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nakahara · May 30, 2016 8:09 am

Walking determinedly into an ambulance while biting his lips in pain?

SusiGo · May 30, 2016 8:14 am

Completely different body language. There has been some discussion if these scene could take place in his mind to explain the bizarre jumble of facts. Remember how we wondered about the living-room in the middle of the street during TAB setlock?

This Is The Phantom Lady · May 30, 2016 8:18 am

Mind palace is a good bet, it all seems interesting and bizarre in a way

Liberty · May 30, 2016 8:55 am

It would also explain, Mrs Hudson and everybody else being there - maybe they are all playing a part in his mind palace.

SusiGo · May 30, 2016 9:06 am

Indeed. And while we never get Molly in her lab coat outside St Barts, we see her dressed like that in Cam's office = in Sherlock's MP.

nakahara · May 30, 2016 9:53 am

MP is always a possibility I think, especially with so many bizarre elements in this scene.

But on the other hand - would Sherlock see himself entering an ambulance in MP? Most things he sees in MP are symbolic. While an ambulance is a bit too concrete, too material a thing meant to help when a body, not mind, is in peril. What place would it have in MP, I wonder? So its presence could indicate that the sene is real, IMHO.

SusiGo · May 30, 2016 10:04 am

Well, if you take the MP in HLV, it is pretty specific. The morgue, Mycroft's office, the hallway in Roland Kerr College, all place he has been to and he knows well. He has been in similar ambulance in HLV twice. So why not integrate it into his MP? Could be symbolic of being attacked, feeling weak, working out who tries to damage him, etc.

Schmiezi · May 30, 2016 2:02 pm

SusiGo wrote:
Well, if you take the MP in HLV, it is pretty specific. The morgue, Mycroft's office, the hallway in Roland Kerr College, all place he has been to and he knows well. He has been in similar ambulance in HLV twice. So why not integrate it into his MP? Could be symbolic of being attacked, feeling weak, working out who tries to damage him, etc.

He could be inside the ambulance when entering the mind palace. In the end he could enter the ambulance again in his mind to get out of the mind palace.

besleybean · May 30, 2016 2:03 pm

That would be good...all the rest is transport.

This Is The Phantom Lady · May 30, 2016 2:17 pm

I like that theory!

Lola Red · May 30, 2016 5:18 pm

or is there someone in the ambulance?

besleybean · May 30, 2016 5:20 pm

That's the best question.

Yitzock · May 30, 2016 5:26 pm

And the follow-up question; if so, who is it?

Last edited by Yitzock (May 30, 2016 5:30 pm)

Schmiezi · May 30, 2016 5:32 pm

Well, following the Basic idea of The Dying Detective, it could also be that Sherlock uses the ambulance to go somewhere else to fake his illness.

Unlike in canon, here John would know abut it. But that still does not explain Molly in her coat.

SusiGo · May 30, 2016 5:35 pm

Maybe she poses as a doctor to make it more urgent. They might be observed after all. Still, it would be far more dramatic to carry him into the ambulance.

Schmiezi · May 30, 2016 5:41 pm

SusiGo wrote:
Maybe she poses as a doctor to make it more urgent.

That's a good idea!

besleybean · May 30, 2016 5:42 pm

It is and I think it's hilarious the rest of us were all focused on it being a LAB coat.
But a doctor's coat, d'oh!

nakahara · May 30, 2016 5:44 pm

Liberty · May 30, 2016 5:57 pm

besleybean wrote:
It is and I think it's hilarious the rest of us were all focused on it being a LAB coat.
But a doctor's coat, d'oh!

Except that doctors don't tend to wear white coats for patient contact these days! A paramedic disguise might work better with the ambulance.

Not a clue about G71 - looks like a room number.

nakahara · May 30, 2016 5:58 pm

Garage No 71 maybe?