I suppose he might have got it from someone in the police as they have his phone number. Remember there is an assassin watching Lestrade in The Reichenbach Fall. Maybe, I think it's likely, that Moriarty has people inside the police. Remember in The Great Game he knows Sherlock has gone to the police- the old lady tells him.

Three mistakes that spring to my mind:
1.How does Lestrade manage to stand in Sherlock's and John's flat all of a sudden despite the fact that there's no-one to open the front door for him? Mrs Hudson at this time is present in the flat, too.
2. When Sherlock and John depart for Brixton/Lauriston Gardens it's bright outside. On their arrival in Brixton it's deep dark night. What took Sherlock and John so long? A gigantic traffic jam? A "short" detour via Afghanistan?
3. Watch the shot cabbie lying on the floor in a puddle of black blood. When Sherlock screams: "The name..now...!" the blood has miraculously vanished.

Maybe there are more mistakes in SIP. Maybe I have watched it way to often... 

tobeornot221b wrote:

Three mistakes that spring to my mind:
1.How does Lestrade manage to stand in Sherlock's and John's flat all of a sudden despite the fact that there's no-one to open the front door for him? Mrs Hudson at this time is present in the flat, too.
2. When Sherlock and John depart for Brixton/Lauriston Gardens it's bright outside. On their arrival in Brixton it's deep dark night. What took Sherlock and John so long? A gigantic traffic jam? A "short" detour via Afghanistan?
3. Watch the shot cabbie lying on the floor in a puddle of black blood. When Sherlock screams: "The name..now...!" the blood has miraculously vanished.

Maybe there are more mistakes in SIP. Maybe I have watched it way to often... 

1. I'm not sure when you mean????? Near the beginning? I imagine he let himself in. He is the police after all. And it didn't look like anyone locked the door when they went inside at first.

2. It's early evening when they leave. Yes, it's daylight but you can see the street lights are on and cars & buses have headlights. As they drive, you can see the sky behind Sherlock at one stage is growing darker, with just a tinge of daylight still visible. At that hour of the day, I daresay there would be a fair amount of traffic & looking at a map, I would imagine it would take some time in traffic to get there.

3. Didn't miraculously vanish, Sherlock was using him as a sponge & it all soaked up into his coat.
Honest! His head could have rolled to the left in pain; Sherlock could have moved his foot upwards & it was obscured even more but yes, it does look slightly odd.

lol

Last edited by kazza474 (February 14, 2012 3:34 am)

Jeez, I'll have to watch again more carefully - I'm obviously seeing but not observing, lol.

Watched this Ep again today...I noticed that when they're in the restaurant, Sherlock tells John to get something to eat because it might be a long wait. So one minute he's looking at the menu, and then the next minute he's eating, without actually having ordered anything, or without it cutting to another scene to allow for a time gap.

Probably the director/writers calculate that the audience will assume some time has passed because from settling down at the table to John getting his meal served would suggest time passing without John actually having to order the food on screen.

Yeah, I also noticed that the victims took 2 pills in a vial, and that when he "plays" with Sherlock it's only one pill. Maybe there is no game, maybe he just forces them to take it at gunpoint. Kind of dull but there you go...

If I remember correctly, the pills started off with 5 pills for first victim, then 4, then 3, then 2, then 1 for Sherlock.

Well, the cabbie was not a very nice man, as John has pointed out to us, so I perfectly believe, that he might have cheated.
Sherlock was right, you can manipulate as much as you want, it's still chance. And if I had been the victim of the cabbie  - even, if I would believe in his manipulative super powers - there are ways to bring it back to a 50% chance: I would just have not played the manipulation game of guessing and second guessing with him. I would have said something like 'one, two - out are you' in my head to create a 50/50 chance for myself. The cabbie could not have prevented it. So he was either 4 times lucky, which is not really that outrageously unbelievable (the sample here is not really big enough for  viable statistics), or he cheated. If he cheated, John's intervention was literally vital for Sherlock, and I guess that was the main point of that scenario. The cabbie goaded Sherlock into almost doing something unbelievably stupid, and John rightfully calls Sherlock an idiot for engaging in such risky behaviour.

This is very silly, but it stuck out for me so here goes..
 In SIP, the scene when John is about to knock at 221B and SH joins him on getting out of a taxi and they are standing there talking on the pavement. Now, I should point out that SH later on tells John that he 's already moved in, which means he is already living there i.e. Mrs.Hudson is already his housekeeper. We never see them hugging or greeting each other on any other occasions when SH is entering or leaving his rooms. So when Mrs.Hudson opens the door and fondly hugs him, saying "Sherlock....", we assume that they are meeting after a long time! When in fact he's already her tennant! That seemed very odd to me, so yeah maybe you think it's stupid..yeah maybe it is!