vicjperry wrote:

1. The one characteristic that seems to stick out to me is that Sherlock (whether he's about to die or not) would never abandon his cell phone. He does so before he jumps. Think of the info on that phone for all to see. If he were to commit suicide he would have wiped his phone clean of all info.

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed before...but almost everything has been discussed at least twice on this thread, so oh well 

Two arguments that I can think of: 1) Sherlock was about to jump off a roof. I doubt he was thinking very clearly. 2) He had to make the suicide believable, and why would he take the phone with him if he was about to die? He could have wiped it clean before.

One thing that doesn't fit for me is that no one found his phone. So what if Sebastian Moran (who we've been discussing on other boards) came up to the roof after Sherlock had jumped off, disposed of Moriarty's body, and took Sherlock's phone?

Arya wrote:

One thing that doesn't fit for me is that no one found his phone. So what if Sebastian Moran (who we've been discussing on other boards) came up to the roof after Sherlock had jumped off, disposed of Moriarty's body, and took Sherlock's phone?

The person who would find and remove dead Moriarty would find the phone as well.
Going by canon, Moran wasn't this person. Nobody was.
Who knows if the phone Sherlock threw away was in fact "his" phone or just any other. Maybe Sherlock kept his "real" phone with him. Maybe the phone survived the fall as he took the precaution of a good coat...
Fact is, he gave up on his phone. Could be a hint for John: People who use to give up on their phones aren't necessarily dead.
Think, John!

Arya wrote:

What do you mean by nobody was? Someone would have found Moriarty's body eventually.

"A few words may suffice to tell the little that remains. An examination by experts leaves little doubt that a personal contest between the two men ended, as it could hardly fail to end in such a situation, in their reeling over, locked in each other's arms. Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation. "
ACD, The Final Problem

tobeornot221b wrote:

"A few words may suffice to tell the little that remains. An examination by experts leaves little doubt that a personal contest between the two men ended, as it could hardly fail to end in such a situation, in their reeling over, locked in each other's arms. Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation. "
ACD, The Final Problem

Ok, in canon no one found Moriarty's body. But there was a body on top of St. Bart's. Someone found it eventually.

Fetchinketch wrote:

It's his "note", like the note left for Watson on the boulder at the Falls.  I think the "note" will end up having several meanings.

True...but I doubt John found the phone. He wouldn't go back to the flat, let alone the roof of St. Bart's.

Someone would have found and removed Moriarty's body...or at least I do hope so! Eww!

Mycroft reading tabloids...

Chrissi wrote:

There must have been some kind of investigation and so they must have searched the roof for clues.
Had they found a body up there they wouldn't have formed the suicide conclusion.
So somebody must have taken the body away before the investigation.
I'd say it must have been either Mycroft's or Moriarty's men.

But seriously, why is Mycroft reading a tabloid like The Sun?

I never thought about it, but there would be no proof, after the fact, that Moriarty hadn't pushed Sherlock off the roof (except, of course, for John's testimony) and then offed himself.

Wholocked wrote:

Guys don't get carried away too much with the "there's a clue everybody's missed". That was a comment made 3 days after TRF aired. We're now 6 months down the track. No doubt someone has picked up on whatever that clue was by now so you're not necessarily looking for something that no-one has thought of. Just something that no-one had thought of within 3 days of the episode airing in the UK.

Some of us are very new to this fandom, and we're having fun with discussing it to death. Don't rain on our parade, please and thx.

Davina wrote:

NoW I've gone and done it! I've been sucked in to accidentally put a theory onto the general  Reichenbach Fall thread! Arghhh! Please don't tick me off fellow moderator or Boss!

**SLAP!!!**

sherlockskitty wrote:

I've just watched TRF  for the umpteenth time.  In the last part---you see how Mycroft sat  in his chair,  and then he struck a pose that is familiar to  us viewers AS ONE THAT SHERLOCK ALWAYS DOES WITH HIS HANDS?   
Oh.   Are you lot vacant?   is it NICE   not knowing?   Oh dear me,  Mr. Sherlock Holmes,  what are you doing to us?  Mycroft NEVER  posed like that  in all the times I've seen him.

Mycroft often used his hands when in a pensive mood, and yes often people who are related or know each other well could use the same kind of pose. I don't think we'll find any great mystery or revelation to that one.