BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / If Big Brother is Watching...

**Posted by SherlocklivesinOH** March 1, 2014 12:54 am

Isn't there something about Sherlock being under surveillance?

Do you think that matters to him in terms of his personal life? Do you think he's aware of the lack of privacy and would that inhibit him from doing...private things?

Either for the sake of privacy itself, or because he knows that if he was in love with or having sex with someone, it would be known? And if that person were John, Molly, or Janine, they might be in danger.

And if it was someone like Irene, he could be accused of consorting with the enemy.

**Posted by Be** March 3, 2014 1:11 pm

I just found this at "The final problem" on tumblr. She had a closer look at Mycrofts screen:

Mycroft’s menu, meanwhile, has four options: Surveillance, GPS Tracker, Interviews, and Computer Hacking.

**Posted by saturnR** March 5, 2014 8:33 pm

I think Mycroft has him under digital monitoring but surveillance is too strong a word. He's not being filmed 24/7. Maybe GPS tracked or something. Also he's been able to surprise Mycroft quite a bit. He broke into Baskerville without hig brother knowing & Mycroft was genuinely surprised when he found out that Sherlock was tracking CAM.

**Posted by nakahara** March 5, 2014 8:55 pm

And even if Mycroft tried to monitor him 24 hours in a day, this is Sherlock we are speaking about: he would find a way how to mess with the system and how to slip through surveillance unnoticed.

**Posted by Not_Your_Housekeeper** March 6, 2014 4:55 pm

nakahara wrote:
And even if Mycroft tried to monitor him 24 hours in a day, this is Sherlock we are speaking about: he would find a way how to mess with the system and how to slip through surveillance unnoticed.

I think you hit the nail on the head with this. Considering the fact that he is who he is, we should find it safe to assume for both the continuity factor of the series and the element of surprise for fun of us viewers that Sherlock can and will elude and always be one step ahead of his brother. Unless of course it is part of the obvious plot that he's not supposed to be..

**Posted by Frozen Silence** March 16, 2014 4:05 pm

I don't think Mycroft can see every little thing. I think he knows what Sherlock wants him to know, and sees what Sherlock wants him to see. He didn't know Janine was in Sherlock bedroom, or that Sherlock was back on drugs/ crashing in the drug house. If he did, he would have put a stop to it as soon as he saw it.

**Posted by besleybean** March 16, 2014 4:59 pm

I disagree, he just knew it would be Sherlock...