- Holmes returns to New York with a new apprentice and a renewed interest in working with the NYPD after being fired by London's MI6. Unfortunately, Joan, the NYPD's new go-to PI, must give her approval first.
- "Elementary" - "Enough Nemesis to Go Around" - Oct. 30, 2014
We pick up the action in NYC six months after Sherlock has departed-- apparently abruptly and with no in person goodbyes-- for London to MI-6.
Joan is living on her own, has met a very attractive boyfriend, and has graduated to becoming Capt. Gregson's go-to PI. She is helping on a case trying to bring down the head of the drug cartel. The woman, Elana (played by Gina Gershon), is extremely cunning and has outwitted the police many times. But Joan has studied her business and figures out how to bring her down, by nabbing the woman named Karen she used as her accountant for the cartel. Joan invites Elana to lunch to draw her bodyguards away from the woman and the police move in and arrest her.
Karen is preparing to testify. She is, understandably, nervous that Elana will somehow have her whacked before this happens and Bell calls Watson to come down and hold Karen's hand at the hotel as she prepares to leave for the courthouse. There are several police officers protecting her and Joan assures Karen she will be alright. Karen boards an elevator with a bodyguard but when it reaches the bottom floor 31 seconds later, both she and the police officer are dead and no one can figure out how the shooter got in since the access panel on top of the elevator is rigged not to open when the car is in motion.
Cut to two months later and everyone is still stumped, working on theories when the NYPD gets a tip from a man with a bizarre last name. Joan recognizes something about the name and it takes her back to the brownstone. She lets herself in. It is dark, quiet, and mostly empty. She goes to a bookshelf and pulls out two books whose authors names, when combined, constitute the name of the tipster which she now realizes was Sherlock. What she doesn't realize until she walks into the kitchen that Sherlock is back. He is seated at the kitchen table wearing an insane helmet that looks like one of those old diving bells. He tries to explain but she doesn't care, still angry he left without saying a proper goodbye-- a five sentence note-- and that he has now resurfaced without saying hello.
In his Holmes-ian way he apologizes for the way he said goodbye, sort of, and explains with her leaving he was tempted again to do drugs and wanted a clean break. He tries to talk about her case but she says she no longer needs him and leaves.
Sherlock then goes to see Gregson, to whom he also apparently gave an abrupt goodbye. Again he tries to clumsily apologize and Gregson dismisses this noting that he and Sherlock were never friends and that he is not hurt they didn't hug it out. When he susses out that Sherlock has been fired by MI-6 he points out that Joan has been doing a bang up job for them and it will only be with her approval that he allows Sherlock back into his old consulting role.
Meanwhile, everyone is making Joan paranoid that Elana is probably having her followed and wants to kill her and when she notices a woman in the park on her cell phone-- where there is no signal-- Joan approaches her. The woman walks off insisting Joan is crazy. But when Joan sees her again they engage in hand to hand stick combat. Joan drops the woman and realizes only one person could've taught her to fight like that and the lightbulb goes off, this woman was hired by Sherlock to watch her not by Elana to kill her. The woman is named Kitty and she is British and Sherlock's new protege, whom he picked up in London. He explains, in an incredibly insulting way, that he missed the mentor-student relationship he and Watson had and he realized he could replicate it, enter Kitty.
Meanwhile, Sherlock's tip turns them on to a notorious international assassin whom they saw checking in on the day of the shootings. The man seems like milquetoast and also very confident when Bell and Watson interview him so she is determined to pin these murders, as well as others, on the man.
Later, when both Sherlock and Joan are examining the hotel room that the purported murderer stayed in-- with Sherlock butting into her case-- he also explains what Gregson said about needing her assent to return. She blows this off and says she has work to do.
With the help of brainstorming with Kitty, Sherlock figures out how the killer did it: He didn't shoot them. Instead, a few days before the shooting, he embedded spent shell casings in the wall of the elevator and then he placed a massive, one ton magnet on the other side of the elevator wall. When he knew she was in the elevator he activated the magnet which pulled the bullets out of the wall and through the bodies of Karen and the police officer. It takes some machinations to prove it because the man then had to hide the monster magnet in the shower bench of his hotel room's tub but all together Sherlock, Joan, and Kitty figure it out.
Joan and Bell triumphantly go to arrest Elana since the assassin flipped on her.
Joan then goes to Sherlock and tells him she will assent to his working with the NYPD again but they will work on separate cases. Her softer nature gets the better of her and she asks why he came back to New York since he could've gone anywhere. He simply says he belongs there, as does she.
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