Two men who are very good at intellectual sparring and very bad at hand-to-hand combat are locked in a struggle on a grassy outcrop above a roaring waterfall. There’s a lot of grunting and eye-swivelling against a soundtrack of mournful string vibrato. The pair almost seem to embrace, their eyes locked, and then with a final descending cry they plunge into the water and disappear over the edge.
So ends the will-they-won’t-they (kill each other) arc of Sherlock and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, at least in the 1985 Granada Television telling of the story – possibly the only portrayal to be filmed at the real location.
Of course, it
