How to survive the fall: A lot has been explained yet here and in other forums/blogs, and I think the truth is in a lot of that, more or less anyway, not knowing maybe every detail – but: the truck with the bags, the little ball for the armpit, the white belt Sherlock is wearing during the fall, the bicycle driver and the people on the street (all on the inside of Sherlock´s plan, preventing John from taking his pulse too long, pressing Sherlock´s arm with the ball under the armpit), Molly´s role, John´s “job�� being an eye witness who was sent away before (by Sherlock, obviously). And, yes, obviously, it´s Sherlock falling, there is no dummy or even clone (sorry but this is ridiculous). It´s Sherlock lying on the ground and John realizes this although being fogged (can you say that in English?), being dizzy. Watching his face when Sherlock is turned around, realizing, saying: “Jesus! Oh my god, no…�� – and we see the face, too, the eyes….. it was the magic trick, Sherlock planned this and it worked.
And this is the more interesting question: Since when did Sherlock plan the whole thing? When did everything start? Who is playing with whom? And – the deciding question: What did he do “out of character�� ? It´s the beginning of that episode, I am convinced about that, the cases and his behaviour around them which have nothing to do with his life before. Yes, we don´t know much about the cases, but do they look interesting to somebody like Sherlock? Somehow I feel they could normally get a deep “boring�� of him, but instead he takes them over. They make him famous, he exposes himself to the press, doing stupid things like saying Thank you for a tie pin and wearing that stupid hat. Sherlock? He was never interested in that, and also not in the rich and famous which seem to be his only clients at that time…. Why? Again: they make him famous. Why does he like to be that? The only reason can be to elicit Moriarty out of his spider´s net. And, didn´t it work? Moriarty can´t live with the fame of his arch enemy, this provokes him and he then commits the crime of the century. Everything starts here and the one with the threads in his hand is Sherlock. Always. He pushes his fall, trys to plan as much as he can in advance. This is not always possible, I don´t think e.g. that he planned Moriarty´s suicide. But the frame conditions are set by Sherlock (and, of course, Mycroft, he never accidentally would have “blabbed out�� the intimate details of his brother, he was ALWAYS taking care about him, concerned about him). But, unfortunately, John can´t be involved into the plan, John isn´t able to lie – remember when he tried to tell Sherlock about Irene Adler´s disposition? That´s why – and, yes, of course he is doing this truly! – Sherlock is crying on the rooftop, he has to do this incredible lie to John, he has to hurt him so much and leave him alone again (“I owe you so much, I was so alone…�� ).
Sherlock has a heart! And with this he is saving lives in that moment, he “almost becomes a hero�� , like Steven Moffat said in one of the makings ofs.....
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