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Sherlock- What the hell was this BS?! I mean, I had a feeling this was going to happen eventually, but it still bugs me. I mean, in the books, Watson eventually becomes a widower, so I figured Mary would get killed off, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. She was cool, and bad-ass, and she dies to give the boys manpain and cause a rift between them?
So this ep reveals Mary's past- she was part of a highly skilled spec ops team called AGRA (for the first initial of each of their names). Then one day they were betrayed on a hostage rescue mission. They were sent in, but the hostage takers were tipped off. So the hostages all died, and it seemed that AGRA was killed too. And after that incident, Mycroft stopped the use of "freelancers" to do their dirty work. The problem was, AGRA wasn't all killed. Obviously Mary survived (who's real name is Rosamund, like the baby she and John just had), and so did a couple of the others. They were captured and tortured, and the one who survived, Ajay, heard from his captors that the team had been betrayed by "The English Woman". Who he incorrectly assumed was Mary.
Which seems kinda dumb to me. Like if he was a non-Brit, and "R" was the only British lady he knew, then sure. But they did jobs for the British government! Lady Smallwood, their handler, who they only knew as a voice on the phone was British. But he for some reason focused on Mary even though there could be any number of "British women" it could be.
Anyways, Sherlock gets onto this case quite randomly- he's investigating a random murder Lestrade put him on, which leads to a mystery that he thinks is a challenge from Moriarty (who he knows is dead, but figured he had some contingency plan after death to mess with Sherlock). Someone was destroying specific busts of Margaret Thatcher, which he though was the culprit look for a stolen pearl Interpol was look for and Moriarty was responsible for. But nope, it was Ajay, looking for the flashdrive (like the one Mary tried to give to John to show him the truth of her life a couple of eps ago) he hid in the bust before he got captured.
Apparently, it was info on the other team members. AGRA each had info on the others to guarantee they wouldn't betray each other, because each had the means to destroy the others. Anyways, Sherlock alerts Mary, who knocks him out and then leaves John to go on the run so as to not endanger her husband and kid. Sherlock finds her of course. She's confused because she made random moves to keep ahead of him, and thus even he couldn't deduce what she would do. Hilariously, he tries to claim, "Well, people aren't truly random" and goes on about how one can actually make predictions about people to reduce the array of all possibilities to a few. But then he reveals he just slipped a tracker into the flash drive.
Which, BS! What kinda tracker is this that Mary didn't find it. Of course, this leads Ajay to her, wherein they find out about how AGRA was betrayed by an English woman before a random cop kills him. Ajay also mentioned how the hostage takers kept mentioning "Ammo". But Sherlock deduces it was not "Ammo", but "Amo", and figures out they were referring to Lady Smallwood. So he informs Mycroft. She denies it of course, and with good reason, because she wasn't the betray either.
Meanwhile, we find out John had been having an emotional affair with some rando he met on the bus one time. Which, ah'm skeptical Sherlock or May never figured out. That's impossible! Mary should've easily figured it out, and if Sherlock found out, he wouldn't not say anything. He likes Mary, so I would think he would give John a lecture. Well, I guess he would say something in any case- like if he disliked her, he woulda made some snide comment and ragged John about it. But whatever, somehow John manages to fool the two of them.
Of course, right when he's about to confess to his wife, Sherlock figures out who the real culprit is- Lady Smallwood's secretary, Norbury. He arranges a meet with her, and calls Mary and John and Mycroft and Lestrade and some other cops to it. Since John has to arrange for someone to watch their daughter, Mary goes alone to meet Sherlock, and witnesses Sherlock telling Norbury how he figured it all out. Norbury had been selling secrets. And the British ambassador who found out just happened to be one of the hostages. She couldn't believe her luck- so when Smallwood dispatched AGRA, Norbury tipped off the hostage takers, using a reference to Smallwood's code name. So when people heard about "Amo", they naturally gravitated towards Smallwood instead.
But anyways, Sherlock taunts the lady, much to Mary's chagrin. He says how the secretary prolly felt superior to these supposed spies since she was able to outsmart them. And what Sherlock misses, and Mary sees, is that even though there is no way out, Norbury wasn't just going to go quietly. And so she pops a shot off at Sherlock, but Mary takes the bullet! (Some people say, why didn't she push him out of the way, but there were other people behind Sherlock, so someone else might've gotten shot so her only choice was to step in front of the bullet)
She dies right as Watson arrives. What pisses me off about this is again, not only was she killed to make Sherlock feel bad (he later tells Mrs. Hudson to say "Norbury" whenever he seems to full of himself) but to create drama by making John mad at him. Which I don't get. Like he only got there at the end. He had no idea Sherlock got all cocky. And I doubt Mycroft or Lestrade would be all, "Yeah, Sherlock fucked up and got your wife killed!"
Like he did say, "You made a vow to protect them!" And I would think after the grief subsided, he would realize shit happens, and sometimes things are out of people's hands. But him continuing to be angry doesn't make sense, because like I said, there's no reason to think Sherlock did anything to cause her death. I mean, he can't blame Sherlock for Mary being there, because Mary would want to be there, to find out what happened to her team, it was a life changing event for her. And its not like it was any less safe than normal. Or rather, Mary is a trained superspy, she could handle herself.
As I said, the anger only makes sense if he was privy to what happened. I mean, he did get kinda cocky, it didn't even occur to him that the whole thing might be dangerous, even if they were just facing an old lady. He presumed she wouldn't shoot, because "there was no escape", and that would just be petty. He seems to forget himself, making the same fatal mistake Magnussen did. Magnussen didn't think of the possibility that Sherlock would just say eff it, and kill him because he was too dangerous to live, damn the consequences. And I think here Sherlock didn't conceive that a little old lady would try to kill him out of spite.
So if John was witness to the whole scene, then him cutting off all ties with Sherlock makes sense. Otherwise, it seems unreasonable.
In the end, Sherlock receives a video from beyond the grave from Mary, who gives him a case, "To Save John Watson". Too bad John no longer wants anything to do with him.
Sherlock- What the hell was this BS?! I mean, I had a feeling this was going to happen eventually, but it still bugs me. I mean, in the books, Watson eventually becomes a widower, so I figured Mary would get killed off, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. She was cool, and bad-ass, and she dies to give the boys manpain and cause a rift between them?
So this ep reveals Mary's past- she was part of a highly skilled spec ops team called AGRA (for the first initial of each of their names). Then one day they were betrayed on a hostage rescue mission. They were sent in, but the hostage takers were tipped off. So the hostages all died, and it seemed that AGRA was killed too. And after that incident, Mycroft stopped the use of "freelancers" to do their dirty work. The problem was, AGRA wasn't all killed. Obviously Mary survived (who's real name is Rosamund, like the baby she and John just had), and so did a couple of the others. They were captured and tortured, and the one who survived, Ajay, heard from his captors that the team had been betrayed by "The English Woman". Who he incorrectly assumed was Mary.
Which seems kinda dumb to me. Like if he was a non-Brit, and "R" was the only British lady he knew, then sure. But they did jobs for the British government! Lady Smallwood, their handler, who they only knew as a voice on the phone was British. But he for some reason focused on Mary even though there could be any number of "British women" it could be.
Anyways, Sherlock gets onto this case quite randomly- he's investigating a random murder Lestrade put him on, which leads to a mystery that he thinks is a challenge from Moriarty (who he knows is dead, but figured he had some contingency plan after death to mess with Sherlock). Someone was destroying specific busts of Margaret Thatcher, which he though was the culprit look for a stolen pearl Interpol was look for and Moriarty was responsible for. But nope, it was Ajay, looking for the flashdrive (like the one Mary tried to give to John to show him the truth of her life a couple of eps ago) he hid in the bust before he got captured.
Apparently, it was info on the other team members. AGRA each had info on the others to guarantee they wouldn't betray each other, because each had the means to destroy the others. Anyways, Sherlock alerts Mary, who knocks him out and then leaves John to go on the run so as to not endanger her husband and kid. Sherlock finds her of course. She's confused because she made random moves to keep ahead of him, and thus even he couldn't deduce what she would do. Hilariously, he tries to claim, "Well, people aren't truly random" and goes on about how one can actually make predictions about people to reduce the array of all possibilities to a few. But then he reveals he just slipped a tracker into the flash drive.
Which, BS! What kinda tracker is this that Mary didn't find it. Of course, this leads Ajay to her, wherein they find out about how AGRA was betrayed by an English woman before a random cop kills him. Ajay also mentioned how the hostage takers kept mentioning "Ammo". But Sherlock deduces it was not "Ammo", but "Amo", and figures out they were referring to Lady Smallwood. So he informs Mycroft. She denies it of course, and with good reason, because she wasn't the betray either.
Meanwhile, we find out John had been having an emotional affair with some rando he met on the bus one time. Which, ah'm skeptical Sherlock or May never figured out. That's impossible! Mary should've easily figured it out, and if Sherlock found out, he wouldn't not say anything. He likes Mary, so I would think he would give John a lecture. Well, I guess he would say something in any case- like if he disliked her, he woulda made some snide comment and ragged John about it. But whatever, somehow John manages to fool the two of them.
Of course, right when he's about to confess to his wife, Sherlock figures out who the real culprit is- Lady Smallwood's secretary, Norbury. He arranges a meet with her, and calls Mary and John and Mycroft and Lestrade and some other cops to it. Since John has to arrange for someone to watch their daughter, Mary goes alone to meet Sherlock, and witnesses Sherlock telling Norbury how he figured it all out. Norbury had been selling secrets. And the British ambassador who found out just happened to be one of the hostages. She couldn't believe her luck- so when Smallwood dispatched AGRA, Norbury tipped off the hostage takers, using a reference to Smallwood's code name. So when people heard about "Amo", they naturally gravitated towards Smallwood instead.
But anyways, Sherlock taunts the lady, much to Mary's chagrin. He says how the secretary prolly felt superior to these supposed spies since she was able to outsmart them. And what Sherlock misses, and Mary sees, is that even though there is no way out, Norbury wasn't just going to go quietly. And so she pops a shot off at Sherlock, but Mary takes the bullet! (Some people say, why didn't she push him out of the way, but there were other people behind Sherlock, so someone else might've gotten shot so her only choice was to step in front of the bullet)
She dies right as Watson arrives. What pisses me off about this is again, not only was she killed to make Sherlock feel bad (he later tells Mrs. Hudson to say "Norbury" whenever he seems to full of himself) but to create drama by making John mad at him. Which I don't get. Like he only got there at the end. He had no idea Sherlock got all cocky. And I doubt Mycroft or Lestrade would be all, "Yeah, Sherlock fucked up and got your wife killed!"
Like he did say, "You made a vow to protect them!" And I would think after the grief subsided, he would realize shit happens, and sometimes things are out of people's hands. But him continuing to be angry doesn't make sense, because like I said, there's no reason to think Sherlock did anything to cause her death. I mean, he can't blame Sherlock for Mary being there, because Mary would want to be there, to find out what happened to her team, it was a life changing event for her. And its not like it was any less safe than normal. Or rather, Mary is a trained superspy, she could handle herself.
As I said, the anger only makes sense if he was privy to what happened. I mean, he did get kinda cocky, it didn't even occur to him that the whole thing might be dangerous, even if they were just facing an old lady. He presumed she wouldn't shoot, because "there was no escape", and that would just be petty. He seems to forget himself, making the same fatal mistake Magnussen did. Magnussen didn't think of the possibility that Sherlock would just say eff it, and kill him because he was too dangerous to live, damn the consequences. And I think here Sherlock didn't conceive that a little old lady would try to kill him out of spite.
So if John was witness to the whole scene, then him cutting off all ties with Sherlock makes sense. Otherwise, it seems unreasonable.
In the end, Sherlock receives a video from beyond the grave from Mary, who gives him a case, "To Save John Watson". Too bad John no longer wants anything to do with him.
