This makes him vastly different from past foes like Jim Moriarty, who was psychopathic, but also charming and had ulterior motives, and Magnussen, who was blank and amoral, yet had a reasoning behind his behaviour. Culverton doesn't murder people out of hate or love, but simply because he enjoys killing, and turning people into "things".
Culverton is described as being "the worst person in London", Sherlock's darkest foe yet. He also realizes that this confession will make him even more famous, and that he may be able to "break America".Ĭulverton Smith is nothing more than the ultimate personification of psychopathy, sadism, and narcissism. After being interrogated by Lestrade, Smith finds that confessing was more enjoyable than he imagined, and "should have done it sooner". Sherlock manages to make Smith confess, his confession is recorded via a device hidden in John's cane, and thus is arrested. Smith attempts to kill Sherlock, believing him to be a threat. After Sherlock tries to attack Smith with a scalpel, he is taken in as a patient to recuperate from drugs. Sherlock comes to suspect Smith of being a serial killer, garnering media attention, which forces Sherlock and John to go with Smith to his hospital. Sherlock comes up against Smith when Faith gives him a slip of paper that she wrote down, reminding her of fragments of the crimes Smith told her.
Smith also has an uncontrollable need to confess to his crimes, going as far as to confess to his closest friends, even his daughter Faith, but making them forget his crimes by inducing them to a memory inhibiting drug. Using his wealth and unassailable power, he is able to use his charity-funded hospital as a way to go into patient's rooms and then kill them, taking inspiration from H. However Smith is secretly a serial killer, likely killing hundreds of people, who doesn't kill out of hate or love, but for the pleasure of killing. He is one of the most prolific undetected serial killers in British criminal history.Ĭulverton Smith is a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, using his fame and fortune to help many charities. Culverton Smith is an antagonist of Sherlock Holmes.
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