The Sign of Three

 The Sign of Three Description

Hello Friends, The day was bit boring for me as I did not do anything interesting. Well, Everyday I of course play cricket with my friends every morning. I did not play well. I completed reading the novel "The Murder on the Orient Express." I also watched Sherlock "The Sign of Three" and I'm gonna describe it today.

The title of this episode is very odd and does not immediately strike us the case. We understand its significance at the end and I'll too curtain it till I reach to the end of my blog. 

"The Sign of Three" is the second episode of Sherlock season 3. The first episode of season 3 describes as to how did Sherlock survive and fake his suicide. I'll not go deep into it but I wrote it just for the sake of extra info. The second episode shows John Watson and Mary Morstan getting married and John asks Sherlock to be his Best man. Being the Best man is the most difficult task that Sherlock has ever gone through. Sherlock somehow gets to know that a murder is going to take place in John's wedding and he has to find out who is going to be murdered and save his life. 

Mrs. Hudson tells Sherlock that life completely changes after the marriage and calls John's wedding day as big day. After this we see John's wedding ceremony. There we meet John's ex-commander Major James Sholto. John tells that Shoto is the most unsocial man he had ever met and does not even expect him to come at his wedding.. Sholto was the leader of some troop that went on to the mission where all of them died except Sholto returned alive. Media blame him and he feels himself the disgraced. He does not like to go out in public as everyone hates him This description is very important as James Sholto's presence is very unique among everyone present in John's wedding.

The story frequently goes into flashback and we see that John thinks that Sherlock is getting bored and he must go out and solve the case with him to refresh his mind. The case they go to solve is named as "The Bloody Guardsman" Bainbridge is a guard at Guards Museum and he stands in front of the gate and tourists come and see them, take their photographs etc. He feels that someone is keeping an eye on him constantly. John and Sherlock go there and wait for the end of Bainbridge's duty. Then, Sherlock secretly enters the museum or rather quarters of the guards. John meets the commander there and asks to meet Bainbridge. Bainbridge had gone to take a shower and is stabbed there. The bathroom was closed from inside and no weapon is found. Sherlock and John are arrested and on John's demand that he is a doctor; he's allowed to examine the body and he finds that Bainbridge is still alive and he immediately gives him necessary first aid and calls ambulance. Thus, Bainbridge lives. This murderer is called invisible man with invisible dagger.  Sherlock narrates this case in his Best man's speech at John's wedding. He said that though he was unable to solve the case the most striking element of this case was John's Humane nature. Sherlock's main concern as he says was to solve the murder but John seeks to save life. 

Along with "The Bloody Guardsman" Sherlock also solves the case of "Mayfly Man" which I am unable to understand completely. Sherlock and John are drunk and they are consulted by a lady who thinks that she dated a ghost. 

Sherlock goes crazy after drinking and he and John are put into prison by that lady. After gaining consciousness, Sherlock realizes that he had indeed missed one of the most interesting cases. He narrates this case next after "The Bloody Guardsman" and while thinking he realizes that murder is going to take place. He then figures out on the basis of the above description of Major Sholto that he is the prey. He secretly tells this to Sholto and also tells John about it and asks him to save Sholto's life. Sholto had locked himself into the room and wanted to commit suicide.  John asks him to open the door but Sholto refuses. He would open the door on the condition that Sherlock would solve his murder mystery i.e describe him as how he would be murdered. But Sherlock did not know that and he has to think and solve the mystery quickly. He tells Sholto that he had been stabbed hours ago, somebody had stabbed him in his belt and he hadn't felt it at all. If he would remove his belt he would die. Sholto after few hesitations opens the door and John saves him by giving the medical assistance. At last, Sherlock figures out that the photographer was the murderer and he had rehearsed the murder before on the Bainbridge. 

After this long description I would finally tell why is the title "The Sign of Three." At the end Sherlock figures out that Marry is pregnant on basis of the sign that wine seemed her bad in taste. It indicated it three members of family: John, Mary and the unborn child. So this was thus the sign of three. This episode also explains the title of the third episode of season 3 "His Last Vow." Sherlock makes his first and last vow in this episode that he would always stand alongside John and Mary in any difficulty. Sherlock completes this vow in the last episode of the season 3. 

That's it.