Lily of the Valley

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Lily of the Valley (ヘッドハンターの素顔 lit. The True Face of a Headhunter) is the 3rd episode of season 1 of the Japanese TV series Miss Sherlock, released on 11 may 2018, starring Yuko Takeuchi as "Sherlock" and Shihori Kanjiya as Wato Tachibana. 49 min.

A chief pharmaceutical researcher, Dr. Watanuki, is found in a catatonic state and Sherlock concludes that he had been severely tortured. Years prior, Watanuki developed a drug designed to erase people's fears as part of a government project. Arisa Shiina, a recruiter working for his company, impersonated a newly hired researcher she'd previously interviewed in order to infiltrate restricted areas and steal the data for Watanuki's drug. She then tortured him for information when she could not get through the file's password protection, though he ultimately only revealed part of the password. However, Sherlock figures out that Arisa was actually acting on orders from her younger sister, Yuma, who wants to use the drug to empower victims of abuse. Arisa confronts Sherlock to get her to help them crack the final password while Yuma kidnaps Wato and threatens to electrocute her to death if Sherlock does not cooperate. Sherlock complies, but enters the wrong password on purpose, activating a trap in the file that completely erases all of the data. Yuma nearly kills Wato out of frustration, but she is found and captured by the police in the nick of time. After the sisters' arrest, evidence is found in Yuma's room that seems to link both her and Akiko Mizuno (the psychologist) to a mysterious organization called Stella Maris.

References to the original Sherlock Holmes stories in this episode :

Miss Sherlock is doing some chemistry in his apartment (like in GLOR 124).
She has knowledge is bees (like in LAST 365).
The plot of secret papers stolen is similar to the plot of The Naval Treaty.
Miss Sherlock's older brother, Kento, is working for the Public Security Office (like the original Mycroft Holmes in GREE 13).
Miss Sherlock's address number is 221B. The original Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson lived at 221B, Baker Street, London (STUD (182).
She solved the crypted password using her deductive skills like in The Dancing Men.
She eats Beeton's chocolate. Beeton's Christmas Annual was the first magazine to publish a Sherlock Holmes story in 1887.