I really like "Mary kills Milverton while Sherlock and John are trying to retrieve blackmail material on someone else and that they then have to help her escape, possibly taking the blame themselves" but I don't think that would be 'allowed' of a pregnant woman and I don't even think Saint Mary as handed to us in ep 2 will turn out to be that 'dubious' / interesting in her own right! (A bit like IA.)
My feeling was that her father was the crook, as in FOUR, and she's wimpily disowned him, calling herself an orphan? Is her family the Waters gang (that setup must have been for something)? I agree that could make her blackmail material, using her relationship to her father / family so that "every story about Sherlock and John includes the reference "John Watson, husband of the notorious Mary Morstan."
Love the 'real answer will probably be completely different, very ingenious and yet somehow vaguely unsatisfying. But that's BBC Sherlock for you.' Yep, the all-new, singing and dancing - literally - S3 Sherlock.
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Date: 2014-01-12 12:49 pm (UTC)My feeling was that her father was the crook, as in FOUR, and she's wimpily disowned him, calling herself an orphan? Is her family the Waters gang (that setup must have been for something)? I agree that could make her blackmail material, using her relationship to her father / family so that "every story about Sherlock and John includes the reference "John Watson, husband of the notorious Mary Morstan."
Love the 'real answer will probably be completely different, very ingenious and yet somehow vaguely unsatisfying. But that's BBC Sherlock for you.' Yep, the all-new, singing and dancing - literally - S3 Sherlock.
Thanks for this post!