notthatindie replied to your post: xpapergalaxiesx replied to your post: Okay, so:…
What I really don’t understand is, how did he fool the sniper? Sherlock may have gotten John to look away, but the sniper would have been watching him the whole time. Surely he wouldn’t have positioned himself in a spot where his view was blocked.Wasn’t there a shorter building? If the sniper was keeping an eye on John, he probably didn’t notice what Sherlock was doing. Besides, I don’t think he suspected anything. I mean, Moriarty maybe, but the sniper? (And anyway, I don’t think he cared - he was just following orders. And Moriarty had just shot himself.)
There was a shorter building, but being a professional sniper, I would have assumed he would have chosen a spot where he could see both men at the same time. I watched it back, but you can’t tell at all what building the sniper is in or what he can see. I just assume Moriarty would have instructed the sniper that Sherlock would try to cheat death any way he could and to make sure he was dead before letting John go. But you make a good point—if he saw Moriarty kill himself, he may have just packed it up regardless. Why put your ass on the line to kill somebody when the man who hired you to do it is dead? Then again, if I were that sniper, and I knew Moriarty at all, I would have just assumed that his death was also likely to be an elaborate trick, that this whole thing was over my head, and I’d better do what I was paid to do to the best of my ability or risk some kind of Voldemort-style back-from-the-dead retribution (“I WILL SKIN YOU!!”) from Moriarty in the future.
