| abstract | - Philip Anderson was a member of the forensics team at New Scotland Yard that works under DI Greg Lestrade. He appears at a Brixton crime scene. Like other members of the team, he openly despises Sherlock Holmes. The feeling appears mutual, as Sherlock dismisses Anderson's suggestions and forces him to face away from him when he is trying to think. Anderson is married, but Sherlock deduces that he has been having an affair with DS Sally Donovan due to Sally smelling of his deodorant and "the state of her knees". Anderson takes an energetic – even leading – role in the drug search conducted in the Baker Street flat. A bedraggled and slightly unstable Anderson attempts to convince Lestrade that Sherlock is still alive, citing a pattern of cases across Asia and Europe that would have required Sherlock's intuition to solve. He is correct in believing that Sherlock faked his death, but his theories on how he did it are incorrect. He has also founded "The Empty Hearse", a fanclub about Sherlock. He appears in Sherlock's apartment along with another member of Sherlock's "fan club". They have been summoned by Mycroft to search Sherlock's flat for signs of drugs, but are sent out after Sherlock mentions Charles Augustus Magnussen. Despite his seeming unimportance to Sherlock, he is there alongside Molly in Sherlock's mind palace, helping Sherlock to survive being shot by Mary.
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