Episode 13: The Red Team
This was Elementary's stab at conspiracy theories. I think. It was another spy story, well Intelligence story more than spy story. It's about the way the Intelligence community operates and people who play that game. With the usual twists and turns, I didn't really know where this one was going at all.
This episode was also about Holmes getting back in with Captain Gregson after the whole incident in the previous episode. Their relationship is forever changed as Gregson can not get over the fact that Holmes was ready to murder someone. The Captain reinstates Holmes but tells him that things are different now and that he'll never really trust Holmes again. Then Gregson punches Holmes in the stomach saying htat there was something he wanted to get off his min.
Episode 14: The Deductionist
This episode is a little different in that there are two mysteries going on simultaneously. There is the main mystery - an escaped serial killer who is out to get the FBI profiler who put him away, but not because of that, because she wrote a book that lead to his father committing suicide. The second mystery is why Watson is getting kicked out of her apartment. The interesting part of both mysteries is that there is a tie between Holmes and the main mystery and Watson and the second mystery.
In the main mystery, Holmes has a personal history with the famous profiler, who had once been his lover, but now his almost enemy since she had profiled him for a scientific journal. Watson, obviously has a link to the second mystery since it's about getting kicked out of her apartment, but that's not what I meant. It mirrors Holmes link in that someone she has known for a long time and trusts - the building handyman - is involved in the activity that is getting her kicked out, even as he is delivering the message that she is getting kicked out.
Episode 15: A Giant Gun Filled With Drugs
Let me just do a mental rundown to be sure, but. Yes. No one was murdered in this episode. That is a definite milestone and I hope harbinger of things to come. Not that I expect we'll be foregoing the episodic murders or anything, but there might be more episodes out there that focus on other crimes. It is nice to have a variety of possibilities, after all.
Holmes has to help his former drug dealer rescue the man's kidnapped daughter. The issues between them are all about Holmes sobriety and whether or not he is as god of a detective sober as he was high. Of course, this is something very near and dear to Watson who at one point lays it out for the former drug dealer - Holmes and his sobriety are more important to her than the man's daughter getting rescued.
Even though I suspect that Holmes will already know, he is going to be devastated on a certain level when he finds out that Watson has been lying to him about staying on as his sobriety companion at his father's bequest. I think ultimately he will be flattered, but it might take an episode or two. This might even be the kind of thing that they end the season with.
Oh, and I really love the title for this episode.
Episode 16: Details
So much for my grand predictions immediately above. Holmes had already found out about Watson lying to him and staying on claiming to be working for his dad. The scene that was their 'confrontattion' was short and not much of a confrontation, more like a small work-around that would allow the show to go on ad infinitum without needing to ever talk about this again.
This time out we got to take a look at the main police detective that Holmes and Watson work with. He turns out to be just as much of a straight shooter as he seems to be, but they find out about his ex-con brother. The story is as much about those two patching up their relationship as it is about a murder which takes place.
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