Canon Discussion Post: The Resident Patient

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Canon talk time, everyone! What did you think of The Resident Patient? As always, I've written up a few of my own random thoughts and comments, which are behind the jump. Add your own in the comments!

Note: Granada discussion is available in the Granada discussion post. Thanks!

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Granada Discussion Post: The Resident Patient

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Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's adaptation of The Resident Patient. If you haven't seen the episode yet, you can find it at YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Video, and DVD. Follow me behind the jump for some of my random thoughts and impressions. Please add your own in the comments!

Note: Canon discussion is available in the canon discussion post. Thanks!

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The Resident Patient: Parallel Paths

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Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Title: Parallel Paths
Author: bwblack
Rating: G
Characters: Watson



Watson couldn't help but notice certain similarities. Their client was another fine physician forced to subsist on limited funds.

A mysterious stranger offered shared accommodation, comfortable rooms, a new career. A new life.

A former bank robber who took solitary walks before dinner? Or a consulting detective with whom Watson could ramble through London?

He owed Stamford an immeasurable debt.

The Resident Patient: The Page and His Brother

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Canon: The Resident Patient (RESI)
Title: The Page and His Brother
Author: ennui_enigma
Rating: G
POV: The pageboy
A/N: What became of the page, of whom Holmes remarked, “He has played a not unimportant part in this drama”? Inspiration from RESI and STOC.

My brother was the brains and mastermind behind our adventures. He found me that position as a pageboy on Brooke Street where we earned quite a penny with only minor inconveniences from the police. I was proud of Beddington’s skills as forger and cracksman. When I read of his capture at Mawson & Williams I knew my future was hopeless.

The Resident Patient: Another Explanation

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Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Titles: Another Explanation.
Author: trillsabells
Rating: PG
A/N So I went for the dialogue prompt and couldn’t stop thinking about Blessington’s fortune.

“It’s against my oath as a doctor and my morals as a human being.”

“He’s a criminal; morality has no hold with him. Anyway, we’re not asking you to kill him, just make sure the door is left unbolted. Think about all the good you could do with all that money you’re due to inherit and no crotchety hanger on.”

RESI - Learning the Trade

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Learning the Trade by mistyzeo
Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Rated G, no warnings.

Looking back on my notes of the Brook Street Mystery with the eyes of a much better-informed man, I can see now the clues to which Holmes was referring. I had wondered at him, for the traces of ash were so slight and the footsteps so faint, that he must have looked long and hard to know their origins.

The Resident Patient: The Best of the Yarders

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Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Title: The Best of the Yarders
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: U

I have high hopes of Inspector Lanner: it is always agreeable to be greeted with delight rather than scepticism by a Scotland Yard officer. Despite his failure to recognise the murder as such, he was also prompt in following my suggestion of tracing the page. I feel he will go much further in his career than a blunderer like Lestrade.

The Resident Patient: The Brook Street Pigeon

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Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Title: The Brook Street Pigeon (part of The Ocelot Tales)
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G
A/N: She is sitting on a windowsill, looking in.

This is the first time I’ve seen a man behave like this: bending down, picking things up over and over again.  He’s not eating them; he’s not a pigeon after all.  But there’s clearly a purpose in what he’s doing and he’s very methodical.  The others: like any male pigeon, standing round watching with a bemused expression on their faces.

RESI: One Ramble Taken, Another Missed

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Canon story: The Resident Patient
Title: One Ramble Taken, Another Missed
Author: impulsereader

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“You are exceedingly energetic this evening, my dear doctor.” His companion was vigorously sifting through a stack of papers. He lazily bowed a few staccato notes to illustrate.

“I cannot imagine where those pages have got to, Holmes.”

“You’re habitually very careful. Perhaps a stroll...”

“No, I set aside this time specifically.”

The violin produced a sulky glissando in response.

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A/N: There was a lot of talk of plot holes in the discussion on this story. This inspired me to take Watson’s observation that he cannot fix the date of this case exactly “for some of my memoranda upon the matter have been mislaid” and give Holmes a failed plan to complement that.

RESI: Cold

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Canon Story: The Resident Patient

Title: Cold

Author: Chess Ka

Rating: G

A/N: Doctor Trevelyan's point-of-view on his circumstances when he was in "want of capital", and trying to save up for a practice in Brook Street.

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I struck a match, cupping my hand around it as I lit my last candle. My table - an overturned wooden box – wobbled as I wrote my patients' notes. I was forced to wrap myself in one blanket. My breath misted in the air before me, and my fingers ached with cold.

My circumstances could not change soon enough.

The Resident Patient: Built On Sand

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Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Title:  Built On Sand
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Notes: My second round of 60s will concentrate on the Moriarty family, which I've based on canon as far as possible, but tweaked a lot due to gaps in canon. You can find a family tree and some explanation in my journal, but please feel free to ask, too.
'Holmes' obviously refers to Mycroft, POV is Jane's once more.

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I had been granted access to crime records quite early, and some years later, when my assaults on Holmes grew less frequent, they wouldn’t lock me up anymore either.

It was easy to guess the brain behind the bank robberies with Biddle and Hayward having been in my eldest brother’s college gang. They never reached the harbour. Holmes didn’t object.

The Resident Patient: Late

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Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Title: Late
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: Holmes shows up forty-five minutes late for his meeting at Baker Street with Watson, Dr. Trevelyan, and Inspector Lanner, keeping everyone waiting.


My pocket watch comes out once more. Half three. He's quite late now.

The inspector taps his foot to an anxious rhythm. Trevelyan's back twisting at his fingers again after another refusal of brandy or water. He could use the reinforcement.

The latch opens. Twenty to four. I begin to worry Holmes may be somewhere in need of reinforcements himself.

The Resident Patient: Researches

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Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson
Summary: Holmes researches more than chemicals.
Warnings: Neglible spoilers for RESI.
Word Count: 60, plus a quote from the original story in italics.
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

RESI – Researches

An imperfect vessel ruined a day’s work.

A swift glance showed me what I had missed during that day: my Watson, peaked, restless, longing to be distracted from himself and his lingering ill-health, but not trusting his own strength enough to venture outdoors alone.

Time to resume another, always more fruitful, line of study. Watson always rewards a careful researcher.

"Ha! The stars are out and the wind has fallen. What do you say to a ramble through London?"