Elementary Season 1 Disc 3

Episode 9: You Do It To Yourself
I've already mentioned this, but it bears repeating, I really appreciate the fact that Holmes gets stuff wrong and cops to it right away. He is continually developing hypotheses and for the most part lets the data guide him. If the facts, or what he sees as the facts, don't fit, he abandons that line of thinking and moves to an alternate line.
This is the first episode where we see Holmes making choices to support Watson as a friend, much in the way that she supports him. He tries, unsuccessfully, to to say he's doing things for a completely different reason, but it's obvious to both that sometimes he will do things because Watson needs his support.

Episode 10: The Leviathan
This was almost the episode that didn't have a murder in it. It was initially about a diamond heist that required a break-in into the world's most secure vault. I thought this was quite a lovely change, but a half an hour into the show, the bodies started racking up. Oh well, at least it was all about the diamond heist for a while. It was still good, mind you. I was just hoping to see an expansion of the mold of Elementary episodes.
We finally got to meet Watson's mom who turned out not to be nearly as beastly as she was being built up to be. The story was a bit on the stock side as far as these go - mom disapproves of line of work, meets charismatic boyfriend/partner/client who convinces her to speak her mind, mom says all she wants is for her child to be happy. Not that I want Watson's home life to totally suck or something, but it would be nice to see so meting a little less formulaic and a little more in line with her character.

Episode 11: Dirty Laundry
We're back to the usual solve the murder while discovering the twists along the way. I quite like it. I'm not sure how many people write each episode, but it must be several along with some fact checkers. I understand that as a writer you can tell stories about people who are smarter than yourself by controlling the scene. You give them a limited number of options while appearing to give them complete free will. If you give your detective the option of choosing the obvious suspect who of course is innocent or choosing the person once removed who won't make sense until later, the detective will never choose to pursue neither and instead go out for tacos. I know this to be true beyond a shadow of a doubt because the writer would not create the scene where they go out for tacos. You've still got to be smart to pull this kind of thing off, but you don't have to actually be as smart as Sherlock Holmes to write for him.
There was a nice little twist on how things normally work out when people in the suburbs turn out to be spies - it's the man who was concerned about the child he loved and not the woman - she was a spy until the end.  Sure the bit about the girl pushing her mom and thinking that she killed her only to have it revealed that she didn't was a bit formulaic, but it was quite well acted. I actually was surprised at the quality of performance that both the teen-aged girl and the spy-father turned in, as it was well above what you normally see in a procedural.

Episode 12: M.
We finally get to him. You can't watch a series about Sherlock Holmes without wondering when Moriarty will turn up. The episode isn't actually named for Moriarty but for an assassin that he uses to kill seemingly random people. Holmes himself doesn't even know of Moriarty's existence until very near the end of the episode. Elementary has now provided itself with a nice background story that it can pull out at any time.
The other big deal this time out, maybe even the bigger deal, is that Watson is at her end of service as Holmes sober-companion. She's planning on moving out, and has her next job lined up. Homes wants Watson to stay on as much as she does, perhaps even a little more than she does. The fact that Watson lies to Holmes and tells him that his father is going to pay her for an extension as Holmes counselor is a lie that will come back to haunt her when she least thinks it will.