I can’t believe it took me this long to finally put together my theory, but it HIT me today, literally SLAMMED into my head. Well, actually, let’s not call it a theory. Let’s call it an idea. Bare with me, here.
We don’t see the front of St. Bart’s hospital, or the roof, for that matter, until…
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Yes, exactly.
Plus there’s the fact of The Bystander Effect: people are really, really loth to get involved in something, especially if there’s nothing they can do. Yes, seeing someone fall from a building is scary and traumatic, but most people would be a) paralyzed by fear, b) calling the cops/paramedics (NOT running toward the person) or even c) running away. Strangers and bystanders are very unlikely to actually involve themselves unless they know how to help (paramedics) or know the person (Sherlock’s homeless network/former clients) or know what to expect (again, Sherlock’s homeless network or former clients).
And yes, the fact that the uniformed nurses did NOT go with the paramedics (because they were probably costumes) but two suits did? Weird and very suspect. Unless the suits were just doctors on their break, which is possible given that they both have badges hanging around their necks … but again, why would two or three nurses stay behind to help John if they could be SAVING A PATIENT? John isn’t in any immediate danger. Three nurses do not need to be there to care for him.
Also, if you watch their behavior, all of them sort of cluster around/make a daisy chain. Observe:
Strangers don’t touch each other like that. No group of random people in their right mind are going to cluster like that, especially because, again, Bystander Effect, the people that can’t help aren’t likely to go dashing over like that. For example, look at the beginning of The Great Game: the people are sort of scattered and don’t touch each other and certainly don’t crowd up like that.
Ok, folks, it was very, VERY hard, but in the end I GOT IT! I know how Sherlock survived the fall!
Brace yourself, because this is a mind-blowing, SCIENTIFIC explanation.
We have to start by considering two indisputable laws of physics:
1) Murphy’s Law / Finagle’s corollary:
‘If something can go wrong, it will’ therefore ‘If you throw a slice of buttered toast into the air it will always fall with the buttered side down.’2) Cat’s conservation law:
‘A Cat will always land on its foots.’SO, what would happen if we stick a slice of toast with butter to a cat’s back and we throw it to the air? The cat, by law, will land on its feet, but the toast (by law too) will land on the butter’s side. Against this problem of physics laws, the nature chooses the best way of taking a solution: the cat may just not fall.
The cat with the toast, once it’s free in the air, will float at its cat-toast equilibrium point, where butter repulsion forces and cat forces are in balance. This point can be adjusted by removing some butter from the toast, adding it, or cutting some hairs (or legs) from the cat. In theory, this will cause the cat to remain stationary, however, in reality, due to varied nature of gravity and the non-uniform profile of Earth, the cat will simply spin around its center of gravity at ever-increasing speed.
So, all Sherlock had to do was to make and wear a harness specifically designed (and he IS a genius: how long could it have taken him to develop such a simple device?) to keep a cat on his front and a buttered toast (with the butter on top, of course) on his back: et voilà!
Then, at about 1 m from the ground, he had only to unfasten the harness and gracefully fall on the pavement, placing himself in the most convenient position.
I greatly encourage all London sherlockians to watch the sky in search of the spinning cat: as it should be still attached to the buttered toast, it should be also still flying around…
THIS will be CONCLUSIVE proof.
(For those interested in a more detailed explanation of the functioning of a cat-toast device, I recommend to visit this website)
Ladies and Gentlemen, science at work.
Reichenbach: conclusively solved.
h-a-p-p-y-h-u-n-g-e-r-g-a-m-e-s:
“I’ve been online and looked at all the theories and there’s one clue that everyone’s missed. It’s something that Sherlock did that was very out of character, but which nobody has picked up on.” - Steven Moffat
Sherlock has his phone (looks to me like that at least) in his hands there, hiding it cleverly in his coat sleeve most of the times.
Why? That leads to my idea related to quote above from Steven Moffat.
I am referring to the conversation between Sherlock and Jim on the roof. Sherlock is doing something out of character there: He’s asking questions, he seems confused. But only that much to not make Jim suspicious.
Sherlock: But the rhythm …
Jim: Partita no. 1, thank you, Johann Sebastian Bach
Sherlock: But then how did you …?
And then Jim explains his entire plan how he broke in several important buildings at once. It’s not the only time in that conversation where Sherlock acts like the “dumber one” of both, of course not too bluntly so Jim doesn’t realize what’s going on.
Why does Sherlock act like he’s lost and hasn’t figured out Jim’s entire plan? So he can record what Jim is saying (in sense of a confession) on his phone, which he has in his hand/coat sleeve.
When you watch the scene again, Sherlock steps to the edge of the roof, till to that point he was acting. Then he starts laughing, cause he feels like he has won. The most important parts he probably has recorded. So he steps back down again. Now he’s back to his “normal self”. I feel like you can see it in his attitude even (comparing 2nd screenshot with 3rd)
Later, when he’s on the phone with John, Sherlock says: “This is my note.”
Before he jumps of the building, he throws the phone away, to leave it on the roof.
Hmm, these are my thoughts to the scene so far.
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… And a while ago I had the idea that the phone held more information and could possibly be the actual ‘note’ Sherlock was referring to… now an actual theory came up. OwO
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IT’S HIS NOTE! NOT HIS SUICIDE NOTE BUT HIS FUCKING NOTE THAT TELLS THE WORLD THAT RICHARD BROOK IS A FAKE!!!
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I’ve just completed The Wedding of River Song. Can’t help but compare the whole Doctor-is-dying thing to the Reichenbach Fall. Some thoughts therefore…
Moffat’s style is a lot of mindblowing details but the simple and obvious solution for the main problem, staring you right in the face, already…
Okay I looked this over frame by frame and read all the theories of the internet. Here’s what I got.
Sherlock knew he was going to die. Obvious. He used Molly to help him set up a cadaver to look and dress like him in case he could not convince Moriarty to call off snipers. The whole rooftop…
So all of a sudden it struck me that I’ve been more successful at getting people to notice an upside-down water bottle in Scotland Yard than I’ve been at getting them to notice the mole Jim Moriarty planted in Scotland Yard.
I should probably try harder. By which I mean draw yellow circles around him like I did the water bottle.
Attention fandom: This guy is a kidnapper and a crooked cop. He messed with Donovan’s head and was going to shoot Lestrade if Sherlock didn’t jump. (Long version here.) And he probably knows how to flip the water bottle onto the cooler, but doesn’t do it because he likes to see everyone else suffer. Just sayin’.
OH MY GOD
Day-uuum! Shit just got real!
Sherlock takes a scraping of the footprints after the kidnapper left the trail (because he stepped in the linseed oil that the little boy spilled deliberately).
Sherlock analyses the traces left behind in the oil to see where the kidnapper had been.
But isn’t it a bit of a fluke that it leads…
