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It's clear that the original ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' stories don't exist in this universe. [[ButterflyOfDoom The ripple effects must have]] [[RetGone wiped out]] all sorts of {{derivative work}}s. It's possible that one of them was that scene.

* Maybe Moriarty is [[{{Transformers}} more than meets the eye]]?
* If I remember correctly, didn't book!Moriarty have a brother called James?

* O means One Friend (as Sherlock said it in HoB), and the U means Una (as is the actress who plays Mrs. Hudson, Una Stubbs). Bonus is that una is the feminine form of the number one in Spanish. Therefore we have the three "ones" in Sherlock's life: the "one" Inspector that could stand him (I), the "one" friend (O), and the "one" person that is a motherlyish figure in both Sherlock's onscreen and Benedict Cumberbatch's off-screen life (U).

** [[spoiler: Mary got both John and Sherlock out of the house for a significant period of time, and people have already pointed out that the cinematography in that scene (warning: Serious crazy-ass UncannyValley in the picture) [[http://bakerstreetbabes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Mary6.jpg gives her devil horns]].]]

[[WMG: Mycroft really ''did'' nick all of Sherlock's [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] ]]
...and collecting [WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] is a VerySeriousBusiness in the Holmes family. Thus, this one action lead to decades of bitterness.

After the events of The Reichenbach Fall, John is so distraught that he needs to get away from his former life and the people who know about Sherlock, so he moves out into the country and starts going by a different name: [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy Arthur Dent]]. He slowly builds a new life for himself, including a new best friend named Ford. Then one day, Ford reveals that he is an alien, and he and Arthur set off into space to escape the destruction of the earth. Meanwhile, just before Arthur and Ford join him on the Heart of Gold, Zaphod Beeblebrox pushes the button on the Infinite Improbability Drive, and something infinitely improbable happens: in the past, Sherlock Holmes misses the ground and flies away (since, obviously, the way to fly is to throw yourself at the ground and miss), and, even more improbably, [[spoiler: a Sherlock corpse materializes on the pavement]] (hey, that's less improbable than everyone turning knitted). Sherlock flies around for a bit, then lands and begins watching John silently, knowing that he has no explanation he could give him for his infinitely improbable survival, until the party where Arthur first meets Trillian. When Sherlock, who has been following John/Arthur like a stalker, hears Zaphod tell Trillian that he has a spaceship, he gets curious and follows them. Zaphod and Sherlock bond over their shared egotism and become friends, and the three of them leave the planet together shortly before Arthur and Ford do. When Arthur and Ford join Trillian and Zaphod and Sherlock on the Heart of Gold, John/Arthur and Sherlock are reunited at last, though their touching and emotional reunion is somewhat deflated when Zaphod starts catcalling and tells them to get a room.

In the first two seasons, Moffat and Gatiss (like a lot of Sherlockians) loved playing up Moriarty's status as [[ShadowArchetype the dark reflection of]] [[NotSoDifferent everything that makes Sherlock who he is]]--an unstable, [[InsufferableGenius antisocial man of frightening intelligence]] who looks down on everyone else, loves to show off his skills, and commits crimes because it's the only way to occupy his perpetually-bored mind. If Moran is introduced in Season 3 as Moriarty's surviving [[TheDragon Dragon]] (which seems fairly likely), couldn't they follow the same route with his characterization? In the same way that John is the calm, down-to-Earth friend who acts as Sherlock's confidante and manages to keep him from spiraling out of control, maybe Moran was the coldly pragmatic OnlySaneMan in Moriarty's organization who reined in Moriarty's insanity so that his criminal feats [[MoneyDearBoy never got too off-the-wall to become unprofitable]].\\

* In the book, Sherlock Holmes' death wasn't meant to be a trick, it was meant to be real. Doyle had a difficult time explaining how the hell Holmes got out of ''that'' one when he resurrected him three years later, and it's not terribly convincing even by the standard of Doyle's outlandish plots. There's no way a ploy like that would in any way work in a modern context, BUT- if you read "The Adventure of the Empty House", you'll see that there was one soul and one alone who knew Holmes was alive- Mycroft. Sherlock needed him to keep an eye on him and send him funds. The whole "chasm" conceit could end on a much more realistic note- Sherlock being declared dead at a hospital, after an apparent serious injury, and John and everyone else told that he was dead. Mycroft has shown himself to be so CrazyAwesome that it doesn't seem remotely beyond his powers and abilities to have a death certificate faked for his little brother. God knows he might even be crazy enough to mysteriously produce a horribly mangled body to bury. We'll see soon, however.

Mycroft has Jim in some creepy torture dungeon somewhere, trying to get information from him (this we can assume from flashbacks and the ending of the previous ep). They are clearly ''willing'' to use illegal methods here, but what they really want is for Jim to give them the info necessary to legally put him away for good. Mycroft has multiple private sessions with Jim where he trades info on Sherlock for info on Jim himself - but "only a little" (as explained in the ep). Mycroft doesn't want "only a little", he wants ''everything'' he needs on Jim. So, during these sessions, he uses his SherlockScan (we know he can do this from ''A Study in Pink'') to build a psychological profile of the kind of man Jim is. Once he's got this profile, he talks with Sherlock in secret (while John is away shopping or something, I don't know) and they come up with a plan. Mycroft releases Jim (seen at the end of ''Hounds of Baskerville'') knowing that Jim will go to Sherlock. Sherlock tricks Jim into feeling powerful and in control by deliberately making bad and occasionally OOC decisions (he talks about the little boy's kidnapping as if he was actually present, he gets in the first cab he sees despite knowing he's got men after him etc - this last is even something he orders Watson not to do in the books, which Moffat ''will'' know). He also finds the pocket-sized camera in his apartment and, for all we know, purloins it and finds a way to rig it wirelessly to a computer which Mycroft is monitoring somewhere. Then he lures Jim to the roof of St Bart's - a position deliberately chosen to make Jim feel even more powerful because it allows him to do the whole forced-suicide thing easily. While on the roof, in another OOC moment, he manipulates Jim into explaining everything, rather than his usual work-it-out-myself-and-tell-no-one-til-I-decide-I-want-to shtick. For all we know, he had planted that secret camera somewhere, and is tricking Jim into the villain monologue as an EngineeredPublicConfession - only not yet public; only Mycroft and anyone else on the other end of the camera connection see it. Then he manipulates Jim into suicide (or at least faking suicide. I mean, y'know, this is [[CrazyAwesome Jim]] [[JokerImmunity Moriarty]]) and, as several theories above suggest, he leaps from the roof into the laundry truck below, jumping out while John is distracted by a cyclist (possibly also in on it) and faking death with fake blood, good acting and a rubber ball jammed in his arm to cut off his pulse (we saw him play with such a ball earlier, see several theories above). Some paramedics - also in on the gambit - cart him off to be declared dead by Molly (whom Sherlock has convinced to also become a part of the conspiracy - hence his "what I need is ''you''" line) and identified by Mycroft (who is his next of kin after all). Sherlock remains "dead" for as long as it takes to convince Moriarty's men, thus avoiding any revenge-kills on their part. In fact, he and Mycroft possibly use this period of uncertainty among Jim's men to their advantage by tearing apart the network now that its queen bee has eaten his gun. Meanwhile, after a suitable amount of time that won't arouse suspicions as to how it happened so fast, Mycroft releases the video of Jim on the roof explaining how evil he was, and suddenly the public now loves Sherlock Holmes again. Jim's on-tape confession clears up any mucky loose ends surrounding his crimes and subsequent death. As far as the public and probably Mycroft's superiors are concerned, everything was legal and above-board, if unconventional. Sherlock Holmes reveals himself to be still alive, his suicide having been just one more part of the deception to bring down the now posthumously-reviled Jim Moriarty. Congratulations all round, Sherlock goes home to John and Mrs Hudson, Mycroft returns to the Diogenes Club safe in the knowledge that, with his brother's help, he pulled off the most complex sting operation of his career.

[[WMG: Mycroft really ''did'' nick all of Sherlock's [[Main/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] ]]
...and collecting [[Main/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] is a VerySeriousBusiness in the Holmes family. Thus, this one action lead to decades of bitterness.

Watson and LeStrade are his companions, his TARDIS any cab he happens to get in (this one has a remote control and its Chameleon Circuit is stuck on taxi) ), his title is The Consulting Detective, and he only recently regenerated from being Dr. Gergory House and/or Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes.

[[WMG: Mycroft knows where [[Series/ThePrisoner The Village]] is.]]

* Sherlock is Mycroft's pressure point. Despite his protests to the contrary, he's fond of his "stupid little brother," even saying at their parents' house that he'd be heartbroken if Sherlock died on that MI6 suicide mission. So, [[spoiler:the Moriarty video]], which he definitely had access to, was a ruse to get Sherlock off said mission; this is what Lady Smallwood actually authorized, with all involved being intentionally vague about it in the committee meeting. She may have also authorized/recommended a pardon, effective after "Moriarty"'s defeat, as thanks for killing the man responsible for [[DrivenToSuicide blackmailing her husband to death]].

[[WMG: Sherlock's father works/worked for MI6.]]
* Because while Mrs. Holmes gave up her career for her sons, someone had to be bringing in enough money to put the boys through what is pretty clearly a prestigious education. It also explains why and how Mycroft occupies such an important role within MI6 - his father gave him an in when he was much younger and had yet to prove himself. Mr. Holmes calls himself "something of a moron", but there's no real evidence he is one. He and Mary bond over being "the sane one", when [[spoiler: Mary worked for the CIA as an assassin, also a job where appearing sane and normal is a necessary cover.]] On the other hand, Mr. Holmes is very much like John in manner and demeanour, making it possible that, like John, he is much smarter and more badass than he first appears, but prefers to present himself to the world as "the sane one" of the family.

And yes, I know that the James Bond films exist in the Sherlock universe, but think about it: what better way to make people dismiss the truth than to make it into a movie? Better yet, MI6 gets a cut of the profits, so the films help to bankroll national security.

Given that she has the authority to assign people to missions on behalf of the MI6, as she does when [[spoiler:Sherlock is sent into exile]] near the end of ''His Last Vow''. This theory has one big problem though: Why, at the beginning of the same episode, did she go to Sherlock Holmes instead of simply ordering one of the double-0 agents to get rid of Magnussen. Well, perhaps the MI6 (in cooperation with the CIA) has made a deal with [[spoiler:Mary Morstan]], long before the events of Season 3: Do this one last kill for us, which by the way is also in your own interest, and we'll let you out of the business and allow you to begin a new life. But Smallwood lost patience when Magnussen threatened her directly, hired Sherlock, and thus accidentally created a GambitPileup, with those two "agents" of hers breaking into Magnussen's office at exactly the same time.

And Janine will feature prominently in it, as a client, as a murder victim, or as the villain. We know that she's currently living in the South Downs of Sussex, so if the writers are planning on having her reappear, "The Sussex Vampire" would be a perfect story to adapt her into. Not to mention that, with [[Franchise/{{Twilight}} vampires invading pop culture in the late 2000s]] (and currently something of a joke), the chance to have Sherlock snarking about "sparkly vampires" would be too good to pass up.

** Look at the part where Mycroft tells John "I'm sorry... tell him, would you?" Now think of that line in a totally different context. John's just torn ''strips'' off Mycroft for what he perceived to be his betraying Sherlock to Moriarty. If the above BatmanGambit is true (and it seems likely) Mycroft never did any such thing, or at least, if he did so, it was with Sherlock's full knowledge and assent. "I'm sorry" sounds genuine; but Mycroft may not mean "I'm sorry for selling my little brother down the river", but "I'm sorry [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for my part in what you're about to suffer,]] John."

[[Film/SherlockHolmes]] Reference here: [[spoiler: rhododendron ponticum.]]

It's clear that the original SherlockHolmes stories don't exist in this universe. [[ButterflyOfDoom The ripple effects must have]] [[RetGone wiped out]] all sorts of {{derivative work}}s. It's possible that one of them was that scene.

In the original SherlockHolmes stories, Watson once remarked that a significant hole in Holmes' knowledge base included popular fiction of the day. Holmes tended to refuse to learn info that didn't seem relevant to him, and few things seem ''less'' relevant to the fact-minded person than popular fiction.

* Reverse the polarity of the causation flow. L was, in no small part, based on SherlockHolmes.

[[WMG: Moriarty is TheJoker.]]

[[WMG: MartinFreeman's role in ''Film/LoveActually'' is what Watson did before going off to war.]]

[[WMG: MartinFreeman's role in LoveActually is what Watson did before going off to war.]]

When he's not off stopping career criminals or escaping death traps as Britain's greatest assassin, [=OO7=] bodyguards Mycroft, who is this universe's M. However, as he's frequently off on assignments overseas, Anthea, who is this universe's Moneypenny, protects Mycroft in Bond's place. Sherlock occasionally sees him and correctly deduces that he's an elite bodyguard of some sort, but Mycroft never refers to Bond by name, as part of concealing his identity.

However, as his missions made for rather exciting case files, Mycroft and Anthea decided that Bond would make a useful propaganda tool. So Bond's case files were converted into a series of spy novels, but draw from the plots of the films to make them seem less believable, introducing new characters and changing the villain's schemes. The name of a [[Creator/IanFleming deceased Naval Intelligence operative]] was used as an author, and an actor was hired to portray him in public.

* Or he's like Gary from {{Alphas}}, and can read electromagnetic wavelengths. See the news, access GPS, read people's texts...

* ALL of Elementary!Sherlock's tattoos are covering scars (not just the one on his wrist). And now we know [[{{Frankenstein}} what kind of "experiment" BBC!Sherlock was doing with those spare body parts in the fridge]].

In the commentary to "The Great Game", BenedictCumberbatch and Creator/MarkGatiss are talking about the scene where Mycroft visits Baker Street and introduces the missing Bruce-Partington plans. They explain that there was much more dialogue in this scene filmed, most of it was cut, but Gatiss says something about using it later on, something about how a young Sherlock Holmes had disturbed the peace in his home. Cumberbatch begins to say "Sherlock finds out his father is having-" before cutting himself off.

This OOC moment came about halfway through ''Reichenbach'', much earlier than the roof scene: [[spoiler: When leaving Scotland Yard, Sherlock got into the first cab that stopped (which happened to be driven by Jim, who proceeded to play him the Sir Boast-A-Lot video which looked suspiciously like it might have been filmed on the set of a children's show that might be called something like "The Storyteller", but that's neither here nor there). In the original stories, GenreSavvy Holmes more than once goes on at length about how you should never get into the first cab that stops, particularly if you think you might be in danger or being followed. (One of the times he mentions this is in ''The Final Problem'', even! I doubt it's something massive Holmes fanboys like Moffat and Gattiss would just forget about.) He also tells John to take another cab because Sherlock wants to think and "[John] might talk", when previously Sherlock has said that he does better when he thinks out loud. If Sherlock did get into the cab on purpose, it implies that Sherlock, possibly with Mycroft's help, was steering events from MUCH earlier in the episode than previously believed. In fact, if Mycroft went to Sherlock immediately upon realizing his mistake with Moriarty, the two of them would have had ample time to come up with an elaborate plan to thwart him.]]

[[folder: Series/DoctorWho specific cross overs]]

[[WMG: Sherlock's callous treatment of Molly in previous episodes is because he was keeping her BeneathSuspicion for precisely this sort of situation.]]