The Dancing Men
Hilton Cubitt comes to Sherlock Holmes in need of help. Elsie, his wife, is wracked with anxiety. The source of her distress seems to be a drawing of dancing men. The men are stick figures that are arranged in a horizontal line. Holmes concludes that the drawing must be code.
Mr. Cubitt is also concerned about a letter that Elsie received from Chicago. She burned the letter without even opening the envelope.
Holmes deciphers the code. Holmes anticipates trouble and heads to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cubitt. He is dead and she has been shot. She is suffering from a head wound.
Holmes examines the evidence and determines that there must have been a third person present. He writes out a note in code and sends it to a nearby inn. A man comes to the Cubitt household in response to the note which he thought was written by Elsie.
This is more in line with what I expect from Sherlock Holmes than the previous episode. It’s a decent story but for the most intriguing part was the code. The acting was good but there wasn’t much in the way of moments that really got to me. It doesn’t make me want to abandon this show but it also doesn’t make me feel as if I must watch more.
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