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Quick, man, if you love me!

We’re all familiar with this moment in the Dying Detective, right? In case you’re not, Holmes is “ill” and has sent Watson to fetch Culverton Smith. When Smith is set to arrive, Holmes insists that Watson hide behind the head of his bed and eavesdrop on what Smith has to say:

“I fear there is no alternative, Watson. The room does not lend itself to concealment, which is as well, as it is the less likely to arouse suspicion. But just there, Watson, I fancy that it could be done.” Suddenly he sat up with a rigid intentness upon his haggard face. “There are the wheels, Watson. Quick, man, if you love me! And don’t budge, whatever happens—whatever happens, do you hear? Don’t speak! Don’t move! Just listen with all your ears.”

Quick, man, if you love me is something I know a lot of people have been excited about the possibility of hearing in some way, ever since it was revealed that ep 2 would be an adaptation of this story. And I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about how this could play out in TLD (as one does). Our Sherlock isn’t the type to casually be like, John, if you love me, you should definitely hide in that cupboard over there… So how might it go instead?

Let me start with a bit of other TLD related speculation. My guess is that Sherlock is actually ill, not pretending, and that he knowingly allowed this, letting Smith poison him or do whatever it is that’s causing the illness in order to bring him down. So he has a plan, but that plan involves him actually getting sick, not merely pretending like in ACD canon. 

Running with that idea, in the second trailer we get this bit of Sherlock saying You know why I’m here, and Culverton Smith responding I’d like to hear you say it. (We don’t actually see Sherlock say his line, so I can’t be 100% certain they go together, but let’s run with it anyway.) My impression of this scene is that it’s taking place in Sherlock’s hospital room. Sherlock says that Smith knows why he’s in hospital (because Smith has poisoned him or whatever), but Smith wants to hear Sherlock admit it first. 

However, Smith isn’t asking Sherlock to admit he knows Smith poisoned him–what does Sherlock admitting that really do for anyone? He’s asking Sherlock to admit the real reason he’s there, the real reason he’s done all of this. And what is the reason Sherlock ever does anything stupid and dangerous? He does it for John. In some way, this connects back to him trying to save John from something. Just like with Moriarty. Just like with Magnussen. Yet again, Sherlock is putting his own health and well-being at risk for John’s benefit, and Smith is asking him to just say it already, to just admit that he loves John. We know from elsewhere in the trailer that Smith is interested in the revelation of people’s secrets, and here he wants a fair trade. You admit your secret, and then I’ll admit that I poisoned you. A confession for a confession.

And if Smith is going to confess, we of course need a witness to that, and like in ACD canon it would be easy for Sherlock to ask John to hide somewhere for this conversation. So we get John hiding somewhere in the room. We get him as a witness to Smith pressing Sherlock into confessing his “darkest secret.” And ultimately that means we don’t need a quick, man, if you love me. 

Because instead we get an I did it because I love him. 

Quick, man, if you love me!

We’re all familiar with this moment in the Dying Detective, right? In case you’re not, Holmes is “ill” and has sent Watson to fetch Culverton Smith. When Smith is set to arrive, Holmes insists that Watson hide behind the head of his bed and eavesdrop on what Smith has to say:

“I fear there is no alternative, Watson. The room does not lend itself to concealment, which is as well, as it is the less likely to arouse suspicion. But just there, Watson, I fancy that it could be done.” Suddenly he sat up with a rigid intentness upon his haggard face. “There are the wheels, Watson. Quick, man, if you love me! And don’t budge, whatever happens—whatever happens, do you hear? Don’t speak! Don’t move! Just listen with all your ears.”

Quick, man, if you love me is something I know a lot of people have been excited about the possibility of hearing in some way, ever since it was revealed that ep 2 would be an adaptation of this story. And I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about how this could play out in TLD (as one does). Our Sherlock isn’t the type to casually be like, John, if you love me, you should definitely hide in that cupboard over there… So how might it go instead?

Let me start with a bit of other TLD related speculation. My guess is that Sherlock is actually ill, not pretending, and that he knowingly allowed this, letting Smith poison him or do whatever it is that’s causing the illness in order to bring him down. So he has a plan, but that plan involves him actually getting sick, not merely pretending like in ACD canon. 

Running with that idea, in the second trailer we get this bit of Sherlock saying You know why I’m here, and Culverton Smith responding I’d like to hear you say it. (We don’t actually see Sherlock say his line, so I can’t be 100% certain they go together, but let’s run with it anyway.) My impression of this scene is that it’s taking place in Sherlock’s hospital room. Sherlock says that Smith knows why he’s in hospital (because Smith has poisoned him or whatever), but Smith wants to hear Sherlock admit it first. 

However, Smith isn’t asking Sherlock to admit he knows Smith poisoned him–what does Sherlock admitting that really do for anyone? He’s asking Sherlock to admit the real reason he’s there, the real reason he’s done all of this. And what is the reason Sherlock ever does anything stupid and dangerous? He does it for John. In some way, this connects back to him trying to save John from something. Just like with Moriarty. Just like with Magnussen. Yet again, Sherlock is putting his own health and well-being at risk for John’s benefit, and Smith is asking him to just say it already, to just admit that he loves John. We know from elsewhere in the trailer that Smith is interested in the revelation of people’s secrets, and here he wants a fair trade. You admit your secret, and then I’ll admit that I poisoned you. A confession for a confession.

And if Smith is going to confess, we of course need a witness to that, and like in ACD canon it would be easy for Sherlock to ask John to hide somewhere for this conversation. So we get John hiding somewhere in the room. We get him as a witness to Smith pressing Sherlock into confessing his “darkest secret.” And ultimately that means we don’t need a quick, man, if you love me. 

Because instead we get an I did it because I love him. 

How the hell is it not Sunday yet?!!? It's been at least a month since last Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How the hell is it not Sunday yet?!!? It's been at least a month since last Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, that episode was amazing, but are they seriously trying to tell me that The Six Thatchers was legit? Are we really suppose to accept that as truth? WFT is going on with this show?!?!!?

Okay, that episode was amazing, but are they seriously trying to tell me that The Six Thatchers was legit? Are we really suppose to accept that as truth? WFT is going on with this show?!?!!?

Obvious question, but could Eros be Moriarty? Could she have set up the whole game just for her little/big brother?  Rich Brooke really could have been an actor that got in too deep, and Eros had killed or forced to commit suicide because of something she had on him. Everyone has their pressure point after all. And Mycroft knew? Either willingly or unwillingly working with/for her? After all, he does “get regular updates”. 

Oh, and while we’re on the subject of Eros, how the hell did she know what John said to Mycroft about there being another Holmes brother? Was it not Mary’s “ghost” following them around? Was she using the memory altering drug on them the entire time to stay close and listen in, posing as Mary? I suppose that doesn’t really hold up for when she’s around Culverton Smith, though. So it comes back to the Eros=Moriarty thing again, as “he” put camera’s all over 221B. Cameras which are probably still there, if that’s what CAM meant about the bathroom being “like the rest of the flat”. AH!!! I have too many things going through my head right now!!! I’m incoherent! 

So IF John really does get shot by Eros and we finally get the Garridebs moment we’ve been waiting for, it’s entirely possible that the “I love you” scene really is mind palace! Sherlock could be sitting by John’s hospital bed for all we know, working things out in his head. Maybe John follows Sherlock in the next episode like Mary followed John in this one? Idk. Just spittballing here.

Obvious question, but could Eros be Moriarty? Could she have set up the whole game just for her little/big brother?  Rich Brooke really could have been an actor that got in too deep, and Eros had killed or forced to commit suicide because of something she had on him. Everyone has their pressure point after all. And Mycroft knew? Either willingly or unwillingly working with/for her? After all, he does “get regular updates”. 

Oh, and while we’re on the subject of Eros, how the hell did she know what John said to Mycroft about there being another Holmes brother? Was it not Mary’s “ghost” following them around? Was she using the memory altering drug on them the entire time to stay close and listen in, posing as Mary? I suppose that doesn’t really hold up for when she’s around Culverton Smith, though. So it comes back to the Eros=Moriarty thing again, as “he” put camera’s all over 221B. Cameras which are probably still there, if that’s what CAM meant about the bathroom being “like the rest of the flat”. AH!!! I have too many things going through my head right now!!! I’m incoherent!