I guess that there might be something fishy about the fetus?
Oh, and it was the scene at Baker Street, when Mary sits on the clients chair. Her jeans are turned up. That was what Harriet referred to.

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As I said, when you see it as a flashback to the telly scene in TGG.

If there's anything more behind it, maybe from the books, I simply don't know.
It is a theory that floated around tumblr way before today.

We know that the writers like to use the same lines in various contexts in order to emphasise their similarity. One of the best examples is Mycroft asking "How would you know?" with regard to Sherlock's sexual inexperience and Sherlock using the same line with regard to Mycroft's lack of friends. Or the "It did not work for me" regarding Molly's lipstick and John's moustache. 

What strikes me (but is possibly not relevant, of course!) in that "client" scene, is that Mary is slightly masculine in the way she sits, she's wearing a coat a little like Sherlock's but in grey, and trousers, and has a slightly androgenous hairstyle (perhaps even a little like John's in that particular scene).  I don't mean that she looks masculine as such, but she looks more similar to the two of them than usual. 

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Yes, that's what I meant about the way she sits.  It's more traditional for women to cross legs, keep their knees close, etc. - not that it's any sort of rule, and of course women sit the way Mary does!  But it seems noticeable in that scene, for some reason.  And I meant hairstyle rather than haircut: I'll edit it, thanks!   It seems to look more androgynous and more like John's to me in that frontal shot - the same with the clothes (she looks quite feminine in other shots with the same clothes). 

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besleybean wrote:

I do think she is meant to be like John.

Yes, I think that a lot of her character traits matches Sherlock and John quite well. Likes adventures and danger, have her own moral compass, arrogant, self-assured, sassy, strong, independent, not nice... it's like she's a mix of the two of them.

I think it would be very much against Canon to have a third character who is so similar to the two main characters and plays an equally important part in the narrative. Cannot remember seeing anything like this in any other adaptation or in Canon itself. And why should there be a need for this? 

Schmiezi wrote:

Vhanja wrote:

...have her own moral compass

I think here is a fundamental difference between her and the boys. Her moral compass is different. She only does things that are good for her while John and Sherlock do things, also wrong things, that are good for the other one.

I disagree. That is, the moral compass might be different, but she does think that benefits others as well. ("That is why there are people like me"). Killing for the "greater good". She also helped the crying neighbour while John just stood in the doorway not letting her in. 

Susi, I agree. It's a difficult territory. It's as almost she gets as much character development space as Sherlock. And more than John.