Miss M.E.

heimishtheidealhusband:

I got a brainwave Sunday night and I think I’ve seen people talking about bits and pieces of this so I want to get this down in one place.

@welovethebeekeeper brilliantly pointed out, what if “miss me” isn’t a phrase, but an acronym? Miss Mary Elizabeth? We know this is her name from the wedding invitations in TSOT.

This is brilliant and totally something the writers would do, and yet another nail in the “Mary is Moriarty” coffin, so I’m officially cosigning and getting on board with this theory. It 100% ties in with the “names are important” stuff that I’ve been harping on for years now. It also seamlessly ties in with the idea the writers have been pushing in their scripts for ages that viewers and characters tend to overlook - miss - female characters. But wait, there’s more.

Remember what the bus lady, Elizabeth, says when she gives John her phone number? “This is me.” I’m speculating that it’s not me, it’s M.E. So here’s a quick rundown of what that would mean:

John is texting with Mary.

As in, this would be a brilliant way for Mary to monitor John’s investment in the marriage. Essentially she’s now got it set up so that she gets a personalized text alert the minute John is feeling seriously dissatisfied in the marriage. When John sends that “hey” off into the ether, Mary now knows she has the green light to really amp up her sweetness and light, to start manipulating John into heightening his guilt. And that’s exactly what she does, amping up the saccharine until we get that death speech. The intent here would be to have “Mary” die a martyr in John’s eyes so that Sherlock can never fully redeem himself, or convince John that Mary was actually a villain. After all, once an idea is planted, it can never be killed. I would go as far as to speculate that John’s text - “hey” is the catalyst that spins everything else regarding Mary’s posthumous case into action. (Whether or not John knows that he’s texting with a potential villain is another matter entirely though.)

And then there’s that late night text chat. Did you notice that the text from the other person mysteriously appears the second that Mary leaves the room to deal with the baby? Interesting. She also refers to herself as a vampire. Which firstly, explains the whole mirror thing. Secondly, it really leaves the door open to Sussex Vampire tie ins in TLD. As I talk about here, in the ACD canon, the mother is framed as being a vampire and sucking the blood out of her newborn baby’s neck, when actually it’s the jealous step-son that is framing her and trying to poison his brother; while the mother is actually trying to save the infant’s life and keeping quiet about it out of love for her husband. This leaves us ready for a huge twist on that where Sherlock is framed for harming baby Rosie in some way, when really it’s Mary/Elizabeth/Culverton Smith/someone in that network.

Alternatively, John is texting with “E”, or Elizabeth.

Assuming that Mary and Elizabeth are in on this together, in a lot of ways this is the same thing, but it also highlights the point that Mary has a confidante. Someone who is very much not dead and is able to help to carry out Mary’s posthumous case that she’s sending to Sherlock. Someone who we strongly suspect (bordering on flat out knowing) is going to be involved in the Culverton Smith case, and is likely Smith’s actual daughter. If Mary is sending Sherlock a case, and then the daughter of Culverton Smith shows up at his door, this is a no brainer.

Mary Elizabeth Morstan = M., E., ….M?

Furthermore, it would also mean that M.E. isn’t Mary’s initials, it’s her team’s initials. Mary and Elizabeth. The exact same set-up as AGRA. For bonus points: Mary’s assumed name when we meet her is Mary Elizabeth Morstan. If that last initial means that there’s another M in the team who we haven’t linked to them yet, this could get really fun. Moriarty? Moran? Plug in anyone here from M-Theory, and it would be awesome.

Interesting.