I was wondering how he got to that restaurant. I presume it must be just across the road from the hospital (or he found a cab driver who doesn't ask to many questions regarding the drip stand and hospital gown lol). We don't tend to let people out with infusions of controlled drugs running but considering that an avrage smoker usually manages to slip by the nurses station as soon as reasonably mobile I don't think it would be hard for Sherlock to escape the premises (again).

The whole thing with CAM was one big misscalculation and I think morphine might have played a big part in it.
 

miriel68 wrote:

I am not sure about that morphine thing. We saw earlier S. being able to cut down morphine in the hospital, even if he was in a considerable pain. Why should he increase the dosage just in the moment he is talking to M.? I think it was deliberate as he wanted M. to believe he is a junkie.
 

I think the intention was to string CAM along. However how perfectly it was executed is another matter. Thing with morphine is that sometimes you don't fully realise just how much the stuff has clouded your judgement. Just like with alcohol you can be more intoxicated than you think you are. So maybe the fact that this whole plan was thought out by sherlock why under influence of morphine explains that it didn't exactly turn out as he is invisaged.
 

It's just everything that makes me think it's genuine.
He's eating very slowly before CAM comes in. He's seriously slurring his words, after the glasses incident he's away with the fairies - and that's after he's turns down his supply.

I think CAM was ahead of the game - but only after Sherlock was shot. Even CAM didn't see that coming. He taunts Mary saying "are you going to kill us both ", but the look of horror on his face when she shoots him, that's genuine shock.

Up until that point I think Sherlock would have got what he wanted.

Down.

I suppose it would make sence for him to turn it down to help him think more clearly whilst he talks to CAM. Ragradless of him turning it up or down it would still attract CAM's attention to it and create an impression that it may be a pressure point.

The effects of change in infusion rate aren't instantaneous. If we assume that it's morphine the peak effect is reached in 10 -15 minutes. If he started feeling a bit to fuzzy and away with the faries whilst talking to CAM and reduced the infusion rate to counteract that it would take a little while for it to make a difference. Also if a starting dose is quite high it will take a while for the effects to wear off even if you drop infusion rate all the way to zero as it needs to make its way out of the system
 

Personally, I think Sherlock was just acting ill in this scene and he was fully healed at the time. His fiddling with the morphine was probably just an act to persuade CAM that he is addicted to painkillers and thus easier to cheat. The fact that they were meeting at Speedy′s seems to confirm this: Sherlock is probably no more in the hospital, so he just came to the restaurant from upstairs, from his flat at 221B.
 
I find it suspicious how Sherlock is seemingly out of his wits when playing with CAM′s spectacles, yet he is lucid and very cunning and perceptive when offering „deal with the devil“ to CAM just a few minutes later. And if this scene really takes place shortly before Christmas, as it seems to (since I doubt CAM and Sherlock spoke about Mycroft′s notebook in august and Sherlock delivered it to CAM only after so many months, in december), it′s one more reason for suspicion: Sherlock was shot in early summer, there′s no way he still needs medication in winter.
 
Because CAM has all the blackmail information in his hands and guards it well in his Appledore „fortress“, he currently holds all the aces of this game and Sherlock needs to find some way to „break throught the walls“. He paints himself as gullible and weak so that he can be invited into the lair of his opponent. I think he knows quite well what he′s doing and he succeeds with this plan - it′s just unfortunate that CAM′s blackmail information is then revealed to exist just inside CAM′s head. Still, I cannot shake the slight feeling that Sherlock had to reckon with this possibility either – after he realised CAM′s spectacles are really just ordinary spectacles, he had to know about CAM′s true nature.     
 

I don't think that's Speedy's. When John and Mycroft meet there at the end of ASiB, it looks pretty different to the restaurant where Sherlock and CAM meet. Smaller. Not so many tables. Different interior.

On a completely different note, when I watched the episode for the first time, I wasn't quite sure if this scene was actually happening, because it felt so very much like a dream sequence to me.

SolarSystem wrote:

I don't think that's Speedy's. When John and Mycroft meet there at the end of ASiB, it looks pretty different to the restaurant where Sherlock and CAM meet. Smaller. Not so many tables. Different interior.

On a completely different note, when I watched the episode for the first time, I wasn't quite sure if this scene was actually happening, because it felt so very much like a dream sequence to me.

Same with me. It really has a dreamlike quality. I mean, Sherlock eating pasta!! But seriously, the whole timeline is weird. We basically do not know anything about what happened from the moment the paramedics turned up at Baker Street up to Christmas. 
 

SusiGo wrote:

SolarSystem wrote:

I don't think that's Speedy's. When John and Mycroft meet there at the end of ASiB, it looks pretty different to the restaurant where Sherlock and CAM meet. Smaller. Not so many tables. Different interior.

On a completely different note, when I watched the episode for the first time, I wasn't quite sure if this scene was actually happening, because it felt so very much like a dream sequence to me.

Same with me. It really has a dreamlike quality. I mean, Sherlock eating pasta!! But seriously, the whole timeline is weird. We basically do not know anything about what happened from the moment the paramedics turned up at Baker Street up to Christmas. 
 

You are right – there is something off, something not quite right about this scene.
 
And yet - Sherlock′s „deal with the devil“ really happened so at least a part of the scene has to be real. Still, it′s very confusing and it′s hard to tell, where and when does it take place.
 

Yes, that would make sense in terms of how the episode is told, but we don't know for sure when exactly it is supposed to take place. Right after Janine has left? Well, maybe.
Still, the scene feels a bit off. The dialogue is quite cryptical at times - the stuff about the canteen for example, it's probably designed to confuse the audience even more, because you ask yourself 'what is this, where is this taking place?'.