At the beginning Sherlock says that Moriarty's "miss me?" was made before his death and broadcast after it. 

Mary's DVD with label "miss me?" was created before her death but delivered after it. 

Does it mean that there is some  connection in them? 

It seems to be too similar for only random coincidence. 

Last edited by Preceja (January 5, 2017 11:09 pm)

Didn't she say she just did it to get Sherlock's full attention?

Yes, there's definitely a connection, and the first case (the pre-recorded Skype call) sets that up, I think.   On first viewing, I was feeling there was a lot of Mary/Moriarty links (and there were hints of that in TAB too), but now I'm not so sure.  It's true that she does say that she did it like that, with the Miss Me title, to get Sherlock's attention (maybe it would just have been chucked in the bin otherwise!)

So I think it could mean
(a) Mary is connected to Moriarty (twin/minion/carrying on his work after his death, etc.)
(b) Mary engineered the Moriarty return video, to save Sherlock at the end of HLV or
(c) It's just as we see it - Mary uses the Moriarty reference because she knows that's what Sherlock is interested in.  We're just seeing repeating themes.

I'm leaning towards c at the moment, but haven't ruled the others out. For instance, Sherlock is convinced that he will know when the Moriarty game starts, and he is very sure of it when he comes across the first bust at the Wellsborough house.   He looks for evidence that it might be linked to Moriarty and finds the Borgia pearl case - that's why he's convinced, with very scant evidence, that he's going to find a pearl at the Sanderson house.  The fact that he finds AGRA instead, doesn't necessarily rule out that he was right about this being Moriarty's game.  (I think it's unlikely because I don't see Moriarty planning years ago for Ajay to be in a pottery and hide the AGRA stick there ... but instinctively Sherlock could be right about something).   Or he could be wrong, as he sometimes is.

So, I'm new here and have to read everything because the analyses of this ep are interesting. My first thought when Mary threw herself in front of Sherlock was, really, why would a woman with a child to raise even do such a thing?  That bugs me, and it's not as if she's in love with Sherlock. Risking your life for someone else is a huge deal. I have just rewatched and was wondering if anyone thought this little thing was deliberate in the case of stuff not seeming what it looks like: when Sherlock and Norbury are talking, at one point Mary kind of rushes toward Norbury and Sherlock stops her. Mary retreats, and ends up on the left side of Sherlock, when she had previously been on his right. I only noticed because when she first entered the room, I realized she had to switch sides at some point.. I am thinking the director would have told her to back up and go to Sherlock's other side, when I think more naturally she would have just back-stepped and ended up where she was, on his right. Just musing. 

Good point.

Can we please talk about the fact that Sherlock would have died if John had not seen the DVD? Telling Sherlock to bring himself into deadly danger to save John? What a crazy plan was this?
 

Well, according to the episode, Sherlock can predict John's actions very accurately. There is still a little bit of that self assurance of always getting it right there, thankfully, this time is was completely justified. 

I do not think we ever had that many issues closed. I am glad how it worked out. It showed that both Mary and Sherlock know John through and through and eventually, both are only interested in keeping him safe. 

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Well, according to the episode, Sherlock can predict John's actions very accurately. There is still a little bit of that self assurance of always getting it right there, thankfully, this time is was completely justified. 

I do not think we ever had that many issues closed. I am glad how it worked out. It showed that both Mary and Sherlock know John through and through and eventually, both are only interested in keeping him safe. 

Sherlock mentioned he had back-up plans (even tho he forgot what they were). So maybe he wouldn't have died even without John - altho it certainly didn't look so!