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Yes, he's certainly referencing Mr. Spock - everyone's favorite Vulcan science officer. In the Star Trek TV show (and on film) Spock constantly struggled with his emotions due to his mixed blood, and sometimes had a hard time suppressing them. Watson is likening Sherlock's own 'emotional struggle' (albeit brief) to this classic character.

If Sherlock shot Moriarty, then the snipers would kill him and Watson, end of story. If he shoots the bomb, there's a chance they all die, but there's also a chance to create enough of a mess to be able to escape. If the bomb exploded, the snipers wouldn't try to shoot, since they'd risk harming Moriarty. So detonating the bomb was the best option. To ...

Vatican cameos! It's pretty hard to find a definitive answer, but it looks like it is code for "Duck!". And it's aimed only at Watson as he's the only one to react at the phrase. Conan Doyle makes a reference about in "The Hound of the Baskervilles". (source) I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my ...

It is a very exclusive part of London, part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is named after Belgrave Square, which today includes many international embassies to the UK. It was used as an alternative UK based location for the original Arthur Conan Doyle story which was A Scandal in Bohemia. Belgravia was probably chosen because of the ...

Firstly, the entire assassin sub-plot was an elaborate ruse to fool Sherlock into thinking he had the key Moriarty used in the break-ins at the start of the episode. So Moriarty set the whole thing up just to make Sherlock believe there was a reason he was being protected. (That the key itself didn't exist is covered in another question) What Moriarty ...

An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution. Spock in the Star Trek VI The Voyage Home written among others by no other than Nicholas Meyer, who wrote The Seven Per-Cent Solution, which is regarded by many to be the best Sherlock Holmes novel not written by Doyle ...

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The killer was terminally ill with a brain aneurism and could die at any moment. He was using the 'scheme' to raise money. He was earning money from Moriarty, who was essentially sponsoring the cabbie to murder people in this manner. Moriarty's motive is unclear, perhaps just to cause chaos, but more likely to get his name in front of Sherlock. ...

Yes, he is. Recall that the TV Series is supposed to be modernized. From Wikipedia: "Sherlock is a British television series that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories." Since it is contemporary, it is in a day in age in which Spock is very well known, so the comment makes perfect sense.

+1 for this very good question. I will try to answer this question from the storyline of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Conan Doyle and my first guess would be on the fact that the creators of the show are so faithfully ardent to the original source material written by Doyle. The first reference to Moriarty in the novel comes on one of the 4 long ...

He jumped into the truck which was in front of the pavement and drove off as soon as he pushed a body out wearing his clothes or he landed in the truck and then rolled from the truck to the pavement. Remember how he told Watson exactly where to stand? (to make sure he could only see from the correct angle) Watson was delayed by a bicycle hitting him as he ...

The code was not the mysterious key to any computer system in the world. Moriarty reveals that he used 'traditional' methods of arranging the 3 break-ins, and it was merely the shock value of timing them to occur at the same time, and the fact that he was willing to be caught in the process makes people think that he has something bigger up his sleeve. He ...

The cabbie is indeed shown to be terminally ill and wants to raise money for his family. However, this only explains why he resorts to killing people (=earn money fast). Motives of Moriarty are part of the bigger overall story arc in the Sherlock Holmes universe as Moriarty is the arch-nemesis of Sherlock. The poison pill trick is not random. The cabbie is ...

I have my own suspicions about the jump, and I am inclined to believe most explanations are too inelegant for Sherlock to actually perform (and I really do use elegance as my measure of least-most probable). Thus, any explanation involving body doubles or jumping on a truck or bus, I have a hard time believing. My theory is that Sherlock JUST DID JUMP. He ...

I presumed that it was just Mycroft and John Watson's way of telling whether Sherlock was badly affected by the news of her death. I think in the original A.C.D. stories, Sherlock Holmes does seem to have a tendency to fall into what we would now call depression and even that he has tendencies towards manic-depression. In the original stories he is also a ...

The mobile handed over to mycroft is not the mobile she uses for communication. The mobile given to mycroft is the mobile that was in the vault. That's how she was able to leave that specific mobile for sherlock and text him "mantelpiece" from the mobile she uses for communication. So that is the mobile she has always kept for texting even while sherlock had ...

I can't answer the question about region 2 DVDs, but the similarities between Zero Effect and Sherlock Holmes are not a coincidence. The film review The Zero Effect–Out of the Dung Heap and Into the Rose Garden points out many of the similarities between the two. The Zero Effect ... is based on the great Sherlock Holmes short story A Scandal in Bohemia ...

In the second Star Trek movie, Spock quotes Sherlock Holmes' famous line "Once you've ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbably, must be true." Of course, since the modern-day Sherlock couldn't be quoting himself, Watson identifies the quote as Spock's, and not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's. I really liked this reference, particularly the way ...

My favourite theory is akin to the answer given above, but with the extra that when the cycle courier bumped into Watson he exposed him to the chemical from the previous episode that induces hallucinations of that persons worst fear. It's been a while since I've seen the episode but I do remember that Watson got a clear look at the body on the ground, ...

I can't be certain this is the right answer, but some of episode 2 makes it look like Sherlock's serious addiction is cigarettes not something a little more risque. So cigarettes are the modern stand-in for his need for cocaine. Letting him have one is an admission that he has had to deal with something serious (like the loss of Adler).

Actually, if you paid attention to the episode he reveals his use of the Nicotine patches, he says its next to impossible to keep a smoking habit in London "nowadays" this is likely due to some form of legislation limiting areas where one can smoke or additional taxes on them. While Mycroft most likely extends this due to the loss of Irene Addler as well, it ...

It certainly seems that way, with the "Extreme Deduction" method of detective work. I haven't found any primary source on it, but Roger Ebert is good enough for me. "So one finds his way into Zero Effect in the form of Daryl Zero, an aging hippie Sherlock Holmes with the household habits of a Howard Hughes…"

It's been awhile since I watched the episode, but I believe the simple answer comes down to the viewer not seeing the two bottles of pills side by side. The way the cabbie played the 'game', he presented two bottles of pills to each victim, with the idea that he'd take a pill from the other bottle (this was how he was playing the game with Sherlock). So ...

Besides @Oliver_C's comment, of Holmes wearing black in every episode, this episode is most about subverting perceptions. The writers and Moriarty want to emphasize this Western idea of "white good/black evil", remember; Moriarty is claiming innocence throughout this episode, how better to do that than be dressed all in white? When we first see Jim, he is ...

I don't think anyone can answer this question for sure until the next episode comes out but my observations. Sherlock asked Molly for help but the audience didn't find out what for. Moriarty actually told Sherlock he was going to fall! Sherlock chose the location, not Moriarty Could the cyclist who hit John be part of the homeless network?

The bicyclist is Holmes. He calls Watson from his cell so he could be anywhere. Man on ledge is not Holmes he wears the costume Moriarity used to scare the children and that is what he has returned to Moriarity not the key code. Homeless (Holmesless) Network and Molly play the parts in the leap of death magic act.