There's quite a bit of diamons/jewels and quite a bit of tea in the episode

Mary Me wrote:

sherlockian111 wrote:

The only problem that I have with the net theory, is the fact that we actually do see him land on the pavement.

Do we? Or is it just a vision of what John believes he sees; what his mind does to fill in the parts he couldn't see? Was it really Sherlock we see land on the pavement?
 

Well, I suppose that could be the case but then that's kind of cheating. Sherlock's face when he's on the ground and there's the blood and stuff, then that could also be simply what John expects to see.
In all honesty, I don't think that's the case

I suppose, but then, he would have waited a while before coming back, and by the time he did, no-one would remember that detective who turned out to be a nutter. and it's not as if he's going to publicly announce himself to the world when he comes back. It all makes sense in my head, it's just hard to explain

with the "there's only one thing  he needs to do and that's to-", I think Sherlock realised that if people delve in a little deeper into the matter, they would discover that Sherlock is in fact real, and so Sherlock must have realised that Moriaty would need him to die almost immediately, and preferable die in disgrace, so people wouldn't delve any further into the matter. And what better way to die in disgrace then to 'appear' to commit suicide, right after his so-called 'secret' is exposed? However, if Sherlock died then there would be nobody interesting for Moriaty to watch dance, so I think Moriaty was already planning on committing suicide.

Be wrote:

Be wrote:

Something I'm not absolutely sure of, but it is probably something Sherlock did to prepare for the fall:
1. somebody poured a great amount of blood on the ground;
2. but we see in Sherlock's face that the blood trail is nicely done to convince a doctor that the skull is fractured. You can see that blood comes out of the left ear and the nose. It runs vertical when Sherlock is positioned on his right side.

This second application must be done when Sherlock is already on the pavement. It can not be done by just pouring everything from above. Hypothesis: Sherlock did it himself in the few seconds before people approached him. How? Sherlock must have kept the blood in a small container. Something handy and someting which would allow him to be very precice with the amount of blood. And if it is real blood (his own?) it mustn't coagulate. Therfore it must be stired and moved to prevent coagulation.
Conveniently we see Sherlock moving someting excessively. What if it is not a rubber ball but a manual rubber pipetting aid. He is in the laboratory where there are all kind of devices. We can find this kind of balls in chemical laboratories. And they look like rubber balls. You use it to apply liquid onto slices. We see Sherlock using pipettes througout the series. Sometimes they are small and transparent and sometimes they are big. Depends on the amount of liquid you want to use. We see Molly with another kind of pipette in TRF. In The casebook you can find it when you look at the first picture with Sherlock and John in 221 b next to John on a small table. There it is a small white ball in a glass container.

Might be something, might be just my imgagination. But I think it fits with Sherlock's measuring the coagulation of saliva, the bouncing ball and pipetting.
What do you think?

 
I changed my mind about the bouncing ball since I last wrote the sentences above.
At first I thought that Sherlock would use laboratory equipment and the ball must

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