Mary tried to.

I think it was her...I'm just not 100% sure how far he took it.

ancientsgate wrote:

Liberty wrote:

Why would he take a phone number?  Well, he didn't ask for it, the girl seemed very nice and sweet, and was putting herself out there, and it would have seemed rude and hurtful to refuse - after all, he could just put it straight in the bin afterwards.  Which he almost did.  But then thought maybe one text wouldn't hurt and so on. 

(Although that's one thing that bothers me - how did Elizabeth know the "Hey" was from him?  Maybe another hint that he was sending texts to somebody else?  There's also the possiblity that this wasn't cheating - although it's believable as that - but that she was offering something else). 

When a text comes up on your phone, the caller is identified.  By a phone #, of if the number is in your phone contacts list, by their name. So she would probably know who the hey was.

But they never showed us for sure who it was. Hmmmm.

 

But how would she know? We never see John giving her his number too.
I think she can make an educated guess. She probably doesn't give her number to many men every day.

besleybeans, I just don't think John necessarily texted the bus lady all the time we see him texting. At night in bed it's much more likely that he addressed someone else, whom he hasn't had contact with for a while - unless the chronology is mixed up somewhat. Which is of course quite possible in this episode. In this case - I guess it's possible that he had already learned to know the bus lady well enough to miss her, and the scene at the bus stop, when he meant to end the budding relationship, was a flashback of sorts.
Who knows? I'm not sure of anything anymore in this darn episode ;)

ancientsgate wrote:

ewige wrote:

But how would she know? We never see John giving her his number too.
I think she can make an educated guess. She probably doesn't give her number to many men every day.

He would have texted her first, then she would have known who that number belonged to. When she gave him her #, that was the invitation, text me if you're interested.
 

He texted her first but as she didn't have his number to her it would have just come up as a txt from random phone number, we can assume she thinks it's John because she would have been waiting for a txt from an unknown number, unless of course she gives her number out to lots of people.

Last edited by Lis (January 4, 2017 10:19 pm)

Apparently John is gazing at an image of Elizabeth in the airplane window on the ride home. 
Clue maybe .

I think the number and E xx was code . John was checking it against two newspapers before he sent the text. Hey is how we saw Sherlock addressed a few times.

I think he was texting her, partly because we think she's appearing in TLD (tonight!).  There's more to her than we've seen.

I was just about to post this in the makeup thread, and thought it would be better here:

John's cheating ... I think that was maybe a good move to allow him to feel "not perfect" and a liar, and so feel closer to Mary, and also perhaps have more guilt at the end.  (While still hardly being a steamy affair from what we saw).  It also introduced the bus stop lady who we think is coming back tonight, so it looks like there is more to the "cheating" story.   Although I find the idea of John flirting quite believable, I don't know if it's absolutely clear what happened between the two, if anything, or whether the lying was part of him planning something else before Mary's death.  (Or am I just being sucked in with the trope of somebody appearing to be cheating and it turns out they were planning a birthday surprise!). 

Last edited by Liberty (January 8, 2017 10:09 am)

I hope they do not change anything about the cheating. That was honestly my favourite sub-plot in the episode. I loved to see John swaying back and forth. I found it oddly touching. Also, John's character just got that much more complicated and interesting. He was a bit too good to be true. So very forgiving and trusting. Now suddenly, there is another side to him. 

Yes, very well acted.