Sherlock: 10 Ingenious Pieces Of Foreshadowing You Never Noticed

2. The Reichenbach Fall Was Hinted At In Series 1

Moriarty always a plan for Sherlock: he told him that he had something big planned the very first time he met him. But the colossal icon of the show, the faked death of the main character, was actually foreshadowed as early as 'A Study In Pink', the first episode of the first series. "Do people assume you're the murderer?" John asked. "Now and again," came the reply. It was to verge more on the now than the again in 'The Reichenbach Fall', when both Donovan and Anderson suspected that it was Sherlock who'd abducted the children during the sweet factory investigation. When we finally met the murderer in 'A Study In Pink', he gave us another clue of what was to come; here was a man being sponsored by Jim Moriarty, a criminal as clever, we presumed, as Sherlock, and he had a bizarre plan. He wasn't going to kill Sherlock. He was going to talk to him, and he was going to kill himself. It nearly worked: close, but no cigar. It was to be Moriarty himself, who'd use the same method, to get rid of Holmes in the Series 2 closer. "I don't like getting my hands dirty," Jim would claim in 'The Great Game': too right he didn't. He never actually killed Sherlock, did he?