Moriarty takes advantage of his youth and deceptive lack of guile to act the gay IT technician or out-of-work children’s TV presenter one minute, then to glower with insanity and threaten to turn people into shoes the next. Scott’s Moriarty is brilliantly menacing, and all the more so because he’s cast against physical type. That’s not a given though, especially if series 3 follows the chronology-shifting example set by this episode. The Reichenbach Fall is by far the most we’ve seen of Moriarty, and judging from that surprise exit, likely to be the last we see of him too. Which leaves us with the third side of the triangle: Andrew Scott as Jim Moriarty. Slipping between cold alien intellect and boyish smirk, delivering that gloriously Old Testament rooftop speech about shaking hands in hell, then bidding a bitterly charged farewell to Watson, this was comfortably Cumberbatch’s show-best performance. Benedict Cumberbatch too, deserves a ton of praise for this week’s rattled, fearful, sad Sherlock.
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