Four episodes, three false narratives, two potential outcomes, no loose ends.

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ACD Watson was known for regularly publishing cases in The Strand with

1. The names changed,

MYCROFT: That’s the trouble with uniforms and name badges, people stop looking at faces.

2. The locations changed,

MARY: No, I-I-I mean how did you find me? No, really, though, how? Every movement I made was entirely random!

3. Basic facts of the case entirely rewritten to avoid self-incrimination.

SHERLOCK: That’s now how it happened at all.

These three episodes are a set. They’re all retellings of the same events, pieced together from the limited information that John is willing to divulge, supplemented by imagination and colored by the author’s own feelings and motivations. Fresh paint to disguise another smell. Throughout all three episodes, we see wildly diverging narratives inspired by the same core kernels of truth. The fourth episode, the final ending of Clue, will tell us what really happened.

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