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I never noticed this before, but thanks to CookiesWillCrumble for drawing attention to it!

Now what exactly is Magnussen doing on his phone? I doubt he’s checking his mail at such a crucial moment… Is it possible that he anticipated Mary would shoot Sherlock and sent out a secret message for help (since he didn’t actually pick it up to talk)?

Lastly - notice his expression when he sees Mary actually really shooting him. Now I’m not trying to defend him in any way, because he is our villain and has done enough other bad stuff…. but that expression though! Am I the only one who reads sympathy in it?

This was a truly brilliant observation. Magnussen is reaching for his phone. And Mary isn’t even paying him any attention at that moment. I like this speculation that Magnussen sent for help. He could have easily had it coded so that just a key press or something equally simple gesture would send out an alarm causing a chain of events, which could include calling the ambulance. I like this very much! (It could be that he was turning on voice recorder or something to “get the evidence”, but Mary would have realized that after incapacitating both and destroyed the phone. Ok I will stop.)

Although, I don’t read Magnussen’s expression as sympathy. It seems to be just fear. I mean if she could shoot her own friend who was also her husband’s best friend, he feared that she wouldn’t hesitate to kill him as well. That’s how it looks to me.

Yes! I didn’t have time to add a note when I first reblogged it, but I wanted to point out that this totally makes me lean toward Sherlock outright lying when he says Mary was trying to save him. CAM called the ambulance, not Mary, and Sherlock would have seen him reaching for his phone as he was shot. Sherlock wouldn’t miss a detail like that, and the writers/director wouldn’t have put it in for no reason. Right? I hope?

Why was Sherlock lying? Just to make John happy? As part of a long con against Mary? Hmmmmm…. (Also I agree that CAM is just freaked out at the bottom. He didn’t expect Mary to shoot Sherlock any more than Sherlock did.)

Oh right, Mary didn’t see but Sherlock did that Magnussen was reaching for the phone! I never could believe that he knew Mary called the ambulance. Because in the 221B confrontation, he says to John, “You didn’t find me for another five minutes.” Dear lord, how the hell would he even know that! His mind-palace!Molly tells him that he has 3 seconds of consciousness left. Are we to understand that he was conscious for five minutes after receiving a gunshot wound that would later kill him? Of course, I don’t know how gunshot wounds work (even after researching a bit about it), so maybe it’s possible to retain consciousness. In that case, why say “3 seconds of consciousness left”? Also, when John finds him, his eyes are closed. So I think he was unconscious quickly. In which case, I just don’t trust him saying that Mary called the ambulance or that John found him 5 minutes after the shooting.

Of course. We keep hoping all these are clues. We did that with Reichenbach. And eventually really few of them were resolved. So it could be that we are supposed to just suspend our disbelief and accept that yes, Sherlock saw what happened after he was shot, or that he was conscious. Which mean, speculating about why Sherlock lied makes sense only if we stick to our readings. If not… well.

Further speculation about HLV which illustrates how Mary Morstan is the Reichenbach puzzle of series 3.

OMG!! This is from my meta!! I am so happy that it’s actually out there!! (I’m cookieswillcrumble… HI!!!) 

I just want to point one thing out that will cement this theory once and for all. 

This shot (where CAM is reaching for the phone) was in 3 different takes of the same scene. (too lazy to add screenshots here but you can see them in this chapter)

The first was when Sherlock was actually shot by Mary.

The second was when Sherlock explained to John that Mary could have gone for a head shot.

The third was when Sherlock told John what happened, including Mary calling the ambulance. (another extra point here is that when we see Mary exit the room, in this scenario, Sherlock was not on the ground where he would have been lying dying. I wonder if this is also relevant in some way)

In all three, we see CAM reaching for the phone. This was not a continuation error. This was a deliberate film making decision. They wanted this included in the final cut. Wasn’t there a comment floating around that one of the directors said: “If you blinked then you missed it”? I wonder if this is what he meant. (I am not sure in what context that comment was made but it bugs me to this day). 

Since we discussed above that Sherlock would have seen Magnussen reaching for his phone, here is the proof.

Look where Sherlock is looking and look in the mirror what Magnussen is doing. As CAM is reaching for the phone, Sherlock glances at him, and starts saying, “Whatever he’s got on you, I can help.” So not only Magnussen was reaching for his phone, Sherlock most definitely knew it.

I’ve written this into story after story, but my unshakeable reading of this is that Sherlock saw Mary as a danger to John. At the point when he talked John into not leaving her, at least not overtly, he’d been shot in the heart and was within eight minutes of need to be defibrillated. It cost him that much to ensure that John saw his confrontation with Mary, because how would John have ever believed it if he’d just told him? And after a week, surely John had asked Sherlock who shot him, given that he was shot in the front. He had to have seen his attacker. So Sherlock devised a plan that ensured that John would witness what Mary really was, then firmly argued him into staying with her, albeit with a VERY shaky rationale. It has to have been because he believed that John would have been in danger had he left Mary that night. He’d just been shot and was in no position to help or protect John.

John asks the question for us: “Who would Sherlock bother protecting?” We all know that the answer is John and John alone. There is no one else Sherlock has EVER bothered protecting, except when it was Mrs Hudson and Lestrade along with John. But John was the first name that came (instantly) to his lips when Moriarty threatened the people that he loves. For John’s sake, Sherlock escaped from a hospital, weak enough that he was obliged to take his morphine drip with him, somehow got hold of a projector, a bottle of Claire-de-la-lune, got John’s chair moved, and found a way to lure Mary to Leinster Gardens. Why else would he have lied to John? Why else has he ever lied to John in canon? To save his life.

He believed that Mary would have killed John for leaving her that night. He did it to keep John alive. Much as in the case of The Reichenbach Fall, John was unhappy and had been lied to - but he was alive.

Yes! Nice screen grabs. I’ve said all along that Magnussen called the ambulance. And I bet it will come out in S4. I can believe that Sherlock knew this, but I’m still confused about why Sherlock appears to forgive Mary in the end. Yes, he could have thought John was in danger when he was having his second near death at the apartment. But that doesn’t explain that he ends up flying away to Eastern Europe leaving John in Mary’s hands. But there’s a lot about HLV that confuses me. I think they’ll resolve some of it in S4, but probably not entirely satisfactorially, if the ‘fall explanation’ is any indication. I think ultimately they wanted Mary as the S4 villain, so they had to keep her in place. Pretty hard to do when she’s such a blatant evil, but then some people have bought it!