My pleasure. And I had another idea: You remember the deleted scene from ASiP in the Chronicles, Sherlock on the NSY roof, talking about suicides and how he would do it, Lestrade being clearly ill at ease? Maybe Sherlock was not just reckless with his life as proven by the pill scene, but suicidal - a parallel to John - lonely, depressed, feeling useless, with his gun at hand? So what if Mycroft wanted to provide his brother with the ultimate challenge, a villain made to measure for Sherlock, a puzzle worth of his brilliant faculties? Just thinking but they chose to include the scene in the book. There is not much we know about Sherlock's past so far and what we have seen from the trailer and setlock shows that the past of the Holmeses may be quite dark.
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"To fake the death of one sibling may be regarded as a misfortune; to fake the death of both looks like carelessness." Oscar Wilde about Mycroft Holmes"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)“Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.” (Benedict Cumberbatch)
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