There are new pictures from the "Sherlock" set, and it's time to freak out

OMG the game is afoot and it’s impossible to stay calm.

Sherlock Season 4 is currently in production, and even though the new season of the show (and the set) is under tight lock and key, a few images have managed to sneak out of 221B Baker Street. This is kind of a big deal. This is a HUGE deal. Try to stay calm.

Last we saw our favorite sleuth, he was being called back to London because Moriarty is maybe/maybe not alive. During the Sherlock one-off Christmas Special, “The Abominable Bride” we learned that… Moriarty is maybe/maybe not alive and we’re just dying to see exactly what’s going on for Sherlock and his #1 enemy when the show picks back up.

From the new set images, it appears as if Sherlock Holmes has seen better days.

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Though always precious and amazing in our eyes, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock looks a little worse for wear. He’s got visible scruff.

Repeat: Sherlock has scruff.

we’ve never see him have scruff before. There was that one time he was ~dead~ but secretly away on an undercover mission and was kidnapped, and his brother Mycroft had to come and free him and he had a beard, but that was immediately shaved off. Sherlock, what’s got you so wound up?

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It’s obvious that they’re shooting a night scene right now, but it’s hard to tell ~where~. They might be right outside 221B Baker Street, or somewhere else in London (all fences look the same, you know?). There’s also a ~mysterious~ woman and it is NOT ~The Woman~, aka Irene Adler. She’s identified here as being Sian Brooke, and now the bigger question is just WHO and WHAT is she doing with Sherlock??

There’s also a window in this scene. WHAT IS GOING ON??

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And the Sherlock and the ~mystery~ woman are abducted by aliens. Okay, probably not, but with Sherlock anything can happen.

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