Greetings Sherlockians!
'Tis me - jimmoriarty - with some of my own theories for how Sherlock faked his own death and other stuff in the Reichenbach Fall. Some of the ideas here have been adapted from what I have seen on the internet.
Firstly, didn't you notice a pattern in the Reichebach fall? Every so often you heard something about:
1. Fairy Tales
2. Sherlock's a fake
For the first one, there was: Moriarty in the flat, the breadcrumbs, the book, the children, the story in the taxi etc. For the latter, Sherlock seemed to mention not being himself quite a lot. For example, when he had to talk to little Claudie (the kidnapped girl) he said "Not be myself?" and when he was talking to John on the roof he said "I'm a fake." He could be reffering to a fake body.
The next theory is the IOU theory. Lots of people have mentioned this, but I thought I'd explain it in detail.
When Sherlock is talking to Jim on the rooftop he says "I don't have to die if I've got you." Focus on the last three words. He doesn't say them - he almost sings them. This is a clue for the next part.
There are three words in 'I've got you' and three letters in each word. So if you take the first letter of the first word, the second letter of the second word and so on this is what you get:
1 2 3
I've gOt yoU = IOU.
Also, notice how IOU keeps appearing in random places. Are they really random? The first one is the apple. This could stand for gravity (because of Newton). Then IOU appears on some windows. This could be another clue, because Sherlock falls past loads of windows. The final one is on the wall, but it is surrounded by wings. Moriarty said when he was in the flat "Falling's just like flying but there's a more permenant destination." Is this another clue?
Onto how Sherlock actually faked his own death. I hate some peoples theories. For example, "Sherlock put a mask on Moriarty and he is the one who fell" just doesn't work. Where is the mask? Sherlock is clearly the one who falls. And the most important piece of evidence is the time. John is watching so Sherlock wouldn't have time to do this. We see Moriarty when John is there, so this theory does not work at all.
Think back to the Great Game. Sherlock says to Moriarty: "Oh let me guess, I get killed too." But Moriarty replies: "I'm going to kill you one day but I'm saving it up for something special." and then he says he's going to 'burn' Sherlock. Back to the Reichenbach fall, Sherlock and John are outside Kitty Riley's house. Sherlock must realise that Moriarty wants him dead, because of what happened in the pool.
So Sherlock visits Molly Hooper, who works in a morgue. Why is this important? Sherlock asks for her help and says "I think I'm going to die". This proves that he knew Moriarty's scheme. Secondly, Molly works in a morgue so she is probably trained in prosphetics. She could make a mask of Sherlock?
When John see's Sherlock jump, he is in a position that he can't see him land. Sherlock has specifically told John to stay there. This is probably because Sherlock's alies (homeless network?) are getting the fake Sherlock into place. A lorry full of bin bags drives past as he jumps. He probably lands in there.
I shall add more theories soon. I have loads. I mean l-o-a-d-s.
JM xxx
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