Cast
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Plot
| "You're an interesting project, and I enjoy watching your progress. The thing that's different about me, empirically speaking, is you." — Holmes to Watson
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| Entering his house, councilman Van Der Hoff clutches his heart and falls. Sitting on his sofa, Daniel Gottlieb is sending high voltage through Hoff's pacemaker with his laptop. He calmly asks Hoff to vote "no" to a proposition. When Hoff does so with his tablet, Gottlieb presses a button on his laptop and kills him. At Newgate prison, Sebastian Moran walks into the common room and has an inmate change the TV channel to a soccer match. He sees a news story of Van Der Hoff's death, demands the inmate turn back to the story and watches intently. At The Brownstone, Holmes dislocates his shoulder while practising escaping from a straight jacket. Watson pops his shoulder back in while Holmes takes a call from Captain Gregson that Moran wants to confess to more killings but will only speak to Holmes. At Newgate, Moran tells Holmes that Moriarty has twice tried to have him killed in prison. He claims that Van Der Hoff was on his hit list and that if Holmes finds Hoff's killer, he may discover Moriarty. Leaving, Moran breaks his guard's neck and is dragged away, singing.
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| Holmes lies to Gregson that Moran provided no useful information. He explains to Watson that he wants to find out if Hoff was murdered before sharing with Gregson and promises that he isn't planning revenge on Moran. To Watson's discomfort, verifying Moran's story requires breaking into a funeral home. Examining Hoff's body, Watson notices bruising consistent with extreme hand clenching. When she refuses to cut Hoff's chest, Holmes tries but does such a poor job that Watson demands the scalpel. Cutting Hoff open, she discovers that the blood in his chest has boiled. At the Brownstone, Holmes deduces that Hoff's pacemaker was used to kill him, confirms they can be hacked and turns his attention to finding Hoff's murderer.
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| The next morning, Holmes regales Watson with a summary of prohibition as he's discovered that Van Der Hoff was a member of a landmark protection council. (♫ Bix Beiderbecke - Singin' the Blues ♫) The owners of a preserved 1920's speakeasy have been applying for years to revoke the protection of the building to enable development. Each year, the vote gets closer to removing protection, with the "yea" voters receiving expensive home renovations. Holmes sees that Hoff voted to remove protection just before he died which changed the building's status. He plans to speak to the bribing renovator, Robert Baumann. Leaning out an apartment window, Gottlieb sees Baumann walking on the sidewalk below. He starts a stopwatch and pushes an A/C unit out the window which crushes Baumann's skull. Arriving on the scene, Holmes doesn't agree with Watson that Baumann's death was bad luck. At the Brownstone, Holmes drops an A/C off the roof to prove Baumann was murdered. He believes Moran was right, that Moriarty is behind the killings and is using a clever murderer.
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| Holmes identifies the next target, Hillary Taggart, a lawyer who has been fighting to preserve various landmark status. He plans to learn Taggart's routine and see if she is being stalked. At a park, they watch Taggart jog and Holmes sees she wears an allergy alert bracelet. He also notices Africanized honey bees, finds their nest and notes a container of sugar water. That evening, he and Watson stake out the park, waiting for the nest feeder. While eating, Watson asks what Holmes intends to do with the killer if they catch him. Worried that he might resort to the tactics he used against Moran, Holmes assures her he won't because he is different due to her. The moment is interrupted as Holmes sees Gottlieb refilling the sugar water. Confronting him, Holmes takes Gottlieb's notebook and seeing calculations for dropping an A/C, he tases Gottlieb unconscious.
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Music
- Bix Beiderbecke - Singin' the Blues plays while Sherlock burns a doll in the fireplace.
Trivia
- This is the first episode to feature a recap sequence.
- While in the mortuary, Holmes mentions Thor Bridge.
- Craig Sweeny had to write an original Arsenal song for Sebastian Moran to sing in the episode. The show weren't allowed to use any of the real ones.[1]
- "Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it" is a quote from Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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References
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| Elementary Season One Episodes | ||
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| Pilot • While You Were Sleeping • Child Predator • The Rat Race • Lesser Evils • Flight Risk • One Way to Get Off • The Long Fuse • You Do It to Yourself • The Leviathan • Dirty Laundry • M. • The Red Team • The Deductionist • A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs • Details • Possibility Two • Déjà Vu All Over Again • Snow Angels • Dead Man's Switch • A Landmark Story • Risk Management • The Woman • Heroine
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