One of the theories is that Sherlock asked Moriarty for space. This was to give him time to jump & hide in the truck. As he fell Molly pushed a body from a lower window which landed on the pavement.
If Moriarty was to stroll over (he does seem the type to take it in and stroll over instead of running to see) and look over the edge he would have seen the body splattered on the pavement.

A 'Sherlock' thread!

Why didn't it even occur to me there would be a Sherlock thread. I have my DVDs and have rewatched all except the last one. That is my treat for tonight.

Hello. Tiggs.

Nice to see the Sherlock thread back on top!

Happy watching.

Hi Granny

It's my new addict. Mr Moff does us proud.

I've watched the final episode again lol. And, after reading online somewhere of someone saying that they can hear a 'click and a lady's voice saying "hello"', at the point where Sherlock asks Moriarty for a 'moment of privacy' on the roof... I have discovered that I can hear it too.

Has anybody else heard it on here? Or am I hearing things?

I just played it at high volume through headphones, there's the occasional click but no voice.

Me too. I hope next series of DW is as good!




Oh, nethwen, do you mean I'm going to have to watch the last episode yet again, to listen for a click?

Oh well, I suppose if I have to I have to......**sighs**

I turned it to to 400 on VLC player, I hear nothing.

I bought the first series last week and only watched the first episode again so far. I haven't seen them since they were originally shown so it's good to see them again.

Sorry, I should have said it was after Sherlock asks for a moment of privacy. There's a couple of seconds before Sherlock starts to smile that the voice can be heard after the clicking noise. It sounds like Molly to me.

Another thing I noticed. Do buses usually have their registration numbers on the roof? The scene where the bus pulls into the bus stop it can be clearly seen for a moment or two. I can't remember the whole thing but it begins with 'EC1'. Is EC1 a London post code?

LOL Granny.

There's (thankfully) no known cure for being well and truly SHERLOCKED.

Aww I'm going to have to get the DVD out again. Haven't watched Series 1 in a while.

And, apparently (here I go again lol), there's supposed to be a clue in the commentary on episode 1 'A Study In Pink' about the angel references made in Reichenbach Fall.

The angels thing is still bugging me, along with a lot of other stuff in the last episode. Thank you Messrs Moffat and Gatiss.

Yup. It's the city.

I haven't listened to any of the commentaries. Maybe I'll give them a go. Anyone know if it's worth it?

After I've rewatched the last episode for this click, of course.

Were they thinking about Reichenbach all that way back? Talk about planning!

Hi all,

I know it´s been discussed all over this thread and the previous one too, and on x other web pages.. I´m still not entirely happy with any of the offered explanations, there are still huge flows.

I believe in the simple solution (no fake bodies, no double-gangers, no drugs, no clones...) .

1. Sherlock was all the time ahead of Moriarty (well of course, it´s Sherlock right?) and planned everything in advance. He knew about Moriarty wanting him die since he left Kity Riley´s appartment (SH:"There´s only 1 thing he wants me to do to complete his game and that´s to...". And he told Molly in the lab he was going to die.

2. Sherlock chose the place to meet – St.Barts Hospital roof – already calculating with the fact that Moriarty would want him die there and that his death should be by falling/jumping down the roof. Moriarty told Sherlock when he visited him in Baker Street 221B after the verdict. (JM: "THE FALL..." whistles.)

3. The goodbye call with Dr.Watson was quite long - probably again Sherlock gaining time and waiting for the perfect moment to jump..

4. It probably really was Sherlock who jumped. After making all preparations for the scene to be ready for the trick. Before, Sherlock asked Moriarty for a moment of privacy to make sure Moriarty could not see what was happening at the pavement level. And when Dr.Watson arrived in the cab, Sherlock asked him TWICE to go back and stand on a concrete spot – again not to see the pavement where the body landed. Also, Dr.Watson is asked to keep his eys on Sherlock the whole time.

5. Sherlock jumped and landed onto something soft. Could be the truck with laundry bags (but isn´t it too far from the building?), firemen net held by the people bellow (Sherlocks network of homeless people, Mycrofts people or Molly´s paramedics friends) or just anything soft that the co-operating people on the street put on the rectangle area… Here´s the first problem - what was it exactly. Nobody seems to have the correct answer. Would nobody notice Sherlock jumping into the laundry truck and crawling or rolling back to the pavement? There was a lot of people around and were they all set-up? All of them, really? And what about the sniper? Again, seeing nothing? Isn´t there a more ellegant solution?

6. Dr.Watson is then run over by a cyclist – who had instructions to knock him down on his way to Sherlock – to earn some time for Sherlock to get himself into the position he needed to be able to press on his armpit with the rubber ball to temporarily stop his pulse, get covered in blood + spill blood around. One of the paramedics has his hand on Sherlock´s neck so Dr.Watson can only check the pulse on Sherlock´s right arm. I think it is Sherlock´s body as he looks like Sherlock.

7. Molly´s help could be letting Sherlock healthy and unharmed walk out of the mortuary later and faking his death-certificate or making autopsy on a cadaver which she would switch in place for SH…

I would also love to know what´s the big clue S.Moffat said everyone missed. This "something very out of character that Sherlock did" - maybe the tears or the long and quite emotional call with Dr.Watson? Or when Sherlock says it´s his last note because people do leave a note before committing suicide - he doesn´t usually do what other people do, does he?

If you mean what is the rectangular area? It's just a pattern in the pavement created by the way bricks have been laid. It exists in real life and wasn't just put there for programme. Hence I don't think it has any relevance to the story.

Or that particular spot may have been chosen because it provided a ready made focus.

Moriarty would suspect something was up if he had spotted a chalked in rectangle that wasn't there before.

what if Sherlock jumped onto a rather large trampoline and then onto the truck, and then he could have jumped over to the other side of the road

And then ran quickly back to lie on the pavement. He'd probably need a lie down by then.

he would

anybody know how much the second series is on dvd/ going to HMV on Friday wondering what the expense is

I got mine for £14-99 from Amazon.

I popped into HMV today and they have some good offers on various boxsets.

Erm well I got that all wrong. Sherlock would be appalled at my lack of observation skills.

It is ELG 15138 that is printed on the roof of the bus. How strange. Do buses usually put their registration numbers up there? I mean, what's the point?

I wondered that too -so good old Google -here's the answer!

For the numbers, the first two letters signify the company who run the bus service and the letters are the fleet number for the bus in question, so they can be seen by the police cameras above.

[From LBC's website.