ender's Game movie, where Ender was playing a game on his tablet. In the game, he had to get through a giant who offered him 2 drinks. The giant claims that one drink is poison while the other one is harmless. Every time Ender selected a drink, he ended up dying and had to start the game over. Eventually, he realized that both drinks were poisoned and the more suitable option would be to kill the giant himself. Turns out, that was the right solution. Similarly, in this episode, the cab driver would offer his victim one of two bottles. Should the victim refuse to select a bottle, the cab driver would pull out a gun, thus forcing his victim to choose. For Sherlock, he opted for the cab driver to shoot him, eventually revealing that the gun was fake. None of the cab driver's other victims selected that option or were possibly aware of that option.
The poison is in the glass of water that he provides his victims. Think about it he always dry swallowed the pill for some reason. Being as old as he is along with a disease makes swallowing things dry hard and thats without the tense situation hes always in.
+Mayo Monster they would if they thought it would help their chances. The victims would most likely think that the water would help drown the pill out but in reality it would kill them
You can tell sherlock was actually in shock afterwards despite what he says due to how he was acting here, sure he was absolutley in control of things of course but he was scared poor thing 😣 look at the the way he keeps focus, his controlled breathing and his very slightly shaky hands when they raise the pills in the air. I wanted to rip that guy a new one for bringing up his addiction problems
Personal theory: After the cabbie told Sherlock to choose a bottle, Sherlock instead began to question about the cabbie’s life and reason for why he’s murdering with pills. The cabbie said to just pick a pill but Sherlock claimed “you’ve made your move, now I’m making mine.” Then Sherlock with his wits and observation deciphers the reason behind the cabbie’s acts and points out the fact that the cabbie still loves his children. The cabbie gets visibly annoyed after his “secret” was revealed and said something like just pick a damn bottle. At this point, there is a slight second where he looks down onto a bottle and looks back up to urge Sherlock. After the camera turns on Sherlock again, he smirked. At that point he knew which pill was the right or wrong pill, because the cabbie led him to it. Sherlock’s “move” is to soften the cabbie up and break his defenses in order to get an instinctive reaction out of him, which points at the riddle’s answer.
Theory: Sherlock picked the wrong bottle, John picked the wrong building. They ended up cheating their way to victory by using a gun. The cabbie is an intelligent and highly skilled man, he might have got cheated on several times for an individual like him to end up driving a taxi, his wife cheated on him by leaving him and taking his children away, and at the last moment, he gets cheated on by the boys whom he held a "fair" game with, then he died. The irony!
The pills were both poison. The cabbie gets money for his family for every kill he gets from killing people with the pills. The previous victims chose either the gun or one of the THREE pills in the bottle (33% is higher than the perceived 0%). The game the cabbie plays with Sherlock is entirely different; that one was definitely directed by Moriarty. The cabbie intended for murder-suicide with Sherlock’s game, to ensure double the payment for his children, as he indeed didn’t have a lot of time and perhaps those were maybe the last two pills. As for which pill was the right pill, it’s a game within a game. If you watch the scene, the cabbie nods his head towards the pill he laid out for Sherlock whenever he speaks of risk, boredom, genius, etc. All points to appeal to Sherlock’s vanity. Whenever the cabbie speaks of his children or living, he nods his head to his own bottle. It’s a game of suggestion, but in the end, still intended to pull off two last kills for his children.
Just finished Sherlock Holmes and is very impressed by his super genius skills.. though melancholia doesn't really fit him but either way. I still love Sherlock!!
The cabby had no idea which pill was the bad pill, that's my idea and here's why I think that(it got lengthy, hold on to your butts) I know that if I were Moriarty in this situation, I'd have made sure the cabby had no idea either. A man that would agree to these terms would be a man so far down the end of his rope that he'll not second guess his decision to do the only thing he really has any time to do--help his family...and even if he had a slight moment of second thought, you can always threaten to destroy what he's doing the unthinkable to protect as it is... The cabby wasn't hyper-intelligent or anything nuts, he was literally just a cabby at risk of dying any moment(like everyone that lives but kinda...worse? More likely? Idk just worse I guess) and got the opportunity to secure a good life for his family after his death and Moriarty presented him with this opportunity while also appealing to the man's desire to just die already instead of being left to wonder when he'd keel over...no worrying about what ifs...what if he dies while shitting? What if he dies while he's banging his wife? What if he dies in front of his kids? He just gets to die and know when it's going to happen(kinda, he knows he'll die if the person chooses the good pill, which is far more specific a timeframe than anyone gets about their own death) meanwhile ensuring that his family has something more than a traumatizing memory after he's gone. Moriarty could be lying, but what choice does the cabby have but to trust him for such a seemingly-amazing deal?
I love anyone with enough brains to work out a conspiracy theory. Keep it up please. I have quite a few myself for various events and characters throughout this story.
John shouted Sherlock's name but in vain, it didn't change what he was going to do. This was the first time he shouted to be unheard, but not the last. Yeah I'm talking about the Reichenbach fall
The only logical answer is that both Pills were always deadly, but the guy had the antidote in the other house. His life was disposable, and killing sherlock his last paid job, that's why he went into the dark house that last time.
Guys, he simply had a good pill in his right hand the whole time. You can see at the beginning that he never opens that fist, then unscrews the bottle with his right hand and is holding the bad one in his left, until 1:02 when he's suddenly holding his right hand up-because that one had the good pill in it the whole time.
This guy just struck Sherlock's ego. There's no mind trick or clever about the choice of bottles. He drank the antidote before and both bottles had poison. Just like Moriarty said in S2E3, "you always want everything to be clever"
I have a theory on the good vs bad bottle. They were both bad bottles. And here's why, what those pill could have been was a vasodilator. A vasodilator is a type of drug that it expands the blood vessel it's used for. In this case the vessels cabbie's brain for his aneurism. So to him he's just taking his medicine. And to anyone including Sherlock, they would expand their vessel causing them to have blood rushing to organs on unstable levels and killing them.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia? Or never get involved with a Sicilian when DEATH IS ON THE LINE? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...THUD.
Everyone is missing the point of the scene, because they over think it. It's likely that the writers never wrote a "right" or "wrong" pill, because that doesn't matter. There are several bits of information they were trying to deliver. 1.) Intelligence is condition to be endured, not sought, and 2.) Not everything can be solved by thinking. Without these two dramatic points the story would be boring, because Sherlock solving a case would be a given, and everyone would politely clap at the end. The pill puzzle wasn't created to be solvable. It was created for dramatic tension.
Which is the point, the characters don't exist, breathe, think and have motivations off screen, they don't actually exist, but are briefly given life when they appear. There's no solution, but it being Sherlock, the writers should have written one.
sherline had to question the sort of man in front of him... a clever man would put the poison into his own vial, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given, he is not a great fool so clearly he clearly cannot take from the vial in front of him but, the cabbie must have known that serlock was not a great fool, he would have counted on it, so he can clearly not take the vial from in front of him. wait, it gets better sherloc knew his opponent was a criminal, and criminals cannot be trusted so he clearly cannot take the vial from in front of him
The cabbie says it outright. 2 identical pills. 1 pill contains poison, 1 pill doesn't, and the victim chooses. If they chose the poison, they'd die and the cabbie lives. If they choose the pill without poison, the cabbie dies and the victim lives. The cabbie is going to die regardless so he doesn't give a shit if he dies or not. He's doing this so that his relatives get more money when he does eventually die. I don't know why everybody is ignoring what is on the screen for the sake of trying to come up with a theory that contradicts everything on it.
I blatantly remember there being a glass of water, and later on in the show sherlock found out or knew poison was in it after John shot him. Im just crazy
+StellarHearts Unless it was like in the 1989 Batman film, where the poison was activated when two or more components were combined. The pill was harmless until you ingested water, which triggered the poison.
2:28 "you're dying but there's still time to hurt you" if I was the cab driver I wouldn't have given him the name. As whether I say it or not I'm still dying anyways it'd be better to not die being a snitch lol.
When Sherlock shouts "the name?!" his face looks so much smaug. Is this why he was cast to Smaug in hobbit ? what you think ? And Loves to Sherlock from Finland
+GetlemanNightmare Not to mention when his foot presses down on the cabbie's shoulder, the sound reminds me of when Khan broke Carol Marcus' leg in Star Trek: Into Darkness. Oh, gees, I've turned into a Cumbergeek, haven't I? : )
When creating CGI/animated characters the actors voice is recorded before the animation is completed. This allows the animators to use the actors facial features and manorisms to be implimented into the characters design and movements. Have you seen the Hobbit extras? There is a lengthly section on how they created Smaug and recorded Benedict's facial movements.
Considering the height of the cabbie and the spot where he was shot, I think the bullet impact on the window glass should be a little higher than what's shown here.
People discussed which one was which or how it worked. But i always thought the satisfying answer was he was as smart if not a little smarter than Sherlock. Possessing a similar skill to Eurus in ability to manipulate words and play around with your head. Basically like how a magician, specifically, mentalists, use persuasion to seem like its impossible when in reality they were just playing mind games. I still hv no clue if sherlock won, but this is the only answer i find that fits with the series and makes the most sense and carries a coherent story. And if i was right it even subtly shows a foreshadowing to a skill that will later will be used by Eurus and basically act as a Easter egg. And i say he might be smarter bcs as i recall, correct me if i'm wrong I hvn't seen the series in a while, but i'm pretty sure Sherlock, Moriarty and even Mycroft never displayed this ability. At least the best they did was disguises or playing characters but never able to literaly manipulate anyone to their face moreover someone as smart as Sherlock and make him completely unsure of himself.
But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine it from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemies? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you...But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. Quote "Vizzini"
“Did I give you the good pill or the bad pill?” He gave both. It’s medicine for the old man’s aneurysm. Fatal to the others that took it. Clue: “Together we take our medicine” & The victim who died touching the side of his head.
There is no medicine for aneurysm. Thats why that medical condition is so dangerous and unpredictable & the cabbie was willing to take the risk of sudden death. Yr suggestion is good one though.
Sherlock was expecting Watson, he knew the GPS was on, and that he could be tracked. Of course he didn’t want to play the game, though he could be dragged into it.
“You’re dying but there’s still time to hurt you”
Most violent line in the series
Merry Christmas
Mrs Utterson
I don't know, "how many times did he fall out of the window?" Implying that sherlock carried the unconscious and broken body of the cia agent upstairs just to throw him out again multiple times might beat this one.
"There's a good bo'ol and a bad bo'ol. You take the pill from the good bo'ol you live. You take the pill from the bad bo'ol you die" - the scary bo'ol game by the cabbie
Yes Sherlock, when a gun is shot through a window, go look at it.
Whoever was aiming the gun would not have fired one shot and hit the cabbie. If he wanted to kill both the cabbie and Sherlock, the shooter would have done so.
No shit Sherlock
@2020Surya S315 lol
It could be a technique to trace back where the shooter is. Bullet trajectory, the line. All I'm saying is Sherlock used it to trace back where the shooter is or was standing
Well that's Sherlock for you
I think this dude is actually scarier than Moriarty. He almost got Sherlock to kill himself just be talking to him. No weapons, no grand plan, no criminal conspiracy, just by understanding his psychology and playing on his weaknesses.
He was employed by Moriarty ,
Making Moriarty the smarter and hence more dangerous one.
@@freedomprayer007 So if I gave Moriarty 10 bucks to fuck up Sherlock, that would make me the most dangerous of them all?
@@robinvik1 Nah; here is the thing... it was never that Moriarty couldn't have Holmes dead... but that killing him wasn't enough. He wanted to destroy Holmes... play with him....
Killing Sherlock isn't the hard part...
the most dangerous one was Magnussen, if he has some intentions to rule the world, it will happened,
Moriarty can be outsmarted by Sherlock and Mycroft, but Magnussen only can be stopped by killing him
@@bbw4235 If he was that smart he would be smart enough to have someone search them for weapons before letting them into appledore. Wtf happened to all his bodyguards, were they having a day off?
The most intriguing thing about Sherlock Holmes is that for someone so impressive and seemingly untouchable, he is so heartbreakingly vulnerable. So many people us it to their advantage. The cabbie uses Sherlock's obsessions with being right to his advantage, and Moriarty uses Sherlock's emotional vulnerabiliy to his advantage.
That's his weakness as Moriarity pointed out he always wants things to be clever
They kinda hint at that with the Magnussen character. With everyone else he sees a few weaknesses he can exploit but when he looks at sherlock he sees dozens
Idk this seems just plain dumb.
@@gregjenkinson7512 Magnussen doesn't see a dozen weaknesses, he sees half a dozen weaknesses. Opium, Watson, Adler, Moriarty, Redbeard, Hounds of Baskerville. Though, I don't get how Hounds of Baskerville is his weaknesses since it is just a case to him. What was actually done is that, these weaknesses were presented in a loop so as to make the viewer think there are too many to count.
I love this scene mainly because that gunshot (+ when Sherlock covered for John to Lestrade) is the moment casual flatmates became the ride-or-die friendship we love
Jst think of solution and don't be lovey dovey in that
Oof.
I am in shock, I have a blanket
Every scene of every episode is an absolute acting masterpiece. How do they do it?
the new one was terrible though :(
Rend why was it terrible?
Rend that wasn't the fault of the actors though Freeman and Cumberbatch are always amazing
Season 3 & 4 were terrible. It just became fan fiction to appeal to the teenage fangirls. Making the characters like they're in a soap opera rather than a detective show along with the bad writing and plot holes.
When you have Sherlock acting like this superhuman and jumping out of an blown up apartment it loses it's sense of reality.
@@Onmysheet Shhh, criticism and truth about the horrendous writing and pretentiousness of this show isn't that well received by these teenages girls!
Those cheek bones though!
I could cut myself slapping those 😉 loved Irene Adler for this comment 😂
One could cut themselves slapping those
@Joanna Raeder What's not straight in complimenting other men? ☠️😂
Sherlock's hand shakes as he brings the pill closer to his mouth...great acting by Benedict
He is starting to turn into Dr. Strange ;)
@@Guest01121 🤣
1:48 John shot the cabbie because he was going to say the n word
He was saying "Innit good?"
i heard that too lmfao
most probably he was gonna say that the one the cabbie was holding contained nicotine
I went to that part, and laughed so hard😂
Bruhhh😂😂😂😂😂
"You're dying, and there is still time to hurt you." Savage! Love it.
why couldn't he have just tested the pills in a lab after instead of getting so mad ??
lauren a bit late, but when john shot the driver, the pills dropped. You know the rest.
Lauren's question pertains to after John shot the driver. The driver is lying on the floor dying, and Sherlock asks him if he "was right" (about his choice of pill). Lauren is asking, why didn't Sherlock just pick the pills up off the ground and take them to the lab and answer his own question about who was right, instead of getting so mad?
Kind of late, but here's what I think: At that point, Sherlock decided "To hell with these pills." He'd already solved the case. He'd figured out who the killer was, why he kills, and how. If he'd taken the poison, lab tests would be moot to him. If he'd chosen the right bottle, the police can just as easily collect the pills as evidence and test them (the pills fell in different places; with Sherlock's memory, it'd be easy enough for him to sort them out). But the pills didn't matter anymore because the killer was dying, Sherlock had little time left, and he focused on the more important question: who was the killer's sponsor? I really liked how they revealed Moriarty's name!
lauren he is communist, he can't use the hospital lab's equipment wrong lol ( I actually get this joke from Jesse Eisenberg's book )
He just wanted to play this game to improve that he is the best.
I love the face Sherlock makes after the cabbie yells Moriarty's name.
You can tell that he is shocked and even a little scared. Because he genuinly has no clue who that could be.
Whereas if he had shouted "Tim!" Sherlock would have known exactly who he was dealing with.
Just brilliant.
@@harticus300 If he'd shouted "Mrs Hudson", that would have give the audience and Sherlock food for thought.
The world's most formidable detective deduces the identity of his arch-enemy by...
... Torturing it out of a dying suspect.
Just like the Batman
Well, he might be on the side of the angels, but he is not one of them ;-)
Or you could be woke and not find out . Formidable is a willingness to do what's needed, among other things.
works for batman, works for sherlock as well
Genius, as you mentioned
Mark Gatiss's voice at the end though
That smile though
Fleur Inoue
It is certainly very convincing, for I have subscribed.
Mycroft asked me to subscribe and so I did it blindly.
Exactly 🌂 Mycroft is the master game player and keeper of everyone’s secrets. Sherlock and Jim are his protégés ♥️
When I saw John seeing Sherlock in the opposite building, I was like: "Dude. Shoot. You have a gun. I know you do."
I jumped when the gunshot rang out
John's adorable run
Haha
Thanks I’ve never notice about it 😂
You made my day
I can see Bilbo Baggins
Great, now I can't unsee that
One handed Pistol Calibre, through a glass window at a range of 50 meters or so.
John is an excellent marksman.
I mean he could've kept the pill and tested it out in a lab to see if it was lethal... but instead he threw it away lol
Did he just throw it away or into his face? The latter would actually be hilariously worth it
@@Chiaway19932:09 i think he threw it at his face.
Some damn good writing here.
Sherlock does his thing and reads the cabbie, case solved.
But the cabbie isn't an idiot either and figures out Sherlock's weakness: pride.
I don't think Sherlock hates being bored; I think he's addicted to being right.
He shot bullets randomly into a wall because he was bored... I think his problem is being bored... Not saying you are wrong, just saying being blred is *definitely* part of it.
Nope, he gets bored.
John shot the cabbie
Sherlock shot Magnussent
:))))
They love each other.... :p
Sherlock is the least sexual character ever, so i highly doubt that your Jonlock ship will ever sail.
+Faty Marquie wrong Sherlock is the least Sexual character ever in all of history be it real or not. I highly doubt that will ever happen
Daniel Griff Just because they aren't sexual doesn't mean a romantic, non sexual relationship won't happen.
Ruby Brown I doubt it would though. Sherlock doesn't seem like the relationship type. Plus, John has repeatedly stressed that he's straight.
The only reason Sherlock is puzzled by that one (the bottles), is because of his lack of "useless information" a.k.a. knowledge of popular culture. The taxi driver is, obviously, not a genius, so he borrowed the idea. From where? The 1980's movie "The Princess Bride".
The solution? Both bottles contain poison. Look up the scene called: "The Battle of Wits" from the movie.
The only way out is to choose the gun, which Sherlock already did. He only keeps struggling because he's missing that reference.
I think it's obvious that he is a genius. He walked into police investigation and lured Sherlock away, and clearly demonstrates he understands exactly how Sherlock thinks and knows exactly what to say to make him do whatever he wants. The only other character that acts like that is Moriarty, and when he manipulates Sherlock he needs to put in way more effort.
But the cabbie said "no cheats"
I literally came here to say this =D The moment they did the "2 bottles" thing, I thought of The Princess Bride. The cabbie was immune to the poison. It wasn't cleverness, it wasn't an uncanny ability to read people. It was a guarantee for him.
@@westwoods7675 And you trust/believe a killer who's looking to get money for his kids? Why do people insist on trusting the word of the 'bad guy'? Literally the lease trustworthy individuals.
@@sunbladedrgn La probabilidad de que 4 personas escojan al azar la pastilla "mala" no es de 0.0625% (1/16) ???
Por qué mentiría.
No debería, ya que en realiadad es como una marioneta de Moriarty.
Moriarty lo usa para que el use su inteligencia, y en medio de eso lo agarra a Sherlock; se ve confiesa mientras es torturado así que ...
Where did all the those people in the comments get the water is posioned theory from? There was never any water shown, not even a glass, so I don't know where that theory came from.
silvergirlXO there’s a well known brain teaser that shows something like a murderer makes his victims pic a pill and he always gets the harmless one how does he do this I think this might be where the idea is from
The cabbie didn’t give Sherlock any water here because Moriarty wanted him to live. He gave his other victims water but he dry swallowed the pills
Poison Ivy that’s a theory
From the original story. "A study in Red"
Hondo I don’t remember that in a Study in Scarlet
The pills weren't poisoned at all, poison was in the water that he gave his victims, he dry-swallowed his own, he didn't give Sherlock any water because Moriarty wanted him to live... a theory just...
Might be wrong since Moriarty only came to know about Sherlock after his adventures went viral on the net. Dunno
Pramila Balan except that there was no water.
Moriarty knew about Sherlock since they were kids...
Pramila Balan moriarty new ages ago. In the last season he met eurus 5 years ago. He knew Sherlock before that
I think they weren't poison, both pills were his medication which would only affect his victims.
where is the water bro; I don't see it
My childhood dream to be a detective & now I am a doctor both the characters in this series..just loved it.
Same bro same
doctors are kinda like detectives.solving mysteries , reaching diagnosis especially in general medicine,
You should watch house m.d
Did anyone else have to pause 20 times just to appreciate Ben's beauty because same
Ana Nikova That's me on every Sherlock clip.
1:51 this still with smoke barreling from the gun would be an awesome Watson wallpaper.
Sherlock is good-looking
Ok
Extremely
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HEADCANON
This choice haunts Sherlock everyday because he never knew if he got it right
He could have test them in the lab.
i always assumed he was right or they were both safe because the cabbie would have taunted him if he were wrong
No, porque Sherlock estaba actuando. Actuaba como si "estuviera jugando en serio" mientras John venia con su pistola, por eso le avisó que podía ser peligroso. Nunca se la iba a tragar, y aun asi, sabía que la pistola era falsa; el taxista estaba perdido como sea. Se supone que Sherlock descubrió la pildora buena@@lm-il8ou
I actually just watched this episode Friday night. They're incredibly entertaining and well worth owning on DVD. Excited for Christmas!
Shame the directors never revealed the answer to this case
This reminds me of that one scene in the Ender's Game movie, where Ender was playing a game on his tablet. In the game, he had to get through a giant who offered him 2 drinks. The giant claims that one drink is poison while the other one is harmless. Every time Ender selected a drink, he ended up dying and had to start the game over. Eventually, he realized that both drinks were poisoned and the more suitable option would be to kill the giant himself. Turns out, that was the right solution.
Similarly, in this episode, the cab driver would offer his victim one of two bottles. Should the victim refuse to select a bottle, the cab driver would pull out a gun, thus forcing his victim to choose. For Sherlock, he opted for the cab driver to shoot him, eventually revealing that the gun was fake. None of the cab driver's other victims selected that option or were possibly aware of that option.
Trust me every scene of this series was mind blowing .. this scene is epic..
1:00
THIS BIT WAS EPIC
YOU’ THINK HE’S LOOKING UP AT JOHN
BUT HE’S ACTUALLY SO FAR AWAY
what a way to greet a new fan. this was so tense i had to bite my pillowcase haha
im still wondering, did Sherlock choose the right bottle?
***** ooo i see! hmm thats quite deep hahaha, thanks!
+Harreh Pottah I never knew that! So cool!!!
+MSadamgasm No he didn't. Otherwise why did the writers have to show John shooting the cabbie and preventing the pill game?
Tyko Brian well it could be right but only cuz john couldnt be too sure, and also i think he thought there was only one pill
MSadamgasm I'm not talking about John but the writer of the episode, Moffat's intentions.
When I first saw this, I thought he said "Mariachi!"! XD
Ah, that's an image I'll never get out of my brain...
NOW THATS ALL I CAN HEAR LMAO
@@emmak4158
Andrew Scott in a sombrero and poncho with a trumpet.
I kind of want that to happen now, and I hate that I want it to happen.
El Mariachi!!!!
(Begins to play the Mexican song)
Instead of asking the cab couldn't just Sherlock tested the pills in his lab to know if he was right or not?
Probably like in "The princess bride" they were all poisoned but he built immunity to the new "Iocane powder" :-)
+Ran Bar-Levi Haha, yeah I was just thinking that.
The poison is in the glass of water that he provides his victims. Think about it he always dry swallowed the pill for some reason. Being as old as he is along with a disease makes swallowing things dry hard and thats without the tense situation hes always in.
But not all victims would take the pill with water. I took a pill last week and just swallowed it :/
+Mayo Monster they would if they thought it would help their chances. The victims would most likely think that the water would help drown the pill out but in reality it would kill them
Good point. But under pressure we can make some weird decisions >:D
You can tell sherlock was actually in shock afterwards despite what he says due to how he was acting here, sure he was absolutley in control of things of course but he was scared poor thing 😣 look at the the way he keeps focus, his controlled breathing and his very slightly shaky hands when they raise the pills in the air. I wanted to rip that guy a new one for bringing up his addiction problems
Sherlock is the sexiest character ever
Personal theory:
After the cabbie told Sherlock to choose a bottle, Sherlock instead began to question about the cabbie’s life and reason for why he’s murdering with pills. The cabbie said to just pick a pill but Sherlock claimed “you’ve made your move, now I’m making mine.” Then Sherlock with his wits and observation deciphers the reason behind the cabbie’s acts and points out the fact that the cabbie still loves his children. The cabbie gets visibly annoyed after his “secret” was revealed and said something like just pick a damn bottle. At this point, there is a slight second where he looks down onto a bottle and looks back up to urge Sherlock. After the camera turns on Sherlock again, he smirked. At that point he knew which pill was the right or wrong pill, because the cabbie led him to it. Sherlock’s “move” is to soften the cabbie up and break his defenses in order to get an instinctive reaction out of him, which points at the riddle’s answer.
Noice
Good
@@babayada2015 Moriarty wouldn't do that
Theory: Sherlock picked the wrong bottle, John picked the wrong building. They ended up cheating their way to victory by using a gun. The cabbie is an intelligent and highly skilled man, he might have got cheated on several times for an individual like him to end up driving a taxi, his wife cheated on him by leaving him and taking his children away, and at the last moment, he gets cheated on by the boys whom he held a "fair" game with, then he died. The irony!
Would've been nice if this was one of Euros' puzzles, Sherlock had to finish this
We want the blanket scene ! 😁
They where both bad pills but the cabbie was immune to the pill
Princess Bride?
That's what I was thinking...
is dumb Hm. Blood thinners, most likely.
“I have spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder” yh ok
is dumb did you not watch the show?
The pills were both poison. The cabbie gets money for his family for every kill he gets from killing people with the pills. The previous victims chose either the gun or one of the THREE pills in the bottle (33% is higher than the perceived 0%). The game the cabbie plays with Sherlock is entirely different; that one was definitely directed by Moriarty. The cabbie intended for murder-suicide with Sherlock’s game, to ensure double the payment for his children, as he indeed didn’t have a lot of time and perhaps those were maybe the last two pills. As for which pill was the right pill, it’s a game within a game. If you watch the scene, the cabbie nods his head towards the pill he laid out for Sherlock whenever he speaks of risk, boredom, genius, etc. All points to appeal to Sherlock’s vanity. Whenever the cabbie speaks of his children or living, he nods his head to his own bottle. It’s a game of suggestion, but in the end, still intended to pull off two last kills for his children.
NicSh'm'Up I love your theory ♥️
Good job
Just finished Sherlock Holmes and is very impressed by his super genius skills.. though melancholia doesn't really fit him but either way. I still love Sherlock!!
1:18 the puppy face
2:37 - I have afraid of him 😨
I find it strangely arousing
that is unexpected
The best Sherlock in all of series. He is most reason.
Joy Haswell
I hope you change. Dear god. What an awful thing to say.
Everyone is saying that it is the water, BUT I SEE NO WATER. I think he just had the antidote in his cheek or under his tongue
Good job Watson... *You've done it again!*
And i still have no idea, which one was the right one.
I'd rather watch this all day than watch other seasons.
1:50 YES!!! John to the rescue!!! Sherlock’s knight in shining armor!
The cabby had no idea which pill was the bad pill, that's my idea and here's why I think that(it got lengthy, hold on to your butts)
I know that if I were Moriarty in this situation, I'd have made sure the cabby had no idea either. A man that would agree to these terms would be a man so far down the end of his rope that he'll not second guess his decision to do the only thing he really has any time to do--help his family...and even if he had a slight moment of second thought, you can always threaten to destroy what he's doing the unthinkable to protect as it is...
The cabby wasn't hyper-intelligent or anything nuts, he was literally just a cabby at risk of dying any moment(like everyone that lives but kinda...worse? More likely? Idk just worse I guess) and got the opportunity to secure a good life for his family after his death and Moriarty presented him with this opportunity while also appealing to the man's desire to just die already instead of being left to wonder when he'd keel over...no worrying about what ifs...what if he dies while shitting? What if he dies while he's banging his wife? What if he dies in front of his kids?
He just gets to die and know when it's going to happen(kinda, he knows he'll die if the person chooses the good pill, which is far more specific a timeframe than anyone gets about their own death) meanwhile ensuring that his family has something more than a traumatizing memory after he's gone. Moriarty could be lying, but what choice does the cabby have but to trust him for such a seemingly-amazing deal?
10 Months late but just wanted to clarify the cabbie was actually very intelligent...
I love anyone with enough brains to work out a conspiracy theory. Keep it up please. I have quite a few myself for various events and characters throughout this story.
sherlock: the name!
MORIARTYYYYYY!
John shouted Sherlock's name but in vain, it didn't change what he was going to do. This was the first time he shouted to be unheard, but not the last.
Yeah I'm talking about the Reichenbach fall
2:26 Sherlock - Psycopath Mode
Love Phil Davis, incredible actor
The only logical answer is that both Pills were always deadly, but the guy had the antidote in the other house. His life was disposable, and killing sherlock his last paid job, that's why he went into the dark house that last time.
love/hate relationship with this scene, the foot bit is just too much pain
Guys, he simply had a good pill in his right hand the whole time. You can see at the beginning that he never opens that fist, then unscrews the bottle with his right hand and is holding the bad one in his left, until 1:02 when he's suddenly holding his right hand up-because that one had the good pill in it the whole time.
This guy just struck Sherlock's ego. There's no mind trick or clever about the choice of bottles. He drank the antidote before and both bottles had poison.
Just like Moriarty said in S2E3, "you always want everything to be clever"
The cabbie obviously had built up an immunity to iocane powder
Those curls though😀
The Princess Bride scene shot into my head back when I saw this and I busted up laughing. Excellent re-watchability, this episode.
I have a theory on the good vs bad bottle. They were both bad bottles. And here's why, what those pill could have been was a vasodilator. A vasodilator is a type of drug that it expands the blood vessel it's used for. In this case the vessels cabbie's brain for his aneurism. So to him he's just taking his medicine. And to anyone including Sherlock, they would expand their vessel causing them to have blood rushing to organs on unstable levels and killing them.
Very interesting.
"blood rushing to organs", is this the soft porn version?
Sherlock in a nutshell:Benedict Cumberbatch looking hot
The cabbie has built up an immunity to the pill thats how he survived Sherlock almost fell for one of the classic blunders
Never get involved in a land war in Asia? Or never get involved with a Sicilian when DEATH IS ON THE LINE?
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...THUD.
Everyone is missing the point of the scene, because they over think it.
It's likely that the writers never wrote a "right" or "wrong" pill, because that doesn't matter. There are several bits of information they were trying to deliver. 1.) Intelligence is condition to be endured, not sought, and 2.) Not everything can be solved by thinking. Without these two dramatic points the story would be boring, because Sherlock solving a case would be a given, and everyone would politely clap at the end.
The pill puzzle wasn't created to be solvable. It was created for dramatic tension.
Which is the point, the characters don't exist, breathe, think and have motivations off screen, they don't actually exist, but are briefly given life when they appear. There's no solution, but it being Sherlock, the writers should have written one.
@@onastick2411 My man, the puzzle itself had no solution. It was a metaphor for genius-level intelligence.
wtf
Sherlock could have just sent the pills to be tested, and he would have known.
2:38 THAT IS NOT BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH THAT IS A DEMON.
lmao
Mycroft stop looking at me you are making my snake solid.
I mean, couldn't he have just told him the wrong name lol
Man, the Sound Design is top notch. When the cabbie got hit by that bullet it sounded like his ribcage exploded.
I still can't believe it is a TV production 😂❤️
sherline had to question the sort of man in front of him...
a clever man would put the poison into his own vial, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given, he is not a great fool so clearly he clearly cannot take from the vial in front of him
but, the cabbie must have known that serlock was not a great fool, he would have counted on it, so he can clearly not take the vial from in front of him.
wait, it gets better
sherloc knew his opponent was a criminal, and criminals cannot be trusted so he clearly cannot take the vial from in front of him
Ah Sherlock's dignity
What a great show this was
The cabbie says it outright. 2 identical pills. 1 pill contains poison, 1 pill doesn't, and the victim chooses. If they chose the poison, they'd die and the cabbie lives. If they choose the pill without poison, the cabbie dies and the victim lives.
The cabbie is going to die regardless so he doesn't give a shit if he dies or not. He's doing this so that his relatives get more money when he does eventually die.
I don't know why everybody is ignoring what is on the screen for the sake of trying to come up with a theory that contradicts everything on it.
I blatantly remember there being a glass of water, and later on in the show sherlock found out or knew poison was in it after John shot him. Im just crazy
The pills it wasn't the pills..... It was the water...
that's such a cool possibility!
I had the same thought as well!
well maybe both pills are poison but there's an antidote in the water. just my theory though.
+StellarHearts
Unless it was like in the 1989 Batman film, where the poison was activated when two or more components were combined. The pill was harmless until you ingested water, which triggered the poison.
That's interesting
2:28 "you're dying but there's still time to hurt you" if I was the cab driver I wouldn't have given him the name. As whether I say it or not I'm still dying anyways it'd be better to not die being a snitch lol.
I love this scene
John shot cabbie for Sherlock
Sherlock shot Magnuson for John
Sherlock needs John
John needs Sherlock
Miss my Sherlock....
When Sherlock shouts "the name?!" his face looks so much smaug. Is this why he was cast to Smaug in hobbit ? what you think ?
And Loves to Sherlock from Finland
+GetlemanNightmare Not to mention when his foot presses down on the cabbie's shoulder, the sound reminds me of when Khan broke Carol Marcus' leg in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
Oh, gees, I've turned into a Cumbergeek, haven't I? : )
Yes indeed :D
When creating CGI/animated characters the actors voice is recorded before the animation is completed. This allows the animators to use the actors facial features and manorisms to be implimented into the characters design and movements. Have you seen the Hobbit extras? There is a lengthly section on how they created Smaug and recorded Benedict's facial movements.
Love this scene!
the princess bride solution
Considering the height of the cabbie and the spot where he was shot, I think the bullet impact on the window glass should be a little higher than what's shown here.
i need to rewatch this show
People discussed which one was which or how it worked. But i always thought the satisfying answer was he was as smart if not a little smarter than Sherlock. Possessing a similar skill to Eurus in ability to manipulate words and play around with your head. Basically like how a magician, specifically, mentalists, use persuasion to seem like its impossible when in reality they were just playing mind games. I still hv no clue if sherlock won, but this is the only answer i find that fits with the series and makes the most sense and carries a coherent story. And if i was right it even subtly shows a foreshadowing to a skill that will later will be used by Eurus and basically act as a Easter egg. And i say he might be smarter bcs as i recall, correct me if i'm wrong I hvn't seen the series in a while, but i'm pretty sure Sherlock, Moriarty and even Mycroft never displayed this ability. At least the best they did was disguises or playing characters but never able to literaly manipulate anyone to their face moreover someone as smart as Sherlock and make him completely unsure of himself.
But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine it from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemies? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you...But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. Quote "Vizzini"
“Not bored now are ya?”
The horses name was Friday
“Did I give you the good pill or the bad pill?”
He gave both. It’s medicine for the old man’s aneurysm. Fatal to the others that took it.
Clue: “Together we take our medicine” & The victim who died touching the side of his head.
There is no medicine for aneurysm. Thats why that medical condition is so dangerous and unpredictable & the cabbie was willing to take the risk of sudden death. Yr suggestion is good one though.
The water is poisoned
Sherlock was expecting Watson, he knew the GPS was on, and that he could be tracked.
Of course he didn’t want to play the game, though he could be dragged into it.
Everyone ignoring the fact that Watson just murdered a guy.
Holmes: "Was I right?"
Assassin: [dying] "There's only one way to find out.."