So I had a thought about some dialog from The Lying Detective, and IF I am choosing to believe that we are getting a fourth episode, and then a 5th Series eventually…I think I found a clue…

But I am also 100% willing to admit that I might be straining my wrist with this reach…either way…game on until Sunday…

So we get this bit of dialog when John saves Sherlock…

People always give up after three…which we did.  Myself included.  But Sherlock got what he needed out of the fourth recording.  And we all would have accepted that, very few of us would have questioned the validity of the recording for a court case…why?  ‘Cause it’s never been about the cases.

Then later, for no real reason (because we’ve all moved on) we get this exchange…

John comes back into the room and asks Sherlock to repeat himself and Sherlock tells John that it’s was technically entrapment, so the fourth recording might get thrown out as evidence.

But they don’t need the fourth recording because the dam broke and now Culverton can’t stop confessing…

My point being…

• The audience gave up after the third episode because the third episode was shit.
  
• The third episode established that the show doesn’t work without johnlock (as evidenced by the reviews and the fan reaction)
  
• The fourth recording = The fourth episode
  
• The fourth episode will be inadmissible because people will claim it’s not canon, or that it wasn’t needed, and anything they do in the fourth could have been done in three.  
  
• The fourth episode will establish canon johnlock beyond a shadow of a doubt 
  
• The fourth episode will make way for a fifth series where they writers will be free to keep confessing and confessing and confessing the characters love for one another
  

Listen…I will be the first to admit that reach is enormous…but I’ve decided to don the gay tinfoil apparel until Sunday…so that’s my contribution…thoughts?