'Sherlock' Season 4 Spoilers: Benedict Cumberbatch's Onscreen Love Interest Irene Adler to Return?

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By Sonalee singh | June 20, 2014 12:53 PM EST




There is still no news as to when would "Sherlock" season 4 would go on air but fans can't wait to know as to what all would happen in the new season of BBC's immensely popular detective series.  The much evident question in the fans mind is the return of Sherlock's potential love interest Irene Adler.

The character, portrayed as a dominatrix by Lara Pulver left an indelible impression when she almost beat Sherlock Holmes in the episode called "The Scandal in Bohemia". After that she only appeared once in Sherlock's mind palace in the episode called "The Sign of Three". Interestingly, Adler appeared in Sherlock's imagination in all her naked glory.

Would Adler return in Season 4? Fans think that the spark she shares with Sherlock it would be hard for her to stay away from him forever and she may return in Season 4. However, if the creators go by Sir Arthur Thomas Doyle's stories, then Irene may never come back as she does not appear after "The Scandal in Bohemia" (the short story "A Scandal in Belgravia," in which Sherlock meets the character, is based on).

However, Benedict Cumberbatch, would love to have Pulver back on the show as Irene.

"She was terrific fun," he told the Radio Times last year. "She was so brilliant in [Series 2] and we'd love to have her back. Maybe not in this series, but she's a great strong character, even though she only appeared once."

But one of the co-creators Mark Gatiss, who also plays Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes, is in doubts whether Adler's character should be brought back or not.


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Lara Pulver: Acting opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman was "thrilling"

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Susanna Lazarus
3:46 PM, 06 March 2014



For Lara Pulver, the role of Irene Adler was a "gift". Not only did it afford her the chance to play opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman - "no mean feat" - but it gave her the opportunity to show exactly what she could do. A performance we're still talking about, two years on.

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Sherlock Season 3 Spoilers: More about Benedict Cumberbatch’s Return in Episode 1 ‘The Empty Hearse’

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By jaskiran kaur | November 15, 2013 10:26 PM EST

Since the air date of the BBC's "Sherlock" is revealed, fans have become all the more excited about it. Sherlock Season 3 and its Episode 1 "The Empty Hearse" has got everyone speculating and talking about the plot. For more, fans are already speculating the return of Irene Adler to romance Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock.

More about Sherlock Season 3, Episode 1 'The Empty Hearse:' What, When and Where [Spoilers]

As revealed by Mark Gatiss the Episode 1 "The Empty Hearse" will take us to London Underground as the episode is inspired by a "Doctor Who" episode of 1968 titled "The Web of Fear."

Spoilers and speculation of the much-awaited Sherlock Season 3, Episode 1 "The Empty Hearse" have revealed that the show will begin by showing Sherlock's and Watson's reunion after the gap of two years. Soon after, viewers will learn how Sherlock survived "The Fall." And the episode will proceed to the London Underground. As per the spoilers and speculations there is a lot in store for fans to look forward to in the entire season 3 of "Sherlock." (Click here to know more about Sherlock Season 3)

While the UK air dates are yet to be revealed, we already know that Benedict Cumberbatch will return as Sherlock in Season 3, Episode 1 "The Empty Hearse" on Jan. 19 ,2013  at 10PM after the show "Downtown Abbey" on BBC in US. Also, a special screening event of the Season 3 Episode 1 will be held in the British Film Institute on Dec. 15 which will be followed by a Q&A round with the cast and production team members. It is also anticipated that the UK fans won't have to wait much as the show is expected to air in the beginning of the year 2014.


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Sherlock Series 3: Lara Pulver teases Irene Adler return, saying “I didn’t say you wouldn’t be seeing me”!

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September 12th, 2013 by Anna Howell.

After previously admitting that she could see her character making a Sherlock return, actress Lara Pulver has hinted that we may be seeing Irene Adler again in series 3!

Pulver’s entrance as Adler in series 2 as a dominatrix who repeatedly outwitted Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) before being finally defeated herself, caused quite a stir in “A Scandal in Belgravia” with many complaining to Ofcom about her opening scene, in which she sits completely naked. The flirty minx got right inside Sherlock’s head, and heart a little bit after bombarding him with text messages asking him to meet her for dinner.

However, despite the obvious attraction, it was earlier reported that the character would not be featuring in the new series of Sherlock, which is due to air on our screens either late this year or early next, despite Lara Pulver suggesting that we have not seen the last of her. However, in a recent interview with the Radio Times Pulver has now hinted that these reports could be wrong and that her character might be making an appearance in the tightly guarded series 3.


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Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict cumberbatch: Elementary season 2 - where next for the wacky Sherlock Holmes update? (RADIO TIMES)

Paul Jones
12:19 PM, 29 May 2013

Season one of Elementary ended last night on Sky Living – and what a crazy ride it's been. In case it passed you by, it was set in New York, not London, and in the 21st century, not the Victorian era. Dr Watson was a woman. And so was Moriarty (oh, and she was also Irene Adler, who was also Sherlock's former girlfriend, who came back from the dead – but let's not get too bogged down in the detail).

While all those changes may well have had Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spinning in his grave, they've been a recipe for success as far as Elementary goes, with a second series already on its way. The two-pipe problem now (not that Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock Holmes smokes a pipe, of course, he doesn't smoke anything, he's a recovering drug addict – sorry forgot to mention that) is where can it possibly go from here? Here are a few theories...

Watson is Moriarty


Anyone else think Joan Watson became a brilliant detective in her own right a little too easily? And that Natalie Dormer's Irene Adler/"Moriarty" ended up being a bit too much of a pushover and falling for the oldest trick in the book: "We're alone, so I may as well confess everything"? Joan is the real shadowy figure behind the shadowy figure, who has been manipulating Holmes all along (a "sober companion" is not actually a thing – get a grip people). Series two will see more of the same, with Joan/Moriarty planting the idea in Sherlock's head that they should head to London in order to fulfil her ultimate goal – meeting Benedict Cumberbatch.

Watson is Holmes


We've seen already (above) that Lucy Liu's character may, in fact, have been manipulating Sherlock Holmes all along – but in this version of the hypothesis she actually is the detective and "Holmes" is a vulnerable mental patient/idiot savant/idiot she uses as a front for her investigations. It's not the first time a theory like this has been posited – 1988 movie Without a Clue saw Ben Kingsley's Dr Watson shunning the limelight and feeding his deductions to hapless actor Michael Caine, who he'd employed to play the role of the great detective.

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Jonny Lee Miller - (SPOILER) Elementary: Moriarty’s identity revealed in US Sherlock Holmes update Spoilers: don't read on if you don't want to know who plays the detective's nemesis before the season finale airs (RADIO TIMES)

Radio Times staff
4:17 PM, 21 May 2013

We learnt back in April that Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer was set to play Sherlock Holmes's former lover Irene Adler in US update Elementary. And earlier this month we were told that the season finale would see Jonny Lee Miller's detective face a showdown with arch-enemy Moriarty, the man he believed had killed Irene. Then, just last week, UK viewers discovered Irene's secret – that she's not dead after all.

But now (right now, if you're still reading this) as the series approaches the climax to its first season, there's one more major twist still to come...

...Irene Adler is Moriarty!

Dormer's character will be unveiled as the brilliant criminal nemesis when she shoots one of her own henchmen in order to save Holmes's life.

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Jonny Lee Miller: 'Elementary' Season 1 Finale Spoilers: Sherlock Deals With His Past in 'Heroine' and 'The Woman' [Video]

“The Woman” – As Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) reels at the reappearance of his former lover, Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer), a series of flashbacks unravel the tumultuous events that led to his downfall into addiction , on the two hour season finale of ELEMENTARY, on Thursday, May 16 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Also pictured is Lucy Liu. (Photo : Jeffrey Neira /CBS)

The first season of CBS exciting new drama ‘Elementary’ is coming to a close this week with a special two-hour finale. The Thursday night finale kicks off with “The Woman,” as Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) comes face-to-face with his presumed dead former lover Irene (guest star Natalie Dormer). Fans saw how Sherlock broke down at seeing her again in last week’s episode.

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Jonny Lee Miller: Sherlock to face showdown with Moriarty in Elementary finale (RADIO TIMES)

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Paul Jones

3:27 PM, 09 May 2013

A tense, season-ending showdown between Sherlock Holmes and his arch-nemesis Moriarty – it’s a scenario fans of BBC1's Sherlock are familiar with. And it’s one that’s set to repeat itself in Elementary, the stateside take on the great detective.

So far, the closest Jonny Lee Miller’s New York-based Sherlock Holmes has come to the criminal mastermind he believes murdered his former lover – one Irene Adler – is a phone conversation. But as the first series of the US show approaches its conclusion, Elementarycreator Rob Doherty says all that is about to change.

“It is a Moriarty-centric finale” says Doherty. “It comes to our attention he may be operating in New York. The finale is really about a build to a showdown between Sherlock and Moriarty."

Not that the action will be entirely confined to the Big Apple. For the first time, viewers will see Sherlock in his native London, in flashback sequences that will also introduce Adler, played by British actress and Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer.

“For the first time, we're going to see actual moments from his past,” says Doherty. “We're going to see him outside of New York and in London. Seeing London isn't so much the point. It's really about how he came to meet and fall for Irene Adler.

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“Hugh Bonneville has a fine arse” Lara Pulver on the Sherlock effect, why she’s embracing more sex and violence in Da Vinci’s Demons and the lure of Bond

By PAUL SIMPER
Last Updated: 19th April 2013

FORMER Sherlock actress Lara Pulver plays Clarice Orsini, the seductive wife of Lorenzo Medici, in David Goyer’s violent, raunchy fantastical imagining of the life of the young Leonardo Da Vinci, Da Vinci’s Demons...

Lara, last time we spoke you had just finished Spooks and were flying back to LA when you got a call from a certain [Sherlock co-creator] Steven Moffat.

Mr Moffat. I did indeed. I wrapped Spooks then read the episode of Sherlock — A Scandal In Belgravia — on the plane back to LA. They said to me: “Come back” but I’d literally just landed so I managed to persuade them to let me tape myself in Los Angeles and send it over. I said: “Let’s use the fact that I’m eight hours behind you. You watch it and tomorrow if you still want me to fly I will wake up at 7am and I will get on the first plane.” [Laughs.] And that’s what I did.

Has it been a life-changing role?

It really has. It’s been a catapult into the big world of the industry.

Have fantasy fans been excited about you being cast in Da Vinci’s Demons from the moment it was announced?

I think David Goyer has such a loyal fan base that there has been that, but there’s been a lot of mystique about this show and what it actually is. There’s a lot of humour — dark humour as well as wit. Then there’s a childlike element. David Goyer has managed to create this mystical world where anything is possible. We’re challenging everything we thought we knew about this man — Leonardo da Vinci — and saying there’s a huge part of his history [between the ages of 18-33] that we don’t know about. So David Goyer is showing him as a Renaissance superhero.

People do also get their kit off, don’t they? Firstly Hugh Bonneville...
He stepped up.

With a fine arse.

Yes, very well put. It’s a fine arse!

Do you also have your moments?

I think the show isn’t unflinching in any way. Whether it’s sex, violence, religion, politics — we face everything head on. It’s bold. And yet not for one second did I feel uncomfortable with any of the subject matter. Actually it was just thought-provoking.


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Jonny Lee Miller: Natalie Dormer On The 'Elementary' Set With Jonny Lee Miller (PHOTO) Posted: 04/12/2013 6:23 pm EDT | Updated: 04/12/2013 6:28 pm EDT (HUFF POST)

The British actress, who plays Margaery Tyrell on "Game of Thrones," has joined the CBS drama's take on the classic Sherlock Holmes stories as the revered Irene Adler. TV Guide was the first to report the casting news earlier this week.

Jonny Lee Miller, who plays Sherlock in the show, tweeted a picture of himself with Dormer on the "Elementary" set


Adler has been an unseen character on "Elementary" Season 1. She was described as Sherlock's ex who died at the hands of serial killer "M.", which fueled Sherlock's descent into drug addiction. When Sherlock later confronted "M." -- who turned out to be Sebastian Moran (Vinnie Jones) -- he learned that Adler was actually killed by Moraiarty.

In November, "Elementary" executive producer Rob Doherty told TV Guide, "As we build our Irene and we get into more detail, obviously, she has to be fairly unique, in that someone like Sherlock found himself attracted to her ... As we've said in the past, he doesn't really like to get close to anyone, let alone women. The way we've depicted him, to this point in the season, he's not an especially romantic kind of guy ... Irene has to have a certain strength. I see someone who has to have managed to surprise Sherlock in small, but significant ways. He's so easily bored by the predictable."

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Jonny Lee Miller: 'Elementary' Casts 'Game of Thrones' Actress as Irene Adler 1:09 PM PDT 4/9/2013 by Philiana Ng (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

Elementary has found its Irene Adler.

Natalie Dormer will begin her three-episode arc May 9.

Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer has been cast in the pivotal role on the CBS drama, the network announced Tuesday. She will begin her three-episode arc May 9.

Irene Adler plays a significant part in Sherlock Holmes' (Jonny Lee Miller) past, as his first and only love in London. Her mysterious murder by Sherlock's nemesis Moriarty caused his downward spiral into drug addiction.

“We're moving to the next chapter in our show – and in some ways, to a previous chapter in Holmes' story,” said executive producer and creator Rob Doherty. “Irene Adler is perhaps the most pivotal relationship in Sherlock's life, and I can't think of an actress better suited to the challenge than Natalie.”


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Elementary Scoop: How Will Sherlock and Watson's Relationship Change Now? By Natalie Abrams, TV GUIDE (SEATTLE PI)

Following Sherlock's (Jonny Lee Miller) run-in with Sebastian Moran (Vinnie Jones), Joan (Lucy Liu) decided to ask Sherlock's father for an extension on their contract. But when he denied her request, she lied to Sherlock in order to stay during his time of need.

"It's not a lie that Joan is going to live with for a particularly long time," executive producer Rob Doherty tells TVGuide.com. "It's something that we expect to get around to in the next three or four episodes."

Naturally, once Sherlock finds out the truth, it will initially cause a divide between him and Watson. "The expectation would be that Sherlock would feel betrayed and upset and embarrassed," Doherty says. "He was so resistant to the idea of Joan in the very beginning. He did not think he needed help. He's learned over time that it's a good thing to have her around."

Elementary Scoop: When will we meet Irene Adler?


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'Elementary': SPOILER ALERT finally shows up ... kind of by Denise Warner (EW.COM)

If you haven’t seen tonight’s Elementary, stop reading now. Spoilers to follow.

It finally happened. Twelve episodes into CBS’ modern day Sherlock Holmes series Elementary, Moriarty appears. Well, almost.

Elementary doesn’t follow the literary character’s trajectory as closely as another updated version, the BBC’s Sherlock. But it would be hard to imagine a Holmes who doesn’t face Moriarty — his greatest foe from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels. Many recent adaptions of Sherlock Holmes — including the aforementioned BBC show, and the Robert Downey Jr. movies — use Moriarty as the big bad. So it felt like only a matter of time before Elementary went down that path.

In the latest hour, titled “M,” Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) hunts down a serial killer named M, who murdered Sherlock’s beloved Irene Adler during a London killing spree. The detective/consultant was heavily involved in M’s pursuit when he worked with Scotland Yard, and now M, like Sherlock, has made his way across the pond.

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Lara Pulver Discusses If She’ll Return In Sherlock Season 3 Saturday, October 13th, 2012 at 12:30pm (SPIN OFF ON LINE)

So far all we know about the third season of BBC’s Sherlock are three words: “Rat. Wedding. Bow.” It’s not much to go on, but it’s plenty to get excited about.

It turns out that not even the actors involved — or those that could be involved — know what’s going to be happening in the hit drama’s next three episodes.

“I have no idea,” Lara Pulver, who played Irene Adler in the first episode of Season 2, told reporters at New York Comic Con before she burst out laughing. “We start shooting in January, Season 3. They’re writing the episodes — three episodes — as we speak. I have no idea if she’ll stay as a one-episode wonder or whether she’ll return for the final season.”

“A Scandal in Belgravia” was nominated for an Emmy, but ended up losing to HBO’s Game Change. Pulver said that, in this case, she expected the overwhelmingly positive response to the episode and her character.

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Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock fell in love with Irene Adler' (THE SUN)

By JENNY MANNING Published: 25th June 2012

BENEDICT Cumberbatch has revealed his character Sherlock Holmes was in love with dominatrix Irene Adler

 He says the detective definitely fell for Irene, who appeared in A Scandal in Belgravia — the first episode of the second series of hit BBC1 show Sherlock.

 Benedict said: "Well, he's supposedly an asexual, emotionless machine, and has cut off feelings of attraction or sensory enjoyment or interest in the female form other than to gain information. "So it was how to get the audience to believe that you could possibly be in a position that was vulnerable - how could he possibly be feeling something for this woman?

 "But the thing about (Irene) that is very obvious when you read (the 1891 short story by Sherlock's creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which the character first appears) is Sherlock definitely does fall for her and he does lose his cool. "He's no longer the logical machine. He fell for her charms. "And so it was a balancing act, but it was so deftly written (by the show's co-creator Steven Moffat) that it was so easy to do."

 Actress Lara Pulver, who played Irene, certainly made an impression on viewers after filming one scene entirely naked except for a pair of high heels.


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