How Moriarty āFakedā His Death (It IS Twins)
Okay. So as some of you may know, in the original Holmes books, Professor Moriarty has a younger brother named Colonel James Moriarty. He was a stationmaster.
In BBC Sherlock, Moriarty has a brother who was also a stationmaster, although his name and age were not mentioned.
In The Final Problem, Eurus plays clips that Moriarty recorded for her before he died. We know this because Eurus plays them for Sherlock, John, and Mycroft when trapped in Sherrinford. During the flashback from 5 years ago in the episode, Mycroft tells Moriarty that he is allowed 5 minutes of unsupervised conversation with Eurus, and though we donāt know what they talked about, we know somewhere in those 5 minutes Moriarty agreed to record them for her. We still donāt know how he got them to her, how he knew what to say, etc.
Of course the trio is taken aback from seeing Moriartyās face on a screen. After all, Sherlock saw him blow his own brains out. John asks him, distraught:
But what she says directly after is something I hadnāt noticed up until the most recent time I watched this episode:
NOW. We know that Moriarty has a brother that was a stationmaster. No more assumptions here. This was ACTUAL CONTENT in the show. But we DONT KNOW his name, age, what he looks like, etc. And just because he was younger than Professor Moriarty in the canon doesnāt necessarily mean that Moftiss has to follow this rule in their adaptation. Iām saying this because the phrase āIts never twinsā is brought up multiple times throughout the show.
Sherlock says it to John in The Six Thatchers when working on the case called āThe Duplicate Manā after he thinks thatās what Johnās come to the conclusion of, and again in The Abominable Bride. Watson says, āHolmes. Could it have been twins?ā Holmes tells him it couldnāt, so Watson asks him why, provoking Holmesā āBecause itās never twins.ā
Popping up only once in the show might cause it to have no significance, but since itās popped up more than once, especially regarding a case that was being related to Moriartyās (Emelia Ricolettiās case) could mean something. Once is a coincidence, but twice is a pattern. And what do we say about coincidences, especially ones that are written my Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss? Maybe the reason the writers keep bringing up the fact that Sherlock never even considers twins to be a possible solution to Moriartyās case is because it actually is the solution. Which leads me to my next point.
Shortly after Eurus mentions Moriartyās brother being a stationmaster, Sherlock, John, and Mycroft are taken to the next task in another room, and during the transition Eurus plays another of Moriartyās clips:
How obvious can they be? Moriartyās brother was a stationmaster, as said by Eurus herself, and here we have Jim Moriarty, (or his twin brother) saying āAll aboard!ā and making freaking train noises.
All Iām saying is, it had to be either Jim or his twin that was on that rooftop in Reichenbach; one of them shot himself, and the other is still out there. But the question is, which Moriarty is it?
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