パペットホームズ、大河ドラマなどの好きなテレビ番組やラグビーについて書いています。アフィリエイトはやっていません。/Welcome to my blog. I write about some Japanese TV programmes including NHK puppetry and Taiga Drama, Sherlock Holmes and rugby. I don't do affiliate marketing.
I write about "The Adventure of the Residence of Mr. Douglas" that was broadcast yesterday. It is based on "The Valley of Fear". As the story is long, only the scene of murder of Mr. Douglas is dramatised in the episode. Holmes learns that Mr. Douglas, owner of the residence in the back of Beeton School is murdered and goes there with Watson with the curiosity of seeing a real dead body though it's nighttime. Not onlly going out against the regulations, he begins investigating there also. Though he has a sharp observant eye as always, it's true that they are pupils and minors. Inspector MadDonald who is in charge of investigating the murder tries to turn them out of doors for he considers they interrupt their search.
Unexpectedly, it's Deputy Headmaster Moriarty who mediates between them and the police. He hears about two pupils are in the residence and visits there to take them back. Though Inspector MacDonald listens to what Holmes says unwillingly, they are obliged to go back to Baker House at last without seeing the progress of the investigation. As an educator, Moriarty tells Holmes that he is not a master detective but just an impertinent boy outside the school and he should realise his immatureness. Holmes becomes disconsolate since the words of Moriarty are right and the conversation with Inspector MacDonald is thanks to his mediation. Besides Holmes and Watson are suspended from attending class for a week and three days respectively.
There is another scene that is suggestive in the episode. Holmes and Watson meet Jefferson Hope again. In the first episode "The First Adventure", who is forced to leave Beeton School because of a trap by Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson. Hope is greatly different from before and he looks lively for he now works as carrier and studies to become a sculptor. His existence seems to influence Holmes in two episodes left.
殺人現場を目のあたりにするホームズとワトソン/Holmes and Watson see the murder scene with their own eyes.