On Sunday the second series of Sherlock came to an end with the apparent death of Sherlock Holmes when his body and the pavement made their acquaintance. However, before the credits rolled, he was back alive. But how?
Here we take a look at ten possible theories of how Holmes survived his fall to continue onto a third season…
1. It’s all timey wimey…
Already the connections have been made on the net between this show and Steven Moffat’s other flagship BBC offering ‘Doctor Who’ Mimicking the ‘get out of death free’ card played by the Doctor last autumn, perhaps the Sherlock on the roof wasn’t in fact Sherlock but a robot Sherlock controlled by a tiny Sherlock inside it, so the mini Sherlock suffers no pain when the Teselecta replica crashes to the ground – complete with synthesised blood – allowing the miniaturised Holmes to dash off to be returned to full size.
Perhaps, in a further twist, it was Sherlock – when his amazing mind and ability to think out of the box – that created the Teselecta technology, thus not only saving himself and his three friends but the Doctor too many centuries later. Elementary.
2. Take the red bill, the blue pill, or any drugs he can get hold of
Whilst exploring the mystery of the Hounds of Baskerville, Sherlock experienced déjà vu when seeing the hound, thus experiencing a glitch in the Matrix but with a dog rather than a cat, realising with his amazing mind that he is inside a computer program.
One quick search for Agent Smith on the Matrix equivalent on Facebook and Smith was more than happy to absord Sherlock and his amazing intellect and quite enjoying punching the annoying know-it-all in the chest, becomes part of the clone army that is Agent Sherlock, allowing one nameless look-a-like drone to perish on the London streets whilst Holmes continues to live.
Expect series three to feature a dozen Sherlock Holmes all playing the violin at the same time, replacing the police forces all over the country, and generally breaking the fire rules when it comes to the capacity of 221B Baker Street. Oh, and it be called ‘Sherlock Reloaded’ featuring more mythology behind the character, a man with lots of keys and an orgy set to music featuring lots of half-naked men and women.
3. It’s a miracle!
It is an established fact that series two of Sherlock was supposed to be shown before Christmas but extra filming and contractual obligations for the lead actors meant this wasn’t possible and the episodes were delayed to the new year. Perhaps the BBC haven’t been entirely truthful and that the three TV films were supposed to come out in the summer.
When Moriarty killed himself on the roof he didn’t die and Sherlock saw this and realised that it was impossible for his enemy to survive such an injury. Using his intelligence and perhaps Twitter he realised it was some form of Miracle Day where no one was dying and it had just started.
With Moriarty unable to remember why he was on the roof – he had just gravely injured himself after all – Sherlock realised he would survive the fall to the floor with perhaps just some bruising and broken bones and jumped, only to recover later.
Expect series three to star John Barrowman, joining Cumberbatch and Freeman as a crime fighting threesome. You can imagine the innuendo already.
And it will probably also feature an orgy set to music featuring lots of half-naked men and women like explanation two if Russell T. Davies writes it.
4. It was a gas!
In the second episode of this series we saw the power of the hallucinogenic gas created as part of the H.O.U.N.D. project in Liberty, Indiana. What would be easier than for Sherlock to gas Watson so he imagined the whole suicide thing, along with Molly infecting all the doctors, nurses and bystanders that would rush to his body. Nothing is more powerful than the power of suggestion, of course.
But what about the assassins you may ask? Well if Moriarty could make contacts and influence them then sure could Sherlock, also gassing the three to imagine his death and therefore saving his friends.
Or, more scarily, perhaps in a turn of events that would get the Daily Mail fuming about the waste of tax payers money, the BBC using its incredible reach, created similar gas and pumped it out of the television of everyone who watched it so we only imagined Sherlock appearing at the end of the episode and he is actually dead.
Expect series three to therefore either feature Mycroft teaming up with Watson to solve crimes or the series to be rebranded Son of Sherlock with a protégé appearing Indiana-Jones like out of the woodwork and continuing his good work.
5. Inspiration from the moving picture
It is established in ‘The Reichenbach Fall’ that Holmes has become a minor celebrity and famous with the public and tabloids. So, it’s only natural to assume that, amongst the invitations onto ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ and ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’, there would be interest in making a biopic of the celebrated gentleman in his lifetime, much like Margaret Thatcher has been in ‘The Iron Lady’, only with fewer upset miners.
And, of course, with a mind like Sherlock’s, it would only be natural for him to want to occasionally take a break from all his thinking and what better way to relax than to grab a bucket of popcorn and a Slush Puppie and sit down for a film at his local Multiplex.
And with an ego like Sherlock there would only be one film he’d want to see, and that would be part two of his Guy Ritchie-directed biopic ‘Sherlock 2’ (naturally using artistic licence to transpose the 21st Century Sherlock into a more Victorian setting) where his arch enemy Moriarty plans an assassination using a man with a transplanted face.
Upon leaving the cinema Sherlock would know that face transplants are much more professional in 2012 and so all he needs to do is find a willing victim, transplant a replica of his face on them and, using words and commands through an earpiece to them, get him to jump off the building and convince everyone it was in fact Sherlock that jumped off the hospital roof. Whereas it’s in fact, John Smith, with Benedict Cumberbatch’s face sewn on.
6. The Power of Re-commissioning
Perhaps Sherlock did jump after all and land on the pavement. But instead of a doctor or nurse first reaching his dying body it was in fact a BBC executive who whispered into his ear: “We’ve commissioned a third series. You can’t die now.” Thinking of the wage packet and the need to keep the BBC Board of Directors in biscuits, Sherlock waited until the coast was clear and awoke, allowing a new series to be made and the viewing figures to roll in.
7. Behind the Curtain…
Series three opens with Watson going for a much needed shower, only to find Sherlock in there already, having a wash, or trying to figure out a murder, or something. After all, ‘The Reichenbach Fall’ was all a dream…
8. It’s in his Genes…
Baskerville gets up to all sorts of weird experiments, including transplanting jellyfish genes into rabbits to make them glow in the dark. But that’s nothing compared to what they did to Sherlock. Transplanting cat genes into him on his request, not only did it make him more isolated than before, sleepy and able to lick parts of his body than in previous episodes, it gave him the ability to land on all fours when jumping off buildings. All he needed to do was then play dead, get Molly to put some blood around his head and then bobs your uncle, he could scuttle off out of the morgue for a bowl of milk and a quick surf around LolCats.
9. It’s all a trick…
OK, we’ve heard the weird possibilities but how about a “realistic” escape attempt. Sherlock jumps off the building into the relatively soft landing of the garbage van parked up outside the building that Molly or his band of homeless network peeps have arranged. Meanwhile a corpse in a similar costume is dropped for John to see. Then, in the time that Watson is getting up from the floor after being knocked over be a cyclist, Sherlock jumps out of the van, hides the corpse, lies on the floor, puts fake blood on the tarmac and pretends to be dead, perhaps using some clever technique to appear dying.
In his confusion and disbelief Watson thinks he’s dead but when Sherlock goes to the morgue he escapes.
Or perhaps it’s something even more inventive. We’ll have to wait and see!
10. But, the final questions is… was that Sherlock that jumped off the building?
Nope. It’s just Chuck Testa. Possibly.
Let’s just hope he hasn’t made a lifelike taxidermised Sherlock Holmes.
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