Current Events > Sherlock "A Study in Pink", how did the cabbie choose the right pill?

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YoshitoKikuchi
06/21/17 4:39:01 PM
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Outside, the cabbie (Phil Davis) confesses to the killings, but proclaims he merely speaks to his victims and they kill themselves. He challenges Sherlock to solve his puzzle, and later, inside a quiet college building, the cabbie pulls out two bottles, each containing an identical pill. He says one of the pills is harmless, the other poison; he invites his victims to choose one, promising he will swallow the other — and he will simply shoot them if they refuse.

How did he always choose the right pill?
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Chicken
06/21/17 4:40:24 PM
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I uh...

That's a good question.
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Sad_Face
06/21/17 4:41:11 PM
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Because he's damned good at reading his opponent.
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dr_marble
06/21/17 4:41:31 PM
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I don't think it could be possible, but I'm interested in hearing theories.
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AsucaHayashi
06/21/17 4:45:41 PM
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it's supposed to be the victim's choice so the cabbie doesn't choose.

he just knows which pill is the poison and baits the victim with mind games(like he does to sherlock) and they just chose wrong every time.
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l Dudeboy l
06/21/17 4:50:19 PM
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He didn't care if he lost because he was dying anyway.
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YoshitoKikuchi
06/21/17 7:46:51 PM
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AsucaHayashi posted...
it's supposed to be the victim's choice so the cabbie doesn't choose.

he just knows which pill is the poison and baits the victim with mind games(like he does to sherlock) and they just chose wrong every time.


That's what I mean, how does he always happen to end up with the right pill? There didn't seem to be any way to distinguish betwern them.
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Darkman124
06/21/17 7:51:59 PM
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both pills are poison and he's built up resistance to it
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UnholyMudcrab
06/21/17 7:52:33 PM
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prince_leo
06/21/17 7:54:14 PM
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Darkman124 posted...
both pills are poison and he's built up resistance to it

this, or the water he gives them is the real poison and he takes them dry
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Shin Kudo
06/21/17 8:02:00 PM
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prince_leo posted...
Darkman124 posted...
both pills are poison and he's built up resistance to it

this, or the water he gives them is the real poison and he takes them dry

That's interesting. I would have never thought about that
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yusiko
06/21/17 8:14:11 PM
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The water thing is interesting
I was going to go with both are poison and he is just immune
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YoshitoKikuchi
06/22/17 1:22:18 AM
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prince_leo posted...
Darkman124 posted...
both pills are poison and he's built up resistance to it

this, or the water he gives them is the real poison and he takes them dry


Both interesting.
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wolverinev2
06/22/17 1:53:12 AM
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He was chosen due to his intelligence, which allowed him to read people and goad them into picking the poison pill.
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pegusus123456
06/22/17 1:54:53 AM
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He doesn't. He only killed like three people, right? It's no more weird than flipping heads on a coin three times in a row.
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AlisLandale
06/22/17 4:05:23 AM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
Come on, haven't you seen the Princess Bride?


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Sativa_Rose
06/22/17 4:12:51 AM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
Come on, haven't you seen the Princess Bride?


Come on, haven't you read The Count of Monte Cristo?
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itachi15243
06/22/17 4:18:11 AM
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It's possible that the poison needs some sort of catalist that's in the water

And all the pills are poison

Or even just the water itself is poison
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pegusus123456
06/22/17 4:23:05 AM
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Oh, I forgot that the killer does say it's not chance.

I still say ya'll are overcomplicating it. It can literally just be that he kept the pills in different pockets.

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Sativa_Rose
06/22/17 4:24:50 AM
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Hmm yeah that makes me think it could be a sleight of hand kind of thing where he ends up taking a pill, and it looks like he took the one in the other bottle, but in reality it was a completely different pill he had hidden somewhere
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