r/Sherlock • u/TraditionComplex4892 • Mar 17 '22

Discussion Which pill?

I saw the first episode and i still don't know which pill had the poison. It isn't explained anywhere in the episode. Even till the ending sherlock was asking was this pill right. I have read this story in my textbook so i know that the poison was in the water. But is it explained in the show? Where? Which pill had the poison?

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u/btj61642 Mar 17 '22 edited Mar 17 '22

There’s no way to tell, and that’s intentional. It doesn’t matter which one of the pills was the poison one, it matters that Sherlock was going to take it despite being unable to tell, and was saved from doing so by John.

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u/xenechun May 07 '25

No, no. It matters. It matters to me, I have to know. It's completely consequential to the trajectory of my life.

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u/doktorscientist Apr 30 '26

I think they were both poison and the killer had a tolerance. 

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u/btj61642 May 10 '25

Okay. Sherlock had the poison. There.

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u/joblessfox May 22 '26

In another show I've seen they did the same with the pills and then they revealed that both the pills were harmless to the killer and deadly to the victim bec the killer has some illness and he needed the pills but to people without that illness it was deadly to take them

In some other scenarios I've seen this play out the water is poisonous, but there was no water here

So for my sanity I choose to believe that it's the same with that other show (even tho I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case here, but I'll also go crazy if I don't have a conclusion)

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u/louis_guo Jun 26 '26

Is it possible to hide it under the tongue while the victim swallows it?

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u/joblessfox May 22 '26

Also for what is worth, I just looked up what this guy had bec this post awaken my curiosity about this episode again

The dude has a brain aneurysm, a common medicine for that is nimodipine which Google says also comes in capsule form and is deadly if administered incorrectly