Elementary (TV Series)

Scrambled (2017)

Lucy Liu: Dr. Joan Watson

Quotes 

• Sherlock Holmes : I've always found it one of your most commendable qualities, that you're more forgiving of other people than you are of yourself. But this was not your fault. None of it was. Shinwell was on this path long before we came across him. He knew better than anyone it could end this way.

  Dr. Joan Watson : I don't feel responsible. I'm angry. And I'm not sure that I'm ready to say that his path was a dead end.

  Sherlock Holmes : What do you mean?

  Dr. Joan Watson : Say we find the person who killed him. So what? That person was just following orders, protecting his boss, making sure that nothing changes, so the drugs keep flowing and the bodies keep piling up. Shinwell was trying to do something important. We have to decide whether that died tonight, too.

  Sherlock Holmes : You sure you want to do this?

  [Watson nods] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, get some sleep, then, Watson. Tomorrow morning, we go to war with one of New York's deadliest gangs.

• Detective Guzman : Bonzi Folsom, that's our guy. Head of SBK since 2004.

  Detective Marcus Bell : Thirteen years. Where I grew up, no one was king of the hill for more than three.

  Detective Guzman : Yeah, Bonzi's probably sneaking up on some sort of record. Helps when you get started as young as he did. Raised by a single mom, grew up with a few half brothers and sisters in Section 8 housing.

  Detective Marcus Bell : First arrest at fourteen.

  Detective Guzman : First and last. He was suspected of a few gang murders in his teens, but never enough to charge. Made it to the throne at twenty-one and we haven't laid a glove on him since.

  Dr. Joan Watson : He must be careful.

  Detective Guzman : That would be the understatement of the year. He's downright paranoid. Ruthless, too. Pretty deadly combo.

• Detective Guzman : Entire gang unit feels like they were punched in the gut. Shinwell was a good CI, but... he was your friend. Sorry for the loss.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Thank you.

  Detective Guzman : I brought what you asked for. Happy to give you the rundown on SBK, but I got to warn you, the pool of suspects on this is huge. There's about two hundred people on the street that could've done this.

  Dr. Joan Watson : That's all right. Sherlock and I aren't really looking at the case that way.

  Detective Guzman : What do you mean?

  Dr. Joan Watson : We're hoping you can bring us up to speed on the person who's really responsible. We want the head of SBK.

  Detective Guzman : Well, hell, I like the sound of that.

• Captain Thomas Gregson : What is that?

  Sherlock Holmes : This is an Enigma machine. During the Second World War, this device represented a transformative leap forward in cryptography. It is a product of pure genius.

  Captain Thomas Gregson : What's it doing here?

  Sherlock Holmes : We're keeping up with the Joneses. Or rather, keeping up with the Folsoms. Bonzi Folsom. He had the very same model in his apartment. I noticed it tucked under his desk. Didn't quite fit the rest of his aesthetic. Every day, Mr. Folsom uses his Enigma machine to encrypt messages he wants to send to his SBK brethren. He then takes the ensuing codes and disguses them as file names on his social media feed. His cronies then, using their own Enigma machines, decrypt the messages, carry out the orders.

  Dr. Joan Watson : There are digital Enigma simulators online, but Bonzi uses a real one. So we thought we'd better get one, too, in case he modifies his to affect the encryption.

  Captain Thomas Gregson : How long before we're reading his mail?

  Sherlock Holmes : Might take a while. We've narrowed it down to 100 billion substitution codes.

• Dr. Joan Watson : We should talk to Shinwell's neighbors.

  Sherlock Holmes : It's already done. No one saw or heard anything suspicious. You may have arrived just minutes after the killer left, but it might as well have been years. This scene is as cold as they come.

  Captain Thomas Gregson : You said your friend was working for the department as a CI. He was undercover in SBK?

  Sherlock Holmes : That's right.

  Captain Thomas Gregson : Gang informants have two jobs that can get them killed. I get what this looks like, him getting stabbed in the back.

  Dr. Joan Watson : That's what this gang does to snitches. You stab them in the back, they do the same to you. It's been that way for years

• Sherlock Holmes : There's no sign of forced entry. Whoever did this may have been sent because Shinwell was willling to let them in.

  Dr. Joan Watson : We trained him. He would never turn his back on someone he didn't trust completely. It was SBK, I'm sure of it.

  Captain Thomas Gregson : Do you have any idea why he invited you down here?

  Dr. Joan Watson : He said he was making progress, moving up in the gang. Whatever he needed, he knew I'd try to help him.

  Captain Thomas Gregson : You were that close?

  Dr. Joan Watson : It was complicated. I believed in what he was doing.

• Detective Marcus Bell : So if this is who we're going after, what's the best angle?

  Detective Guzman : Your guess is as good as mine. We've thrown the kitchen sink at Bonzi Folsom; nothing sticks. Over the years, we've brought cases against dozens of his people; nobody ever flips.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Never?

  Detective Guzman : Usually, they're too afraid of what would happen to their families if they talked.

  Dr. Joan Watson : What about electronic surveillance?

  Detective Guzman : We're up on all their phones. It's a waste of time. Nobody in the gang ever talks business on the open line.

  Dr. Joan Watson : So how do they communicate? Everything is face to face?

  Detective Guzman : We don't know. Bonzi mostly stays holed up in his apartment. He lives on the top floor of the Greenwood Projects. Probably because it's right in the middle of his territory. Crazy thing is he almost never gets any visitors. And we have eyes on his place at all times, and we never see anybody come or go.

  Detective Marcus Bell : You make him sound like a hermit.

  Detective Guzman : It's weider than that. He keeps a couple of girls in his place 24/7; couple of guards, too, but they go where he goes. We got eyes on his social media. But it's about as exciting as your average soccer mom's.