"Bengazi ngaphambi kokukhuluma ngokukhululwa okukhethekile kukaKhisimusi. Angizwanga ukuthi ngabe izosuswa noma cha, "kusho uWilli engxoxweni. Ubuye wengeza ukuthi banoMlingisi weStubbs angalungisa, adlala uNkk Hudson, ehlala enza inani elikhudlwana leziqephu ochungechungeni. "Besilokhu sithi kuzoba kuhle ukususa olunye uchungechunge, kodwa ngeshwa, isinqumo sokugcina asisinakho," i-Star Appeasut.
Ezinsukwini ezimbalwa ngemuva kwenhlolokhono, uhlelo lwe-Radio Times Edition lucabanga ukuthi lapho izilaleli kufanele zilinde uchungechunge olusha nokuthi uSherlock uzobuya kwizikrini. Kunezindaba ezinhle nezimbi: Umbukiso ngeke uqede, kepha iziqephu ezintsha kuzodingeka zilinde isikhathi eside kakhulu. UStephen Moffat noMark Geytis basho lokhu okulandelayo: "Asinalo uhlelo olucacile lokudubula, kodwa singamangala uma bengasikhiphi isizini entsha, sinikezwe umdlandla weqembu lonke lokuhlunga. Ngeke sikusho lapho kwenzeka. Mhlawumbe isikhathi sesifikile isikhathi eside. Kepha into eyodwa icacile: Ngeke siqhubeke ku- "Sherlock" ngenkathi behlanganyela ku- "Dracula", futhi ukudubula kwalolu chungechunge kuzothatha okungenani iminyaka emibili. "