sherlock's text

Watching The Reichenbach Fall for the nth time, where n is a number beyond my ability to count.

Sherlock's request for a "moment of privacy" is - as absolutely everyone on the internet has pointed out - highly uncharacteristic. However, it is characteristically uncharacteristic. That is, it signals that he has a trick up his sleeve, a trick that Moriarty doesn't catch precisely because Moriarty cannot spot how out-of-character Sherlock's request is. During this moment, at the 1-hour, 15-minute mark, there is a close-up of Sherlock looking past the camera. He then looks down briefly before the scene cuts back to Moriarty. In that moment as he looks down, there is the very faint sound of a text being sent. Now either someone on the production crew is in for it, or that's Sherlock's tip-off to Molly and the homeless network. Because that bicyclist-steamrolling-Watson accident is no accident, of course - best to err on the side of extreme caution in knocking a well-trained army doctor with nerves of steel out of commission before allowing him anywhere near Sherlock's body (or "body").

What I want to know: to whom was the text sent, and what did it say? Something simple, presumably, and I suppose in the end the content doesn't matter so much as the sending of the text itself. Still, if it was to Molly, that might give us some insight into how much she's orchestrating the whole thing (if she is). Mainly, I confess, I'm curious as to the details of Molly's part in this, especially since we haven't seen her take nearly so crucial a role in anything so far. The whole episode has shown a new side to her, and I want to see more.

New conference paper topic: Sherlock and the Art of Text Messaging, with a special appendix entitled "Texts and the Woman"

AAR CSS: Day 26

Pantheon:

Seth & Susann looking at the Pantheon (before they saw us coming to meet them):

Looking up through the oculus:

Out through the porch:

Facade of the Hadrianeum in the Piazza di Pietra (now the Chamber of Commerce):

Column of Marcus Aurelius (Antoninus Pius):

Outside Gelateria del Teatro:

Piazza Navona (formerly the Stadium of Domitian):

The Capitoline Museums:

Dinner: Caserecce al tonno | Parmigiana di melanzane, insalatina mista | Gelato

AAR CSS: Day 25

Tivoli

Hadrian's Villa:

Temple of Albanea(?) (not of Vesta, at any rate), Tivoli, 1st c. BC:

Villa d'Este:

Dinner: Pennette porcini e melanzane | Salsicce di maiale con patate arrosto | Torta di zucca

AAR CSS: Day 24

In the morning, we did Trajan's Forum and Markets:

And in the afternoon we got to climb an ancient landfill called Monte Testaccio, as big as any of the seven (plus) natural hills of Rome but composed entirely of broken amphorae (and bits of modern glass bottles, some medieval ruins, and a child's shoe, inter alia):

Dinner: Insalata di riso | Petto di tacchino all'ananas, zucchine al pomodoro | Bignè con crema e panna

AAR CSS: Day 23

Imperial Fora Death March

Forum of Caesar (got in this time):

Forum of Augustus:

Footprint of colossal statue (with hand for scale):

Forum Transitorium (Forum of Nerva):

Palatine Hill:

Apparently there was a party at the Colosseum...

So we went:

Up next: Trajan's Forum (just when we thought we'd hit them all...)

Dinner: Spaghetti cacio e pepe | Fettine alla pizzaiola, finocchi gratinati | Pannacotta al cioccolato

AAR CSS: Part 1

If you haven't read the first half of this blog, you might be a little confused. See romanachilles.blogspot.com for previous entries.