John Watson

[J.P.]

I do.

[Shadow Dweller]

Means Mycroft believe that Sherlock believe in a romantic notion such as justice. The pirate connection perhaps?

[Arcadia]

I think Mycroft actually does see Sherlock as a dragon slayer as much as Sherlock himself does.

[Shadow Dweller]

*grins* Me thinks Sherlock have quite a boyish streak of wanting to be a hero.

[Inge l-w]

To take this back to Dr Watson, I hope you have all noticed that the dear doctor swans about in Locum work and clinics without ever getting an appraisal (due annually) or a revalidation (every five years: he should have had one by now) or even his knuckles rapped for his violent behaviour, both against Sherlock (a very public scuffle in a posh restaurant) and against the Commissioner in TRF. By now the GMC must be ready to revoke his license to practice!

And if they ever find out about the impersonation of Mary Dear as a nurse-ex-assassin, then goodbye to all that!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Wouldn't surprise me if Mycroft did something to help sweep some of that under the rug so that our Dear Doctor could keep his job.  We'll have to wait and see on Mary still having one with the baby and all.

[Arcadia]

Actually, we don't "know" that John hasn't had to undergo any of that. They don't show us every minute of his life, after all. There's whole months, years even, that we never witness what's happening in any of their lives.

 

We don't know that Mary is impersonating, either. It's entirely possible that her training to be a nurse (if she has any) is completely legitimate.

[Inge l-w]

Her qualification as a nurse may be legitimate, her past employment "record" would bar her from working as a nuse under NHS rules, which include police records and past offenses as requirements. As Mary Morstan, which Sherlock unveiled as fictitious in HLV, she would be able to work. Once her cover is blown, that is no longer possible, and Dr Watson's knowing about her past, (the problems of your past... speech) would automatically debar him from holding any position as a doctor due to the DBS declaration he has to complete annually, as he would become an accessory after the fact to all her past misdeeds, whether for her country or as a freelancer.

[Arcadia]

But her cover isn't blown; because Sherlock shot CAM.

 

Well, it isn't blown yet.

 

And I suppose one could argue that it is John's duty as her husband is to help keep her safe by protecting her secret. Even if it means he has to lie himself.
 

 

Y'know, this is why I subscribe to the "impressionist writing" theory ... this show's so much easier to enjoy if you don't insist that it make sense.... :p

 

 

 

 

 

 

[J.P.]

I'm INTP/J! It has to have sense!

As for John keeping Mary - people have done more stupid things because of... ahem... sentiment. Which makes me wonder if our Doctor will face his consequences in S4

[Arcadia]

I'm INTP/J! It has to have sense!

 

I know Iknow Iknow! But I'm trying to, er, broaden my P-erspective. (There, that works, right?) :P

 

[Caya]

I'm not sure if John would have to turn Mary in (legally, not morally speaking) - a quick googling netted me spousal privilege, but that's for testifying only. If I had to guess, I'd say it's still criminal not to inform police about an already-committed crime (though I think priests and psychiatrists and such have some leeway there), but you might be treated more leniently by the law if you did so because you were married to the perpetrator - but again, that's just a guess, I'm no lawyer of any kind.

[J.P.]

That's why John burned the AGRA... thingy

[Caya]

And should the law ever find about that somehow, it certainly won't help his case any.

 

(sidenote: yep, I know it's never gonna come up. Plot armour aside, there's still Mycroft)

[Carol the Dabbler]

That's why John burned the AGRA... thingy

Right. So he doesn't actually know anything, and certainly no specifics. But come to think of it, burning the damn thing constitutes destruction of evidence. Think I'll shut up now, before I land the entire cast in jail!

[J.P.]

As I said: Consequences...

[Arcadia]

Re: John turning Mary in for her crimes ... he doesn't actually "know" about any crime Mary's committed. It's strictly hearsay. Oh, wait, he knows she shot Sherlock. And the victim has asked him to let it go. Hmmm. Y'know, if I were John, I think I'd find a less confusing group of people to hang out with ......

 

I keep picturing poor Lestrade running around London trying to solve the attempted murder of Sherlock Holmes .... and the victim himself doing everything he can to keep him from solving it.....

[Arcadia]

And the thumb drive doesn't necessarily contain evidence. If John never looked at it, how would he know one way or the other? :p

 

I still maintain it's not meant to make sense! (Because then I'd be right! :d )

[Inge l-w]

Well, dear Carol, not exactly the entire cast, just the protagonists: Mary, John and Sherlock. Lestrade and Mycroft were never shown to be in on the secret, or the USB existence. And somehow, I cannot get it out of my head that as Mary placed the USB on Sherlock's side-table, he actually read it, found out if it contained any actual information or was a dud, and acted accordingly with CAM.

[Carol the Dabbler]

... I cannot get it out of my head that as Mary placed the USB on Sherlock's side-table, he actually read it, found out if it contained any actual information or was a dud, and acted accordingly....

Me neither. It's even possible that he told John -- I believe that John told Mary he hasn't read the thing, not that he didn't know what was on it. (Assuming that Sherlock told him the truth, of course.)

[Arcadia]

True, it is hard to imagine Mr. Noseypants passing up the chance to look at the drive. On the other hand, he was a bit incapacitated when it made its appearance, and perhaps after that John locked it in a vault or something.

 

I prefer to think that John acted on his own initiative in the matter of his lying wife. But there is a certain charm to the idea that it was Sherlock who read the drive, advised John on the matter ... and John trusted him enough to follow his lead. Now that's bromantic!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Something like that would be my preference. Sherlock knew that Mary had given the flash drive to John, and we know that John's never been able to keep Sherlock from getting into his things. So, incapacitated or not, Sherlock surely managed to get his mitts on the drive sometime before Christmas. But I'd like to think that he didn't give John the (perhaps literally) gory details, he just told him something like, "I read it, and it's actually not all that bad" (regardless of what was on it).

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

I keep picturing poor Lestrade running around London trying to solve the attempted murder of Sherlock Holmes .... and the victim himself doing everything he can to keep him from solving it.....

 

Fanfic idea...Hmm now to come up with something.

[T.o.b.y]

I simply refuse to believe that John destroyed the flash drive without anybody having a look at it first. I can only accept that scene by firmly convincing myself that Sherlock had studied it very carefully beforehand. And yeah, I wouldn't put it past Sherlock to lie to John about the contents or to simply withhold information he thought would stop John from forgiving Mary. Because for whatever reason (maybe because he's just not such a bad person after all), Sherlock seems to really want the Watsons to be happy together.

[Arcadia]

If Sherlock really did look at the drive, then I think we can safely assume that Mary is genuinely no threat to John. To everyone else, maybe, but not to John! :p

 

Erm... unless Sherlock was high at the time ... which I sometimes think he must have been through the entirety of HLV..... okay, never mind.