Sherlock death shock - Amanda Abbington ‘knew before reading script’
Amanda’s character Mary was shot dead in the series four opener, taking a bullet for Benedict Cumberbatch’s titular hero and prompting a meltdown online.
The fact that the character meets a demise is no secret, given her passing in the original books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; but it certainly came much earlier than fans were expecting.
“People know that Mary doesn’t make it out of the books alive, the spoiler is 120 years old, but the surprise is that it happens in episode one,” Moffatt said, according to What’s On TV.
“In the original, Mary dies between stories, with Watson more or less saying, ‘Oh she’s dead, let’s carry on!’ It’s rather disgraceful. We couldn’t really do that in our version and we take the consequences of the bereavement hugely seriously.