History Recap / SherlockS02E03TheReichenbachFall

* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead]]

* [[spoiler:HesJustHiding]] [[spoiler:Rhododendron ponticum caused hypotension aka paralysis. Enough to fool John Watson. The same plot device used in 2009 Movie]]

* [[spoiler:HesJustHiding]]

* BullyingADragon: All Sherlock's put down's of Anderson and Donavan, finally come back to bite him.
** '''Watson:'''''"They are all coming over here now. Queuing up to slap up on the handcuffs. Every Officer you made to feel a tit, which is a lot of people."''

* GilliganCut: At [[spoiler:Moriarty]]'s trial, the judge threatens to throw Sherlock into a cell for contempt of court, and asks "Do you think you could survive for just a few minutes ''without showing off''?!?" Cut to Sherlock being thrown in a cell.

* HopeSpot: Sherlock's last minute realisation that [[spoiler:Moriarty has a way to call off the assassins targeting John, Mrs. Hudson and Lestrade]]. His attempt to TakeAThirdOption is brutally cut off by Moriarty's [[spoiler:ThanatosGambit]].

* MeaningfulName: "Rich Brooke". [[spoiler:It's German for "Reichenbach", a play on words that gives the episode its title.]]

** Lestrade mentions Inspector Gregson as someone else who has consulted Sherlock. Gregson was another Police inspector in the novels.
* OccamsRazor: [[spoiler: There is no supercode for hacking into all of the world's systems; Moriarty simply used expertly placed inside men]].

** Lestrade mentions Inspector Gregson has someone else who has consulted Sherlock. Gregson was another Police inspector in the novels.

*** Lestrade mentions Inspector Gregson has someone else who has consulted Sherlock. Gregson was another Police inspector in the novels.

* ContinuityNod: Lestrade Mentions Inspector Gregson has someone else who has consulted Sherlock.

* CastingGag: One of the old men in the Diogenes Club was played by Douglas Wilmer, who played Sherlock Holmes on TV in the 1960s.

* MeaningfulName: "Richard Brooke". [[spoiler:It's German for "Reichenbach", a play on words that gives the episode its title.]]

* CastingGag: One of the old men in the Diogenes Club was played by Douglas Wilmer, who played Sherlock Holmes on TV in the 1960s

* OccamsRazor: [[spoiler: This is no supercode for hacking into all of the world's systems; Moriarty simply used expertly placed inside men]].

* HomageShot: Moriarty hacks into locked vaults and security systems to the tune of "The Thieving Magpie" by Rossini. [[AClockworkOrange Sound familiar]]?

* ShoutOut: Moriarty hacks into locked vaults and security systems to the tune of "The Thieving Magpie" by Rossini. [[AClockworkOrange Sound familiar]]?

* Moriarty hacks into locked vaults and security systems to the tune of "The Thieving Magpie" by Rossini. [[AClockworkOrange Sound familiar]]?

* XanatosGambit: Moriarty's plan to "burn" Sherlock is ''beyond'' masterful. Caught and interrogated by the British Government? Arrested in the Tower of London, [[RefugeInAudacity sitting on the coronation chair, draped in the Crown Jewels]]? ''All part of the goddamn plan''.

John Watson has returned to his therapist's office for the first time in eighteen months. Why? Because his best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is dead.

* XanatosGambit: Moriarty's plan to "burn" Sherlock is ''beyond'' masterful.

* FauxAffiblyEvil: Moriarty.

Only three months earlier, Sherlock had been catapulted to even greater heights of fame thanks to his recovery of a famous painting of [[MythologyGag the Reichenbach Falls]], amongst other big-note cases. How did the Reichenbach Hero fall so far? That's wrapped up in the simultanous break-ins at the Tower of London, the Bank of England and Pentonville Prison, a budding journalist, a high-profile trial, international assassins, fairy tales, the mysterious Richard Brooke, and the return of Sherlock's most dangerous enemy, Jim Moriarty...

* MagnificentBastard: Jim Moriarty.
* MythologyGag: Moriarty's plan bears a striking resemblance to [[spoiler:''TheSevenPercentSolution'', a non-canon story based around the idea that Holmes invented Moriarty.]]

** XanatosSpeedChess: Sherlock and Moriarty are playing like nobody's business.