There have been vociferous complaints about the previous two episodes, their main collective thrusts being that the first once had pandered too much to the fans but failed to deliver a truly satisfactory explanation of Sherlock's survival of his Reichenbach fall, the second had been too self-indulgent and crime-free in its focus on Watson's wedding.
The explanation of this remarkable fact, which was suggested in the previous section, is that Reichenbach's common cause principle, and the causal Markov condition, must hold if the determinants, other than the causes, are independently distributed for each value of the causes.
Mark Gatiss's The Hound of the Baskervilles will follow, with The Reichenbach Fall, an update of The Final Problem, the last to air.
Without reference to Reichenbach, the principle was restated in the 1950s by Herbert Simon (1954) as a claim about the explanation of "spurious" correlations.
Holmes was last seen plunging from the roof of St Bart's Hospital season two finale "The Reichenbach Fall" in an apparent suicide watched by 9.8 million.
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If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.
Well, the episode is called The Reichenbach Fall for a start.
The second series concluded with "The Reichenbach Fall".
