Witnessing the fall, heРІР‚в„ўs then knocked down by the cyclist, and blocked by the crowd (of Sherlock employees?), before he eventually reaches the body. It wouldnРІР‚в„ўt be the first creepy video Moriarty had knocked together in that episodeРІР‚В¦Р”Р„fter returning from the wild goose chase, Watson arrives at the scene and is made to fix his eyes on Holmes. There are various theories on how this was done, from the extreme: Moriarty using plastic surgery to make one of his goons into a Holmes lookalike, to the mundane: a bespoke Holmes mask or dummy (the latter of which does pop up in a later Conan Doyle story) or simply pictures of Holmes being used to traumatise the children. To achieve this, Moriarty somehow conditioned the young girl to be deathly afraid of Holmes, hence her screaming when Sherlock entered the police questioning room. Part of MoriartyРІР‚в„ўs plot to discredit Holmes involved framing him for the kidnap of the ambassadorРІР‚в„ўs children. WeРІР‚в„ўre yet to be convinced this last point isnРІР‚в„ўt one complication too many. Wilder imaginations have linked the cyclist and WatsonРІР‚в„ўs discombobulation to a swiftly administered dose of fear gas from The Hounds of Baskerville, making Watson see what his mind expected him to when he eventually reached the body.

Holmes made reference to his homeless network earlier in The Reichenbach Fall, and the consensus seems to be that thatРІР‚в„ўs where the mysterious cyclist (again, who fails to stop when confronted with an apparent suicide just yards away) hails from. On his way to the body, Watson was knocked down by a timely cyclist, disorientating him and keeping him away for precious seconds. This was no accident, our commenters screamed. Chalk? Suspicious driving? Bags of rubbish? ItРІР‚в„ўs got plan written all over it. One interesting observation arrived from commenter Aranya, who remarked upon the clearly chalked out rectangle on the pavement surrounding the spot the body landed, a shape which tallied precisely with where the truck was parked. If not that, then the truck could still have been there to obscure a switch of some kind, and to carry off the non-Sherlock body, whoever that may be. Clever commenters have suggested that the truck РІР‚вЂњ if it was indeed Sherlock who jumped РІР‚вЂњ was a prepared and cushioned landing spot, parked precisely to block WatsonРІР‚в„ўs view (and presumably that of the sniper Holmes was also trying to fool) giving Sherlock time to break a blood capsule or two and move relatively unharmed to the pavement where he played dead. Casually driving off when a man has seemingly jumped to his death mere feet away is unusual behaviour to say the least. ThatРІР‚в„ўs some damning evidence right there.

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