I'd love to think John had a role. But there's absolutley no reason the police couldn't have done it themselves; Moriarty's 'plan' to frame Sherlock wasn't exactly air-tight.

I suspect Mycroft would have released certain information to clear Sherlock when appropriate. After all the whole thing was an MI6 sting.
And you can bet every other newspaper would have been trying to discredit Kitty Rileys story.

tonnaree wrote:

I admit I really wanted see Kitty get some sort of big smack down.  But ya know, she's not that important to the actualy show.

She did issue an apology. It was shown during a 'news item' on the BBC Sherlock website. Not sure whether that was available outside of the UK.

Opps. Sorry. It was on John Watson's blog.
 

Last edited by dartmoordoggers (January 20, 2014 6:45 pm)

Well, it makes sense for Mycroft to do something about it. 

But I am surprise John didn't devote himself to the clearing of Sherlock's name when he thought Sherlock was dead...perhaps for his own "therapy" as much as for Sherlock's sake. Something to live for connected with Sherlock, one last thing he could for Sherlock, a way to somehow feel "connected" to Sherlock.

In the other adaptations there is no damage done to Holmes' reputation before his disappearance. In the Granada series starring Brett, Watson works as a police surgeon during the Hiatus. It's as if he wants to keep his life as much like life with Holmes as possible.

I just read something somewhere- perhaps the how  he did it theory thread- had sherlock recorded what a moriarty said on the rooftop on his phone and that's why he leaves it behind- to be found and clear his name.

Is this just head canon or has it been confirmed?

Would make some sense for that to happen, but not sure if it did. I wondered myself the fourth or so time watching just how his name was cleared. It would be nice to know what brought Anderson round to realizing he was wrong. It clearly shook him to the core.