So who was that guy at the end of "The Empty Hearse"???
Anyone?
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I'm not sure.
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Wow! A blast from the past! Thanks.
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I had to check Ariane Devere's transcript (https://arianedevere.livejournal.com/) to remember what you were talking about:
Somewhere in a creepy-looking storage room, or laboratory, or warehouse, many rows of shelves are filled with files and folders. Displayed around the room are grotesque dolls, stuffed animals and unpleasant-looking sculptures. At the end of the room, a man wearing thin-rimmed glasses is watching film or CCTV footage displayed on the wall. It shows several angles of John being rescued from the bonfire. Some of it is on a loop, and Maryβs anguished cry of βJohn!β repeats several times while Sherlock drags John out from underneath the bonfire. The man watches intently as the footage repeats over and over again, and his gaze finally settles on a freeze-frame of Sherlock leaning down to the fire just before he pulls John free. The man looks fixedly at Sherlockβs image ... and his pupils rapidly contract.
This man was referenced even more obliquely in the next episode, "The Sign of Three," by a wedding "telegram" signed "CAM." Then in "His Last Vow," he is revealed to be Charles Augustus Magnussen.
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Thanks. Who is he?
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Charles Augustus Magnussen (or CAM for short) is a newspaper mogul and part-time blackmailer, the Big Bad of "His Last Vow" (Series 4, Episode 3). The character is based (loosely, as usual) on Charles Augustus Milverton in the Conan Doyle story that bears his name, but with his surname modified to suit the Scandinavian accent of the actor playing the role in Sherlock.
Okay then. Thanks.
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