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I dislike getting rid of characters by killing them off. Death should be used sparingly as a plot device.

 
Well, Moftiss do seem to be using it sparingly -- in the sense that it doesn't last very long.
 
Do we really know that anyone has actually died yet?

 

 

I think Jeff the cabbie is definitely dead. And... um... who else? Oh yes, the old lady Moriarty blew up in The Great Game.

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Assorted Asians and their allies from Banker. And Dr. Frankland, I suppose.

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You're both right, there have been a few bodies:

 

"Study in PInk" -- Jeff the cabbie and his first four victims (as Dave Barry would say, that would be a good name for a rock band).

 

"Blind Banker" -- Eddie Van Coon and what's-his-name Lukis, Soo Lin Yao, and several Black Lotus members.  (And Sir William Shad apparently died of natural causes a while back.)

 

"Great Game" --   The old blind lady, a few dozen other people killed in the explosions (her building and Baker Street), Carl Powers, Connie Prince, the gallery attendant.  Oh, and presumably the wife-murderer (and his wife, of course).

 

"Scandal in Belgravia" -- Hmmm?

 

"Hounds of Baskerville" -- Henry's father, Bob Frankland, the hound(s).

 

"Reichenbach Fall" -- Moriarty.  Or not.

 

Who else?

 

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The folks in the airplane in Scandal :lol:. Plus one CIA goon during the showdown at Irene's, iirc.

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The folks in the airplane in Scandal :lol:. Plus one CIA goon during the showdown at Irene's, iirc.

 

Right, the CIA goon.  Added:  And Andrew West in "Great Game."

 

But are we counting people who were already dead from natural causes?  That would include the corpses in both airplanes (Bond Air and the similar German flight) and Sir William Shad.  Maybe some others.

 

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In His Last Vow, Sir Littlewood by suicide, and CAM by execution. And maybe the security guard that Mary knocked out on her way to CAM's bedroom. John asks Sherlock if he's alive and the answer was: "He's an excon and a white supremest by the tattoos, who cares." Do we count Redbeard?

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Of course we're counting Redbeard -- he was apparently a murder victim, not a natural-causes death.

 

Lord Smallwood was technically a suicide, but I think we can count him as one of Magnussen's victims.

 

And yes, Magnussen himself, the slime, assuming we're counting deaths by (as you put it) execution.  Oh, and Frank Hudson.

 

As far as we know, the security guard was merely knocked out, like Janine.  (By the way, he may be a reformed white supremacist -- tattoos are awfully hard to remove.)

 

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It all does mount up, doesn't it? Oh! The guys who where trying to keep Sherlock alive during "The Reichenbach Fall" and got shot, bad luck in shaking Sherlock's hand. And John's shooter that Mycroft's people had to take out.

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We don't really know exactly what happened to that last fellow.  Mycroft said he was "persuaded to reconsider" -- which could mean anything from paid off to killed off.

 

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Just checked the transcript (which is usually pretty accurate) and I was a little off, but same (ambiguous) meaning, I think:

 

ANDERSON: And what about the sniper aiming at John?
SHERLOCK: Mycroft’s men intervened before he could take the shot. He was invited to reconsider.

 

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Here's the total to date (with deaths that are basically unrelated to the story in parentheses):

 

"Study in PInk" -- Jeff the cabbie and his first four victims.  Frank Hudson
 
"Blind Banker" -- Eddie Van Coon, Brian Lukis, Soo Lin Yao, and several Black Lotus members.  (Sir William Shad)
 
"Great Game" --   Carl Powers, Andrew West, the old blind lady, a few dozen other people killed in the explosions in her building and on Baker Street, Connie Prince, the gallery attendant.  The wife-murderer in Belarus, and his wife.
 
"Scandal in Belgravia" --  The CIA goon killed by Irene's booby-trapped safe.  (The bodies on the Bond Air flight and the similar German flight.)
 
"Hounds of Baskerville" -- Henry's father, Bob Frankland, one or two hounds.
 
"Reichenbach Fall" -- Suleimani and the other one.  Moriarty -- or not.

 

"Empty Hearse" -- ???

 

"Sign of Three" --  (Sholto's "crows")

 

"Last Vow" -- Redbeard, Lord Smallwood, and Magnussen.

 

 

Any more?

 

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