Sherlock - could someone please explain the plot of 'Scandal..'?

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Yes, I'm embarassed to be slow (I like to think it's the heat!), but the desire to know is stronger
I've watched the 'Scandal in Belgravia' yesterday, missed it the first time round, and didn't have a problem with other episodes, but I'm just baffled. They really talk TOO fast for normal human beings, especially in this weather - you need to rewind many times which is no guarantee either !
Anyway, I understand 'the woman' aspect almost, but please explain to me the plane plot. I don't get it why aer they furiuos with Sherlock for solving the code, and what WAS their original plan? WTF were these drugged(?) people on the plabe - surely they wre not dead? And what was the hiker's connectoin to it all (I understand how he got killed). As far as the woman, did they or did they not want her to work for them - and if not why on earth did they let her make Holmes to undo the code?Grrr, I've been dwelling on it all day.
Thank you!

Moffatt.

I'll bet the "clue" is something like a book lying on a table in the background - ie something you can only see if you can pause and zoom in!

Oh, harrietspy, could you pm me too, if its not too much to ask? I've racked my brains!

On the topic of the dead bodies in the plane, I get the link to the 'boring' cases Sherlock is offered, but from the bits about the guy saying he knows what is in the urn isn't human ash, and the little girls who say they weren't allowed to see their dead granddad, are we really to think the government is stealing corpses from undertakers and crematoria and freezing them till needed?

Also, what about the body found in the boot of the car with his passport and airline ticket? Mycroft, I think, makes reference to a previous German fake flight of the dead, and one body missing the flight. But what is one of the bodies just randomly doing in a car boot? Why would someone from the secret service or whatever just abandon something linked to such a huge secret?

Shrugged, I don't think I've noticed more clues than anyone else but it was the first time I noticed them, iyswim! But I will pm you anyway!

I think the body was in the boot of a stolen car. My impression was that the body was being "delivered" when the car was stolen and then dumped.

I think that's the deal with the body too.

As for 'are we really to think the government is stealing corpses from undertakers and crematoria and freezing them till needed?' ? yes . I think we're supposed to be appalled at the depth of corruption, but also a tiny bit impressed by the ingenuity of the writers the government.