BBC's Sherlock returns in a few months and the climax of the second series is still baffling. I read quite a few theories and as a typical Holmes fan I too was forced to research it. Now why was he not dead after jumping off the building? This is quite unlike the actual Reichenbach where he hung on to the cliff. This is a clear cut jump from the roof of a tall building.There are some interesting versions floating around the internet.
- Holmes jumps on to a truck filled with rubbish baggage (which blocks the view of Watson and the Sniper) and then plays dead on the pavement.
Seems close enough. Though I wonder how he could fool a sniper up above the building unless the Sniper was marking Watson all the time and was not at all watching Holmes.
- The cyclist who knocked down Watson dosed him with the fear gas (from Hounds of Baskerville) and Watson imagined the whole thing. Molly and Mycroft helped Holmes with a fake dead body and a fake report and the rest is history.
The cyclist drugging Watson would be a stretch. At best he was a distraction. Holmes had to fool all the people around him, not just Watson. A whole lot if them could be part of the homeless network but not all, could they? We have a pretty famous dead body on the pavement, don't we?
Then some of it goes beyond all stretches of imagination.
- Holmes pulls out "a mask of himself" which was with Moriarty at that time - the one which Moriarty used to scare the children and puts the mask on to Moriarty's body and pushes the dead body of the building.
LOL I won't be watching the series further if the latter is the case. It'll be a disgrace to the detective. Now I am more interested about where the story is heading than the actual fall. To know where the story is heading, we need to ask more questions.
