besleybean wrote:

An old enemy coming after Sherlock?

I don't know. But another Ricoletti in the series, I'm not sure it's a coincidence. 

But... am I remembering wrong, or doesn't it get said that Sherlock helped with the capture of Ricoletti? During the gift exchanges? That's a bit confusing 

Still puzzling about the "blindingly obvious" things and thinking that one thing that jumped out at me with HLV is that we really have to be told more about Mary - her background can't be left hanging like that, and it does seem such a coincidence that she ended up with John (and then possibly has connections with Mycroft).   I know nobody has actually missed that, though! 

Lol, I found this quite funny - and actually rather believable, if you ask me. 

http://your-dear-watson.tumblr.com/post/151066244560/how-season-4-will-go-down

Vhanja wrote:

Lol, I found this quite funny - and actually rather believable, if you ask me. 

http://your-dear-watson.tumblr.com/post/151066244560/how-season-4-will-go-down

Pure genius! 

Morning guys! I just thought of something: did Mycroft know about Mary's past from the beginning? This is just a shower thought (more precisely a 5AM drunk in the shower thought) but I think is is important. If he knew, why didn't he tell Sherlock? 
He obviously knows the whole story in the end ("what do you think of MI6 security?" or something like that), but imo if he had learned about it after Sherlock killing Magnussen he wouldn't trust Mary like that, would he? 
I Hope this makes sense...

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I wonder too... and if he knew... what logic is there behind him hiding it? Hmm

Oh and that link. That made my morning!

I think there are various possible hints that he knew.  I think TAB implies that Mary might even have been working with Mycroft (that's what Sherlock sees her doing in his mind palace - and we know that she was a secret agent, and that Mycroft uses agents).   It looks as if the tie change on the plane was a wardrobe goof (from Mark's comments at Sherlocked), so the plane scenes in TAB could well be clear, and there we have Mycroft apparently well aware of Mary's "occupation".  

I wouldn't be surprised if Mycroft was aware of Mary during TSOT, when he doesn't come to the wedding, but warns Sherlock about getting involved.  

I've even wondered if Mycroft might have hired Mary to deal with Magnussen, and that's why he warned Sherlock off him!   But it does seem that Mary wants to kill Magnussen for her own reasons, primarily. 

It's also a bit too much of a coincidence then for Mary, who happens to have been working for Mycroft, to happen to meet and marry John - coincidences do happen, but it's odd.   Whether that's because Mycroft planted her there, or somebody else did, or whether she did it for her own reasons, I don't know, but it does look like John was targeted.

I do hope this is something that's followed through in S4.

maybe that would make sense with Hudson's "You reptile!!" remark 

I don't think that there is a secret Mycroft twin either, seems like Mycroft is shady enough without a secret twin (and I love him for that very reason). But I do believe that he knew who Mary is from very early on or he might have even been the one to plant her. We know he monitors everyone close to Sherlock, so to miss who Mary is, when Sherlock figures it out in a day, seems highly OOC for him. If one is to believe the surgery theory, then Mycroft's lack of response might still make sense. We know that CAM was after Mycroft, so he might have hired Mary to take care of their common problem, not realizing that Sherlock would pick that very day to walk into CAM's office. Otherwise it would seem that Mycroft could never be bothered to do a basic background check on Mary or investigate who shot his baby brother, and the one thing I do believe is that Mycroft cares deeply for Sherlock.