NEAT ... DON'T YOU THINK ?

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MUSINGS ABOUT TWO GENIUSES AND THEIR BRILLIANT MASTERPLANS

“Everything was anticipated; every eventuality allowed
for. It worked … perfectly.”

Many wonderul metas have been written about a possible 'Reichenbach Solution’ or better the lack thereof. After four years this conundrum is still unsolved. How did Sherlock do it? What parts of the interview he gave Anderson are true? What is a lie? Why is that time jump right in the middle of the interview? And why is the whole scene located in the middle of the anticipated bomb explosion? So many unanswered questions. Let me add a bit more (probably not new either):

1. Sherlock says that Moriarty has used a doppelgänger to frame him for the abduction of the children …. why does he assume the corpse of that person would show up in a morgue? Why does Sherlock think the criminal mastermind Jim Morarty is that stupid that he can’t get rid of a corpse thoroughly? So that the dead man is never found again and Sherlock not able to prove himself innocent.2. What did the men, Mycroft sent to ‘intervene with the sniper before he could take the shot’, do? Obviously they waited and watched that sniper until he had lowerd his weapon, dismantled it and stowed it back in his bag - without any haste. Then they let him go away and …. followed him? Then ‘invited him to reconsider’? Are the men in Mycrofts employement amateurs or dilettants? And what does this say about Mycroft himself? He hired them. Does he really have that little 'horse sense’?

“The flight of the dead. The plane blows up mid-air. Mission accomplished for the terrorists. Hundreds of casualities, but nobody dies.”

Indeed a very neat plan. Coventry revised but this time without innocent dead victims. Unless …. you take a more closer look:

A plane crash is something very big. Something that goes very public very quickly. Even more so when a terrorist attack is the reason. And a plane doesn’t explode in mid-air and evaporates simply into nothing. There will be 'things’ on the ground that will have to be retrieved. There will be bodies to be identified. Long dead and previously frozen bodies in that case. And there will be a list of all the victims. But most of all there will be the press. Media from all over the world. They will ask questions and they will take interviews. With the victim’s families, their friends, colleagues, acquaintances with politicians and experts and so on. And if they don’t get answers or anything is out of ordeer they will ask even more questions. That means - it isn’t done with fake victims alone. And it isn’t done with fake family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances either. There will come the day when the dead bodies will have to be sent 'home’. Where to I wonder? To their fake villages, their fake towns, their fake cities? Maybe the 'big’ media have lost their interrest a little bit by now. But their will be the local press instead ….

Really, this is a bottomless barrel. If you start thinking you will find no end. Mycroft’s plan - that seems so neat and brilliant at first - falls appart very quickly and very thoroughly at a closer look. Collecting the corpses is definitely the easiest part of this plan. Even Reichenbach sounds more plausible than Mycroft’s idea. And it isn’t just that plan either that got canceled due to Sherlock’s mistake. They did already a rehearsal of the 'flight of the dead’.

LESTRADE:
There was a plane crash in Dusseldorf yesterday. Everyone dead.

SHERLOCK: Suspected terrorist bomb. We do watch the news.

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MYCROFT:
We ran a similar project with the Germans a while back.

Well, and now it seems that the 'flight of the dead’ comes back in S4. Why? What is so special about this 'neat’ and at the same time highly unrealistic masterplan of Mycroft Holmes? Is it coincidence that both Holmes brothers use exactly the same words to describe their plans? Ahhem ….

Is it because both masterplans are fake? This might be true for the Reichenbach Solution. But it is definitely incorrect for the 'flight of the dead’. According to Mycroft an apparently successful rehearsal of the plan did happen in Dusseldorf after all. 

What might we deduce about that?  As far as I’m concerned … I side with Anderson ….
 

For more interesting information about Setlock S4 including the flight of the dead listen to:  Three Patch Podcast Episode 38: Setlock, I Am Your Father

A deep thank you to @callie-ariane for the scripts.

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Good point. The Coventry ish flight plan doesn’t make a lot of sense.