Where is Sherlock when you need him?
When the cast of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride went onstage to accept the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie, a crime was taking place at their seats. Amanda Abbington, who plays Mary Watson in the hit BBC show, returned to her seat a little while after accepting the trophy (and talking to reporters) only to discover that her purse had been stolen.
"Thanks for the lovely tweets re; the Emmy's. So pleased we won! Cool, right?" she tweeted. "However, we went up to collect the Emmy, did some press, came back to my seat and some bastard had nicked my purse from under my seat. Nice. Had my phone and driver's licence in it. So whoever took my purse, I hope some terrible Karmic s--t happens to you. How crappy is that."
When one of her followers suggested that it could have gotten kicked behind her seat, Abbington, 42, said she waited for the theater to empty out to continue her search. "@eicochrane No, I hung around until everyone had left the auditorium. Nothing there."
Although that is definitely something that will sour a moment, we hope Abbington was still able to have a good time! Her co-stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, weren't on hand for the celebration, so it was up to her and executive producer Steven Moffat to make up for their absences.
"Thank you to the BBC, who we love above all bakery—British people will get that," Moffat began, possibly referencing the recent exit of The Great British Bake-Off from the network. "To Masterpiece on PBS, still got it, and a list of people I would like to thank in some detail now. But I'm not going to, because it's been a long night, and they're all British. So I'll just go home and phone them."