There is precedent in the Conan Doyle story The Adventure of the Dying Detective for Holmes to trick Watson’s medical instincts, but we may just have to wait for series 3 to get the final part to this puzzle. How then, could a medical doctor be fooled into thinking he had no pulse?Ī tricky one, this, with possible explanations being that either the body was indeed dead and made up to look like Holmes, or the more prosaic solution that Watson was in no fit state to make medical judgements. If the body was indeed Holmes feigning death on the pavement after landing safely in the rubbish truck, his heart would be racing. Witnessing the fall, he’s then knocked down by the cyclist, and blocked by the crowd (of Sherlock employees?), before he eventually reaches the body. It wouldn’t be the first creepy video Moriarty had knocked together in that episode…Īfter returning from the wild goose chase, Watson arrives at the scene and is made to fix his eyes on Holmes. There are various theories on how this was done, from the extreme: Moriarty using plastic surgery to make one of his goons into a Holmes lookalike, to the mundane: a bespoke Holmes mask or dummy (the latter of which does pop up in a later Conan Doyle story) or simply pictures of Holmes being used to traumatise the children. To achieve this, Moriarty somehow conditioned the young girl to be deathly afraid of Holmes, hence her screaming when Sherlock entered the police questioning room. Part of Moriarty’s plot to discredit Holmes involved framing him for the kidnap of the ambassador’s children. We’re yet to be convinced this last point isn’t one complication too many. Wilder imaginations have linked the cyclist and Watson’s discombobulation to a swiftly administered dose of fear gas from The Hounds of Baskerville, making Watson see what his mind expected him to when he eventually reached the body. Holmes made reference to his homeless network earlier in The Reichenbach Fall, and the consensus seems to be that that’s where the mysterious cyclist (again, who fails to stop when confronted with an apparent suicide just yards away) hails from. On his way to the body, Watson was knocked down by a timely cyclist, disorientating him and keeping him away for precious seconds. This was no accident, our commenters screamed. Chalk? Suspicious driving? Bags of rubbish? It’s got plan written all over it. One interesting observation arrived from commenter Aranya, who remarked upon the clearly chalked out rectangle on the pavement surrounding the spot the body landed, a shape which tallied precisely with where the truck was parked. If not that, then the truck could still have been there to obscure a switch of some kind, and to carry off the non-Sherlock body, whoever that may be. Clever commenters have suggested that the truck – if it was indeed Sherlock who jumped – was a prepared and cushioned landing spot, parked precisely to block Watson’s view (and presumably that of the sniper Holmes was also trying to fool) giving Sherlock time to break a blood capsule or two and move relatively unharmed to the pavement where he played dead.
Casually driving off when a man has seemingly jumped to his death mere feet away is unusual behaviour to say the least. One of the main reasons behind the delay of the release is because of the prior commitments to the other projects by Benedict Cumberbatch, Steven Moffat and Martin Freeman as all of them are in the main cast.That’s some damning evidence right there. The show is top-rated and fans become edgier about the release date of Sherlock: Season 5 but to their great disappointment, there has been no news about it. Watson, Mark Gattis as Mycroft Holmes, Andrew Scott as Professor Moriarty, and Louise Brealey as Molly Hooper. The cast for season 5 of Sherlock will be pretty much as the previous casts with Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Martin Freeman as John H. The story of the next season might focus on Eurus more than Sherlock, which will be quite interesting to watch. The season also introduced a new character, Eurus Holmes, Sherlock’s young sister.
As we see that the final episode of Sherlock: Season 4 was a perfect ending for the series as it showed a flashback of the case solved by Sherlock and Watson.