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- [Voiceover] This is the story
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of how the greatest detective
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who never lived changed the world.
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Sherlock Holmes.
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- Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.
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- [Voiceover] And how he did it
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happened in ways few could ever imagine.
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Through space science.
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- The science we're doing here at NASA,
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it's really Holmes' 21st century.
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- [Voiceover] Popular culture.
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- Of course, Sherlock
Holmes has to meet Batman.
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Because Sherlock Holmes is Batman.
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There would be no Batman
without Sherlock Holmes.
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- Holmes haunts a lot
of the popular culture
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of the 20th century.
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- [Voiceover] Espionage.
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- Sherlock Holmes is the patron saint
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of intelligence analysis.
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- [Voiceover] Forensic science.
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- The theory should fit the data,
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not the data fitting the theory.
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It's very Holmes, yeah.
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- [Voiceover] We live in a universe
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where Sherlock Holmes
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has left his mark everywhere.
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- [Producer] It's 326, take four.
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- [Voiceover] Every few years,
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a fictional character reemerges.
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And captures the imagination
of a new generation.
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- The name's Sherlock Holmes
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and the address is 221B Baker Street.
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- [Voiceover] Mark Gatiss is co-creator
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of the BBC series Sherlock.
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- He has a Victorian superpower,
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which still works in the modern day.
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I think, essentially, it
comes down to the fact
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that he is the smartest man in the room.
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He can make the connections
nobody else can,
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and that is timeless.
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- When you read his Study in Scarlet
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and Holmes is introduced to Watson.
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And he says,
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- Afghanistan or Iraq?
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- And Watson's, "How the
devil did you know that?"
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And Holmes said, "By the
way, you're limping."
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- I know you're an army doctor
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and you've been invalided
home from Afghanistan,
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quite correctly, I'm afraid.
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- Well, of course, that's insane.
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There are hundreds of ways
that somebody could limp,
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but the thing that
strikes you about Holmes
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is that he takes common sense events
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and finds explanations for them.
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Well, anyway.
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- It must speak of a kind of need we have
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to be saved, I think, or to believe
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there is something
slightly higher than us,
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which is gonna come and get us
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out of this terrible mess we're all in.
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- It seems that Holmes
shines a little brighter
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for people when things
aren't going very well.
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And things are going wrong in the world.
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- Banks do not have sufficient
capital to make loans.
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(gunfire)
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- So I need somebody
who can reassure me that
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there are people out there
who can make things right.
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And right now, we're in a sort
of a renaissance of Holmes.
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- [Voiceover] The Sherlock Holmes stories
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have never been out of print
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since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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created the character in 1887.
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Holmes first appeared
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in a minor Christmas penny press magazine,
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the story A Study in Scarlet.
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- At first, I think they
attracted very little attention,
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but after a time, when I
began the short adventures,
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people began to recognize
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that it was different
than the old detective.
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- He wrote 60 stories, four
novels, and 56 short stories.
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- They began to buy the magazine.
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It prospered and so I may say did I.
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- American publishers were
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paying Conan Doyle a dollar a word.
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Now, in the 1920s, that is very,
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very big money indeed.
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- [Voiceover] After the Bible,
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the Holmes stories are
the most widely circulated
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and translated books in the world.
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- It's often said that he's the most
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depicted fictional character,
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certainly the most filmed
fictional character.
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I think it's because of the strange
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sort of glamor that he possesses.
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It's a rather uneasy sort of glamor
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because he is a glacial
and frightening character.
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- Oh, Professor Moriarty.
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- But he's rather like a
character from Gothic fiction.
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- How fresh?
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- Just in. Used to work here.
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I knew him. He was nice.
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- He's rather like a vampire.
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(whipping)
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- [Voiceover] Dark glamor
is just one aspect of Holmes
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that has left its permanent
mark on popular culture.
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- So bad day, was it?
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- [Voiceover] Another is fandom.
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Nowadays, millions of people
live in the fantasy world
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of their favorite TV and film heroes.
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- The Klingon universe
is really no different
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than any other universe.
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- [Voiceover] The fictional
Sherlock Holmes started it all.
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Prior to Doyle's creation,
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there had never been a
pop culture character
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more famous than its creator.
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People got confused.
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Was Sherlock Holmes a real person?
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- The curious thing is how
many people around the world
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who are perfectly convinced
that he is a living human being.
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- That idea of understanding
the character as real
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began even as the stories
were being written.
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- I'll bet you if you go down Baker Street
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and stop a random 10 people
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and ask them a question like,
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"Did you know that Sherlock
Holmes lived here?"
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I'll bet you that six or seven
out of those 10 will say,
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"Yes, I did."
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- I get letters addressed to him.
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I get letters asking for his autograph,
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get letters addressed to his
rather stupid friend, Watson.
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- Would you like to hear old
uncle make a noise like a duck?
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(imitates duck)
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Oh, sorry.
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- [Voiceover] Sherlock Holmes
was the first fictional figure
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who inspired roleplaying among his fans.
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Today, fan fantasy is a
part of popular culture.
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- Before there were all
of these little niches
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and little pop culture tribes
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and little pockets of fandom,
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there was this incredibly potent character
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that just reached out and shaped
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all of these other things.
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The same people who
watch Law and Order today
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are not the same people
who are dressing up
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as Klingons at Star Trek conventions,
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but they all owe a debt to Holmes.
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- There are Sherlock
Holmes groups in Britain,
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many in the United States,
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Japan is mad for Sherlock Holmes.
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Doyle sort of hit something universal.
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- We all know it's not real.
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- I do know that he isn't real.
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- But he made all that
genre escapism legitimate
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and it's a nice, enjoyable
intellectual exercise.
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(jazz music)
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- [Voiceover] When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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had enough of Holmes,
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he decided to kill him.
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Holmes and his arch-nemesis Moriarty
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fell over a waterfall in the 1891 classic
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The Final Problem.
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The public outcry was off the scale.
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- There was an outrage and
people in the city of London
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went around wearing black
armbands, mourning armbands.
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A woman allegedly wrote to
Conan Doyle saying, "You brute."
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- I've written a good deal more about him
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than I ever intended to
do but my hand has been
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rather forced by kind
friends who continually
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wanted to know more.
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- Slowly, slowly, he was
able to usher him back in.
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(gun fires)
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- He killed Holmes! He killed Sherlock!
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- Watson.
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- You!
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- There's something
Christ-like about Holmes.
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He's the man who dies and rises again.
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He falls quite a long
way but he comes back,
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and I think that's one of the reasons
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why he inspires that kind of following.
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- [Voiceover] Holmes has survived
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through to the 21st century
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in ways his creator could
never have imagined.
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- He cannot be contained now.
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He's out in the culture like
a kind of disease or a germ
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and he'll go on infecting the
culture, I'm sure, forever.
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- There is nothing nicer than to start
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a Sherlock Holmes story and, you know,
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the wind was blowing a
storm down Baker Street,
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and the fire was crackling in the hearth,
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and Sherlock Holmes cast aside a newspaper
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and took his first pipe of the day,
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and said, "I'm bored, Watson,"
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and then you hear the
client's foot upon the stair
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and you know that they're gonna be off
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and racing and running.
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- You know, I owe you an apology.
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You've come here for adventure,
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and I've none to offer you.
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- Very soon out of London,
teeming millions comes
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the first person who will
step up to the door and knock.
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- Ring, Watson, the
knocker doesn't function,
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you should have noticed that.
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- [Voiceover] First stop on planet Holmes,
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the crime lab.
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Sherlock Holmes' most
critical contribution
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to the modern world unfolds in crime labs
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and morgues all over the planet.
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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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wrote his Holmes stories,
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there was no such thing
as forensic science.
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E.J. Wagner is the author of
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The Science of Sherlock Holmes.
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- It wasn't called forensic science.
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It was called, usually,
medical jurisprudence.
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Originally, this was
the area of physicians,
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who would call in various experts
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who knew something about
shoes or fine wines
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and sort of used their knowledge.
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There was no organization for it at all
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at the Metropolitan Police,
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which was itself very new.
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- Impertinent?
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She call us policemen.
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- And what's wrong with being a policeman?
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- In late Victorian era, late 1800s,
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policing in London
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left a lot to be deserved.
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- The crime scenes in those
days were simply chaotic.
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A crime like Jack the
Ripper, for instance.
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The bodies were not
sketched properly in situ.
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Evidence disappeared.
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Evidence was never collected.
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Evidence was deliberately destroyed
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because they were afraid of causing riots,
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which was very well meant
but it didn't get anywhere
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towards solving the crime.
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Sherlock Holmes says
in one of the stories,
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"A greater mess could not have been made
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"if a herd of elephants
had blundered through."
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Well, that is pretty much what happened.
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They had no method.
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- One of the first
principles in solving crime
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is never to disregard anything,
no matter how trivial.
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- If Sherlock Holmes had been
running the investigation,
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each of those bodies
would have been examined
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very, very carefully as they
lay, as they were found,
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not after they were removed to the morgue
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where things fell off, dropped off,
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evidence was lost.
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- Holmes made people realize
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that forensics and deductive reasoning,
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these are methods that we need to use.
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Even today, police
forces around the world,
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universities who teach forensic
crime scene investigation,
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use Sherlock Holmes and
quote Sherlock Holmes
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in lessons as the model.
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- Cleanly, expertly, thoroughly.
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The work of a skilled surgeon.
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- He helped lay the foundation
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for this kind of modern
crime scene investigation.
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- It often annoyed me how
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in the old-fashioned detective story,
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the detective always seemed
to get at his results
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by some sort of lucky chance or a fluke.
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- That's me jumping to conclusions
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to the perpetual detective.
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- Conan Doyle was a physician,
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and there is a great
deal in forensic science
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which is really based
on medical procedures.
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- And I used, as a student,
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to have a old professor
whose name was Bell,
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who was extraordinarily
quick at deductive work.
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- Joseph Bell would very
often bring before his class
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some unfortunate sufferer of
a mysterious complex disease.
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- But he would make his
diagnosis of the disease
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entirely by his power of observation.
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- He certainly had a tremendous influence
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on Conan Doyle and,
therefore, on Sherlock Holmes.
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- So naturally I thought to myself,
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well, if a scientific man like Bell
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was to come into the detective business,
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he wouldn't do these things by chance.
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He'd get the thing by
building it up scientifically.
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- Proof, my dear fellow.
We must have proof.
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(jazz music)
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- [Voiceover] The Sherlock Holmes stories
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caught the attention of a French doctor,
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Edmund Locard, in the 1920s.
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Locard worked with police to solve crimes
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and developed a theory that
all things leave a trace.
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Forensic science was born.
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He wrote that Sherlock Holmes inspired
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his groundbreaking
theories on trace evidence,
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and he set the course
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for the next century's CSIs.
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- Sherlock Holmes taught them.
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Locard said he thought everyone
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studying forensic science
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should read Sherlock Holmes,
especially The Sign of Four.
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- In the first place, it's
been bleached and soaked
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by long immersion in salt water.
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Would you like to taste it, Watson?
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- No, thanks.
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- [Voiceover] The Holmes stories featured
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an array of forensic tools.
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Chemical analysis,
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microscopic inspection,
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footprint identification,
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ballistics,
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(gun fires)
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handwriting analysis,
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(gun fires)
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gunpowder residue,
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typography,
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photographic enlargements.
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All of these devices appeared in fiction
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before any were actually
used by real CSIs.
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And today, many forensic scientists admit
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Holmes' love of the lab
is only half of their job.
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The other half is his love for intrigue.
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- I love puzzles, and this is a puzzle.
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You're trying to figure out what happened.
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(gun fires)
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- My mind rebels at stagnation.
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- I grew up on mystery novels as a kid.
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Getting the answer is
always been something,
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I love information.
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- Give me the most abstruse cryptogram,
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the most intricate analysis,
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and I am in my proper atmosphere.
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- I just love it.
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When I was seven, I wrote stories about
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people getting murdered
and me solving the crimes.
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- [Voiceover] Holmes' love
for cutting edge science
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inspires the current
generation of forensic analysts
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who specialize in fields Doyle
could never have imagined.
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- This is the typical condition that
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we'll get a cellphone in.
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- [Voiceover] This expert
retrieves data from cellphones
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that have been smashed by criminals
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trying to erase electronic
evidence of their whereabouts.
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It's the kind of data collection
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that Doyle invented with
the fictional Holmes.
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- It was method, he said.
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You collect all these small facts,
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data, data, data, and then
I will put it together,
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and I will come out with
a satisfactory conclusion.
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- All we need to do at
this point is press Read.
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It's reading all the
information from the chip.
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The word voicemail is in here so we know
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that there's probably
some kind of voicemail.
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- [Sherlock] Broken fibers appear darker
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than the rest of the paper
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and are therefore visible.
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- [Watson] Splendid, Holmes.
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- I believe Doctor Tobell meant
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to communicate with us by that means.
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- [Voiceover] In 1893, Doyle wrote
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about the unique character of handwriting,
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15 years before it was
ever used in a real case.
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Today, that tradition
continues in this CSI's lab.
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- This is called the
Video Spectral Comparator,
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or VSC for short, and basically
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this just uses different
wavelengths of light
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to distinguish between inks.
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- Message was written
in ink with this pen?
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- No, he used a pencil. This one.
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- Thank you.
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- So in this case we have an individual
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who's found dead and a bunch of things
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have been obliterated in the day timer.
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- Immerse this sheet
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in a solution of fluorescent salts.
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The fiber is broken by the writing
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and absorbed less of the solution
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than other parts of the paper.
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- And so you can see here
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that we're seeing "lunch with
Sue" underneath the scribble
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and that's because under
this infrared light,
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the "lunch with Sue" ink
is absorbing the infrared.
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- Watson, I'm beginning to see the plan.
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- [Voiceover] Holmes believed that data
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could be proved useful
no matter how obscure.
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He collected hundreds of types of tobacco
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so that no matter what
the criminal smoked,
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Holmes would know how
to narrow his search.
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That premise drives
21st century forensics.
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- What Holmes didn't really was saying,
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collect your data and don't form
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your theory until you have it.
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Know a lot about a lot
of different things.
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He was sort of a one person
walking crime laboratory.
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He even beat corpses to see
where the bruises would form
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because that's another very
big problem to this day.
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Did this bruising take place
in postmortem or anti-mortem?
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How did this happen?
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- [Voiceover] Doctor Joseph Bell
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inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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to use the autopsy as
a crime-solving tool.
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Doyle popularized it in fiction
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long before it was put into practice.
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And, today, the autopsy
is the universal standard.
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- At the end of the day,
we are death investigators.
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This individual who is
deceased is our patient,
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so to speak, and we are the last people
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who are ever going to
examine that individual
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and get as close to the
truth as we possibly can.
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- [Voiceover] Modern
tools make the autopsy
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even more powerful than Conan Doyle
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could ever have imagined.
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- Traditionally, autopsy
looks at the organs
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in the chest and abdominal area.
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However, when you start using a CT scan,
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you can start seeing
past the body searches,
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the internal portions of the extremities,
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the muscles, the bones.
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So having this technology really provides
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a huge amount of additional information
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and, in some cases, has eliminated
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the need to do an autopsy
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as long as the pertinent questions
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were answered by the scan.
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- [Voiceover] But with
all the advancements,
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old school Sherlockian forensics
are still going strong.
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In The Adventure of the Reigate Squire,
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Doyle introduced the notion
of ballistics analysis
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(gun fires)
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to determine which gun fired a bullet.
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00:19:35,113 --> 00:19:36,322
(gun fires)
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00:19:37,437 --> 00:19:39,749
That practice continues,
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00:19:39,749 --> 00:19:43,116
and today's forensic experts
agree with Sherlock Holmes
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that no two weapons are the same.
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00:19:46,370 --> 00:19:49,132
- We're constantly trying
to disprove our theory
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to where we are taking
consecutively manufactured firearms,
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00:19:53,377 --> 00:19:55,509
we are test firing them,
trying to compare them
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00:19:55,509 --> 00:19:57,760
to each other, trying to make the firearm
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00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,106
that was made first match with the firearm
447
00:20:00,106 --> 00:20:02,058
that was made second, and to this date
448
00:20:02,058 --> 00:20:03,987
it has still not been done.
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So we can still prove
and have been proving
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over and over again that
we can in fact identify
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fired bullets and fired cartridge cases
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back to a firearm.
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- [Voiceover] In 1887's
A Study in Scarlet,
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Sherlock Holmes analyzed blood
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00:20:19,808 --> 00:20:22,386
to determine who it came from.
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00:20:23,927 --> 00:20:26,178
Thirteen years pass before this technique
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is put into practice,
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00:20:28,789 --> 00:20:30,709
and almost a century goes by
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before the advent of DNA testing.
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00:20:34,610 --> 00:20:38,023
- The DNA profiles tests
for hair color, eye color,
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ethnicity, height, weight,
and other physical traits.
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00:20:42,172 --> 00:20:44,775
It just continues to grow and grow.
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00:20:44,775 --> 00:20:48,284
The techniques are so robust and reliable
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and they just keep improving
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and the discriminatory
power keeps improving.
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- [Voiceover] Sherlock's influence
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on criminologists and their methods
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runs deeper than any other
real historical figure.
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00:21:03,648 --> 00:21:07,400
That says a lot for a man who never lived.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
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had an unusual talent.
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Hiding in plain sight.
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00:21:21,664 --> 00:21:24,081
- Holmes was a master of disguise.
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00:21:24,081 --> 00:21:26,362
- Hands up, gentlemen.
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- (chuckles) Why, it's Mr. Holmes.
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00:21:31,079 --> 00:21:32,057
- Holmes!
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- You can put that thing away now, Watson.
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- [Steven] Watson said that
the stage lost an actor
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when Holmes decided to become a detective.
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- Admirable disguise, by the way.
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You fooled them completely.
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Of course, it didn't fool me.
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- I never intended that it should.
484
00:21:50,784 --> 00:21:53,911
- [Steven] He would immerse
himself in the character.
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He had several bolt holes around London
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that were equipped with makeup and costume
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that he could retire to and
emerge as somebody else.
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00:22:03,848 --> 00:22:05,842
Completely different identity.
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Whether it was a drunken groom,
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or a Italian priest, or
a up and coming plumber,
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00:22:12,623 --> 00:22:15,265
Holmes actually became the character.
492
00:22:15,265 --> 00:22:19,212
His master of that technique
was really a pioneering thing.
493
00:22:20,542 --> 00:22:24,886
(jazz music)
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00:22:24,886 --> 00:22:26,604
- Sherlock Holmes.
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00:22:27,655 --> 00:22:30,086
- Improvement on the other makeup.
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Don't you think so, Professor?
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00:22:33,083 --> 00:22:35,044
- [Voiceover] The tradition
of going undercover
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lives on in police
forces around the world.
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- I think some of them
are slightly embarrassed,
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to tell you the truth,
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about how much they are influenced
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by what they read when they were 14.
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- Dragon Mladovic, 52 years old.
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A multi-disciplinary
organized crime figure
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00:22:52,312 --> 00:22:54,295
with massive connections.
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00:22:54,295 --> 00:22:56,652
- [Voiceover] A team of
former undercover cops
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00:22:56,652 --> 00:23:00,363
now runs a top private
investigation firm in Canada.
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00:23:00,363 --> 00:23:04,052
The team is about to close
in on a deadly drug dealer.
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00:23:04,052 --> 00:23:08,550
Using techniques straight from
the pages of Sherlock Holmes.
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00:23:08,550 --> 00:23:10,180
- Just so you know, this
guy has got a record
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dating back to 1983.
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00:23:12,472 --> 00:23:14,602
Assault convictions on an assault causing.
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00:23:14,602 --> 00:23:18,642
- Mladovic is 6'1", 320 pounds.
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00:23:18,642 --> 00:23:21,766
He's been involved in martial
arts for about 40 years.
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00:23:21,766 --> 00:23:23,686
He's an absolute bone crusher.
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00:23:23,686 --> 00:23:25,829
He does a lot of dirty
work for the Hell's Angels,
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00:23:25,829 --> 00:23:27,824
and he's hurt a lot of people.
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00:23:27,824 --> 00:23:30,658
I will be posing as the boss of a mock
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00:23:30,658 --> 00:23:33,442
criminal organization this afternoon.
520
00:23:33,442 --> 00:23:35,478
- [Voiceover] To complete his risky job,
521
00:23:35,478 --> 00:23:39,347
Fred Pinnock dons a simple,
but effective disguise.
522
00:23:39,347 --> 00:23:42,248
- There are many occasions where deception
523
00:23:42,248 --> 00:23:44,637
and trickery have to be used
524
00:23:44,637 --> 00:23:47,185
to have people responsible
for criminal acts
525
00:23:47,185 --> 00:23:51,376
divulge long-held evidence, or admissions.
526
00:23:51,376 --> 00:23:53,466
- My dear Watson, if
we're to catch our fishes,
527
00:23:53,466 --> 00:23:55,322
we must use the bait they'll bite on.
528
00:23:55,322 --> 00:23:57,400
- On the surveillance,
Julia, you're gonna be wired
529
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,422
so I need to you to let your hair down
530
00:23:58,422 --> 00:24:00,096
to cover that earpiece.
531
00:24:00,096 --> 00:24:01,739
Jake, you're gonna ride with Len.
532
00:24:01,739 --> 00:24:03,880
Julia, you ride with me.
533
00:24:05,571 --> 00:24:07,671
- [Sherlock] Make no mistake, Watson.
534
00:24:07,671 --> 00:24:11,440
It is our greatest antagonist,
Professor Moriarty.
535
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:12,593
- We've gotta beat him.
536
00:24:12,593 --> 00:24:14,097
- Dragon is a dangerous guy.
537
00:24:14,097 --> 00:24:15,708
He has a history of violence.
538
00:24:15,708 --> 00:24:18,865
Having said that, I'd gained
his trust over the past year.
539
00:24:18,865 --> 00:24:20,678
He's aware of the deal.
540
00:24:20,678 --> 00:24:22,758
He's eager to make it happen.
541
00:24:22,758 --> 00:24:26,201
I'm confident that he
believes this is genuine.
542
00:24:29,481 --> 00:24:33,021
- [Voiceover] General Samuel
Wilson is a career spy.
543
00:24:33,021 --> 00:24:35,037
A master of deception.
544
00:24:35,037 --> 00:24:36,765
- Sherlock Holmes was one of the early
545
00:24:36,765 --> 00:24:39,495
practitioners of deception.
546
00:24:39,495 --> 00:24:42,720
Deception is engaging in acts
547
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,230
that mislead, confuse,
548
00:24:46,230 --> 00:24:48,650
discombobulate an opponent.
549
00:24:48,650 --> 00:24:51,135
Cause to him to take actions that are not
550
00:24:51,135 --> 00:24:54,888
in his best interest, but maybe in yours.
551
00:24:54,888 --> 00:24:57,757
Or not to act when he should act.
552
00:24:57,757 --> 00:24:58,660
- I'm always eager to get it going,
553
00:24:58,660 --> 00:25:00,217
now we're just waiting for his call.
554
00:25:00,217 --> 00:25:04,101
So, they will be calling
in a couple of minutes.
555
00:25:04,101 --> 00:25:04,801
Hello?
556
00:25:04,801 --> 00:25:05,963
- [Scot] Once you get your phone call
557
00:25:05,963 --> 00:25:07,582
from Fred that they're in place,
558
00:25:07,582 --> 00:25:10,677
then get him in the car
and drive him over there.
559
00:25:10,677 --> 00:25:15,677
(jazz music)
560
00:25:24,221 --> 00:25:27,218
- [Voiceover] The criminal
steps straight into the trap.
561
00:25:28,620 --> 00:25:31,916
- Holmes had a way of smoking people out.
562
00:25:31,916 --> 00:25:34,145
Holmes confused, misled people
563
00:25:34,145 --> 00:25:35,755
to where they suddenly appeared
564
00:25:35,755 --> 00:25:37,780
and he had them in their grasp.
565
00:25:37,780 --> 00:25:38,964
- I would say you were wrong,
566
00:25:38,964 --> 00:25:41,279
and Mr. Sherlock Holmes was correct.
567
00:25:41,279 --> 00:25:45,297
- Good evening, Professor Moriarty.
568
00:25:45,297 --> 00:25:47,963
- [Voiceover] A single slip-up,
and the undercover agents
569
00:25:47,963 --> 00:25:51,469
could find themselves
in a deadly situation.
570
00:25:51,469 --> 00:25:54,689
- [Scot] You will meet
and greet our subject.
571
00:25:54,689 --> 00:25:56,853
Before he gets in the car,
I want you to check him out,
572
00:25:56,853 --> 00:26:00,617
make sure he's got nothing on
him that he shouldn't have.
573
00:26:00,617 --> 00:26:02,201
Okay, then let him in the car.
574
00:26:02,201 --> 00:26:03,608
- No worries.
575
00:26:03,608 --> 00:26:08,096
- [Voiceover] Now, the
moment of greatest danger.
576
00:26:08,096 --> 00:26:09,279
- Who do we have here?
577
00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:10,601
- How are you?
578
00:26:10,601 --> 00:26:12,009
- Doing fine.
579
00:26:12,009 --> 00:26:14,762
- [Voiceover] It's a
moment that echoes Holmes.
580
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,790
- Who's this bloke?
581
00:26:19,790 --> 00:26:21,632
- He's bloodthirsty (mumbles),
582
00:26:21,632 --> 00:26:25,087
but there's good money
to spend for information.
583
00:26:25,087 --> 00:26:28,479
- I recognize Sherlock
Holmes', as we would say,
584
00:26:28,479 --> 00:26:32,607
fine Italian hand in the
business of deception,
585
00:26:32,607 --> 00:26:35,372
of which he was a master.
586
00:26:37,110 --> 00:26:38,969
- Give it 6,000 units?
587
00:26:38,969 --> 00:26:40,639
- Approximately, yes.
588
00:26:40,639 --> 00:26:42,367
It will cost you 40 dollars
589
00:26:42,367 --> 00:26:45,022
per unit.
- [Fred] 40 per unit? Yeah.
590
00:26:45,022 --> 00:26:47,574
How fast can this happen?
591
00:26:47,574 --> 00:26:49,051
- Soon as you get me the money,
592
00:26:49,051 --> 00:26:51,588
within about I would say, within 24 hours?
593
00:26:51,588 --> 00:26:55,000
- Okay, we'll halve the cash right now.
594
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,314
- I think maybe at sometime
we will become good friends.
595
00:26:57,314 --> 00:26:58,144
- Yeah.
596
00:26:58,144 --> 00:26:59,669
- Good friends do good business.
597
00:26:59,669 --> 00:27:00,446
- Yeah.
598
00:27:00,446 --> 00:27:02,515
- I never did think much of
this dressing up business.
599
00:27:02,515 --> 00:27:04,765
- It was necessary, I assure you.
600
00:27:04,765 --> 00:27:06,247
- [Voiceover] Another violent criminal
601
00:27:06,247 --> 00:27:07,847
is caught in a snare.
602
00:27:07,847 --> 00:27:09,757
Thanks to the art of disguise
603
00:27:09,757 --> 00:27:13,296
inspired by Sherlock Holmes.
604
00:27:13,296 --> 00:27:17,509
But his undercover
influence doesn't end there.
605
00:27:17,509 --> 00:27:22,019
Others consider Holmes the master spy.
606
00:27:22,019 --> 00:27:23,606
The model for the 21st century's
607
00:27:23,606 --> 00:27:26,965
high stakes game of espionage.
608
00:27:26,965 --> 00:27:29,620
General Sam Wilson is
one of the United States'
609
00:27:29,620 --> 00:27:32,846
most decorated spies.
610
00:27:32,846 --> 00:27:35,504
For what exactly, he will never say.
611
00:27:37,054 --> 00:27:39,869
But he will admit that it all started
612
00:27:39,869 --> 00:27:42,984
reading Sherlock Holmes stories as a boy.
613
00:27:42,984 --> 00:27:47,303
- I found so much that
was deep and substantive,
614
00:27:47,303 --> 00:27:51,397
meaningful and rich in Holmes as a figure,
615
00:27:51,397 --> 00:27:54,091
and in the intellectual feats
616
00:27:54,091 --> 00:27:56,821
that he was able to achieve.
617
00:27:56,821 --> 00:28:00,411
I simply found myself fascinated with it.
618
00:28:00,411 --> 00:28:02,329
- [Voiceover] Wilson
worked for 10 US presidents
619
00:28:02,329 --> 00:28:06,941
as a secret agent, never
revealing his own secret.
620
00:28:07,989 --> 00:28:11,699
Sherlock Holmes was his silent protector.
621
00:28:11,699 --> 00:28:15,218
- I absorbed Holmes and his life,
622
00:28:15,218 --> 00:28:19,004
and was aware of his
thesis that the human mind
623
00:28:19,004 --> 00:28:23,921
is a most powerful tool
if it is finely honed
624
00:28:23,921 --> 00:28:28,294
and educated and concentrated
on solving problems.
625
00:28:28,294 --> 00:28:31,249
Holmes, to me, was a problem-solver.
626
00:28:31,249 --> 00:28:34,214
The intricacies of his
mind simply appealed
627
00:28:34,214 --> 00:28:36,110
to me very, very greatly.
628
00:28:36,110 --> 00:28:38,777
And I think they were a benefit to me
629
00:28:38,777 --> 00:28:42,030
as I've moved into
intelligence as a career.
630
00:28:42,030 --> 00:28:43,929
- [Voiceover] Spies never retire.
631
00:28:43,929 --> 00:28:47,895
They just work in the shadows.
632
00:28:47,895 --> 00:28:49,634
And General Wilson now imagines
633
00:28:49,634 --> 00:28:51,395
what might have happened
634
00:28:51,395 --> 00:28:53,270
if intelligence officials had used
635
00:28:53,270 --> 00:28:55,307
Sherlock Holmes as their model
636
00:28:55,307 --> 00:28:57,686
to catch Osama bin Laden.
637
00:28:58,897 --> 00:29:01,214
- Sherlock Holmes would have found
638
00:29:01,214 --> 00:29:05,203
Osama bin Laden for us much sooner.
639
00:29:07,043 --> 00:29:09,667
We can't keep secrets these days.
640
00:29:09,667 --> 00:29:11,666
One of the things that we always preach
641
00:29:11,666 --> 00:29:15,084
was how to avoid the spotlight
642
00:29:15,084 --> 00:29:17,154
at the end of the action.
643
00:29:17,154 --> 00:29:19,265
And just fade away.
644
00:29:19,265 --> 00:29:20,844
Holmes was good at this.
645
00:29:20,844 --> 00:29:23,073
Give the credit and the
publicity to someone else.
646
00:29:23,073 --> 00:29:24,799
Just fade away into the shadows,
647
00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:27,197
so we work again another day.
648
00:29:27,197 --> 00:29:28,818
- By the way, they left
this satchel behind,
649
00:29:28,818 --> 00:29:30,692
probably of no value.
650
00:29:32,662 --> 00:29:33,915
- No value!
651
00:29:33,915 --> 00:29:36,094
Why, well it's bonkers.
652
00:29:36,094 --> 00:29:38,986
You amateurs always overlook
the important things.
653
00:29:38,986 --> 00:29:41,140
- [Voiceover] Sherlock
Holmes set the stage
654
00:29:41,140 --> 00:29:45,300
for the dangerous world of
modern undercover operations.
655
00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:49,505
Master of the art of being
invisible in plain sight.
656
00:29:58,323 --> 00:30:01,945
Every day, human hunters
stalk the streets.
657
00:30:01,945 --> 00:30:06,564
Looking for opportunities
to commit violent crimes.
658
00:30:06,564 --> 00:30:10,060
In the late 20th century,
criminologists realized
659
00:30:10,060 --> 00:30:11,661
that most of these predators
660
00:30:11,661 --> 00:30:14,069
follow recognizable patterns.
661
00:30:15,259 --> 00:30:18,276
Police call it behavioral science,
662
00:30:18,276 --> 00:30:21,014
or more simply, profiling.
663
00:30:22,837 --> 00:30:25,679
And in 1887's Study in Scarlet,
664
00:30:25,679 --> 00:30:28,824
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
anticipated profiling
665
00:30:28,824 --> 00:30:30,761
by almost a hundred years.
666
00:30:30,761 --> 00:30:33,722
- This makes four, Inspector.
667
00:30:33,722 --> 00:30:36,393
All defenseless women here
in the heart of London.
668
00:30:39,354 --> 00:30:43,586
- [Voiceover] Lee Rainbow is
the UK's top criminal profiler.
669
00:30:43,586 --> 00:30:45,035
A modern Sherlock.
670
00:30:45,035 --> 00:30:47,318
- I think set in terms of
crime scene assessment,
671
00:30:47,318 --> 00:30:50,870
what we do is very similar
to the Holmes approach
672
00:30:50,870 --> 00:30:54,880
in gathering data, using the
data to drive the theory,
673
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,810
rather than vice-versa.
674
00:30:56,810 --> 00:30:59,786
And hypothesis-generation, and testing.
675
00:30:59,786 --> 00:31:01,824
Search for further data to support
676
00:31:01,824 --> 00:31:03,658
or refute those hypotheses.
677
00:31:03,658 --> 00:31:05,237
And then coming up with a best fit
678
00:31:05,237 --> 00:31:06,613
for the known information,
679
00:31:06,613 --> 00:31:09,674
which is essentially
what Holmes was using.
680
00:31:09,674 --> 00:31:11,976
One of our roles is to very much recognize
681
00:31:11,976 --> 00:31:14,483
that the theory should fit the data,
682
00:31:14,483 --> 00:31:16,350
not the data fitting the theory,
683
00:31:16,350 --> 00:31:18,610
and that's very much what we do.
684
00:31:18,610 --> 00:31:20,697
- The truth is only arrived at
685
00:31:20,697 --> 00:31:24,835
by the painstaking process
of eliminating the untrue.
686
00:31:24,835 --> 00:31:26,926
We are not able to do that in this case
687
00:31:26,926 --> 00:31:28,236
without further data.
688
00:31:28,236 --> 00:31:32,885
- Everything we do is
driven by data, everything.
689
00:31:32,885 --> 00:31:36,639
- There's a tendency to
glamorize, romanticize
690
00:31:36,639 --> 00:31:38,634
the intelligence operator.
691
00:31:38,634 --> 00:31:40,137
The James Bond.
692
00:31:40,137 --> 00:31:41,939
That is the exciting arena.
693
00:31:41,939 --> 00:31:44,542
That's where the headlines are.
694
00:31:44,542 --> 00:31:47,123
There's a tendency to ignore
695
00:31:47,123 --> 00:31:49,160
faceless analysts laboring,
696
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,816
putting bits and pieces
of evidence together
697
00:31:51,816 --> 00:31:55,229
and trying to figure out what they mean.
698
00:31:55,229 --> 00:31:57,802
And that's Sherlock Holmes.
699
00:31:59,290 --> 00:32:02,629
Sherlock Holmes spanned pretty much
700
00:32:02,629 --> 00:32:07,087
the field of deception,
collection operations and so on.
701
00:32:07,087 --> 00:32:08,804
But when I stopped to think
702
00:32:08,804 --> 00:32:10,575
about who and what he was,
703
00:32:10,575 --> 00:32:12,665
I would say first and foremost
704
00:32:12,665 --> 00:32:17,314
the world's greatest intelligence analyst.
705
00:32:17,314 --> 00:32:19,083
- [Voiceover] One cutting edge technique
706
00:32:19,083 --> 00:32:22,836
owes its inspiration to
the Holmesian method.
707
00:32:22,836 --> 00:32:25,343
It's called geographic profiling.
708
00:32:25,343 --> 00:32:26,804
And it's proven to narrow down
709
00:32:26,804 --> 00:32:28,756
where a violent offender hunts,
710
00:32:28,756 --> 00:32:31,689
and even where he lives.
711
00:32:31,689 --> 00:32:33,843
Ian Laverty is one of the creators
712
00:32:33,843 --> 00:32:35,838
of a geo-profiling program
713
00:32:35,838 --> 00:32:38,558
inspired by Sherlock Holmes.
714
00:32:38,558 --> 00:32:40,670
- Well, to start with
in geographic profiling,
715
00:32:40,670 --> 00:32:43,569
you need a series of connected locations.
716
00:32:43,569 --> 00:32:45,425
It's like the old pin maps that the police
717
00:32:45,425 --> 00:32:46,861
used to put on the wall,
718
00:32:46,861 --> 00:32:48,162
stick little pins in the map
719
00:32:48,162 --> 00:32:49,942
and then they'd stare
at the pattern and say,
720
00:32:49,942 --> 00:32:53,078
"Hmm, I wonder what this means?"
721
00:32:53,078 --> 00:32:56,043
So, what we do is enter
the crime locations
722
00:32:56,043 --> 00:32:58,432
into the program, and it does the
723
00:32:58,432 --> 00:33:01,013
very complicated calculation, actually,
724
00:33:01,013 --> 00:33:03,477
where it runs through the entire city.
725
00:33:03,477 --> 00:33:06,047
If the criminal lived
here, and he traveled
726
00:33:06,047 --> 00:33:07,667
to all of these crime scenes,
727
00:33:07,667 --> 00:33:08,915
how long would it take?
728
00:33:08,915 --> 00:33:10,525
Then it moves over a little bit,
729
00:33:10,525 --> 00:33:11,752
and as you do that, you're building up
730
00:33:11,752 --> 00:33:14,418
the probability map that shows you
731
00:33:14,418 --> 00:33:16,510
where the criminal more likely descend
732
00:33:16,510 --> 00:33:18,311
over the entire city.
733
00:33:18,311 --> 00:33:21,021
- We thought we were the hunters.
734
00:33:21,021 --> 00:33:23,897
Instead of which, we're the hunted.
735
00:33:23,897 --> 00:33:26,126
- [Voiceover] Scot Filer is a profiler
736
00:33:26,126 --> 00:33:28,750
and private investigator in Canada.
737
00:33:28,750 --> 00:33:32,396
- People commit crimes for a reason.
738
00:33:32,396 --> 00:33:33,632
People think it's random,
739
00:33:33,632 --> 00:33:35,572
it's really not a random process.
740
00:33:35,572 --> 00:33:38,143
There are reasons that people choose
741
00:33:38,143 --> 00:33:40,350
to do things the way they do.
742
00:33:40,350 --> 00:33:42,451
And that's the premise
behind the software.
743
00:33:42,451 --> 00:33:46,608
It takes all those scientific
considerations into play.
744
00:33:46,608 --> 00:33:49,189
When the algorithm behind
the software is working,
745
00:33:49,189 --> 00:33:51,920
these maps allow us to prioritize
746
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,329
the search area for the suspect.
747
00:33:54,329 --> 00:33:58,278
- Sherlock Holmes was all about applying
748
00:33:58,278 --> 00:34:00,778
his knowledge with a
little bit of intuition.
749
00:34:00,778 --> 00:34:02,815
He was a very smart guy.
750
00:34:02,815 --> 00:34:04,863
But what we have that he didn't have
751
00:34:04,863 --> 00:34:06,719
is a whole lot of information.
752
00:34:06,719 --> 00:34:08,532
He had the kids that
ran around the streets
753
00:34:08,532 --> 00:34:09,939
gathering information for him,
754
00:34:09,939 --> 00:34:11,912
but we have the modern equivalent
755
00:34:11,912 --> 00:34:13,565
in the computer tools that we use
756
00:34:13,565 --> 00:34:15,933
and they have a whole lot
more information to go on.
757
00:34:15,933 --> 00:34:17,659
If Sherlock Holmes is today,
758
00:34:17,659 --> 00:34:21,203
he'd have apps like
ours on his smartphone,
759
00:34:21,203 --> 00:34:23,789
and he'd be using them all the time.
760
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,655
- [Voiceover] But Lee Rainbow points out
761
00:34:28,655 --> 00:34:30,671
that despite computers,
762
00:34:30,671 --> 00:34:33,988
the data still needs a
detective like Holmes
763
00:34:33,988 --> 00:34:35,450
to make sense of it.
764
00:34:35,450 --> 00:34:39,311
- You still need that human aspect to it,
765
00:34:39,311 --> 00:34:42,212
to identify which are
the important variables.
766
00:34:42,212 --> 00:34:44,782
Those things can't be done by a computer.
767
00:34:44,782 --> 00:34:45,773
- [Sherlock] There's something in that bag
768
00:34:45,773 --> 00:34:47,671
she wants to show me.
769
00:34:47,671 --> 00:34:48,662
- [Watson] What makes you say that?
770
00:34:48,662 --> 00:34:50,326
- Bag doesn't match her dress.
771
00:34:50,326 --> 00:34:53,873
And again you must pick
the size rather than style
772
00:34:53,873 --> 00:34:56,382
to accommodate some bulky object.
773
00:34:56,382 --> 00:34:58,451
- Sure, amaze me, Holmes.
774
00:34:58,451 --> 00:34:59,869
- Elementary, my dear fellow.
775
00:34:59,869 --> 00:35:02,119
- Anybody can get in front of a computer
776
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:04,562
and punch keys and make
something come out of it.
777
00:35:04,562 --> 00:35:07,602
What goes into that is the human factor.
778
00:35:07,602 --> 00:35:09,511
Holmes was an expert in logic,
779
00:35:09,511 --> 00:35:11,207
reasoning out explanations,
780
00:35:11,207 --> 00:35:13,479
looking at the evidence that remains,
781
00:35:13,479 --> 00:35:16,081
and putting the puzzle together.
782
00:35:16,081 --> 00:35:18,118
So at the end of the
day, what comes out of it
783
00:35:18,118 --> 00:35:20,934
is an informed hypothesis
about what you think
784
00:35:20,934 --> 00:35:23,654
happened between the
victim and the suspect.
785
00:35:23,654 --> 00:35:25,158
That's the critical piece.
786
00:35:25,158 --> 00:35:26,523
It's about the analyst,
787
00:35:26,523 --> 00:35:27,643
and the skills and knowledge
788
00:35:27,643 --> 00:35:30,246
that the analyst brings to the process
789
00:35:30,246 --> 00:35:32,537
that makes it successful.
790
00:35:40,667 --> 00:35:44,074
- [Voiceover] Sometimes, when
the profilers hit a dead end,
791
00:35:44,074 --> 00:35:47,236
old school lie detection comes into play.
792
00:35:47,236 --> 00:35:49,409
Theo Hollamby is one of the world's
793
00:35:49,409 --> 00:35:52,617
top polygraphic analysts.
794
00:35:52,617 --> 00:35:54,111
- I think that Holmes would probably
795
00:35:54,111 --> 00:35:57,066
would have appreciated
a instrument like this,
796
00:35:57,066 --> 00:35:58,035
to be very honest with you.
797
00:35:58,035 --> 00:36:00,531
Because he used the powers of observation
798
00:36:00,531 --> 00:36:02,084
to see if somebody was sweating or
799
00:36:02,084 --> 00:36:04,153
that his heart was beating
faster than normal.
800
00:36:04,153 --> 00:36:06,638
- I've been studying the faces
of our fellow passengers.
801
00:36:06,638 --> 00:36:08,078
Fascinating hobby.
802
00:36:08,078 --> 00:36:10,491
And sometimes most enlightening.
803
00:36:12,881 --> 00:36:15,071
- We can actually see
that his body is reacting
804
00:36:15,071 --> 00:36:19,228
when you ask him a
certain type of question.
805
00:36:19,228 --> 00:36:21,222
- [Voiceover] The polygraph
has been a forensic tool
806
00:36:21,222 --> 00:36:23,452
since Conan Doyle's time.
807
00:36:23,452 --> 00:36:26,458
And it's still going strong.
808
00:36:26,458 --> 00:36:28,506
- At the moment, it is still the best tool
809
00:36:28,506 --> 00:36:31,333
to use in any investigation,
according to me.
810
00:36:31,333 --> 00:36:34,938
There's a lot of other
scientific ways to investigate.
811
00:36:34,938 --> 00:36:38,116
Statement analysis, or
the reading of the body.
812
00:36:38,116 --> 00:36:38,992
But it's with the polygraph
813
00:36:38,992 --> 00:36:40,974
you can actually put something on paper.
814
00:36:40,974 --> 00:36:42,649
You can say the body reacted
815
00:36:42,649 --> 00:36:45,337
to a certain question at that time.
816
00:36:45,337 --> 00:36:47,674
And this is what the body did.
817
00:36:50,351 --> 00:36:52,328
Did you steal that watch?
818
00:36:52,328 --> 00:36:53,609
- No.
819
00:36:55,076 --> 00:36:56,377
- [Voiceover] Many profilers admit
820
00:36:56,377 --> 00:36:59,010
their model was Sherlock Holmes.
821
00:36:59,010 --> 00:37:02,029
A fictional character who used deduction
822
00:37:02,029 --> 00:37:04,749
to close in on criminals
that were too elusive
823
00:37:04,749 --> 00:37:07,313
for standard police methods.
824
00:37:09,483 --> 00:37:11,340
- It's very Holmes.
825
00:37:12,295 --> 00:37:15,024
I make it akin to doing
a crossword puzzle.
826
00:37:15,024 --> 00:37:16,431
You know, you get one piece of data
827
00:37:16,431 --> 00:37:18,682
that starts giving you
a clue for the next.
828
00:37:18,682 --> 00:37:20,495
You slowly build up this picture,
829
00:37:20,495 --> 00:37:23,535
which is very intellectually
challenging like a crossword.
830
00:37:23,535 --> 00:37:25,668
But the completion of that crossword
831
00:37:25,668 --> 00:37:27,790
is you catch your bad guy.
832
00:37:27,790 --> 00:37:30,767
And for me, that's a goal, that's a job.
833
00:37:32,351 --> 00:37:36,216
I love it, I really do, yeah.
834
00:37:37,138 --> 00:37:38,917
- [Watson] What are you thinking of?
835
00:37:38,917 --> 00:37:40,463
- I'm thinking of all the
women who can come and go
836
00:37:40,463 --> 00:37:43,376
in safety in the streets
of London tonight.
837
00:37:52,148 --> 00:37:53,863
- [Voiceover] Sherlock Holmes is known
838
00:37:53,863 --> 00:37:55,410
all over the planet.
839
00:37:55,410 --> 00:37:59,196
But his influence also reaches into space.
840
00:37:59,196 --> 00:38:03,058
Inspiring NASA scientist,
Dr. James Garvin.
841
00:38:04,355 --> 00:38:06,733
- Science operates in a
lot of different ways,
842
00:38:06,733 --> 00:38:09,014
but perhaps at the most visceral level,
843
00:38:09,014 --> 00:38:11,307
it's very forensic.
844
00:38:11,307 --> 00:38:15,744
All of us who are fans of
that 221B Baker Street idea
845
00:38:15,744 --> 00:38:17,396
recognize in reading those stories
846
00:38:17,396 --> 00:38:19,678
of more than a hundred plus years ago,
847
00:38:19,678 --> 00:38:23,647
that this is science
applied to understanding.
848
00:38:23,647 --> 00:38:25,339
- [Voiceover] Garvin
was an intern when NASA
849
00:38:25,339 --> 00:38:29,434
first put a camera on Mars in 1975.
850
00:38:29,434 --> 00:38:32,314
He's now the agency's top scientist.
851
00:38:32,314 --> 00:38:36,158
He's defined NASA's direction
for space exploration,
852
00:38:36,158 --> 00:38:40,588
and owes it all to reading
Sherlock Holmes as a little boy.
853
00:38:40,588 --> 00:38:44,576
- Sherlock Holmes, I might have known.
854
00:38:44,576 --> 00:38:47,360
- I really came into
science by being curious,
855
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,129
as all young people probably are.
856
00:38:49,129 --> 00:38:51,528
They may not realize it, but they are.
857
00:38:51,528 --> 00:38:53,086
I mean, I liked rocks and bugs,
858
00:38:53,086 --> 00:38:54,408
but other kids liked beating up
859
00:38:54,408 --> 00:38:56,264
their neighborhood kid, or sister,
860
00:38:56,264 --> 00:38:58,216
whatever it is, it's that curiosity,
861
00:38:58,216 --> 00:39:01,042
but once you read Sherlock Holmes stories,
862
00:39:01,042 --> 00:39:04,178
and you see the interplay
between thinking,
863
00:39:04,178 --> 00:39:07,003
evidence, solving something that matters,
864
00:39:07,003 --> 00:39:09,648
you know, death of people, kind of does,
865
00:39:09,648 --> 00:39:11,471
you realize that's what science is.
866
00:39:11,471 --> 00:39:12,655
We are crime solvers.
867
00:39:12,655 --> 00:39:15,140
But the crimes are the
problem you're solving.
868
00:39:15,140 --> 00:39:17,785
Ocean heat flow, climate stories on Earth.
869
00:39:17,785 --> 00:39:19,417
Why Venus is so weird.
870
00:39:19,417 --> 00:39:20,622
Whether life exists on Mars
871
00:39:20,622 --> 00:39:22,499
or the bigger universe, are we alone?
872
00:39:22,499 --> 00:39:25,475
I read Holmes before I became a scientist.
873
00:39:25,475 --> 00:39:26,199
- [Voiceover] What Garvin learned
874
00:39:26,199 --> 00:39:28,108
from the Sherlock Holmes stories
875
00:39:28,108 --> 00:39:30,550
is that data comes first.
876
00:39:30,550 --> 00:39:32,480
Theories follow.
877
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,805
- Nothing but an ordinary match folder.
878
00:39:34,805 --> 00:39:38,102
- [Gregson] Where does that leave us?
879
00:39:38,102 --> 00:39:41,051
- I imagine to something
very important, Gregson.
880
00:39:41,051 --> 00:39:42,373
- [Voiceover] And with that,
881
00:39:42,373 --> 00:39:45,232
a generation of scientists regard space
882
00:39:45,232 --> 00:39:49,274
as a Holmesian mystery
that needs to be solved.
883
00:39:49,274 --> 00:39:50,800
- [Dr. Garvin] How do we
figure these things out?
884
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,070
How do we make it into
that puzzle-solving,
885
00:39:53,070 --> 00:39:55,364
forensic science that
Sherlock Holmes demonstrated
886
00:39:55,364 --> 00:39:56,459
in these great stories?
887
00:39:56,459 --> 00:39:58,998
And we do so with data, with information.
888
00:39:58,998 --> 00:40:01,195
And we increase that information in ways
889
00:40:01,195 --> 00:40:03,521
that is like increasing
the pool of evidence
890
00:40:03,521 --> 00:40:06,795
you would have in a
mystery, in a crime story.
891
00:40:06,795 --> 00:40:09,002
What's the puzzle of water on Mars?
892
00:40:09,002 --> 00:40:10,484
Well, we went to Mars.
893
00:40:10,484 --> 00:40:13,865
We saw a dry, alien,
apparently sterile dessert.
894
00:40:13,865 --> 00:40:15,714
We landed, we sat there for years,
895
00:40:15,714 --> 00:40:17,661
nothing really much happened.
896
00:40:17,661 --> 00:40:19,549
And then, revolution.
897
00:40:19,549 --> 00:40:21,266
The forensic puzzle changed.
898
00:40:21,266 --> 00:40:22,450
We got a little more information,
899
00:40:22,450 --> 00:40:26,066
as Holmes did in the
stories by Sir Conan Doyle.
900
00:40:26,066 --> 00:40:27,900
When you put the extra
piece of information in,
901
00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:30,385
and even though it might
seem small, kaboom!
902
00:40:30,385 --> 00:40:32,581
We now have the wet warm Mars,
903
00:40:32,581 --> 00:40:34,768
the Mars where following
the water makes sense.
904
00:40:34,768 --> 00:40:36,667
Today, following the carbon.
905
00:40:36,667 --> 00:40:39,568
It's so Holmesian, and I think that's what
906
00:40:39,568 --> 00:40:42,106
is attractive to some of the scientists.
907
00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:44,538
We kind of operate like
Sherlock Holmes did,
908
00:40:44,538 --> 00:40:47,098
you know, hundred and
forty, fifty years ago.
909
00:40:47,098 --> 00:40:49,646
But with new pieces of data.
910
00:40:49,646 --> 00:40:52,216
- [Voiceover] NASA's role has evolved.
911
00:40:52,216 --> 00:40:55,075
The agency now studies
scientific mysteries on Earth
912
00:40:55,075 --> 00:40:57,464
as much as the stars.
913
00:40:57,464 --> 00:41:00,184
But Garvin says Sherlock Holmes' methods
914
00:41:00,184 --> 00:41:02,968
still rule his vision.
915
00:41:02,968 --> 00:41:04,760
Listen to the facts.
916
00:41:08,430 --> 00:41:10,806
Then make your analysis.
917
00:41:10,806 --> 00:41:13,590
- The 19th key of the keyboard
918
00:41:13,590 --> 00:41:16,629
is the 19th letter of the alphabet.
919
00:41:16,629 --> 00:41:17,917
- [Voiceover] Garvin
and his team went back
920
00:41:17,917 --> 00:41:19,578
to the moon missions
921
00:41:19,578 --> 00:41:23,026
and found new evidence in old data.
922
00:41:24,161 --> 00:41:26,177
- Seemingly a dead world we visited
923
00:41:26,177 --> 00:41:29,249
with astronauts 40 years ago.
924
00:41:29,249 --> 00:41:30,068
Been there, done that.
925
00:41:30,068 --> 00:41:31,583
In fact, that's not the case.
926
00:41:31,583 --> 00:41:33,972
The moon is actually a
repository of information
927
00:41:33,972 --> 00:41:35,551
about the whole solar system,
928
00:41:35,551 --> 00:41:37,150
and we've just come to realize that
929
00:41:37,150 --> 00:41:40,660
from the new evidence we're
getting from new missions.
930
00:41:40,660 --> 00:41:42,334
So it's all about the information.
931
00:41:42,334 --> 00:41:44,446
We get it from every perspective we can.
932
00:41:44,446 --> 00:41:45,811
That's very Holmesian.
933
00:41:45,811 --> 00:41:48,595
Those pieces of evidence give us the story
934
00:41:48,595 --> 00:41:50,718
where we can play the Holmesian game,
935
00:41:50,718 --> 00:41:52,499
and that's what's so beautiful.
936
00:41:52,499 --> 00:41:54,216
We're discovering our own future
937
00:41:54,216 --> 00:41:56,860
and our future questions.
938
00:41:56,860 --> 00:41:59,014
- [Voiceover] From the moon to the stars,
939
00:41:59,014 --> 00:42:00,966
Sherlock Holmes' influence stretches
940
00:42:00,966 --> 00:42:03,569
deep into space exploration.
941
00:42:03,569 --> 00:42:07,185
But back on Earth, it's
driven popular culture
942
00:42:07,185 --> 00:42:10,319
in ways that cannot be measured.
943
00:42:10,319 --> 00:42:15,194
(rock music)
944
00:42:16,264 --> 00:42:18,402
Sherlock Holmes has been imitated
945
00:42:18,402 --> 00:42:20,269
and adapted more than any other
946
00:42:20,269 --> 00:42:22,337
fictional character in history.
947
00:42:22,337 --> 00:42:24,822
- Mr. Holmes, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!
948
00:42:24,822 --> 00:42:27,061
- Good morning, Mr. Holmes.
949
00:42:27,061 --> 00:42:28,714
- [Voiceover] Mr. Holmes.
950
00:42:28,714 --> 00:42:31,555
- [Irene] Good night, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
951
00:42:32,359 --> 00:42:34,129
- [Voiceover] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
952
00:42:34,129 --> 00:42:36,198
created a character who exploded
953
00:42:36,198 --> 00:42:38,021
onto the world of fiction
954
00:42:38,021 --> 00:42:41,135
and has left his mark on three centuries.
955
00:42:41,875 --> 00:42:46,875
(jazz music)
956
00:42:48,844 --> 00:42:51,137
- We are living in Sherlock Holmes' world.
957
00:42:51,137 --> 00:42:55,083
There are just so many
creators of fictional universes
958
00:42:55,083 --> 00:42:56,275
who are inspired by Holmes.
959
00:42:56,275 --> 00:42:58,291
You could go back and say that Holmes
960
00:42:58,291 --> 00:43:02,707
was the Model T of all
modern science fiction,
961
00:43:02,707 --> 00:43:06,412
of mystery fiction, of genre fiction.
962
00:43:06,412 --> 00:43:07,535
- All right, Kato.
963
00:43:07,535 --> 00:43:08,686
We're going to introduce Mr. Grant
964
00:43:08,686 --> 00:43:12,504
and the world to The Green Hornet.
965
00:43:12,504 --> 00:43:14,624
- The marks of it are
on every mystery novel,
966
00:43:14,624 --> 00:43:16,703
every detective figure.
967
00:43:16,703 --> 00:43:21,343
And every conflict between the
rational and the irrational.
968
00:43:21,343 --> 00:43:24,273
From The X-Files to Lost,
969
00:43:24,273 --> 00:43:26,340
to the police procedurals.
970
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:32,560
(dramatic music)
971
00:43:35,971 --> 00:43:37,805
- I wanna report a murder.
972
00:43:37,805 --> 00:43:39,042
- Who was murdered?
973
00:43:39,042 --> 00:43:41,719
- I was.
974
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,800
- It all comes back to Holmes.
975
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,893
It's hard to find something
in modern entertainment
976
00:43:47,893 --> 00:43:51,999
that Sherlock Holmes did not
touch in one way or another.
977
00:43:51,999 --> 00:43:56,042
- Holmes is a character who
conjured something so powerful
978
00:43:56,042 --> 00:43:59,871
and so vital that that
character just escaped
979
00:43:59,871 --> 00:44:02,100
and went running through the culture.
980
00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:05,161
And it had a power that
Doyle couldn't tame.
981
00:44:05,161 --> 00:44:07,326
- A lot of people have written pastiche
982
00:44:07,326 --> 00:44:08,510
Sherlock Holmes stories.
983
00:44:08,510 --> 00:44:11,031
The new Sherlock Holmes series at the BBC
984
00:44:11,031 --> 00:44:13,803
was a startling success.
985
00:44:13,803 --> 00:44:15,477
- [Voiceover] But why has Sherlock Holmes
986
00:44:15,477 --> 00:44:17,867
remained so popular?
987
00:44:17,867 --> 00:44:20,169
- The great Sherlock Holmes himself.
988
00:44:20,169 --> 00:44:21,886
- [Voiceover] Many believe it's all about
989
00:44:21,886 --> 00:44:24,958
his relationship with Dr. Watson.
990
00:44:24,958 --> 00:44:26,922
- Dr. Watson, you mad?
991
00:44:26,922 --> 00:44:28,573
Who, me?
992
00:44:28,573 --> 00:44:31,731
- I think the real (mumbles) is the duo
993
00:44:31,731 --> 00:44:33,821
of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
994
00:44:33,821 --> 00:44:37,101
Their relationship, the
milieu that they inhabit.
995
00:44:37,101 --> 00:44:39,394
- How are you, I haven't
seen you for years.
996
00:44:39,394 --> 00:44:41,464
I want you to meet my old
friend Sherlock Holmes.
997
00:44:41,464 --> 00:44:43,277
Holmes, this is Stinky.
998
00:44:43,277 --> 00:44:45,943
- Sherlock Holmes had become
so much about trappings,
999
00:44:45,943 --> 00:44:49,334
about the fog, about the top
hats, about the hansom cabs,
1000
00:44:49,334 --> 00:44:51,627
that at a stroke, by modernizing it,
1001
00:44:51,627 --> 00:44:53,716
it becomes about them again,
1002
00:44:53,716 --> 00:44:57,906
which is the friendship
between these two men.
1003
00:44:57,906 --> 00:44:59,910
- [Voiceover] The buddy film genre began
1004
00:44:59,910 --> 00:45:03,554
with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
1005
00:45:03,554 --> 00:45:04,911
- Watson!
1006
00:45:04,911 --> 00:45:06,456
- Coming, Holmes!
1007
00:45:06,456 --> 00:45:08,608
- Buddy films owe a tremendous amount
1008
00:45:08,608 --> 00:45:10,346
to Sherlock Holmes, obviously.
1009
00:45:10,346 --> 00:45:13,226
And you'll notice that these duos
1010
00:45:13,226 --> 00:45:17,034
tend to kinda have the
same sort of interplay
1011
00:45:17,034 --> 00:45:18,805
that Holmes and Watson had.
1012
00:45:18,805 --> 00:45:22,026
- I think the idea of
a pairing of two men,
1013
00:45:22,026 --> 00:45:25,733
one of whom is rather distant and a noble,
1014
00:45:25,733 --> 00:45:28,538
and one of whom is much more like us.
1015
00:45:28,538 --> 00:45:32,101
I think this is terribly important.
1016
00:45:32,101 --> 00:45:34,542
- You don't mind breaking the law?
1017
00:45:34,542 --> 00:45:38,307
- Not in a good cause.
1018
00:45:38,307 --> 00:45:39,969
- Oh, the cause is excellent.
1019
00:45:39,969 --> 00:45:41,612
- Well, then I am your man.
1020
00:45:41,612 --> 00:45:42,560
- Splendid.
1021
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,949
- It's like, he's crazy, but he's crazy
1022
00:45:44,949 --> 00:45:47,647
because he sees everything as it is.
1023
00:45:47,647 --> 00:45:48,904
That's what makes him crazy,
1024
00:45:48,904 --> 00:45:50,738
and it's also what makes him great.
1025
00:45:50,738 --> 00:45:52,160
That's pure Holmes.
1026
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,043
You can see it in Lethal Weapon.
1027
00:45:55,043 --> 00:45:59,011
You can see it in Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
1028
00:45:59,011 --> 00:46:01,357
You can see it in Star Trek.
1029
00:46:01,357 --> 00:46:03,544
Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.
1030
00:46:03,544 --> 00:46:04,503
- Before all of them, though,
1031
00:46:04,503 --> 00:46:06,593
there was Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
1032
00:46:06,593 --> 00:46:08,537
That's the prototype.
1033
00:46:15,507 --> 00:46:16,465
- [Crew] And action!
1034
00:46:16,465 --> 00:46:18,224
- [Voiceover] In the 21st century,
1035
00:46:18,224 --> 00:46:20,550
the Holmes-Watson relationship
1036
00:46:20,550 --> 00:46:22,639
has taken on a new dimension.
1037
00:46:22,639 --> 00:46:25,048
- The homoerotic buddy cop combination
1038
00:46:25,048 --> 00:46:28,205
as we know it today owes
just about everything
1039
00:46:28,205 --> 00:46:29,858
to Holmes and Watson.
1040
00:46:29,858 --> 00:46:32,524
Holmes himself was extremely ambiguous,
1041
00:46:32,524 --> 00:46:35,349
didn't show a whole lot
of interest in women.
1042
00:46:35,349 --> 00:46:38,368
Irene Adler was the only
woman who fascinated him.
1043
00:46:38,368 --> 00:46:42,083
- What the relationship between
Holmes and Watson captures
1044
00:46:42,083 --> 00:46:46,887
is a kind of intimate male
relationship that, in a way,
1045
00:46:46,887 --> 00:46:51,037
predates those categories of sexuality
1046
00:46:51,037 --> 00:46:53,361
that we're all stuck with now.
1047
00:46:53,361 --> 00:46:55,772
- Holmes, I think your visitor
would want me out of the way.
1048
00:46:55,772 --> 00:46:58,236
- Not a bit, Doctor, stay where you are.
1049
00:46:58,236 --> 00:47:01,224
I am lost without my Boswell.
1050
00:47:02,510 --> 00:47:05,486
- There was a very
definite homoerotic line
1051
00:47:05,486 --> 00:47:09,987
to the relationship depicted
in the Granada TV series.
1052
00:47:09,987 --> 00:47:12,962
Largely thanks to Jeremy
Brett's performance, I think.
1053
00:47:12,962 --> 00:47:15,000
And it's now a running gag
1054
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,210
in the new BBC Sherlock series,
1055
00:47:18,210 --> 00:47:20,183
because all the people
they meet of course,
1056
00:47:20,183 --> 00:47:22,985
assume that they're rather
more than flatmates.
1057
00:47:22,985 --> 00:47:24,884
- There's another bedroom upstairs
1058
00:47:24,884 --> 00:47:27,264
if you'll be needing two bedrooms.
1059
00:47:27,264 --> 00:47:29,433
- Of course we'll be needing two.
1060
00:47:29,433 --> 00:47:30,819
- [Voiceover] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1061
00:47:30,819 --> 00:47:33,561
would have denied the implication.
1062
00:47:33,561 --> 00:47:37,143
Male relationships in
his era were different.
1063
00:47:37,143 --> 00:47:38,709
But there is one thing in the stories
1064
00:47:38,709 --> 00:47:41,013
that was not ambiguous.
1065
00:47:41,013 --> 00:47:44,566
Sherlock Holmes was a cocaine addict.
1066
00:47:45,706 --> 00:47:47,559
His favorite method,
1067
00:47:47,559 --> 00:47:51,316
injecting what he called the 7% solution.
1068
00:47:52,591 --> 00:47:55,202
- The fact that he was a drug addict,
1069
00:47:55,202 --> 00:47:57,453
fact that he's a bit of a sociopath,
1070
00:47:57,453 --> 00:48:00,247
that's an incredibly
potent thing in fiction.
1071
00:48:00,247 --> 00:48:03,052
The hero who is also potentially a demon,
1072
00:48:03,052 --> 00:48:04,674
or has something demonic inside him
1073
00:48:04,674 --> 00:48:06,315
that both gives him his power
1074
00:48:06,315 --> 00:48:07,894
and makes him a liability.
1075
00:48:07,894 --> 00:48:09,986
That's incredibly powerful.
1076
00:48:11,016 --> 00:48:13,455
- [Voiceover] Addicted.
1077
00:48:13,455 --> 00:48:16,078
Super heroic.
1078
00:48:16,078 --> 00:48:18,883
Sociopathic.
1079
00:48:18,883 --> 00:48:21,763
Scientific.
1080
00:48:21,763 --> 00:48:23,606
Genius.
1081
00:48:23,606 --> 00:48:27,232
Sherlock Holmes anticipated the future.
1082
00:48:27,232 --> 00:48:31,135
A complex, flawed character so worshipped
1083
00:48:31,135 --> 00:48:34,423
some people forget that he never existed.
1084
00:48:36,251 --> 00:48:38,049
- We're going to be having a
1085
00:48:38,049 --> 00:48:39,640
gathering of Sherlock Holmes people
1086
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,357
in the city where I live, in Oxford.
1087
00:48:41,357 --> 00:48:42,499
There is a pub there,
1088
00:48:42,499 --> 00:48:44,355
where Sherlock Holmes undoubtedly stayed
1089
00:48:44,355 --> 00:48:46,253
because of internal
evidence in the stories.
1090
00:48:46,253 --> 00:48:47,791
And you know, I've just
been writing the chronology
1091
00:48:47,791 --> 00:48:49,408
of what guests are gonna do.
1092
00:48:49,408 --> 00:48:50,934
And you know, I'm gonna say, just think,
1093
00:48:50,934 --> 00:48:52,255
when you actually go in there,
1094
00:48:52,255 --> 00:48:54,801
Sherlock Holmes really did stay there.
1095
00:48:54,801 --> 00:48:57,241
Exclamation mark.
1096
00:48:57,241 --> 00:48:58,551
- We're talking about him like he's real.
1097
00:48:58,551 --> 00:49:00,072
We can't help ourselves.
1098
00:49:00,072 --> 00:49:02,069
Really, it's, we're not saying
1099
00:49:02,069 --> 00:49:03,476
Arthur Conan Doyle did it, are we?
1100
00:49:03,476 --> 00:49:05,310
We're saying that Sherlock Holmes did it.
1101
00:49:05,310 --> 00:49:09,522
- I mean, I do know that he isn't real.
1102
00:49:09,522 --> 00:49:11,293
- [Voiceover] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1103
00:49:11,293 --> 00:49:13,753
dropped a fictional
character on our planet,
1104
00:49:13,753 --> 00:49:15,899
and he hit like a bomb.
1105
00:49:15,899 --> 00:49:18,246
The ripple effect of Sherlock Holmes
1106
00:49:18,246 --> 00:49:22,416
shows no sign of stopping
over a century later.
1107
00:49:22,416 --> 00:49:24,730
In a world that doesn't often make sense,
1108
00:49:24,730 --> 00:49:26,980
cold, calculated reason
1109
00:49:26,980 --> 00:49:30,456
gives people a feeling
of safety and strength.
1110
00:49:30,456 --> 00:49:33,697
Holmes appears in the strangest of places
1111
00:49:33,697 --> 00:49:35,679
because we need him.
1112
00:49:35,679 --> 00:49:37,215
- Good work, Mr. Holmes.
1113
00:49:37,215 --> 00:49:39,500
Perhaps I underestimated you.
1114
00:49:40,849 --> 00:49:42,429
- I've written a good deal more about him
1115
00:49:42,429 --> 00:49:45,284
than I ever intended to
do, but my hand has been
1116
00:49:45,284 --> 00:49:47,896
rather forced by kind friends
1117
00:49:47,896 --> 00:49:50,424
who continually wanted to know more.
1118
00:49:50,424 --> 00:49:53,531
And so it is that this monstrous growth
1119
00:49:53,531 --> 00:49:56,215
has come out, out of one that's really
1120
00:49:56,215 --> 00:49:59,074
a comparatively small seed.
1121
00:50:00,214 --> 00:50:05,157
(jazz music)
1122
00:50:05,157 --> 00:50:06,969
- Goodbye.
1123
00:50:06,969 --> 00:50:08,970
Come along.
1124
00:50:09,976 --> 00:50:14,976
(jazz music)
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