SPOILER ALERT
May not be suitable for everyone who didn't see the last season of Sherlock. Not real facts, just theory.
Hello there, pumpkins,
let's take a peek-a-boo into BBC's Sherlock. Its timeline and story has been concerning me for a while - literally since I saw the first episode,
A Study In Pink. I totally fell in love with it so I payed a lot of attention to the small details Gatiss and Moffat left there for us.
I love how the friendship between the two main heroes, an introverted, insensitive, sociopathic detective Sherlock Holmes and kind, caring, short-tempered former army doctor John Watson, grows through the story. They start off a little oddly and for a little while I considered Sherlock as psychopathic creep, since I don't know the original story, but my opinion changed very quickly through the first episode. He may be a little out-of-this-world and act like an alien without the knowledge of human ways of acting, yet he still cares in depths of his heart, while keeping the straight poker face of no emotions.
Total opposite of John, who has hearts on his sleeves. He gives his kindness quite everywhere. We can't be angry at him though - a short size brings a short temper. So when he explodes at Sherlock sometimes, it's not bad. Sherlock needs it. He's like an uncultivated kid. Lucky he found John to keep him in check.
Now the third season came by, ended and fleed away. Ending with a big, hateable cliff hanger and plot twist at once - Moriarty still lives, comes back and asks if we missed him. Yeah, we missed you, Jimmy, but couldn't you rise from the dead some other day?
His return made me think a little and search the Internet a little. How did he survive? Didn't he shoot himself though his skull, bleeding his brain out? Ob...viously not. So how did this happen?
In
The Reichenbach Fall we could see Moriarty putting a gun inside his mouth and pulling the trigger, predictably sending a bullet through his head. Simple and quick death.
Can we please look at this moment for a while? It's not seen clearly in this gif but as Moriarty puts the gun barrel inside his opened mouth Sherlock backs out with the camera following him. We did not see directly that Jimmy really shot. Also we see no shattered skull.
Now you can say - Yeah, but what about the blood? How could you explain this? Think carefully. Everytime someone "died" we saw the blood and everything.
But when someone actually died we didn't see the details. We only saw the scene from far away, the camera not focusing on what happened to them and how their dead bodies looked like.
Which leads us to the blood. How did it appear there? Did it fall from the sky? Not in this universe. In Doctor Who it may be possible aliens but here everything has a logical conclusion.
Think back. The first episode of the third season. We got to know totally new female character who is to marry John Watson. We know nothing about her - where she came from, how she met John, what she did before. Nothing. Sherlock's deductions show us a little behind the curtains, yet not seeing everything.
Mary Morstan is one big secret. If you look at the picture above, you'll find some interesting stuff - liar, secret tattoo, disillusioned, clever, guardian. Let's work with these deducted words that Sherlock kindly gave to us.
Liar. Well, she lied about her identity and about her liking John's mustache. The first one is a bigger problem though. Yes, everyone has things one does not want to mention again. I think she lied about more things but let's not say until fourth season.
Secret tattoo. Why do I even mention it? Not to show you that she is a bad girl. It could be a metaphore for a hidden sign from the past. Like for example, she could work somehow with Magnussen (well, he knows her). She has ob...viously a dark past.
Disillusioned. This could have two meanings. She knows reality very good and without mistake, meaning she came through a lot or knows the truth of the whole situation - like for example she knew that Sherlock lives, yet let John mourn on her shoulder for the one she knew was alive. Proof? If I was a woman loving her man and knowing how my beloved one suffered through these two years thinking his best friend died, I wouldn't just laugh it off as Mary did.
Clever. Everyone can be clever but she's clever enough to hide everything from others, manipulate people around her and make everyone believe she's a part of their lives. Remember that moment when Sherlock a John got mad at each other while making preparations for the wedding and she played on both sides, making them to make peace with one another.
Guardian. As I'm going to explain a little later, she could be a guardian to John. She's shown multiple times to take care of John a lot, willing to kill everyone to keep him safe.
Clearly there is something wrong with her. Someone, an anonymous, sent her a message. Normal people would just ignore since it's making no sense. But she said it was a skip code. She knows about codes.
Also, why would someone text her in the first place? How do they know she will find out it's a coude and will pass it on down Sherlock?
Why do they text her and call her 'Mr. Holmes'? How do they know she's with him? If they really wanted to contact Sherlock and had discovered Mary's number, they could get Sherlock's. This could be leading us to the thought of her and Magnussen having something in common in the past, since he was ob...viously the one contacting her.
How does this all relate to Moriarty's death? Well, do you remember Mary demonstrating her shooting skills?
She's perfect. She shot it through in the middle even in that speed and distance.
Amazing, isn't it? She can be accurate even from long distances.
If you return to what I said at the beginning - Moriarty ob...viously did not shoot himself. But still we heard the sound of it. If I recall it correctly it was even a bit later than the "actual shot" but that could be mistake of my loud-speaker. That means something or someone had to shoot.
Imagine Moriarty having a miniature packet with red paint on the back of his head. Imagine someone shooting from long distance, directly, without fail hitting the packet, making this a perfect survival plan.
Who could shoot from this distance? Well, I already said it.
Conclusion: Mary Elizabeth Watson, formerly Morstan, aka A.G.R.A., helped Moriarty with faking his own death. She knew about Sherlock being alive. Moriarty could then send her to check on John and wait for Sherlock to return, so Moriarty could also get back into action with an ample advance.
Let me know your opinions! I wrote this from my own theories and then a few theories found on the Internet. I don't really remember them so I cannot tell you exactly. Fighting!
