With reference to the Sherlock episode, the government basically filled an aeroplane with dead people to Create the illusion of it carrying living passengers in order to trick the ‘enemy’ into believing that it was the attack they launched that resulted in several Civilian deaths thereby leading Mycroft to draw the Coventry analogy. read more
Sherlock thought it was the Coventry all over again. They got the source and knew the plane was going to blow. Sherlock thought that the two options were to 1) let the plane with passengers (which he had thought were very much alive) blow up and hide the fact that they knew their plans or 2) stop the flight and reveal their source. read more
When Cumberbatch, as Holmes, explained the Coventry Conundrum, I was first intrigued by the mention of my hometown and subsequently a curious sense started developing within me. It is as if I have heard those words from Big Ben himself before. read more