I love the way Mofftiss put all the theories into one episode like that. Too much happened. I haven't even loaded them all in my head.

Can't wait to download and rewatch it.

I do miss you. Quite a big surprise.

Now we have 2 more years to discuss how did he survive!

SherlockianDE wrote:

Commonwealth wrote:

I've read interviews with Benedict where he said Sherlock would never tell John that he jumped to save his life.  And we see that played out in the cafe when John said "I don't care how you faked it.  I want to know why."  Sherlock lies about it being to stop Moriarty instead of telling him that it was to save his friends.  He has to continue that lie that John was not in danger so he concocts the bit about Mycroft having a sniper on John's sniper.  Theory 3 is as detailed as it is because Sherlock is trying to work out all the holes in his lie beforehand.

But in his latest blog post, John specifically states "Turns out he'd faked his death because Moriarty had threatened those close to him. Including me."

So supposedly, Sherlock did indeed tell him about that at some point?

Some mistakes were found on that blog and we can assume that the blog writter was not clearly know about the screenplay. Hope they will be fixed soon.

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

My point is though, if there's already someone who out there who looks like Sherlock, then why would Sherlock ever need to swap places with the dead body in the first place? They could just leave the lookalike there covered with blood then they'd have no need to use the rubber ball.

Also, if John was only seeing the body from far away (which he was), why did it need to specifically be this Sherlock lookalike? Why couldn't it just be any old bloke with dark curly hair in one of Sherlock's coats. It could, you see. That's one of the flaws in the theory. They went to all that trouble to track down the dead lookalike and it wasn't required in the slightest.

If this was real, I could explain by saying they had to make sure that the body John saw before being knocked by the bicyclist IS Sherlock's. In case of the bicylists (there was a back-up) did miss John, he got on closer and checked, then they had to get a Sherlock-look-alike body. And after he was knocked down, Sherlock replaced the body just to make sure John could recognise him. The fake body would be a little bit risky.

However, I wonder the sound of falling ..things. Sherlock fell down on a hugh pillow, even when after he and the huge pillow were moved away and the fake body was thrown down, it should've made really loud sound. In addition, the fake body hit the ground and made sound right before John saw it, why couldn't he hear and regconise a wrong-timing sound like that? 

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

ALTERNATIVELY...

I find it quite strange that Moriarty has somehow managed to track down someone who looks like Sherlock and got him to do this job for him scaring the little girl. It's all a bit far fetched. I think it's far more likely they used one of those extremely realistic masks that we saw being put to use in the first false theory. That way, any member of Moriarty's already established team could have done the job of scaring the little girl, and they wouldn't have had to b

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