More musing on ep 3:

tendergingergirl:

welovethebeekeeper:

Another possibility for the third title is a variation on The Gloria Scott. Why? Well several things are coalescing in BBC Sherlock into a mash up of The Boscombe Valley Mystery and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott. Remember the writers never stray too far from canon. 

In both GLOR and BOSC the story is driven by GHOSTS from the past. Old acquaintances that reemerge from the past bringing trouble in their wake. Ghosts was the word to cover both TAB and series 4.

GLOR has the skip code in it, the one used by Mary in TEH. In GLOR a letter is sent in code that states ‘the game is up’. Somehow I think Mary will receive such a note in TST which leads to her disappearance and maybe reemergence in the third ep.
In GLOR we have initials used, J A, the letters turn out to be the real initials of the Mr Trevor whose name is really James Armitage. The characters in both GLOR and BOSC lend me to think of Mary’s real name: AGRA - Alice Gloria ? Armitage. A mash up with SIGN but plausible [I need that R, could it be Rachel?]
In GLOR a large ship blows up and the survivors take to a smaller boat. We saw boat action on setlock ep 3. 
In GLOR a man turns up as an old sailor to ask Mr Trevor for a job. From setlock ep 3 we have suspicion that Sherlock disguises himself as an old fisherman.

As Mark and Steven love to mash up their canon stories it won’t be till post airing before we can delineate the canon stories used. But there are enough clues there to suggest Gloria Scott/Boscombe I believe.

Just to add a weird but pleasant thought: We know we are getting this guy, Tam Mutu

playing Leonard in ep 3. What if Victor Trevor has been renamed Victor Leonard Trevor in honour and tribute to Leonard Nimoy who played Holmes, and whose Spock is clearly a Holmes mirror. Just a thought.

Here’s another good Tam Mutu thread to go with this from @isitandwonder. It would

be cute if they did throw a tribute to

Nimoy. He loved Holmes, too.