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Oh, I agree completely. Someone picks up the bust, the AGRA memory stick is immediately out of the bust. It is quite stupid, right?

Problem is, how else could Ajay put the memory stick in the bust? A memory stick like that is enormous and have you seen how small the hole was in the Six Napoleons? It was enough for a pearl but a memory stick? No.

I usually tend to forgive such gaffes because I don’t see how else anyone could hide a memory stick in such a hurry. I close my eyes and think *suuuuure*.

But let’s forget our suspension of disbelief for a second.

What happened on screen cannot be real. There is absolutely no reason someone would see a memory stick and think ‘oh what a MARVELOUS IDEA! Let’s hide it in the bust anyway! I LOVE treasure hunting!’

So either you take a Doylist approach and say ‘plot convenience! let’s not overthink this’ or you choose the watsonian approach and ‘well… this scene is fake, right? It cannot be real’ and we’re back in EMP.

Anyway, let’s go back to yesterday’s heart vs head conundrum and see where we’re going with this. Irene hid her phone in a safe whose code was her measurements. Her heart was hidden in her body/her chest whose security was quite deadly. So far, so good.

The memory stick/lesser version of the brain was hidden in the bust of a really hated women (in the show) and the defense of said bust was ridiculous.

By showing herself naked to Sherlock, without any disguise, she revealed the safe’s code. The safe is her true self, without any pretense, any disguise.

Similarily, the bust shows Mary’s real self. Past the perfume, the disguise she puts, we finally see her true self.

Speaking of Thatcher. Margaret, like Greta has quite an interesting etymology: it comes from Greek μαργαριτης (margarites) meaning “pearl”. The only real pearl was Thatcher all along -and 

Greta Bengtsdotte the most dangerous spy in the world, in other word, Mary- so Mary=Greta=Margaret=Thatcher.

YES!! Again, it TOTALLY works on the metaphorical level! And bonus, it reinforces the connection between “mary” and thatcher, ie, in case anyone hadn’t already picked up on those qualities (homophobia, heteronormativity).

and on a mirroring level, Sherlock/Ajay hides his brain-self in his sociopath facade/”mary”, but then he smashes the facade/bust to reintegrate. That’s not a simple process, hence the “chase to morocco” etc. I think Sherlock is still trying to figure out whether John wants the “real” Sherlock or the facade, and that kind of hiding oneself is a difficult habit to break.

Thank you for the wonderful additions @impossibleleaf @sarahthecoat  Tracing a deeper level is indeed much more interesting and plausible than the surface reading – especially regarding that flashdrive business. And let’s not forget this isn’t the first time the contents of a flashdrive loses its meaning from one moment to the next. Just the same happens with the oh so important ‘Bruce Partington Plans’ in TGG. Jim throws them into the pool …. done and forgotten. :)))  Flashdrive and brain is an excellent comparison I think. The AGRA flashdrive is hidden inside a ‘head’ after all …. the head of Thatcher=brit.Government=Mycroft=BRAIN  …. and according to Mycroft in TAB (therefore Sherlock himself) Mary secretly works for Mycroft … for the BRAIN …. the facade has been created by the BRAIN (on a metaphorical level).

And what an interesting coincidence that the meaning of Margaret is … ‘pearl’. :))))

And don’t forget their pearl earrings 😉