#The lying detective

[thekettlesoverthere]

"Phone her, text her, do something, while there’s still a chance. Because the chance doesn’t last forever. Trust me, Sherlock, it goes before you know it. BEFORE. YOU. KNOW. IT"

And then Sherlock looks like that

Looking at John helplessly, eyes intermittently twitching towards him.

Look, I know John is talking about Mary here, and I also know our dear detective's aware of that.

HOWEVER !

The way Sherlock just. Looks devastated. means he understood perfectly what John said.

More than that, he feels it.

But at the end of the conversation, Sherlock doesn't go "ah, yes,you're right, let me phone her, let me go to Irene Adler."

No, he goes to comfort John. To stay with him. He embraces him.

And when John admits the "cheating" part, Sherlock immediately connects this to "even I text her sometimes. The Woman"

Sherlock associates texting Irene Adler with cheating on someone. I'm pretty sure that's why he never does it.

On who, I wonder ?

[ponkydraws]

Yes yes Johnlock is super super obvious but can we talk about that one scene where Sherlock calls John “clever boy”? That was so uncalled for. “Oh, clever boy, I’ve missed you fumbling around the place.” I beg your pardon???

Excuse the awful video quality, finding Sherlock scenes online is not easy

[sherlockbbcgifs]

Sherlock, 4.02 The Lying Detective

[snakesong]

People: Sherlock is a cold, calculating machine

Sherlock: picks a fight with a serial killer and takes near-fatal amounts of drugs because Mary told him that's the only way he can save John

[johnwatsonistrans]

i’m still mad about Dr. John Hamish Watson answering the question “what type of bones?” with “i don’t know? small?” he’s a doctor. he would recognize human bones!

[loremori]

Martin Freeman (311/366)

📺|Sherlock (2010–2017) Writer & Creator Mark Gatiss |Steven Moffat

Modernized version of the Conan Doyle characters.

[bluebellinbakerstreet]

99/100 Sherlock in black and white

[whothehellisrosee]

Wait,

HOW has it already been 7 years since season 4?

HOW?

[buckingham-ashtray]

You talk to the dead. You make your confession to them.

—— SHERLOCK, The Lying Detective

All screencaps taken from here.

[inexpressiblybeautiful]

Do you ever think about how season 4 of BBC Sherlock came out 8 years ago or are you normal?

[221bnassau]

This episode is a mess but I will never forget watching this in 2017. I was so gagged, she is so iconic.

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

@giftober2023 | Day 28: Change.

Sorry! I still love him.

[justapotato89]

"My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What may we deduce about his heart?" (A Scandal in Belgravia, S2E1) ask Mrs. Hudson. Oh he's not about thinking, not Sherlock. No, no, no. He's more emotional, isn't he? (The Lying Detective S4E2)

Mycroft you were supposed to the cleverer one. buddy you still miss facts in front of your face.

[aworldofgoldfish]

The Lying Detective

[sherlockbbcgifs]

Martin Freeman as John Watson     ⇥   Sherlock 4.02 - The Lying Detective

[a-victorian-girl]

Because you asked me to, @helloliriels ! 🥰

This is an AU frame, let's say... where there were no punches from John, no open wounds, no blood on that beautiful face*

After/Before.

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*Frame taken from TLD, after John kicked his ass.