There's a new Sherlock Holmes in town, thanks to Watson.
The CBS drama just brought the mythical literary figure back from the alleged dead, after his best friend and mentee John Watson (Morris Chestnut) spent all of the first season wrestling with the aftermath of his "death." Robert Carlyle, known to many as the trickster Rumplestiltskin on ABC's Once Upon a Time, got to unleash his version of the genius detective in the second episode of Season 2, appropriately titled "Back from the Dead."
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At the end of the Season 2 premiere, Watson found that the intruder in his apartment was none other than his pal and mentor, who had shown up out of the blue a year after faking his own death. As Chestnut promised, the baffled yet unsurprised doctor had a lot of questions to ask, and Sherlock did his best to answer them.
As Watson shared the story of the "zombie virus" medical mystery he just solved, Sherlock shared the story of his fake death, and explained why he did it.
"I'm closer to the end now than I am to the beginning," he said. "And if I'm to spend my remaining energy in the way that I intend, I had to clear the stage. How else can one spring a third-act surprise?"
He pulled it off by luring two of his enemies — Moriarty and Stapleton — to the same place at once, each thinking they were meeting Sherlock. They sent each other tumbling over the falls, but Sherlock didn't count on Watson tumbling into the water too. He was the one who eventually pulled his friend to safety before disappearing.
As for why he's back, Sherlock says he's working on a mystery that has caught his attention in Pittsburgh — the Pittsburgh Mystery, he calls it — and says it's all part of "a bigger project."
"I could catch criminals until the day I die…and in the end, there's only one crime that truly matters: Who stole the world?" he says ominously. "It's theirs now, the oligarchs, the fairway fiddlers, the spraytan smilers, foreheads frozen in place, cake eaters, my brother, the whole Jenga tower could use a bit of a rattle, I'd say."
In an interview with Parade, Carlyle said it was Sherlock's "sense of mortality" that is not only key to his character, but it also sets him apart from previous iterations of the detective. "He definitely has a sense of, 'Has his life been worth anything at all, really?'" the actor said.
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How would you describe your version of Sherlock Holmes? He's duplicitous. That's the thing. There's a theatricality to him, which I think is utterly put on, and what you want to say to Sherlock sometimes is, "Will you please just stop talking?" I think Watson kind of picks through that, and you get to the heart of the character through that, through Watson's mind. As the episodes have progressed, the more I see, the more I look at it, Watson and Sherlock, it's a lot like looking in the mirror with these two. They see an awful lot of each other. There's a kind of a symmetry to these two, beautifully written by [showrunner Craig Sweeney] and the rest of the team. They have a bond which is very, very, very strange and very, very strong.
How do you go about creating the longstanding relationship between Sherlock and Watson and figuring out their dynamic? It's not easy, because it's American TV. It's like a machine, so quick, bang, bang, bang, episode after episode. You don't get any rehearsal time. You can't really sit down and go talk about it and go through what's in your mind. You're really just hoping—this is with every show, but particularly with a relationship like Watson and Sherlock. You're hoping that you've thrown a double six. You just pray that that's the case. And with Morris playing Watson, I certainly did. He's such a wonderful, wonderful guy, beautiful, beautiful man. He made it very, very easy for me. He was very kind and very helpful through the whole process. And as the episodes have progressed, I think the relationship's just got stronger and stronger and stronger. So Morris and I are great friends now, Sherlock and Holmes definitely clicked now, hopefully.
How would you describe their relationship? These two guys have known each other for a long, long time. There's a shorthand that they have, which all long-term friendships have. Watson knows the deeper side of Sherlock. He knows that this kind of theatricality that he has isn't the full story. I hate that people talk about chemistry. I don't know whether that's a thing or not, really, but it's very difficult to find another word for it. There's something that just happened with myself and Morris that clicked very, very quickly, I would say, within the first two or three scenes, we had something together. They understand each other's rhythm, each other's pacing, with the lines.
(L-R): Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson and Robert Carlyle as Sherlock Holmes in 'Watson'Sergei Bachlakov/CBS
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How did it feel to come back to American TV, playing another literary icon after so many years as Rumplestiltskin? You know, it's fantastic. I live here in Vancouver, and to have another show that was shooting here was great. And also shooting in Bridge Studios, where we shot Once Upon a Time…when I went back into Bridge, it was actually quite an emotional moment for me, because I filmed 10 years of my life, between Once Upon a Time and Stargate Universe, 10 years in the Bridge studios. I didn't expect it to hit me like that, but it really did. I really felt it, you know. This is like a home for me. I loved it. And seeing all the old faces, because quite a lot of people that worked on these other shows were there, quite a few. Of course, we've all changed a bit. We all look a bit different, 10 years older. But it was just lovely, beautiful, particularly Rob Duncan, who's one of the first ADs, who was the first AD all the way through Once Upon a Time. That was fantastic to meet up with Rob. So it's been a real, real pleasure.
Sherlock and Rumplestiltskin are very different guys, but I imagine some OUAT fans will follow you to Watson. What do you hope they'll enjoy, or what do you hope sucks them in? There's nothing Rumpelstiltskin-y about Sherlock…Well, there is one thing, in a sense. There's a theatricality about Sherlock, which certainly was in there with Rumplestiltskin. So that is definitely something which would combine these two things together. And I think if people enjoyed the size of the performance with Rumplestiltskin, then hopefully they'll enjoy that with Sherlock, because there are elements of that in it, for sure. Though there is an entirely different side that you see, and hopefully…We're on episode 10 now, and as we go through, I'm beginning to sort of break it down more—not just me, of course, the writers—to show that there's another side to this man with this theatricality. Is it anything? Is it real? Is it the real person or not? Probably not. So you see the reality of the man as it progresses.
It seems like he's mostly a lot of smoke and mirrors, which is kind of how Sherlock Holmes has always been. But you feel like the show is pulling back that curtain? I think so. This Episode 10 that we're doing at the moment, and this happens in the previous episodes I've been on too, he mentions he's very aware of his own mortality. Sherlock, he talks about death. And in Episode 10, again, it's one of those moments where Watson says, "What is it with you?" And he says, "I've been thinking about death and thinking about dying," and there's this beautiful line, but he says, "When I die, at the exact, literal moment of my death, someone somewhere will murder somebody else. So what has it all been for?" And I thought that was beautiful, brilliantly written. He's not happy with his life. He's not. He could solve crimes forever. But what's it actually achieved? Has it achieved anything? What's he going to leave behind? And there is a sense, as you get older—and I'm not exactly an old man yet, but it's in the post— you begin to kind of question what your life is for, what it's been about, and what you've actually left behind at the end. So that's the kind of Sherlock that we're talking about.
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