lawrebea000

Oh so Lastrade and Mrs. Hudson were safe because their snipers thought Sherlock had died (they were far away from the scene). But John's sniper was near, and therefore could see Sherlock faking it, thus Anderson's question : What about John's sniper? Mycroft invited him to "reconsider". Thank you for clearing that up.

In The Empty Hearse, when Anderson asks, "but what about the snipers?" He responds with "Mycroft's men intervened before he could take the shot". This implies that the Sniper was going to shoot whether Sherlock died or not. That conflicts with the situation we originally had in the Reichenback fall ("you die, snipers are called off"). Can someone explain or at least try to make sense of this?

So, we originally thought that Sherlock had to fake his own death because otherwise Moriarty's snipers would kill John and all of Sherlock's friends, correct? If you could give a short explanation how the whole "i'll kill your friends" sceneario, that would be awesome.