See Eurus - what a chameleon! She pulled off so many convincing disguises in the first two episodes of Season 4 - John’s therapist, “E” at the bus stop, fake Faith Smith … 

Could Eurus be masquerading as Mrs. Hudson in The Final Problem? 

^ It’s certainly not Una as Mrs. Hudson (x) - or at least this “Mrs. Hudson” certainly doesn’t seem to be on the side of the angels … the jawline and the set of the (broad yet slender) shoulders seem a possible match to Sian. 

What does Mrs. Hudson do? Loosely speaking, and with all due respect to #not your housekeeper, she makes tea and foreshadows all things Johnlock.

From TSoT:

Mrs. Hudson:  I’m bringing you your morning tea. You’re not usually awake.

Sherlock: You bring me tea in the morning?

Mrs. Hudson: Well, where do you think it came from?!

Sherlock: I don’t know. I just thought it sort of happened.

Well then. Mrs. Hudson is practically part of 221b. Invisible. Combine that with the Unaired Pilot:

Sherlock: There are people we trust, always, when we’re alone, when we’re lost, when we’re drunk. We never see their faces, but every day we disappear into their cars and let the trap close around us.
…

Sherlock: I give you the perfect murder weapon of the modern age, the invisible car.

[Wild speculation] If Sherlock is asleep / incapacitated / high / hallucinating / sick, we may as well thicken the plot, and have Eurus / not-your-Mrs.Hudson creep into 221b and poison Sherlock’s morning tea. [/w s]

More from The Unaired Pilot:

Jeff Hope (killer cabbie):  I thought, well, why not? People like to die at home …  Now, now. The drug’s still in your system …  But don’t worry. I’m only gonna kill you … The whole house is empty. Even your landlady’s away, so there’s no point in raising your voice. We’re all locked in, nice and snug.

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The Scarlet Claw (1944) is considered one of the best of the Rathbone Holmes adaptations. An original story, it is a variation on the Hound of Baskervilles, including “a cold killer ingratiating himself with everyone in the vicinity.” (x)

The story takes place in the village of La Mort Rouge, “twelve miles from Quebec up towards the falls”. Note: These falls are not Niagara Falls, which was peripherally featured in S4 setlock (x), and also nowhere near Rouge, Canada (x).

But since we have Rouge in The Lying Detective (S4E02), let’s revisit the movie again. 

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The Six Thatchers (S04E01) never went into what happened to Gabriel. 

The other 3 of the team are accounted for - Alex (reported dead by Ajay), Ajay (shot dead by the authorities in Morocco), and Rosamund (now Mary Morstan), currently assumed dead.   

The Lying Detective (S04E02) did not pick up the A.G.R.A. storyline. 

Mary was surprisingly quite devastated when Ajay was shot and killed - she wanted Ajay alive, even if both of them were content to threaten each other with guns. 

Mary: “Because we were family”. 

What if she meant it literally? What if Mary had a first husband … Gabriel? A nice twist to The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - “Gabrielle Valladon” vs Gabriel. Bonus points if Ajay was Gabriel’s brother. It would be (actual) “family”, then. 

In ACD’s The Noble Bachelor (x) / The Eligible Bachelor in Granada Holmes, an American bride (Hatty) abandons her prospective husband (Lord Robert) at the altar when she glimpses the face of her first husband (Frank), previously presumed dead. 

Hatty had given Frank up for dead, met Lord Robert, and decided to marry him, even though her heart still belonged to Frank. Frank had only been taken prisoner by the Apache raiders, and he escaped and tracked Hatty to London. He arrived at the church in time for the ceremony and she recognized him instantly. Rather than have her make a scene at the church, he gestured her to be silent, and wrote a note which he slipped to her as he returned her bouquet.

I wonder if the John and Mary dinner scene at Mint & Mustard (S4E1 setlock) will play into this. Perhaps Mary will tell John that she intends to leave him in the scene. 

Yes, I do realize that Mary appears to maybe really be dead now, but we won’t find out the full story and/or the probable truth till TFP. So, I’m indulging in a bit of canon deduction with a heavy dose of headcanon. Forgive me.

 Also, the secret note …. that reminds me of the mystery note “from John” (apparently) that Sherlock was given at the end of TST. 

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