Sherlock, John, and Mary race to the room to try and save him, but he refuses to open the door until the case is solved. Sherlock slips a note to Sholto, who returns to his hotel room and gets his pistol to defend himself. The Mayfly Man courted them to find and attack Sholto, and the wedding is his chance. Sherlock concludes all the women worked for Sholto in various capacities and were bound by confidentiality. Aware that John hates and never uses it, he deduces Tessa saw it in a wedding invitation. While moving to the toast, Sherlock suddenly freezes, recalling Tessa knew John's middle name ( Hamish). With John's help, he concluded the perpetrator was a man bored with marriage, who disguised himself as recently deceased single men and used their unoccupied homes to meet the women. Sherlock chatted to other London women with a similar experience, but failed to find any significant connection between them. The next morning, an amused Lestrade secured their release from jail. Sherlock and John, still inebriated from John's stag night, attempted to search for clues, but were arrested for their drunken antics. Sherlock's narrative drifts to another case, "the Mayfly Man" several days after going to a man's apartment for dinner, Tessa ( Alice Lowe), a woman who worked as a private nurse, found the apartment was vacated, and the man died weeks ago. When questioned by Lestrade, Sherlock reluctantly admits the case wasn't solved, but cites it as an example of John's compassion instead of trying to solve the murder as Sherlock did, John examined Bainbridge's body and discovered he still had a pulse, thus requesting an ambulance and saving his life. By the time Sherlock and Watson got into the Guards' quarters, Bainbridge was presumed dead in a shower room from a stab wound, but no weapon and escape route were found. After reading from the wedding telegrams, Sherlock expresses his deep love and respect for John and launches into a rambling narrative, describing John's role in an attempted murder case, "the Bloody Guardsman" a Guardsman named Bainbridge ( Alfred Enoch) contacted Sherlock, fearing he was being stalked. Sherlock rises to give the best man speech, but he initially hesitates. Sherlock calls Mycroft ( Mark Gatiss), who repeats Mrs Hudson's suggestion that John and Mary's marriage will change his life. Sholto (the name is a reference to a character in The Sign of Four) lives in seclusion, having received death threats and media scrutiny after losing a unit of new soldiers in Afghanistan. At the reception, John is delighted to see Major James Sholto ( Alistair Petrie), his former Army CO. Hudson ( Una Stubbs) reminds Sherlock that marriage changes people. However, when Lestrade receives a text for help from Sherlock, he abandons the case and races to Baker Street, assuming the worst and calling for maximum backup – only to discover that Sherlock is simply struggling to write a best man speech for John's upcoming wedding to Mary Morstan ( Amanda Abbington). In the opening scene, DI Lestrade ( Rupert Graves) and Sergeant Donovan ( Vinette Robinson) are on the verge of arresting the criminal Waters family that has evaded the police several times. It garnered a viewership of 11.37 million, and received mostly positive reviews.
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It is set six months after the series opener " The Empty Hearse" and is primarily centred on the day of Watson's wedding to Mary Morstan.
The episode's title is inspired by The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was written by Stephen Thompson, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr John Watson.
" The Sign of Three" is the second episode of the third series of the BBC television series Sherlock. Jalaal Hartley as Mayfly Man/Photographer/Jonathan Small.