***SPOILERS*** After a series of robberies of precious jewelry as well as top secret state secret documents all over London it came as a major shock for Dr. John H. Watson, Howard Marion-Crawford, when he saw his good friend Sherlock Holmes,Ronald Howard,slip one of the stolen jewelry pieces into his tobacco pouch thus throwing suspicion on himself as the elusive robber.
It takes a while for Watson to accept the fact that the law abiding and straight as an arrow shirt Holmes has flipped out and joined the ranks of the criminal class that he's been battling all of his adult life! Getting in touch with Inspector Lestraed, Archie Duncan, about Holmes strange actions it's agreed to set Holmes up and see if in fact he's gone off the deep end and joined the other side or the criminal element of society and catch him in the act. Holmes doesn't fail Watson and Lestraed by stealing a number of secret document that the two left as bait in a government office but being as smart as he is the slippery as an greased pig Holmes takes off before Lestraed Watson and the London Bobbies as well as members of Scotland Yard can put the cuffs on him.
***SPOILERS*** The truth in all this is that Holmes is really working undercover for Scotland Yard in showing how easily it is to steal the nations top secret as well as royal jewels so it can develop tighter security to protect them. And even far more important it showed in how easy it was to steal those valuable items with goofballs like Watson & Lestraed in charge of protecting them.
It takes a while for Watson to accept the fact that the law abiding and straight as an arrow shirt Holmes has flipped out and joined the ranks of the criminal class that he's been battling all of his adult life! Getting in touch with Inspector Lestraed, Archie Duncan, about Holmes strange actions it's agreed to set Holmes up and see if in fact he's gone off the deep end and joined the other side or the criminal element of society and catch him in the act. Holmes doesn't fail Watson and Lestraed by stealing a number of secret document that the two left as bait in a government office but being as smart as he is the slippery as an greased pig Holmes takes off before Lestraed Watson and the London Bobbies as well as members of Scotland Yard can put the cuffs on him.
***SPOILERS*** The truth in all this is that Holmes is really working undercover for Scotland Yard in showing how easily it is to steal the nations top secret as well as royal jewels so it can develop tighter security to protect them. And even far more important it showed in how easy it was to steal those valuable items with goofballs like Watson & Lestraed in charge of protecting them.