“Sherlock” Returns for Season 2

In three thrilling new episodes, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch, The Last Enemy, War Horse) teams up with former army doctor and beleaguered friend John Watson (Martin Freeman, The Hobbit, The Office UK) to solve a dizzying array of crimes with his signature deductive reasoning and his stunning lack of social grace. From Belgravia mansions to windswept moors, the dynamic, if dysfunctional duo battles diabolical — and greatly-anticipated — villains, including a computer-savvy arch-villain who wants to rule the world and a hound from the hinges of Hell.

Co-created by Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss (Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen), season 2 of Sherlock also stars Lara Pulver (True Blood), Russell Tovey (Little Dorrit) and Andrew Scott (Lennon Naked).

Watch Masterpiece Mystery! “Sherlock Season II” May 6, 13 and 20, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. on WCVE PBS/WHTJ PBS

May 6, 2012
A Scandal in Belgravia
Picking up from season 1’s gripping cliff-hanger, the whip-smart Irene Adler takes on Sherlock in a game he is ill-prepared to fight... love.

May 13, 2012
The Hounds of Baskerville
Sherlock and Watson track a gigantic hound to Baskerville, where the military is conducting top-secret experiments. But whether demonic or dubious, something is stalking the moors.

May 20, 2012
The Reichenbach Fall
The crime of the century is just a prelude for the unhinged criminal mastermind, Jim Moriarty, when he poses the diabolical and inescapable “final problem” to Sherlock.