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“Sherlock… it’s been over six months.” Lestrade commented gently. “Maybe you should give it a rest, eh? You could talk to someone, just t-“
“Enough!” The detective snapped. His eyes were wild and bloodshot. It was obvious that Sherlock was tired, exhausted even… but the genius would never admit it. He’d been running at full speed ever since this whole mess began.
Lestrade sighed, and looked to his right. The entire flat was covered with papers, maps and photos. It was the type of organized chaos that only Sherlock Holmes could understand.
“Sherlock.” The older man tried again, a bit firmer this time. “You need to accept the fact that if John Watson wants to disappear… he can. And will. For godsake, he was in the army, I’m sure his ‘stealth’ abilities are considerably high. More so than yours.”
The lanky, high-strung detective ignored the comment, and focused on the mapped shrine posted on the wall in front of him; littered with photos of John from surveillance cameras. “He’s alive, we know that much based on the images captured by the CCTV cameras.” He muttered. “Most images are somewhat blurred. He knows to avoid them, he knows where they are, and he knows that in a moment of desperation I’ll turn to my brother for information. He’s not wrong. Clever, John… John, John, John…” He growled, running his eyes over every detail, hoping for a clue to his whereabouts.
“You’ll be lucky if he’s even still in the UK.” Lestrade piped up again. “Why don’t you just give him his space. He didn’t take your ‘death’ well. Hell, none of us did, but it hit John the most. Your ‘rise from the dead’ didn’t help either. You know this is all your fault.”
Sherlock snapped his head around to glare at Lestrade, “Yes, thank you for your input. I was more than willing to make it up to John, but that’s rather difficult now that he’s running away from me!” He hissed.
“You abandoned him for three years. I say good on ‘im if he’s just giving you a taste of your own medicine.” The detective inspector mumbled angrily. “Look, I only stopped by to tell you that you’re on your own. I can’t waste any more police time and energy looking for an army-captain who doesn’t want to be found. If you’re smart, you’ll let him be.”
Sherlock focused his eyes on the extensive map and photos before him. “No. I won’t stop until he’s found. He can’t hide from me!” He yelled furiously. “I won’t let him, he can’t get away… not after everything I’ve done for him…”
“Jesus, would you listen to yourself?!” Lestrade shouted.
“Get out.” The other snarled. “If you’re not going to help then you’re an obstacle. I don’t need distractions! I’ll find John Watson and drag him back here with or without your help!”
Lestrade was about to respond, but the buzz of Sherlock’s phone distracted them both. The consulting detective eagerly opened the message from his brother,
Seen boarding a train in Amsterdam.
Grainy footage, but confirmed eye witness identification.
Car should arrive at Baker Street for you momentarily.
MH“You’ve slipped up, Doctor Watson,” Sherlock muttered to himself as he quickly grabbed his coat.
Without so much as another glance toward Lestrade, Sherlock bounded down the stairs and out the door.
The older detective exhaled slowly, and walked over to the window to see Sherlock slipping into a black luxury car, before it peeled away from the curb quickly.
Taking out his cell, Lestrade typed a quick text:
He’s on to you. Won’t give up, either. It’s getting out of hand.
Don’t you think you’ve made him suffer enough?
GL
It only took a moment for a text reply to chime in from an ‘unknown’ number.
No.
|| Everyone really wanted me to write an accompanying fic to this graphic… so ta da! This is what was going on in my head when I made it. Of course it can be interpreted any way, and I’m glad others have written fics using their own interpretations :)
Hey, Sherlockians—want to play a game? A slightly nutty and obsessive but who are we kidding, that’s what we’re here for game?
It’s been a week since The Reichenbach Fall aired. Fans have nearly wrung the episode dry looking for clues and hints about how Sherlock survived. There are a billion theory fragments out there, but they still need to be put together.
Are you brave enough to try? If so, let’s hear your complete theory of what happened from the beginning to the end of Sherlock’s plan to cheat death.
THE RULES:
- Make it as complete as you can. Try not to cheat and leave big gaps in the theory. Even if it means filling holes with things like Sherlock sliding down the neck of a feral giraffe.
- The point isn’t to be right, but rather to just be fearless and go for it. So don’t be wishy-washy. Instead of saying “and then this happened, or maybe this, or possibly that” just choose your favorite alternative and act like it’s the definitive truth.
- You can write your theory, draw it, use screenshots, act it out with puppets… anything that makes you happy.
- Tag your theory post with #REICHENBACH A TO Z so the rest of us can find it.
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If I am going to ask people to do silly things, naturally I know I must be willing to go first. So you’ll find my best attempt at replicating my current Reichenbach headcanon in the photoset above. Some of the points are based on what I think is solid logic. Others are probably more about what I wish was true. And I expect even in a best-case scenario there’s quite a lot wrong or missing, because that’s just how these things go. But I did my best to follow my own rule and treat every point of the theory as if it were definitely correct.
Some of my ideas are… non-standard… so here’s a reference list of other posts and reblogs from my Tumblr which explain some of the sub-theories more fully:
- The homeless network was on the scene, and the person by the bench was in on it.
- Sherlock’s plan was literally a series of magic tricks.
- The Pink Suitcase Theory: A laundry bin was used to catch Sherlock. There is also a follow-up post in which it I discussed how it could just as easily have been a rubbish bin—or maybe even some other object if you can think of a good reason.
- If you haven’t seen fandom’s discussion of why distance and physics make it impossible for Sherlock to have landed in the truck itself, you should check it out.
- The guy on the bike hit John on purpose. That post also explains why I call him the BMX Bandit. (Hint: No one stopped me. Also, Sherlock is now Angel Summoner and together they fight crime. You know it makes sense.)
- Sherlock’s out-of-character moment was intentionally hyperventilating on the roof.
- Sherlock used the rubber ball he was playing with in the lab to stop the pulse in his arm.
- At the last moment, Sherlock switched places with an accomplice—that wasn’t him being taken into St. Bart’s.
- I am strangely obsessed with the red phone box, but it does kind of make sense as the only place to hide temporarily in that setting.
- I tend to think Molly’s role in the plan was less of a crazy ninja accomplice and more of a mortician. Since she’s a mortician and all. Note that this does not reduce her awesomeness.
So that’s what I think happened. For now. Until somebody else plays the game and convinces me otherwise.
Or if nobody else wants to play, I’ll just stand over here feeling
awkward wrongbrave.———
UPDATE: People are playing, and there is now a master list. If you’d like to submit your Reichenbach A to Z post for the list, go here.
Doctor Who Series 5:
But…
Sherlock:
But…
[gifs etc. are not mine]
Where can I find Sherlock Season 1 official OST?
OHOHOHOH
When you’re trying to prove a theorem and you need the theorem you’re trying to prove.
That’s how things go usually.
As promised, here’s my current theory on how Sherlock survived the fall. I’m calling it The Pink Suitcase Theory.
I warn you in advance that it cannot be proven. Not at all. So if you continue reading and then respond with, “Pfft. You can’t prove that. I think it was obviously a clone from Baskerville,” expect a very stern glare from me via the interwebs. Not that I will tell you about it as I’m glaring, but you’ll feel it. Oh, you’ll feel it.
Also note that this theory is
- not comprehensive. When I say it’s about how he survived the fall, I mean it’s literally just about the jumping off the building bit.
- based on the assumption that it was really Sherlock up there, and he really jumped off of St. Bart’s. If you do not think that is the case, we can discuss that issue further in a later post. In the meantime I will summarize my counter-argument with the following:
First a little background, since I am learning very quickly that some people still need to do the prerequisites before signing up for Reichenbach Speculation 102. (This is not a bad thing. We can’t all be Moffats with unlimited time to read all the theories ever.)
The second screenshot in the photoset is Sherlock once he’s asked Jim for a moment of privacy. He looks down at the ground. But it’s probably not an “oh no, that’s a long way down” look. It’s more likely because Sherlock has a bunch of lovely assistants on the ground, and he’s making sure that everything’s in place for his magic trick.
The third screenshot shows John’s view of the proceedings. Sherlock has intentionally placed John behind another building so that he can’t see anything that happens at street level over where Sherlock is.
Phonecall, goodbye, and Sherlock falls. The next thing we (and John) know is that he’s lying on the sidewalk.
This part is why some people think it couldn’t have possibly been Sherlock himself falling from the building. You don’t jump from a building that high and land on the sidewalk without being seriously injured at minimum.
Let’s throw that scenario out right now. Sherlock didn’t just jump down and smack directly into the ground.
This implies that something happened between the shots of Sherlock falling and Sherlock hitting the ground, even though they were edited back-to-back in the episode.
If you watch the footage carefully, it does seem like there’s something missing between the two shots. When Sherlock falls, his body is positioned one way relative to the building. When he lands, his body seems to have rotated 90 degrees from what you’d expect based on the last frame of falling. I’m certainly not an expert in humans falling from extreme heights, but it also seems to me that the landing is a bit “soft” for someone who just fell several stories. When I watch that shot, I feel like he dropped from something lower than the roof. (And no, I don’t think any of this is down to bad editing, continuity, or stuntwork.)
The most popular theory going right now is that Sherlock jumped into a laundry truck that conveniently (i.e., by Sherlock’s arrangement) happened to be parked right in front of the hospital. See the first and sixth images in the photoset for pictures of the truck and its load of nice, soft laundry. (Some people are calling it a garbage truck. I’m going with laundry truck because it’s at a hospital and everything in it is the color of hospital linens or scrubs.)
Yay, that works. He falls into the laundry truck and then jumps down onto the ground. Except… look at the sides of that truck. Did he fall into the laundry, and then scramble out of there like a spider monkey? And if he did, why does his body seem to hit from the opposite direction in the landing shot? And look at the distance betwwen building and truck in the first image in the photoset—did he really pull off jumping all the way there without actually jumping? Sure, he leans back slightly before falling, but it’s not like he takes a running start. Digital Hoarder did a nice post with the distances worked out, and pointed out that this would actually be a really challenging/impossible feat to pull off.
I will admit that if we get to Series 3 and they tell us Sherlock did manage to jump into that truck, my reaction will probably be something like LOL MAGIC TV DETECTIVE. And I will move on with my life. Because Sherlock Holmes does impossible things sometimes, and this show has issues with science sometimes. (Remember how many science-minded fans pointed out that using a microscope for the sugar in Baskerville was kind of nonsense?) All the same, I would prefer it if the answer made at least a tiny bit of sense.
So now we’re to the part where you’ll either like what I’m about to say or call me crazy and get annoyed that this took up so much space in your dash. (I apologize for that either way, actually. If anyone knows how to force Tumblr to accept a Read More in photosets, please send me an ask about it.)
Remember the big break in the case from A Study in Pink? Sherlock looked around the room and asked where the pink suitcase was. Because of course there was a pink suitcase.
What if there’s a pink suitcase this time? Something our master criminals who make the show have carefully edited out, but of course had to be there because of everything else we can see.
There’s a laundry truck parked in front of a hospital. Why do laundry trucks park outside of hospitals? To pick up or drop off laundry. So isn’t there the slightest chance that Sherlock didn’t have to aim for the laundry truck at all? Instead, he aimed for the bin of laundry his team had in the right place at the right time.
The upside? This theory could explain how Sherlock broke his fall without having to make some crazy physics-defying leap. It lets there be a somewhat inconspicuous object in place to catch him—it’s not like he could tell the Homeless Network to bring a trampoline. It would also explain why it looked like he was falling from a much lower height in the shot where he hit the ground. And if the laundry truck blocked Moriarty’s assassin from having a direct view of the laundry bin (which it seems like it possibly could have, based on the angle of view in the final screenshot of the photoset), this idea is even better than falling into a laundry truck with see-through sides in terms of putting on the show for his sake.
The downside? It’s still a dangerous fall, and the idea that a bin of laundry is enough to stop Sherlock from dying may still be too TV-logic for some people. And like I said from the start, I can’t prove it. Because that’s the whole point of a pink suitcase. There is no sign of a laundry bin in the episode. When you watch it, there is no indication that there ever was a laundry bin or that there was any way they moved one out of there quickly enough. (Getting it in wasn’t an issue—they had the entire length of the phone conversation to move one into place.) I came up with the idea, and even I think it seems kind of improbable.
Except I feel like I’ve eliminated the impossible… so improbable’s starting to sound good.
That is brilliant.
I love this theory omfg.
oooh. that is quite nicely wrapped up.
As promised, here’s my current theory on how Sherlock survived the fall. I’m calling it The Pink Suitcase Theory.
I warn you in advance that it cannot be proven. Not at all. So if you continue reading and then respond with, “Pfft. You can’t prove that. I think it was obviously a clone from Baskerville,” expect a very stern glare from me via the interwebs. Not that I will tell you about it as I’m glaring, but you’ll feel it. Oh, you’ll feel it.
Also note that this theory is
- not comprehensive. When I say it’s about how he survived the fall, I mean it’s literally just about the jumping off the building bit.
- based on the assumption that it was really Sherlock up there, and he really jumped off of St. Bart’s. If you do not think that is the case, we can discuss that issue further in a later post. In the meantime I will summarize my counter-argument with the following:
First a little background, since I am learning very quickly that some people still need to do the prerequisites before signing up for Reichenbach Speculation 102. (This is not a bad thing. We can’t all be Moffats with unlimited time to read all the theories ever.)
The second screenshot in the photoset is Sherlock once he’s asked Jim for a moment of privacy. He looks down at the ground. But it’s probably not an “oh no, that’s a long way down” look. It’s more likely because Sherlock has a bunch of lovely assistants on the ground, and he’s making sure that everything’s in place for his magic trick.
The third screenshot shows John’s view of the proceedings. Sherlock has intentionally placed John behind another building so that he can’t see anything that happens at street level over where Sherlock is.
Phonecall, goodbye, and Sherlock falls. The next thing we (and John) know is that he’s lying on the sidewalk.
This part is why some people think it couldn’t have possibly been Sherlock himself falling from the building. You don’t jump from a building that high and land on the sidewalk without being seriously injured at minimum.
Let’s throw that scenario out right now. Sherlock didn’t just jump down and smack directly into the ground.
This implies that something happened between the shots of Sherlock falling and Sherlock hitting the ground, even though they were edited back-to-back in the episode.
If you watch the footage carefully, it does seem like there’s something missing between the two shots. When Sherlock falls, his body is positioned one way relative to the building. When he lands, his body seems to have rotated 90 degrees from what you’d expect based on the last frame of falling. I’m certainly not an expert in humans falling from extreme heights, but it also seems to me that the landing is a bit “soft” for someone who just fell several stories. When I watch that shot, I feel like he dropped from something lower than the roof. (And no, I don’t think any of this is down to bad editing, continuity, or stuntwork.)
The most popular theory going right now is that Sherlock jumped into a laundry truck that conveniently (i.e., by Sherlock’s arrangement) happened to be parked right in front of the hospital. See the first and sixth images in the photoset for pictures of the truck and its load of nice, soft laundry. (Some people are calling it a garbage truck. I’m going with laundry truck because it’s at a hospital and everything in it is the color of hospital linens or scrubs.)
Yay, that works. He falls into the laundry truck and then jumps down onto the ground. Except… look at the sides of that truck. Did he fall into the laundry, and then scramble out of there like a spider monkey? And if he did, why does his body seem to hit from the opposite direction in the landing shot? And look at the distance betwwen building and truck in the first image in the photoset—did he really pull off jumping all the way there without actually jumping? Sure, he leans back slightly before falling, but it’s not like he takes a running start. Digital Hoarder did a nice post with the distances worked out, and pointed out that this would actually be a really challenging/impossible feat to pull off.
I will admit that if we get to Series 3 and they tell us Sherlock did manage to jump into that truck, my reaction will probably be something like LOL MAGIC TV DETECTIVE. And I will move on with my life. Because Sherlock Holmes does impossible things sometimes, and this show has issues with science sometimes. (Remember how many science-minded fans pointed out that using a microscope for the sugar in Baskerville was kind of nonsense?) All the same, I would prefer it if the answer made at least a tiny bit of sense.
So now we’re to the part where you’ll either like what I’m about to say or call me crazy and get annoyed that this took up so much space in your dash. (I apologize for that either way, actually. If anyone knows how to force Tumblr to accept a Read More in photosets, please send me an ask about it.)
Remember the big break in the case from A Study in Pink? Sherlock looked around the room and asked where the pink suitcase was. Because of course there was a pink suitcase.
What if there’s a pink suitcase this time? Something our master criminals who make the show have carefully edited out, but of course had to be there because of everything else we can see.
There’s a laundry truck parked in front of a hospital. Why do laundry trucks park outside of hospitals? To pick up or drop off laundry. So isn’t there the slightest chance that Sherlock didn’t have to aim for the laundry truck at all? Instead, he aimed for the bin of laundry his team had in the right place at the right time.
The upside? This theory could explain how Sherlock broke his fall without having to make some crazy physics-defying leap. It lets there be a somewhat inconspicuous object in place to catch him—it’s not like he could tell the Homeless Network to bring a trampoline. It would also explain why it looked like he was falling from a much lower height in the shot where he hit the ground. And if the laundry truck blocked Moriarty’s assassin from having a direct view of the laundry bin (which it seems like it possibly could have, based on the angle of view in the final screenshot of the photoset), this idea is even better than falling into a laundry truck with see-through sides in terms of putting on the show for his sake.
The downside? It’s still a dangerous fall, and the idea that a bin of laundry is enough to stop Sherlock from dying may still be too TV-logic for some people. And like I said from the start, I can’t prove it. Because that’s the whole point of a pink suitcase. There is no sign of a laundry bin in the episode. When you watch it, there is no indication that there ever was a laundry bin or that there was any way they moved one out of there quickly enough. (Getting it in wasn’t an issue—they had the entire length of the phone conversation to move one into place.) I came up with the idea, and even I think it seems kind of improbable.
Except I feel like I’ve eliminated the impossible… so improbable’s starting to sound good.
That is brilliant.
I love this theory omfg.
oooh. that is quite nicely wrapped up.
