there are at least 3 bottles in process and mary isn’t drinking because she’s pregnant, so yeah. happy john.
Taken together with MHR, he possibly never stopped drinking…
Wonder how much that makes him loathe himself just that bit more. I suppose the first time he realises he smells like Harry, some of those bottles are gonna be smashed against a wall.
yes! had the same thoughts… remember the beginning of TLD, him standing against the wall with the glass… i still think s4 was not legit lol but they definitely wanted to make it look like john was walking harry’s path
@faithchan that’s okay to be skeptical, i just follow the hints they implied before. harry’s history and what ^Chris said about MHR.
i don’t know about months, but those didn’t stay there for years indeed. there’s only one bottle that looks alike (the one with the black end). but it is more empty in mhr than in hlv, so those are not the same
I do think it’s quite likely John might have been self-medicating with these the whole time. He was a mess throughout s3 too, and we never saw a thing, only saw him beat up a junkie because he needed it. With endless days home at night, domesticity, and a baby arriving? John probably didn’t even notice the bottles becoming emptier and emptier. Maybe he thought he was being responsible, too: “See, I can do this–settle somewhere. I get up, go to work, come back home again to stay with my family. I can do this.”
He could, too–with alcohol by the side.
Not saying this is canon, obviously. Just that it is very likely and I can absolutely see this.
Because I don’t believe for a second Mary’s death was so disastrous for him that this alone drove him to drink. He’d been a mess since Sherlock was gone, all throughout series three (and let’s not forget the fact that he almost lost Sherlock there again, too).
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