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Season 1  "The Blind Banker"  1x2

Aired 13 years ago - Aug 01, 2010

A mysterious cipher is being scrawled on the walls around London. The first person to see the cipher is dead within hours of reading it. Sherlock plunges into a world of codes and symbols, consulting with London's best graffiti artists. He soon learns that the city is in the grip a gang of international smugglers, a secret society called the Black Lotus.

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You took your time. Yeah, I didn't get the shopping.
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We'd come down to breakfast in the formal hall
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There's a bigger one on its way.
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BUZZES
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Requires quite a bit of contortion.
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Harrow, Oxford...very bright guy.
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Two Ming vases up for auction - Chenghua.
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I learned the clarinet at school.
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SIREN WAILS
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I can't believe that she would just...abandon them.
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Lukis' diary. He was here too.
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Our acrobat.
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How, exactly?
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unable to decipher the message.
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Two men who travelled back from China were murdered.
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except to work for the bosses.
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That's why Zhi Zhu's come. KNOCK AT DOOR
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I had...a bit of a late one.
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I think so, yes. There's a coincidence(!)
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The warrior has to escape his bonds before it fires.
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I gave the order for a raid.
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Minute! Gib mir doch mein Buch zuruck!
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Do you have the treasure? I don't understand.
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Yes, that's not actually mine. He lent that to me.
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Exactly.
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