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[[folder: The Final Problem]]
* Where to begin?
* Let's start with Mycroft being menaced in a darkened room with a ghostly disembodied voice, followed by a KillerClown. Yes, [[spoiler:it was all Sherlock's doing]], but ''still.''
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** The creepy part? '''''[[NotSoDifferent They're like Sherlock's.]]'''''
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** [[spoiler: [[RedRightHand Her]] [[MismatchedEyes EYES]]]].

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** [[spoiler: [[RedRightHand Her]] [[MismatchedEyes EYES]]]].EYES]]. Yes, it's because one has a brown contact in and the other is blue, but the effect is extremely disconcerting, especially because there's no ''reason'' to only take one out and not the other except to invoke this.]]
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** [[spoiler: [[RedRightHand Her]] [[MismatchedEyes EYES]]]].
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* TheReveal that the BigBad of season 4 is [[Spoiler: Eurus Holmes, the Holmes' brothers' sister so unstable that Mycroft apparently has her watched to make sure she is "secure," whom Sherlock doesn't seem to know exists.]]

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* TheReveal that the BigBad of season 4 is [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Eurus Holmes, the Holmes' brothers' sister so unstable that Mycroft apparently has her watched to make sure she is "secure," whom Sherlock doesn't seem to know exists.]]

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* Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely everyone ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including the audience]]) for weeks!]] Then there's this line [[spoiler: about what happened to the real therapist.]]

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* TheReveal that the BigBad of season 4 is [[Spoiler: Eurus Holmes, the Holmes' brothers' sister so unstable that Mycroft apparently has her watched to make sure she is "secure," whom Sherlock doesn't seem to know exists.]]
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Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] ]]
*** Many of the things she says to Sherlock that sound nice the first time around ("You're not what I expected, Mr. Holmes. You're...nicer." "Interesting, how you think... Sweetly.") can come across a lot more sinister after TheReveal.
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Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely everyone ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including the audience]]) for weeks!]] weeks!]]
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Then there's this line [[spoiler: about what happened to the real therapist.]]



** Given that no one in the mass public knows about Culverton's habit, it really does makes you wonder how ''vast'' [[spoiler:Eurus]]'s network is.
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* Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including the audience]]) everyone for weeks!]] Then there's this line [[spoiler: about what happened to the real therapist.]]

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* Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely everyone ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including the audience]]) everyone for weeks!]] Then there's this line [[spoiler: about what happened to the real therapist.]]
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* Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely everyone for weeks!]] Then there's this line [[spoiler: about what happened to the real therapist.]]

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* Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including the audience]]) everyone for weeks!]] Then there's this line [[spoiler: about what happened to the real therapist.]]
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* Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely everyone for weeks!]] Then there's this line:

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* Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely everyone for weeks!]] Then there's this line:line [[spoiler: about what happened to the real therapist.]]
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**Given that no one in the mass public knows about Culverton's habit, it really does makes you wonder how ''vast'' [[spoiler:Eurus]]'s network is.
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**He casually leads Sherlock and John [[spoiler:into the morgue full of the corpses of his victims.]] What does that say about the man?
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*It's pretty damn horrifying when ''[[EruditeStoner Wiggins]]'' of all people had to be the one taking Sherlock back to his flat. The world's greatest detective is so damn high on his meds he can't tell reality and imagination apart...
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*Faith first meeting with Sherlock [[spoiler:that never actually happened. It was Eurus impersonating as her ''perfectly'' throughout that entire evening.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:how she managed to elude recognition from absolutely everyone for weeks!]] Then there's this line:
-->'''[[spoiler:Eurus]]''': "Oh hang on. It's fine. She's in the sack in the airing cupboard."
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** A British philanthropist and TV star who takes advantage of people's trust and severely harms them behind the scenes, with some even silently complicit in his crimes due to his fame? Culverton comes off as an Expy of the BBC's Jimmy Savile, who after his death was revealed to have used his fame to commit hundreds of sex crimes while working for the BBC. The only difference is that Culverton is a murderer, not a rapist.
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* Literally everything about Culverton Smith is enough to send chills down the spine of every viewer.
** Sherlock realizes that the word that changed Faith's life wasn't a name; it was "anyone." Meaning Culverton didn't care '''who''' he killed, so long as he killed '''someone,''' making him about a hundred times scarier than a villain who targets a particular person who has wronged them.
** There's also the fact that he was clearly based off of real serial killers. H. H. Holmes is directly mentioned multiple times, and killed in a very similar way.
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* The less told about the failed [[spoiler:hostage rescue and suffering of captured A.G.R.A. members]], the better.

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* The less told about the failed [[spoiler:hostage rescue [[spoiler:rescue operations, the dead hostages and suffering of captured A.G.R.A. members]], the better.
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* "At last. A noose for me to put my neck into." Sherlock still hasn't learned...

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* "At last. A noose for me to put my neck into." Sherlock still hasn't learned... It gets to the point that he thinks any challenging cases [[spoiler: was orchestrated by Moriaty when it fact, it isn't.]]
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* "At last. A noose for me to put my neck into." Sherlock still hasn't learned...
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!Season !Series 4
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!Season 4
[[folder:The Six Thatchers]]
* The less told about the failed [[spoiler:hostage rescue and suffering of captured A.G.R.A. members]], the better.
** All this happened because of [[spoiler:one bored black ops secretary leaking info about the operation right under ''government'' noses.]] At the end, she doesn't seem to feel any remorse about it either.
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** Sherlock [[WhatAnIdiot taking drugs.]] Creepy and lame.
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* Apparently Jim has been to Baker Street a total of 6 times. We know of at least two instances - the one from John's blog and the one during the Reichenbach Fall - that leaves the remaining four up to the imagination. Oh dear.

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* Apparently Jim has been to Baker Street a total of 6 times. We know of at least two instances - the one from John's blog and the one during the "The Reichenbach Fall Fall" - that and a possible third (it was most likely him who planted the trainers there in "The Great Game"). That leaves the remaining four three up to the imagination. Oh dear.
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** For starters, according to ''The Signs of Three'', [[spoiler: He ran a drug cartel in America.]] [[spoiler: Now think about all the horrible things Walter White and Gus Fring did in Series/BreakingBad, or the brutality of Sanchez's gang in ''Film/LicenceToKill''.]]

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** For starters, according to ''The Signs of Three'', [[spoiler: He ran a drug cartel in America.]] [[spoiler: Now think about all the horrible things Walter White and Gus Fring did in Series/BreakingBad, or the brutality of Sanchez's gang in ''Film/LicenceToKill''.]]''Film/LicenceToKill'', or all the terrible atrocities committed by the cartels in the Mexican Drug War]].

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--> ''"Oh, the skull... I wonder how your skull would look on my wall..."''[[/folder]]
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-->[[spoiler:'''Mrs Holmes:''' Someone has put a bullet in my boy and if I ever find out who I shall turn absolutely monstrous... Oh this was for Mary.]]

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-->[[spoiler:'''Mrs Holmes:''' Someone has put a bullet in my boy and if I ever find out who I shall turn absolutely monstrous... Oh monstrous. Oh, this was for Mary.]]
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** For starters, according to ''The Signs of Three'', [[spoiler: He ran a drug cartel in America.]] [[spoiler: Now think about all the horrible things Walter White and Gus Fring did in Series/BreakingBad.]]

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** For starters, according to ''The Signs of Three'', [[spoiler: He ran a drug cartel in America.]] [[spoiler: Now think about all the horrible things Walter White and Gus Fring did in Series/BreakingBad.Series/BreakingBad, or the brutality of Sanchez's gang in ''Film/LicenceToKill''.]]
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* In a mix of [[BlackHumor hilarity and slight horror]]; Sherlock is vigorously beating someone Molly knows of. Molly even remarked that the deceased was 'nice'. The show waste no time pointing out Sherlock's lack of empathy.

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* In a mix of [[BlackHumor hilarity and slight horror]]; Sherlock is vigorously beating the corpse of someone Molly knows of.of with a riding crop. Molly even remarked that the deceased was 'nice'. The show waste wastes no time pointing out Sherlock's lack of empathy.
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* In a mix of hilarity and slight horror; Sherlock is vigorously beating someone Molly knows of. Molly even remarked that the deceased was 'nice'. Now that is ''[[BlackHumor mean]]''.

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* In a mix of [[BlackHumor hilarity and slight horror; horror]]; Sherlock is vigorously beating someone Molly knows of. Molly even remarked that the deceased was 'nice'. Now that is ''[[BlackHumor mean]]''.The show waste no time pointing out Sherlock's lack of empathy.

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