mathildalocks:Strong Foreshadowing: The Bicycle in the Garbage...

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Strong Foreshadowing: The Bicycle in the Garbage - John isn’t going back to Mary for real

In HLV, this tiny second shows the homeless man who looks like the guy that John thought was Sherlock in disguise, lifting a perfectly new bike from the garbage. In this show, homeless network represents Sherlock. This scene is literally minutes before this entire cycling conversation at Barts. Why did they place a bike, a new bike, when they could put anything in a garbage bin? Do you think it would be accidental in a scene where the billboard has an ad with 18.95?  By the way the garbage bin has TEA spelled on it, which is carefully orchestrated with cardboards and it is kind of madness. It also has house furniture, couch and mattress, maybe symbols of a broken matrimony?

John was flight risk from the moment Sherlock came back from dead and even more so after his honeymoon. The red shirt is his love for Sherlock, no wonder he wears that when dreaming of escapes. The bike in the garbage symbolizes John’s flight vessel and it is handed to the homeless man. John isn’t flight risk anymore because at the end of HLV, his mind is made up for not returning to Mary for real. 

We will yet to learn how this will be explained but it is a new episode in their story arc and the bike in the garbage is its foreshadowing.

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