imo it serves the cliché: All Chinese people in London live in Chinatown...

Haha yeah, true about the cliches.

So it's just a major coincidence that she lives there then? She might not even know they used that place as a drop off point?

Well, sorry to heap aspersions on this already-much-maligned episode, but does anyone else think it absolutely incredible that Sherlock would notice Soo Lin's flat simply because the phone book was outside the door? The open window wasn't on the street, so the resident(s) could in fact have "gone on holiday". And even if it did look suspicious to him, I just can't suspend belief sufficiently to believe that the flat was "coincidentally" rented by Soo Lin.

kazza474 wrote:

people do their laundry

I see your "they don't make shows about ordinary days where people do their laundry" and I raise you one Big Bang Theory ;)

edit: typo

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kazza474 wrote:

Well frankly let's face it, if she didn't live there, there would have been a lot of dead ends & probably would have taken weeks to connect her going missing or being dead with any of the other things going on. In which case an unsolved mystery probably.

Once I remind people , they don't make shows about 'ordinary days where nothing happens', people do their laundry & grocery shopping and the world is a happy place.

Well, true that. However, that moment seemed almost to have been written by whoever wrote the script for the "National Treasure" movies (which, notwithstanding their utter implausibility, I absolutely loved!).

So much hinged on her living in Chinatown in this episode that they had to have her living there. Of course it is a dreadful cliche, sadly much of that episode is.

I thought her name was next to the door? Or am I remembering wrong?

And also, the guy from the museum left a note for her on her door addressing her I believe?

^ Sorry, I should have quoted who I was responding to, I wasn't responding to your comment. I was referring to -

Tantalus wrote:

Well, sorry to heap aspersions on this already-much-maligned episode, but does anyone else think it absolutely incredible that Sherlock would notice Soo Lin's flat simply because the phone book was outside the door? The open window wasn't on the street, so the resident(s) could in fact have "gone on holiday". And even if it did look suspicious to him, I just can't suspend belief sufficiently to believe that the flat was "coincidentally" rented by Soo Lin.

And a couple other comments questioning how Sherlock knew it was her apt./flat.

besleybean wrote:

Because it's a TV series and he's Sherlock. 
More on the writing and writer of this episode...elsewhere!

Pretty descriptive answer really. Why are ANY 'heroes' in the right place at the right time & guessing the right solutions?
Because if not, you would have a boring show.

I find it fascinating how people want to suspend reality enough to go off on very odd tangents with wild theories & fantasies of future shows, yet the simplest things like 'how come he knew this & that" which are the basis for most shows of this kind are mocked.