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If I LOVE YOU was a name

Remember the I love you coffin and Mycroft saying it wasn’t a name.

What if it was parts of a name?

There is a name containing the I love you letters in the Mofftiss-verse:

Captain Sokolov Yuri.

I, Sokolov Yuri.

For this captain (unnamed in Stoker’s Dracula iirc), this ghost driver (found dead with his arms tied to the wheel) they came up with a name that says I love you.

Will this come up in S5 ?

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The case of A.G.RA & the black pearl

What are the A.G.RA “memory sticks” really?

We only ever see 2 of them, they are rectangular, steel gray, with information about a person written on it, they are identical except one of them has a ball chain, the person on a mission is not supposed to take it off. Despite what we are told and shown, these aren’t memory sticks, they have to be identification tags, dog tags. Rectangular so not British, more likely American (but not necessarily, most countries have rectangular ones).

Only Ajay is seen wearing it around his neck, in “Tbilisi” (or ever).

Mary looks at these two guys, one looking conveniently very much like Ajay, the other more or less her height, and decides: “we die”, which probably means exchanging their IDs with these people, or only one of them, since Ajay and Mary seem to be using only one set of tags.

Ajay has the one with the chain, the one that remains with the soldier’s body for identification.

“I got out for a while. Long enough to hide my memory stick.”

Ajay never speaks of a plaster bust, only Sherlock does. He might have placed it on someone else, dead or alive.

Mary, apparently, kept the one that gets collected from the soldier’s body for notification, the one with a smaller or no chain.

If she and Ajay are actually family, she didn’t even have to be inside the embassy, she could have recoverd it later.

When he finds the rectangular AGRA, Sherlock is surprised, as he expected it to be circular: “expected a pearl”, ie a British identification tag.

It means that the black pearl of the Borgias could be code for a British ID disk. 

On the plane, despite her American accent, Mary’s wearing a big disk, meaning a British ID disk and asking her neighbour about “the sun”, code for another ID disk: “Did somebody hide the sun? Did you lose it in the war?”

We can only see one, is the other missing or hidden because they don’t match?

After the landing though, her substitute has the complete set of ID disks

Thoughts:

I don’t know why the A.G.RA tags don’t have a full name on them. Maybe only the capital letters are legible for some reason, maybe in some special units the tags only indicate the initials.

A.G. can be short for Gabriel Ashdown or Garrideb Alex, both non gendered names.

Mary’s AGRA tag couldn’t be destroyed in the fire in His Last Vow, a very high temperature would be required.

Sherlock is working on the impossible case of a person being in two places at the same time. This is an example of how Sherlock makes his deductions by creating a whole story to go through a chain of events, making it complicated to explain his theories before the conclusion of a case.

Series 5  will present a realistic version of these events.

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Behind glass

From the start it feels like we’re watching someone through a one-way mirror.

Who’s locked up? Who’s watching from the other side?

Do you ever look in the mirror and wish to see someone else?

Maintain distance of 3 feet to remain unseen from the other side of a one-way mirror?

Are they really on the same side of the glass?

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why so many churches?

Since TAB there have been many scenes involving a church and a woman.

TAB: Mary finds an army of women holding meetings in the crypt of a desanctified church

TST: John is given E’s phone number near a church

We learn Rosamund Mary’s name in a church and one of AJay’s names in another.

TST: Ella’s office is now in a desanctified church

TLD: Sherlock and Fake Faith spent part of their one night together outside a church

Mary, Ella, Eurus. Are they members of the same sisterhood?

Eurus might be a different kind of sister.

Is this about MI6, also called SIS,  or another kind of secret society (like the Avenging Angels from STUD iirc)? Sherlock has been after a cult since TBB (“Not just a criminal organisation; it’s a cult”). Could be both: a secret society inside SIS?

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The mirrored kneeling archer

The archers from the Chinese Terracotta Army kneel with right leg and squat with left leg. Oddly, the one on the mantelpiece of 221B is reversed, kneeling on his left leg.

Could it be a sign of early extended mind palace?

Kneeling archer from a museum:

The escape room recently posted a picture of their kneeling archer and he is like the real ones, not like the one on the show.

Bonus: John doing the kneeling archer pose in ASIP, kneeling on the same knee as the one on their mantelpiece.

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The ghost in the therapist’s office

There always seems to be a third presence beside the therapist and her patient. It takes the form of a dancer’s bust,

 a hallucination in a mirror (this one is a bit different as it’s not the therapist’s office, but Henry saw something/someone in the mirror),

 a ghost against the wall.

We are meant to believe it represents the person on the patient’s mind. Seeing Mycroft’s notebook in ASIP, the incomplete walls in TST, Eurus’ sessions recorded in TFP, I think there’s actually someone watching and listening on the other side (as in an interrogation room or a proctor station in a medical school), and I think John is aware of it in TLD.

She notices and that might have endangered him.

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Is Dracula about Sherlock?

The wheel turns, nothing is new. 

The names and places were changed, but what happens in Dracula has already happened in Sherlock. 

-Jon and El.

Jonathan is sent to a fortress (the tower?) on business, reads an SOS written upside down by a woman named Elena. She seems to belong to an international organisation (the friends, the circle?) but is unhappy about what she gains from it.

John reads Ella’s writing upside down.

One has to wonder what other businesses there are in Ella’s building (embassy/international organisation/medical research facility?); if her office is a façade; if is she in danger or dangerous and who sent John there.

-The fall.

Jonathan falls from a roof terrace. We are given another solution to the fall: a fishnet under the water, and Johnny is both dead and not dead.

We don’t know if the guy who reappears in the fishnet is the same who fell, seeing as he has no memories of the fall or things from before (such as his fiancée’s face).

The villain on the rooftop is in pain but doesn’t die. What does it tell us about Moriarty?

-hostage situation: St Mary’s convent // the Tbilisi embassy

Saint Mary’s convent, Budapest: St Georges crosses, wolves, a workshop, a cross and chain half hidden in a book. The convent is under attack. Mother Superior is killed, everyone dies but 2. Mina is able to leave, Agatha is kept prisoner, maybe because she offers information (”take me and learn something”).

The safest place is Agatha’s workshop. Only safe for a while, long enough for Agatha to hide something in there, apparently a cross and chain (who she works for), in a book.

The Tbilisi embassy: St Georges crosses, lions, a workshop, a medal and chain half hidden in a bust.

A hostage situation goes awfully wrong, Madam Ambassador is killed, only 2 survivors: one escapes, the other is kept prisoner, after hiding a chain and memory stick (who he is, who he works for) in a workshop.

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Blood Vessel: the Demeter = the Gloria Scott?

Welcome aboard the Demeter. Or is it the Gloria Scott?

BBC Dracula Episode 2 Blood Vessel is based on Judge Trevor’s confession in the Gloria Scott at least as much as the Captain’s log found on the Demeter. 

Quick comparison:

Bram Stoker’s Demeter:

-people on board: “Crew, five hands . . . two mates, cook, and myself (captain)”

-cargo: “ silver sand and boxes of earth”

-fate: reached England with a ghost driver (dead captain with his hands tied to the wheel) and  a mysterious dog

The Gloria Scott:

-people on board: “besides her thirty-eight jail-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders”

-cargo: 100 powder-barrels

-fate: foundered, blown up by the first mate; 10 survivors, 3 known by name

BBC Demeter: 

-people on board: captain, at least two mates (Valentin and an unseen romanian second mate), cook, deckhand, other crew members, 7 passengers

-cargo: salpeter, children’s dolls, sulfur, 50 boxes of soil, charcoal

-fate: foundered, blown up by the Captain; 3 survivors, apparently

The prisoners on the Gloria Scott took over the ship.

Then arose a dispute over what to do with the five loyal crewmen still left alive. Armitage (Trevor) and others would not stand for coldblooded murder. 

They asked to  take a small boat and go.”

Shortly after leaving in their small boat, the Gloria Scott was blown up, probably by the first mate who had found refuge beside an open powder-barrel.

The men in the small boat hurried back to the site and rescued one survivor.

They were later picked up by another ship and changed their names.