A hand is clearly leaning against the window. Now we know people have been in Sherlock’s home, but they left no finger prints since the only way for Sherlock to find out where they had been was via dust. So it had to be someone who is welcome in the apartment.
If you look at how high the hand is, they are tall. So that clearly rules out John and Mrs Hudson.
Now if you will, notice the smudge marks in a circle just under it. About the size of a head. But if you look at the hand its flat on the glass meaning the person who made it had to have been facing the window, the other smudge was made by someone who was facing the other way…
Now who is tall with big hands that is often in the apartment?
Not a big stretch to establish that is Sherlock’s hand print.
Here is where it gets juicy…
The head smudge is just taller then John.
SO in conclusion.
I put forward, John was lifted by Sherlock, back and head to the window, while Sherlock had his hand on the window for support….
benedict cumberbatch and sherlock are two different people in my brain, my mind can’t conceive those two are the same human, they are phisically different y’all know what I mean?
i think my favorite thing about this post is going through it and seeing everyone have everything from existential crosiers to thinking it’s a hoax and then coming back like some amazing run on conversation!! I will be contributing to this and happily waiting for my doot doot!! This is my favorite post now
i think my favorite thing about this post is going through it and seeing everyone have everything from existential crosiers to thinking it’s a hoax and then coming back like some amazing run on conversation!! I will be contributing to this and happily waiting for my doot doot!! This is my favorite post now
not sherlock holmes publishing a story himself for the first time in 50 yrs of professional work just to complain about watson getting married and choosing a case where he doesnt really solve anything but is about a guy desperately looking for his friend who hasnt been answering letters
Sherlock Holmes's Guide to Coming Back From The Death and Making it Up To Your Intimate Friend and Companion So He Forgives You and Isn't Sad Anymore (So Far):
Gift him some rare books :)
The art of disguise!
Dramatic reveal A thousand apologies 😬
Explain everything (+ let him know all the secrets)
Time to catch up!
Casual touches of reassurance :3
Call him 'my dear Watson' at every possible instance
Quote Shakespeare to him 😌
See if your absence hasn't entirely taken away your power to surprise him! (it hasn't) (you have made quite sure to up your surprise game)
Laugh with him
Involve him in your convoluted plots to catch your enemies >:)
list of acd canon sherlock holmes things i absolutely love
(and am going to mostly put under a readmore because i made most of this list while rereading the entire canon so it is very long! listen i just think sherlock holmes is the best character ever and i need to share my love for him–)
immediately upon being introduced to watson he grabs him by the sleeve, starts excitedly showing off his bloodstain testing experiment, and claps his hands “looking as delighted as a child with a new toy”. once he finishes, his eyes glitter and he puts his hand on his heart and bows “as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination”.
watson: “i object to rows because my nerves are shaken”
holmes: “do you include violin playing in your category of rows?” he asked, anxiously
he’s noted to be extraordinarily knowledgeable and zealous in his studies, and yet on the same page it’s stated that he doesn’t know the earth travels around the sun and once watson tells him about it he immediately decides to forget about it because it’s not relevant to his work. this is where the famous “brain attic” monologue comes in.
watson writes this list about him and then throws it into the fire in despair:
has a habit of laughing in a way that’s described as bursting into an “explosion” or “roar” of laughter
frequently does this at crime scenes:
enlists a gang of street orphans to help him on his cases, pays them for their work, and generally treats them as equals but also playfully talks to them like a general to his soldiers
plays the violin for watson to help him get to sleep
is incredibly knowledgable on anything from different types of tobacco, to the ways one’s trade can influence the form of their hands, to medieval pottery and stradivarus violins. and yet, i reiterate, does not know the earth revolves around the sun.
has a tendency of waxing poetic about the meaningless of existence, particularly when he’s bored from not having any cases to work on
once said about a dog “i would rather have toby’s help than that of the whole detective force of london”
used the word “doggy” when speaking to toby
once told watson “i don’t wish to be theatrical” despite all evidence to the contrary
disguises himself as an old man just to play a prank on watson
watson: “i think i had better go”
holmes: “not at all, doctor. stay where you are. i am lost without my boswell.”
is known to wiggle in his chair when he gets excited about a case
discovers that a man has tricked his own stepdaughter into a fake marriage so he can keep her at home and control her life and inheritance. acknowledges that said man hasn’t done anything illegal but still tells him “there never was a man who deserved punishment more” and that he ought to get whipped for what he did, and then goes to actually get his hunting crop, causing the man to run out the door at top speed
let a criminal go free because it turned out the man he murdered was trying to force said criminal’s daughter into an unwanted marriage
was suddenly made to participate in the wedding of someone he was tracking for a case, came home and laughed about it for several minutes, exclaimed “well, really!”, laughed for several more minutes, and only then did he actually tell watson what happened
responds to the king of bohemia insulting irene adler and saying she’s not on his level by saying coldly: “from what i have seen of the lady, she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your majesty”, which is basically him saying “actually she’s way better than you, so fuck off”
refused to shake said king’s hand
built a pillow fort in a client’s house so he could think better
let a poor jewel thief go because he cried, because it was christmas and therefore it was the season of forgiveness, and because the case was really easy anyway so it’s not his fault if the police are too stupid to solve it themselves
always reassures clients that they can trust him and watson and speak freely around them
is willing to waive his fee for clients who can’t afford to pay him, because according to him his profession is its own reward
this entire scene from speckled band when he gets confronted by his client’s abusive stepfather:
It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:
n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.
well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it.
No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.
Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.
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