History MythologyGag / Sherlock

* When Moriarty [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enIwRGc8XlM infriltrates 221B]], he takes a look at the ballistics case Sherlock has. One of the cartidges is .455 Rev-which is a CallBack to the revolver Sherlock used in the original stories-a [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Webley Revolver]], chambered for the .455 Eley round.

* Sherlock [[spoiler: taking the "gun" over the pills"]] references the actions of the second victim in the original book: [[spoiler: the cabbie offers him the pills, but instead the victim attacks the cabbie.]]

* [[http://i.imgur.com/MqYoHWW.png The Golem]] is pretty much either a reference to the 7-foot-tall Mook in the 2009 movie or [[http://www.monsterbashnews.com/pics/PearlOfDeath-CreeperCreeps.jpg The Hoxton Creeper]] in "The Pearl Of Death", one of the many Rathbone movies that star him as Holmes.

* During Sherlock's mock deduction towards a potential client, in which he mockingly deduced that his wife is a hitman in disguise, Greta Bengsdotter, planning to brainwash the POTUS, during a visit, by injecting him with a specialized drug, and planning to use him in order to drive the world to another World War in a UN meeting. This sounds familiar with Moriarty's plot to start a World War in Guy Ritchie's [[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows A Game of Shadows]], in which the hitman is disguised as an Ambassador. A drug is implemented, but instead of drugging an official with said drug, it's a poison used to kill the disguised hitman, Rene, by Sebastian Moran, after the assassination is foiled by Watson, tying up loose ends.

* During Sherlock's mock deduction towards a potential client, in which he mockingly deduced that his wife is a hitman in disguise, Greta Bengsdotter, planning to brainwash the POTUS, during a visit, by injecting him with a specialized drug, and planning to use him in order to drive the world to another World War in a UN meeting. This sounds familiar with Moriarty's plot to start a World War in Guy Ritchie's [[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows A Game of Shadows]], in which the hitman is disguised as an Ambassador, but instead of drugging an official with said drug, it's a poison used to kill the disguised hitman, Rene, by Sebastian Moran, after the assassination is foiled by Watson, tying up loose ends.

* Like the original story, Sholto is yet again another victim of a murder in a locked room, but instead of murder by a poison dart, it's by a delayed stab with a knife. Luckily, Mayor Sholto's murder is averted in the episode, unlike Bartholomew Sholto, who died in the original story.
** Mayor Sholto deciding to face his death in his bedroom alludes to Thaddeus and Bartholomew Sholto's father, Mayor Sholto, who died in his bed after an encounter with a mysterious figure.
** In the episode, Private Bainbridge was freaked out by a man creeping him, and there is one shot of said man creeping him through a window. In the original story, a man creeping him through his bedroom window is the very last thing Mayor Sholto saw before his death.

* The flat [[spoiler:blowing up]] references the episode's namesake, where Moriarty's men set fire to Sherlock and Watson's rooms. This was also done before in the Season 2 episode "The Reichenbach Fall".

-->'''Moriarty''': I would try to convince you, but, everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.\\

* [[spoilers: Moriarty's]] frequent usage of snipers alludes to [[spoilers: his right-hand man, Sebastian Moran, who is a sniper in Conan Doyle's original stories.]]
** [[spoilers: In Guy Ritchie's Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows, Moran fired a shot in a middle of a bomb blast meant for his target, which is an allusion to Moriarty's M.O. in this episode, in which there is a bomb strapped onto a hostage, and a sniper preparing to shoot it. One of Moriarty's snipers shot one hostage close to revealing Moriarty's identity to Sherlock, which is identical to Moran killing the disguised hitman, Rene, in order to tie up loose ends.]]