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Originally posted by Fawfulhasfury@Apr 26 2006, 12:05 AM
the only hard part is that Jigsaws real identity is a (supposedly) comatose man with leukemia or some cancer or something. I'm not sure if Holmes would consider him a suspect when found.
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It was to Holmes that the remark "Once you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth" was first attributed. Holmes has no problem with finding the unlikely suspect, if it was impossible for anyone else. Holmes is likely to know much about faking a comatose state, with all of the blanks in his knowledge filled in by Watson.
However, the most important factor in who beats whom is who writes the tale. If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle came back from the dead to write Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Comatose Murderer, there are only two possible endings (both written from the view of a surviving Watson): Jigsaw and Holmes destroy each other (Doyle is still annoyed about Holmes' popularity, at the expense of everything else that he wrote), or Holmes has an unalloyed triumph over his canniest foe, to date.