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Re: SPOILERS FOR 2X03--just a thought

[ilexdarkly.livejournal.com]

I think the suicide plan was a failsafe in case everything else went wrong. Notice how relieved he looked when he thought that he could get out of it by keeping Moriarty alive.

But everything went wrong. His death was a last resort.

Re: SPOILERS FOR 2X03--just a thought

[(Anonymous)]

But if he didn't know he was going to have to fake his death the conversation with Molly where she recognises he's sad because he's going to die/effectively be dead to John becomes much less poignant.

As a scene it's not portrayed as 'you're sad because you think you might die' it's very much 'you are acting like someone who knows they are going to die.'

Re: SPOILERS FOR 2X03--just a thought

[ilexdarkly.livejournal.com]

And yet when he talks to her later, when he goes to her for help in setting up his 'suicide,' he says "I think I'm going to die."

He already knows Moriarty is going to kill him or try to.("Kill you? No, don't be obvious. I mean, I'm going to kill you anyway, someday. I don't want to rush it, though. I'm saving it up for something special.") He doesn't know how or where or when, but by this point, he's sure it's going to be soon. Thus the sadness, because there's a very good chance he's going to die. He's going to die, and he's going to leave John behind.

But the more of Moriarty's plan he discovers, the more he begins to understand the endgame. He starts to think there might be a way out of it. So he sets up a fake suicide plan and arranges the circumstances of his death at Moriarty's hands.

This plan is a last resort. A failsafe. If John and Mrs. Hudson and Lestrade hadn't been threatened, he wouldn't have used it. He saw a way out - keep Moriarty alive - and yes, he was relieved when he thought he wouldn't have to die to stop him.

Moriarty took that choice away.

Sherlock panicked after Moriarty's suicide (there was no reason for that private freakout except genuine panic), because he didn't want to do it. He didn't want to die, real or fake. It was supposed to be a last resort and now it's one he has to use.

He has to "die" after all.

(Which is a very roundabout way of saying: no, it doesn't make that conversation less poignant at all.)