constancecream:After an interesting twitter conversation with...

constancecream:

After an interesting twitter conversation with @CDSanders1971 I’d like to reevaluate my answer to this ask.

I now think the eye witness report from
@fandomsdogsandvolleyball is legit, as the twitter user was forthcoming enough to answer my questions and back up said report.

First of all, fellow Setlockers, let me give you some good advice. Next time you try to get near the set of Sherlock camouflage as a hiker, or a tourist, and pretend you’re not there for the filming. Perhaps they’ll let you on set, hang around for a while, and watch a whole scene being filmed without getting told off.

Because that’s exactly what has happened to our source as far as I understood. They were only moved once from their vantage point, when the team was shooting the scenery, and the crew jokingly told them that they couldn’t afford to pay any more extras in their scenes. Which was of course nonsense. They needed the shot clear of people, because the ruins at Ogmore Castle were featuring as the background for a Mind Palace sequence. Of that the source was absolutely sure.

They were also quite adamant on stressing that the scene was about Mary. I have the feeling they might have learned a little more by chatting with the crew than what they let on, but that’s just fair. They were asked not to spill the beans, and as they’re only autograph hunters, not dedicated Setlockers, it seems understandable that they won’t share everything after being told not to. That’s also the reason why they didn’t take any pictures. They didn’t know there are people out there who frantically collect every detail in order to puzzle together a halfway coherent picture of the whole. They were just enjoying their holidays, and happened to stumble on several sets of famous TV productions. Lucky guys, indeed! In any case, they clearly got the impression that the scene was a deduction scene and that the scene was about Mary.

Asked for a description they told me that the little girl was about four years old. No mention of further children on set. This girl clearly didn’t match the casting call for twins that we discussed on Monday. (I’m still not sure if the casting call was for Sherlock in the first place, but if so, it would have been for Baby Watson, and the child in the Ogmore MP scene was representing Mary anyway). She was wearing a skirt or dress, and her hair was blonde and in pigtails. She was running in circles around Sherlock who didn’t look at her. In fact, there seemed to be no interaction at all between the two of them in the scene. Sherlock was staring ahead, lost in thought. He then turned and left rather abruptly. (Which reminds me of what Setlockers reported about the Jubilee Bridge Scene between Sherlock and the LIR). There was one incident when Sherlock seemed to look down at her, and after that they shot close ups of his face for quite some time. That’s why they could go into detail about his facial expression. Oh, and one more detail. When running in circles, the little girl was holding a toy in her hands, a car or an aeroplane, they could’t quite tell, and she was making sounds as if imitating the sounds of a running engine.

Sherlock himself was wearing a dark suit and a white shirt.

(I was hoping we could perhaps place the sequence into the timeline as filming continues, but ‘white shirt’ seems pretty nondescript.)

Mark Gatiss was present. He was in costume, but the source says he wasn’t in the MP scene at all. They had the impression that the cast had directly arrived from a different location, and that Mark might have been involved in these previous scenes, therefore simply not having had the time to change clothes.

He was also wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and a coat, not sure about the tie, but pretty sure that it wasn’t red, like in the studio pictures from Sue’s video yesterday.

That’s it.

Many thanks for sharing as much as you could to @CDSanders1971 on twitter. And enjoy your holidays!

Good intel! Who was the little girl? Baby Watson, older in the MP? Redbeard/Holmes sibling? The original Mary Morstan? AGRA as a child? Or a new character related to a case? We probably won’t know until the show airs, but it’s interesting the scene seemed to be *about* Mary.