Mrs Hudson in TLD

 (Sherlock meta by aphraelsan)

Mrs. Hudson has to have an inkling of what Sherlock’s trying to do when he’s getting increasingly drug addled and mangy - they watched Mary’s message together. I imagine her internal monologue when he started into his Henry V monologue was, “That’s it. Screw this, my walls are not going to Hell with you and your handgun. John Watson can save you from the trunk of my bloody car.”

In seriousness, this is why she’s so insistent to John that he is the only one who can possibly help Sherlock. She knows it has to be him based on Mary’s message, but she disagrees with her idiot genius man-child on how to get the job done. It’s exactly what Sherlock knows she’ll do, because he doesn’t underestimate her in the least (excepting the trunk, which was pretty much the best part of the episode IMO). Hudders style.