The opening few minutes of the series form one of the most audacious scenes ever in Sherlock. Recapping the fall from St Bart's at the end of Series Two, we find out that thanks to a lookalike mask being placed on Moriarty's corpse, a quick bungee jump and the aid of illusionist Derren Brown, Sherlock survived. Except, of course, it's all a load of cobblers. Despite the increasingly ridiculous and plausibility-stretching methods on show, this scene has us fooled into thinking that we were wrong to mock some of the more outlandish theories on the internet - 'it was a mask, after all?!' - and it's not until Derren Brown hypnotises Watson that we cotton on to the fact that this may not be the truth. Though perhaps the little too cinematic but triumphant window-crash and quick snog off Molly should have told us.. It is of course only an idea of Anderson, now part of the metafictional Sherlock fan group, 'The Empty Hearse.' However, despite playing us all for saps, this scene is impossible not to love. Who knows it might even be how he did it, as it's not completely clarified which of the solutions shown is the real one. Still, I'm guessing it wasn't the Sherlock/Moriarty eloping one. Sorry, certain sections of Tumblr.
