After seventeen months, the game is on once more for the world’s only consulting detective and his loyal physician sidekick – and this time, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson find the stakes are higher than ever before.

In the first episode of Series 2, an illustrious client of the highest standing needs them to retrieve something of great importance from a woman – the woman – named Irene Adler; but in a game of this magnitude, there is more to be won and lost than Sherlock ever dreamed possible.

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A Scandal in Belgravia airs at 8.10pm on Sunday 1st January 2012. To whet your appetite, here are ten teasing lines of dialogue from the episode…

» ‘That’s the deceased for you – late in every sense of the word.’

» ‘It’s not the end of the world. It’s Mrs Hudson.’

» ‘I hope you didn’t mess up my sock index this time.’

» ‘No disrespect, but you were clearly born in the ‘80s.’

» ‘To look at naked women, I borrow John’s laptop.’

» ‘Boys, you’ve got another one!’

» ‘If you have what you say you have, I’ll make you rich. If you don’t, I’ll make you into shoes.’

» ‘He will outlive God trying to have the last word.’

» ‘They all care so much. Do you ever wonder if there’s something wrong with us?’

» ‘That camera phone is my life, Mr Holmes. I’d die before I let you take it.’

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