How the heck did Holmes get to the 22nd century?
You sure you want to know? It’s a spoiler for the first episode…. Inspector Beth Lestrade (a descendant of Inspector G. Lestrade) sees a guy who looks exactly like Moriarty. Suddenly the recent bizarre crime wave and failure of the “crypnosis” system makes sense to her. She then sees a news report about Nobel-winning biologist Sir Evan Hargreaves’ discovery of a revitalization process for dead cells. Now, when Holmes died of old age back in the twentieth century, for some reason (probably scientic curiosity or to prove a pet theory about honey) he chose to have his body not embalmed and buried, but preserved in a glass-windowed coffin full of honey from his beloved bees. Lestrade had inherited this coffin (along with Watson’s journals) and had been storing it in a warehouse at New Scotland Yard. (I guess it just didn’t fit her flat’s decor.) So all Lestrade had to do was pick up Holmes, fly him to Hargreaves’ lab, and deman… er, plead… that Hargreaves to use his new process on th
