sherlockskitty wrote:

....And,  how did Sherlock KNOW  what was in those gifts,  without even opening them?

Sherlock's not actually clairvoyant. He's just written that way. bwahahahaha  But srsly, those opening scenes of TRF were all played for comedy. I think John's lines were priceless. "Say thank you," and "Shhhh!" and "Just get it over with." ha

Sammy wrote:

Uh, I think at some point we ought to make a big summary of all the theories.

We have a volunteer from the audience...

But yeah, maybe some kind of list...

I think they've been sent more than enough theories online that they don't need to go searching for more.

And I would hope they spent their time on more fruitful pursuits ...... like script writing.

Ok, this probably has been mentioned here before and I apologize in advance, but I'm just thinking out loud here.

In the beginning of the episode we see the dummie hanging from the ceiling at Sherlock's apartment. Do you think he used this a la "Buster" in MythBusters to determine where it would fall when thrown from the hospital roof? I mean if it was Sherlock's weight and everything, so he knew the place it would hit the ground so he could use this information to fake his death? If not, how do you think he used it?

My new 'theory' is theoretical only and I have no idea how it could be accomplished. As such I would deserve no credit if it happens. I just keep thinking to the title of the show The Reichenbach Fall.  Maybe it is a play on words, not a fall from the roof but a fall from grace indicating we are all wrong and misdirected to think he fell. What if somehow it is a magic trick and the SHerlock we see jump is really not on roof and is just some sort of hologram projection or reflection of his actual live or prerecorded "jump" taken from a more safe less fatal location. Maybe he always planned to subdue Moriarty, sneak down and make this happen from some other vantage point. Or just press a button to activate the prerecording on his phone like Moriarty did. How I do not know. Maybe it originates from truck below.

I've been thinking too. What if Sherlock swung into an open window on a floor below or onto something  strung out from a lower floor, but obscured by the building in front, and then a body, ready prepared as it were ,was dragged from the laundry truck onto the ground? It is the man in the grey coat who is first on the scene and he points upwards to indicate that is where the 'person' came from. We are watching Sherlock falling but , apart from John, no one else realises anyone is jumping, so why would they look up? They would take it as gospel that what the man in grey says is true.

Just thinking.

What if.....What if MOLLY  was Moriarty  in  disguise up there on the rooftop? And,  no,  she didn't  'die'  she just made it look like that.   Moriarty was killed elsewhere and elsewhen before hand.   And the dummy  was used as Sherlock  falling,  but then how can a dummy  move and flail his arms and legs like that?   Oh  hurry  up  and air the show,  Moftiss,  Please?   the suspense is driving me bonkers!!

An interesting thought has crossed my mind. It's not fully formed, but I will post the outline for now.
As much as it annoys people, I will first refer back to the canon.

Holmes & Moriarty struggle at the top of the Falls & supposedly tumble to their deaths. Of course we find out later that Holmes faked it but at the time, everyone felt he had gone over with Moriarty.

Now back to Sherlock.
Was it in fact Sherlock's plan to fall withMoriarty? The fall to be broken at the bottom & Moriarty captured & taken away for Sherlock's own interrogation process.
This would explain how he would be sure Moriarty would not see any plans going on down below. Sherlock would 'get ready to jump' the first time, as we see & then stop & have the 'I don't have to die' speech, thus walking away from the side once he saw things were set up below. His plan was then to grapple with Moriarty & render him helpless (maybe knocking him out?) & 'falling' with him in his grasp.

When Moriarty suicided, that threw the plans out. "Do I jump with a dead man now? Do I leave him here to be found & I take the blame?" Quite a quandary.
Later, keeping John back from the scene is self explanatory.
And the people below?
One  explanation could be: ' we're making a movie here, can you all act natural' & a few 'actors' would take key roles.

Still sketchy but working on it.

Yes I always thought he grabbed him  that way to keep him from looking over the side.

There are other 'good points' for this but it's late & too much going on in my head to post them too coherently lol.

I think it was the homeless network... obviously the guy on the bike purposefully knocked John over hard enough to have him dazed for a bit... and then all those doctors... Am I the only one who thinks those doctors looked like homeless street kids? lol I would never look at the people who put him on the stretcher and wheeled him away were actualy affiliated with a hospital lol

My money is on Sherlock doesn't usually sit around playing with rubber balls. Maybe he stopped his pulse using that rubber ball then was wheeled away by his homeless network before his pulse came back. It's totally doable. Magicians do it all the time. Why else would writers put an unnecessary rubber ball into a scene? Then he needed Molly to help with covering his tracks as far as the body goes. It wouldn't be hard. Presumably he did the same thing when he saved Irene.

I guess that's as good a theory as any

Last edited by VivaCohen (June 26, 2012 7:11 am)