Review: Sherlock: Part Two

A much more interesting mystery this week, with a tighter focus on getting down to business instead of the lighthearted bantering of last week. Yet again everything fit into place like clockwork, but it got a bit convoluted along the way, leaving the whole thing a bit unreal.
        A Chinese woman disappears. Deep in a tower block in London, someone writes a piece of graffiti in a mysterious language. Sherlock is called in, and discovers that the graffiti is a warning to the Hong Kong ambassador, Van Coon. Sneaking into Van Coon's flat, Sherlock discovers him dead, a murder badly disguised as a suicide. After another murder, Sherlock and Watson follow several paths including book ciphers and ancient chinese dialects, revealing a murderous smuggling chain disguising themselves as a circus.
          The mad complexity of the plot is generally consistant, and there aren't any logical gaps that spring to mind. What is lacking, however, is a sense of light-footed genius. Sure, there are near-supernatural deductions from Holmes, but it could have done with something to break up the madness. Not that it wan't enjoyable, of course. I'm looking forward to the final installment next week.

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