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"
