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A more in depth version of my guesses as to what happened that episode:

Sherlock figures out Moriarty wants him to commit suicide and decides he has to fake his death. Asks Molly for help (Q: Is it just to get some supplies like the blood or does he trust her with his plan? If so why doesn't he trust John with his plan?).
He sets up that fake emergency with Mrs Hudson to get John to go away (Q: Did he want him away-away or was John witnessing it part of the plan?). He asks Moriarty to meet him on that roof and starts goading him, the “I am you” stuff was to convince Moriarty that just like him Sherlock was willing to go to extreme measures to get what he wants. Moriarty kills himself expecting that Sherlock would soon follow.

John arrives, Sherlock does his award winning performance, jumps off, lands inside the “garbage truck” or whatever it's supposed to be and plays dead. Medics arrive – fakes – to whisk him away.(Q: Is Mycroft the one who covers things up to make it legit?)

People have theorised that it's a fake Sherlock being dead, I say no. Think of the logistics, he didn't have much time to arrange this, dress it up, stash it somewhere and add to that bodies are heavy and awkward it's simpler if he's the one on the ground. The simpler a plan is the less likely it will go wrong.

Others mentioned stuff about the cyclist, I think at most it was a red herring and at the very least an excuse to do funny things with the camera.

(Q: If my theory is the correct one how did Sherlock know Moriarty's dudes wouldn't see him land in that truck? What was stopping Moriarty's dudes from killing Sherlock's friends anyway out of teh luls?)

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A more in depth version of my guesses as to what happened that episode:

Sherlock figures out Moriarty wants him to commit suicide and decides he has to fake his death. Asks Molly for help (Q: Is it just to get some supplies like the blood or does he trust her with his plan? If so why doesn't he trust John with his plan?).
He sets up that fake emergency with Mrs Hudson to get John to go away (Q: Did he want him away-away or was John witnessing it part of the plan?). He asks Moriarty to meet him on that roof and starts goading him, the “I am you” stuff was to convince Moriarty that just like him Sherlock was willing to go to extreme measures to get what he wants. Moriarty kills himself expecting that Sherlock would soon follow.

John arrives, Sherlock does his award winning performance, jumps off, lands inside the “garbage truck” or whatever it's supposed to be and plays dead. Medics arrive – fakes – to whisk him away.(Q: Is Mycroft the one who covers things up to make it legit?)

People have theorised that it's a fake Sherlock being dead, I say no. Think of the logistics, he didn't have much time to arrange this, dress it up, stash it somewhere and add to that bodies are heavy and awkward it's simpler if he's the one on the ground. The simpler a plan is the less likely it will go wrong.

Others mentioned stuff about the cyclist, I think at most it was a red herring and at the very least an excuse to do funny things with the camera.

(Q: If my theory is the correct one how did Sherlock know Moriarty's dudes wouldn't see him land in that truck? What was stopping Moriarty's dudes from killing Sherlock's friends anyway out of teh luls?)