There is something odd about Molly in series 4

welovethebeekeeper:

yesilian:

welovethebeekeeper:

Molly Hooper works at Bart’s. She’s usually filmed in the morgue. In series 2 she emerges to attend the Xmas Party at Baker St but quickly returns to the morgue later that evening. In series three she only left the morgue to interview for John’s position with Sherlock, which was a study in the futility of Sherlo//y from the writers, and for Sherlock’s return home celebration at 221b when she introduced her new beau Tom. Oh and for the Watson wedding. So basically in BBC Sherlock, Molly Hooper’s world is the forensics lab at Bart’s, and she basically only leaves for celebrations.

In series 4 we apparently see a change of pattern, always a nod to a change of direction for a character.

She babysits at the Watson’s flat or is called there for a crisis of some sort.

Now remember that Molly is not close to Mary, really not close to John. Mary has ‘friends’ at work and in a social circle; they were at the wedding [and christening by the looks of it] plus there is Cath, whoever that is. Why have Molly babysit? Did Sherlock call her after finding the baby alone at the flat? It’s a Sherlock thing to do. Yet then we get this scene:

The reconstruction of that day at the Watson’s flat in Sherlock’s delirious musings during The Lying Detective. Why? Is this a sudden revelation? A lightening bolt moment of a reveal? Sherlock sees the Watson’s front door, Molly as she was from the scene in T6T and the Watson baby. If he had called Molly there that day then it’s less likely to be an ‘OH’ moment for Sherlock. If Molly called him there, then it’s more likely.

Molly in TLD also appears to come and get Sherlock in an ambulance from the Miskin house. It’s not a welcomed intervention by Sherlock but he goes into the vehicle with her.

Next we see Molly out and about, at a house near Ogmore Beach, maybe even on the beach, as setlockers got to the site late that day and some scenes had been filmed.

Loo may have just been watching Andrew film his scene after she had completed hers, as she was in costume as Molly and tweeted that she was filming that day. Molly away from her lab and in the vicinity of a Jim Moriarty scene being shot. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Now we get a weird photo from set at the end of ep 3:

What was this all about? Loo doing a Sherlock impression in a John shirt? Just strange. It goes along with the weird photo of Mrs Hudson we received from Arwel.

It could be Mark, it could be Andrew, could it be Loo? Uncle Rudy?

Molly is available for a rug pull that goes above and beyond a canon fix because she is an original character. She had two main functions; possible romantic interest for Sherlock and instigator of the first meeting of the villain to the show’s two protagonists. She is clearly ruled out now as a romantic possibility for Sherlock [the imagined kiss/the rejected substitute for John] by the writers, who put the character into the show to highlight Sherlock’s lack of interest in women. The most important point of Molly in the series arc is the fact that she was the character that introduced Moriarty to Sherlock and John. It is very telling and a milestone in the story.

I’ve been thinking about it lately, too. I know you, @welovethebeekeeper, are completely gearing up for Molly as Moriarty and it has some things to it. You’ve mentioned Molly was the one who introduced Sherlock to Moriarty, but everyone seems to overlook the fact that she also produced Irene’s body in ASIB. “Records are only as good as the one who keeps them”, wasn’t it? I think it was Molly and I think Sherlock knows it, too. Molly was after all the one who gave Emelia her airtight alibi in TAB. Two women on a slab in a morgue, and who identified them both? Molly.

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Maybe,on the surface level Molly works for Mycroft as a supervisor for Sherlock (re his alleged drug problem). She follows him everywhere as long as John isn’t around. So Sherlock tricks her by offering to babysit. They are both there in the beginning, but then he says he has to leave urgently for a case. Obviously they can’t take the baby with them on a crime scene, so Molly has to stay with the baby at the Watson’s flat, while Sherlock takes off.