Five Minutes!

marathecactupus:

marathecactupus:

bluebluenova:

This lovely blog post (Watch the eyes…) by
@hubblegleeflower rolled across my dash today and I had to chime in on the five
minutes!

I too believe that this scene is incredibly important for Sherlock and
John (and us too) because we hear about the “five minutes” one other time that I can think
of in Season 4, back during The Six Thatchers.

When Sherlock is entering the aquarium for his meeting with “Vivian.”

A voice comes over the loudspeaker: (transcript courtesy of
Ariane Devere)

NIGHT TIME. COUNTY HALL, SOUTH BANK. Inside the Sea Life
London Aquarium housed inside County Hall, Sherlock makes his way along the
blue-lit corridors and through the glass tunnels under the water.

TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT: Ladies and gentlemen, the Aquarium will
be closing in five minutes. Please make your way to the exit. Thank you.

 SO:

What REALLY occurs in the aquarium takes just five
minutes.

What Mary does to Sherlock and John in the aquarium takes
just five minutes.

Those five minutes serve to knock the entirety of Season 4 out of whack.

Important, indeed.

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So I headed over to Ariane DeVere’s transcript of TLD and searched for “five,” and HOLY shit…

It took five minutes to kill Mary and wrench John and Sherlock apart. Five minutes to erase our memories. Five minutes to reprogram us and launch us into TFP hell.

@bluebluenova @jenna221b @teapotsubtext​

Sooo… I decided to quickly do a search through the entire show, and I found a couple of interesting things.

Most notably:

• Sherlock and John met Moriarty for five
  minutes at the pool in TGG
• It took five minutes for the TEH train car
  to “disappear”
• David always responds to Mary’s tweets within five minutes
• Bainbridge *died* five minutes after coming off duty
• John didn’t find Sherlock until five minutes after Mary shot him
• TAB takes five minutes in real time

There’s also some interesting mentions of “five years;” Lestrade has known Sherlock for five years as of ASIP, and Mary has had her present identity for the past five years as of HLV.

(more detail under the cut)

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