The most important person

 (Sherlock meta by afirewiel and iamazonian)

Anonymous asked: [...] Sherlock did not say Molly was the most important to HIM, he said she was the most important in reference to the success of his fake suicide.

afirewiel answered: Here’s the exact quote: “Moriarty slipped up. He made a mistake. Because the one person he thought didn’t matter at all to me, was the one person who mattered the most.” The words “to me” are very important and clearly show that he wasn’t just referring to her helping him out with faking his suicide.

iamazonian replied: Also technically, the most important person in Sherlock’s suicide plan was Mycroft. Molly was very important in the plan, sure, but it’s a bit of a stretch to say that she could’ve carried out the entire plan without Mycroft (almost everything and everyone in the plan was under Mycroft’s authority). Mycroft, on the other hand, might have been able to find another pathologist who could’ve done Molly’s work and then just killed him afterwards or made him swear an oath (to protect the secret), but I suppose Sherlock insisted on the only pathologist who he really literally trusted with his life. In terms of sheer ability to produce and execute such a plan, as much as I love Molly, the British Government trumps St. Barts’ pathologist. In the plan, Mycroft was the indispensable one, not Molly. (Not to say she wasn’t important, or heroic. Of course she was. Also, imagine the level of trust that Sherlock and Mycroft has in her.)

With that said, logically, Sherlock wouldn’t have said Molly mattered the most to him if he were only referring to the suicide plan, since he knew very well Mycroft was the one who orchestrated the entire thing (in this case, Moriarty did miss, or at least couldn’t really touch, Mycroft and as such he made a mistake because it led to Sherlock surviving). So why was he saying this speech to Molly instead of Mycroft? Kinda makes you think there’s another reason… and a rather sentimental one at that.