The once friendless Sherlock has left him so far behind that Moriarty must feel abandoned. Moriarty must have hated Sherlock for making him feel these comfortless terrors. No wonder he wanted to burn the heart out of Sherlock. He has to punish Sherlock for the love in his life, to strike out at the brother whose genius means that Sherlock has never known aloneness, at the friends who know Sherlock for his true self, yet draw closer rather than backing away.
He has to punish Sherlock with an equivalent fall: the most painful possible knowledge that his friends will suffer. Moriarty is disgusted at the ordinariness of defeating Sherlock. Everybody has their pressure point: all it takes is a threat to John and Sherlock surrenders, just as the jury did. But there is a saving moment for Moriarty, too. The tearful thank-you, the smile, the bizarre handshake on the rooftop: those are frightening because they are genuine, a response to the gift that Sherlock gives him.
Sherlock says he is prepared to burn — to have the heart burned out of him. Moriarty, the formerly unfeeling sociopath, fell from innocence by feeling mortal jealousy. Sherlock, the formerly friendless genius, will be feeling a new and nearly unbearable degree of anguish by caring about the pain he will cause John. Moriarty wants company in his fallen state; Sherlock will join him in this new experience of feeling hurt for want of love, like two angels cast out of heaven together.
The apple, the windows, and the graffiti on Baker Street. Remember how Jim kept coming back to how he loves stories? A big theme in the episode is fairy tales, and fairy tales are famous for following the rule of three. That means those stories are full of things that come in threes. Characters have to perform three tasks, or there are three of the same animal or object.
I think Thompson incorporated a little of that into the story we were watching. And into the one Jim was telling. What has Sherlock ever done to Moriarty, on a personal level? So why would he feel vengeful? Moriarty never meant a literal fall from a tall building, simply because Sherlock was the one who chose where they would meet! TGG once again, the pattern is pretty constant The only reason Jim spoke so descriptively of an actual fall was because the writers wanted to confuse US, the audience.
The most curious thing here is why an unarmed Sherlock chose to meet Jim Moriarty in such a dangerous place as a rooftop. Because he wanted to fake his suicide? We never found out what this code meant exactly.
Because Sherlock actually deciphered it. And while he did, he never brought it up again in TRF or in Series 3. I love it when he is so mysterious I mean, of course I hate him, but he is so sexy sometimes. He became secretive when John appeared. And he was still working on it. Are you sure, Sherlock? Clearly, either Sherlock knows the exact meaning of IOU by the end of the episode or suspects it.
Therefore, IOU has no technical significance as a clue for some case or something similar. Or both. Last but not least: I think Steve Thompson once said that the objects on which IOU was written were completely random.
Maybe, but I am not absolutely sure this is the case. Perhaps Moriarty the storyteller here narrates the ultimate story: the Bible.
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