The Dock

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The Dock
Miss Sherlock

The Dock (最後の事件 後編 lit. The Last Case Part 2) is the 8th episode of season 1 of the Japanese TV series Miss Sherlock, released on 8 june 2018, starring Yuko Takeuchi as "Sherlock" and Shihori Kanjiya as Wato Tachibana. 56 min.

The Metropolitan Police conducts a manhunt for Sherlock, cutting the detective off from her allies and forcing her into hiding as she tries to figure out Wato's whereabouts and Dr. Irikawa's next move. Dr. Irikawa takes Wato to her secret facility known as the Dock and begins brainwashing her to turn her against Sherlock. After having a brief confrontation with Dr. Irikawa and breaking into her office, Sherlock discovers that she intends to locate the specs of a miniature nuclear warhead and have Wato unleash it. Sherlock finds the specs inside the designer's prison cell by revealing plans he'd written on the walls in blood before his death, then obscures the writing so that Dr. Irikawa cannot see it. She agrees to meet Dr. Irikawa on a skyscraper rooftop to exchange the warhead specs for Wato's safe return, but Wato, still under the effects of Irikawa's brainwashing, arrives at the meeting and holds Sherlock at gunpoint. Sherlock manages to talk Wato down long enough for her to hesitate, then tackles Dr. Irikawa over the roof, sending both women falling down the side of the building. Wato deeply mourns Sherlock's supposed death as she moves out of the flat they shared, though the episode ends with Wato being approached from behind by a familiar figure clad in a trench coat and heels.

References to the original Sherlock Holmes stories in this episode:

  • Miss Sherlock and Wato live at 221B (one side) or 221 (other side). The original Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson lived at 221B, Baker Street, London (STUD (182).
  • She plays cello (the original Sherlock Holmes played violin in STUD (261).
  • She tries to access Kanagawa Medical Prison server with "Baskervilles" as user id and "dartmoor1890" as password. Baskervilles is the main family name in the original story The Hound of the Baskervilles (1900), and Dartmoor is the UK region where the original story took place and where Dartmoor prison is mentioned.
  • When she wants to focus on thinking she eats a lot of Beeton's Bitter Chocolates (while the original Sherlock Holmes was smoking a lot his pipe). Beeton's Christmas Annual was the first magazine to publish a Sherlock Holmes story in 1887.
  • Dr. Akira Moriwaki is the archetype of the arch-enemy of Miss Sherlock, like Professor Moriarty in the original stories.
  • Akira Moriwaki and Miss Sherlock meet at Miss Sherlock's house (like in FINA 93).
  • The falling of Miss Sherlock and Dr. Moriwaki from the roof of the "Reichenbach" building is the same ending as the original story The Final Problem (1893) where Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty fell to their death in the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
  • [spoiler] But Miss Sherlock reappear alive at the very end of the episode, like Sherlock Holmes in The Empty House (1903).



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  • Director : Yusuke Taki
  • Screenplay : Nobuaki Kotani, Shu Marumo, Oikawa Mami, Junichi Mori
  • Producers : Koichi Murakami, Noriko Toishi
  • Co-Producers : Hiroki Iwasaki
  • Music : Kenishiro Suehiro