John hears it and figures out that Adler is still alive and correctly guesses that it's Sherlock's birthday and that that's why Adler sent the text.Īdler is scheming and manipulative. Whilst John is watching Sherlock at the end of "The Lying Detective", Sherlock receives a text message with the distinctive Adler alert sound. The executioner is revealed to be Sherlock in disguise and the two battle their way out, presumably successfully.Īdler next appears in "The Sign of Three" as a figment of Sherlock's mind palace whilst he is attempting to solve the Mayfly man case. We then hear the distinctive text message alert that denotes a text message from Adler to Sherlock (she set his phone to play a recording of her earlier in the episode) coming from behind her.
She is presumed dead, with the only information on her given by Mycroft Holmes, mentioning that she was captured by a terror cell and beheaded.Ī flash back at the end of the episode shows that when she was about to be executed by the terrorist, she sent a goodbye text message to Sherlock. She is using them, and other information on her mobile phone, for her 'protection'. Irene had taken compromising images of a young female member of the British Royal family during a dominatrix session.Įven though Irene does not want money or power for the pictures, Sherlock is tasked in getting them back.
She is brought to Sherlock's attention when he and John are summoned to Buckingham Palace by Mycroft and are asked to take on a case of national importance. She has been in the middle of two political scandals in recent years, one of them involving a famous author, in which she had an affair with both sides. Whilst Mycroft is telling Sherlock about Irene, he states that she is a dominatrix who gives out 'recreational scolding' to people. Irene Adler, professionally known as " The Woman", was a celebrity dominatrix and extortionist who had a brief attraction to Sherlock Holmes.
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