My comments on some of these:

- Do we know that Gabrielle was English?
- It was Sherlock/John who turned the USB stick into a tracker? Perhaps she didn't expect such a thing from them?
- I got the impression that Sherlock was sort of lost in his own deductive rant (thus ignoring Mary's warnings to shut up). Having that said, Sherlock has been an imbecile (to use your words) with guns in all seasons (scratching his head with a loaded gun before waving it in front of John comes to mind).
- Didn't they say the boy was killed by a heart attack or seizure? Odd for a young and healthy man, but it can happen, I guess.
- We don't know if John doesn't work. He's seen on the bus - perhaps that is to or fro work? Perhaps he work part time? Maybe Mary has some money saved up from her freelance days?
- We don't know if John was in the kitchen for hours. He said he was talking with/helping Mrs. Hudson? Perhaps he just got up from her flat.

As for Molly, it could be a day off or a weekend. We don't know. You make it sound like something negative that she helps out, but she's a friend and I think it's great that she helps John in a time of horrible grief, being alone with a baby.

I'm glad you made this topic nakahara, since I had a couple headscratchers of my own.  First I will address the ones in your first post with my best guesses.

1. I recall at one point AJ mentioning the USB sticks that he hid.  I was a little confused why it sounded like he said it in plural but maybe he somehow had more than one? Maybe recovered them after the other A.G.R.A members died so that they wouldn't end up in the wrong hands? There were six Thatcher busts.  We only seem to see him hide one in a bust, but maybe there is more than one bust with a USB stick in it?

2. I think AJ would have known that Gabrielle had died by then, so perhaps the terrorists knew as well?  Gabrielle could also have been French or of some other nationality, considering her name.

3. If it was in the USB stick, the tracker could have been too small to notice.  That's what I'm assuming, anyway.

4. When I was watching the episode, I didn't pick up on what your describing about Sherlock's behaviour about guns, but maybe what you are noticing has to do with the fact that he promised to protect Mary and John, and so he is putting himself in danger to try and help them?

5. I was a little confused about the guy in the car, too.  I might watch it again, since I recorded the episode even though I was able to watch it when it broadcast on TV over here.  But from what I understood, he was hiding in the vinyl seat cover and his dad never came out to see him so he had an allergic reaction or something and asphyxiated.  If anyone else understood this better, feel free to correct me on this.

6. I think John still works, even if it's not every day.  We see him on the bus, so I presumed that was how he got home from work and would go to work.  Every time we see him on the bus, he is carrying a briefcase, which I don't recall ever seeing him bring to Baker Street, so I think it's for work.

7. John mentions that he was with Mrs. Hudson for at least part of that time, working on her sudoku with her.  So, probably he was in Mrs. Hudson's kitchen, not the kitchen at 221B? Again, I'd have to watch that bit again to see exactly what he says, but I remember him mentioning that.]

And now for a couple of my own headscratchers:

1. In The Sign of Three, Sherlock says that John and Mary have had lots of practice for having a baby because of him.  "You're hardly going to need me around now that you have a real baby on the way." And yet when Greg and John joke about Sherlock being like a baby, Sherlock keeps asking if they're making a joke that he's missing and if it's about him.  Is he really oblivious to them joking about dealing with him being like dealing with a baby, or is he insinuating that when he makes that joke about himself it's OK but when others do it's just mean?

2. When Mary and Sherlock have their meeting in secret, Mary makes like she's giving Sherlock a note, but it's actually a cloth with chloroform (or something similar) on it.  Sherlock unfolds it and seems to know what's going on and yet he still lifts it to his nose to sniff it and pass out anyway.  Did he want to let Mary get away with drugging him and taking the USB stick away or was he trying to confirm whether there really was a substance on it? If he knew what it was, I'm not sure why he would inhale it all the same.

Last edited by Yitzock (January 2, 2017 3:22 pm)

Yitzock wrote:

2. When Mary and Sherlock have their meeting in secret, Mary makes like she's giving Sherlock a note, but it's actually a cloth with chloroform (or something similar) on it.  Sherlock unfolds it and seems to know what's going on and yet he still lifts it to his nose to sniff it and pass out anyway.  Did he want to let Mary get away with drugging him and taking the USB stick away or was he trying to confirm whether there really was a substance on it? If he knew what it was, I'm not sure why he would inhale it all the same.

It seems to me he probably wanted to see Mary escape only to track her down later with John and to persuade her that fleeing her new home is unneccessary.... so he inhaled the stuff willingly.

besleybean wrote:

Oh no I don't think so.
I think she caught him completely by surprise on that one.

But if he was taken by surprise here, then when exactly did he place a tracker on Mary?
And if he was not aware that she may escape, why placing that tracker on her in the first place?
 

1. Why is the Watson flat mirrored? The living room is the completely the other way round from MHR and HLV. 
2. We see them in bed in TEH and HLV. Now they suddenly have switched sides. 
3. When did they grow their hair? It has struck me since setlock and I still do not get it. The length indicates several months of growth which does not comply with the duration of the pregnancy.
4. What am I to make of the strange glowing skull painting?


 

Last edited by SusiGo (January 2, 2017 3:59 pm)

I think the latter.
But Mary had no idea about the tracker.

I thought the name was Gabriel (as in, the angel!), and thought he was male.  Rosamund was the only woman.  I'll see what I think when I listen again.  Did they say she was female?

The boy in the car - they speculated that it was an epileptic fit or something.  Just a random event. 

Yitzock wrote:

2. When Mary and Sherlock have their meeting in secret, Mary makes like she's giving Sherlock a note, but it's actually a cloth with chloroform (or something similar) on it.  Sherlock unfolds it and seems to know what's going on and yet he still lifts it to his nose to sniff it and pass out anyway.  Did he want to let Mary get away with drugging him and taking the USB stick away or was he trying to confirm whether there really was a substance on it? If he knew what it was, I'm not sure why he would inhale it all the same.

I'm not sure about this one as obviously he thought something was going to happen as otherwise he wouldn't have needed to put a GPS tracker in the USB stick.

They both distrusted each other here, Mary didn't know about the USB stick but she still went to meet Sherlock with something to knock him out?

Another head scratcher for me is how did Mary know about the "dragon slayer" comment from Sherlock and Mycroft's conversation?
 

Punch me in the face wrote:

What buggers me is that in HLV, Sherlock tells Mary "Your accent is currently English but I suspect you are not."

​If AJ suspected Mary to be the English woman who'd betrayed AGRA, that means that either Sherlock was wrong (I can't see him making such a mistake, but he did make mistakes in the past, so why not?) or that AJ ignored Mary wasn't English (which seemed unlikely too if they were like family)

A good point. I think it was established that Mary is an American, or at least not English. That would make A.J. suspicion completely misplaced.