BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Lestrade calls out to Ajay by name

**Posted by backdoorhippie** January 3, 2017 3:57 pm

So when the police arrive at Sandeford's house where Sherlock and Ajay are talking about Mary, Lestrade first shouts out, "Ajay!! You're surrounded!!"

How did he know his name?! Even Sherlock didn't know until he accessed the memory stick. Script glitch (not likely) or a clue to something else?

**Posted by Pops** January 3, 2017 4:25 pm

Lestrade says "Armed police ! You're surrounded !", can someone confirm ?

**Posted by backdoorhippie** January 3, 2017 4:49 pm

Pops wrote:
Lestrade says "Armed police ! You're surrounded !", can someone confirm ?

From the captions on the video both on the PBS site and my DVR recording it says "Ajay" not "Armed Police".

**Posted by Lis** January 3, 2017 4:50 pm

Yeah Lestrade says "armed police" first

Edited to add I checled BBCiPlayer's subtitles and it says armed police.

Last edited by Lis (January 3, 2017 4:53 pm)

**Posted by backdoorhippie** January 3, 2017 4:50 pm

Here's a capture...

**Posted by besleybean** January 3, 2017 4:52 pm

But they knew it was him, didn't they?
Hadn't they worked out by then?

**Posted by backdoorhippie** January 3, 2017 4:52 pm

That said, on third listen, I'm OK with "armed police" instead of "ah-jay". CC error I suspect.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 3, 2017 5:18 pm

Netflix has 'Armed Police' as well, but it does sound muffled (and with my bad hearing).

**Posted by sherlock_gheek** January 3, 2017 9:35 pm

I think that was just for the audience, give us a spoiler while we were watching. Clues to help us figure out who's Ajay.

**Posted by besleybean** January 3, 2017 9:38 pm

This is something else I will have to listen out for, when I re-watch tomorrow.

**Posted by Mothonthemantel** January 3, 2017 9:52 pm

On bbc iPlayer it's armed police followed by lay down your weapons two times.

**Posted by Liberty** January 3, 2017 10:46 pm

How would he have known it was Ajay? They were looking for an unknown criminal, whom Sherlock thought was working for Moriarty. "You know nothing". It also sounds like "armed police". I think it must be a captioning mistake.

**Posted by besleybean** January 3, 2017 10:48 pm

Yeah sorry...only having my second viewing tomorrow.
Things happened very fast and I've obviously remembered wrongly...
I will try and pay attention when I re-watch tomorrow.

**Posted by Liberty** January 3, 2017 11:02 pm

No need to apologise! I watched it again, and it seems I missed various details. The various flashbacks/flashforwards don't help. It's not easy to remember - when we saw x, what had the characters seen?

**Posted by besleybean** January 3, 2017 11:03 pm

Exactly.
I fell into the trap of thinking the other characters have all seen what the audience has seen!