[There's a dark chuckle at his words, as Moriarty shakes his head.]

Ah, if only it were that simple. For a time, yes - their fates were left to interpretation. But, eventually...the truth came out, as it always does, and another story of the detective was spun. A story set three years later, as the Detective comes back from the dead to save the Doctor.

...After all, on the falls...two men fought near a precarious ledge, and both fell.

But one managed to catch himself, and the other...

[Moriarty trails off again, his eyes far off.

One of his gloved hands tense....and then release.]

...The other fell to his death, where his back was broken on the rocks, and he slipped while immobile into the water and drowned.

Only one man returned from the Reichenbach Falls, and it was not James Moriarty.