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Watson: Holmes, you're ill and need to take rest so we're going to the countryside and you're going to relax. Holmes: fine :( Random Countryside Constable: IS THAT SHERLOCK HOLMES Random Countryside Constable: PLEASE HELP US SOLVE A MURDER Watson: He can't, he's ill and he needs to take rest- Watson: Aaand he's already run out the door. Watson: Watson: I don't know what I expected, honestly.
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The Devil's Foot

  • Originally published in 1910 and part of His Last Bow.
  • Poldhu, which means "black pool" in the Cornish language is located on the Lizard Peninsula, the southernmost tip of Great Britain.
  • Cornwall has historically been popular for smugglers. Another common pasttime due to the frequency of shipwrecks was "wrecking" i.e. locals taking the cargo from the vessels dashed against the shore, which is legally considered theft. In 2007, a damaged cargo ship was run aground on the Devon coast to avoid an environmental disaster and the locals started looting the cargo, including a bunch of BMW motorbikes. The police eventually closed the beach and told people to contact the Receiver of Wreck - those who did were allowed to keep the bikes or sell them back to BMW for a £3,000 reward.
  • The Cornish language was pretty much extinct in terms of actual speakers by 1897, but there has been a revival movement since then.
  • Church of England vicars are generally, but not always, given a stipend instead of a regular wage along with use of the vicarage to live in; they can supplement their income by things like going on satirical news shows (Richard Coles) or writing tales about sentient steam locomotives (Wilbert Awdry).
  • Helston had a workhouse with an infirmary - it was a hospital until the 1990s. The main Cornwall asylum was in Bodmin and closed in 2002; "going Bodmin" became a local term for going crazy.
  • Lodgers are not the same as sub-letters, as the latter have exclusive use of part of the property. The former tend to be a lot more acceptable to social housing authorities than the latter.
  • There was a common belief that traders from Phoenica (mostly modern-day Lebanon) had visited Cornwall, but there is no archaeological evidence to back this up.
  • Cornwall had a tin-mining industry from c.2000 BC until the last mine closed in 1998; a number of former mines are now museums. The Poldark series of books, along with the TV adaptations, revolve a lot around it. There is now a lithium carbonate mine.
  • Dr. Sterndale would probably have to wait a couple of weeks for another ship to Africa.
  • "Cool motive, still murder".
  • The Ubangi River, a tributary of the Congo, today forms part of border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.
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I broke through that cloud of despair and had a glimpse of Holmes's face, white, rigid, and drawn with horror—the very look which I had seen upon the features of the dead. It was that vision which gave me an instant of sanity and of strength. I dashed from my chair, threw my arms round Holmes, and together we lurched through the door.

HELLO I AM GOING FERAL OVER THIS SCENE

Watson not even having the wherewithal to scream as the poison hits him, completely helpless, but then he sees a glance of Holmes resembling the dead bodies they found and just SUPERMANS THEM BOTH OUT OF THERE. Under the cloud of all things dreadful and devilish and horrible, nothing could compare to the horror of seeing his friend dead, and he breaks through its hold on him to save them both. GODDDDD

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I do find that small detail -- about how the fear that the drug creates is paralyzing -- to be very telling. Holmes should have anticipated it, because he knows the victims were all found seated around their table in the same positions they were in before the poison hit them. Holmes knows it is airborne and that it works by combustion -- therefore all that would have been necessary for the victims to save themselves would have been for them to run out of the room (away from the combustion and the contaminated air). But they could not make it out of the room. They could not even make it out of their chairs. They were paralyzed. Holmes says he never imagined the effects could be so sudden and so severe, but that is what the evidence pointed to. They could not get up; they sat there breathing in the poison until they went mad or died. And the fact that Watson alone was able to break out of the paralysis because the sight of Holmes dying in front of him was MORE of an emotional shock than anything the drug itself could do to him is perhaps the most stunning moment in a story full of stunners.

Oh, Devil's Foot, you will always be my favorite.

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The Devil's Foot

This moment is so heartbreaking ... Holmes's sudden pained "Oh G-" and the way Watson immediately hurries to steady him, but Holmes refusing help and just breathing against the pain and taking a few steps away with this little thankful and embarrassed nod ... And Watson is so clearly worried and Holmes does his best to appear cheerful, but he needs to be alone because he can't say "Thank You" or "Help". I think this scene shows so well how complicated how their relationship really is because Holmes is a very proud man and he cannot appear vulnerable, not even in front of Watson. While Watson is clearly so worried and presumably just wants Holmes to go home and lie down.

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teaspoonnebula

I love how even after Holmes raises his 'nope' hand, Watson doesn't ever actually lose physical contact with him until Holmes gives him that little thankful smile, and Watson is presumably satisfied that he's not suffering anymore.

He'll obey Holmes' wishes, but not as far as leaving him totally alone while he's in pain.

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I was rewatching "The Devil's Foot" from Granada Holmes and I thought something. Since I've never read anything about it, I decided to write it here.

Holmes decided to let Sterndale return to Africa, despite the fact that he had killed a man.

(For those who don't know or don't remember, Sterndale killed Mortimer Treggenis, because he killed his sister Brenda Treggenis, with whom Sterndale was in a romantic relationship)

Holmes himself says that he didn't get him arrested because he would have done the same. In fact, later in the story he says: “I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows?"

Well, we know, thanks to what Holmes himself said in "The Adventure Of The Three Garridebs": "If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.".

I think that it's quite clear that the "woman" in question, or better, the person who Holmes love, is Watson.

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kettykika78

And again a murderous love triangle that includes 2 siblings and the third person. It's one of the most recurring plot in BBC Sherlock! And we will see it again in season 5, if Ben decide to come back and do it.

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sarahthecoat

mmhmm,another recurring motif.

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1895locktva

I love how The Devil's Foot is basically "We were both nealy dying from the poison my stupid husband lit, and I couldn't let him die so I came out of my own stupor of horror and death to get him out to safety. Platonically, obviously, like always."

They couldn't be more married if they tried

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sarahthecoat

also, isnt that the one when holmes calls watson by his first name, which is Super Intimate for victorian times.

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