Mnemosyne wrote:
Did we ever see what happened to the surveillance camera? Was it ever proven who placed it there? (Mycroft?)
The last we saw with the camera were the scenes all around Sherlock and John becoming fugitives. Sherlock finds the camera, then - while holding the camera still in his hand! - he is giving Lestrade a "No, I am not willing to join you to the police station, because this is what Moriarty wants and I am not playing his game" (ruin his reputation, bringing Sherlock with a foto in negative press reports, burn him). And he´s also uttering "Oh, Moriarty is smart" more or less directly into the camera, for the ears of the person behind the camera. Interesting, or? Of course Sherlock is playing Moriarty´s game, but this purposely. Because what happens then afterwards is quite the opposite of what he pretended to have wanted: Lestrade´s coming back (and Sherlock knew that of course also before) and an even much higher public attention to his person is predictable now: handcuffs, a lot of police and a really spectacular escape with gunshots and a "hostage". Now people will definetely talk, says John later.
Long speech, but in short now: I don´t trust anything what Sherlocks says in 221B after he detected the camera - he is playing Moriarty´s game in the extreme to accelerate it. Sherlock is "flattering" him to lull him into a false sense of security (like he partially also does during the trial). First on the street, unobserved now, he is becoming serious to John (and approves my theory of pretending to do what his enemy has planned): "Let´s do what Moriarty wants, let´s become fugitives".
Now to your question: For me this means obviously ;-)), that the camera was planted by Moriarty. Why should Mycroft have placed it? Yes, he is concerned about his brother, but a "surveillance status" exists already since ASiP (whatever this means practically).
Last edited by anjaH_alias (January 6, 2013 3:29 pm)
