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caffienekitty) wrote2011-02-20 04:50 pm
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Sherlock Series 2 Speculation.
Okay, I was saving this to do as fic, I even have a couple scenes done. However, given the amount of time I don't have and the glacial speed of my fic posting, and the other assorted fic I have on the go (including another post-1.03 that doesn't use this theory), and that Moffat, Gattiss and co. will start filming soon and the spoilers with start proliferating and get harder to avoid, I'm just going to post this straight up.
See, like everyone else, I have a theory about how the situation at the end of 1.03 will be resolved. However, I haven't seen anyone make this particular observation yet.
Long, wordy theory on how the pool scenario might be resolved in the new season of Sherlock.
The bomb will not explode. The bomb was never going to explode.
Go back to the end of 1.03, the very end, when Moriarty comes back in. Now, putting everything you know about what happened prior to that moment aside, try to watch that part as though you don't know who is on what side, and who brought the bomb to the party.
Do you see it, or do I just sound insane?
Still insane. Okay. Evidence time.
Going back into the episode, Bomb Victim #2, the guy, Moriarty had him call in on Sally Donovan's cell phone. Obviously he could have pulled some bit of technical trickery to find the number, or maybe she has it listed I'm not sure how that works in the UK, but what if he already had it? What if Sally Donovan knows Moriarty as an informant or a contact with the hospital, or something else where to her he's just innocent, honest Jim.
Back earlier, to the beginning of the episode. A bomb was planted across the road from 221b and the shoes were planted in 221c. If Sherlock had been there, he would likely have noticed something was off, but he wasn't there when that was set up. Instead, Sherlock was on a wild case chase to Minsk, with a guy who seems more the type to write to "Dear Jim," than Sherlock. How did he get the idea Sherlock could help him? Almost guaranteed it was Moriarty, all to the purpose of getting Sherlock out of 221b, and also out of London. That's a lot of effort expended just to set a bomb and plant some shoes. For what other purposes did Moriarty need Sherlock out of town?
Back again to the pool. Moriarty and Sherlock confront each other the first time, the red dots indicate there are one, possibly two snipers (unless the first was a really fast runner and repositioned that quickly for the obverse angle on Sherlock). Moriarty leaves and returns, only now there are swarms of laser dots everywhere. Angles and numbers indicate a large team of snipers. What if they aren't all Moriarty's minions?
Imagine for a moment being a police officer or member of an armed response unit. You receive word that the person behind the recent spate of bomb threats and bombings is at a pool, and you and assorted authorities descend on said pool, but hang back, waiting for further confirmation, making sure the place isn't rigged to explode. Suddenly, someone comes out of the pool building. Hey, it's that weedy guy from the hospital Sally Donovan knows. Jim something. He passes information about the bomber inside the building, and the armed response unit is sent in. Before anyone can stop him, Jim runs back into the building. (Or something. Details. *handwaves*)
Now. Go back again, and watch the last few minutes of the episode again. Think of the swarms of laser sights as being from a police armed response unit. Watch the scene with that in mind. From their new and misinformed perspective, Sherlock looks like the mad bomber, and wee Jim looks like a hero.
Add to this perhaps a string of carefully planted evidence timed to surface after this incident, charges to Sherlock's account, witnesses, etc. All set up while Sherlock was occupied in Minsk and unlikely to notice little shifts in his personal affairs, all there to provide convincing proof that even though Sherlock was ostensibly working with Scotland Yard to stop the bomber, he was actually the bomber himself all along. It is said that the perpetrator often tries to insert himself into the investigation, and no one does that more thoroughly than Sherlock Holmes. The combination would casting his reputation into doubt, ruining his credibility with Scotland Yard, and getting him, at the very least, cut off from access to crime scenes.
This is Moriarty burning the heart out of Sherlock.
We all know where Sherlock keeps his heart. But Jim Moriarty is a psychopath, and the heart he will burn out of Sherlock will be the one he sees. Sherlock's obsession with the work.
The great thing about all this, if it actually happens, is that it's the heart that Moriarty doesn't see that will save Sherlock; his friends. Not just John who could be implicated by association and have his own difficulties to deal with, but Lestrade and Mycroft won't let any of it stand unchallenged.
So, anyway, that's my theory on what might happen. Might have made decent fic, could be complete crap, we'll see what really happens when Series 2 airs!
(Oh and if you know anything at all about any unaired Sherlock episodes, beyond their air date, please, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME. This journal is a spoilerphobe zone, see sidebar for definition of spoiler as it pertains to this journal.)
See, like everyone else, I have a theory about how the situation at the end of 1.03 will be resolved. However, I haven't seen anyone make this particular observation yet.
Long, wordy theory on how the pool scenario might be resolved in the new season of Sherlock.
The bomb will not explode. The bomb was never going to explode.
Go back to the end of 1.03, the very end, when Moriarty comes back in. Now, putting everything you know about what happened prior to that moment aside, try to watch that part as though you don't know who is on what side, and who brought the bomb to the party.
Do you see it, or do I just sound insane?
Still insane. Okay. Evidence time.
Going back into the episode, Bomb Victim #2, the guy, Moriarty had him call in on Sally Donovan's cell phone. Obviously he could have pulled some bit of technical trickery to find the number, or maybe she has it listed I'm not sure how that works in the UK, but what if he already had it? What if Sally Donovan knows Moriarty as an informant or a contact with the hospital, or something else where to her he's just innocent, honest Jim.
Back earlier, to the beginning of the episode. A bomb was planted across the road from 221b and the shoes were planted in 221c. If Sherlock had been there, he would likely have noticed something was off, but he wasn't there when that was set up. Instead, Sherlock was on a wild case chase to Minsk, with a guy who seems more the type to write to "Dear Jim," than Sherlock. How did he get the idea Sherlock could help him? Almost guaranteed it was Moriarty, all to the purpose of getting Sherlock out of 221b, and also out of London. That's a lot of effort expended just to set a bomb and plant some shoes. For what other purposes did Moriarty need Sherlock out of town?
Back again to the pool. Moriarty and Sherlock confront each other the first time, the red dots indicate there are one, possibly two snipers (unless the first was a really fast runner and repositioned that quickly for the obverse angle on Sherlock). Moriarty leaves and returns, only now there are swarms of laser dots everywhere. Angles and numbers indicate a large team of snipers. What if they aren't all Moriarty's minions?
Imagine for a moment being a police officer or member of an armed response unit. You receive word that the person behind the recent spate of bomb threats and bombings is at a pool, and you and assorted authorities descend on said pool, but hang back, waiting for further confirmation, making sure the place isn't rigged to explode. Suddenly, someone comes out of the pool building. Hey, it's that weedy guy from the hospital Sally Donovan knows. Jim something. He passes information about the bomber inside the building, and the armed response unit is sent in. Before anyone can stop him, Jim runs back into the building. (Or something. Details. *handwaves*)
Now. Go back again, and watch the last few minutes of the episode again. Think of the swarms of laser sights as being from a police armed response unit. Watch the scene with that in mind. From their new and misinformed perspective, Sherlock looks like the mad bomber, and wee Jim looks like a hero.
Add to this perhaps a string of carefully planted evidence timed to surface after this incident, charges to Sherlock's account, witnesses, etc. All set up while Sherlock was occupied in Minsk and unlikely to notice little shifts in his personal affairs, all there to provide convincing proof that even though Sherlock was ostensibly working with Scotland Yard to stop the bomber, he was actually the bomber himself all along. It is said that the perpetrator often tries to insert himself into the investigation, and no one does that more thoroughly than Sherlock Holmes. The combination would casting his reputation into doubt, ruining his credibility with Scotland Yard, and getting him, at the very least, cut off from access to crime scenes.
This is Moriarty burning the heart out of Sherlock.
We all know where Sherlock keeps his heart. But Jim Moriarty is a psychopath, and the heart he will burn out of Sherlock will be the one he sees. Sherlock's obsession with the work.
The great thing about all this, if it actually happens, is that it's the heart that Moriarty doesn't see that will save Sherlock; his friends. Not just John who could be implicated by association and have his own difficulties to deal with, but Lestrade and Mycroft won't let any of it stand unchallenged.
So, anyway, that's my theory on what might happen. Might have made decent fic, could be complete crap, we'll see what really happens when Series 2 airs!
(Oh and if you know anything at all about any unaired Sherlock episodes, beyond their air date, please, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME. This journal is a spoilerphobe zone, see sidebar for definition of spoiler as it pertains to this journal.)
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