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lemon-meringue:

With all these theories popping up on the internet about the Reichenbach Fall, I started to search for clues throughout the episodes, hoping that somehow Moffat has left some hint for us to figure out this mystery. We have:
Rhododendron Ponticum, which can lead us to grayanotoxin. Initial symptoms are excessive salivation, perspiration, vomiting, dizziness, weakness and paresthesia in the extremities and around the mouth, low blood pressure and sinus bradycardia. In higher doses symptoms can include loss of coordination, severe and progressive muscular weakness, bradycardia (and, paradoxically, ventricular tachycardia), and nodal rhythm or Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Despite the potential cardiac problems the condition is rarely fatal and generally lasts less than a day.
IOU, which means “I owe you”, but could be just that? Or maybe it’s about Metric’s song ? jk. But we saw a graffiti on a wall, on a window and on an apple.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales, well, Richard Brook is a storyteller, but why The Brothers Grimm? Is there any story in the book that could fit with the end of the episode? I searched through the stories, but I couldn’t find any clue.
The Hanged Man, why in hell is there an hanged man on 221B Baker Street? Okay, we know that Sherlock is extravagant, but we do know that everything has a meaning on this tv show. Is it a clue?
The Screaming Girl, well, if you believe in Sherlock (I do, of course) he never saw the girl before she was rescued. So why she screamed? Whoever that kidnapped her used a mask, and maybe a wig, looking just like Sherlock. She’s a little girl who was kidnapped and intoxicated, who could blame her for a mistake?
Homeless Network, “Oh, look, we have an audience”. Sherlock asks for privacy and then Moriarty walks away. Then Sherlock looks down and after a while begins to laugh, distracting Moriarty from what’s going on the street. So what IS happening down there? I’m sure that they are from Sherlock’s homeless network, and they are just waiting for a signal.
The Cyclist, I suspect that he’s from the homeless network too, or some other guy that Sherlock hired. Either way, I don’t know if he really drugged John or he just drops him, temporarily affecting John’s head when he hits the ground. John gets up and moves and speaks slowly. His mind is playing tricks, because of the drugs or the fall, and he sees Sherlock’s dead body because his mind relates the fall with an inevitable death. Remember The Hounds of Baskerville?
The Sniper, so I read some people saying that it was impossible that the sniper didn’t see Molly or whoever placing the fake body on the ground. But we must remember two things: first, there was two buses in front of the building, and as soon they left, came the truck with plastic bags, preventing that the sniper could see what was happening on the ground. When the truck leaves, he finally sees Sherlock dead body, and he can aim at John, but that’s no longer needed.
The Handshake, during the episode we see two people die because they touched Sherlock. In the end, Moriarty does exactly the same thing, and he kills himself. What could that mean?
The Ball, The Coat and The Scarf, we never saw Sherlock playing with a ball before. It reminds me House, when he plays with a ball just to help him think. Could that be the occasion? And at that scene Sherlock was without he’s coat and scarf. It was hot or that means something?
The Tear, just like the ball, we never saw Sherlock crying before. It was a heartbreaking scene, but I’m sure that there’s more about it. Why was he crying? We know that Sherlock is not a stone, but he’s not that sentimental too. Maybe it happened because of the toxin?
Moriarty Is Dead, some people are saying that Moriarty’s alive because we never saw the bullet coming out or whatever. Anyway, if Moffat and Gatiss truly follow ACD’s story, then yes, he’s dead. BUT Moriarty’s body was never mentioned on the book…hm
The Truck, ok. I really don’t think that Sherlock could fall inside the truck. I mean, that’s something that James Bond would do, or Chuck Norris, but not Sherlock. I love you, honey, but, no! It was too far from the building and Sherlock didn’t run to jump. But I do think that somehow he managed to go to the truck and then left. Oh, and I think that was Mycroft the driver. Mycroft is always the driver on ACD stories!
Angels, they were mentioned several times throughout the episode, but what does that mean? I just can think about Superwholock, but… well,
Moriarty said several times that Sherlock was beside the angels. And at the cemetery there was a statue of an angel. Coincidence?

Now, talking about ACD stories… The Adventure of the Empty House. If you don’t know what that is, well… it’s when Sherlock returns, three years later. A brief summary for you: a surviving lieutenant of the villain Moriarty is trying to kill Sherlock. So what Sherlock do? He asks a man to make a bust in wax and put his clothes on it. Read a little part of it:
John: “I should be prepared to swear that it was you.”
Sherlock: “The credit of the execution is due to Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble, who spent some days in doing the moulding. It is a bust in wax. The rest I arranged myself during my visit to Baker Street this afternoon.”
John: “But why?”
Sherlock: “Because, my dear Watson, I had the strongest possible reason for wishing certain people to think that I was there when I was really elsewhere.”
Well, I really think that explains a lot. On 2x03 Sherlock and Molly manage to make a perfect, or almost, copy of Sherlock. They pick a dead body, but his clothes on, and voilá! John is in shock so he don’t notice the difference, and the sniper can’t see exactly what’s happening. The real Sherlock is in the truck, and Mycroft drives it away. That pretty much satisfies me, but I still can’t see how in hell Sherlock manage to fall without any injuries.
My english is not THAT good so I really hope that you can understand what I wrote above! lol

With all these theories popping up on the internet about the Reichenbach Fall, I started to search for clues throughout the episodes, hoping that somehow Moffat has left some hint for us to figure out this mystery. We have:

Rhododendron Ponticum, which can lead us to grayanotoxin. Initial symptoms are excessive salivation, perspiration, vomiting, dizziness, weakness and paresthesia in the extremities and around the mouth, low blood pressure and sinus bradycardia. In higher doses symptoms can include loss of coordination, severe and progressive muscular weakness, bradycardia (and, paradoxically, ventricular tachycardia), and nodal rhythm or Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Despite the potential cardiac problems the condition is rarely fatal and generally lasts less than a day.

IOU, which means “I owe you”, but could be just that? Or maybe it’s about Metric’s song ? jk. But we saw a graffiti on a wall, on a window and on an apple.

Grimm’s Fairy Tales, well, Richard Brook is a storyteller, but why The Brothers Grimm? Is there any story in the book that could fit with the end of the episode? I searched through the stories, but I couldn’t find any clue.

The Hanged Man, why in hell is there an hanged man on 221B Baker Street? Okay, we know that Sherlock is extravagant, but we do know that everything has a meaning on this tv show. Is it a clue?

The Screaming Girl, well, if you believe in Sherlock (I do, of course) he never saw the girl before she was rescued. So why she screamed? Whoever that kidnapped her used a mask, and maybe a wig, looking just like Sherlock. She’s a little girl who was kidnapped and intoxicated, who could blame her for a mistake?

Homeless Network, “Oh, look, we have an audience”. Sherlock asks for privacy and then Moriarty walks away. Then Sherlock looks down and after a while begins to laugh, distracting Moriarty from what’s going on the street. So what IS happening down there? I’m sure that they are from Sherlock’s homeless network, and they are just waiting for a signal.

The Cyclist, I suspect that he’s from the homeless network too, or some other guy that Sherlock hired. Either way, I don’t know if he really drugged John or he just drops him, temporarily affecting John’s head when he hits the ground. John gets up and moves and speaks slowly. His mind is playing tricks, because of the drugs or the fall, and he sees Sherlock’s dead body because his mind relates the fall with an inevitable death. Remember The Hounds of Baskerville?

The Sniper, so I read some people saying that it was impossible that the sniper didn’t see Molly or whoever placing the fake body on the ground. But we must remember two things: first, there was two buses in front of the building, and as soon they left, came the truck with plastic bags, preventing that the sniper could see what was happening on the ground. When the truck leaves, he finally sees Sherlock dead body, and he can aim at John, but that’s no longer needed.

The Handshake, during the episode we see two people die because they touched Sherlock. In the end, Moriarty does exactly the same thing, and he kills himself. What could that mean?

The Ball, The Coat and The Scarf, we never saw Sherlock playing with a ball before. It reminds me House, when he plays with a ball just to help him think. Could that be the occasion? And at that scene Sherlock was without he’s coat and scarf. It was hot or that means something?

The Tear, just like the ball, we never saw Sherlock crying before. It was a heartbreaking scene, but I’m sure that there’s more about it. Why was he crying? We know that Sherlock is not a stone, but he’s not that sentimental too. Maybe it happened because of the toxin?

Moriarty Is Dead, some people are saying that Moriarty’s alive because we never saw the bullet coming out or whatever. Anyway, if Moffat and Gatiss truly follow ACD’s story, then yes, he’s dead. BUT Moriarty’s body was never mentioned on the book…hm

The Truck, ok. I really don’t think that Sherlock could fall inside the truck. I mean, that’s something that James Bond would do, or Chuck Norris, but not Sherlock. I love you, honey, but, no! It was too far from the building and Sherlock didn’t run to jump. But I do think that somehow he managed to go to the truck and then left. Oh, and I think that was Mycroft the driver. Mycroft is always the driver on ACD stories!

Angels, they were mentioned several times throughout the episode, but what does that mean? I just can think about Superwholock, but… well,

Moriarty said several times that Sherlock was beside the angels. And at the cemetery there was a statue of an angel. Coincidence?

Now, talking about ACD stories… The Adventure of the Empty House. If you don’t know what that is, well… it’s when Sherlock returns, three years later. A brief summary for you: a surviving lieutenant of the villain Moriarty is trying to kill Sherlock. So what Sherlock do? He asks a man to make a bust in wax and put his clothes on it. Read a little part of it:

John: “I should be prepared to swear that it was you.”

Sherlock: “The credit of the execution is due to Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble, who spent some days in doing the moulding. It is a bust in wax. The rest I arranged myself during my visit to Baker Street this afternoon.”

John: “But why?”

Sherlock: “Because, my dear Watson, I had the strongest possible reason for wishing certain people to think that I was there when I was really elsewhere.”

Well, I really think that explains a lot. On 2x03 Sherlock and Molly manage to make a perfect, or almost, copy of Sherlock. They pick a dead body, but his clothes on, and voilá! John is in shock so he don’t notice the difference, and the sniper can’t see exactly what’s happening. The real Sherlock is in the truck, and Mycroft drives it away. That pretty much satisfies me, but I still can’t see how in hell Sherlock manage to fall without any injuries.

My english is not THAT good so I really hope that you can understand what I wrote above! lol

(via thedeductionsscience)

3 months ago -

squeaver asked: Could the Hit Count on the blog mean anything? I remember it being a point in the Irene Adler episode when Sherlock thought it was the passcode for the camera phone>

That’s a nice though, seeing as that was never explained.
And on the website at the moment the Hit Count is the same.

3 months ago

006. Theory from fanartist-glaucopis

fanartist-glaucopis:

First of all, I would like to apologise for my bad english. Done? Done! Let’s do this, then!

The theory I’m going to try to expose to you is probably the most widespread among the fandom. I will call it “Molly, the Truck and the Homeless Network Theory”. Of course this is my version of this particular theory, the version of it I find the most believable, so feel free to throw rotten tomatoes at me.

This theory is based upon one belief: Sherlock has asked Molly for help in order to fake his death. That is why he chose the roof of SB’Hospital as a location to solve his “Final plroblem” : it was near to the lab and the morgue, Molly’s work place, and why he went to her with such ambiguous words (I hope no one out there really believed they were going to make out).

So, what did Serlock do? Once he understood that Jim’s plan was to have him kill himself, proving this way that he was a fraud, he had to get John away. Why, would one ask, since there was an high risk that Moriarty would threaten his integrity? Two things: or Sherlock was convinced that Moriarty would keep the fight between the two of them (wich is not very believable, since we all saw what happened at the pool), or he had already planned it all: in case he couldn’t overcome Moriarty, he would have faked his death. And it was very important, for John’s safety, that he truly believed he was dead. Plus, if John sincerely thought he was dead, evereybody else would have. So he organised this call saying Mrs Hudson was deadly injured (easy for him to have someone pretending to be a paramedic), so that John would run to her.

Then Sherlock had the time to set up his plan. He contacted Molly, the only person he was sure, because himself always overlooked her, that Moriaty will not take into account. Did he ask her to poison him with the venom of Rhododendron Ponticum, in order to be able to endure a state of “apparent death”?

(I’m so proud of this gif, sorry, I couldn’t help but use it.)

It his hard to believe for some reasons: why getting poisoned that long before, with the risk of being very sick during his confrontation? Wikipedia says “physical symptoms occur after a dose-dependent latent period of minutes to three hours or so”: with the right doses, that could have worked, but you know that moment when Jim just shot himself and Sherlock presses his hand onto his mouth? That seems like a more logical moment of absorbtion, and the conversation with John would have left the time for the poison to act, and for symptoms like WATERY EYES and STIFFED NOSE to appear. What’s more OOC than Sherlock crying?!
Why Rhododendron? Well, truly, just because it was quoted before on the episode (it was one of the elements under the shoes of the child kidnapper). A lot of paralytics would have been way more efficient.

Enough for the drug, then. Sherlock might have just played the part of the perfect suicidal and act very emotional in order to convince John (but why, then, acting so shocked on the roof?).

After the heart-breaking conversation (THE TEAAAAAAAARSSSS!!), he jumps into the strategically placed garbage truck, having made sure that John would not see his impact point (“Stay exactly where you are!”), and having his trusted homeless network keep him away long enough. We all see what the biker did there… But long enough for what? To have Molly (I would go for the theroy that she was on the truck too) put some blood on his face and then put him down on the floor? Or to have some kind of body swap? It is true that John was shocked, but come on, I think he would have recognized his dead ~~boyfriend~~ bestfriend. Or wouldn’t he? If we take the poison away from the equation and bring the body instead, that gives a real twist to Sherlock’s character: he was sincerely shocked, he was sincerely terrified by the idea of hurting John. Why not, my friends, why not. It depends on how you consider the character.

Anyway, once the truck with the real Sherlok or the… flat thing you use to put injuried people on it, how do you call it? gone and John left alone with his despair (every single tear from John’s eyes killed a kitten), Sherlock could have make his trail disappear, and hide for the famous three years (in the books, maybe it won’t be that long) for Moriarty’s men to stop looking for him (sad Sebastian is Sad). Voilà, you faked death!

I’m forgetting to mention the moment when Sherlock laughs on the roof. He had already made sure that Molly wasn’t in the target list (“John?” “Not only John, everyone.” “Mrs Hudson.” “Everyone.” “Lestrade.” “Everyone.”), and the truck, if i am not mistaken, was already there. Well I think that this moment wasn’t fake at all. He really saw a weakness on Moriarty’s plan. Plus, if he didn’t bring down Jim with him, what kind of Reichenbach would that have been? Not to mention that he would have left John and the others to a certain death, or at leat very heavy risk (Moriarty definitly looks like sick bastard, I don’t know what you think) if he just jumped like this. So no, he turned back, faced him, got him to kill himself. There you go, you take the poison, you break a heart, you jump.

What am I missing, Moffat, you troll???!!

You tell me, fellow Sherlockians, dear John’s army.

This is just one of the many theories and the fact that I kind of like it is completely personal. Sherlock CALLS John, he never does, so that he might REALLY believe him. Though he could never have him believe he was a fake (Oh, love…), he was sure to convince him, and therefore the others, that he was gone. He was the only one to count. LOVE WINS.

I’m open to any response and criticism, and I truly believe that only all of our theories put together will lead us to what really happened. United, Sherlockians we will be able to find the truth!

LET ME LOVE YOU, SPLENDID FANDOM!! And don’t cry to much while watching the fall looking for evidence… I did.

I now see what you mean by this being waaayyyy too long to put in an ask.

3 months ago -

Anonymous asked: Don't know if this is Masterlist-material, but may worth noting - Molly, as a forensic pathologist, is responsible for conducting autopsies and determining the cause of death in certain cases, including suspected suicides. Depending on Molly's level of authority, she could have settled all the legal issues by signing her name on the right documents. She could even have officially claimed Sherlock dead. But the funeral would be out of her hands - how did that happen? Cremation?

Ooohh. Very good.
Added!!!

3 months ago -

mightysonofcoul asked: Theory: The people crowding John at the end (and possibly the biker) were members of Sherlock's Homeless Network. Theory: The nurses holding John back were under Mycroft's orders. Theory: Sherlock holding Moriarty over the edge of the building was a signal to his network - there was no crowd before then. Idea: The reason people were crowding the body at the bottom of the building wasn't because of the fall (people rarely look up) but because a body was THROWN from the garbage truck.

Added!

3 months ago -

Thank you…

…For everything so far guys! We’re really filling up the master list!

I’m also going to add a section for photographic evidence. If you see a screencap, or a doodle that explains a theory, just pop it in the ask box and it’ll be published and stored on a Photographic Evidence Masterlist.

Okay?

Keep up the good work!

3 months ago

mightysonofcoul asked: Theory: Sherlock jumped into the garbage truck which pulled away when the camera panned to his 'body' on the ground. Theory: the biker, or some environmental condition, exposed John to HOUND, which made him see what he expected to see - Sherlock's body on the ground. This is backed up by a screen-shot of Sherlock being carried away on a stretcher - clearly the person on it is not Benedict. Theory: Molly planted a cadaver at the bottom of the building to act as a substitute for Sherock.

Oooohh. How clever. I love the biker idea.

Admittedly, for me, the only thing that bothers me about “Sherlock falling into garbage truck” is the fact we see him hit the ground. Kind of.

But thank you! MOAR THEORIES!!!

3 months ago -

mightysonofcoul asked: Facts: John was instructed BY SHERLOCK to go back to where he was, standing behind a low building so he couldn't actually see Sherlock hit the ground. Facts: Molly is somehow involved in Sherlock's plan, as he asked her for help. Whether she did more than disguising her voice and calling John away to look after Mrs Hudson remains to be seen.

Thank you!
*adds to masterlist*

3 months ago -

consultingdetective221b:

Guys, I figured out the “big clue.” Moffat and Gatiss left it for us in Hounds, not the Fall.

What was Hounds all about?
A hallucinogenic drug.

THEORIES - As always, go in the ask box. <3

(The Masterlist:
http://tinyurl.com/6wcrn88)

3 months ago -

005. Jim Moriarty

WARNING FOR GRAPHIC CONTENT OF MORIARTY’S DEATH.

Now. As the owner of this tumblr. I thought it nessessary to contribute myself.
And I noticed this when I first watched Season 2, Episode 3.

A very small amount of flesh.
Followed by a trail of blood.

Now. As far as I’m aware, if you shoot yourself you have an entry hole and an exit hole (the latter usually much larger than the former) which makes me wonder where exactly Jim shot himself. It’s all about the angle of the gun. Because of camera angles in the clip we never see the final angle that Jim uses but it’s not an exact ‘up-into-your-brain’ angle.

And we have this:

(from neel2bronte)

Now. What I think might have happened. (speculation) is that Jim shot himself in the throat, since that would be the first point of contact that would create a small exist wound, correct. And, if he didn’t die before losing too much blood, then he would be able to recover. I also think the Sebastian Moran could have an introduction in season three either as an assistant or as the one who will avenge Jim (if he really is dead).

That. Or Moriarty swallowed the bullet. OR we’ve been given a hint
Something that Moriarty can do.

THEORIES - ask box, as always.

(The Masterlist:
http://tinyurl.com/6wcrn88)

3 months ago -