Just when you thought Sherlock couldn't get better, along comes The Reichenbach Fall.**Spoilers ahead**
If you don't want to know what happens at the end of this episode, then stop reading, because we're told the ending at the very beginning.
Observations:
The episode begins the same way as the very first episode of season one began, with Watson in therapy.
The rain is falling outside. The weather matches his mood.
Watson tells his therapist that Sherlock is dead.
Three months earlier:
Sherlock is being honored for crimes he’s solved, and the short scenes are so funny.
He recovers an expensive painting, Falls of Reichenbach, and he is given diamond cufflinks. His response, “All my cuffs have buttons.”
He aids in finding a banker who was kidnapped, and he is given a tie pin. His response, “I don’t wear ties.”
He helps the police bring in a famous criminal and he is given an iconic Sherlock Holmes cap – he hates it. His response (among others), “Why does it have two fronts?”
Moriarty is at the Tower of London. It's so cool to see places in London where I've been.
When Moriarty cracked his neck, I expected him to "woge" into a Wesen (yes, I did just watch the season finale of Grimm *wink*).
I loved the music while Moriarty is breaking into the crown jewels. And it's a great touch that he dances to the music.
It's interesting how we can like Sherlock even though he treats people so abominably. What is about him? Perhaps it's because we are drawn to clever people. I understand that this portrayal of Sherlock isn't how he is in the book.
The only reason Moriarty is in jail is because he chooses to be. It's part of his plan.
When Sherlock is on the witness stand he is very cheeky, as he usually is. He tells the lawyer how to do her job and asks, "Don't they teach you this?" And he starts spouting off things he has deduced about the jury. I love it when the judge tells him not to show off, and then he's put in jail with Moriarty for a few hours for contempt of court.
Moriarty has no witnesses. No evidence. The defense rests.
I wonder why lawyers and judges in Britain still wear the wigs.
Moriarty gives Watson a great look.
It took the jury six minutes to deliberate and find Moriarty – not guilty. What!?
When Sherlock finds out from Watson that Moriarty is free, he makes tea, and starts to play his violin as he waits for Moriarty to come.
Moriarty threatened all of the jurors. They were not stupid. They were frightened.
The scene between Sherlock and Moriarty is great, because Sherlock is at a loss. Sherlock can't figure out what Moriarty is up to.
Two months later:
Loved the scene in the gentleman's club. The men have a tradition of complete silence and cannot break it. I also love how two men grab Watson, cover his mouth so he can't talk anymore, and escort him to Mycroft. It's so funny that the men wear booties over their shoes. The detail is great.
Mycroft tells Watson that there are four assassins living near Sherlock, and he's concerned for Sherlock's safety. He believes that Moriarty wants to kill him. Mycroft can't tell Sherlock himself because there is too much "history" between them.
So, we actually do get a link to Grimm. Sherlock's next case parallels the fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. Children of the American Ambassador have vanished. Sherlock gets an envelope full of bread crumbs left at his door.
The little boy makes a trail of messages and footprints – just like Hansel and Gretel. From the footprints, Sherlock can tell the shoe size, height and walking pace of the kidnapper.
Poor Molly, why can't Sherlock treat her decently.
Molly notices that Sherlock is sad. She's the only one who recognizes his melancholy.
Its great to see Sherlock go to his "mind palace" again.
Sherlock goes to interview the seven year old little girl after they find her. She screams. This makes one of the detectives start to think Sherlock was involved with the kidnapping.
Sherlock takes a cab by himself because Watson "might talk." He still hasn't learned how to make friends and influence people.
Lestrade’s commanding officer wants them to bring Sherlock in. I love his commanding officer's accent.
Sally thinks that Sherlock kidnapped the kids so he could solve the case, rescue them, and make people continue to think he's a genius.
I love it that Watson hits the commanding officer. I just wish we could have seen it.
It's so great to see Sherlock and Watson handcuffed together when they escape from the police, and that Sherlock pretends that Watson is his hostage.
Sherlock makes them stand in front of a bus and someone saves them. Why are the assassins saving Sherlock? Because Moriarty wants to kill him?
Molly asks what he needs. Sherlock answers, "You." Hmmmmm.
It's a great twist that Moriarty pretends to be an actor, Richard Brook. He goes to great lengths to make everyone think that Sherlock is a fraud.
Mycroft says that Moriarty is the most dangerous criminal mind the world has ever seen.
Moriarty is listing to "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees again. Pretty funny.
Moriarty threatens the lives of Sherlock’s friends if he doesn’t kill himself. He says that assassins are waiting to kill them if Sherlock doesn't kill himself.
Sherlock asks for a moment of privacy. (I love how the British pronounce "privacy.")
As long as Moriarty is alive he can call off the assassins. But Moriarty shoots himself. Now the only way Sherlock can save his friends is to kill himself. What can Sherlock do?
Everything after this moment is just such good television. It's so well written, so well filmed, so well directed, so well acted.
Sherlock stands on the ledge. No!
Sherlock calls Watson and says that Moriarty was telling the truth about him. He tells John not to take his eyes off of him.
Sherlock falls off the building. No!
Watson is hit by a biker.
A crowd gathers around Sherlock. Watson finally gets to him and checks his pulse. No pulse. Watson collapses. There's blood everywhere. Sherlock is taken away.
The rain starts to fall. The assassin packs up his gun and leaves.
Mycroft is in the gentleman’s club reading the paper about Sherlock's suicide. "Suicide of Fake Genius."
It is such a touching and great scene when Watson talks to Sherlock at his grave. "There's just one more thing. There's just one more thing, Sherlock. One more miracle for me. Don't be dead. Would you - just for me.
And then we see Sherlock standing under a tree near the grave where Watson can’t see him.
So, the question is, how did he do it? I have my theories.
Molly helped him, but what did they do? Many people tried to keep Watson away from Sherlock for a while, so they must have been in on it. They switched his body with someone else's.
Quotes:
Sherlock: All my cuffs have buttons.
Watson: He means "thank you."
Sherlock: Do I?
Watson: Just say it.
Sherlock: Thank you.
Sherlock: Why is it always the hat photograph?
Watson: The press will turn, Sherlock. They always turn. And they'll turn on you.
Watson: Don’t try to be clever, and please keep it simple and brief.
Sherlock: I'll just be myself.
Watson: Are you listening to me?
Judge: Do you think you can survive for just a few minutes without showing off?!
Watson: What did I say? I said don't get clever.
Sherlock: I can’t just turn it on and off like a tap.
Watson: Don't do that.
Sherlock: Do what?
Watson: The look.
Sherlock: Look?
Watson: You're doing the look again.
Sherlock: I can't see it, can I? It's my face.
Watson: Yes, and it's doing a thing. You're doing the "we both know what's really going on" face.
Sherlock: We do.
Watson: No, I don't. That's why I find the face annoying.
Sherlock: Most people knock. But then, you’re not most people.
Moriarty: Every fairy tale needs a good old fashioned villain. You need me or you’re nothing. Because we’re just alike you and I, except you’re boring. You’re on the side of angels.
Moriarty: The man with the key is King, and man, you should see me in a crown.
Moriarty: Falling is just like flying.
Sherlock: I never liked riddles.
Moriarty: Learn to, because I owe you a fall.
Molly: Alkaline.
Sherlock: Thank you, John.
Molly: Molly.
Sherlock: Yes.
Sally: Right then, the professionals are finished if the amateurs want to go in and have their turn.
Lestrade: Don't let it get to you. I always feel like screaming when you walk into a room. So do most people.
Mrs Hudson: Cameras? Here? I’m in my nightie.
Sherlock: I don’t care what people think.
Watson: You’d care if they thought you were stupid or wrong.
Sherlock: No, that would just make them stupid or wrong.
Mycroft: John, I’m sorry. Tell him, would you?
Moriarty: Just trying to have some fun.
Moriarty: There is no key, doofus.
Moriarty: All my life I've been searching for distractions. You were the best distraction, and now I don't even have you, because I've beaten you. And you know what? In the end it was easy. It was easy. Now I've got to go back playing with the ordinary people. And it turns out you're ordinary just like them.
Moriarty: I love newspapers. Fairy tales. And pretty grimm ones too.
Moriarty: Oh, just kill yourself – it’s a lot less effort.
Sherlock: You’re insane.
Moriarty: You’re just getting that now?
Moriarty: You have an audience now. Off you pop.
Sherlock: You want me to shake hands with you in hell? I shall not disappoint you.
Moriarty: No, you talk big. You're ordinary. You’re on the side of the angels.
Sherlock: I may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for one second I am one of them.
Sherlock: It’s all true. I invented Moriarty. I’m a fake.
Sherlock: This phone call – it’s my note.
Mrs Hudson: Imagine, keeping bodies where there's food.
Watson: Sherlock, don’t be dead.
The episode begins the same way as the very first episode of season one began, with Watson in therapy.
The rain is falling outside. The weather matches his mood.
Watson tells his therapist that Sherlock is dead.
Three months earlier:
Sherlock is being honored for crimes he’s solved, and the short scenes are so funny.
He recovers an expensive painting, Falls of Reichenbach, and he is given diamond cufflinks. His response, “All my cuffs have buttons.”
He aids in finding a banker who was kidnapped, and he is given a tie pin. His response, “I don’t wear ties.”
He helps the police bring in a famous criminal and he is given an iconic Sherlock Holmes cap – he hates it. His response (among others), “Why does it have two fronts?”
Moriarty is at the Tower of London. It's so cool to see places in London where I've been.
When Moriarty cracked his neck, I expected him to "woge" into a Wesen (yes, I did just watch the season finale of Grimm *wink*).
I loved the music while Moriarty is breaking into the crown jewels. And it's a great touch that he dances to the music.
It's interesting how we can like Sherlock even though he treats people so abominably. What is about him? Perhaps it's because we are drawn to clever people. I understand that this portrayal of Sherlock isn't how he is in the book.
The only reason Moriarty is in jail is because he chooses to be. It's part of his plan.
When Sherlock is on the witness stand he is very cheeky, as he usually is. He tells the lawyer how to do her job and asks, "Don't they teach you this?" And he starts spouting off things he has deduced about the jury. I love it when the judge tells him not to show off, and then he's put in jail with Moriarty for a few hours for contempt of court.
Moriarty has no witnesses. No evidence. The defense rests.
I wonder why lawyers and judges in Britain still wear the wigs.
Moriarty gives Watson a great look.
It took the jury six minutes to deliberate and find Moriarty – not guilty. What!?
When Sherlock finds out from Watson that Moriarty is free, he makes tea, and starts to play his violin as he waits for Moriarty to come.
Moriarty threatened all of the jurors. They were not stupid. They were frightened.
The scene between Sherlock and Moriarty is great, because Sherlock is at a loss. Sherlock can't figure out what Moriarty is up to.
Two months later:
Loved the scene in the gentleman's club. The men have a tradition of complete silence and cannot break it. I also love how two men grab Watson, cover his mouth so he can't talk anymore, and escort him to Mycroft. It's so funny that the men wear booties over their shoes. The detail is great.
Mycroft tells Watson that there are four assassins living near Sherlock, and he's concerned for Sherlock's safety. He believes that Moriarty wants to kill him. Mycroft can't tell Sherlock himself because there is too much "history" between them.
So, we actually do get a link to Grimm. Sherlock's next case parallels the fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. Children of the American Ambassador have vanished. Sherlock gets an envelope full of bread crumbs left at his door.
The little boy makes a trail of messages and footprints – just like Hansel and Gretel. From the footprints, Sherlock can tell the shoe size, height and walking pace of the kidnapper.
Poor Molly, why can't Sherlock treat her decently.
Molly notices that Sherlock is sad. She's the only one who recognizes his melancholy.
Its great to see Sherlock go to his "mind palace" again.
Sherlock goes to interview the seven year old little girl after they find her. She screams. This makes one of the detectives start to think Sherlock was involved with the kidnapping.
Sherlock takes a cab by himself because Watson "might talk." He still hasn't learned how to make friends and influence people.
Lestrade’s commanding officer wants them to bring Sherlock in. I love his commanding officer's accent.
Sally thinks that Sherlock kidnapped the kids so he could solve the case, rescue them, and make people continue to think he's a genius.
I love it that Watson hits the commanding officer. I just wish we could have seen it.
It's so great to see Sherlock and Watson handcuffed together when they escape from the police, and that Sherlock pretends that Watson is his hostage.
Sherlock makes them stand in front of a bus and someone saves them. Why are the assassins saving Sherlock? Because Moriarty wants to kill him?
Molly asks what he needs. Sherlock answers, "You." Hmmmmm.
It's a great twist that Moriarty pretends to be an actor, Richard Brook. He goes to great lengths to make everyone think that Sherlock is a fraud.
Mycroft says that Moriarty is the most dangerous criminal mind the world has ever seen.
Moriarty is listing to "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees again. Pretty funny.
Moriarty threatens the lives of Sherlock’s friends if he doesn’t kill himself. He says that assassins are waiting to kill them if Sherlock doesn't kill himself.
Sherlock asks for a moment of privacy. (I love how the British pronounce "privacy.")
As long as Moriarty is alive he can call off the assassins. But Moriarty shoots himself. Now the only way Sherlock can save his friends is to kill himself. What can Sherlock do?
Everything after this moment is just such good television. It's so well written, so well filmed, so well directed, so well acted.
Sherlock stands on the ledge. No!
Sherlock calls Watson and says that Moriarty was telling the truth about him. He tells John not to take his eyes off of him.
Sherlock falls off the building. No!
Watson is hit by a biker.
A crowd gathers around Sherlock. Watson finally gets to him and checks his pulse. No pulse. Watson collapses. There's blood everywhere. Sherlock is taken away.
The rain starts to fall. The assassin packs up his gun and leaves.
Mycroft is in the gentleman’s club reading the paper about Sherlock's suicide. "Suicide of Fake Genius."
It is such a touching and great scene when Watson talks to Sherlock at his grave. "There's just one more thing. There's just one more thing, Sherlock. One more miracle for me. Don't be dead. Would you - just for me.
And then we see Sherlock standing under a tree near the grave where Watson can’t see him.
So, the question is, how did he do it? I have my theories.
Molly helped him, but what did they do? Many people tried to keep Watson away from Sherlock for a while, so they must have been in on it. They switched his body with someone else's.
Quotes:
Sherlock: All my cuffs have buttons.
Watson: He means "thank you."
Sherlock: Do I?
Watson: Just say it.
Sherlock: Thank you.
Sherlock: Why is it always the hat photograph?
Watson: The press will turn, Sherlock. They always turn. And they'll turn on you.
Watson: Don’t try to be clever, and please keep it simple and brief.
Sherlock: I'll just be myself.
Watson: Are you listening to me?
Judge: Do you think you can survive for just a few minutes without showing off?!
Watson: What did I say? I said don't get clever.
Sherlock: I can’t just turn it on and off like a tap.
Watson: Don't do that.
Sherlock: Do what?
Watson: The look.
Sherlock: Look?
Watson: You're doing the look again.
Sherlock: I can't see it, can I? It's my face.
Watson: Yes, and it's doing a thing. You're doing the "we both know what's really going on" face.
Sherlock: We do.
Watson: No, I don't. That's why I find the face annoying.
Sherlock: Most people knock. But then, you’re not most people.
Moriarty: Every fairy tale needs a good old fashioned villain. You need me or you’re nothing. Because we’re just alike you and I, except you’re boring. You’re on the side of angels.
Moriarty: The man with the key is King, and man, you should see me in a crown.
Moriarty: Falling is just like flying.
Sherlock: I never liked riddles.
Moriarty: Learn to, because I owe you a fall.
Molly: Alkaline.
Sherlock: Thank you, John.
Molly: Molly.
Sherlock: Yes.
Sally: Right then, the professionals are finished if the amateurs want to go in and have their turn.
Lestrade: Don't let it get to you. I always feel like screaming when you walk into a room. So do most people.
Mrs Hudson: Cameras? Here? I’m in my nightie.
Sherlock: I don’t care what people think.
Watson: You’d care if they thought you were stupid or wrong.
Sherlock: No, that would just make them stupid or wrong.
Mycroft: John, I’m sorry. Tell him, would you?
Moriarty: Just trying to have some fun.
Moriarty: There is no key, doofus.
Moriarty: All my life I've been searching for distractions. You were the best distraction, and now I don't even have you, because I've beaten you. And you know what? In the end it was easy. It was easy. Now I've got to go back playing with the ordinary people. And it turns out you're ordinary just like them.
Moriarty: I love newspapers. Fairy tales. And pretty grimm ones too.
Moriarty: Oh, just kill yourself – it’s a lot less effort.
Sherlock: You’re insane.
Moriarty: You’re just getting that now?
Moriarty: You have an audience now. Off you pop.
Sherlock: You want me to shake hands with you in hell? I shall not disappoint you.
Moriarty: No, you talk big. You're ordinary. You’re on the side of the angels.
Sherlock: I may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for one second I am one of them.
Sherlock: It’s all true. I invented Moriarty. I’m a fake.
Sherlock: This phone call – it’s my note.
Mrs Hudson: Imagine, keeping bodies where there's food.
Watson: Sherlock, don’t be dead.
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