The Empty Hearse (2014)

Cast

Amanda Abbington, Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Derren Brown, Jonathan Aris, Lisa McAllister, Louise Brealey, Mark Gatiss, Martin Freeman, Rick Warden, Rupert Graves, Timothy Carlton, Una Stubbs, Wanda Ventham

The story

Two years after his supposed death (depicted in "The Reichenbach Fall"), Sherlock Holmes has been completely absolved of the slanderous accusations against him originated by Jim Moriarty and secretly returns to London to help his brother Mycroft uncover an apparently imminent terrorist attack. An interleaved scene shows a version of how Sherlock might have faked his death: by jumping from the roof with a bungee cable, bouncing back and entering the building through a window, leaving Moriarty's body with a Sherlock mask to mislead John and other onlookers, John himself being hypnotised by Derren Brown to give the time for this to be set…

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