Banbha wrote:

kazza474 wrote:

OK you two; let's not play Doctors & nurses here.

I'll blush!

I actually am a nurse. They pay me to play that game.

And I actually am a doctor. They pay me to do all sorts of things, and I tend to be quite committed - lol

Last edited by The Doctor (September 15, 2012 9:23 am)

kazza474 wrote:

Yes the fact that you two ARE in these roles wasn't the issue.  It was the potential for the game that I thought was amusing .

Never mind.

I don't believe either of us said it was an issue, either.

Sometimes people like to talk about things that aren't necessarily on your agenda.

Last edited by Banbha (September 16, 2012 12:41 pm)

This thread has mutated into something extraordinary, medically speaking of course.

I got the joke Kazza. Must be an Aussie thing

lol, I was enjoying the innuendo and implying in my best Sherlock-tone that this, indeed, could be very entertaining.

What is it with electronic communication? I didn't mean to offend.. *best Sherlock muttering*

Hi Swanpride, we've been discussing those points at lenght in the Reichenbach section. Just have a look!
Just one thing: It is absolutely impossible imo to jump off the roof and land on the truck which is way too far away.

Swanpride wrote:

I'm sure that all the people in the space between the parking garage and the hospital are in the plan ...

This would mean a lot of people in the plan already. Could be dangerous...

The Doctor wrote:

NW16XE wrote:

There is generally a 50/50 chance of surviving a 5 story accidental fall

Sorry to butt in but the question is not if you survive. BUT HOW! In other words, the chances of making it out of this without on-going medical issues/disabilities/brain injuries resulting in loss of analytical/emotional/rational processing abilities etc are minimal. In other words, yes, you can survive - but you really do not want to know the price you will have to pay.
Gattis and Moffat most likely didn't go for those solution as they gave further hints ('stay where you are', cyclist etc).

Even aside from any skull/brain damage,  I was more thinking about the damage to the bones of the legs and pelvis in a feet-first fall. Extensive orthopedic surgery, pins placed, a body cast, traction, etc, with a long, painful recovery and many many months of PT would follow something like that, if survival were even possible in the first place.

No, I believe that something broke his fall. He wouldn't have jumped, risking permanent injury (imagine a Sherlock content to live in a wheelchair-- IMO he really would rather be dead) or at the very least a long, involved, expensive, painful recovery. No, we saw him standing in the graveyard watching John and Mrs. H not too long after the event. I'm pretty sure he arranged something to break his fall.

Wholocked wrote:

I believe the solution will be fairly simple, but it won't be that he just jumped and hoped he might survive. That's not a chance he would take. He arranged/did something to ensure his survival, not just survival, but lack of injury too.

I agree. In fact, I think this much is obvious, given the scene with Molly not long before the fall. "I need YOU." She could supply the physical stuff he needed to protect him and to make John and the hired assassins believe he was dead.

To my opinion it was Sherlock who fell from the roof down to the pavement (when he is turned aound we can see his face - it´s definitely Sherlock). No other body in play. Yes, something must have interrupted softly his fall during the flight - whatever, that´s the big question: the garbage truck itself, a matrace or net or something from the garbage truck, etc. -, and after a few milli-seconds he finally let himself fell down onto the pavement from a very much lower height. Btw, that could be also the explanation for lying in the wrong angle towards the roof.
There is the small house between St. Barts and John´s taxi - John couldn´t see the last few metres of Sherlock´s fall. So the possible mean of interruption must have been something which one could make disappear very quickly again afterwards - I am still a fan of the truck theory, to collect a net or matrace so fast seems to be nearly impossible to me. But who knows , it´s a magic trick...
And to the coat: A little freedom of art should be allowed .