The Final Problem

Reichenbach A to Z is a game/challenge for Sherlock fans. Within a week of its original airdate, we’d nearly wrung The Reichenbach Fall episode dry looking for clues and hints about how Sherlock survived. There are a billion theory fragments out there, but they still need to be put together.

Are you brave enough to try? If so, let’s hear your complete theory of what happened from the beginning to the end of Sherlock’s plan to cheat death.

THE RULES:

1. Make it as complete as you can. Try not to cheat and leave big gaps in the theory. Even if it means filling holes with things like Sherlock sliding down the neck of a feral giraffe.
2. The point isn’t to be right, but rather to just be fearless and go for it. So don’t be wishy-washy. Instead of saying “and then this happened, or maybe this, or possibly that” just choose your favorite alternative and act like it’s the definitive truth.
3. You can write your theory, draw it, use screenshots, act it out with puppets… anything that makes you happy.
4. Tag your theory post with #REICHENBACH A TO Z so the rest of us can find it. (Note that this has to be one of the first five tags on the post if you want it to show up in the tag stream. That’s just how Tumblr works.)

Because sometimes the tagging system goes astray, I’ll also attempt to keep a master list of Reichenbach A to Z theories on this page. If you’d like to have your post added to the list, give me the URL of your post here.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

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Reichenbach A to Z master list

Note: Some of these links no longer work. I’ve left them in the list for archival purposes, but they are marked with a strikethrough (like so).