She tells Holmes about a bizarre meeting three years ago in which her father confessed to his inner circle that he was about to kill, but he did so while they were connected to drips containing a drug that would eventually erase all memory of his criminal confession. The breathless first act sees Sherlock visited by the daughter of Culverton Smith (Toby Jones), a famous British entrepreneur and philanthropist. Key moments just aren’t allowed to play out and breath – John's grief, Sherlock's guilt – since the show is travelling as fast as Mrs Hudson in her Aston Martin. Eventually, it all becomes too much, with the maniac pace and style undercutting the drama. There’s not a scene that isn’t cluttered by a visual effect, voice over, flashback, playful transition, or hallucinatory character, which becomes something a recurrent motif in this particular episode. While I'm sure it's breathless pacing and style meant to be mirroring Sherlock’s drug-induced mania – some of the stylistic choices owe a debt to Trainspotting – after thirty minutes it becomes tiresome. Don't worry he disappears pretty quickly.)
(He also suddenly, and bizarrely, has a drug dealer who lives in his kitchen. The episode opens with a frantic 30 minutes in which not a lot happens – John sees a therapist and mourns the death of Molly, while Sherlock, wracked with guilt, withdraws from society and takes comfort in the arms of an old friend (heroin).
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