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Date Posted: Sunday, February 09, 12:03:46am
Author: Lij
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Subject: The A.G.R.A. Problem: What Was On The Bloody Flash Drive?

The A.G.R.A. Problem: What Was On The Bloody Flash Drive?

I have edited here:

What was on that bloody flash drive? ... Originally, I just assumed the files on the flash drive contained lists of her previous wet-work jobs as a contract assassin -- a Spy Portfolio if you will. But then -- why would she have all that collected in one place -- isn’t that dangerous for a spy?

It’s still a possibility that that kind of information is on the drive, but when you consider what she says to John when she hands it to him, I really think there’s something more:

“Everything about who I was is on there.”

"WHO I WAS," not WHAT I’VE DONE.

There is a difference between these two statements. “What I’ve done,” is fairly cut and dried and would indicate that the details of who she’s killed, when she killed them and who she killed them for -- would be on the drive. “Who I was,” on the other hand, is more of a loaded statement. It encompasses not only what she’s done, but also why she did it, who she did it for, why she was willing to do it, how she became willing to do it, what has been done to her, who she’s been involved with, etc., etc., etc. “Who I was” would include not only details of crimes, but also motivations, background, psychological history, etc.

Mary goes on to say, “If you love me, don’t read it in front of me because you won’t love me when you’ve finished...."

If the flash drive merely contained information and details about her crimes — “All those wet jobs for the CIA,” Magnussen says — would that really be enough to make John fall out of love with her? I mean, Sherlock says to Mary right in front of John that he knows she was a contract killer, so that isn’t the information that would stop John loving her.

Meaning that the material on the flash drive has got to be more detailed, more inflammatory, [and perhaps] more personally related to John. So what is it?

It’s this statement by Mary that most strongly links the possibility of Mary and Moriarty’s involvement. Who was she before she became Mary Morstan? Perhaps she was working with Moriarty? Was she the assassin trained on Lestrade in The Reichenbach Fall that we never saw, or one of the snipers at the pool? Was she the one to pull the trigger on the old woman in The Great Game? Hell, maybe she was working for the Taliban and is the one who shot John through the shoulder in Afghanistan. Who knows with this show sometimes.

Or consider when she mentions she’s an orphan in The Sign of Three, and that CAM’s (Magnussen’s) note mentions her family and she looks stricken. Is it possible that she murdered he entire family, and that’s why she became a contract killer? You can’t exactly get a day job if you’re wanted for murdering your parents. If she did kill them, why? Is she just plain crazy, a real sociopath, unlike the one Sherlock pretends to be?

And then there’s the possibility that the entire drive was empty as a nod to canon (the treasure box with “AGRA” written on which Watson pried open to find nothing in). Although that opens another set of questions about whether Mary “knew” John wouldn’t read it, or maybe they’re nodding to canon by having the “A.G.R.A” flash drive John tossed in the fire be the empty one.

Thus the information on that drive would likely be directly related to John (and/or Sherlock) some how, which may make a pretty good case for the “Mary is (Colonel Sebastian) Moran” theory.

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Lij - my thoughts:: I tend to think there was nothing on the drive at all - just like the original box. It was Mary's way of forestalling a discussion of her past by giving that past to John to see at any time.

But her “If you love me, don’t read it in front of me because you won’t love me when you’ve finished...." was meant as a warning. One for which the meaning was that the trust they had in their relationship would be gone should John choose to read the AGRA drive. In the end, John understood this message, though not the deception the drive also would have engendered from Mary.

I do believe this showed that Mary was thinking ahead of both John and Sherlock to other possibilities. Mary surely knew that Sherlock would uncover enough of the truth about the real 'Mary Morstan' and have deduced plenty enough about her past. Yes, she didn't want Sherlock to tell John that she had shot Sherlock; but she surely knew that the friendship between Sherlock and John would not allow for Sherlock to continue that deception - for too long. I think it simply came out faster than she expected, but at the same time Mary had a contingency in place -- the A.G.R.A. flash drive.

So what do you think?

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[> Well... -- AurraSing, Sunday, February 09, 03:38:00pm (d154-20-56-169.bchsia.telus.net/154.20.56.169)

Once John destroyed it, I more or less forgot about it. I think he's an honest man and his pledge to go forward without pointing fingers meant a lot to me.

Yes, whatever happened in her past I am sure will come back to haunt them and perhaps even result in her death in the near future but for now, it's time for them to concentrate on the new Watson and whatever "Moriarty"'s return means for Sherlock and the rest of them.


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