A Study in Pink
| "A Study in Pink" | |
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| Sherlock episode | |
| Episode no. |
Series 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Paul McGuigan |
| Written by | Steven Moffat |
| Produced by | Sue Vertue |
| Featured music |
David Arnold Michael Price |
| Editing by | Mali Evans Charlie Phillips |
| Original air date | 25 July 2010 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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"A Study in Pink" is the first episode of the television series Sherlock and first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 25 July 2010. It introduces the main characters and resolves a murder mystery. It is loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet.
The episode was written by Steven Moffat, who co-created the series. It was originally filmed as a 60-minute pilot for Sherlock, directed by Coky Giedroyc. However, the BBC decided not to transmit the pilot, but instead commissioned a series of three 90-minute episodes. The story was refilmed, this time directed by Paul McGuigan. The British Board of Film Classification has rated the pilot as a 12 certificate (not suitable for children under 12) for video and online exhibition, and it is included as an additional feature on the DVD released on 30 August 2010.
John Watson (Martin Freeman), an Army doctor injured in Afghanistan, meets Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) who is looking for a flatmate to share a flat at 221B Baker Street, owned by landlady Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs). The police, led by Detective Inspector Lestrade (Rupert Graves), have been baffled by a strange series of deaths, which he can only describe as "serial suicides". Sherlock looks at the latest crime scene, of a woman named Jennifer Wilson who was dressed in pink. Sherlock deduces Wilson was a serial adulterer in an unhappy marriage. Unlike other victims, she left a note, clawing "Rache" into the floor. Sherlock ignores forensic expert Anderson's suggestion that it is German for "revenge" and reckons the victim died before finishing to write "Rachel". Sherlock finds splashes of mud on her leg, thrown up by the wheel of a suitcase, and deduces she is from out of town. The police found no suitcase with the body, but Sherlock searches for it later, finding it abandoned nearby. Meanwhile, John receives a call in a telephone box and is taken to an empty warehouse, where he meets a man who claims to be Sherlock's "arch-enemy". He offers him money to spy on Sherlock, but John refuses. The man also tells John that far from suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as his therapist believes, he actually misses the war.
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