- Sherlock identifies new murders as the modus operandi of Wade Crewes, the serial killer whose arrest made Captain Thomas Gregson's NYPD career. Their friendship is strained by necessary questions of whether it's a copycat, a former accomplice, or even the real serial killer. Worse yet, what if Crewes' initial conviction rested on a trumped-up investigation, notably by Gregson's partner at the time.—KGF Vissers
- "Elementary" - "One Way to Get Off" - Nov. 15, 2012
We see a masked intruder shoot two people whose faces are covered with pillows.
We cut to a tense Holmes-Watson househould. Holmes apparently has taken to be speaking only when spoken to. Watson says she knows she touched a nerve by asking about Irene but as his sober companion that's her job.He changes his tune and says he understands where she's coming from and says he respects that she must do what she must do. To toast this detente he says he wants to get a cup of coffee and then he runs out the door, having lied to simply get away.
Holmes goes to the crime scene, sees the double murder and immediately connects to a series of three murders that happened in 1999, right down to a missing high heel shoe taken as a souvenir. Gregson, then a detective, put away the guy Wade Crews, and thus advanced his career. So they figure they either have a copycat, someone working with Wade from prison, or that Wade was innocent in the first place. Holmes wants to talk to Wade but Gregson gets his back way up about this saying that is not a lead and that they should follow other evidence first. Holmes notes how agitated Gregson gets about this.
Watson shows up at the precinct. Holmes says that unless and until she stops pushing they will revert to how things were originally with him just being civil to her until such time as her father stopped paying her. Until then he will check in every two hours and she can drug test him but that's all, she will have lost all the good will she has accrued.
A task force is started to catch the guy before he kills again and it includes Gregson's old partner, D'Amico (played by Callie Thorne). Holmes also notes that there seems to be little love lost between them and it must've ended badly.
They run down a lead on a contractor who sent threatening emails to the dead couple. He turns out to have an alibi and it's twisted indeed. He's been keeping a sex slave in his basement-- discovered by Holmes-- and she admits he was with her the night of the murder.
Meanwhile, Watson goes to visit Holmes' rehab to find out more info about her charge and who Irene might be. Both of this therapists reveal they learned nothing from the very difficult patient. Watson notices a groundskeeper using beekeeping equipment on a hive and knows she's on to something. She goes to talk to him and indeed the man, Edison, knew Holmes and of his beekeeping interests. Holmes opened up a bit to him and when Watson asks about Irene he produces a pile of letters Holmes left behind: return address Irene Adler.
Holmes and Gregson finally go to speak to Crews who protests his innocence saying Gregson framed him with a mug that had his fingerprints on it. He also notes how his arrest helped further Gregson's career and then he quotes Tolstoy and talks about how he has learned to control his anger. Gregson not so much. They leave thinking they don't really have anything, but of course they do. And Holmes again brings up his possible innocence much to Gregson's chagrin and he tells Holmes to watch Gregson's police interrogations to see what a bad guy he is.
They go to visit the woman who was Wade's alibi. She recanted because she was having an affair with him and didn't want to ruin her marriage. When they arrive they are informed by her son that she died four years earlier of leukemia.
There is another murder and this time a third person is killed, which is different from the M.O. of the original killings.
At home Holmes watches the interview tape and sees something. He goes to Watson and asks for a truce so she can help work something out. They look and see that the mug that Wade drank out of during his interviews was the same one found at the crime scene.
Holmes goes to Gregson with this. In turn,Gregson, rattled goes to D'amico and asks if she planted the mug. She admits she did and says she figured he knew. He says even though his career would be over he has to tell the truth if Wade is innocent.
Watson brings the letters to Holmes who asks if she now knows all about him. She says of course she was tempted to read them but didn't. He promptly tosses them in Watson's smoothie blender. They put this aside and do more digging on the case. Holmes discovers a recently released ex-con who was a free man during the murders but imprisoned ever since. They think he may be a likely accomplice/copycat of Wade's. They break into his place-- which is sticky and dirty-- and find the murder weapon.
They bring the guy in but it turns out that he's blind in one eye and couldn't have possibly shot the third person and it seems all a little too convenient, as if he was framed.
While watching a news interview with Wade again protesting his innocence, Holmes notes that Wade quoted Oscar Wilde. When he went to prison he was an illiterate. So they deduce whoever taught him to read may have been his accomplice. They run down the folks from a prison library and discover that one of the people working there was the son of the woman with which Wade had an affair. It turns out that Wade is his daddy. They put two and two together and realized that the apple didn't fall too far from the tree. The son did the new killings to make it seem like his father had indeed been framed and would be set free. They go to see Wade and inform him that the jig is up. Wade is dragged away still protesting his innoncence.
Back at home, Watson says good night. Holmes cracks and gives up that Irene was a friend, they were quite close, and he did not take her passing well. He says good night.
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