Dartmoor: 20 years ago, Henry Knight (Russell Tovey) has seen his father being killed by a monster dog. Traumatized, he has left the place soon after, but returned only recently at the advice of his therapist Dr Mortimer (Sasha Behar). But once returned, he thinks he has had another run-in with the monster dog, so he hires Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Dr Watson (Martin Freeman) to investigate. They first focus their attention on the Baskerville army research plant, where they gain attention using an ID belonging to Sherlock's brother Mycroft (Mark Gatiss) - where they can't find terribly much before their bluff is called and they only manage to escape consequences thanks to a friendly scientist, Dr Frankland (Clive Mantle), who has recognized them but is somewhat sympathetic to their cause - also because he's a (fatherly) friend of Henry's.

Sherlock's next step is to go to the marshlands with Henry on a monster hunt - but to his shock, he sees the monster dog as well ... which throws him totally off-track for a time. To his surprise though, Watson, who has been seperated from him and Henry for a time, has not seen the dog.

Sherlock and Watson enter the Baskerville research plant again, this time on official business sanctioned by Mycroft, and Watson is locked inside a lab and is attacked by the hound - or he thinks he is, as it was all a controlled experiment by Sherlock to prove that Watson's mind played him a trick and convinced him he saw what he was supposed to have seen. By now of course, Sherlock is convinced he was drugged into seeing the monster dog. Then of course, Holmes and Watson receive a call from doctor Mortimer telling them Henry has just tried to shoot her and has run off into the marshlands ... where he tries to kill himself, but Homes and Watson arrive just in time to stop him - when they are attacked by all kinds of monsterdogs - but no, they are all just normal dogs, and seeing through the game, Holmes can counteract the effects of the drug, which is actually a nerve gas released in the fog. But ... why?

Of all people, friendly Dr Frankland has been part of a research team developing some nerve gas, and when the team was disbanded and the project abandoned, he secretly carried on his research at Baskerville. Henry's dad found that out though, so he had to die - and thanks to the nerve gas, Henry believed to see a monster dog, nothing more than the part of local lore. Now though he started to remember, also thanks to Dr Mortimer, so Henry had to be eliminated - and what would be a better means of getting rid of him than the nerve gas?

A brilliantly acted postmodern take on Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles with some extremely clever dialogue and some strong characters. Unfortunately though, this episode falls flat on its face when it comes to storytelling. Basically, the plot as such is over-convoluted and less than original, the culprit is too easy to guess and way too soon so, and the many references to Doyle's source novel are fun at first but get in the way of the narrative eventually.

That's not to say the episode isn't still worth its while, it just really could have done with a better script.

review � by Mike Haberfelner

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