This special wraps up the drama and sets up the upcoming movie, The Hound of the Baskervilles, that should air at some point next year.

In the special, we find out what happened after Shishio and Moriya's henchman fell off the pier and disappeared, how Wakamiya - with the help of a female journalist - tried to find Shishio by digging up his old cases, so it's pretty much a clip show, true, but the added bits, esp. the scenes where Wakamiya meets up with all the people he and Shishio helped... those really tugged at my heart.

Mostly because Iwata Takanori is an amazing actor and here, he's just... Usually, Watson is portrayed as a good-natured, well, fool - a bit, let's face it - a round-bellied everyman's man. But Wakamiya is, uhm. He's kind, that's true, but he also has anger issues and unlike in other adaptations, he's the much less grounded one of the two. And I truly have to applaud the costume department here because they kept sticking Wakamiya in oversized sweaters with sweater paws which made him look even slighter - I noticed that Iwata Takanori looked very thin in this drama, especially next to Fujioka Dean's Shishio which, strangely, fit the dynamics of this Holmes and this Watson pair perfectly.

Also, the fact that this drama did not in any way or shape or form debunk that Wakamiya had feelings for Shishio? That was *chef's kiss* As in, after Shishio's "death", in his blog, Wakamiya wrote about the loss of a "loved one" and when their landlady went all, "Oh, I knew you were in that kind of a relationship!" Wakamiya didn't go all, "You got it wrong" or whatever, he just started talking about something else, so... You know.