Sherlock Holmes wrote:

There's probably quite a few you all can think of but I just mentioned this in another thread and I've only just thought of this myself...

They threw the Sherlock lookalike out of the window in order for John to be able to see a body from the distance when he was rounding the corner, just before he was knocked over by the bike. Then, once he was on the ground, the lookalike was swapped with the real, alive Sherlock.

My question is, if John was only seeing the body from afar - which he was - why did it need to be the Sherlock lookalike in the first place? Why couldn't it just be a random dead guy with dark hair wearing one of Sherlock's coats? Why would they go to all the trouble of tracking down this lookalike guy if it wasn't necessary?

My guess is that  a near lookalike  would be preferable to cover for all eventualities. If John had sprung back up immediately after being hit by the bike they would not have had time to switch bodies; so the lookalike would be a better bet once John got closer. I also suspect that the lookalike would have been utilised for a number of the other scenarios. 
 

And we only saw his face once John came over.

Assuming that our perspective at this very moment is identical with John's, we have to see a corpse lying on the pavement immediately after the fall. Everything else would be suspicious. Then John starts to cross the street to get to Sherlock and is hit by the cyclist to give them time for the exchange. That is how I understood it. 

As someone else has said, in TRF we saw a body hit the pavement. If all we saw was Sherlock falling and then him lying on the ground a little later, we wouldnt have been discussing it for two years.

kittykat wrote:

I keep meaning to bring this up...

Sherlock calls Anderson "Phillip", but in the Casebook there's a forensics report of the cab driver Jeff Hope, filled out by S. Anderson...?

He knew Lestrade for five years before learning his name was Greg, and then upon his return he referred to him as Graham. If that is Sherlock talking to Anderson, I don't think he's a reliable source for his first name ;-)

However, since I believe that conversation is a figment of Anderson's imagination, I guess he would get his own name right. Maybe the "S" is a rank? Or maybe it's yet another canon nod to ACD getting people's names wrong.

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dartmoordoggers wrote:

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

There's probably quite a few you all can think of but I just mentioned this in another thread and I've only just thought of this myself...

They threw the Sherlock lookalike out of the window in order for John to be able to see a body from the distance when he was rounding the corner, just before he was knocked over by the bike. Then, once he was on the ground, the lookalike was swapped with the real, alive Sherlock.

My question is, if John was only seeing the body from afar - which he was - why did it need to be the Sherlock lookalike in the first place? Why couldn't it just be a random dead guy with dark hair wearing one of Sherlock's coats? Why would they go to all the trouble of tracking down this lookalike guy if it wasn't necessary?

My guess is that  a near lookalike  would be preferable to cover for all eventualities. If John had sprung back up immediately after being hit by the bike they would not have had time to switch bodies; so the lookalike would be a better bet once John got closer. I also suspect that the lookalike would have been utilised for a number of the other scenarios. 
 

 
But if John had sprung up immedeately after being hit by the bike he would have seen the bl**dy great air-bag with SH climbing off it, hardly covers all eventualities!

Again, why go to all that trouble if the only person to see it, not in on the scam, was John?

We seem to have a few similar threads and I can see me having to say this all again, I also haven't read the whole of this page.
But I was musing over the Resolution, while lying in bed this morning and this is where I am with it at the moment!
We are shown Mycroft on his phone saying:  so has it been done?
I took this to mean, Mycroft's sniper had shot John's sniper.
But presumably this could only be done after John's sniper signalled to the other snipers that Sherlock had jumped...so maybe he could only see what John saw?  But then, why shoot him?
If he was just shot anyway, how would the other snipers know not to hit their marks?
I can understand that for the world, the news just had to get out that Sherlock had committed suicide.  He needed to disppear and go off to clear the world of the Moriarty web.
But that doesn't account for the immediate problem of the individual snipers.
On a side note: do i take it that Sherlock travelled the globe and single handedly disposed of all of Moriarty's henchmen?

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Sigh. I'm having real issues here, cos I just cannot copy and paste easly on this forum,,,,so I'll have to write different bits on each of the threads!

lil wrote:

The fake scenes were only filmed after the scripts including them were written, which means after the fall was written.
Didn't the writers say they filmed them to troll/fool/grab publicity? And that everything needed to explain the fall was filmed during S02 filming.

By drving ourselves crazy debugging the lame scenerio SH gave Anderson , we are falling into the trap Sherlock set for Anderson to drive him crazy?

The scene describing this theory seems to be a flashforward, Sherlock just realised Anderson set up the burnt skeleton crime scene to get Sherlocks attention, Sherlock deduces Andersons guilt and need for forgiveness , the same way he is fooling John to forgive him btw, and imagines what he will do to get revenge on Anderson.
The whole thing is in Sheroocks head.....maybe he did go see Anderson later and tell him this.....we don't know.

I hope he did , and that he has something planned for Donovan too......

Wow.  Thanks, lil. I kept chewing my nails as I read the posts on this thread because I kept wanting to shout things like --

There was no shooter behind the sniper!  Sherlock jumped to fool the sniper so he would call the other snipers off!  In TRF we saw the sniper with John in the crosshairs for quite some time after Sherlock jumped, and then the sniper calmly packed up his rifle.  It was his job to shoot John if Sherlock didn't jump, or not shoot John if Sherlock did.  And either way, he would make a phone call to the other snipers to say shoot-or-don't-shoot.




There was no looka-like Sherlock body!  No body was thrown out a window, because Sherlock simply laid on the ground after he rolled off a fireman's safety net -- which is the short "falling" scene we see.

There was no "convincing wound" on Sherlocks face!  Just lots of blood smeared on it. There was no make-up artist standing nearby to put a fake wound on Sherlock's head real quick like.  Oh, pa-leease.



And finally, there was no big blue air bag! 

It would have been too big to hide from the sniper in the window across the street.  He could easily have seen it at the end of the ambulance building from his position.  And it would have taken too long to inflate and put into position after John's cab drove past the place where the crew got it ready!  Plus there would be people in the half-dozen surrounding buildings who were not part of the hoax and who would report seeing it later.  The way the team is shown lugging that big honkin' monster up and down the block, how could anyone have missed the damn thing!





However, a fireman's safety net could taken from the laundry truck, unfolded (they fold in half for transport), used to catch Sherlock, and put back in the truck in under thirty seconds.  Few, if any, of the people in the surrounding buildings would have seen it because of the laundry truck which brought it and took it away.  These nets were routinely used for jumpers up to six stories high.  Sherlock only jumped from five stories (four floors and the roof).





I like this picture best of all.  Is that Sherlock grinning up at the camera?  Well, probably not . . .



KISS -- Keep It Simple, Sweetheart!  Absolutely none of that "extra" crap was needed for the hoax.  Sherlock was yanking Anderson's chain -- and I loved it.  So, why are we debating "flaws" in a plan that was SUPPOSED to wrong?

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