The Blind Banker (2010)

Directed by

Euros Lyn

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 29m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner John Watson decode a series of ciphers left by a Chinese smuggling ring. The criminals are murdering to recover a stolen object.

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What happens

"The Blind Banker" is the second episode of the television series Sherlock, first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 1 August 2010. It was written by Stephen Thompson and directed by Euros Lyn. Sherlock is a loose adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, set in the modern day. "The Blind Banker" follows Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Martin Freeman) as they investigate a series of ciphers representing numbers in an ancient Chinese numeral system which have been left by a Chinese smuggling ring who are intent to kill to retrieve an item one of them stole. It attracted 8.07 million viewers on BBC One and BBC HD. Critical reception was generally positive, though some reviewers felt it was inferior to the first episode. The episode was also criticised for its orientalist clichés. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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