Anyone have any last-minute theories as to how Sherlock cheated death?
...we'll know tomorrow, of course...but I must admit, it's been on my mind these past few months. My theory is that the body that fell from the rooftop was actually Moriarty, not Sherlock. The key is the bike "accident" Watson had, running to "Sherlock's" corpse. That clearly was intentional, and I have no doubt, engineered by Holmes. Holmes was ahead of Moriarty all the way, and had this in mind from the start. The visit to the lady doctor...the "accident". The doctor got him some sort of way to identify Moriarty's corpse as "Holmes". The accident was designed to knock poor John for a loop, maybe give him a concussion, so he'd see what he thought he'd see, and was afraid he'd see. We see that incident thru Watson's eyes...the phone call, wherein Holmes "confesses" to being a fraud...Watson is keyed up to believe that Sherlock is going to commit suicide. And he "sees" a dead Sherlock Holmes. And remember--in the original, Conan Doyle Holmes-returns-from-the-dead story, "The Empty House", we see a dummy designed to fake out an enemy--Moran--into *thinking* it's Holmes. Faking out Watson into believing that Moriarty, dressed in Sherlock's clothes, is Holmes is keeping with the spirit of the original. Any other ideas?
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In my book, he is killed and buried by falling rocks at Devil's Gate, Putah Creek, California, on 18 April 1906. He had been searching for an elusive strain of disease resistant Caucasian honey bee rumored to live in the hills surrounding Montecello; bees that had escaped from Sutter's men while transporting the rotting skeps from Fort Ross to Sutter's Fort.
but if things don't drastically change soon, you may have easy pickings.
The glory hole has been idled this year
