What we already know:
Moriarty and Sherlock go off the cliff:
Though Sherlock was not aware that Irene Adler and Jaime Moriarty shared the same DNA and wardrobe, both were equally responsible for pushing and pulling Sherlock over the cliff prior to his meeting with Watson. In London, after Irene Adler was murdered, Moriarty watched as Sherlock drove himself from his homeland across the ocean to rock bottom drug addict in New York City. He hit the bottom of the cliff and hit it hard.
Following this event, Sherlock worked in season 1 to dismantle Moriarty’s network until ultimately meeting her face to face in the finale. Another fall, imitating the one that kicked off the detective’s recovery, lands Sherlock in the hospital where he comes back from faking a drug overdose and captures Moriarty. But the game is, as we saw this season, still afoot.
The shadow of the famed detective:
As much as “For All You Know” gave viewers and Watson this season, one foggy illusion remains, we do not know the Sherlock that existed at the height of his drug addiction. We can pull at the frays that remain from his past, but all we will see is the shadow that follows the Sherlock Holmes Joan and Elementary viewers have grown to know.
A grand return, or two:
Sherlock took his eight month leave at the close of season 2, giving the story “The Empty House” some significance in the season 3 opener. As Sherlock returns to jest with Lestrade in the Doyle story, Holmes makes a point of solving Bell’s case from his desk drawer making sure it is noted that his presence has indeed returned. Joan Watson has some difficulty accepting Sherlock’s apology for leaving without so much as a goodbye in person. But he returns to find her in a similar place that the Holmes of Doyle’s universe finds Watson — working in a private practice.
If this return did not feel as deserved as it is, there is another that we were privy to, roughly 60 episodes ago. The series premiere was the detective’s grand return from the confines rehab, his place of hiding following the fall. Just like in canon, the detective arrives noting the former doctor’s presence and jumps immediately into his work. Unlike the shadowy man of the past, Sherlock has new relationships to forge in both instances with Watson.
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