maybe by providing proof that he is not affiliated with any criminals (the last case before he "suicide"), and then proving that Jim Moriarty is a real and Richard Brook is a fake (Sherlock maybe needs Mycroft).

sherlocked wrote:

Sherlock migh just have recorded the conversation with Moriarty on the roof with his phone (and maybe at his home, too, when he was having tea with M). That's why he dropped the phone onto the roof, before he jumped. So it would not get lost, destroyed or taken from him after the jump. A reliable person (probably Molly) could collect it, and keep it safe for Sherlock, until he comes out of hiding. It's the same situation as with Irene Adler's phone, which she sent to Sherlock for safe keeping. Irene's phone was her life insurance; Sherlock's phone could be his ticket for rehabilitation, and Molly sure would defend the phone with her own life.

Wow, I like that idea! I've often wondered why Sherlock dropped his phone. And remember the flat was bugged with a camera...but we never saw what Sherlock did with the camera once he'd discovered it...he might have decided to put it to his own use...

Never ever is a very long time! Agree with the possible use of the phone and the bug from the flat. Proving Moriarty to be real and Rich Brook to be a fake would be the key to proving himself to be the real McCoy.

If Moftiss follow the canon and have us believe 3 years pass (in TV land anything is possible) before Sherlock returns, 3 years is a very long time these days. What were you doing 3 years ago, to the day? (and no, please don't post what you were doing, the important thing is, you had to think a while, it's not like it was last week. )
So for a start, the fickle memories of the public and probably half the Police force  will take a lot of prompting if they saw him in the street.
There wouldn't have to be a big 'let's prove something about Moriarty/Brook' moment. That's over, finished. For the benefit of viewers, there'll be a bit about the reveal, etc etc. But in the storyline you can guarantee Moriarty won't feature.

Recording conversations with phones? OMG, Sherlock has dumbed down since his death!
Recordings would serve no purpose. You can't use them as evidence, it's child's play to manipulate anything like that. And if his phone were used to record such evidence, do you really think he would risk dropping it like he did??? It certainly would have been safer in his pocket if it were the key to him remaining a free man!
Similarly, 'wires' & bugs. No.  Sherlock wasn't out to prove anything to the authorities; he couldn't care less about them. He was out to stop Moriarty.
I can't see any reason to bother with recording or filming anything. I can't see that Sherlock needs an audience for any reason.

It's all starting to get just a bit too fanciful.

Recordings and photos are used all the time as evidence. There are even experts, who determine the likelyhood of manipulation. A recording of a phone conversation was one of the things that just toppled our president a couple of weeks ago. If it is about public opinion a recording or a photo sent to a newspaper is all it takes.
Anyway, Mogiss used exactly that idea (compromising photos, recordings and other data conserved on a phone) in the Irene Adler episode. If you argue, that photos can be easily manipulated, no one should be worried about compromising pictures anymore, you could always claim them to be a big fake. It's not so easy, there are tell tale signs of manipulation. To fake audio recordings is even more difficult.
As to the dropping of the phone: I dropped my phones many times like that. It was never damaged. Anyway, I don't think my theory, though of course I could be wrong, is very fancyful. Also we really don't know, if Sherlock will go into hiding for three years. They don't always follow the original canon. For example Irene Adler was never eventually outsmarted and subsequently saved by Holmes in Conan Doyle's story. Three years elapsed before Holmes returned, because Doyle originally wanted to write no more Holmes stories, and it took a while to change his mind, so a three year lapse was plausible.

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Also, to a certain degree MoGiss open up possibilities and threads for a story line; if they really use them in the following season, is not certain. I listened to the audio comments of Scandal in Belgravia. If I understood correcty, they hadn't even thought how to resolve the great cliff hanger at the swimming pool at the time of the shooting. The idea with someone (Irene Adler) distracting M with an urgent phone call came after they had finished with the first season. They even reshot parts of the swimming pool scene to make a complete fit. So I think, they have thought out carefully the why and how of the apparent suicide, but what comes after that, is not decided yet. MoGiss even said so in an interview. A lot of things can happen, before they start filming again. Ben Cumberbatch for example remarked, how much his face has changed in the 18 month, which elapsed between the shooting of the first season and the making of Scandal. And he is right. His face has changed a lot from the slim boyish look in the first three episodes to a heftier more mature expression, we see in Reichenbach fall. Should he change even more, they might make the time gap between his fake death and his return larger.

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@Sherlocked : whoaa.. *applause*

is that possible if Sherlock find the reason plus evidence why the kids (JM hostage) screaming when saw him, his name will clear by itself?? (at least it clear his name in police - and he doesn't need to runaway)

or probably he just let the gossips go out on its own, since he doesn't care about others people think?

Do you guys realise, the police don't really have any evidence of Sherlock having done anything wrong, other than escaping from custody. Without a charge, he doesn't have to clear his name.

It's not about evidence, it's about suspicion. In the real legal world, there would never have been a warrant for his arrest, because there was not enough evidence for an arrest, in handcuffs no less. But not to be considered a fraud makes or breaks S as a consultant detective; without his good name he wouldn't get any cases, let alone interesting ones, and his brain would rot as he says himself.That said, we simply don't know, if MoGiss will have a more or less elaborate story line about Sherlock's rehabilitation.

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Davina, I cannot imagine, that Mycroft turned M; he was out to get Sherlock, and, when he realized that he was beaten (I have an idea, what made him realize that), he killed himself. Really, not just pretend. But the thought, that the histrionic M was not the biggest spider in the web, occured to me , too. I see no other reason, why S would want to go undercover for any prolonged time. I mean, he could have come back from his pretend death after the snipers went away and his friends were safe, but at the start of the movie a month has elapsed already since Sherlock's supposed suicide. There must be a good reason for that. And the show needs a new good villain!