Where I'll start is the moment that Holmes is talking with the reporter about not giving her a story.  This ties into Mycroft giving way to much personal information to Moriarty during interrogation, which was intentional.  It is then by no chance that the reporter and Moriarty crossed paths eventually.  Which eventually allows Holmes to know the location of Moriarty based on the knowledge that he was giving information to the reporter.

He is playing Moriarty from the minute he begins interrogation with Mycroft.  Providing Moriarty with a strategy.  Holmes knew that there wasn't an ultimate computer code/virus to unlock/hack anything.  He sells the idea to Watson about the computer code/virus being at his house to continue the idea that they must run from the police because the implications are larger.  He also plants the wireless camera himself in his house to further these ideas that they have been infiltrated.  That is why he finds it.

In the scene leading up to Holmes' fake death we are given a scene in which Moriarty shoots himself so that Homles will have no alternate but to jump to his death or otherwise commit suicide to save his friends.  However I believe Moriarty would not kill himself to see Homles commit suicide, because that would not be satisfying enough not knowing whether Homles had succumbed or not to his games.

How we know the death was fake is simple and was shown to us right in the video.  They show Holmes jump (meagerly) but in the next scene show him further out, away from the building facing perpendicular to the building.  In the shot leading up to it Watson walks around to where Holmes is going to jump but then walks away, after careful pressing by Holmes over the phone, to retreat to a farther away location in the street so as not to see him faking it.

In the scene where he is jumping he is visibly nervous (and somewhat saddened. maybe because it's come to this.?)  This is due to his reluctance to do something so crazy as to attempt to fake his own death by jumping from a building.  In the scene where Watson is running to see Holmes after the jump you see a truck that has a cage and what looks like garbage bags in it.  Behind Watson a biker looks right at him then "accidentally" hits him.  I ask you, What biker notices someone then hits them?  Wouldn't that person not notice them, then accidentally run into them... hmm...  This was setup by Holmes as well to disorientate Watson and to delay him from confirming or denying actually death or COD. 

In the scene where Watson gets up from his blow and goes over to his body, there are already paramedics there (alarmingly fast) and not only that but there is that vehicle which was parked with the garbage bag looking things begins to move away from its position.  What driver leaves the scene of a suicide jump immediately after the paramedics are arriving.  He is the principle witness in the matter as Watson's view was partially blocked by the parking structure.  The driver was hired by Holmes and Holmes jumped into it.  He landed on the pavement not perpendicular as shown while falling but parallel to the building itself.  And it is all too convenient to be all taking place at the Hospital where Holmes knew that he had to meet with Watson there to send him back to 221B baker so as he could be alone to finalize his preparation and keep some distance from Watson as to not allow him to be in on the fake death. 

The favor the female doctor friend sherlock asks about is still up in the air for me, as to exactly what that was.
Also, Holmes never verifies Moriarty's death, although it looked convincing, I cannot fully get behind Moriarty killing himself as his game was obviously psychological in nature it would have not been fitting to actually kill himself.

If I have missed anything or have forgotten to include anything (it's 5:am here so I might not be sound of mind) please reply and we'll lock this one up before the next season comes out.  Thanks for reading.

Last edited by arius33 (October 26, 2012 10:44 am)