Sherlock Holmes wrote:

At the beginning when he texts everyone in the room saying "Wrong!". Pretty amazing....

Anybody know how something like that can be done?

It's called GeoFencing.  Here's everything you never wanted to know:

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Don't worry, Besley!  Turns out they're just mannequins... museum display.

Clearly, Archie is smarter than all of them.

He solved Major Sholto's murder after all. 

I hope I'm not committing heresy by suggesting that he didn't throw it in the pool because he just wasn't thinking clearly!  He's brilliant, yes, but was visibly agitated by the whole situation.

Additional reasons could include: 
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1)  Moriarty had already thrown the USB stick in the pool, so for pure storytelling reasons, maybe it felt redundant?

2)  It was a down coat, wasn't it?  Wouldn't it float? 

Hi CumberCookie! I love your username, it's adorable 

Hello Julie!  I'm new here too. 

Thank you Susi 

So many nuances to be careful of when learning a new language...

Yay! Another equestrian!  Nice to meet you Davina.  I used to make rhythm beads and rope halters myself and sell them on eBay.... oh, way back when, probably 15 years ago now.  I couldn't compete with the factory mass-producers of course.  It was too time/labor consuming to be truly profitable. But I did it during the summer months (which is the equestrian off-season here) really just for the fun of it and a little bit of extra money to supplement my seasonal income.  All my buyers were always the nicest people and it was fun interacting with people from all over the country.

PM me your web address if you don't want to post it here, I'd like to check out your stuff.

Now, as for which of our intrepid heroes would jump on a horse to chase down a bad guy, I see the poll officially stands at 1 vote Sherlock and 1 vote John.

Viewed within the confines of BBC's Sherlock, I would lean towards John myself.  I figure being a military man and all.  Maybe he put in some time in a mounted regiment?  But THEN I learned Martin Freeman can't drive a car in real life!  And of course we know Sherlock drove them to Baskerville.  So, then I'm like, hmm...  maybe John Watson can't drive either?  We've never seen him drive, have we?

I don't know why, but I think someone who never learned how to drive, *generally speaking*, probably wouldn't know how to ride either... but maybe that's just me!

Maybe Sherlock and Mycroft spent more time taking riding lessons when they were in grade school than I previously realized.  Hey, that's a fic in itself!

My vote remains undecided.  More research is necessary!

Um, newbie here.  What is "ARD"?

As for the subtitles, I'd say they are specific to the DVD's because it is strictly dialogue-only.  Subtitles for hearing-impaired usually include things like "[door creaks open], [motor starts] [kettle whistles]" because hearing impaired people don't just need help with the dialogue, they miss all the sound cues too.

The Sherlock DVD's don't have this, neither in English or German. :/  Which was a little surprising to me, because in America, I think it's like a law or something that it be "Closed Captioned" (in the US & Canada this means subtitled for the hearing impaired).  I don't have a single made-for-US-market DVD that isn't CC'd in English.

Oh, and another word about the dubbing: those of you who were complaining earlier in the thread about the persistence of formal "Sie" throughout Sherlock & John's dialogue, I can tell you that the subtitles always say "du".  I'm not sure when it started, I'd have to go back and check the first episode. (Probably after the front door handshake, if I had to guess.)  But it was the very first thing I noticed as being a constant source of discrepancy between the spoken dubbing and the subtitles, hence a stumbling block for me, so that's why I noticed it right away.

It is a puzzle, as you'd think dubbing "du" for you would work just as well, if not better, than "Sie" for you.  Maybe it's a word order thing...

As a not-native speaker, I for one can't wait until "du" cancels out "Sie" completely for all but the most formal of circumstances!  It would make German so much more comprehensible to English speakers like me.