He achieved widespread recognition for playing the role of jim moriarty in the bbc series sherlock a role that earned him the bafta television award for best supporting actor.
Moriarty and sherlock on roof.
One of the episode s many scenarios laying out how sherlock might have survived the reichenbach fall alleged that sherlock and moriarty were in cahoots a deal sealed with a near kiss.
In e2s3 of sherlock moriarty and sherlock have a standoff on the roof of st bartholomew s hospital in london which ultimately results in moriarty s death and sherlock s apparent suicide.
Anderson s theory is that moriarty was placed at the bottom of the building where sherlock jumped from wearing a face mask with the likeness of sherlock.
He wants sherlock to do this to cement his story after explaining that his god code was a myth.
Sherlock claims that with the code he can completely delete all evidence of richard brook from the world.
Andrew scott born 21 october 1976 is an irish actor.
At the reichenbach fall episode when they are talking on the roof of the hospital moriarty says that the other people can t see the irony behind the name richard brooks but sherlock can.
Hudson and lestrade if sherlock does not commit suicide.
Moriarty says that there is no code and the tapping rhythm that he did at sherlock s flat was actually the beats to bach s partita no.
Matters culminate in a face to face showdown between sherlock and moriarty on the roof of a hospital from where sherlock apparently plummets to his death.
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Bartholomew s hospital sherlock texts moriarty who meets him on the roof.
Moriarty kills himself to force sherlock to do the same.
Sherlock is told that trained hitmen are lying in wait ready to kill lestrade mrs hudson and john should sherlock not commit suicide.
Sherly goes on and explains that the name is the translation from german of reichenbach the case that made him famous and also the name of the episode.
When something happens that changes the tables.
The empty hearse two years after his faked suicide sherlock comes back to london having tracked down and eliminated the last vestiges of moriarty s criminal empire.