Instead the corpse of Moriarty, newly dead, was dropped to the ground wearing the Sherlock mask and his nemesis's clothes. Alternatively, Moriarty's body was thrown from the rooftop — variations include using a masked dummy glimpsed in B earlier in the episode, or a masked cadaver supplied by Molly — but Sherlock also jumped. His fall was broken, however, by a handy rubbish truck parked outside the hospital. Crucially, John can't see the moment of impact.
Or … Moriarty's body remained on the roof and Sherlock jumped into the rubbish truck, before arranging himself on the pavement with some blood from Molly. John was prevented from taking his pulse by one of Holmes' stooges. Keeping up?
Time to muddy the waters further. John was very disorientated: was that just a result of being knocked over — or might he have been given a shot of the suggestability drug from last week's Hound of the Baskervilles episode? Was Mycroft involved? Might he even have fed Moriarty information about Sherlock in order to engineer such a showdown?
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This is significant, in order to safely call off the snipers everyone had to believe it. It was too dangerous for even John to know. The previous story saw Sherlock properly spooked by the apparent beast, only for it to turn out to be chemical hallucinogenic agent.
But what if that was a nicely dangled plot thread, and the cyclist actually sprayed John in the face and caused him - and we the audience - to believe that the body really was Sherlock's? Of course, John was not knocked over for just any old reason. But an impact like that, in his already stressed and distressed state, would fuzz his state of mind even further.
He would therefore hardly be in a position to offer any sound medical diagnosis, and could quite plausibly mistake Sherlock for dead. Remember how scared of Sherlock the ambassador's daughter was after she was rescued from her kidnap? That's never been explained either. Could it be that Moriarty found a lookalike - through coincidence or forced plastic surgery - which means there are two people with the same face going round?
Could it actually be this body that fell from the roof? Since Sherlock's brother pretty much is the British government, he would clearly have had it within his power to stage any number of deaths.
And having betrayed him to Moriarty, he would have motive to help. Would Sherlock really turn to his brother given their history? Probably not. YouTube user SalingerThe puts together this really-quite-detailed video which folds everything together into something like a plausible hypothesis. Because this was how the Doctor managed it in the other programme when he needed to convince everyone he was dead.
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